GLASS CIGAR
A method of making a system is described. In the method, a shaft of a poker is positioned into a bore of a body until a first cap connects to a first end of the body. A packer of a packer assembly is positioned within the body adjacent to a second end of the body such that the shaft of the poker is positioned within a tube of the packer assembly.
This application claims priority to U.S. Provisional Application Ser. No. 63/087,023 filed on Oct. 2, 2020, the entire contents being hereby expressly incorporated herein by reference.
FIELD OF THE DISCLOSUREThe present disclosure generally relates to a pipe, more specifically a pipe used for the packing and drying of organic material for smoking.
BACKGROUNDSmoking of organic material is intended to include any organic material that upon combustion vaporizes, allowing the vapor to be ingested by the user. Typically, the vapor is ingested through the mouth and encounters the respiratory passages of the user. The organic material may be tobacco, cannabis, tea, dried flowers, dried herbs, etc. The traditional methods of smoking organic material cause the user to inhale by-products of the organic materials upon combustion. Various apparatus for smoking organic materials has been used over the years to smoke tobacco and other organic materials; however, the majority of the burned organic materials remain in the apparatus during the smoking process affecting the smoking of the remaining unburned organic product.
U.S. Pat. No. 7,415,982 discloses a smokeless pipe for the ingestion of tobacco products which includes an elongated member having a proximal end, a distal end, and a length therebetween. The elongated hollow member includes a constricted portion along its length to retain the tobacco products within, a first opening to enable a user to draw from, a fill port to enable user to fill the hollow member with tobacco products, and a bulbous chamber.
U.S. Pat. No. 9,795,164 discloses a smoking pipe with a jacket containing an inner glass tube. The glass tube has a hole in its wall that aligns with a hole in the jacket. The pipe has a bowl holder that holds a glass bowl with a stem that extends proximate to the hole in the glass tube. The joint between the bowl stem and an insert in the bowl holder can form a frosted glass fitting. End-caps with threaded inserts can match glass threads on the ends of the glass tube holding the glass tube in the jacket. A decorated metal bowl holder can be mounted on the jacket and decorated with gems, glass and the like. The pipe can be manufactured using different types of premium woods for the jacket for design and beauty. The use of an inner glass tube that contains the smoke eliminates contamination and cools the smoke for inhalation.
Canadian Patent No. 2,271,404 discloses a device for smoking combustible materials that has a tubular body member constructed entirely out of heat-resistant glass material. The device has an internal bore with an integrally formed venturi that separates the bore into a smoke chamber and a loading chamber. A method of forming the device includes providing a tubular body member constructed entirely from a heat-resistant glass material; forming a constricted passage in a bore of the tubular body member by applying heat to a predetermined location on the tubular body member until the glass material expands into the bore at the predetermined location; and smoothing the outer surface of the tubular body member at the predetermined location.
The following detailed description refers to the accompanying drawings. The same reference numbers in different drawings may identify the same or similar elements.
The embodiments proposed in this disclosure circumvent the problems described above. The present disclosure describes a system and method for the smoking of organic material that upon combustion vaporizes, allowing the vapor to be ingested by the user.
As used herein, the terms “comprises,” “comprising,” “includes,” “including,” “has,” “having” or any other variation thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion. For example, a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of elements is not necessarily limited to only those elements but may include other elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus. Further, unless expressly stated to the contrary, “or” refers to an inclusive or and not to an exclusive or. For example, a condition A or B is satisfied by anyone of the following: A is true (or present) and B is false (or not present), A is false (or not present) and B is true (or present), and both A and B are true (or present).
In addition, use of the “a” or “an” are employed to describe elements and components of the embodiments herein. This is done merely for convenience and to give a general sense of the inventive concept. This description should be read to include one or more and the singular also includes the plural unless it is obvious that it is meant otherwise.
Further, use of the term “plurality” is meant to convey “more than one” unless expressly stated to the contrary.
As used herein, qualifiers like “substantially,” “about,” “approximately,” and combinations and variations thereof, are intended to include not only the exact amount or value that they qualify, but also some slight deviations therefrom, which may be due to manufacturing tolerances, measurement error, wear and tear, stresses exerted on various parts, and combinations thereof, for example.
The use of the term “at least one” or “one or more” will be understood to include one as well as any quantity more than one. In addition, the use of the phrase “at least one of X, V, and Z” will be understood to include X alone, V alone, and Z alone, as well as any combination of X, V, and Z.
The use of ordinal number terminology (i.e., “first”, “second”, “third”, “fourth”, etc.) is solely for the purpose of differentiating between two or more items, positions, examples, embodiments, or the like, and, unless explicitly stated otherwise, is not meant to imply any sequence or order or importance to one item over another or any order of addition.
Finally, as used herein any reference to “one embodiment” or “an embodiment” means that a particular element, feature, structure, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment is included in at least one embodiment. The appearances of the phrase “in one embodiment” in various places in the specification are not necessarily all referring to the same embodiment.
Referring now to the drawings,
Borosilicate glass is generally a high melting point glass that can withstand very high temperatures without breaking or cracking. An example of commonly known devices constructed from borosilicate glass are jars and baking dishes. Borosilicate glass is a type of glass with the main glass-forming constituents, silica and boron trioxide. Borosilicate glasses are known for having very low coefficients of thermal expansion (˜3×10−6/° C. at 20° C.), making them the borosilicate glass resistant to thermal shock, more so than any other common glass. Such borosilicate glass is less subject to thermal stress and is commonly used for the construction of reagent bottles. Borosilicate glass is sold under such trade names as Borcam, Borosil, Suprax, Kimax, Pyrex, Endural, Schott, or Refinex.
While borosilicate glass is an ideal material for making the smoking assembly 2 disclosed herein, borosilicate glass is not the only material useable for construction of the body 4 of the smoking assembly 2. Other embodiments of the body 4 of the smoking assembly 2 may be comprised of heat-resistant porous material, such as briar, or other material such as wood or wood-like natural organic materials (e.g. bogwood, briar, cherry wood, corncob, olivewood, maple, mesquite, oak, and other woods). Alternatively, the body 4 may be made from a porous non-organic material (e.g., catlinite, clay, meerschaum, soapstone, and the like.) In another embodiment, the body 4 of the smoking assembly 2 may be comprised of flit/soda lime glass. Borosilicate glass demonstrates adequate heat resistance, transparency and is also quite easy to melt and shape during the glass blowing process. Borosilicate glass may also be colored and transformed into a variety of different shapes through the glass blowing process.
The system 1 has a first cap 14 positioned on the first end 6 of the body 4, the first cap 14 having a first opening 16 communicating with the bore 12 of the body 4 of the smoking assembly 2. The first cap 14 may be made of a silicone, thermoplastic polymer, rubber, or the like.
The packer assembly 20 has a tube 22 having a proximal end 24, a distal end 26, a length 23 extending between the proximal end 24 and the distal end 26, a packer 30 attached to the tube 22 and positioned adjacent to the second end 8 of the body 4 within the bore 12 of the body 4 of the smoking assembly 2. The packer 30 has a second opening 32 that interfaces with the bore 12. The tube 22 of the packer assembly 20 extends through the second opening 32 of the packer 30 defining an open cavity. The packer assembly 20 also has a handle 34 attached to the tube 22 between the packer 30 and the proximal end 24 of the tube 22. The tube 22 may be rigid and made of thermoplastic polymers, glass, metal, wood, wood-like natural organic materials or the like. In one embodiment, the packer 30 may be made of a flexible, easily molded material such as polyethylene, polyurethane, and the like. In another embodiment, the packer 30 may be made of silicone, thermoplastic polymer, rubber, or the like.
The system 1 also has the poker 40. The poker 40 is provided with a shaft 42 and a grip 50. The shaft 42 has a first end 44 and a second end 46. The shaft 42 extends through the first opening 16 of the first cap 14 such that the second end 46 is positioned within the tube 22 of the packer assembly 20, and the grip 50 is attachable to the shaft 42 between the first cap 14 and the first end 44 of the shaft 42. The shaft 42 may be rigid and made of thermoplastic polymers, glass, metal, wood, wood-like natural organic materials, or the like.
The system 1 may have a linking member 90 that extends from the grip 50 of the poker 40 to the handle 34 of the packer assembly 20. The linking member 90 has a first connecting end 92, a second connecting end 94, and a length. The first connecting end 92 of the linking member 90 is attached to the grip 50 of the poker 40, the length extends between the grip 50 of the poker 40 where the second connecting end 94 is attached to the handle 34 of the packer assembly 20. The mechanism for attaching the first connecting end 92 of the linking member 90 may be tying the first connecting end 92 of the linking member 90 to the handle 34 of the packer assembly 20 or the grip 50 of the poker 40, winding the first connecting end 92 of the linking member 90 around the handle 34 of the packer assembly 20 or the grip 50 of the poker 40, or the like. In another embodiment, the linking member 90 is further provided with a first length 95, a second length 96, and a connecting portion 98. The first connecting end 92 of the linking member 90 is attached to the grip 50 of the poker 40, the first length 95 extends between the grip 50 of the of the poker 40 to the handle 34 of the packer assembly 20. The connecting portion 98 of the linking member 90 attaches to the handle 34 of the packer assembly 20. The second length 96 extends to the poker 40 attaching the second connecting end 94 of the linking member 90 to the grip 50 of the poker 40. The mechanism for attaching the linking member 90 may be tying the second connecting end 94 or the connecting portion 98 to the grip 50 of the poker 40 or the handle 34 of the packer assembly 20, winding the second connecting end 94 or the connecting portion 98 around the grip 50 of the poker 40 or the handle 34 of the packer assembly 20, or the like. In one embodiment, the linking member 90 may be attached by connecting the first connecting end 92 to the second connecting end 94 within an indentation 53 on a top surface 15 of the first cap 14. (
The bottom surface 81 of the filter member 72 acts as an inlet and the top surface 82 of the filter member acts as an outlet for the vapors that are the result of the combusted organic material. The vapors are introduced through the inlet and the vapors are discharged through the outlet, while the combusted organic material remains positioned within the bore 12 of the body 4 of the smoking assembly 2.
In one embodiment, the one or more prong of the key includes a first prong 114 and a second prong 116. The first prong 114 has a first upper end 122, a first lower end 124, and a first member 126 extending from the first upper end 122 to the first lower end 124, the first upper end 122 of the first prong 114 being connected to the bottom side 120 of the bow 112, and the second prong 116 has a second upper end 132, a second lower end 134, and a second member 136 extending from the second upper end 132 to the second lower end 134. The second upper end 132 of the second prong 116 is connected to the bottom side 120 of the bow 112 a distance from the first prong 114. In another embodiment, the key 110 has a first foot 128 connected to the first lower end 124 of the first prong 114 and the key 110 has a second foot 138 connected to the second lower end 134 of the second prong 116 of the key 110. In another embodiment, the first foot 128 of the first lower end 124 of the first prong 114 is curvilinear and the second foot 138 of the second lower end 134 of the second prong 116 is curvilinear.
In this embodiment, the system 1 has a mouthpiece 49 wherein the mouthpiece 49 has one or more keyway 140 positioned at the upper end 52 of the mouthpiece 49 extending from the outer surface 58 of the one or more sidewall 54 to the inner surface 56 of the one or more sidewall 54 (as shown in
In one embodiment, the one or more keyway of the mouthpiece 49 includes a first keyway 142 and a second keyway 144. In this embodiment, the first keyway 142 is positioned a distance equal to the distance between the first prong 114 and second prong 116 of the key 110 from the second keyway 144 (as shown in
In another embodiment, the keyway 170 extending form the outer surface 180 to the inner surface 182 of the first support member 76 of the filter 70 (shown in
A method of use of the system 1 for drying organic material may include positioning the shaft 42 of the poker 40 into the bore 12 of the body 4 until the first cap 14 connects to the first end 6 of the body 4, positioning organic material into the bore 12 of the body 4, positioning the packer 30 of the packer assembly 20 within the body 4 adjacent to the second end 8 of the body 4 such that the shaft 42 of the poker 40 is positioned within the tube 22 of the packer assembly 20 and the organic material is positioned between the packer 30 and the first cap 14. The linking member 90 may extend from the handle 34 of the packer assembly 20 to the grip 50 of the poker 40, creating a bias between the poker 40 toward the packer assembly 20 thus compressing the organic material that may be positioned between the packer 30 and the first cap 14 for drying.
In one embodiment, after the initial compression of the organic material within the bore 12 of the body 4, the user may remove the packer 30 from the bore 12 of the body 4, position additional organic material into the bore 12 of the body 4 of the smoking assembly 2, reposition the packer 30 into the bore 12 of the body 4 adjacent to the second end 8 such that the shaft 42 of the poker is positioned within the tube 22 of the packer assembly 20 and the additional organic material is compressed with the organic material positioned nearest the first cap 14. The linking member 90 may be extended from the handle 34 of the packer assembly 20 to the grip 50 of the poker 40, creating a bias between the poker 40 toward the packer assembly 20 compressing the additional organic material and the organic material positioned between the packer 30 and the first cap 14 for drying.
A method of use of the smoking assembly for consuming vapors of the organic material provides that upon drying the organic material, the linking member 90 is removed from the handle 34 of the packer assembly 20 and the grip 50 of the poker 40, the packer 30 is removed from the bore 12 of the body 4, the first cap 14 is disconnected from the first end 6 of the body 4, removing the shaft 42 of the poker 40 from the bore 12 of the body 4. The filter 70 is positioned either within the bore 12 adjacent to the first end 6 of the body 4 or the port 60 adjacent to the lower end 51 of the mouthpiece 49 and the mouthpiece 49 is attached to the first end 6 of the body 4. An end of the organic material adjacent to the second end 8 of the body 4 of the smoking assembly 2 is ignited, the organic material begins to combust allowing the user to inhale the vapors of the combusted organic material through the port 60 in the mouthpiece 49. In another embodiment, the dried organic material may be removed from the bore 12 of the body 4 of the smoking assembly 2, a first end of the organic material may be ignited. As the organic material begins to combust, the user may inhale the vapors of the combusted organic material through a second end of the organic material. In another embodiment, the dried organic material may be removed from the bore 12 of the body 4 of the smoking assembly 2. Upon removal, the dried organic material may be wrapped in a wrapping member for use. The wrapping member may be made of paper, soft material, organic material, or the like.
While several embodiments of the inventive concepts have been described for purposes of this disclosure, it will be understood that numerous changes may be made which will readily suggest themselves to those skilled in the art and which are accomplished within the spirit of the inventive concepts disclosed and as defined in the appended claims.
Claims
1. A system, comprising:
- a smoking assembly, comprising: a body elongated along a longitudinal axis, the body having a first end, a second end, one or more sidewall extending along the longitudinal axis between the first and second end, and a bore extending through the first end of the body to the second end of the body along the longitudinal axis; a first cap positioned on the first end of the body, the first cap having a first opening communicating with the bore;
- a packer assembly, comprising: a tube having a proximal end, a distal end, and a length extending between the proximal and the distal end, a packer attached to the tube and positioned within the bore, the tube extending from the packer passed the second end of the body, and a handle attached to the tube between the packer and the proximal end of the tube; and
- a poker, comprising: a shaft having a first end and a second end, the shaft extending through the first opening in the first cap such that the second end is positioned within the tube of the packer assembly, and a grip attachable to the shaft between the first cap and the first end of the shaft.
2. The system of claim 1, further comprising:
- a linking member extending from the grip of the poker to the handle of the packer assembly.
3. The system of claim 1, further comprising:
- a second cap positioned on the second end of the body of the smoking assembly.
4. The system of claim 1, further comprising:
- a band that is positioned on an external surface of the sidewall of the body of the smoking assembly.
5. The system of claim 4, wherein the band is comprised of heat-resistant material.
6. The system of claim 1, further comprising:
- a mouthpiece having an upper end, a lower end, one or more sidewall, and a port, the sidewall extending between the upper end and lower end, the sidewall having an inner surface and an outer surface, the port extending from the upper end to the lower end, the inner surface of the mouthpiece surrounding and defining the port, the mouthpiece attachable to the first end of the body of the smoking assembly.
7. The system of claim 6, further comprising:
- a filter positioned within the port of the mouthpiece, the filter comprising a filter member and a filter support; and
- the filter support extending outwardly from the filter member having a first support member, a second support member and one or more sidewall extending between the first support member and the second support member.
8. The system of claim 7, wherein the mouthpiece further comprises:
- one or more keyway extending from the outer surface of the sidewall of the mouthpiece to the inner surface of the sidewall of the mouthpiece; and
- the one or more keyway is positioned at the upper end of the mouthpiece.
9. The system of claim 8, wherein the filter support further comprises:
- one or more keyway extending from an outer surface to an inner surface of the first support member.
10. The system of claim 9, wherein the filter further comprises:
- a cavity defined by the one or more sidewall extending between the first support member of the filter support and a top surface of the filter member.
11. The system of claim 10, further comprising:
- a key having a bow and one or more prong, the bow having a top side and a bottom side, the one or more prong having an upper end, a lower end, and a member extending from the upper end to the lower end, the upper end of the one or more prong being connected to the bottom side of the bow.
12. The system of claim 11, wherein the one or more prong of the key comprises a first prong and a second prong, the first prong having a first upper end, a first lower end, and a first member extending from the first upper end to the first lower end, the first upper end of the first prong being connected to the bottom side of the bow, and the second prong having a second upper end, a second lower end, and a second member extending from the second upper end to the second lower end, the second upper end of the second prong being connected to the bottom side of the bow a distance from the first prong.
13. The system of claim 12, wherein the first prong of the key includes a first foot connected to the first lower end and the second prong of the key includes a second foot connected to the second lower end.
14. The system of claim 13, wherein the one or more keyway of the mouthpiece includes a first keyway and a second keyway, and wherein the first keyway is positioned a distance from the second keyway equal to the distance between the first prong of the key and the second prong of the key.
15. The system of claim 14, wherein the one or more keyway of the filter includes a first keyway and a second keyway, and wherein the first keyway is positioned a distance from the second keyway equal to the distance between the first prong of the key and the second prong of the key.
16. The system of claim 15, wherein the first foot is configured to pass through the first keyway of the mouthpiece; and the second foot is configured to pass through the second keyway of the mouthpiece.
17. The system of claim 15, wherein the one or more keyway includes a first keyway and a second keyway, and wherein the first foot of the first prong is configured to pass through the first keyway of the first support member of the filter; and the second foot of the second prong is configured to pass through the second keyway of the first support member of the filter.
18. The system of claim 13, wherein the first foot of the first lower end of the first prong is curvilinear; and the second foot of the second lower end of the second prong is curvilinear.
19. The system of claim 1, wherein the distal end of the packer assembly further comprises one or more projection extending from the tube;
- wherein the packer has an aperture extending from an outer surface to an inner surface of the packer, and a cavity defined by the inner surface of the packer; and
- wherein the one or more projection extending from the distal end of the packer assembly is configured to pass through the aperture of the packer thereby positioning the one or more projection within the cavity of the packer.
20. A method of making a system, comprising:
- positioning a shaft of a poker into a bore of a body until a first cap connects to a first end of the body; and
- positioning a packer of a packer assembly within the body adjacent to a second end of the body such that the shaft of the poker is positioned within a tube of the packer assembly.
Type: Application
Filed: Oct 1, 2021
Publication Date: Apr 7, 2022
Inventor: Xavier William Castanon (Eagle Point, OR)
Application Number: 17/492,244