Involving Ash Tray Patents (Class 55/385.8)
  • Patent number: 9167849
    Abstract: A pipe comprises a combustion chamber with vents, the combustion chamber able to receive a cigarette; an inhalation path for drawing smoke from the combustion chamber through the bowl vents during inhalation; an exhalation filter; and an exhalation path for channeling exhaled smoke through the exhalation filter during exhalation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Inventor: Kelly J. Adamic
  • Patent number: 6523544
    Abstract: A fan-assisted ashtray includes a hollow body having a lid for closing an open top thereof; a tray member for containing ash from a smoker's article; a filter member located below the tray member; and an electric fan located below the filter member for drawing air and smoke into the filter member and for exhausting air to the exterior of the body through a vent. The filter member extends across an entire horizontal sectional area of the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2003
    Assignee: Philip Morris Incorporated
    Inventors: Mitchell Ritter, Jacques Berset, Thomas Riedel, Oliver Giles Ferguson
  • Patent number: 6471754
    Abstract: A purification system for preventing secondhand tobacco smoke from reaching an ambient environment thereabout. Two components of the system include a smoke entrapment intake hood for aggregating the secondhand smoke and an electrostatic suction filter assembly in communication with the entrapment hood for extracting aggregated smoke from the hood, removing untoward particulate from the smoke, and releasing resulting clean air to the environment. The filter assembly includes at least one particulate filter for collecting smoke-borne particulate and at least one appropriately charged or grounded plate for electrostatically collecting charged smoke-borne particulate. An exit port from the filter assembly permits the release of so-cleaned air to the environment as a negative-ion emitter, positioned immediately inside the exit port, introduces charged ions into the cleansed air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2002
    Inventor: Tahsin Ammouri