Hookah Base and Hookah

Abstract

The present invention includes hookah, stem, and base for longitudinal and lateral motioning of a hookah and its components.

Description

FIELD OF THE INVENTION

The present invention relates to the field tobacco smoking devices and more specifically to the field of hookahs.

BACKGROUND

Of the many proud traditions of Ottoman culture, few have achieved the world-wide fame of hookah smoking. Once confined to the Middle East and Near East regions, the hookah' s notoriety was invigorated by Napoleon's invasion of Egypt and the stream of curious Westerners which followed thereafter. Painters, such as Eugene Delacroix and Jean-Leon Gerome, when depicting Oriental styles typically included a hookah as a symbol of the depicted culture. The hookah was elevated from a regional curiosity to a universal symbol of sophistication.

The hookah, which has maintained a constant popularity in the Middle East, presently enjoys in American culture a unique, niched function. Hookah smoking combines community and relaxation into a single event. Rarely does one witness a group smokers crowded about a single cigarette, cigar, or pipe. Though hookahs are often designed with a single smoke outlet; the presence of multiple hoses, each capable of simultaneous use, emanating from a single smoking instrument is unique to the hookah. Multiple hose hookahs form the centerpieces of hookah clubs in which hookah smokers gather to unwind and converse with other community members. A hookah combines fashion, art, and function into a single device.

A basic hookah includes a base, a pipe, at least one hose with a mouthpiece, and a bowl. The hookah bowl holds the hookah tobacco, frequently “massell.” Massell is a mixture of tobacco, molasses, and often a flavor or fruit extract. The molasses and fruit extract add a substantial amount of moisture to the massell that is missing in conventional tobacco. This added moisture makes massell more sensitive to the elements relative to conventional tobacco; prolonged exposure to air evaporates much of the moisture of massell and reduces its flavor. When properly protected, massell allows a smoker a more recreational, flavored smoke than the tobacco of cigars, cigarettes, pipes, and the like. An experienced hookah smoker will know to loosely distribute massell into a pile within the hookah bowl to allow heat to evenly circulate through the pile.

The heat that ignites the massell derives from coals positioned above the hookah bowl. The coals and massell preferably never contact one to the other. A common method of placing coals proximate to the massell involves spreading a foil upon the top of a hookah bowl, punching holes in the foil, and then placing the coals onto the foil. The heat from the lighted coals travels through the holes in the foil to ignite portions of the massell. Particulates from the massell travel in the smoke created by the ignition down through the hookah bowl into the hookah pipe.

The hookah pipe is the body of a hookah and is usually fabricated from brass, tin, or stainless steel. The pipe transports the massell smoke from the bowl to the hookah base, which is a cavern containing water. The base of the hookah is typically fabricated of glass or plastic and tends to be the most expressive portion of the hookah, ranging from translucent to wildly-colored. Within the cavern of the hookah base, the massell smoke is cooled by the water within. The cooled massell smoke then returns to the back to the pipe, though not through the same entrance by which the massell smoke enters the base. From the pipe, the massell smoke travels through the hose and out of the mouthpiece.

There are presently two prominent versions of hookah structures: the Lebanese style and the Egyptian style. Although the aficionado will explain that there are many differences between the two styles, the practical layman would quickly note the obvious difference: the connection point between the pipe and the hookah bowl. The Egyptian style hookah pipe tapers upward into what is generally referred to as a male connection. The Egyptian style hookah bowl includes a female connection which receives the pipe's male connection. In the Lebanese style hookah the bowl has the tapered male connection and the pipe has the female connection to accept the Lebanese style hookah bowl. In both styles, to allow a more airtight connection a collar is generally added to fit around the male connection.

Hookahs are used in an often aqueous environment, and when water is not used with a hookah, some other liquid will be. Because a liquid is often poured into a hookah by hand, the exterior of a hookah often receives its share of liquid contact. Hookah bars are on the rise, particularly in Western cultures, and a slippery glass object gripped by a user simultaneously imbibing alcohol can be problematic. Fortunately, there are not too many reasons to move a filled hookah; however, there are enough reasons to justify a specially-constructed base that aids a user in preventing droppage. Hookahs with a solid attachment between the base and stem tend to be lifted up-and-down by gripping at least part of the stem—especially the portion of the stem directly beneath the hose-outlets. Hookahs with loose connections between the stem and base will often be gripped solely by the base. Hookahs are moved horizontally, usually on a table or other surface, usually by gripping solely the base. There is a need for a hookah base that can be gripped effectively for vertical and horizontal movement.

SUMMARY

The present invention is directed to a hookah, and stem and base associated therewith. The hookah includes the base and the stem with advantageous gripping surfaces. The base includes a base floor and base sidewall of one or more portions. The preferred base sidewall includes two portions, an initially diverging portion (relative to the floor) and a portion that converges in the direction of the stem attachment. It is preferred that at least 50% of the converging sidewall includes a textured surface. A textured surface is a surface that includes surface details.

Surface details of the present invention include protrusions and depressions in the plane, or other continuous surface, of the sidewall that enhance the grip of a user upon the hookah. The surface details are localized, meaning that they do not extend either circumferentially horizontally across a majority of the perimeter of the base or across the majority of the vertical surface height of the base. The preferred surface details include sets of circular depressions dimensioned to accept finger tips mixed with miniaturized dimpling between the finger sized circular depressions.

The stem fitting the base may include any stem known in the art. A preferred stem includes a plenum portion and a bulging portion above the stem. The plenum of a hookah is the portion of the hookah stem whereby wetted smoke travels from the interior of the hookah to a hookah hose and to a user (or other component) through wet smoke outlets. The preferred stem includes an ovoid bulge above the wet smoke outlets. Often when a user picks up a hookah, s/he does so using wet smoke components (e.g., hose adapters, pressure release valves, etc.) as a leverage point. Because part of the gripping hand often goes above the wet smoke components, the preferred stem includes an ovoid structure above the wet smoke components that accepts the recess of a user's hand and further includes multiple depressions that wrap entirely around the ovoid portion. Accordingly a user's lower fingers can be upwardly pressed against the wet smoke components while higher fingers can grip the ovoid portion.

Therefore, it is an aspect of the present invention present a hookah, and hookah components, that can be advantageously repositioned and moved. These aspects of the invention are not meant to be exclusive. Furthermore, some features may apply to certain versions of the invention, but not others. Other features, aspects, and advantages of the present invention will be readily apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art when read in conjunction with the following description, and accompanying drawings.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is an upper perspective view of a hookah of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a side, revealed view of a hookah of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is an upper perspective, exploded view of a stem of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is an upper perspective view of a base of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a side, plan view of a base of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a side, plan view of a base of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a side, plan view of a base of the present invention.

FIG. 8 is a side, plan view of a base of the present invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

Referring first to FIGS. 1-2, a hookah 100 according to the present invention is shown. The hookah includes a base 120 and a stem 110 with advantageous gripping surfaces. The base 120 includes a base floor 138 and base sidewall 126 of one or more portions 124, 122. The preferred base sidewall includes two portions, an initially diverging portion 122 (relative to the floor) and a portion 124 that converges in the direction of the stem 110 attachment or neck (not shown).

Referring now to FIGS. 1-3, the hookah stem 110 includes the conventional components of a hookah stem, which may include the features of U.S. Pat. Nos. 7,806,123 and 8,001,978, the disclosure of which is hereby incorporated by reference with reference to stems and all other hookah features and uses/advantages. Hookah stems typically include a plenum 112, which for most hookahs is the portion in which both wetted smoke and dry smoke are located together (but not intermingled) by cross-section. The plenum 112 in the preferred hookahs 100 of the present invention are located a lower point in the stem 110 such that the plenum 112 is placed directly proximate to the neck of the hookah base 120 upon attachment. The inner components and arrangement of the plenum are less significant in the present disclosure than prior patent disclosures; rather, the significance is that because the plenum includes a place for wetted smoke to be released through wet smoke exit components 114, which may include hose adapters, pressure release valves, etc. These wetted smoke components 114 typically protrude from the stem 110, and more preferably from a substantially lower portion of the stem 110; and furthermore, because the wetted smoke components 114 are positioned in a relatively extreme environment, they 114 tend to be fabricated of durable metals.

The stem 110 of the preferred hookah includes other components of a hookah stem such as dry smoke conduits that shunts dry smoke from a hookah bowl (not pictured) through the stem and released via a down tube 118 into the hookah base 120. The stem includes wet smoke outlets 132 positioned in the stem, preferably at least two such outlets. The wet smoke outlets 132 may be significant in some embodiments of the present invention because they hold protruding wet smoke components 114. The centerpiece of the present invention is the construction of a hookah around the ways that users may hold hookahs and creating dimensions/components/etc that aid the natural grip and movement positions. An oft-used method of lifting a hookah involves using a hand to grip a constructed hookah (in such hookahs whereby the stem is securely fastened to the hookah base) by the stem, placing hookah wet-smoke components between the index and middle finger. A user has at that point sufficient grip to both press down with both substantial force and delicacy (for attachment) and pull upward with substantial force and delicacy for removal of hookah stems from a base. More expensive hookahs tend to have relatively fragile bases, e.g. glass or crystal. Misapplied force can shatter or scuff hookah bases. So, while some fingers, as commonly placed on a stem, abut hookah wet smoke components 114, the remaining fingers have a suitable position to aid in either enhancing the force and/or delicacy of a stem's movement.

The index finger is typically placed above the wet smoke components 114. The present invention utilizes a series of bulges 116 and depressions 118 to aid a user in gripping the hookah. One such stem bulge 116 is positioned almost immediately above the wet smoke components 114 for placement by both the index finger and the thumb. Because the majority of a hand, particularly the palm, will often be placed under the wet smoke components, the index finger and thumb will arch upward, and for larger hands curve back downward upon surrounding the stem. The stem of the present invention may accordingly utilize a bulge 116 above the wet smoke components 118 to accept the inside curve of the index finger. Depressions 118 running around the circumference of the stem bulge 116 provide grip points for the finger, and because the preferred depressed takes the form of a valley wholly circumscribing the stem, the finger may come into contact with at least one of the depressions. By bulge it is meant that there is a positioned a portion of the stem that diverges outward from an inner point until the stem reaches a local maximum resulting in a curve whereby the stem begins to recede back into the stem. The bulge is the portion from where the stem first begins to diverge, the maximum, and then the point by which the stem recedes until the stem recedes no more. The bulge itself aids in the application of delicate pressure and the depression aids in maintaining a stable position by the hand on the bulge. The bulge is preferably ovoid with a substantially arcing surface that allows multiple positions of finger placement, and accommodates multiple finger sizes and lengths. The continuous surfaces lack angles and other pointed junctions that urge finger placement away from the angles.

Furthermore, the preferred stem of the present invention includes a bulge 116 under the wet smoke components 114. It is preferred that this inferior (i.e., lower) bulge include a diameter/cross-section greater in exterior dimensions than the superior (i.e., upper) bulge. A user's hand will likely include an index finger longer than the pinky finger, and the presence of a smaller bulge above the wet smoke components allows the index finger (and/or the middle finger) to both wrap around the stem while turning downward to engulf a wet smoke component. In the present invention it is further preferred that the wet smoke components are angled upwards, rather than directly outward, to permit this down-and-around positioning of the index finger to maximize delicacy and force. A preferred angle is approximately forty-five to sixty degrees. The preferred position of the fingers beneath the wet smoke components is around and almost wholly lateral—but with a slight downward arc. The main force comes from the index finger, while the lower fingers maintain stability and position. To ensure that the lower fingers have a substantially lateral position the inferior bulge includes a greater girth than the superior bulge, and that there even include at least two bulges that form an intermediate depression for both position stability and force. It is preferred that the superior bulge include a single bulge with multiple depressions. A depression is not necessarily the space between bulges; instead bulges may be either the space between bulges or missing mass whereby if the ‘depression’ were filled would form a continuous arcing surface in the bulge.

In the preferred stem 100, as depicted, there are two bulges 116 below the wet smoke components 114. The preferred dimensions and configurations include that the higher of the lower bulges include a substantial longitudinal height, while the lower of the bulges include a significantly lessor height. The depicted stem embodiment is particularly useful for the placement of a pinky directly adjacent to the ring finger and include just enough space for a normal-sized pinky to fit into the depression 118 between the larger, higher bulge and the smaller, lower bulge, all while pressing against a jutting stem lip 131 that forms about the circumference of the stem at, or near, its lowest point. Any place whereby a protrusion is formed, there is presented a solid source from which to allow force with a user's hand; any place where a recess is formed, there is a source from which stability may be applied.

Turning now to FIGS. 1, 2, and 4-8, the present invention includes a base 120 and hookah 100 utilizing the base 120. As previously discussed, a user often grips a hookah base for side-to-side or lateral motioning of a hookah in use. If a stem is sufficiently stable, a hookah base is usually less-preferred by a user to be a source of longitudinal motion (i.e., up-and-down). The present invention utilizes dimensions, configurations, and components that permit advantageous movement and stabilization of a hookah or hookah base. The hookah base 120 includes a floor 138 and a sidewall 126 with a sidewall surface 128. The floor 138 of the hookah base 120 is the portion of the hookah that contacts a surface for hookah use. The floor may wholly contact a surface, or partially contact a surface. It is preferred that at least the outer portion of the floor contact a surface to maximize stability. The diameter/cross-section of the hookah base 120 preferably, at its greatest portion, includes a diameter greater than that of the hookah stem 110 (excluding functional protrusions, e.g. wet smoke components 114 and certainly the accessories that attach thereto, e.g. hoses). It is further preferred that the diameter of the hookah base at its greatest be greater than the greatest diameter of the hookah stem 110, while the minimum dimensions of the hookah base are less than the maximum dimensions of the hookah stem; and it is further preferred, that such stem maximum is placed sufficiently close to the highest portion of the hookah base for advantageous hand placement.

The hookah base 120 may be manufactured of glass, crystal, plastic, or other material sufficient to serve the purpose of a hookah base. Hookahs, in their use of glass, are a novelty in the smoking world. Glass and other materials used to construct hookah bases can make the hookah base exteriors quite slippery when liquids, which are a natural addition to hookah smoking, are applied—usually by spillage—to the base exterior. Hookahs are prone to be dropped or tipped over because of its inherent slipperiness when contacted by water. A dropped hookah is a considerably greater nuisance than other mishandled smoking devices, e.g. cigarettes and pipes.

The base 120 of the present invention includes dimensions that highly support latitudinal movement upon a surface. When viewed from the bottom-to-top, the base 120 converges sharply, preferably at an angle between sixty and eighty degrees. The lower portion of the hookah base preferably includes first a diverging portion 122 adjacent to the hookah floor 138. Because the base 120 initially diverges 122 and curves back in on itself to form a converging portion 124, there is a crevice running around the lowest, accessible portion of the hookah base for a user to place a finger for secured lateral motion. Because a crevice is formed, the pinky finger can be placed therein with upper support that prevents slippage of the pinky. It is important and an aspect of the present invention to allow a finger to be placed in a secure position, with a hookah surface ‘ceiling’ against which to abut, while simultaneously permitting the finger to contact the surface upon which the hookah base sits. From the maximum, local or overall, formed by the initial divergence and convergence, it is preferred that the present invention wholly converge 124 by its sidewall 126 throughout the entire, or almost entirely, height of the hookah base left unexposed by the stem 110 upon affixation. The preferred embodiment of the present invention utilizes an outer stem with a stem plenum sidewall that covers a neck 136 of the hookah base 120—and preferably includes a grommet to form an interference base-grommet-stem fit via grommet compression.

The preferred upper extremity of the base 120 includes a neck, covered by the stem, and further includes a base lip 130 about the periphery of the hookah base 120. The lip 130 is a protrusion that extends outward from the portion of the base sidewall 126 closest to the hookah neck 136 (and/or point at which the stem attaches). Here the base lip 130 allows a finger to fit within a crevice formed by the converging sidewall 124 and the lip 130 for upward or downward force with one hand, while a second hand simultaneously applies force in the opposite direction. Because the present invention is configured such that hands not be moved from an initial grip to effect stem-base attachment, it is preferred that the present invention be utilized with the attachment mechanism of the '987 patent. However, this is not to say that a different attachment system may be used, including the threading often associated with hookahs at time of the drafting of this disclosure. The significance of the present invention is that it permits a highly stable grip for hands directly converging or diverging, with little or slight movements laterally. This includes the MX HOOKAH attachment offered by MYA SARY for its MYA line of hookahs which can utilize sideward motioning for locking, but for a turn less than 360 degrees. Here, the base lip 130 and the stem lip 131 can be pushed directly adjacent to each other or separated starting from an almost neighboring point. The lips 130, 131 would be the primary driver of affixation, while the depression(s) directly adjacent to the lips 130, 131 form the primary driver of hand support for dislocation. For the stem 110, there may be a distinct depression; for the base, there may simply be the space between lip 130 and converging sidewall 124.

The base surface 128 of the hookah base 120 strongly contributes to the motioning features of the present invention. Although hookah bases featuring crevices have been known in the art, the base crevices tended to be aesthetic or to indicate source, e.g. the MYA QT Hookah, rather than functional. The present invention differs in that the contours of the hookah base are now meant to aid a user in stably handling a hookah base in key positions of use, particularly longitudinal motion on a table. In a basic embodiment of the present invention, as shown in FIGS. 4-5, the hookah base sidewall surface 128 includes surface roughening as microfeatures 140, 140a. The microfeatures 140 include depressions or protrusions on the hookah base surface 128 that aid in positioning of a hookah in a way similar to the grooves of a human fingertip. These are known as microfeatures because they (i) aid in the stable positioning of a hookah by increasing the ‘grippyness’ of the hookah base, while simultaneously (ii) not sized to permit a substantial portion of a finger or fingertip to fit within. A macrofeature, according to the present invention, includes a depression of protrusion that allow that (i) aids in the stable positioning of a hookah by increasing the ‘grippyness’ of the hookah base, while simultaneously (ii) sized to permit a substantial portion of a finger or fingertip to fit within in the case of depressions or fit between the macrofeatures in the case of depressions.

The significance of the microfeatures is that they form an overall surface structure that allows multiple grip features to be in contact with the surface of a human hand. As shown in FIG. 6, in particular, the significance of the macrofeatures is that they form an overall surface structure that allows one grip feature to secure a human fingertip or the natural bulges of the fingertips between the joints of the finger, of which non-thumb human fingers include two joints and three bulges inclusive of the tips of the fingers. As with the preferred stem 110, the preferred base includes a converging sidewall that accommodates a thumb and index finger to be wrapped about the upper portion of the hookah base 120, while the pinky and ring finger wrap around some portion of the hookah exterior without sharing a cross-section plane with another finger. Because of this, it is preferred that the apex of the accessible hookah base features a circumference that approximately allows a human wrap to wrap about the hookah base and almost, or slightly greater or less than, permitting the thumb to contact the index finger.

As is the case with the stem 110, the present invention of the hookah base allows different functions for different fingers. Longitudinal force is applied by the thumb and index finger, as well as any radial motioning of the base 120 while the middle finger, ring finger, and pinky of the hand apply stability. Accordingly, the preferred grip structure and configuration/dimensions of the grip structures 140 are sized to accommodate the features of the present invention. The most preferred embodiment of the present invention is preferred in FIGS. 5 and 7 as a combination of the microstructures 140a of FIG. 5 with the macrostructures 140b of FIG. 7. The macrostructure patent of FIG. 7 includes multiple sizes of macrostructures purposefully arrayed in advantageous columns and rows of macrostructures 140b. The microstructures 140a do not require the same degree of purposeful placement, and generally simply need to be present in mass quantity. Both microstructures 140a and macrostructures 140b take the form of dimpling. A finger cannot fit within the microstructures 140a, yet a fingertip or finger bulge may either fit within the macrostructure or allow a small amount of finger bulge to fit within—or almost fit within. Here, the lower macrostructures 140b are larger in diameter and girth nearer the bottom than the macrostructures 140b located near the neck. Here, because the primary purpose of the lower fingers is maintain a position, the lower macrostructures 140b are size to accommodate a pinky and ring finger fingertip, and are placed in a sufficient number of columns to permit a user to achieve this fit without concentrated effort. In other words, a user's pinky finger is never more than about an inch away from a lower macrostructure 140b. The upper macrostructures 140a do not accommodate finger tips, generally. Because the purpose of the upper fingers is to push upward or downward, the fingertips are not used as much as the sides of the fingers. Therefore, the macrostructures are smaller and used, not to accept a fingertip, but rather to ensure that an index-finger/thumb placement contacts a significant quantity of surface features. The fat of the hand, particularly the finger bulges, fits within the upper macrostructures 160b to improve stability.

In the preferred embodiment, the microstructures 140a are dimpling of a uniform size. Alternative microstructures 104a can includes a wave pattern similar to that of a human fingertip whereby the microstructures include one exaggerated dimension. In other words, there are many walls that form a very relatively narrowed cross-section with a very relatively long length. Another preferred version of the microstructure includes the one-dimension exaggerated structure, whereby twists and turns in the exaggerated dimension ensure that a ‘snaking’ pattern accepts force substantially parallel to the base surface 128 in multiple directions. The relationship of the preferred microstructure and macrostructure is that the microstructures are positioned between the macrostructures—and/or even within/upon the macrostructures. As mentioned, the macrostructures are preferably arranged in substantially in-line rows and columns, and more preferably with alternating sizes either in the same column or immediately above and below. This allows different finger sizes to be accommodated in substantially the same configuration as larger/smaller hands. The configuration of the macrostructures of FIG. 7 are similar to macrostructures present in Applicant's contemplated commercial version of the present invention (microstructures, although present in the commercial embodiment as dimples, not shown). The microstructures are sized and positioned such that there are at least four or more microstructures between the nearest macrostructure neighbor of another macrostructure. The quantity of microstructures greatly outnumber the quantity of macrostructures in an at least 10:1 ratio. It is preferred that at least 50% of the surface 128 include structure coverage. By coverage it is not meant that 50% of the surface is either a protrusion or depression, or other difference from a plane of the surface, but rather that the pattern be present on at least 50% of the surface. However, there are other embodiments of the present invention that may include patches of the pattern at important locations, for example, perhaps at the apex of the accessible surface 128 where the thumb/index-finger would be placed and a vertical patch where fingertips would be positioned. It is preferred that the pattern be excluded from the neck. It is preferred that macrostructures are not positioned on the preferred initial base portion whereby the base diverges from the base floor.

The structures of the present invention include protrusions and depressions in the plane, or other continuous surface, of the sidewall that enhance the grip of a user upon the hookah. The surface details are localized, meaning that they do not extend either circumferentially horizontally across a majority of the perimeter of the base or across the majority of the vertical surface height of the base. It is further preferred that the surface details comprise less than a quarter of the previously stated perimeter and surface height. It is further preferred that the surface details comprise less than 20% and even 10% of the previously stated perimeter and surface height. It is most preferred that no macrostructure be size significantly greater than the width of a normal human fingertip. In the preferred embodiment, the macrostructures are all sized smaller than a man's fingertips, accepting only the most extreme portion of the fingertips. Although microstructures are not dimensioned to accept human fingertips and bulges, the macrostructures are 0.5 to 1.5 mm deep with a diameter of 5-10 mm. The preferred surface details include sets of circular depressions dimensioned to accept finger tips mixed with miniaturized dimpling between the finger sized circular depressions. The preferred base height is approximately the width of a human hand with a stem having approximately the same height, or a height within 50% of each other—excluding a hookah bowl. It is further preferred that the microstructures and macrostructures include a continuous surface that minimizes debris accretion. Furthermore, the perimeter of the microstructures and macrostructures are preferably continuous to minimize debris accretion that could occur in ‘corners’ and other angled junctions.

Although the present invention has been described in considerable detail with reference to certain preferred versions thereof, other versions would be readily apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art. Therefore, the spirit and scope of the appended claims should not be limited to the description of the preferred versions contained herein.

Claims

1. A hookah base comprising:

a base floor; and

a base sidewall, extending upward from said floor, with a sidewall surface having a sidewall textured surface portion of at least 50% of said sidewall surface uniformly converging away from said floor and substantially covered by localized, physical surface details.

2. The hookah base of claim 1 wherein said surface details include substantially circular depressions having a width-to-depth ratio of at least 3.

3. The hookah base of claim 2 wherein said surface details include substantially circular depressions having four or less different, uniform diameters.

4. The hookah base of claim 3 wherein said surface details include substantially circular depressions having three or less different, uniform diameters.

5. The hookah base of claim 2 wherein said surface details include at least three sets of substantially circular depressions having at least three or more different, uniform diameters.

6. The hookah base of claim 5 wherein said surface details are arranged to include at two rows and columns configured in a wholly-interspersed depression arrangement.

7. The hookah base of claim 6 wherein said surface details are arranged to from largest-to-smallest from a maxima of said converging sidewall.

8. The hookah base of claim 5 further comprising a set of discrete miniature physical details, wherein at least two of said miniature physical details is interspersed between vertically adjacent depressions and horizontally adjacent depressions.

9. The hookah base of claim 2 further comprising a set of discrete miniature physical details, wherein at least two of said miniature physical details is interspersed between vertically adjacent depressions and horizontally adjacent depressions.

10. The hookah base of claim 9 further comprising a diverging sidewall portion initially extending from said base floor and contacting said converging sidewall portion.

11. The hookah base of claim 10 wherein said textured sidewall portion includes both said diverging sidewall portion and said converging sidewall portion bearing said localized, physical surface details.

12. The hookah base of claim 9 wherein said minitiature physical details exist in at least a 4:1 quantity with respect to said substantially-circular depressions.

13. A hookah base comprising:

a base floor; and

a base sidewall, extending upward from said floor, with a sidewall surface having a sidewall textured surface portion of at least 50% of said sidewall surface, comprising a diverging sidewall diverging away from said floor and a converging sidewall uniformly converging away from said floor, both said converging sidewall and said diverging sidewall and substantially covered by localized, physical surface details;

said surface details comprising: a set of substantially circular depressions having a width-to-depth ratio of at least 3, and a set of discrete miniature physical details, wherein at least two of said miniature physical details is interspersed between vertically adjacent depressions and horizontally adjacent depressions.

14. The hookah base of claim 13 wherein said minitiature physical details exist in at least a 4:1 quantity with respect to said substantially-circular depressions.

15. The hookah base of claim 13 further comprising a base lip, positioned proximate to a sidewall perimeter minimum.

16. A hookah comprising:

a base comprising:

a base floor; and

a base sidewall, extending upward from said floor, with a sidewall surface having a sidewall textured surface portion of at least 50% of said sidewall surface, comprising a diverging sidewall diverging away from said floor and a converging sidewall uniformly converging away from said floor, both said converging sidewall and said diverging sidewall and substantially covered by localized, physical surface details;

said surface details comprising: a set of substantially circular depressions having a width-to-depth ratio of at least 3, and a set of discrete miniature physical details comprising dimpling, wherein at least two of said miniature physical details is interspersed between vertically adjacent depressions and horizontally adjacent depressions;

and a stem comprising:

a stem plenum portion wherein wet smoke outlets permit fluid exchange from a stem interior to a stem exterior; and

and a substantially ovoid bulging stem portion, positioned above said wet smoke outlets and situated between bulging stem portion termini, defining multiple circumferential depressions between said termini.

17. The hookah of claim 16 wherein said minitiature physical details exist in at least a 4:1 quantity with respect to said substantially-circular depressions.

18. The hookah of claim 16 further comprising at least one stem surface depression positioned below said wet smoke outlets.