Bowls Patents (Class 131/226)
  • Patent number: 10750783
    Abstract: A titanium alloy nail for use in connection with the volatilization of concentrate, including cannabis extract. The nail interchanges with various standardized male and female grounded joints. The components of the nail may are detachably threadable to one another and configurable to adapt to fit any number of a multitude of configurations, including ten standardized joints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Inventor: Andrew Zayach
  • Patent number: 10391540
    Abstract: A bowl forming device may include a mandrel sleeve, a stem mandrel, and a bowl mandrel. The mandrel sleeve may comprise a stem cavity, a bowl mating surface, and a sleeve surface. The stem mandrel may comprise a stem surface and a neck. The bowl mandrel may comprise a neck mating surface and a bowl surface. The device may be transitioned into and out of a nested position, in which the bowl mandrel may be mated with both the mandrel sleeve and the stem mandrel so that the stem mandrel may be received within the stem cavity and the sleeve mating surface contacts the bowl mating surface, to facilitate travel and storage of the device. A method of forming a smoking bowl using a bowl forming device is provided which includes the steps of forming a sheet of malleable material against the mandrel sleeve, stem mandrel, and bowl mandrel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Inventor: Kevin Gerstenslager
  • Patent number: 9788576
    Abstract: An electronic cigarette, and a battery rod and an atomizer thereof are provided in the present application. The battery rod includes a battery rod body, and an air passage of the battery rod body is provided with a waterproof breathable component which cooperates with the air passage and is configured to prevent water from entering into the battery rod body via the air passage, and the atomizer includes an atomizer body, a smoke passage of the atomizer body is provided with a waterproof breathable component which cooperates with the smoke passage and is configured to prevent water from entering into the atomizer body via the smoke passage. Besides of ensuring the breathability of both the air passage and the smoke passage, the waterproof breathable component may also prevent external liquid from entering into the battery rod and the atomizer, thus the waterproof performance of the electronic cigarette is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: HUIZHOU KIMREE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. SHENZHEN
    Inventor: Qiuming Liu
  • Publication number: 20150144146
    Abstract: An example smoking apparatus for use with smoking materials in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure includes a mouthpiece, a bowl piece, and an inner tube, connecting the mouthpiece and the bowl piece. The smoking apparatus comprises an ejection mechanism to eject used smoking materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2013
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Inventor: Ryan Daniel Selby
  • Publication number: 20150107607
    Abstract: The present invention includes a hookah bowl with structurally integrated means for retaining foil upon the hookah bowl. The means may include recesses or protrusions. When foil is positioned on the bowl and intercalated therein, the foil is more stably retained on the hookah bowl.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2013
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Inventor: Nizar Mehio
  • Publication number: 20150075544
    Abstract: The invention relates to a water pipe head (2) comprising a capsule (12) including smokable material (10), a first sealing element (6) being detachably attached to a first surface of the capsule and a second sealing element (3) being detachably attached to a second surface of the capsule for sealing the capsule, a guiding element (8) having a first opening in which the capsule is held, an opposing second opening and an intermediate passage connecting the first opening and the second opening, and a longish element (7) being attached to the first sealing element and extending from the first sealing element (6) through the intermediate passage and through the second opening to the outside of the guiding element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Applicant: The Shisha Company Limited
    Inventors: Michael Portz, Willem Stephanus Malherbe
  • Publication number: 20140326257
    Abstract: Disclosed is a prepackaged smokable material capsule, comprising a container having an internal volume that allows a user to place a packaged amount of shisha or similar tobacco product into a hookah bowl without physical contact therewith. The capsule has a removable seal, an inlet, outlet and an internal agitator means within the capsule. The seal removably covers its upper inlet and lower outlet prior to use. Once removed, the inlet and outlet are preferably pre-perforated, or alternatively may then be perforated by a user, prior to a layer of coals be placed thereonto for burning the capsule contents and allowing smoke to be drawn therefrom. The imbedded agitator provides a means to control the density of the capsule contents and prevent clumping to ensure free flowing passage of air therethrough. Also disclosed is a capsule retainment system comprising a hookah bowl and capsule clamp.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2012
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Applicant: SHISHAPRESSO S.A.L.
    Inventors: Samer Jalloul, Georges El Hajj, Nabil Jaber
  • Patent number: 8851082
    Abstract: The vaporizer assembly includes a nail sub-assembly formed of a high rate of heat transfer material and an adapter assembly formed of a lower rate of heat transfer material. The nail sub-assembly includes a bowl at an upper end and a shaft extending down from the bowl. The shaft has a hollow bore passing therethrough. The nail sub-assembly is preferably formed of a titanium alloy which can be heated to high temperatures without damage thereto. The adapter has a hollow core sized to receive the shaft of the nail therein. The nail is preferably threaded along with portions of the adapter to facilitate height adjustability of the nail relative to the adapter. Lower portions of the adapter are configured to mate with a water pipe inlet tube or other downstream vapor handling device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Inventor: Kevin D. Carney
  • Patent number: 8813758
    Abstract: The present invention is a combined smoking/vaporizing, grinding and storage implement used for inhaling burning or vaporized herb, tobacco or other plant material. The implement has an end around which serrated saw like teeth are located. The serrated teeth are bent slightly inward. When the implement is placed in a container of herb, tobacco or other plant material and is torqued, the teeth grind it into smaller pieces that are caught within the teeth such that the ground material eventually can fill up a compartment located within the implement and are enclosed therein by the teeth. An alternate embodiment further comprises a filter on the inhalation end for filtering the smoke or vapor caused by the burning or vaporizing of the ground material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Inventor: Jonathan S Braveman
  • Publication number: 20140026902
    Abstract: The invention relates to a tobacco head for a water pipe. Known tobacco heads of this type break easily during cleaning or if the water pipe tips over. The problem of further developing such a tobacco head so that it is not destroyed so easily during the cleaning process is solved in that the tobacco head consists of a flexible elastically yielding material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2013
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Inventor: Ibrahim DABES
  • 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: 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
  • Patent number: 8490630
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Inventors: Daniel Fadi Boutros, Saliba Faraj Boutros, Haik Kaloutian, Artur Gioubalyan
  • Publication number: 20130146074
    Abstract: An enclosed smoking device including a dome sealingly engageable with a base member, and a solid bowl sealingly engageable with a socket extending through the base member, the bowl being heatable from the exterior of the device. The assembly of dome, base member, and bowl define an enclosed interior space to prevent the escape of smoke or vapor produced by the heating of a smokable material in the bowl. The dome further includes a choke and a non-projecting integrated mouthpiece. A method of using an enclosed smoking device wherein no smoke or vapor is permitted to escape from the device during the smoking operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2012
    Publication date: June 13, 2013
    Applicant: HK Industries LLC
    Inventors: Anthony Virga, Mitchell Schikora
  • Publication number: 20120118306
    Abstract: A hookah bowl, hookah utilized the hookah bowl, and process for using a hookah is disclosed. The hookah bowl includes two principal members, a bowl shell and an adjustable bowl burner that alters its position within the bowl shell. The bowl burner may adjust its position longitudinall, radially, or both.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2010
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Inventor: Nizar Mehio
  • Publication number: 20110308538
    Abstract: An edible pipe includes a bowl, a stem, and a mouthpiece manufactured by a process that includes forming a patty having an approximately rectangular shape. The process includes cooking the patty, and rolling the cooked patty into a cylindrical shape by inserting the cooked patty into a rolling device having a cylindrical wall with a closed end. The cylindrical wall defines an interior volume of the rolling device and includes an opening along a length of the cylindrical wall for receiving the cooked patty. The rolling device includes a shaft mounted to the closed end. The shaft runs through the interior volume of the rolling device. Rolling the cooked patty includes winding the cooked patty around the shaft of the rolling device, and removing the rolled cooked patty from the rolling device. The process includes forming a bend in the rolled cooked patty to form the edible pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2010
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Inventors: Quinten Jarvis, Tim Rael
  • Publication number: 20110162663
    Abstract: A smoking device having an integrated lighter, a bowl for holding an igniteable vegetable product, and a duct for drawing smoke like a pipe. The device consists of an ignition switch located on the side of the pipe in natural proximity to the thumb, a piezo-electric ignition system, a flammable gas delivery system, a bowl for holding smoking material, and an aperature for drawing the smoke emitted from the ignited vegetable product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2011
    Publication date: July 7, 2011
    Inventor: GARY BRYMAN
  • Patent number: 7350523
    Abstract: A cigar shaped tobacco smoking pipe having a draw piece (14) with a band (12) adapted by proper sizing or screw thread to receive either end of a bowl piece (16). A bore (18) communicates with a smoking cavity (20), a chamber (10), and a draw piece (14). Both ends of the detachable bowl piece (16) are identically adapted, in any number of ways, including by identical tapers or screw threads to insert into the band (12). The pipe may be smoked with pieces assembled either way.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2008
    Inventor: Kenneth Alan Erickson
  • Publication number: 20040173223
    Abstract: A pressure-sharing and burning-enhancing structure for tobacco bowl of a smoking pipe includes a pressure-sharing member that is positioned or formed inside the tobacco bowl of the smoking pipe with the pressure-sharing member occupying a fragmental portion of the cross-sectional area of the tobacco bowl whereby in vertically and downward stuffing tobacco into the bowl, the pressure-sharing member effectively shares the vertical pressure applied to the tobacco in order to prevent the portion of the tobacco adjacent the bottom of the bowl from excessive depression and accumulation of humidity therein and consequently resulting in more complete burning of the tobacco inside the tobacco bowl and realizing pressure-sharing and burning-enhancing of the bottom portion of the tobacco.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2003
    Publication date: September 9, 2004
    Inventor: Fang-Ping Hu
  • Patent number: 6745777
    Abstract: A tobacco filter device includes a plurality of filter units superimposedly rechargeably filled in a sleeve member, having a bowl member connected to an outer end (smoking end) of the sleeve member and a mouthpiece connected to an inner end (mouth end) of the sleeve member, whereby upon smoking of tobacco or a cigarette as loaded or inserted in the bowl portion, the filter unit or units positioned on an outer portion of the sleeve member adjacent to the smoking end, after being saturated with smoking waste including tar and nicotine, may be pushed outwardly and discarded from the outer end of the sleeve member as thrusted and urged by a fresh (new) filter unit (or units) as recharged into the inner (mouth) end of the sleeve member, thereby still keeping use of those filter units not yet saturated and loaded in the rear portion of the sleeve member, without wasting the useful filter units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2004
    Inventor: Te-San Liu
  • Patent number: 6715494
    Abstract: A method of using a two-piece smoking pipe vaporization chamber with directed heat intake is disclosed comprising applying a material from which vapor is to be extracted over the surface of a lower screen member. The method further comprises forming a vaporization chamber by combining a lower chamber member and an upper chamber member and coupling the vaporization chamber with a delivery vessel. The method also includes adjusting a heat gun to a predetermined temperature and inserting a discharge nozzle of the heat gun into the upper chamber member. The method includes warming the material from which vapor is to be extracted to cause a vapor to be extracted from the material from which vapor is to be extracted and inhaling the vapor from the delivery vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2004
    Inventor: Mark Scott McCoy
  • Patent number: 6601586
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2003
    Inventor: Mark Herrick
  • Publication number: 20020139380
    Abstract: A combination smoking pipe/golf putter consisting of a smoking pipe being machined into the head of the device, a suitable ball striking area being machined into the side of the club head, and a suitable shaft and grip being installed into the pipe/club head. This will allow golfers to smoke their favorite combustible material while on the golf course without having to bring a separate smoking device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2001
    Publication date: October 3, 2002
    Inventors: Jason Heffner, Jon Thomas Youngblood
  • 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: 6354301
    Abstract: A two-piece smoking pipe vaporization chamber with directed heat intake is disclosed. The two-piece smoking pipe vaporization chamber with directed heat intake comprises a lower chamber member having a bowl portion formed therein to hold materials from which vapor is to be extracted. The bowl portion communicates with a vapor intake conduit at a vapor intake orifice thereof disposed below the bowl portion. The vapor intake conduit is adapted to mate with a smoking pipe conduit. A lower screen member is disposed in the bowl portion of the lower chamber member over the vapor intake orifice. An upper chamber member is adapted to mate with the lower chamber portion in a substantially air-tight manner to form a vaporization chamber. The upper chamber member includes a generally-conical-shaped heat intake conduit communicating therewith and is disposed at an off-axis angle and has a heat intake orifice at a distal end thereof. The upper chamber member is adapted to accept output from a heat source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2002
    Inventor: Mark Scott McCoy
  • Publication number: 20010039953
    Abstract: A two-piece smoking pipe vaporization chamber with directed heat intake and vapor tube extending in a manner easily adaptable to be compatible with and used in conjunction with common smoking pipe designs currently in use by replacing the standard smoking pipe bowl used for smoking. Temperature controlled hot air flow from a widely available heat gun aimed into the directed heat intake is used to enable the controlled heating of the commonly smoked materials until the active constituents reach their boiling, or vaporization points and are vaporized out of the plant material and delivered in a manner preferred over the combustion of such commonly smoked materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 1999
    Publication date: November 15, 2001
    Inventor: MARK SCOTT MCCOY
  • Patent number: 6073632
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2000
    Inventor: Jacopo Tolja
  • Patent number: 5832935
    Abstract: A tobacco storage and smoking apparatus includes a housing having a first chamber which receives smoking materials such as tobacco and is covered by a cover including a bowl recess with a side passageway extending from the bowl recess to one end of the cover. The housing has a second chamber on an opposite side of the housing from the first chamber removably containing a stem having a through passageway and intended to be assembled to the cover to create a smoking pipe. The second chamber is downwardly open and may be closed by a further cover. If desired, the second chamber may contain a spring recess partially receiving a coil spring which biases the stem toward a direction of removal from the second chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 10, 1998
    Assignee: New Tradition Pipe Co.
    Inventor: Randolph A. Heine
  • Patent number: 5778896
    Abstract: A pipe for use in smoking tobacco including a hollow stem having a mouth end structured as a small tool socket for grasping nuts and bolt heads, and for holding a removable screw driver rod. A tobacco bowl at the opposite end of the stem includes a sidewall defining an open mouth with the sidewall structured as a tool socket. The pipe can be stored by insertion into an elongated tubular hollow housing having a relatively large tool socket at one end, and a smaller tool socket at the opposite end in a sidewall of the housing. In a sidewall of the housing adjacent to the smaller socket is a receiving notch with inward extending lips. The pipe bowl extends 90 degrees to the stem and includes multiple grooves on its exterior surface to allow the bowl to be inserted into and grasped by the receiving notch lips to define a generally L-shaped or T-shaped overall tool shape for grasping by hand for use of the included sockets and screw driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 14, 1998
    Inventors: Robert L. Seals, Michael J. Okoniewski
  • Patent number: 5746226
    Abstract: Grooved pipes incorporating a bowl tobacco bore communicating with a groove, the groove communicating with a bowl smoke bore through a bowl smoke bore mouth, and a method of filling a pipe with tobacco. Groove configurations may include a V-groove or an attic groove. The method of filling includes the steps of filling a pipe loosely with tobacco, tamping the tobacco in a direction opposite the bowl smoke bore mouth, repeating as necessary, and then pressing down on a center of tobacco within the bowl tobacco bore until slight effort is required to draw on the pipe. In addition, a cylindrical tobacco insert having a tobacco insert plenum is disclosed. The tobacco insert may rest on a bowl tobacco bore ledge, or on a conical bowl tobacco bore lower surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 5, 1998
    Inventor: George M. Beaver
  • Patent number: 5678573
    Abstract: An improved smoking pipe comprising a bowl having a central generally cylindrical bore open at both ends of said bowl with a closable lid mounted on the top of said bowl and a stem projecting from the wall of said bowl and communicating with said central bore of said bowl, which allows the smoker to light the bottom of the load of tobacco and creates a natural updraft through the burning tobacco to cause complete combustion of the entire load of tobacco without the necessity of frequent relighting and preventing the accumulation of moisture, tar and the like within the pipe bowl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 21, 1997
    Inventor: Edward G. Aldin, Sr.
  • Patent number: 5417227
    Abstract: A smoker's pipe (10) has a section (22) which is rotatable relative to a section (66). A combustion chamber is formed by and between the two sections (22, 66). A tobacco holder (36) or a cigarette (C) is located within the pipe(10). A movable portion of a lighter unit (44) is moved axially inwardly of the pipe (10) while a mouthpiece (12) at the opposite end of the pipe (10) is within the user's mouth. This movement of the lighter unit part creates a flame (F) which is directed axially inwardly into the pipe bowl, to ignite the tobacco (T) within the tobacco holder (36) or a cigarette (C) in place of the tobacco holder (36). When it is desired to extinguish combustion, pipe section (22) is rotated relative to pipe section (66). This closes off air supply openings (16) and air supply passageways (42). The user can continue smoking the pipe (10) until combustion is completely extinguished.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 23, 1995
    Inventor: Keith H. West
  • Patent number: 4870979
    Abstract: A smoker's pipe has a plastics bowl (17) and stem (16) and, within the bowl, a ceramic liner (18) having a flange (19) which overlies the rim of the bowl, and is secured thereto by a resilient ring (29) of adhesive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1987
    Date of Patent: October 3, 1989
    Assignee: Gallaher Limited
    Inventors: Shane C. Browning, Robert Carlisle, Alexander H. Wright
  • 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: 4730626
    Abstract: A smoker's pipe that includes a hollow shank, a bowl assembly mounted at one end of the shank and a bit connected to the other end of the shank. The pipe also comprises in one embodiment a flow separator which respectively directs the smoke and liquid components of the smoke fluid into a gaseous smoke conduit and a liquid conduit, part of each conduit being in the shank and part of each conduit being in the bit. Also included is a rotatable connector that sealingly connects the two parts of each conduit together, yet also permits relative rotation of the bit and shank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 1986
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1988
    Inventor: Edward H. Calkins
  • Patent number: 4708151
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a smoking article which has the appearance of a conventional pipe. The pipe of the present invention is capable of producing substantial quantities of aerosol, preferably without significant thermal degradation of the aerosol former and without the presence of substantial pyrolysis or incomplete combustion products.These and other advantages are obtained by providing a pipe which includes a disposable cartridge containing a short, i.e., less than about 30 mm long, preferably carbonaceous, fuel element, a physically separate aerosol generating means including an aerosol forming substance, and means for retaining the cartridge within the pipe bowl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 1986
    Date of Patent: November 24, 1987
    Assignee: R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
    Inventor: Gary R. Shelar
  • Patent number: 4648411
    Abstract: A tobacco pipe bowl wherein the interior burning chamber is larger at its bottom base than at its top where the bowl opening is located. Furthermore, associated with the tobacco pipe bowl there is associated a honing tool to clean the tobacco pipe bowl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 1983
    Date of Patent: March 10, 1987
    Inventor: Ronald D. Planesi
  • Patent number: 4577645
    Abstract: An improved smoker's pipe of the dry bowl type. The pipe is comprised of a hollow stem having a mouthpiece mounted at one end and a bowl assembly mounted at the other end. In one embodiment of the pipe the bowl assembly includes an outer bowl removably mounted on the stem and concentrically spaced around an inner, combustion bowl. The outer bowl has an upper cylindrical portion and a lower skirt portion with a notch therein for removably receiving the stem portion. The combustion bowl has a lower, centrally located vertical smoke hole in communication with a short, longitudinally extending passageway located below the smoke hole. The passageway is in fluid communication with the stem and its short length results in minimal fluid accumulation therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 1981
    Date of Patent: March 25, 1986
    Inventor: Edward H. Calkins
  • Patent number: 4527571
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 1983
    Date of Patent: July 9, 1985
    Inventor: Spasa Djukic
  • Patent number: 4452258
    Abstract: A pipe smoker's container or case comprises a container having secured therein holding means for securing detachable pipe bowls from detachable smoker's pipes of the type having a pipe stem detachable from or adapted to be attached to the pipe bowl. The pipe bowls each are provided with a tobacco or other smoking material receiving chamber open at both ends and adapted to be secured within the container in position perpendicular to the bottom of the container and in secure engagement with means secured to or provided by the interior of the container lid, whereby the pipe bowls are secured and sealed while carried in the container. A bottom draw-hole of the bowl is adapted to be closed by means carried by the bottom of the container. The tobacco or other smoking material receiving chamber in the bowl may be prefilled with tobacco or other smoking material and the prepacked tobacco or other smoking material prevented by the holding means and lid means from spillage during carrying of the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1982
    Date of Patent: June 5, 1984
    Inventor: Walter J. Manns
  • Patent number: 4411095
    Abstract: A pipe shaped device is provided including a bowl and an elongated hollow pipe stem having a mouth insertable portion at one end, a passage extending longitudinally thereof and with the other stem end formed integrally with and opening into a lower portion of the interior of the bowl. An apertured insert or cover extends across the interior of the bowl for retaining particulate bar soap material to be mixed with water in the bowl and for creating bubbles when air is forced through the mixture and the openings in the apertured insert or cover. The bowl includes an external annular groove seatingly receiving an annular shield and the shield functions to retain the down flow of soap bubbles exiting from the top of the bowl. Particulate soap material is received and collected in the bowl by scraping bar soap thereacross. A threadedly secured member within the bowl secures the apertured insert in place.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 1982
    Date of Patent: October 25, 1983
    Assignees: Rosemary E. Boelke, Art Boelke
    Inventors: Wilford A. Rushing, Barbara R. Rushing
  • Patent number: 4362169
    Abstract: A smoker's pipe of the dry bowl type is disclosed which has a ceramic inner bowl secured at its lower end to the lower end of an outer plastic bowl in a manner to space the bowls radially apart for the establishment of a cooling air space between the bowls. The pipe has a stem provided with an auxiliary fresh air inlet that is in communication with one end of a horizontal longitudinally extending passageway located in the bottom of the inner bowl below the combustion chamber and in communication therewith. The other end of the passageway is in communication with a cooling chamber to communicate smoke from the inner bowl to a mouthpiece fitted in the outer end of the stem. The mouthpiece has an insert cluster containing a smoke passage tube and a liquid contaminant tube, the latter of which is received within the open end of a liquid absorber mounted on a plug that is frictionally fitted in a bore formed in the front end of the stem below the bowl assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 1980
    Date of Patent: December 7, 1982
    Inventor: Edward H. Calkins
  • Patent number: 4300578
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 1979
    Date of Patent: November 17, 1981
    Inventor: George Gershbein
  • 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: 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: 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: 4243058
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 1974
    Date of Patent: January 6, 1981
    Inventor: George Gershbein
  • Patent number: 4213469
    Abstract: A smoker's pipe includes a hollow pipe body configured to define a hollow bowl seat portin and a hollow stem portion, a thin metal support bowl positioned within the hollow bowl seat portion, a clay tobacco-burning bowl positioned within the thin metal support bowl, a protecting ring for preventing chipping of the lip of the clay bowl, and a mouthpiece connected to the hollow stem portion of the pipe body opposite the end thereof connected to the hollow bowl seat portion. The pipe body is fabricated by soldering together two mirror-image half sections which have themselves been stamp-formed around wooden models. The mouthpiece can advantageously include a valve for preventing moisture (saliva) from passing through the mouthpiece back into the pipe body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 1979
    Date of Patent: July 22, 1980
    Inventor: George S. Ramsay
  • Patent number: 4210160
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 1979
    Date of Patent: July 1, 1980
    Inventor: Anton E. Wunsche
  • 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