Patents by Inventor Eugene J. Higgins

Eugene J. Higgins has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20090050168
    Abstract: Cigarette filter with an outer housing, an inner smoke channel member, the outer housing being approximately cylindrical in shape, the outer housing having an aperture on its first end that is equivalent to the diameter of a standard cigarette, the outer housing having an aperture on the second end that is approximately one tenth of an inch in diameter, the second end also being flattened so that the end view of the second end is approximately rectangular, the interior of the outer housing capable of frictionally retaining the inner smoke channel member, the inner smoke channel member including a quarter of an inch diameter disk that is frictionally retained by the inner diameter of the outer housing, the disk including six evenly spaced radially placed apertures, the smoke channel member disk apertures being approximately three thousandths of an inch in diameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2007
    Publication date: February 26, 2009
    Inventor: Eugene J. Higgins