Smoking product
A smoking product of a cigarette type which can be made quickly and personally and can be filled with any amount and type of tobacco according to the smoker's will.
The present application is a division of Ser. No. 10/249,424, filed on Apr. 8, 2003, now U.S. Pat. No. 7,287,531.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTIONThe present device derives from the tobacco industry and is an auxiliary smoking product with cigarette holder, representing a product combining the consumer characteristics and quality of cigarettes.
Different types of cigarettes are known in the world. Common for all is the tobacco core inserted in cigarette paper jacket and short cut cigarette holder made from pressed paper, for example. It should be noted that the cigarette holder and the tobacco core are put together in a single whole by a paper band (U.S. Pat. No. 3,498,299 and GB 2,203,324).
Tobacco products described in U.S. Pat. No. 3,524,450 are the closest in the technical sense and purpose to the proposed product. These products have an elongated cigarette holder of cardboard-type pressed fibrous material and a cylindrical tube for tobacco content. The tobacco core tube and cigarette holder are united together with the help of a paper fillet.
In the well-known cigarettes, the tobacco core tube has a permanent non-changeable length and therefore a certain given amount of tobacco in the cigarette. Therefore, if a smoker wants to decrease the amount of smoked tobacco he will have to put out the cigarette, and either store somewhere or throw out the non-smoked part, which makes it inconvenient, non-economic and violates the ecology of smoking.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTIONThe purpose of the invention is to create such a cigarette smoking product that will enable one to change the amount of smoked tobacco according to the smoker's intent or habit.
Another purpose of the invention is to create a smoking product that is easy to produce personally.
A further purpose of the invention is to create a smoking product that combines the features and quality of filter and non-filter cigarettes.
The aforementioned are goals achieved by the present smoking product. It contains a cigarette holder made from pressed cardboard-type fibrous material that, in essence, is a coreless tubular element with a long axis, and a tobacco core tube also of cylindrical form manufactured from parchment. The novelty is that the tobacco core tube has a slightly larger diameter and length than the diameter and length of the above-mentioned cigarette holder and this core tube partially envelops the outside of the cigarette holder in order to form a core to be filled by tobacco. The tobacco core tube is made in a way enabling it to move along the long axis of the cigarette holder in order to change the volume of space for tobacco.
My product shall be hereby described in detail in the description with reference to the attached drawings, in which:
The proposed cigarette-type product includes a cigarette holder 1 (
The cigarette holder is made as now described. At first, the sample (cigarette-paper) should be twisted clockwise and counterclockwise pursuant to indicator “A”, as shown in
After space 3 is filled in sufficiently, with the help of two fingers one should pull at the base of tobacco core tube 2, on
The procedure of manufacturing this cigarette takes no more than one minute. And since core tube 2 can be moved along the long axis of the cigarette holder 1, the amount of tobacco in space 3 can be increased, or decreased, i.e. this method enables a cigarette to be made of any size with one's own hand and with any type of tobacco according to the smoker's desire.
Claims
1. (canceled)
2. A smoking product comprising
- an elongated tubular holder having a first end; and
- an elongated tube having an outer end and an inner end that is releasably engaged around and overlaps said first end, said tube being slidable lengthwise relative to the holder so that said outer end can be adjustably spaced from said first end to vary the available tube volume between said first and said outer ends, said tube being of a combustible material so that when said outer end is lit, the tube burns down like a cigarette wrapper.
3. The product defined in claim 2 wherein said holder is of cardboard.
4. The product defined in claim 2 wherein the tube is of parchment or cigarette paper.
5. The product defined in claim 2 wherein the tube is appreciably longer than the holder.
6. The product defined in claim 2 and further including a quantity of loose tobacco received in said available tube volume through said outer end and pressed filled by sliding the tube along the holder to reduce the distance between said first and said outer ends.
7-13. (canceled)
14. The product defined in claim 6 and further including opposed pressure points located on the product between said first and said inner ends which when pressed together prevent said tobacco from penetrating into the holder.
Type: Application
Filed: Oct 29, 2007
Publication Date: Nov 13, 2008
Inventor: Gregory Desmond (Quincy, MA)
Application Number: 11/978,256
International Classification: A24F 1/28 (20060101);