With Storage Means, Feeder, And/or Plural Bowl Patents (Class 131/180)
  • Patent number: 11344059
    Abstract: Disclosed is a smoking device for use by a person to consume a smoking material such as tobacco, medical marijuana, or the like. The smoking device comprises a glass housing having lower and upper open end portions and an inner portion. The smoking device further comprises a body having a rear body portion rotatably and sealably engaged with the lower open end portion of the glass housing. The smoking device further comprises an auger comprising a first end portion engaged with the rear body portion of the body and a second end portion extending within the glass housing to form a bowl area. Rotation of the body causes the auger to rotate and the smoking material to be moved upward thru the glass housing to the bowl area where it is ignited by a lighter or other heat source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Tyger Manufacturing LLC
    Inventor: Jeffrey Han
  • Patent number: 11172701
    Abstract: The invention includes a device for smoking smokeable material. The device has a housing, a rotatable shaft for driving smokeable material towards the first end of the housing as the smokeable material is smoked, at least one radial hole through the shaft for passage of smokeable material from the burning section of the housing into the longitudinal hole of the rotatable shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Banana Bros, LLC
    Inventors: David Richmond, Howard Richmond, Manuel A. Montano
  • Patent number: 10477890
    Abstract: Disclosed is a smoking device for use by a person to consume a smoking material such as tobacco, medical marijuana, or the like. The smoking device comprises a glass housing having lower and upper open end portions and an inner portion. The smoking device further comprises a body having a rear body portion rotatably and sealably engaged with the lower open end portion of the glass housing. The smoking device further comprises an auger comprising a first end portion engaged with the rear body portion of the body and a second end portion extending within the glass housing to form a bowl area. Rotation of the body causes the auger to rotate and the smoking material to be moved upward thru the glass housing to the bowl area where it is ignited by a lighter or other heat source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Tyger Manufacturing LLC
    Inventor: Jeffrey Han
  • Patent number: 10463072
    Abstract: A multi-armed pre-rolled smoking tube that includes a primary tubular body with a proximal end and a distal end, and a secondary tubular body with a pair of transverse ends, wherein primary and secondary tubular bodies are angularly disposed through mating engagement by an annulet sleeve portion medially disposed within the secondary tubular body. Sealed engagement of the annulet sleeve portion around the exterior surface of the primary tubular body is affective to enclose a pair of perforated regions diametrically disposed upon the primary tubular body. The sealed junction therefore connects the pair of transverse ends with the primary tubular body, and allows airflow through the multi-armed pre-rolled smoking tube enabling combustion of vegetable matter additional to the multi-armed pre-rolled smoking tube at each of the pair of transverse ends and the distal end for inhalation through a mouthpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Inventor: Dantaye Snyder
  • Patent number: 10314333
    Abstract: The present invention is a smoking device comprising a glass housing having lower and upper open end portions and an inner portion. The smoking device further comprises a body rotatably and sealably engaged with the lower open end portion of the glass housing by at least one o-ring. The smoking device further comprises an auger comprising a first end portion engaged with the body and a second end portion extending within the inner portion of the glass housing to form a bowl area. Rotation of the body causes the auger to rotate and the smoking material to be moved upward thru the inner portion of the glass housing to the bowl area where it is ignited by a match, lighter or other heat source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Tyger Manufacturing LLC
    Inventor: Jeffrey Han
  • Patent number: 9968127
    Abstract: The present invention is a smoking device comprising a glass housing having lower and upper open end portions and an inner portion. The smoking device further comprises a mouthpiece rotatably engaged with the lower open end portion of the housing. The mouthpiece comprises a front surface, a rear surface, and a plurality of air passage ways extending from the front surface to the rear surface and in communication with the inner portion of the housing. The smoking device further comprises an auger comprising a first end portion engaged with the mouthpiece and a second end portion extending within the inner portion of the housing. Rotation of the mouthpiece causes the auger to rotate and the smoking material to be moved upward thru the inner portion of the housing where it is ignited by a match, lighter or other heat source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: Tyger Manufacturing LLC
    Inventor: Jeffrey Han
  • Patent number: 9635883
    Abstract: A pipe is disclosed that includes a body and a smokable substance storage compartment. The body may define a hollow shaft that extends from a first end of the body to a second end of the body. The hollow shaft may terminate at a first opening in the first end of the body and at a second opening in the second end of the body. The pipe may include a reloading slide that is configured to movably engage the body and includes a reloading recess that is configured to receive a portion of a smokable substance from the smokable substance storage compartment. The reloading slide may be configured to align a reloading recess with a portion of the body that provides access to the smokable substance storage compartment or the portion of the body that defines the first opening in the first end of the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Inventor: Charles Guardino
  • Patent number: 9032966
    Abstract: A smoke box is provided to hold smoking material, a smoking pipe, and a smoking bowl. The smoking pipe holds a small quantity of smoking material. The smoking bowl holds a more substantial quantity of smoking material. The small smoking pipe, when inserted into the side-cavity on the smoke box, becomes a mouthpiece and a filtering chamber for the smoking material to be smoked through the smoking bowl, thereby providing two choices for the amount of smoking material for smoking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Inventor: William Charles Geraths
  • Publication number: 20140083440
    Abstract: The present invention provides a hand worn smoking device comprising a glove having a burning reservoir for containing substance to be smoked, a reservoir closing feature, a smoke transport pathway, and an oral interface wherein the burning reservoir is connected to the oral interface via the smoke transport pathway allowing the burning reservoir to be in smoke communication with the oral interface during use. The present invention also includes a method of smoking the substance to be smoked using this device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2013
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Inventors: Cale Street, Mark Behar, Sacha Sprague
  • Patent number: 8590540
    Abstract: A smoking pipe apparatus includes an elongated body having a first end, a second end, a base, a primary side, a first margin, and a second margin. Also, a bowl including a sidewall extending from a step that terminates at the primary side, the bowl includes multiple voids that are disposed inward from the step toward the base. The voids inwardly terminate at a central ridge located inward from the step toward the base wherein the ridge is extended toward the primary side between the step and the voids. Also, passageways are within the body extending from the voids. A screen that is supported on an outer periphery by the step and centrally on the ridge, the screen is concave from the primary side. Operationally, tobacco is ignited in the screen concave area, a diffusion of smoke is created in the voids for an outward omnidirectional burn of the tobacco.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Inventor: Harry Dante Kahn, III
  • Publication number: 20130255700
    Abstract: A smoke box is provided to hold smoking material, a smoking pipe, and a smoking bowl. The smoking pipe holds a small quantity of smoking material. The smoking bowl holds a more substantial quantity of smoking material. The small smoking pipe, when inserted into the side-cavity on the smoke box, becomes a mouthpiece and a filtering chamber for the smoking material to be smoked through the smoking bowl, thereby providing two choices for the amount of smoking material for smoking.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2012
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Inventor: William Charles Geraths
  • Publication number: 20130199546
    Abstract: A smoking pipe apparatus includes an elongated body having a first end, a second end, a base, a primary side, a first margin, and a second margin. Also, a bowl including a sidewall extending from a step that terminates at the primary side, the bowl includes multiple voids that are disposed inward from the step toward the base. The voids inwardly terminate at a central ridge located inward from the step toward the base wherein the ridge is extended toward the primary side between the step and the voids. Also, passageways are within the body extending from the voids. A screen that is supported on an outer periphery by the step and centrally on the ridge, the screen is concave from the primary side. Operationally, tobacco is ignited in the screen concave area, a diffusion of smoke is created in the voids for an outward omnidirectional burn of the tobacco.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2012
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Inventor: Harry Dante Kahn, III
  • Publication number: 20120204888
    Abstract: The present invention is a smoking device which departs from a traditional “bowl and stem” design utilized for centuries, and rather comprises a series of generally cylindrically shaped layers that when stacked and secured together provide the user an effective means to safely store, transport and smoke a plurality of smoking materials. The smoking device may incorporate a bowl selection ranging in number between seven (7) to an unlimited amount, depending upon the size, desired portability and intended use. A rotatable bowl selector dial which positions a flame inlet over one of the plurality of bowls in an adjacent smoking material retention cartridge offers a means for easy bowl selection. The user may draw from the plurality of smoking materials without inhaling smoke from, or through excess burnt ash. The smoking device may further be utilized as a practical means of proportionally and consistently regulating each draw of tobacco smoke.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2012
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Inventor: William Curtis Descamp
  • Patent number: 7650889
    Abstract: A tobacco taster comprising an inner tube and an outer tube, the inner tube having a slightly smaller diameter than the outer tube, so that inner tube slides into outer tube with a frictional fit, inner tube having a hole, a basket shaped screen having a lip, the screen fitting into the hole in the inner tube, the lip of the screen overlapping the edge of hole, the outer tube having a hole, so that when the inner tube and the outer tube are connected by sliding the outer tube over the inner tube, the two holes are concentric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: Tobacco Tasters, Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen R. Plank
  • Patent number: 6418936
    Abstract: A tobacco pipe (10) having a hollow stem (12) threaded to a manifold (20) on top of which a turret (30) is rotatably mounted. Turret (30) is of greater weight than that of manifold (20), so that any one of a plurality of turret magazines (33) remains stationary over a chamber (24) in the manifold (20) in their relative rotation, so that smoking tobacco in the aligned magazine (33) with such chamber (24) takes place through the hollow stem (12). A screen (28) seats in a recess 27 of a port (25) of manifold (20) at a sufficient distance from the turret's chamber (24), preventing scorching of screen (28) by a source of flame at/in chamber (24) in the aligned magazine (33).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2002
    Assignee: Sandia Corp.
    Inventor: Jake Lee
  • Patent number: 6073633
    Abstract: The safety smoking pipe includes first and second parts telescopically receivable one within the other and rotatable relative to one another. The first part includes an elongated tube having a screen adjacent one end. The second part includes an elongated tube terminating at its proximal end in a pipe tip and having an axially extending cleaning member terminating in a cleaning head. A packing element is disposed for sliding movement along the cleaning rod. The tobacco materials are charged into the first tube, the tobacco materials adjacent the screen end are lit, and the ash being formed on the interior of the screen extinguishing the tobacco materials after a few puffs. By rotating the parts relative to one another, the cleaning head may clean the ash from the end of the pipe. By shaking the pipe screen end down, the weight repacks the tobacco material in the tube whereby the smoking materials can once again be ignited.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2000
    Inventor: Arthur L. Herman
  • Patent number: 5967147
    Abstract: A valved stem apparatus for use on a water pipe used for smoking. The valved stem is formed as an elongated hollow stem provided with a first open end, sized for mechanically interfacing with a pipe bowl assembly component of the water pipe, and with a second open end for being disposed within a liquid container member of the water pipe. The second open end is provided with a retaining structure that extends from the stem structure that delineates an opening at the second open end. A valve member, such as a ball valve, is disposed within the retaining structure such that it can freely travel within the retaining structure towards the opening portion of the second open end upon being submerged in a liquid. The opening portion is formed with a smooth beveled rim surface that conforms to the shape of the outer surface of the buoyant body to effect closure of the opening in a water-tight manner when not being forced open by a person drawing smoke from the mouthpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 19, 1999
    Inventor: Mark R. Newman
  • Patent number: 5850838
    Abstract: A smoking pipe includes a rotatable coupling between a base including a bowl and mouthpiece. The mouthpiece rotates to a first position covering the bowl and to a second position distant from the bowl for use of the smoking pipe. The collapsed form of the smoking pipe may be more easily carried in one's pocket without loss of debris from the bowl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1998
    Inventor: Erik O. Sigrist
  • Patent number: 5848596
    Abstract: A complete smoking assembly including a housing that defines a first chamber for storing smoking material and a aperture, a top cover associated with the housing, and a lighter contained substantially within the housing for emitting through the aperture a flame for igniting outside of the housing a portion of the smoking material removed from the housing. The aperture is defined along a side of the housing. The assembly includes a smoking pipe for removing the portion of the smoking material from the first chamber, and the housing defines an elongated channel for removably receiving the smoking pipe. The top cover is slidingly engaged with the housing and is adapted to open and close the first chamber and open and close the channel. The lighter is configured to be substantially received within the housing in a neat and compact manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 15, 1998
    Inventor: Steven E. Zelenik
  • Patent number: 5465738
    Abstract: A smoking system for holding a smoking device, tobacco, filters and a cleaning rod, all in a convenient compact container. The smoking system includes a receptacle having bored within it a number of cavities to hold the smoking device, tobacco, filters and cleaning rod. The cavities containing the smoking device and tobacco are accessible from the top of the receptacle and may be opened or closed by an upper cover. The cavities containing the filters and cleaning rod are accessible from the bottom of the receptacle and may be opened or closed by a lower cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 14, 1995
    Assignee: Music City Marketing, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard K. Rowland
  • Patent number: 4936321
    Abstract: An arrangement that for receiving smoking residue that comprises an ash receiver body (22) that receives a cigarette with its burning end close to tube (28). A discharging device (30) that removes smoke and incinerates ashes from the receiver by wind rushing past it, and a residue storage receptacle (24) that stores, out of sight, all tobacco product residue. The invention provides a simple, convenient, inexpensive, environmentally conscious device that requires less cleaning and is less offensive to non-smoking passengers than a conventional vehicle ash receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 26, 1990
    Inventor: Thomas T. Bludis
  • 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: 4524782
    Abstract: A unique pipe configuration including a magazine in which a supply of tobacco may be stored, so that a smoker will not be required to waste excess time and effort to continuously replenish the pipe with new tobacco when a plug of tobacco therein has been exhausted. A desired amount of the tobacco supply is moved from the magazine into a hollow cutting and smoking chamber by a manually operated piston. A plug of tobacco is cut from the supply thereof by a hollow tobacco cutter and transport device having a cutting surface formed at one end thereof. The cutter and transport device is adapted to ride through the cutting and smoking chamber so as to cut off and move the tobacco plug through the cutting and smoking chamber to a particular location thereof wherein the tobacco plug is smoked. The pipe location at which the tobacco plug is smoked is separated and spaced apart from the communication of the pipe stem with the cutting and smoking chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 1983
    Date of Patent: June 25, 1985
    Inventor: Rene Chister
  • Patent number: 4484590
    Abstract: A pipe for smoking tobacco with a separate storage compartment for additional tobacco, this compartment being formed as an integral portion of the pipe structure, and a tobacco burning bowl which is selectively positionable between a first smoking position and second tobacco loading position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 1982
    Date of Patent: November 27, 1984
    Inventor: Prithvi P. Singh
  • Patent number: 4478228
    Abstract: A unique pipe configuration including a magazine in which a supply of tobacco may be stored, so that a smoker will not be required to waste excess time and effort to continuously replenish the pipe with new tobacco when a plug of tobacco therein has been exhausted. A desired amount of the tobacco supply is moved from the magazine into a hollow cutting and smoking chamber by means of a manually operated piston. A plug of tobacco is cut from the supply thereof by means of a tobacco cutter and transport device having a cutting surface formed at one end thereof. The cutter and transport device is adapted to ride through the cutting and smoking chamber so as to cut off and move the tobacco plug through the cutting and smoking chamber to a particular location thereof wherein the tobacco plug is smoked. The pipe location at which the tobacco plug is smoked is separated and spaced apart from the communication of the pipe stem with the cutting and smoking chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1982
    Date of Patent: October 23, 1984
    Inventor: Rene A. Chister
  • Patent number: 4328795
    Abstract: A tobacco pipe which directs all of the smoke it produces through the person smoking the pipe prior to release of the smoke to the atmosphere. Storage chambers within the pipe may contain different types of burning material and may be repeatedly accessed for burning the materials in any order desired. The pipe stores its own ashes and has a lighter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 1980
    Date of Patent: May 11, 1982
    Inventor: Weldon B. Cabaniss, III
  • Patent number: 4294267
    Abstract: An integral smoking pipe is provided. The pipe includes a burning chamber or bowl, a tobacco storage chamber and a resin collecting chamber or clean-out area. The resin collecting chamber and the burning chamber communicate through one or more common apertures. The smoking aperture or mouth piece communicates with the burning chamber via the resin collecting chamber. Suitable caps or stoppers are provided for each of the chambers. The caps in at least one of the chambers, e.g. the burning chamber, may include a tine for cleaning the apertures between the burning chamber and the resin collecting chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 1977
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1981
    Inventor: Ronald C. Glymph
  • Patent number: 4275746
    Abstract: An elongated rectangular box includes a removable bottom wall which carries an intermediate vertical wall running the length of the box. The intermediate wall divides the box into two compartments for storing a supply of stick incense. An incense burner is removably mounted on a pair of studs on the top of the box. With the incense burner removed, a pipe bowl may be placed over one of the studs which has a hole passing therethrough and into a passage in the box formed between the top of the intermediate wall and a channel on the underside of the top wall. Smoke may be drawn through the pipe by a mouthpiece removably attached to one end thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 1979
    Date of Patent: June 30, 1981
    Inventor: Morton A. Gruber
  • Patent number: 4252135
    Abstract: A smoking pipe having a rectangular, metal bowl with a cylindrical bore within which is received an insert having at opposite ends concavities of differing volumes such that either a small or a large bowl cavity is provided for receipt of smoking material. The opposite end or bottom of the bore includes a threaded member forming a removable bottom to the bore for cleaning purposes. The outer end of the stem includes a soft material annulus with beveled outer end portions. Immediately above the stem, a shallow opening is formed in the side wall of the bowl for releasably holding the end of a hollow container for smoking materials. A cover is pivotally located over the open bowl top.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 1979
    Date of Patent: February 24, 1981
    Inventor: John Herman
  • 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: 4223687
    Abstract: A combination smoking device and a lighter for the smoking material in which the combustion area for the smoking material has a mouth piece swingable from an inoperative position into an operative position and in which an auxiliary supply of smoking material includes a valve that may be opened for placing the auxiliary supply in direct communication with the combustion area for replenishing it with a fresh supply of smoking material. Also, a smoking material lighter is positioned adjacent to the combustion area so that the operator can fill the area with smoking material and then ignite a wick and swing the mouth piece into operative position and suck air therethrough for creating a down draft in the combustion area for causing the flame from the ignited wick to ignite the smoking material. A hinged cover may now be closed for extinguishing the wick flame, the cover having air passages for supplying sufficient air to the combustion area for maintaining a continuous burning of the smoking material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 1978
    Date of Patent: September 23, 1980
    Inventor: Michael W. Sandeen
  • Patent number: 4216786
    Abstract: A smoking device is provided which includes a base having compartments for holding tobacco or the like and a lighter. At one end of the base is a rotatable, longitudinally extending and hollow burning chamber having an elongated longitudinal opening in one side thereof and having relatively small orifices in either end. A lighter is positioned in one of the compartments of the base so that its flame when lit, extends adjacent one of the orifices in the burning chamber. The other orifice in the chamber has located proximal thereto, a rotatable smoking stem provided with an orifice which may be aligned with the chamber orifice by appropriate rotation of the smoking stem. Further rotation of the stem disengages its orifice from alignment with the chamber orifice and locates the stem in a storage compartment in the base. The rotatable burning chamber may be rotated about its longitudinal axis so as to align the elongated opening therein with the tobacco compartment for loading the chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 1979
    Date of Patent: August 12, 1980
    Assignee: High Tech, Inc.
    Inventor: Ronnie G. Wright
  • 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: 4190062
    Abstract: A smoking device comprises a housing having a cavity for the storage of smoking substance, a flame generator and a bowl body rotatably supported in the housing in communication with the cavity. The bowl body has a smoking chamber therein, a first opening for receiving and discharging smoking substance and a small second opening through which smoke may be drawn. The housing has several openings in communication with the bowl body including a discharge opening, a flame and air intake opening adjacent the flame generator, and a smoke passage through which smoke is drawn.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1979
    Date of Patent: February 26, 1980
    Inventor: Jack R. Paden
  • 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: 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: 4151849
    Abstract: In a tobacco pipe, a tobacco storage chamber is integrally formed as a part of what otherwise would be the pipe stem, and the bowl is rotatably attached to the tobacco chamber so that to refill the empty bowl, the bowl is rotated from its normal position to a position where it faces the tobacco chamber; the bowl is refilled by tapping the chamber or the entire pipe, and then being rotated back to its normal position. Attachment of the bowl to the tobacco chambers is accomplished by means of a bail wire passing through eyelits on the tobacco chamber and hooking over ears on the bowl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 1977
    Date of Patent: May 1, 1979
    Inventor: Martin E. Beck
  • 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: 4148328
    Abstract: A base member has a recess in its top surface, and the bottom wall of the recess has a vertical socket arranged to hold a cigarette upright. A flexible tube is connected into the base member for communication with the socket and has a smoking tip whereby a cigarette in the base member can be smoked by a person remote from the cigarette. A hollow lid is employed which can be locked in place on the base member to prevent access to the cigarette being smoked. The lid has apertures placed at selected upper and lower portions therein to provide a draft ventilation for cigarette smoke.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 1977
    Date of Patent: April 10, 1979
    Assignee: Five Foxes, Inc.
    Inventor: Alvin F. Fox
  • 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: 4080972
    Abstract: A pipe having an internal storage chamber is formed from a single block of wood. A peg located in the passageway between the storage chamber and a smoking bowl has the dual function of permitting the feeding of tobacco and modulating the air mixture for cooler smoking. A method of making the pipe by a sequence of drilling and routing steps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 1976
    Date of Patent: March 28, 1978
    Inventor: Robert C. Furlow
  • Patent number: 4044781
    Abstract: A smoker's accessory comprising a water pipe having an inhalation chamber and a bowl assembly connected thereto and including a hopper for herb to be smoked and a manually operated valve and bowl cavity member for dispensing a measured quantity of herb to the bowl cavity, and displacing the latter between a first, lighting position in which air to the inhalation chamber is drawn from the bowl cavity, and a second position in which air to the inhalation chamber is drawn directly from the atmosphere.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 1976
    Date of Patent: August 30, 1977
    Inventor: James E. Heggestuen