Abstract: A smoking apparatus is disclosed herein for use in the consumption of liquefied herbs or resins. The invention utilizes a thermal tip with an orifice disposed therein, wherein the thermal tip is heated by an external heat source. Once heated, the thermal tip may glow due to the existence of thermal radiation emitting visible light. The tip is thereafter touched to the material to be consumed and the material is vaporized and drawn through the smoking apparatus. The smoking apparatus thereafter utilizes two offset reservoirs, connected by an air passageway in a series, where the reservoirs are separated by an s-shaped curve. The reservoirs in such a configuration with substantially trap large droplets of oil or resin, which improves the consumption and overall smoking experience. The reservoirs further cool the air before it is drawn into the lungs of the user, which also increases the enjoyment of the smoking experience.

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.

Abstract: pipe system comprising a bowl aperture, a inhaling aperture and a carburetor aperture is disclosed. said pipe comprising a bowl assembly having a bowl and said bowl aperture. A body portion having said inhaling aperture and said carburetor aperture. A smokeable material in said bowl. A plug capable of covering said carburetor aperture. A fluid passage between said bowl aperture and said inhaling aperture. Said carburetor aperture breaks said fluid passage between said bowl aperture and said inhaling aperture. Said carburetor aperture is capable of opening and closing by applying and removing said plug.

Abstract: A disposable smoking pipe may comprise a shaft having a mouthpiece end and a bowl end, a recess being formed in the bowl end, a mouth opening formed in the mouthpiece end, and a passage extending from the mouth opening to the recess to put the recess in fluid communication with the mouth opening. The shaft has an exterior surface with a generally cylindrical in shape between the mouthpiece end and the bowl end, and the shaft is formed from a corncob.

Abstract: A smoking system includes a capillary wick for holding liquid, at least one air inlet, at least one air outlet and a chamber between the air inlet and air outlet. The air inlet, the air outlet and the chamber are arranged so as to define an air flow route from the air inlet to the air outlet via the capillary wick so as to convey aerosol formed from the liquid to the air outlet. The smoking system further includes at least one guide for channeling the air flow in the air flow route, so as to control particle size in the aerosol. The smoking system optionally includes at least one heater for heating the liquid in at least a portion of the capillary wick to form the aerosol.

Abstract: A smoking pipe having a cleaning valve includes a pipe body with an internal bore. A combustion chamber is communicably connected with the bore. A cleaning valve is mounted adjustably within the bore. The valve includes a longitudinal channel and the valve is alternatable between a first position wherein the channel is communicably interconnects an orifice in the mouthpiece of the pipe and the combustion chamber and a second position wherein the channel is fully exposed so that it may be quickly and completely cleaned.

Abstract: A non-polluting smoking device through which smoke is first inhaled and then exhaled, the device containing a filter or series of filters for filtering harmful toxins and unpleasant odors, thereby preventing same from being emitted into the air.

Abstract: The invention relates to a foam for purifying and filtrating air, particularly filtrating toxic compounds, such as for instance tar and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) from tobacco smoke, and to a method to prepare this foam. The foam according to the invention is a foam comprising cavities and interstitial spaces situated outside of the cavities, the cavities being defined by walls, the walls of the cavities being composed of a crosslinked polymer and possible additives, the average largest dimension of the cavities being in the range of 30–350 ?m, a considerable part of the cavities comprising two or more perforations in their walls, the perforations having an average diameter in the range of 5–300 ?m, a considerable part of the perforations of adjacent cavities being positioned with respect to each other such that a continuous, non-linear path is formed, the foam having a porosity of at least 45 vol.

Abstract: A cigarett holder has a mouthpiece, a cotton filter, a main pipe, and a filter column. The mouthpiece has a distal periphery flange, a head portion, an inner tube having a through hole, and an enlarged hole communicating with the through hole. The main pipe has a first chamber, a second chamber, an inner click portion, an inner tank, a center hole, and an insertion end inserted in the enlarged hole of the mouthpiece. The cotton filter is inserted in the second chamber of the main pipe. The filter column has an end flange, a recess hole, a vent hole communicating with the recess hole, an annular flange, and a distal pillar. The filter column is inserted in a middle portion of the main pipe.

Abstract: A cigarette holder for extracting tar has first tar extractor with a stick and a first disc with apertures. A second tar extractor has a cylinder fitted to the stick and a second disc provided on one end of the cylinder and fitted in a flue of transparent resin. Smoke collision portions in the flue face the apertures. Smoke is compressed and accelerated when it passes through the apertures and expands again to collide with the smoke collision portions. It then collides with the second disc. Then the smoke is compressed and accelerated when it passes through the outer circumference of the second disc and the flue. Tar is extracted at each stage and the smoke is cooled by the second tar extractor before it reaches a mouth piece of the holder.

Abstract: A pipe assembly is provided to accommodate the specific filter preferences of the pipe smoker. The pipe assembly includes a bowl, a stem and a mouthpiece. A cylindrical mounting aperture extends into the end of the stem remote from the bowl, and a connecting passage joins the mounting aperture to the tobacco receiving cavity in the bowl. The mouthpiece has a proximal end with a passage therein and a distal end that can be slidably received in the mounting aperture of the stem. The mouthpiece further includes a filter receptacle that communicates with the passage extending into the proximal end of the mouthpiece. The filter receptacle is dimensioned to accommodate wide prior art filters. The pipe assembly further includes a tubular filter adapter with an outside diameter for slidable engagement in the filter receptacle and an inside diameter dimensioned to receive narrower pipe filters.

Abstract: Secondary smoke is harmful to passive smokers. A filter sleeve (1) comprises a sleeve (10) with a downstream portion (11) adapted for receiving inhale smoke into an inhalation flow path (13), an upstream portion (12) adapted for inhalation of said inhale smoke and for receiving exhale smoke into an exhalation flow path (14), filter means (15) provided along said exhalation flow path (14), and means (16) for checking reverse flow of ambient air through said exhalation flow path (14). A filter sheath (3) is adapted for overlaying a significant expanse of the sidestream smoke emission areas of a rod of smokable material (7), said filter sheath (3) is sufficiently porous and significantly unimpaired by combustion.

Abstract: A cigarette holder completely encloses the lit end of a cigarette providing purification for both sidestream smoke and mainstream smoke. It has two concentric tubes with the lit cigarette placed in the inner tube and purifying agent placed in the volume between the inner tube and the outer tube. A chimney effect is produced wherein air flows through an air port past the lit cigarette to keep it burning. The sidestream smoke passes through the purifying agent and is discharged into the environment. The filter tip of the lit cigarette extends through a mouthpiece and the smoker exhales smoke through openings in the same mouthpiece. The mainstream smoke passes through the same purifying agent, in a direction opposite to the flow of the sidestream smoke, and is then discharged into the environment.

Abstract: A device for smoking tobacco and the like has a housing having an upper wall and a lower wall, the upper wall mounting an air-permeable membrane communicating with a channel formed between the walls, and the channel being open at an end to the atmosphere. The upper and lower walls are preferably substantially planar and releasably attached together, for example by magnetic means. The air-permeable membrane suitably has a metal gauze mounted in an aperture formed in the upper wall, and the channel is preferably labyrinthine in form.

Abstract: Tobacco cut filler has an extremely high filling capacity. Tobacco cut filler is contacted with tap water under extraction conditions, and resulting aqueous tobacco extract is separated from the water insoluble extracted tobacco material. The extracted tobacco material is contacted with humectant, provided at a desired moisture level, and subjected to volume expansion conditions. Volume expanded extracted tobacco materials are used as smokable materials in cigarette manufacture.

Abstract: According to a smoking device of the present invention, major and a minor smoke streams given out during smoking are temporarily stored in a storage section by means of a forcible sucking device. The storage section is taken out to the outdoors later, and the stored smoke is exhausted. The forcible sucking device comprises fans, a pump, or the like, or it utilizes the gravitational force or spring force.

Abstract: A smoke retention device having a collapsible chamber and an insert threadable into said collapsible chamber for holding a combustible material. A bag is secured over one end of the chamber and held in place by an elastic band. Valve mechanisms allow the user to draw air through the insert said air being directed through the combustible material and exhaling air back to the insert said exhaled air being directed through a second aperture back into the container.

Abstract: A baffle for filtering cigarette smoke is described. The baffle is inserted into commonly available cigarette holders. The cleansing and filtering action of the baffle system is augmented by the throttling of the smoke in successive chambers which were created by the walls of the baffle and the interior of the cigarette holder. The successive chambers are interconnected by orifices.

Abstract: The mouth-piece comprises a tubular body which accommodates a filter element which defines, with the inner walls of the tubular body, a first collection chamber for the combustion products, while a second collection chamber for the condensation products is defined in the same tubular body by a slot which extends into the tubular body and is rigidly connected thereto. The filter element has a nucleus of truncated cone shape, which is completely inserted inside the tubular body and has a face in abutment with the end of a cigarette.

Abstract: A tar removing cigarette holder assembled of a body having a cylindrical bore and a cup portion formed integrally therewith and located in the bore, the cup portion being open toward one end of the bore and defining a first annular space with the bore wall and having at least one partial cut away at the annular open edge thereof and a closed end wall portion, a mouthpiece member attached to the other end of the body, and a partition member inserted into the bore with an annular disk portion tightly engaged with the bore wall so as to close the open end of the cup portion and a central tubular projection extended into the cup portion and defining a second annular space with the cylindrical wall portion of the cup portion, the first and second annular spaces being in communication through the cut away of the cup portion.

Abstract: A cigarette holder and an insert for a conventional cigarette holder, including a first chamber for receiving the butt end of the cigarette and a second chamber for condensing the noxious elements of tobacco smoke. The two chambers are connected by an opening such that the smoke travels from the first chamber to the second chamber. The second chamber has an end plate opposite the opening, but has spaced orifices in its side walls through which the smoke passes. The cross-sectional area of the second chamber is less than the cross-sectional area of the first chamber and increases from the open end to the end plate. The second chamber is designed to create turbulences therein.

Abstract: An improved construction for a cigarette holder and filter cartridge is described wherein the holder has a unique arrangement of cavities for axially receiving a filter cartridge and the end of a cigarette. The filter cartridge is formed with a unique arrangement of surfaces and a conical frustum for reception and retention in the holder. The location and taper of the frustum cooperates with one of the cavities of the holder to provide a flexible binding fit, allowing the cartridge to be retained in the holder during normal use and changes in cigarettes, but removable by simply tapping the end of the holder against a hard supporting surface.

Abstract: A cigarette mouthpiece of substantially cylindrical configuration assembled of two identical semi-cylindrical sections disposed in mutual concavely facing relationship with each longitudinal edge of one section in abuttment with a different one of the longitudinal edges of the other section. When assembled into a mouthpiece, the semi-cylindrical sections cooperate to define a plurality of generally longitudinally extending air ventilation grooves equally spaced from each other around the perimeter of the mouthpiece and a plurality of smoke flow capillaries extending generally longitudinally through the mouthpiece.

Abstract: A cigarette holder substantially made of an integrally formed body member which includes an outer hollow cylindrical portion with both of its ends open, the inner space within which is divided into a radially larger bore and a radially smaller bore by a transverse dividing wall portion, from which an inner cylinder portion extends coaxially for a certain distance into the radially smaller bore so as to define a narrow annular space therebetween. An outer peripheral portion of the dividing wall portion is pierced with a groove which extends axially from the radially larger bore side of the dividing wall portion toward the radially smaller bore beyond the thickness of the dividing wall portion, the groove having a radial depth larger than a half of the difference of the diameters of the radially larger and smaller bores, thereby defining a restriction passage which generates a high speed flow of smoke towards the outer peripheral surface of the inner cylindrical member.

Abstract: Conventional porous labyrinth type filtering is combined with ambient air and conduction of smoke past the filter element in a cigarette holder wherein a selected portion of the tar and nicotine products are to be removed from the cigarette smoke. In its preferred form, a generally cylindrical porous filter element formed with an axial recess opening at one end of the filter is provided with an outwardly extending flange which serves to prevent passage of smoke past the filter when the filter element is fitted into the cylindrical interior of a cigarette holder. The addition of flutes on the exterior surface of the filter element, and of bypass passages formed in the flange, and air inlet openings of the holder itself, provide a unit which can serve as an element of a smoker's withdrawal kit or as a disposable holder for a smoker whose objective is to minimize tar and nicotine intake rather than to withdraw from the smoking habit.

Abstract: A smoking pipe in the form of a round or oval torus is provided having a bowl for the reception of a substance to be smoked at one end and a mouth hole at the opposite end with smoke passages leading from said bowl to said mouth hole on both sides of the torus.

Abstract: A filter for a cigarette has a porous filter rod with a channel extending longitudinally through the filter rod. The end of the channel at the tobacco column of the cigarette is closed by a smoke impervious wall having an orifice therein of a smaller cross-sectional area than the cross-sectional area of the channel to provide flow communication between the tobacco column and the channel. The filter rod can be circumscribed with an air pervious tipping material.

Abstract: The outer shell of a removable smoke filtering cartridge for fitting inside a cigarette holder is formed from two coaxially abutting tubes separated by a wall with a hole. A tubular inner lip around the hole extends into the space within the first tube, a trough being defined around this lip. A cup is mounted within the first tube remote and facing away from the wall, intercepting across the first tube except for one or more narrow spaces defined between the cup and the first tube inner wall. The parts of these narrow spaces nearer the wall communicate to the space between the cup and the wall. One or more small apertures are formed through the side wall of the cup and communicate the space within the cup to the narrow spaces. A disk is mounted across the first tube against the side of the cup remote from the wall.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a filter for removing cigarette smoke particles. The filter is comprised of a housing having an inlet and an outlet. A first diaphragm is positioned adjacent the housing inlet and a second diaphragm is positioned midway along the length of the housing and dividing the filter into forward and rearward chambers. At least one smoke particle condensing surface is positioned within each of the forward and rearward chambers. The smoke particles condensing surface provides additional surface upon which the particles condense after passing through at least the first diaphragm.

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.

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.

Abstract: A smoking pipe consisting of a bowl providing a tobacco chamber and stem having a stem opening connected to the bottom of the tobacco chamber. The wall forming the tobacco chamber has air passages formed in the wall which connect from the upper end of the bowl wall to the bottom of the tobacco chamber where the air passages connect to each other and to the stem opening whereby when the pipe is packed with tobacco and lighted air will be drawn through the air passages to the stem opening and will also be drawn into the body of tobacco below the burning area, where it is mixed with the smoke of the burning tobacco and withdrawn from the tobacco chamber through the stem opening.

Abstract: A filtered cigarette including a forward portion, a strainer and a filter, in which the filter is of molded plastic, having one or a plurality of surfaces provided with interconnected channels which provide long and tortuous paths through which the air-smoke mixture passes.In one embodiment, the passageway of the filter is around the periphery of a hollow cylindrical core, covered by paper. This passageway comprises a plurality of circumferentially disposed axially spaced grooves interconnected by axially extending connector channels. Islands or abutments at the discharge ends of certain air-smoke channels abruptly change the direction of flow of air-smoke mixture and separate it into separate streams which eventually are recombined.Another embodiment includes a flat wafer core inserted into a cylindrical housing which covers the transverse and longitudinal channels formed in both sides of the wafer.