Doc Manhattan
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Buried in one of the ubiquitious list-o-surprising-facts articles on the Internet, I learned that novelist Kurt Vonnegut has a patent on an easy-to-clean pipe.
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/06/celebrity-patents?pid=3449
I'm no good at reading blueprints, but it appears that there's a tube that tranverses the pipe from stummel to stem, and can be popped out the stummel end for cleaning. Sort of a removable version of the "gun-barrel" on Kirstens.
Maybe not the smartest thing he ever put on paper, but interesting. For a mostly-cig smoker, he gave the pipe a lot of thought.
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/06/celebrity-patents?pid=3449
I'm no good at reading blueprints, but it appears that there's a tube that tranverses the pipe from stummel to stem, and can be popped out the stummel end for cleaning. Sort of a removable version of the "gun-barrel" on Kirstens.
Maybe not the smartest thing he ever put on paper, but interesting. For a mostly-cig smoker, he gave the pipe a lot of thought.