Smoke Washing Type Patents (Class 131/173)
  • Patent number: 5738118
    Abstract: An apparatus for collecting cigarette smoke, ashes and cigarette ends is provided with a water path tube 5 disposed below a base plate 2 and has an appropriate inclination angle. Ash tray sections 3 are disposed on the upper surface of the base plate 2 at appropriate intervals. A water circuit includes a water tank 6 disposed at the downstream side of the water path tube 5, a pump 7 for feeding water in the water tank 6 to the upstream side of the water path tube 5 and a water feeding tube 8 connecting the pump 7 and the upstream side of the water path tube 5. A water splash prevention section 9 is fitted on the upper end of the water tank 6. A suction port 10 is disposed on the upper surface of the water path tube 5, a suction tube 11 communicates with the suction port 10, and a suction section 12 consisting of a blower is connected to the suction tube 11 for sucking smoke into the water path tube 5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 14, 1998
    Assignee: Profix Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kenji Ikoma
  • Patent number: 5738116
    Abstract: An improved fluid-cooled smoking device wherein the smoke is bubbled up through the fluid contained in one reservoir or housing and then mixes and flows with this fluid as it is flowing into another fluid containing reservoir or housing, which the smoke also bubbles up through, resulting in a cooler and cleaner smoking experience. Also the improved fluid-cooled smoking device allows for conveniently drawing in the smoke through the nose allowing one to smell the "bouquet" of a fine tobacco or to draw medicinal herb smoke into and through the sinus cavities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 14, 1998
    Inventor: Michael T. Truelove
  • Patent number: 5687745
    Abstract: An exhaust gas scrubbing device has a first chamber having an exhaust gas inlet. A second chamber has an exhaust gas outlet. A partition separates the first and the second chamber. A liquid is contained in the first and second chambers. A conveying device extends through the partition and is immersed in the liquid within the second chamber. The first and second chambers communicate via the conveying device. The exhaust gas, introduced into the first chamber through the gas inlet, is guided through the conveying device and through the liquid contained in the second chamber to the gas outlet and is scrubbed by passing through the liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 18, 1997
    Inventor: Aslan Nuri Yalcin
  • Patent number: 5540241
    Abstract: A cigarette holder having a cigarette receiving member; a connecting member, which is connected to the receiving member, having a hygroscopic filter which may be a carbon bar with water; a mouthpiece member connected to the connecting member; a first valve means between said receiving member and the connecting member for preventing leakage of water from the hygroscopic filter; a second valve means between the connecting member and the mouthpiece member for preventing leakage of water from the hygroscopic filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 30, 1996
    Inventor: Yong-sik Kim
  • Patent number: 5489043
    Abstract: A cylindrical weighted base member for water pipe smoking devices. The weighted base structure is adapted to accommodate an insert member which is designed to detachably retain a tubular vessel member of a pipe smoking device. The insert member is surrounded by a weighted mass, such as cement or similar heavy substance. The insert member facilitates removal of the vessel member to allow the user to better access the lower interior of the tubular vessel member for cleaning purposes. The insert member includes a bottom portion which retains a flexible cup that also provides the primary structure for removably retaining the tubular vessel member. A variation of the weighted base member provides structure that is formed into a storage compartment for storing articles such as a smoking substance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 1993
    Date of Patent: February 6, 1996
    Inventor: Mark R. Newman
  • Patent number: 5476110
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a water pipe for filtering the smoke from cigarettes. The water pipe includes a water chamber having an open upper end, a releasible closure for sealing the open upper end of the water chamber, a first and second opening through the water chamber, both of the first and second openings located adjacent to the open upper end of the water chamber, a smoke inlet tube passing through said first opening and configured to frictionally engage a cigarette or cigar, and a hollow stem passing through said second opening and terminating in a mouthpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 19, 1995
    Inventors: Mirza H. A. Baig, Mukarram M. Baig
  • Patent number: 5458106
    Abstract: A cigarette holder having a reservoir containing a liquid filtering agent, easy to carry and to use, and preventing leakage of the filtering agent. The cigarette holder includes a cigarette receiver; a reservoir containing a liquid filtering agent; a smoke tube extending from the receiver to a point in the reservoir and below the top surface of the filtering agent; a mouthpiece extending from a point in the reservoir and above the top surface of the filtering agent to the user; and valve means for preventing leakage through the smoke tube and the mouthpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 17, 1995
    Inventor: Yong-sik Kim
  • Patent number: 5400807
    Abstract: A liquid pipe smoking apparatus having impact collars formed to be carried by the body of the base member, and or, the vessel body of the apparatus. The impact collars are detachable and are intended to absorb shock encountered by the apparatus during use to avoid fracture of the vessel body, and or to avoid tipping of the pipe apparatus. The cylindrical base member is also modified such that the underside portion provides a storage compartment covered with a threaded or friction retained bottom cap member. Various embodiments may be configured utilizing the impact collars and the modified base structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 28, 1995
    Inventor: Mark R. Newman
  • Patent number: 5080113
    Abstract: A water pipe has an upper tobacco burning bowl. The bowl is sealed into the top of a water chamber partially filled with water. A first narrow tube sealed into the bottom of the bowl extends below the bowl and into the water. A nipple connected to the side of the water chamber receives a conventional pipe stem or mouthpiece. When the user sucks on the mouthpiece, smoke is pulled down the small tube and bubbles through the water to cool and purify the smoke. A second narrow tube sealed into the nipple extends to the center of the chamber. When the partially filled chamber is tilted or inverted, the two tubes always extend above the water level, preventing loss of water. A small hole in the first tube above the water level prevents water being forced up into the bowl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 14, 1992
    Inventor: Kim T. Bui
  • Patent number: 4926889
    Abstract: Apparatus for concurrently puncturing the sidewalls of and moistening elongate, generally cylindrical tobacco products is disclosed. The apparatus includes a body member, and a container for liquid cooperative with the body member and provided with liquid discharge means for delivering liquid therefrom. The apparatus also includes a push button member movable relative to the body member between an actuated and a deactuated position and cooperative with the liquid discharge means, when actuated, for delivering liquid from the liquid discharge means. One or the other of the body member and the push button member includes a means for supporting a tobacco product thereon, and means are provided for conducting liquid delivered from the liquid discharge means to the tobacco product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 1988
    Date of Patent: May 22, 1990
    Inventor: George E. Brackett
  • Patent number: 4884582
    Abstract: Apparatus for moistening a cigarette, particularly a filter tip cigarette, prior to smoking. The apparatus preferably includes a button mounted on the stem of an aerosol cartridge. The button has a cigarette-receiving bore arranged so that a cigarette received in the bore extends transverse to the axis of the cartridge. The button may also have a nozzle recessed in an end wall of the bore so that liquid discharged through the nozzle spreads transverse to the axis of the cigarette in a chamber defined by the end of the filter and the end wall of the bore. The button desirably is arranged to engage the stem of a stem-actuated aerosol cartridge or similar dispenser to mount the button on the dispenser and to hold the button in the desired orientation relative to the dispenser. In an alternative arrangement, the button has a hollow needle disposed within the cigarette-receiving bore and arranged to impale a cigarette engaged in the bore. The interior of the hollow needle is connected to the aerosol cartridge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 1986
    Date of Patent: December 5, 1989
    Inventor: George E. Brackett
  • Patent number: 4865056
    Abstract: An easily breakable plastic capsule according to the present invention comprises a hollow cylindrical body capable of elastic deformation. The body is packed with a fluid material. An end wall of the body is formed with a plurality of radially extending grooves. When the body is deformed elastically, the bottom walls of the grooves are broken, so that the material flows out of the body through tears in the grooves. A water filter according to the present invention comprises a casing, made of paper and coupled to a cigarette, and a filter member and the capsule arranged in the casing. The grooved end wall of the capsule is situated in close vicinity to the filter member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 12, 1989
    Assignees: Japan Tobacco Inc., DAI Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Akimichi Tamaoki, Shinichiro Tanaka, Morio Kondo, Masami Kawata, Ichiro Hirose, Hiroshi Uematsu, Kazuto Minami, Mitsuyuki Kobiyama
  • Patent number: 4788988
    Abstract: A smoking device is disclosed whereby smoke and other gases of combustion can be diluted with air to a pre-selected mixture before being inhaled by a smoker. This is achieved by the use of a carbureting tube which can introduce a metered amount of air into a smoke chamber and thereby dilute the smoke to any desired concentration. The smoke is drawn into the smoke dilution chamber by a piston moving towards the outlet end of the chamber, and then pumped out of the smoke dilution chamber by reversing the motion of the piston. A water chamber may also be included to permit the smoke and other gases to be cooled prior to entering the smoke dilution chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 1987
    Date of Patent: December 6, 1988
    Inventor: Matthew G. Titus
  • Patent number: 4765347
    Abstract: A flavor delivery article produces an aerosol. The article includes an outer container in the form of a tube and an inner container disposed within the outer container. The inner container contains liquid such as an alcohol-water mixture, and a delivery means such as a tube. An airflow acceleration means is located near the output region of the delivery means such that airflow through the outer container can disperse the liquid from the delivery means into the airflow in aerosol form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 1986
    Date of Patent: August 23, 1988
    Assignee: R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
    Inventors: Andrew J. Sensabaugh, Jr., Henry T. Ridings
  • Patent number: 4682610
    Abstract: A smoking apparatus which efficiently removes harmful impurities from the smoke does so by improving contact between the smoke and a washing liquid. This is accomplished by placing small stones and small floating pieces in a water pipe to increase the distance of the flow path of the smoke through the water, and to decrease the size of the smoke bubbles passing through the water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1985
    Date of Patent: July 28, 1987
    Inventor: Kenneth W. Freelain
  • Patent number: 4657032
    Abstract: An aspiration device for delivering a controlled dosage of a drug to a smoker's mouth and lungs comprises an elongated container adapted to be positioned within a cigarette or other smoking article adjacent the end intended to be held in the smoker's mouth. The container holds a supply of a drug which is aspirated directly into the smoker's mouth as a result of the suction applied by the smoker to the end of the cigarette. An air inlet port communicates with the outer surface of the cigarette and permits air to enter the container in response to the partial vacuum created by the applied suction. The drug held within the container is discharged through an exit orifice thereof which is coplanar with the end of the cigarette, so that mixing of the drug with the tobacco smoke occurs within the mouth of the smoker, at reduced temperature and lower smoke concentration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 1985
    Date of Patent: April 14, 1987
    Inventors: Robert T. Dorr, David S. Alberts
  • Patent number: 4648410
    Abstract: A smoking apparatus comprising of an appliance with a pipe bowl to serve as a smoking pipe with means for controlling the thermal conduction around the said pipe bowl, with means for communicating with a layer of water in a releaseably attached liquid-containing receptacle, with means for passage of the outgoing smoke to enter a filtering element removing moisture from the liquid-filtered smoke, which is then drawn into a flexible conduit for smoker's use. The invention takes into account the physical phenomenas of the two contrasting filtration processes and to bring them to a balance. All parts thereof are synchronized for integrating the various functions into one result; to produce a tobacco smoke which is "clean", "sweat", "cool", "dry" without a "bite". The smoker can, without tedious encumbrances change and replace parts that draw contaminants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 1985
    Date of Patent: March 10, 1987
    Inventor: Henry I. Seroussi
  • Patent number: 4646761
    Abstract: A disposable cigarette holder-filter includes a cigarette receiving socket end and a mouthpiece end. The interior of the holder includes a fibrous filtering material impregnated with water. The mouthpiece end of the holder is formed with an integrally formed diaphragm and removable plug, which upon removal provides an opening into the interior of the cigarette filter. The diaphragm allows for compact size and a recessed opening. The plug is adapted for easy removal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 1985
    Date of Patent: March 3, 1987
    Assignee: Aquafilter Corporation
    Inventor: Jerome J. Goldstein
  • Patent number: 4638815
    Abstract: An improved water pipe for a cigarette is proposed which has a bowl, a stem and a smoke tube extending through the bowl so as to reach into water contained in the bottom of the bowl. A ball retained at bottom of the smoke tube prevents water from entering the hole and cigarette and serves to bring nicotine up and out of the smoke tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 1985
    Date of Patent: January 27, 1987
    Inventor: Takeo Yoshioka
  • Patent number: 4357948
    Abstract: A smoke filtering and cooling device is removably mounted within a cylindrical vertical passage in a tobacco smoking water pipe through which smoke is upwardly directed. The device comprises a selectively expandable/retractable portion which is engageable with the passage wall whereby the device is mechanically supported and a fluid-tight seal is provided so that a quantity of water can be retained in the passage around the device. The device further comprises or defines passageways whereby the smoke is directed through the water for filtering and cooling as it passes through the pipe. A plurality of devices may be arranged one above another in the same water pipe to increase efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 1980
    Date of Patent: November 9, 1982
    Assignee: Robert Schweitzer
    Inventors: Robert A. Schweitzer, James H. Tate
  • Patent number: 4325390
    Abstract: A compact, self-supporting fluidic smoking device or utensil comprising a substantially gibbous-like reservoir, the uppermost portion of which extends narrowly upward to form an open neck. A first hollow elongated cylindrical tube having an open upper end is integrally connected to the neck of the reservoir. A second hollow cylindrical tube, having open upper and lower ends is inserted through an aperture defined in the first tube and extends downwardly into the reservoir. The open upper end has a smoking bowl attached thereto for holding tobacco or similar material. The reservoir has a cavity defined in its bottom which opens into the interior of the reservoir so as to facilitate the retention of a liquid material within the reservoir and for facilitating the cleaning of the reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 1980
    Date of Patent: April 20, 1982
    Inventor: Richard W. Kahler
  • Patent number: 4257432
    Abstract: A metering device for granular and flaky materials is provided, comprising a bowl cavity member defining an upwardly facing metering cavity with an upper rim, an outlet passage extending from the metering cavity, and a hopper member movably mounted on the bowl cavity member and defining an upwardly facing material cavity. With the hopper member in its upper limit position the lower portion of its cavity is adjacent to the rim of the metering cavity, whereby material is moved by gravity into the material cavity from the hopper cavity, and with the hopper member in its lower limit position the metering cavity rim is substantially above the material in the hopper cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 1979
    Date of Patent: March 24, 1981
    Inventors: Denis J. Griffith, Scott M. Reddy
  • Patent number: 4253475
    Abstract: An improved water pipe or bong wherein the water that is used to filter and cool the smoke is caused to flush up the inhalation tube, thus pushing the smoke into the smoker's lungs. To enhance the flushing effect a water trap is employed to stop the water suddenly and the combustion bowl can be sealed off from the rest of the pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 1977
    Date of Patent: March 3, 1981
    Inventors: Ronald J. Schreiber, Batya R. G. Schreiber
  • Patent number: 4244383
    Abstract: A smoking device comprising a reversible smoking bowl in combination with a stem of said smoking device. The reversible bowl comprises two smoking compartments in coaxial alignment with each other and with the stem. Both compartments are of the same diameter but have a different length whereby different volumes of tobacco can be used in each compartment. The smoking bowl is reversible because one compartment alternatively accommodates either the stem of the smoking device or a first charge of tobacco while the other compartment simultaneously alternatively accommodates the second charge of tobacco or the stem of said smoking device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 1979
    Date of Patent: January 13, 1981
    Inventor: Richard W. Kahler
  • Patent number: 4241741
    Abstract: A traditional bong is provided having an upright barrel divided by a partition into a lower, dry chamber into which the pipe stem enters, and an upper aqueous chamber which is made spill-proof by virtue of a stand pipe extending up from the lower chamber through the baffle, this stand pipe being covered by an elongated cap which bobbles up and down in the liquid-filled upper chamber as the device is used and seals against an opening and an overlying baffle when the bong is inverted to prevent spillage. An additional novel effect is produced by the bobbling of the diverter cap which covers the stand pipe, which tends to mix the inhaled smoke with the water as it bobbles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 1979
    Date of Patent: December 30, 1980
    Inventors: Rick H. Cabados, Robert E. Hansen
  • Patent number: 4223686
    Abstract: A smoking pipe having a pipe bowl with a smoke tube extending into a volume of filtering liquid in an enclosed reservoir. The shapes and dimensions of the smoke tube and liquid reservoir are selected in relation to the volume of liquid so that when the pipe is substantially upright, the end of the smoke tube extends into the liquid. A tubular pipe stem and associated valve extend from a reservoir port which is above the liquid top surface when the pipe is substantially upright. The physical characteristics of the smoke tube are related to the physical characteristics and volume of the filtering liquid and the shape and volume of the reservoir, so that when the pipe is inverted and the valve closes the passage through the pipe stem, there is substantially zero net force on a volume of liquid within the smoke tube due to the pressure differential across that volume, surface tensions between the liquid and the tube and gravitational force on that volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 1979
    Date of Patent: September 23, 1980
    Inventor: Joseph E. Murray, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4219032
    Abstract: A smoking device for extracting at least one smoke component from a smokeable substance comprises a bowl defining a space for receiving the smokeable substance, the bowl having a pair of spaced holes therein; and a container defining a chamber for receiving a heat source, the chamber communicating with the space through one of the holes in the bowl whereby the smoke component may be extracted by drawing through the other hole in the bowl. A method for extracting a smoke component from a smokeable substance is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1977
    Date of Patent: August 26, 1980
    Inventors: Robert A. Tabatznik, Steven H. Reiner, deceased
  • Patent number: 4216785
    Abstract: An improved smoking water pipe or bong comprising a chamber containing water in its lower portion, its upper portion serving as a smoke collection reservoir; a bowl for combusting tobacco or medicinal herbs, the smoke directed through a tube to the water chamber below the water; a finger controllable orifice for admitting air through a tube to a point below the surface of the water; and a mouth piece for applying suction to the interior of the chamber to inhale the smoke. In accordance with one aspect of the disclosure, a separate second chamber may be provided as the smoke reservoir, appropriate fluid communication tubes being provided between the chambers, and the smoke reservoir carrying the mouthpiece. The disclosed water pipe or bong permits the control of atmospheric air to function and a gas piston to move the smoke in the smoke reservoir uniformly and without dilution into the mouth of the smoker, and to provide a following draught of cooled and moistened air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 1977
    Date of Patent: August 12, 1980
    Assignee: Fred Lynn Miller
    Inventors: William V. Erickson, Paul K. Jarvie, Fred L. Miller
  • Patent number: 4215707
    Abstract: A bowl for holding a charge of smoking substance in a water pipe and composed of a housing provided with a through bore defining a smoke passage and a movable member defining the base of a cavity for holding the smoking substance and movable between a first position in which it presents a surface for supporting the charge of smoking substance while permitting smoke and air to pass through the bore, and a second position in which it presents a passage for the fall of ashes and debris from the cavity. The water pipe vessel is provided with thermal insulation to keep the water warm. The tube for delivering smoke into the water can end in an extension which projects into the water and has a plurality of openings to establish a large area of contact between the smoke and the water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 1978
    Date of Patent: August 5, 1980
    Inventor: Joshua D. Elrich
  • Patent number: 4203455
    Abstract: A liquid-cooled smoking device includes a plurality of superposed chambers, the lowermost one of which defines an ash receptacle for collecting ash deposits entrained within the smoke. The receptacle is separated from the upper liquid-coolant chamber through which the smoke passes to be cooled. Concentrically arranged tubular members disposed within the liquid-coolant chamber define a sinusoidal smoke flow path within the coolant so as to cool the smoke to acceptable levels. A tobacco reservoir is operatively associated with the smoking bowl of the device so as to semi-automatically replenish consumed tobacco.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 1978
    Date of Patent: May 20, 1980
    Inventor: Erwin S. Byrd, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4201230
    Abstract: The base of a bong-type smoking pipe is provided with a full bore radially expansible/contractile, rotably actuated plug-type closure that incorporates a standard for supporting the pipe in a generally upright condition. Upon removal of the plug and the smoking bowl unit, the full bore of the main tube is accessible for cleaning, e.g. with a bottle brush or in an automatic dishwasher.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 1978
    Date of Patent: May 6, 1980
    Inventor: Joseph R. Howell, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4198993
    Abstract: An article that serves the dual function of a smoking pipe and drinking receptacle, and thereby permits the concurrent smoking of tobacco and consumption of a beverage through use of a single instrument. The article has the general configuration of a mug, comprising an inner shell that forms a reservoir for holding a beverage and a surrounding outer shell having smoke input and output means, a smoke chamber normally containing a smoke filtering agent being provided between the inner and outer shells to accommodate the travel of smoke between said input and output means. The smoke chamber is securely sealed from the reservoir to prevent contamination of the beverage by the smoke or filtering agent, while the inner shell serves to conduct heat between the chamber and reservoir to provide auxiliary cooling of the smoke.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1978
    Date of Patent: April 22, 1980
    Inventors: Jerome E. Martin, Beverley J. Martin, Charles J. Emering
  • Patent number: 4187885
    Abstract: A seal device includes a first, inverted cup-shaped member and a second cup-shaped member within which the first member is disposed. The open, lower end of the first member is provided with a radially outwardly projecting annular flange for engaging the inner peripheral wall of the second member whereby a blind, annular recess is defined by the first and second members for accommodating one end of a hollow container. The peripheral walls of the seal members, as well as the flange of the first member, thus engages at least two primary surfaces of the container thereby defining a three-point, plug type seal therefor. The second member is also provided with a frusto-conical skirt portion which serves as a base or foundation for the container, and if desired, the first and second members may be integrally formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 1977
    Date of Patent: February 12, 1980
    Inventor: Richard W. Kahler
  • Patent number: 4183365
    Abstract: A water pipe or bong for smoking tobacco comprising a base to which there is affixed one end of an upright, hollow cylinder, thereby leaving an open end which can be received against one's mouth so that smoke can be inhaled by applying a suction action to the interior of the cylinder. A revolver is axially aligned with the longitudinal centerline of the hollow cylinder with the cylinder being telescopingly received within the revolver and with the revolver being rotatably positioned about a medial portion of the cylinder. A plurality of radially spaced combustion chambers are formed within the revolver in which tobacco can be stored and combusted. The combustion chambers include an open end into which tobacco is charged and an outlet end through which smoke can flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 1977
    Date of Patent: January 15, 1980
    Inventor: Scott A. Kelley
  • Patent number: 4171703
    Abstract: A multiple bowl arrangement for a water pipe, bong or other smoking device in the form of a mounting base in place of the conventional bowl and a turret or magazine with multiple bowls rotatably mounted on the base so that each bowl is brought into successive, selective registry with the primary smoke inlet passageway of the smoking device. Visual indicators may be provided on the base and the turret to assure registry of any one bowl in use with the primary smoke inlet passageway of the smoking device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 1977
    Date of Patent: October 23, 1979
    Assignee: Progressive Plastics, Inc.
    Inventor: Frank B. Locke
  • Patent number: 4170237
    Abstract: A water pipe of the type for smoking grown plant substances, and particularly the rare plant substances such as herbs and the like which are relatively expensive. The water pipe includes a first elongate tube having a central water chamber formed therein with a secondary tube extending into the water chamber and terminating beneath the normal level of water contained within the water chamber. At the upper end of the secondary tube is a bowl for containing the grown substance which is capable of being ignited for purposes of smoking. Disposed within the first tube above the water level thereof is a unique adapter which may be fixed within the first tube or otherwise removably disposed therein and which prevents the spillage of water from the upper end of the first tube in the event that the device is inadvertently tipped over. This adapter effectively works as a water entrapment device which permits the passage of smoke, but also prevents the spillage of water when the device is inadvertently tipped over.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1977
    Date of Patent: October 9, 1979
    Inventor: Kevin B. Epstein
  • Patent number: 4165753
    Abstract: A smoker's pipe has a mouthpiece opening formed at the intersection of the walls of a smoke-receiving housing. The smoke is cooled and humidified by passing it upwardly through a body of water, the smoke being introduced into the water by a bubble forming means. The bubble forming means has a plurality of apertures which break the smoke into a plurality of bubble-forming streams to reduce the size of the bubbles and to increase the interaction between the bubbles and the water. Carryover of water into the mouthpiece is minimized by providing a deentrainment chamber in the flow path between the smoke cooling chamber and the mouthpiece. In the deentrainment chamber, the smoke ascends and the water descends to drain gravitationally through a check valve near the bottom of the deentrainment chamber. A modular system is disclosed wherein units may be added or removed to vary the number of cooling stages in the pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 1976
    Date of Patent: August 28, 1979
    Inventor: Timothy J. Stryker
  • Patent number: 4164949
    Abstract: An ash trap for a bong having a chamber with an intermediate perforate disc. A smoke passage tube extends from a smoke material bowl through the side of the chamber and the disc into a lower chamber. Ashes are collected on a removable closure at the end of the lower chamber. Tubing to a bong may be secured to the upper portion of the first chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 1978
    Date of Patent: August 21, 1979
    Assignee: McCall Associates, Inc.
    Inventor: Jeffrey K. Diven
  • Patent number: 4164950
    Abstract: A smoking appliance utilizes a solid-phase cooling medium for tempering and treating smoke. The appliance has a housing which defines an upstanding cooling chamber. A burning bowl is arranged to introduce smoke to be treated into a lower portion of the cooling chamber. A flexible hose communicates a mouthpiece with the chamber for withdrawing treated smoke from an upper portion of the cooling chamber. A removable container is provided for supporting a solid-phase cooling medium within an intermediate portion of the cooling chamber. The cooling medium defines a plurality of flow paths for transmitting smoke from the lower portion to the upper portion. During its travel through the cooling medium, the smoke is exposed to a large surface area of the cooling medium to effect a thorough tempering and treating action. While the solid-phase cooling medium preferably takes the form of a reusable frozen cartridge, it may also constitute a plurality of pieces of ice supported within the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 1978
    Date of Patent: August 21, 1979
    Inventor: Joseph A. Bechtold
  • Patent number: 4161954
    Abstract: A smoking apparatus comprising a pipe bowl for holding burning smoking material, means for connecting the pipe bowl to a means for containing water, means for drawing smoke from the pipe bowl through water contained in the water-containing means before it is discharged from the apparatus and valve means located in the pipe bowl, having a closed position for preventing smoking material in the pipe bowl from falling into the water-containing means and an open position for dumping the residue and ash from the smoking material burned in the pipe bowl into the water-containing means. The pipe bowl comprises a generally cylindrical interior surface. In one embodiment the valve means comprises a disk-shaped member and means connected to the disk-shaped member for rotating the disk-shaped member between its open and closed positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1977
    Date of Patent: July 24, 1979
    Inventor: Bert F. Fornaciari
  • Patent number: 4158364
    Abstract: A tobacco smoke filter embodied in a holder for retaining cigarettes and cigars during the smoking thereof wherein inhaled smoke is drawn by suction through a series of sections and successively expanded and contracted to remove more and more tar and nicotine therefrom with means for cooling the smoke during its passage through the sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1977
    Date of Patent: June 19, 1979
    Assignee: Albert P. Marinko
    Inventor: Enrique Ligeti
  • Patent number: 4148327
    Abstract: A water pipe for smoking has two superposed water chambers with a tobacco chamber leading to the lower of said water chambers, a goose neck tubular element communicating with both water chambers, a carb hole between said water chambers and an outlet above the uppermost of said water chambers so that smoke from burning tobacco in said tobacco chamber can be drawn through both water chambers to said outlet to cool said smoke.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 1977
    Date of Patent: April 10, 1979
    Inventor: Roger Graham
  • Patent number: 4148326
    Abstract: A smoking device such as a bong, or water pipe, for smoking rare and expensive tobacco whereby the smoke is filtered by a liquid substance such as water before it is inhaled by the user. The bong includes a smoking bowl for holding the tobacco and allowing the smoke generated therefrom to be filtered through the liquid. To facilitate the placing of the tobacco in the smoking bowl, an automatic loader is employed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1977
    Date of Patent: April 10, 1979
    Inventor: Ricky A. Harbaugh
  • Patent number: 4146026
    Abstract: A filter mask characterized by a filter receptacle which carries a liquid, such as water, into which a plurality of air inlet tubes extend. Air is drawn through the liquid by reason of the vacuum caused by breathing, filtering the contamination, and then passes through an associated face mask. The filter mask effectively removes contaminates in the air, as various forms of dust, solid or semi-solid particles, pollen, chemicals and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 1977
    Date of Patent: March 27, 1979
    Inventor: Victor H. Montalvo
  • Patent number: 4142536
    Abstract: A water pipe has a base, a top circular aperture into which projects an upright support tube secured to said base. An open-ended assembly sleeve is snugly projected for a part of its length down into said support tube with a portion of the sleeve extending thereabove. A transverse partition extends across interior of said sleeve. An elongated upright hollow body is axially aligned with said support tube and has a cylindrical base which is frictionally projected over the assembly sleeve and in engagement with the support tube as a continuation thereof. An elongated bowl support tube is projected and sealed through the wall of the support tube and extends in an acute angle thereto. A bowl adapted to receive a smoking mixture is removably mounted on said latter tube. The support tube for a portion of its height is filled with a liquid defining with said support tube above said liquid a first smoke chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 1977
    Date of Patent: March 6, 1979
    Inventor: Nicholas DeCarlo
  • Patent number: 4140138
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a smoking apparatus including a rotatably mounted liquid piston assembly that acts to pump air and resulting smoke through material being held or supported by the apparatus as the liquid piston assembly is manually turned in half turn intervals. The liquid piston assembly comprises two opposed compartments communicatively open with respect to each other in order that a liquid contained therein may move or gravitate from one compartment to the other as the respective compartments are rotated. After each half turn, liquid will gravitate from an upper oriented compartment to a lower oriented compartment and as the liquid gravitates a vacuum is created within the upper oriented compartment causing smoke to be pulled within that compartment. Further, the gravitating liquid will effectively force smoke received in the preceding half cycle from the lower oriented compartment through an exhaust valve associated with the liquid piston assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 1977
    Date of Patent: February 20, 1979
    Inventor: Lawrence S. Keller
  • Patent number: 4134410
    Abstract: A liquid-filtered smoking device includes a container within which is disposed a liquid filter medium. Smoke is introduced into the device through one or more tubular members and is withdrawn therefrom, under inhalation conditions, through another tubular member. The lower end of the smoke-introducing tubular member is immersed within the liquid, and a hollow sphere is operatively associated therewith so as to serve as a float valve which permits the smoke to pass through the device under inhalation conditions and which becomes seated upon the smoke-introducing tubular member under non-inhalation conditions so as to prevent the surge or splash of the liquid upwardly within the smoke-introducing tubular member. The float and smoke-introducing tubular member can be integrated into a single unit or sub-assembly which can be utilized in conjunction with various liquid-filtered smoking devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 1977
    Date of Patent: January 16, 1979
    Inventor: Richard W. Kahler
  • Patent number: 4134409
    Abstract: A smoking apparatus for use with a disposable can containing a filtering medium such as water, the apparatus including a flexible stopper member for sealingly engaging the peripheral edges of a generally keyhole shaped opening in the top of the can, the stopper having first and second passageways therethrough, a first tubular member extending into one of the passageways, a second tubular member extending through the other passageway, one end of the second tubular member extending into the can for a distance sufficient to extend into the filtering medium, the other member extending exteriorly of the container and being attached to a receptacle or bowl for holding smoking material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 1976
    Date of Patent: January 16, 1979
    Assignee: Marymac Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Joseph H. McManus
  • Patent number: 4133318
    Abstract: A tubular water pipe embodying an electrical heating element in its base operable by use of a momentary on/off switch forming a part thereof and divided into separate chambers. The lower chamber collects smoke of a burning product such as tobacco and the upper chamber containing water cools the smoke when drawn therethrough by the smoker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 1977
    Date of Patent: January 9, 1979
    Inventors: Ronald Gross, Jimmy L. Whitfill
  • Patent number: 4116204
    Abstract: A pipe for consumption of tobacco and other smokable substances, comprises a collapsible, telescopic body in the shape of a truncated cone, closed at its base and open at its narrow end to form a mouthpiece, the sidewall of the body having a first carburetor hole and second stem hole; a stem inserted into the body through the second hole and extending downwardly toward the base of the body and a bowl attached to the exterior end of the stem for the holding of the smokable substance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 1976
    Date of Patent: September 26, 1978
    Inventor: James E. Kline