CARRYING CASE WITH AN ELASTIC IMPLEMENT FOR SMOKING TOBACCO OR CANNABIS

Abstract

A carrying case with an elastic smoking implement positioned between a tubular housing and a tubular cover makes it convenient to store and seal a tubular container with smoking material (such as tobacco or cannabis) between smoking sessions. A push-and-turn lock prevents the opening of the carrying case by minors. The carrying case has an internal cavity sized to accept the tubular container, the elastic smoking implement, and the smoke filter inside thereof.

Description

CROSS-REFERENCE DATA

This patent application is a continuation-in-part of my co-pending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 16/445,189 entitled “Universal Elastic Implement for Smoking Tobacco, Cannabis and E-Cigarettes with a Built-In Screen” filed 18 Jun. 2019, which in turn claims a priority benefit from a U.S. Provisional patent application Ser. No. 29/682,850 entitled “Universal elastic implement for smoking tobacco, cannabis, and e-cigarettes with a built-in filter” filed on 8 Mar. 2019, now expired, both of which are incorporated herein by reference in their respective entireties.

BACKGROUND

Without limiting the scope of the invention, its background is described in connection with smoking devices and accessories. More particularly, the invention describes an airtight carrying case in combination with an elastic implement for smoking tobacco, cannabis, and other combustible materials.

Smoking is a practice in which a combustible material, typically a plant such as tobacco, cannabis, herbs, or mixtures thereof is slowly burned, and the resulting smoke is inhaled by the smoker. Combustion of the substance causes the release into the smoke of active drugs such as nicotine or THC and therefore makes them available for a smoker to absorb through the lungs upon inhalation. The most common way of smoking today is via cigarettes, primarily industrially manufactured but also hand-rolled using rolling paper for example. Other smoking tools include traditional pipes, cigars, hookahs, and water-pipes, or bongs. A more recent addition to a variety of smoking devices is a so-called e-cigarette, which does not produce smoke in a technical sense of the word but instead causes evaporation of an inhalable aerosol, which may contain suspended particles desired to be consumed by the smoker.

For the purposes of this description, a variety of cigarettes, cigars, cannabis joints, are referred to collectively as a tubular container with smoking material, with both the container and the smoking material are expected to be slowly burned during a smoking session.

People smoke for recreation, as a part of rituals, and for medical purposes. It will be appreciated that, while cannabis for recreational use is illegal in many parts of the world, its use as a medicine is legal in many countries, including Canada, Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Israel, Italy, Finland, and Portugal. In the United States, permission for medical use of cannabis varies from state to state, with dozens of states that have enacted laws to allow regulated cannabis consumption, possession, cultivation, and distribution for medicinal purposes. Therefore, legal statutes now permit both the recreational and medical use of cannabis for the delivery of THC (Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol), CBD (cannabidiol), and other cannabinoids to a user in many parts of the world.

Inhaling combusted cannabis is the most common, effective, and least expensive method for delivering a pharmacological action of THC to the brain and body. The THC dose of inhaled cannabis smoke is largely determined by the concentration of precursor THCA (tetrahydrocannabinolic acid) present in the buds and small leaves of the plant and its temperature-dependent conversion to THC during combustion.

Though smoking is commonplace and enjoyable, inhalation of smoke resulting from the burning of any plant substance may adversely affect the health of a smoker. My previous patent application describes an elastic implement with a built-in filter to address the problem of removing tars, resins, and burning particles from the smoke before inhaling thereof by the user.

It is a common practice to consume a single tubular container with a smoking material over more than one smoking session. In this case, lighting up a burning end of the tubular container and inhaling the smoke a few times leaves a problem of safely extinguishing the smoking end of the tubular container and storing it until the next smoking session. Simple carrying cases made as hard shell tubes are typically used for that purpose. The user is expected to put the remaining tubular container into the carrying case, close off the cap and store the smoking material until next use.

Such simple carrying cases (sometimes also called “doob tubes”) have many disadvantages:

First, a tubular container with a smoking material such as a cannabis joint is placed together with the remaining burned particles and ash in the same carrying case. Reopening of the case and retrieving the tubular material causes the user to expose his hands or face to the ash falling out from the carrying case.

Second, these carrying cases are not reliably airtight, causing proliferation of the tobacco or cannabis smell and remaining smoke outside the carrying case, and exposing others thereto.

Third, simple carrying cases to not provide adequate protection to deny access to the smoking material by children and minors, and finally

Fourth, some residual burning of the smoking material inside a plastic tube may cause partial burning of the plastic tube itself as the tubular material is not fixedly retained inside the carrying case, simply placed inside thereof and can shift its position from time to time.

Besides, these tubular carrying cases do not have any room for additional smoking accessories such as filters or the elastic implement as I described previously to be stored together with the remaining smoking material to make it convenient to resume smoking thereof at a different time.

The need, therefore, exists for a novel carrying case in combination with the universal elastic implement as described previously to address these problems and further improve the smoking experience of the user when a single tubular container is consumed over multiple smoking sessions.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to overcome these and other drawbacks of the prior art by providing a novel carrying case in combination with an elastic smoking implement that supports the tubular container with the burning end suspended inside thereof, thereby preventing heating and burning of the carrying case itself.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a novel carrying case capable of storing the tubular container with the smoking material in a water-tight and/or in an airtight manner.

A further object of the present invention is to provide a carrying case with an internal cavity large enough to store inside not only the tubular container with smoking material but also a smoke filter assembled with the elastic smoking implement, thereby making it convenient to remove the assembly of the tubular container, elastic smoking implement, and the smoke filter as a single body and resume smoking.

A further yet object of the present invention is to provide a novel carrying case capable of keeping children and minors away from the tubular container with the smoking material by providing a child-proof lock between the components of the carrying case.

The carrying case of the present invention comprises two main components: a carrying case housing and a carrying case cover. Both have a generally tubular shape and are sized to form an internal cavity when the carrying case cover is attached to the carrying case housing. This internal cavity is sized to be sufficiently large to accept the elastic smoking implement therein with the tubular container having the smoking material attached on one end thereof and the smoke filter attached on the other end of the elastic smoking implement.

A child-proof lock is formed between the open end of the carrying case housing and the open end of the carrying case cover, whereby a push-and-turn motion is required to separate the components of the carrying case.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

The subject matter is particularly pointed out and distinctly claimed in the concluding portion of the specification. The foregoing and other features of the present disclosure will become more fully apparent from the following description and appended claims, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings. Understanding that these drawings depict only several embodiments in accordance with the disclosure and are, therefore, not to be considered limiting of its scope, the disclosure will be described with additional specificity and detail through the use of the accompanying drawings, in which:

FIG. 1 is a perspective exploded view of the main components of the present invention,

FIG. 2 is a side exploded view of the same,

FIG. 3 is a side cross-sectional longitudinal view of the same,

FIG. 4 is a perspective view of the carrying case housing,

FIG. 5 is a perspective view of the carrying case cover,

FIG. 6 is a perspective cross-sectional view of the elastic smoking implement,

FIG. 7 is a side view of the carrying case of the invention as assembled illustrating aligned indicia to allow the opening of the carrying case,

FIG. 8 is a perspective view of the same,

FIG. 9 is a cross-sectional longitudinal side view of the same,

FIG. 10 is a perspective ¼ cutout view of the same,

FIG. 11 is an enlarged view of the portion of the carrying case illustrating the details of the elastic smoking implement interacting with the carrying case housing,

FIG. 12 is the same as in FIG. 11 but showing an alternative design of the elastic smoking implement to achieve a watertight and airtight seal of the smoking material inside the carrying case of the invention,

FIG. 13 is a cross-sectional perpendicular view as indicated in FIG. 11 showing the carrying case in a closed position,

FIG. 14 shows the same but with the carrying case cover turned and prepared for opening, and

FIG. 15 is a cross-sectional longitudinal view of the carrying case showing the position of the tubular container and the smoke filter inside thereof.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS OF THE INVENTION

The following description sets forth various examples along with specific details to provide a thorough understanding of claimed subject matter. It will be understood by those skilled in the art, however, that claimed subject matter may be practiced without one or more of the specific details disclosed herein. Further, in some circumstances, well-known methods, procedures, systems, components and/or circuits have not been described in detail in order to avoid unnecessarily obscuring claimed subject matter. In the following detailed description, reference is made to the accompanying drawings, which form a part hereof. In the drawings, similar symbols typically identify similar components, unless context dictates otherwise. The illustrative embodiments described in the detailed description, drawings, and claims are not meant to be limiting. Other embodiments may be utilized, and other changes may be made, without departing from the spirit or scope of the subject matter presented here. It will be readily understood that the aspects of the present disclosure, as generally described herein, and illustrated in the figures, can be arranged, substituted, combined, and designed in a wide variety of different configurations, all of which are explicitly contemplated and make part of this disclosure.

FIGS. 1-3 show various exploded views of the carrying case 100 comprising the following three main components: the carrying case housing 110, the carrying case cover 140, and the elastic smoking implement 180 located in between the housing 110 and the cover 140. FIGS. 4-6 show all these components separately.

The carrying case housing 110 may be made to be hollow and have a generally tubular shape—with one end 112 being closed-off and the other end 114 being open. An internal generally cylindrical opening 116 may be formed inside the carrying case housing 110. The internal opening 116 may be sized to accept the elastic smoking implement 180 (as seen in FIG. 15), which in turn is sized to accept inside thereof a suitably sized tubular container 130 with smoking material therein. In embodiments, the internal opening 116 may be sized to have a diameter ranging from about 7 mm to about 22 mm, such as for example 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, mm or any size in between as the present invention is not limited in this regard.

The length of the carrying case housing 110 may be selected to be sufficient to accept the full length of the suitably sized tubular container 130 with smoking material therein. In embodiments, the length of the carrying case housing 110 may range from about 100 mm to about 180 mm, such as for example 100, 110, 120, 130, 140, 150, 160, 170,180 mm or any length in between as the invention is not limited in this regard.

The open end 114 of the carrying case housing 110 may be made to sealingly attach to the open end 144 of the carrying case cover 140. While a simple sliding overlap between respective cylindrical surfaces on both open ends would provide such sliding attachment, the present invention describes a more sophisticated design aimed at creating both an airtight/watertight seal as well as a child-proof push-and-turn lock to discourage children and minors from accessing the smoking material inside the carrying case 100.

FIG. 4 among other illustrations shows the details of the open end 114 of the carrying case housing 110. The open end 114 features a sleeve 126 formed at the edge of the open end 114. The sleeve 126 features a depression 122 configured to accept a corresponding protrusion 152 in the carrying case cover 140 when the cover 140 is slidingly moved for attachment with the housing 110 as explained in greater detail below. Behind the sleeve 126, there is a groove 124 sized to allow free rotation of the protrusion 152 once the cover 140 is mounted onto the housing 110. The groove 124 is defined by a sidewall of the sleeve 126 on one side and by a sidewall of the remaining portion of the carrying case housing 110 on the other side thereof. The sleeve 126 may be a separate component attached to the housing 110 or in other embodiments may be made together with the housing 110 as a single body.

The carrying case housing 110 may further feature a housing marker 120 made in longitudinal alignment with the depression 122. The housing marker 120 may function to assist the user in aligning the depression 122 with the protrusion 152 so as to facilitate attachment or detachment of the cover 140 to and from the housing 110.

The housing marker 120 may be made as a visible depression or a stamp into the surface of the housing 110, or may be painted with a contrast color on the housing 110. In embodiments, the housing marker may be painted using fluorescent paint so it may glow in the dark to be visible even in poor lighting conditions. In further embodiments, the housing marker 120 may be made as an outward protrusion so as to be both visible as well as supporting a tactile identification by the user.

The carrying case cover 140 may be made to as a hollow generally tubular structure—with one end 142 being closed-off and the other end 144 being open. An internal generally cylindrical opening 146 may be formed inside the carrying case cover 140. The internal opening 146 may be sized to accept the smoke filter 160—see FIG. 15. In embodiments, the internal opening 116 may be sized to be smaller, same or larger than the opening 116 of the carrying case housing 110. It may have a diameter ranging from about 7 mm to about 22 mm, such as for example 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, mm or any size in between as the present invention is not limited in this regard as long as the open end 144 of the cover 140 is sized to be slidably attached over the open end 114 of the carrying case housing 110.

The length of the carrying case cover 140 may be selected to be sufficient to accept the full length of the suitably sized smoke filter 160 protruding from the elastic smoking implement 180. In embodiments, the length of the carrying case housing 110 may range from about 20 mm to about 80 mm, such as for example 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80 mm, or any length in between as the invention is not limited in this regard.

The carrying case cover 140 may feature a pocket retaining component, such as a pocket clip (not shown in the drawings) to facilitate retention of the carrying case in a pocket of the user—similar to conventional pens and pencils.

A protrusion 152 may be made on the inside of the internal cavity 146 close to the edge of the open end 146. The protrusion 152 may function as a key when the cover 140 is attached to the housing 110 as described below in greater detail. Such protrusion may be integrally formed with the carrying case cover 140, for example by injection molding if the cover 140 is made from plastic. In further embodiments, the protrusion 152 may be made by a small stamping tool if the carrying case cover 140 is made from metal or another malleable material. A cover marker 150 may be made on the outside of the cover 140 to mark the location of the protrusion 152 inside thereof, making it convenient for the user to align the protrusion of the cover 152 with the corresponding depression 122 of the carrying case housing 110. The size of the protrusion 152 may be selected to correspond to the size of the depression 122 such that when aligned (see FIG. 7), the protrusion 152 fits inside the depression 122 allowing the attachment between the cover 140 and the housing 110.

Both the carrying case housing 110 and the carrying case cover 140 may be made from rigid plastic (such as for example ABS, polypropylene, or polycarbonate), metal (such as for example stainless steel, aluminum, copper, or suitable alloys thereof) or from a composite blend of rigid materials, such as a base plastic with an embedded decorative metal or other plastic components. In further embodiments, soft rubber components may be added to either the housing or the cover to improve the grip or generally enhance the feel of the product, as the invention is not limited thereto.

The elastic smoking implement 180 is described in greater detail in my previous patent application. Generally speaking, it may be made from a resilient material and have a tubular shape with a mouthpiece end 184 on one side and a smoking end 182 on the other opposite side of the elastic smoking implement 180. A removable smoke screen 190 may be positioned inside the elastic smoking implement 180 as seen in FIG. 6 to prevent tar, resin droplets, and pieces of burning smoking material to be traveling towards the user as a result of inhaling the smoke during a smoking session.

The smoking end 182 of the elastic smoking implement 180 may be sized and configured to elastically expand and removably accept the tubular container 130 with smoking material, when the tubular container 130 is at least partially inserted therein.

The external diameter of the smoking end 182 may be suitably selected to allow a removable press-fit attachment of the elastic smoking implement 180 inside the open end 114 of the carrying case housing 110—see FIGS. 1-3. The smoking end, in this case, may be sized and configured to elastically compress and removably fit inside the open end 114 of the carrying case housing 110 forming an airtight and/or a watertight seal in between. A shoulder 192 may be made in a central portion of the elastic smoking implement 180 to act as a stopper element when the elastic smoking implement 180 is inserted inside the open end 114 of the housing 110.

In embodiments, the external diameter of the smoking end 182 may be made to be slightly larger than the internal diameter of the open end 114—in which case positioning of the smoking end 182 inside the open end 114 of the housing 110 would make for an airtight/watertight seal between these two elements. In further embodiments, the external diameter of the smoking end 182 of the elastic smoking implement 182 may be made to be the same or slightly smaller than the internal diameter of the opening 114 to facilitate the ease of insertion and removal of the elastic implement 180 into and out of the open end 114. A sealing gasket 188 may be made to protrude radially outwards from the external surface of the smoking end 182 in order to provide a compressible seal between the elastic smoking implement 180 and the carrying case housing 110 upon insertion thereof—see FIG. 11.

The mouthpiece end 184 may be sized and configured to elastically expand and removably accept a cylindrical smoke filter 160 at least partially inserted therein for an airtight press-fit attachment. The external size of the mouthpiece end 184 may be selected to fit inside the open end 144 of the carrying case cover 140, in which case the entire elastic smoking implement 180 may be positioned and retained inside the carrying case upon attachment of the carrying case housing 110 to the carrying case cover 140—see FIGS. 7-10 and a close-up in FIG. 11.

In further embodiments, the mouthpiece end 184 may feature a built-in protruding gasket 194 sized to elastically compress when inside the open end 144 of the carrying case cover 140, thereby forming an airtight seal in between—as seen in a close-up illustration in FIG. 12. In this case, attaching the cover 140 to the housing 110 with the elastic smoking implement 180 in between would seal the housing 110 against the smoking and 180 and the cover 140 against the mouthpiece end 184—resulting in providing an airtight seal of the entire internal cavity 116/146 within both of the carrying case housing 110 and the carrying case cover 140.

A push-and-turn lock mechanism is formed between the features of the open end 114 of the housing 110 and the open end 144 of the cover 140 as described above. To attach the cover 140 to the housing 110, the user may first align the protrusion 152 with the depression 122 in the sleeve 126—in order to advance the cover 140 over the housing 110. Once the protrusion 152 passes over and advances beyond the depression 122, the cover 140 may be turned to misalign the protrusion 152 from the depression 122 and lock the assembly to prevent accidental detachment of the cover 140 off the housing 110. A cross-section of the locked assembly is seen in FIG. 13.

To remove the cover 140 from the housing 110, the user first needs to turn the cover 140 to again align the protrusion 152 with the depression 122—as seen in FIG. 14. Once these features are aligned, the cover 140 may be removed from the housing 110.

In further embodiments, a more sophisticated multi-stage push-and-turn lock may be provided to make it more difficult for children and minors to access the smoking material inside the carrying case 100. In this case, additional stages of push-and-turn may be provided by positioning a second or even third ring 126 spaced apart from the first ring 126 at the open end 114 (not shown in the drawings). A second and third depression 122 may be made using a radially angular orientation at a predetermined angle from the first depression 122, for example, 90 degrees apart in a clockwise direction. In this case, a second or third push-and-turn action may be needed to fully assemble and subsequently remove the cover 140 from the housing 110. A second and third housing marker may be provided along the periphery of the open end 114 to aid the user in this process. To separate the first housing marker from other markers, all housing markers may be made to be visually different, such as in different shapes or colors.

Once the tubular container 130 and the smoke filter 160 are assembled with the elastic smoking implement 180 for use during a smoking session, it is convenient to place that assembly inside the carrying case 100 by first inserting the tubular container and the elastic smoking implement into the carrying case housing 110 until the shoulder 192 stops against the open end 114 of the housing 110. In this case, the tubular container 130 is retained inside and away from the walls of the housing 110 as well as away from the closed-off end 112. This advantageously prevents touching by the burning end of the tubular container 130 of any parts of the internal cavity 116 as the tubular container 130 is supported inside the elastic smoking implement 180. Closing off the cover 140 over the smoke filter 160 and the housing 110 (see FIG. 15) completes the assembly of the carrying case 100 and preserves the smoking material inside thereof for the next smoking session.

It is contemplated that any embodiment discussed in this specification can be implemented with respect to any method of the invention, and vice versa. It will be also understood that particular embodiments described herein are shown by way of illustration and not as limitations of the invention. The principal features of this invention can be employed in various embodiments without departing from the scope of the invention. Those skilled in the art will recognize, or be able to ascertain using no more than routine experimentation, numerous equivalents to the specific procedures described herein. Such equivalents are considered to be within the scope of this invention and are covered by the claims.

All publications and patent applications mentioned in the specification are indicative of the level of skill of those skilled in the art to which this invention pertains. All publications and patent applications are herein incorporated by reference to the same extent as if each individual publication or patent application was specifically and individually indicated to be incorporated by reference. Incorporation by reference is limited such that no subject matter is incorporated that is contrary to the explicit disclosure herein, no claims included in the documents are incorporated by reference herein, and any definitions provided in the documents are not incorporated by reference herein unless expressly included herein.

The use of the word “a” or “an” when used in conjunction with the term “comprising” in the claims and/or the specification may mean “one,” but it is also consistent with the meaning of “one or more,” “at least one,” and “one or more than one.” The use of the term “or” in the claims is used to mean “and/or” unless explicitly indicated to refer to alternatives only or the alternatives are mutually exclusive, although the disclosure supports a definition that refers to only alternatives and “and/or.” Throughout this application, the term “about” is used to indicate that a value includes the inherent variation of error for the device, the method being employed to determine the value or the variation that exists among the study subjects.

As used in this specification and claim(s), the words “comprising” (and any form of comprising, such as “comprise” and “comprises”), “having” (and any form of having, such as “have” and “has”), “including” (and any form of including, such as “includes” and “include”) or “containing” (and any form of containing, such as “contains” and “contain”) are inclusive or open-ended and do not exclude additional, unrecited elements or method steps. In embodiments of any of the compositions and methods provided herein, “comprising” may be replaced with “consisting essentially of” or “consisting of”. As used herein, the phrase “consisting essentially of” requires the specified integer(s) or steps as well as those that do not materially affect the character or function of the claimed invention. As used herein, the term “consisting” is used to indicate the presence of the recited integer (e.g., a feature, an element, a characteristic, a property, a method/process step or a limitation) or group of integers (e.g., feature(s), element(s), characteristic(s), propertie(s), method/process steps or limitation(s)) only.

The term “or combinations thereof” as used herein refers to all permutations and combinations of the listed items preceding the term. For example, “A, B, C, or combinations thereof” is intended to include at least one of: A, B, C, AB, AC, BC, or ABC, and if order is important in a particular context, also BA, CA, CB, CBA, BCA, ACB, BAC, or CAB. Continuing with this example, expressly included are combinations that contain repeats of one or more item or term, such as BB, AAA, AB, BBC, AAABCCC, CBBAAA, CABABB, and so forth. The skilled artisan will understand that typically there is no limit on the number of items or terms in any combination, unless otherwise apparent from the context.

As used herein, words of approximation such as, without limitation, “about”, “substantial” or “substantially” refers to a condition that when so modified is understood to not necessarily be absolute or perfect but would be considered close enough to those of ordinary skill in the art to warrant designating the condition as being present. The extent to which the description may vary will depend on how great a change can be instituted and still have one of ordinary skilled in the art recognize the modified feature as still having the required characteristics and capabilities of the unmodified feature. In general, but subject to the preceding discussion, a numerical value herein that is modified by a word of approximation such as “about” may vary from the stated value by at least ±1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 12, 15, 20 or 25%.

All of the devices and/or methods disclosed and claimed herein can be made and executed without undue experimentation in light of the present disclosure. While the devices and methods of this invention have been described in terms of preferred embodiments, it will be apparent to those of skill in the art that variations may be applied to the devices and/or methods and in the steps or in the sequence of steps of the method described herein without departing from the concept, spirit and scope of the invention. All such similar substitutes and modifications apparent to those skilled in the art are deemed to be within the spirit, scope and concept of the invention as defined by the appended claims.

Claims

1. A carrying case with an elastic smoking implement comprising:

a generally tubular hollow carrying case housing with a closed-off end on one side and an open end on another side thereof,

a generally tubular hollow carrying case cover with a closed-off end on one side and an open end on another side thereof,

wherein said open end of the carrying case cover is configured for removable attachment to said open end of the carrying case housing forming an internal cavity within both of said carrying case housing and said carrying case cover,

wherein said internal cavity is sized to accept an elastic smoking implement and a tubular container with a smoking material therein.

2. The carrying case as in claim 1, wherein said elastic smoking implement comprising a generally tubular body made from an elastically resilient material and having a mouthpiece end and a smoking end, said mouthpiece end located on the opposite side of said smoking end of said elastic smoking implement.

3. The carrying case as in claim 2, wherein said elastic smoking implement further comprises a smoke screen removably positioned inside thereof between said smoking end and said mouthpiece end.

4. The carrying case as in claim 2, wherein said mouthpiece end is sized and configured to elastically expand and removably accept a cylindrical smoke filter at least partially inserted therein for an airtight press-fit attachment.

5. The carrying case as in claim 2, wherein said smoking end is sized and configured to elastically expand and removably accept said tubular container with smoking material at least partially inserted therein.

6. The carrying case as in claim 2, wherein said smoking end is sized and configured to elastically compress and removably fit inside said open end of the carrying case housing forming an airtight seal in between.

7. The carrying case as in claim 6, wherein said mouthpiece end is sized and configured to elastically compress and removably fit inside said open end of the carrying case cover forming an airtight seal in between, whereby said elastic smoking implement providing an airtight seal of said internal cavity within both of said carrying case housing and said carrying case cover.

8. The carrying case as in claim 1, wherein said open end of the carrying case cover is equipped with a protrusion, said open end of the carrying case housing is equipped with a corresponding depression to accept said protrusion, whereby the carrying case housing in combination with the carrying case cover forms a push-and-turn lock in between.

9. The carrying case as in claim 8, wherein said open end of the carrying case cover contains a cover marker next to said protrusion, said open end of the carrying case housing contains a housing marker next to said depression, whereby said housing marker and said cover marker when aligned indicating proper orientation for attachment or removal of the carrying case cover to or from the carrying case housing.

10. The carrying case as in claim 9, wherein said housing marker and said cover marker are made with fluorescent paint to be visible in the dark.

11. The carrying case as in claim 1, wherein said open end of the carrying case cover is configured to slidably attach over said open end of the carrying case housing forming an airtight seal in between.

12. The carrying case as in claim 1, wherein said internal cavity formed between the carrying case housing and the carrying case cover is sized to accept said elastic smoking implement with said tubular container having said smoking material therein on one side thereof and said cylindrical smoke filter positioned at least partially in said elastic smoking implement on the other side thereof.