Abstract: A smoker's accessory for filtering sidestream smoke emitted from a burning cigarette comprises an exhaust fan mounted in a central unit and a sidestream smoke filter cartridge having a cigarette tube for a burning cigarette, is placed is provided alongside the central component. The filter cartridge is provided in a housing which is connected to the central fan support. The cigarette tube is as long as a cigarette and has a diameter of at least 1.5 times the diameter of the cigarette. A porous low pressure drop filter element is provided at the end of the cigarette tube for removing sidestream smoke. The housing has a front end wall in which the cigarette holder with the cigarette to be positioned. A fresh air inlet is provided which permits the fan to draw fresh air inside the cigarette tube along the cigarette and pick up the sidestream smoke from the lit cigarette for purposes of drawing through the filter cartridge before release to the surroundings.

Abstract: A cigarette smoke filter is provided for use in a smoker's accessory for filtering cigarette smoke, having a tubular filter normally of micro-fibres for removing particulate material from cigarette smoke and optionally an outer filter layer of activated carbon material or the like for adsorbing gaseous components from the cigarette smoke. The efficiencies of the tubular filters is such to remove substantially all of the particulate and gaseous components from the cigarette smoke so that the filtered smoke stream can be discharged into the surroundings free of any cigarette smoke smell.

Abstract: A smokeless cigarette filter device has a barrel fabricated out of molded, heat resistant durable material. A structure on a first end of the barrel is for covering the mouth and nose of a smoker. An element is provided for holding a cigarette within the barrel, so that a butt end of the cigarette can enter the mouth and nose covering structure. A component is provided for lighting a distal end of the cigarette within the barrel when the smoker inhales. An assembly is on a second end of the barrel, for filtering harmful first and second hand smoke coming from the lit cigarette and the smoker, so as to prevent the smoke from ever reaching the outside air. An apparatus is provided for extinguishing the cigarette within the barrel, when the smoker is done smoking the cigarette.

Abstract: A secondary-smoke filtration device which effectively filters one-hundred percent of the secondary-smoke associated with cigarettes, pipes, and cigars. The device includes a smoked product container (20), an exhalation pipe (34), a smoke conduit (30), and a filtering device (45). In use, the smoker inhales smoke from the smoked product (10) contained within the smoked product container (20) and exhales into the exhalation pipe (34). The smoke is drawn through the smoke conduit (30) by a blower fan (64) and through a series of filters (59), (60) and (61), respectively. The smoke is then returned to the environment free of contaminants and pollutants.

Abstract: A device including a housing, a mouthpiece, a bellows, and an igniter is provided to contain secondary smoke. A cigarette may be sealed in the housing of the device and lit by the igniter. Once the cigarette is lit, when a smoker draws a breath through the mouthpiece, air is drawn through the lit cigarette and the resulting smoke-ladened air from the cigarette passes into the smoker's mouth. If the smoker then exhales into the device, the exhaled smoke is conducted to the bellows. The secondary smoke, thus trapped in the bellows, may later be released where it is safe and permissible to do so.

Abstract: A filtered smoker's mouthpiece having three sections; means to hold a cigarette or cigar in line with a chamber holding a filter, and a mouth piece therefore, wherein the filter is originally of greater volume than the filter chamber and is flexible and compressable. The mouthpiece includes stops to provide space between the end of a smoking article and the filter.

Abstract: A smoking device for releasing an aerosol into the mouth of a smoker comprises in combination, a chamber into which a mixture of air and a liquid aerosol precursor is introduced, a heat source surrounding the chamber, a first duct providing communication between the chamber and a smoker's mouth, whereby the contents of the chamber may be drawn into the smoker's mouth, a container for the aerosol precursor, a second duct means leading from the aerosol precursor container into the chamber whereby aerosol precursor may pass from said container into the chamber, and a third duct means providing communication between ambient air and the chamber whereby ambient air may be drawn into the chamber by the smoker, the arrangement being such that in operation liquid aerosol precursor entering the chamber is converted into a condensation aerosol.

Abstract: A device for helping a cigarette smoker to reduce his daily cigarette consumption. An elongated container has a main body at least as long as a cigarette. The body holds an interiorly threaded cylinder and has an upper end that is exteriorly threaded. A container cap has threads engageable with the body's exterior threads. There is a serrated cup and ash holder inside the container engaging the interior threads, and a knob is provided for rotating the cylinder to cause them to go up and down in the container, depending on the direction of rotation. The main body preferably has a clip on its exterior. The device may have a lighter in an upper portion of the cap.

Abstract: A hand-held device eliminates smoke generated from cigarette smoking. This cigarette package-sized device completely encloses a cigarette while it is being smoked and provides two mouthpieces, one for inhaling and the other for exhaling smoke into the device. All smoke passes through two filters, a particulate filter and an odor filter, before being discharged into the ambient atmosphere.

Abstract: A cigarette holder and an insert for a conventional cigarette holder, including a first chamber for receiving the butt end of the cigarette and a second chamber for condensing the noxious elements of tobacco smoke. The two chambers are connected by an opening such that the smoke travels from the first chamber to the second chamber. The second chamber has an end plate opposite the opening, but has spaced orifices in its side walls through which the smoke passes. The cross-sectional area of the second chamber is less than the cross-sectional area of the first chamber and increases from the open end to the end plate. The second chamber is designed to create turbulences therein.

Abstract: A smoking aid for reducing concentrations of poisonous substances contained in tobacco smoke including a pipe bowl having a smoke retaining cavity, a stem coupled with the pipe bowl and a mouthpiece connected to the stem. A cap-like member is movably secured to a top portion of the pipe bowl such that a space formed between the pipe bowl and cap-like member can be adjusted. A hole is formed in a top wall of the cap-like member, through said hole a root portion of a cigarette may be protruded into the smoke retaining cavity. By moving the cap-like member relative to the pipe bowl to adjust a dimension of the space, it is possible to adjust an amount of clean air introduced into the smoke retaining cavity to control a dilution of tobacco smoke.

Abstract: A cigar holder is provided and consists of a thin cylindrical-shaped tube that can be inserted within a mouth of a smoker. The tube has a hollow punch extending centrally inwardly to pierce butt end of a cigar for allowing free drawing of smoke. The thin cylindrical-shaped tube can be chewed on without harm to teeth of the smoker. The tube is provided with an adapter for holding variously sized cigars.

Abstract: A cigar or cigarette holder capable of receiving a cigar or cigarette and for filtering smoke generated from the cigar or cigarette. The holder has three chambers. The first chamber defined by the space between a perforated tubular member, concentrically situated around a perforated inner tubular member, and the inner tubular member. The first chamber is substantially filled with a filter material. The second and third chambers are within the inner tubular member, substantially coaxially aligned and separated by a wall having an aperture to transfer ash from the second chamber to the third chamber.

Abstract: A smoking apparatus which efficiently removes harmful impurities from the smoke does so by improving contact between the smoke and a washing liquid. This is accomplished by placing small stones and small floating pieces in a water pipe to increase the distance of the flow path of the smoke through the water, and to decrease the size of the smoke bubbles passing through the water.

Abstract: A fire safe, environmentally protective cigarette holder for fully enveloping a lit cigarette and in which an internal power source maintains a flow of air to the lit portion and drives the exhaust smoke through a filter before it is vented to the atmosphere, thus filtering products of combustion which are not drawn in by the smoker. Additional filtering means which can include the cigarette itself can be utilized to filter the drawn smoke.

Abstract: A tobacco smoke article holder for a testing machine and a method of mounting a tobacco smoke article in the holder to simulate the human smoking process including an inflatably lined flow-through conduit having a depth substantially equal to the average width of a human lip and a cross-section in liner-relaxed state approximating the cross-section of the tobacco smoke article to accommodate normal insertion depth of the tobacco smoke article.

Abstract: A smoking device is provided having a tubular safety shield to inhibit the ability of a rod-like smoking tobacco element from igniting other articles with which the device may come into contact. The safety shield includes a multiplicity of projections that extend relatively inward to engage with a tobacco element and support it in coaxially spaced relationship to the wall of the tubular shield, thereby resulting in an annular chamber enabling essentially uninhibited and free circulation of air. Forming of the projections results in the concurrent formation of the like number of apertures in the shield wall with these apertures effectively disposed to face in a generally axial direction relative to the longitudinal axis of the shield while enabling free airflow.

Abstract: An improved construction for a cigarette holder and filter cartridge is described wherein the holder has a unique arrangement of cavities for axially receiving a filter cartridge and the end of a cigarette. The filter cartridge is formed with a unique arrangement of surfaces and a conical frustum for reception and retention in the holder. The location and taper of the frustum cooperates with one of the cavities of the holder to provide a flexible binding fit, allowing the cartridge to be retained in the holder during normal use and changes in cigarettes, but removable by simply tapping the end of the holder against a hard supporting surface.

Abstract: A smoking device composed of a tubular body having a one-way valve between an inlet and an outlet which is adapted to permit smoke to flow from the inlet to the outlet and wherein ports are provided between the one-way valve and the outlet so that when smoke is expelled through the device it will pass through the ports and down tubular lengths which are provided and connected in fluid communication with the ports and each of which contains a one-way valve to permit exhaust of the smoke.

Abstract: A safety cigarette bottle for smoking cigarettes or the like. The bottle provides for safely smoking a cigarette to prevent a potential building fire and provides for clean housekeeping while smoking. The bottle includes a cigarette lighter with lighter chamber for lighting the cigarette. A cigarette holder is slidably mounted in a cigarette chamber for receiving the cigarette therein. An ash tray chamber is releasably attached to the bottom of the cigarette chamber for receiving and removing the cigarette ashes.

Abstract: A cigarette holder body terminates at one end in a hollow mouthpiece which opens to a pair of cylindrical passages one of which holds the unlit end of the cigarette while the other holds a smoke catcher cartridge. One way flap valves are interposed between the unlit end of the cigarette and the mouthpiece and downstream of the smoke catcher cartridge which automatically open and close oppositely such that during inhaling smoke passes through the first passage to the smoker while, during exhaling smoke is forced to pass through the other passage bearing the smoke catcher cartridge. The body may comprise a hinged two-part plasting molding snap latched to closed position and bearing integral opening tabs on respective body halves.

Abstract: A smoking device holder includes a device receiver secured to a smoking mouthpiece with a hand-operated valve located within the smoking device receiver for the purpose of controlling smoking by adjusting, reducing, or eliminating the smoke consumed by the smoker.

Abstract: A tar and nicotine filter device attachable to one end of a cigarette, including a molded, hard plastic tube for placing in a persons mouth, the tube containing two filter cartridges spaced apart by a tar trap therebetween, the invention in one design containing a cotton wad in the tar trap that is made to be visible so to inform a smoker when the device is tar saturated so to be discarded, and in another design of the invention, the tube is made of two interfitted pack so to allow opening and replacing the saturated cartridges.

Abstract: A filter cartridge assembly for filtering tars from tobacco smoke is described, said assembly comprising a cylindrical sleeve and an inner filter core member, the inner surface of the cylindrical sleeve and the outer surface of the core member defining a smoke passageway. One end of the sleeve is formed with an obstruction having a restricted inlet passage therethrough, the other end being essentially open for receiving the filter core member therein. A pair of stand-off contacts is provided on one end of the core member, said contacts projecting from an impingement surface, and a cylindrical plug having a restricted outlet passage is formed on the opposite end. When the core member is assembled within the sleeve, the plug end thereof is positioned in sealing relating to the open end of the sleeve and supports the filter core member therefrom.

Abstract: A case for enclosing a cigarette while being smoked, in order to prevent ashes from scattering therefrom; the case including an outer tube fitted with a removable mouthpiece bit and end cap at opposite ends thereof, the end cap being integral with an inner tube spaced from the outer tube and also from a cigarette fitted at one end in a bit and both tubes being perforated so to admit air to the cigarette flame.

Abstract: A method of making a device for tobacco consumption, comprising forming an elongated hollow member, forming a mouthpiece at one end of said hollow member and a bowl portion for receiving a plug of tobacco, preferably pre-formed, at the other, and providing means for bending the hollow member at least at one location between the two ends.This invention further pertains to a device for tobacco consumption comprising a stem portion and a bowl portion with a pre-formed bending place between them.

Abstract: A cigarette holder for assisting a smoker in stopping smoking has an outer tube whose rear end is provided with a mouthpiece and whose front end is provided with a metal snuffing collar. Inside this other tube is another tube that acts as a stop for a cigarette inserted into the outer tube, and that is provided with break formations such as grooves or notches so that it can be shortened. This inner tube is therefore periodically shortened so that the amount of cigarette that can be inserted or received within the holder and in back of the snuffing collar increases. Thus the amount of each cigarette that can be smoked with the holder can be decreased step-wise to allow the user to reduce the amount of each cigarette smoked. Ultimately cigarette smoking can thus be stopped.

Abstract: A cigarette holder includes a pair of compartments for receiving filtering material, the holder being joined in the middle by a sleeve carrying a retrieving member having a hook on one end and a tamping handle at the opposite end. For taking the cigarette holder apart and replacing of filtering material, the sleeve is removed and is suitably utilized as a holding handle with respect to which the retrieving member is extended in a first direction for retrieving cotton material, and extended in the reverse direction to provide a tamping end for forcing new cotton material into the cigarette holder.

Abstract: A dual purpose cigarette holder which may be used to smoke a cigarette manually, or when modified, functions as a filtered cigarette holder for filtering smoke inhaled by user. The holder includes a tubular body having a mouthpiece on end and a metal insert for holding a cigarette on the other end. The body includes a chamber divided into two portions each including a check valve therein and openings in the wall thereof. In the form of a manually operated smoking device, a resilient, collapsible member is removeably engaged about the tubular body enclosing said openings. In the form of a filtered cigarette holder, the collapsible member is removed and replaced by a filter element.

Abstract: An improved tobacco smoke filter is provided with a novel arrangement of restricted passageways and expansion chambers which entrains the smoke so that greater diffusion thereof occurs in a first expansion chamber and greater and more efficient mixing with the ambient air occurs in a second expansion chamber than was previously possible in prior art devices, so that more tar and nicotine are removed and greater cooling of the smoke is provided. Indexing and indicating means are provided on the device so that the operator thereof may easily select the amount of ambient air desired for admission into the second expansion chamber.

Abstract: A cigarette holder that selectively permits a smoker to draw either fully filtered smoke or else unfiltered smoke; the holder including a snorkel tube clipped to an aide of the cigarette holder, a forward end of the snorkel tube being impalled in a side of the cigarette forwardly of the cigarette filters, and a rear end of the snorkel tube being aligned alongside the cigarette holder mouthpiece so to permit the holder in a modified design thereof including a tongue-controlled valve so to draw either through the holder or the snorkel; and the holder in a further modified design including a means for injecting into the smoke stream desired elements such as menthol vapors, various gases, talc or clay powders, and the like.

Abstract: A cylindrically-shaped menthol cartridge is adapted to be placed within the hollow body portion of an elongated, two-piece cigarette holder. The holder includes a flattened member adapted for reception in the mouth of a user, and a generally cylindrical member adapted to receive a cigarette, cigar or other smokable, tobacco-filled cylinder. The cylindrically-shaped cartridge is packed with menthol crystals and includes vented end walls through which smoke from the burning tobacco may pass before flowing to the smoker. Inhalation of the menthol fumes mitigates the toxicity of the tars and nicotine from the burning tobacco and soothes the mucous membranes in the nose and mouth.

Abstract: A smoking system is provided to filter tobacco smoke and remove harmful ingredients present in the smoke without adversely affecting the aroma and taste of the smoke and permitting easy draw of the smoke from a cigarette. A cylindrical chamber containing filtering means including a cation exchange material is formed to receive a cigarette at one end and to serve as a mouthpiece at the opposite end.

Abstract: This invention relates to a containment member matably assembled within a substantially cylindrical housing having therewithin a mass of filtering material such as water-reactive, expansible fibrous material and at least one frangible body having a liquid content, both of said containment member and said housing being made of resilient, impervious materials of the type generally designated as plastics, and each having one end open and at the opposite end an integral disc having multiple perforations for the passage of smoke therethrough.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a filter for removing cigarette smoke particles. The filter is comprised of a housing having an inlet and an outlet. A first diaphragm is positioned adjacent the housing inlet and a second diaphragm is positioned midway along the length of the housing and dividing the filter into forward and rearward chambers. At least one smoke particle condensing surface is positioned within each of the forward and rearward chambers. The smoke particles condensing surface provides additional surface upon which the particles condense after passing through at least the first diaphragm.

Abstract: A cigarette holder and filter cartridge combination including interconnected mouthpiece and cigarette holding sections which define a filter cartridge chamber and a filter cartridge, comprising a core of mixed absorbent and non-absorbent fibers and a cylindrical expandable paper wrapper, which when wet expands to fill the entire diameter of the filter cartridge chamber, thereby insuring that no smoke can reach the smoker by passing around the edges of the filter.

Abstract: A tobacco smoke filter embodied in a holder for retaining cigarettes and cigars during the smoking thereof wherein inhaled smoke is drawn by suction through a series of sections and successively expanded and contracted to remove more and more tar and nicotine therefrom with means for cooling the smoke during its passage through the sections.

Abstract: A cigarette pipe is disclosed incorporating therewith a replaceable tar cartridge which acts as a liquefier tube. Said tar cartridge is snugly fitted at the downstream portion of the cigarette holder of said pipe. A smoke passage inlet and smoke passage outlets passing to and from said cartridge are tiny orifices of predetermined diameter to produce a low pressure chamber therein. During smoking, a suction pressure is applied at the mouthpiece end and the hot gas molecules of the stream of smoke, through an inlet orifice, flows at high velocity inside the tar cartridge which provides the low pressure chamber and wherein the highly accelerated stream of smoke is expanded, cooled and liquefied. The liquefied tar particles suspended in the stream of smoke sticks and accumulates to the inner walls of the cartridge.

Abstract: A base member has a recess in its top surface, and the bottom wall of the recess has a vertical socket arranged to hold a cigarette upright. A flexible tube is connected into the base member for communication with the socket and has a smoking tip whereby a cigarette in the base member can be smoked by a person remote from the cigarette. A hollow lid is employed which can be locked in place on the base member to prevent access to the cigarette being smoked. The lid has apertures placed at selected upper and lower portions therein to provide a draft ventilation for cigarette smoke.

Abstract: This cigarette-holder or pipe stem comprises a duct connecting the combustion area to the mouthpiece, and means for generating ultrasonic vibration directed across said duct, said means consisting essentially of a battery-operated integrated circuit operating as a power oscillator associated with a piezoelectric ceramic or nickel strip.

Abstract: An improved smoke control device for smoking articles which contains a valve operative to close off the flow of smoke drawn through the smoking article depending upon the pressure drop or draw rate of each individual puff. Preferably, the valve comprises a resilient flap member responsive to the puff pressure drop for restricting or closing off smoke drawn through the smoking article and which will reopen after the pressure is relieved, thereby limiting each puff to a predetermined yield consistent with that obtainable in a normal puff.

Abstract: An electric filter for separating impurities from air including a housing which contains separator plates disposed in spaced relationship and formed of conductive material and alternate ones of said plates are connected to opposite poles of a source of voltage.

Abstract: A holder is provided for cigars and similar tobacco products. In a preferred form, the holder includes a mouthpiece portion and a receiver portion which can be easily disassembled and assembled. The mouthpiece portion has a chamber therein for a filter insert, the insert preferably being of tobacco which can be flavored, but it can also be of other materials, such as snuff. The mouthpiece portion has a side opening therein which provides access to the insert so that the smoker can touch and taste the insert with his tongue as well as draw smoke from a lighted cigar held by the receiver portion. The mouthpiece portion also has an arcuate groove in front of the opening to fit with the lower teeth of the smoker and to help maintain the holder in a position with the side opening facing downwardly.

Abstract: Improved performance in a cigarette filter of the kind that is housed in a cigarette holder is accomplished by incorporating a restriction in the flow path through the holder in which smoke is accelerated. That is followed by an expansion chamber into which ambient air is drawn to accomplish cooling and condensation of tars and nicotine products and to produce a turbulence. As a consequence, the condensate is made to impinge upon the surface of the filter element where it is retained.

Abstract: A cigarette holder construction having a casing with a mouthpiece end, a cigarette receiving end and a metal sleeve inserted in the cigarette receiving end. Inwardly extending projections are arranged radially about the inner surface of the sleeve to engage and removably secure the inserted end of a cigarette against accidental dislodgment. The mouthpiece end of the cigarette casing is provided with a removable plug having a body section frictionally engaging with the mouthpiece opening of the casing and an enlarged head integral with the body.

Abstract: A cigarette holder is disclosed which contains a filtering element in a cavity within the barrel of the holder. The filter element is provided with a flange that extends from the element and divides the cavity into an upstream filtering chamber and a downstream storage and filter chamber. Conformations in the flange permit communication from the upstream to the downstream side of the cavity. Smoke enters the filter cavity through a restricted opening where it is made to pass at high velocity. Thereafter, the smoke is permitted to expand and cool such that the tars and nicotine in the smoke are condensed. The chamber and the filtering element are arranged so that the smoke swirls to impart a kinetic energy to the condensate which results in an inability to follow the conformations past the flange whereby the condensate is made to impinge upon the surfaces of the filter element where it is condensed.

Abstract: A mouthpiece which comprises two filters for purifying tobacco smoke: a rough purification filter and a fine purification filter. The rough purification filter is intended to convert the resin vapors contained in the smoke into a liquid and to settle down the vapors on the inner surface of the body, and the fine purification filter is fabricated from a porous sintered metal material catching up to 80 per cent of the toxic agents.

Abstract: An improved filter cartridge for use in cigar and cigarette holders is formed by a cylindrical cup having an inlet perforation in its side wall and a barrier wall extending from the bottom wall of the cup past and closely adjacent to the inlet perforation. The cartridge is used with a cigar or cigarette holder of the type having an internal cavity in which the cartridge is disposed and having conformations with which the open end of the cartridge interfits such that the flow of smoke proceeds from the cigarette recess of the holder to the cavity surrounding the cartridge and then through the inlet perforation against and past the barrier at the interior of the cartridge.