Abstract: Devices and methods for vaporizing active ingredients of a selected substance for inhalation using a portable vaporization device are provided herein. In certain aspects, the device includes a portable power source, a heating portion, an inhalation sensor, a temperature sensor, a distal light source, and a grinding portion. In response to an inhalation by a user, the power source energizes a heating element of the heating portion so as to heat air flow to a desired vaporization temperature within a few seconds of detecting inhalation, using convection and radiative heating. The device may include a receptacle for receiving a cartridge containing a pre-prepared substance, such as a liquid, gel, powder, or solid brick, and a grinding portion to allow a user to grind intact portions of cellulose-based material into smaller pieces to facilitate vaporization by manually rotating portions of the device relative to each other.

Abstract: Embodiments include an electronic smoking device that produces authentic smoke and ash by incinerating smoking material placed directly onto a heating source that obtains a high temperature. This heat could also be harnessed for warmth or lighting cigars and cigarettes. The device may be an electronic pipe with a housing compartment, a power source, an atomizer heating source, a mouthpiece, a power trigger, a charger, and airflow ducts. The heating source may include one or more filaments that get heated in the burnable material compartment. The device may be conical in shape as to be a compatible water-pipe accessory. The housing may include several separable sections, including a battery housing and a burn housing that may separate from each other. The device may include adapters including plugged bifurcated adapters, to mitigate leaking from burn housing into the battery adapter, a ceramic dish, and insulation.

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: Disclosed herein is a hookah accessory comprising: a top tray configured to hold tobacco; a bottom tray configured to hold hot coal; a hollow tube in fluid communication with the top tray; and attachment means for attaching the accessory to the hookah.

Abstract: A smoking apparatus for vaporizing a smoking product such as tobacco and herb products. The smoking apparatus is preferably made entirely out of glass. The smoking apparatus comprises a bowl at a first end that receives the smoking product through an open top end, a screen support area immediately below the bowl having one or more screen supports, a product support pellet that rests on the screen supports to support the smoking product, a hollow stem in fluid flow communication with the bowl to allow the user to draw vapor from the bowl and a diffuser removably received in the open top end of the bowl for diffusing heat across the smoking product to vaporize it. The diffuser has a diffusing element made out of the frit. No metal contacts the product, vapor or user. The smoking apparatus can be a pipe or an adapter for a water pipe.

Abstract: A smoker's pipe comprises a tubular member having a tobacco-retaining concavity at the front end. A plurality of evenly spaced cutting teeth form the edge of the concavity, such that a supply of tobacco can be cut for retention in the concavity. An opening extends from the bottom of the concavity to the rear end of the tubular member.

Abstract: A device for minimizing cigarette sidestream smoke and reducing the free-burn rate of a burning cigarette, the device comprises: I) a non-combustible tubular element (12) encasing an effective length of a tobacco charge (22) of a cigarette (14) located in a tubular element; and II) the tubular element having a means for both minimizing sidestream smoke emission from a burning tobacco charge and reducing free-burn rate of such burning tobacco charge to increase the number of puffs from the burning tobacco charge.

Abstract: A cigar or cigarette holder that inserts into the spare-tee-holding-holes found in the plastic molded dashboards of most golf carts. It has a tapered-shaped-segment (12) that is pushed into said spare-tee-holding-holes until it is securely held. At a variable angle from said tapered end is the smoking article holding segment (10) that is designed so as to hold different sized smoking articles.

Abstract: A smoking pipe formed of a spherical body having a top cavity for receiving combustibles, a shank tube receiving cavity, and a mouthpiece tube receiving cavity. An air passage connects the shank tube receiving cavity and the top cavity, and an air passage connects the mouthpiece tube receiving cavity to an exit hole at a lower portion of the spherical body. The shank tube is inserted into the shank tube receiving cavity and the mouthpiece tube is inserted into the mouthpiece tube receiving cavity. The spherical body, when placed over a standard beverage bottle such that the shank tube extends into the bottle interior, forms a substantially air tight seal with the inner rim of the bottle top. Operation as a water pipe is thereby effected.

Abstract: A system for heating a cigarette to evolve an aerosol upon consumer request comprises a cigarette and a lighter. The lighter includes a housing into which the cigarette is inserted, and a stationary heater inside the housing is positioned in thermal proximity to the cigarette. The cigarette is rotatably mounted inside the housing. When a puff is desired, heat is applied to the cigarette to produce the aerosol. Prior to the next puff, the cigarette is slightly rotated to position a fresh portion of the cigarette in proximity to the stationary heater, and this procedure is repeated until the cigarette is spent.

Abstract: A smoking device is provided having a tubular safety shield to inhibit the ability of a rod-like smoking tobacco element from igniting other articles with which the device may come into contact. The safety shield includes a multiplicity of projections that extend relatively inward to engage with a tobacco element and support it in coaxially spaced relationship to the wall of the tubular shield, thereby resulting in an annular chamber enabling essentially uninhibited and free circulation of air. Forming of the projections results in the concurrent formation of the like number of apertures in the shield wall with these apertures effectively disposed to face in a generally axial direction relative to the longitudinal axis of the shield while enabling free airflow.

Abstract: A key chain pipe assembly having a bowl, stem, and storage container which forms a cylinder when assembled in one mode for attaching to a key chain or the like and the parts can be disassembled and reassembled in another mode to form a pipe for smoking.

Abstract: Jewelry smoking devices are described which are in the form of ornamental pipe members suitable for being worn as items of jewelry. Each smoking device has a tobacco receiving portion for receiving smoking tobacco for the purpose of burning the same, and conduit means for carrying smoke from the tobacco receiving portion to a mouthpiece. The devices are in the general forms of pipe rings, pipe bracelets, and the like, and are decorative as well as being functional pipes which can be smoked as normal pipes are or while worn as items of jewelry.

Abstract: A smoking pipe having improved smoking characteristics. The smoking pipe includes a bowl having top and bottom openings and a breather hole near the top opening and in communication with a pipe stem. A cover assembly is attached to the bowl adjacent to the top opening and covers the top opening when the pipe is to be smoked. A retainer having a screen cooperates with the bottom opening for retaining smoking tobacco within the bowl while permitting access to the tobacco for the ignition thereof. The retainer may also be removed from its position relative to the bottom opening for the removal of ashes.Tobacco is inserted into the bowl via either opening, but preferably via the top opening and to a level just below the breather hole. With the cover assembly covering the top opening, the tobacco is ignited via the screen of the retainer, causing combustion of the tobacco in a bottom-to-top fashion.

Abstract: An anti-pollution combustion device has a bowl in the interior of which is located, above the connection between the bowl and stem, a perforated metal disc so that the tobacco rests on the same. The outside of the bowl is formed with circumferentially extending cooling ribs. The inside of the bowl is lined with a material which prevents the wood of the bowl from charring. In the smoke passage of the stem is incorporated a filter which can be changed when it is saturated with contaminants. Near the rear end of the stem there is provided a trap with a reservoir in which liquid is trapped and accumulated so that from time to time it can be discharged from the reservoir. The rear end of the stem is provided with a mouthpiece having an annular member projecting transversely of the elongation of the stem and large enough to securely retain the mouthpiece between the teeth of a user, even if the user should have false teeth.

Abstract: A power-operated smoking device comprising a housing having a bowl adapted to receive a cup therein, wherein the tobacco to be smoked is placed in the removable cup. Positioned adjacent the bowl and communicating therewith is an air chamber through which air is drawn from the bowl portion by a fan mechanism, the smoke then being forced through the outlet stem of the pipe. The housing also includes a lower body section arranged to receive the fan motor and a power supply unit, the outlet stem being arranged to support an extended mouthpiece whereby a person directly receives the smoke therefrom.

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.

Abstract: A liquid filtered smoking device including a container having an opening, hollow at one end thereof, and having a liquid filtering medium therein, and a hollow, preferably cylindrical, tube, open at both ends, inserted through the peripheral wall of the container such that the lower end of the tube is immersed within the liquid filtering medium while the upper end of the tube projects outwardly from the container. A smoking bowl, having smoking tobacco deposited therein is secured upon the upper end of the tube and a filter is adapted to be inserted within the bowl in order to prevent tobacco ash and unburnt or partially burnt tobacco particles from passing through the tube and into the liquid filtering medium. The bowl may be either of the reversible or non-reversible type and the filter may be utilized in conjunction with both types of bowls.