U.S. patent application number 12/074366 was filed with the patent office on 2009-09-03 for self-lighting smoking tool.
This patent application is currently assigned to Zreative Product, Inc.. Invention is credited to Hui Lin Chen.
Application Number | 20090217933 12/074366 |
Document ID | / |
Family ID | 41012229 |
Filed Date | 2009-09-03 |
United States Patent
Application |
20090217933 |
Kind Code |
A1 |
Chen; Hui Lin |
September 3, 2009 |
Self-lighting smoking tool
Abstract
A self-light smoking tool includes a portable inhaler tube
having an inhaling end, an opposed lighter-adapter end, and a
treatment chamber for receiving a smoking element therein. A
lighter includes a flame producing portion detachably coupling with
the lighter-adapter end of the inhaler tube. The inhaler tube
further includes a plurality of ventilating slots spacedly formed
at a surrounding wall at a position closed to the lighter-adapter
end. Therefore, the self-light smoking tool is extremely portable
and has its own lighter such that the user is able to always carry
a self-lighting smoking tool with him for smoking purpose.
Inventors: |
Chen; Hui Lin; (El Monte,
CA) |
Correspondence
Address: |
DAVID AND RAYMOND PATENT FIRM
108 N. YNEZ AVE., SUITE 128
MONTEREY PARK
CA
91754
US
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Assignee: |
Zreative Product, Inc.
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Family ID: |
41012229 |
Appl. No.: |
12/074366 |
Filed: |
March 3, 2008 |
Current U.S.
Class: |
131/185 |
Current CPC
Class: |
A24F 42/10 20200101 |
Class at
Publication: |
131/185 |
International
Class: |
A24F 3/00 20060101
A24F003/00 |
Claims
1. A self-lighting smoking tool, comprising: a portable inhaler
tube having an inhaling end, an opposed lighter-adapter end, and a
treatment chamber for receiving a smoking element therein; and a
lighter having a flame producing portion detachably coupling with
said lighter-adapter end of said inhaler tube, wherein said lighter
is adapted for controllably producing a flame at said flame
producing portion towards said treatment chamber to burn said
smoking element therein, such that once a smoke is generated, said
smoke is inhaled at said inhaling end of said inhaler tube.
2. The self-lighting smoking tool, as recited in claim 1, wherein
said inhaler tube further contains a plurality of ventilating slots
spacedly formed at a surrounding wall at a position closed to said
lighter-adapter end, wherein each of said ventilating slots is a
through slot not only for releasing excessive heat from said
lighter when said flame is generated to said treatment chamber but
also for enabling ambient air entering into said treatment chamber
when said smoke is inhaled at said inhaling end of said inhaler
tube.
3. The self-lighting smoking tool, as recited in claim 2, wherein
said inhaler tube has an elongated structure that said inhaling end
is coaxially aligned with said lighter-adapter end.
4. The self-lighting smoking tool, as recited in claim 1, wherein
said inhaler tube comprises a bottom filtering net mounted therein
as a bottom wall of said treatment chamber for preventing said
smoking element falling to said flame producing portion of said
lighter.
5. The self-lighting smoking tool, as recited in claim 3, wherein
said inhaler tube comprises a bottom filtering net mounted therein
as a bottom wall of said treatment chamber for preventing said
smoking element falling to said flame producing portion of said
lighter.
6. The self-lighting smoking tool, as recited in claim 4, wherein
said inhaler tube comprises an upper filtering net mounted therein
as an upper wall of said treatment chamber for retaining said
smoking element between said upper and bottom filtering nets.
7. The self-lighting smoking tool, as recited in claim 5, wherein
said inhaler tube comprises an upper filtering net mounted therein
as an upper wall of said treatment chamber for retaining said
smoking element between said upper and bottom filtering nets.
8. The self-lighting smoking tool, as recited in claim 1, wherein
said inhaler tube comprises a tubular inhaling guider defining said
inhaling end and said treatment chamber thereat, and a tubular
lighter guider which is defining said lighter-adapter end thereat
and is detachably and coaxially coupling with said inhaling guider
end-to-end.
9. The self-lighting smoking tool, as recited in claim 5, wherein
said inhaler tube comprises a tubular inhaling guider defining said
inhaling end and said treatment chamber thereat, and a tubular
lighter guider which is defining said lighter-adapter end thereat
and is detachably and coaxially coupling with said inhaling guider
end-to-end.
10. The self-lighting smoking tool, as recited in claim 9, wherein
said ventilating slots are spacedly formed at said surrounding wall
of said lighter guider at a position that said ventilating slots
are located below said bottom filtering net.
11. The self-lighting smoking tool, as recited in claim 10, wherein
said upper and bottom filtering nets are formed at said inhaling
guider and said lighter guider respectively.
12. The self-lighting smoking tool, as recited in claim 1, wherein
said inhaler tube has an inner threaded portion provided at said
lighter-adapter end, wherein said lighter has an outer threaded
portion provided at said flame producing portion to detachably
engage with said inner thread portion of said inhaler tube so as to
coaxially couple said lighter with said inhaler tube.
13. The self-lighting smoking tool, as recited in claim 11, wherein
said inhaler tube has an inner threaded portion provided at said
lighter-adapter end, wherein said lighter has an outer threaded
portion provided at said flame producing portion to detachably
engage with said inner thread portion of said inhaler tube so as to
coaxially couple said lighter with said inhaler tube.
14. The self-lighting smoking tool, as recited in claim 1, wherein
said lighter, which is a piezoelectric-type lighter, comprises an
elongated lighter casing and a flame nozzle extended to a top end
of said lighter casing to define said flame producing portion of
said lighter, wherein when said top end of said lighter casing is
detachably coupled with said lighter-adapter end of said inhaler
tube, said lighter is controllably actuated to produce a torch
flame towards said treatment chamber of said inhaler tube.
15. The self-lighting smoking tool, as recited in claim 13, wherein
said lighter, which is a piezoelectric-type lighter, comprises an
elongated lighter casing and a flame nozzle extended to a top end
of said lighter casing to define said flame producing portion of
said lighter, wherein when said top end of said lighter casing is
detachably coupled with said lighter-adapter end of said inhaler
tube, said lighter is controllably actuated to produce a torch
flame towards said treatment chamber of said inhaler tube.
16. A self-lighting smoking tool, comprising a portable inhaler
tube having an inhaling end, an opposed lighter-adapter end, and a
treatment chamber for receiving a smoking element therein, wherein
said inhaler tube has an elongated structure that said inhaling end
is coaxially aligned with said lighter-adapter end, wherein said
lighter-adapter end of said inhaler tube is adapted for detachably
coupling with a flame producing portion of a lighter, such that
when said lighter is actuated to produce a flame at said flame
producing portion towards said treatment chamber to burn said
smoking element therein, a smoke is inhaled at said inhaling end of
said inhaler tube.
17. The self-lighting smoking tool, as recited in claim 16, wherein
said inhaler tube further contains a plurality of ventilating slots
spacedly formed at a surrounding wall at a position closed to said
lighter-adapter end, wherein each of said ventilating slots is a
through slot not only for releasing excessive heat from said
lighter when said flame is generated to said treatment chamber but
also for enabling ambient air entering into said treatment chamber
when said smoke is inhaled at said inhaling end of said inhaler
tube.
18. The self-lighting smoking tool, as recited in claim 17, further
comprising a detachable mouthpiece detachably coupling with said
inhaling end of said inhaler tube for inhaling said smoke
thereat.
19. The self-lighting smoking tool, as recited in claim 18, wherein
said inhaler tube comprises a bottom filtering net mounted therein
as a bottom wall of said treatment chamber for preventing said
smoking element falling to said flame producing portion of said
lighter, and an upper filtering net mounted therein as an upper
wall of said treatment chamber for retaining said smoking element
between said upper and bottom filtering nets.
20. The self-lighting smoking tool, as recited in claim 5, wherein
said inhaler tube comprises a tubular inhaling guider defining said
inhaling end and said treatment chamber thereat, and a tubular
lighter guider which is defining said lighter-adapter end thereat
and is detachably and coaxially coupling with said inhaling guider
end-to-end, wherein said ventilating slots are spacedly formed at
said surrounding wall of said lighter guider at a position that
said ventilating slots are located below said bottom filtering net,
wherein said upper and bottom filtering nets are formed at said
inhaling guider and said lighter guider respectively.
Description
BACKGROUND OF THE PRESENT INVENTION
[0001] 1. Field of Invention
[0002] The present invention relates to a smoking tool, more
particularly to a self-lighting smoking tool, which is a portable
smoking tool, incorporating with a lighter such that the user is
able to operate the self-lighting smoking tool anytime for smoking
purpose without looking for the lighter.
[0003] 2. Description of Related Arts
[0004] A pipe is a common tool for tobacco smoking typically
consists of a small chamber for the combustion of the tobacco.
Generally, the pipe is commonly made of briar, corncob, meerschaum,
and clay. People who wants to smoking usually use lighter to lit
the tobacco inside the pipe. However, no matter which type of
smoking tool is, the smokers must carry a lighter or other lighting
tool in order to light the tobacco. Accordingly, the tobacco is
stopped burning after a period of time. Therefore, the smoker must
re-burn the tobacco by the lighter. The smokers usually have the
experience of borrowing other people's lighter to light the
tobacco. In the other hand, it is not easy for people to light the
tobacco in outdoor especially in a windy condition. Furthermore,
there are still several drawbacks of the conventional smoking
tool.
[0005] First, the ventilation system of some pipe is not good.
Once, the aggressive smokers smoked too quickly, the excess
moisture and the heat accumulated in the pipe. Therefore, the
temperature of the pipe gradually goes up and become uncomfortable
hot. It is extremely dangerous because the unmoral high temperature
not only may ruin the pipe, but also make his/her hand burned.
[0006] Second, cleaning the pipe after smoking is a big issue for
maximize and extend the life span of the pipe. Some people use a
pipe tool to clean out the ash and unburned tobacco. However, in
some small pipe or long channel pipe, even using a pipe tool, it is
still hard for people to clean the ash and the last bits out. Once,
the unburned tobacco and the ash doesn't come out during last
clean, the flavor of the cigarette or the tobacco dramatically
ruined by the residue element. Moreover, burning the combination of
residue and overheated material in pipe may produce some
unpredicted poison such that the user may inhale to their lungs,
which is harmful to the user's health. Finally, the smokers usually
require a tool for adjusting, packing and emptying the tobacco
inside the pipe, and a regular supply of pipe cleaners. The volume
of the pipe and the tool for cleaning pipe are usually bulky, and
hard for people to carry them on hand.
SUMMARY OF THE PRESENT INVENTION
[0007] A main object of the present invention is to provide a
self-lighting smoking tool, wherein the self-lighting smoking tool
is portable such that the user is able to always carry a
self-lighting smoking tool with him for smoking purpose.
[0008] Another object of the present invention is to provide a
self-lighting smoking tool, wherein the self-lighting smoking tool
increases the model's portability so as to lessen inconvenient
owing to not able to carry it on my own.
[0009] Another object of the present invention is to provide a
self-lighting smoking tool, wherein the self-lighting smoking tool
provides a piezoelectric-type lighter such that the user is able to
lighten the smoking tool in outdoor windy condition.
[0010] Another object of the present invention is to provide a
self-lighting smoking tool, wherein each of the ventilating slots
is adapted not only for releasing excessive heat from the lighter
when the flame is generated to the treatment chamber but also for
enabling ambient air entering into the treatment chamber when smoke
is inhaled at the inhaling end of the inhaler tube.
[0011] Another object of the present invention is to provide a
self-lighting smoking tool, wherein the ventilating slots to
maintain continuity of enough fresh air supplies.
[0012] Another object of the present invention is to provide a
self-lighting smoking tool, wherein the ventilating slots provide a
good air circulation system to ensure ambient air entering into the
treatment chamber for enhancing the burning of the smoking element
therein for spontaneous combustion.
[0013] Another object of the present invention is to provide a
self-lighting smoking tool, wherein the inhaler tube comprises a
bottom filtering net mounted therein as a bottom wall of the
treatment chamber for preventing the smoking element falling to the
flame production of the lighter.
[0014] Another object of the present invention is to provide a
self-lighting smoking tool, wherein the upper and lower filtering
nets are provided at two detachable tubes respectively for
easy-cleaning purpose.
[0015] Another object of the present invention is to provide a
self-lighting smoking tool, wherein the lighter housing provides a
well-insulated area for the smoker to hold so as to prevent the
high temperature smoking tool from burning his/her hand.
[0016] Another object of the present invention is to provide a
self-smoking tool, wherein the self-lighting smoking tool has its
own lighter such that all those troubles to find a lighter while
using a smoking tool are now history.
[0017] Another object of the present invention is to provide a
self-smoking tool, wherein the upper and the lower filtering net
provide a way to circulate the air and ashes prevent from plugging
the channel with the ashes.
[0018] Another object of the present invention is to provide a
self-smoking tool, wherein the lighter of the self-smoking tool can
be replaced by all regular kinds of lighters so as to ensure the
self-smoking tool is highly acceptable on market demand.
[0019] Accordingly, in order to accomplish the above objects, the
present invention provides a lighter, comprising a portable inhaler
tube and a lighter detachably coupling thereto.
[0020] The portable inhaler tube has an inhaling end, an opposed
lighter-adapter end, and a treatment chamber for receiving a
smoking element therein.
[0021] The lighter comprises a flame producing portion detachably
coupling with the lighter-adapter end of the inhaler tube, wherein
the lighter is adapted for controllably producing a flame at the
flame producing portion towards the treatment chamber to bum the
smoking element therein, such that once a smoke is generated, the
smoke is inhaled at the inhaling end of the inhaler tube;
[0022] These and other objectives, features, and advantages of the
present invention will become apparent from the following detailed
description, the accompanying drawings, and the appended
claims.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0023] FIG. 1 is an exploded perspective view of a self-lighting
smoking tool according to a preferred embodiment of the present
invention.
[0024] FIG. 2 is a sectional view of the self-lighting smoking tool
according to the above preferred embodiment of the present
invention.
[0025] FIG. 3A is a partial sectional view of a self-lighting
smoking tool according to the above preferred embodiment,
illustrating the lighter producing a flame at the flame producing
portion towards the treatment chamber.
[0026] FIG. 3B is a partial sectional view of a self-lighting
smoking tool according to the above preferred embodiment,
illustrating the smoke being inhaled at the inhaling end of the
inhaler tube.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT
[0027] Referring to FIGS. 1 and 2 of the drawings, a self-lighting
smoking tool according to a preferred embodiment of the present
invention is illustrated, wherein the self-lighting smoking tool
comprises a portable inhaler tube 10 and a lighter 20 detachably
coupling with the inhaler tube 10.
[0028] The inhaler tube 10, which has an elongated tubular
structure, has an inhaling end 11, an opposed lighter-adapter end
12 coaxially aligned with the inhaling end 11, and a treatment
chamber 13 for receiving a smoking element, such as tobacco,
therein.
[0029] The lighter 20 comprises a flame producing portion 21
detachably coupling with the lighter-adapter end 12 of the inhaler
tube, wherein the lighter 20 is adapted for controllably producing
a flame at the flame producing portion 21 towards the treatment
chamber 13 to burn the smoking element therein, as shown in FIG.
3A.
[0030] Once a smoke is generated, the smoke is inhaled at the
inhaling end 11 the inhaler tube 10 as shown in FIG. 3B. An
important point of this invention is that the self-lighting smoking
tool used light iron as its material and is extremely portable such
that the user is able to always carry a self-lighting smoking tool
with him for smoking purpose. Because of its portability, it
totally solved the problems of not being able to carry it on my
own. Finally, with it you wouldn't see the smokers borrow the fire
to light the cigarette on the street.
[0031] The inhaler tube 10 further contains a plurality of
ventilating slots 14 spacedly formed at a surrounding wall at a
position closed to the lighter-adapter end 12, wherein each of the
ventilating slots 14 is a through slot not only for releasing
excessive heat from the lighter 20 when the flame is generated to
the treatment chamber 13 but also for enabling ambient air entering
into the treatment chamber 13 when smoke is inhaled at the inhaling
end 11 of the inhaler tube 10. Moreover, the ventilating slots 14
provide a good air circulation system to produce spontaneous
combustion, to maintain continuity of enough fresh air supplies,
and to ensure that there is a free flow of air inside the
self-lighting smoking tool.
[0032] According to the preferred embodiment, the inhaler tube 10
has an elongated structure that the inhaling end 11 is coaxially
aligned with the lighter-adapter end 12. The inhaler tube 10
comprises a bottom filtering net 15 mounted therein as a bottom
wall of the treatment chamber 13 for preventing the smoking element
falling to the flame producing portion 21 of the lighter 20. In the
other hand, the inhaler tube 10 further comprises an upper
filtering net 16 mounted therein as an upper wall of the treatment
chamber 13 for retaining the smoking element between the upper and
bottom filtering nets 15, 16. Moreover, the upper and lower
filtering nets 15, 16 further provide a way to circulate the air
and ashes prevent from plugging the channel with the ashes.
[0033] It is worth to mention that the smoking element can be
formed in a tablet or capsule configuration that the smoking
element is enclosed by an enclosing net to dispose in the treatment
chamber 13. Therefore, the upper and lower filtering nets 15, 16
can be omitted.
[0034] The inhaler tube 10 comprises a tubular inhaling guider 17
defining the inhaling end 11 and the treatment chamber 13 thereat,
and a tubular lighter guider 18 which is defining the
lighter-adapter end 12 thereat and is detachably and coaxially
coupling with the inhaling guider 17 end-to-end.
[0035] The ventilating slots 14 are spacedly formed at the
surrounding wall of the lighter guider 18 at a position that the
ventilating slots 14 are located below the bottom filtering net 15.
The upper and bottom filtering nets 16, 15 are formed at the
inhaling guider 17 and the lighter guider 18 respectively. It is
worth to mention that the upper and lower filtering nets 15, 16 are
detached for easily cleaning when the inhaling guider 17 and the
lighter guider 18 are detached from each other.
[0036] The inhaler tube 10 has an inner threaded portion 19
provided at the lighter-adapter end 12, wherein the lighter 20 has
an outer threaded portion 22 provided at the flame producing
portion 21 to detachably engage the inner thread portion 19 of the
inhaler tube 10 so as to coaxially couple the lighter 20 with the
inhaler tube 10 in a detachably attaching manner.
[0037] According to the preferred embodiment, the lighter 20 is a
piezoelectric-type lighter comprising an elongated lighter casing
23 and a flame nozzle 24 extended to a top end of the lighter
casing 23 to define the flame producing portion 21 of the lighter
20, wherein when the top end of the lighter casing 23 is detachably
coupled with the lighter-adapter end 12 of the inhaler tube 10, the
lighter 20 is controllably actuated to produce a torch flame
towards the treatment chamber 13 of the inhaler tube 17.
Accordingly, an actuation button 25 is slidably mounted at the
lighter casing 23 such that when the actuation button 25 is pressed
downwardly, the piezoelectric unit (not shown) is depressed to
produce the flame at the flame nozzle 24. It is worth to mention
that when the flame is produced at the flame nozzle 24, the lighter
guider 18 forms a windshield for preventing the flame being blown
off.
[0038] The difference between adopting the regular lighter and a
piezoelectric-type lighter is that lighting a piezoelectric-type
lighter is not restricted by outdoor or bad weather such that the
user is able to lighten the smoking tool in outdoor windy
condition. Accordingly, the lighter casing 23 provides a
well-insulated area for people to hold so as to prevent the high
temperature smoking tool from burning his/her hand.
[0039] It is worth to mention that inhaler tube 10 is adapted to
incorporate with the conventional lighter, such as disposable
lighter, by detachably coupling the lighter-adapter end 12 of the
inhaler tube 10 to the conventional lighter. Preferably, the
self-lighting smoking tool has its own lighter 20 such that all
those troubles to find a lighter while using a smoking tool are now
history. Practically, the lighter 20 of the self-smoking tool can
be replaced by all regular kinds of lighters so as to ensure the
self-smoking tool is highly acceptable on market demand. In
addition, the self-lighting smoking tool has a pen size for
carrying.
[0040] According to the preferred embodiment, a self-lighting
smoking tool further comprises a detachable mouthpiece 30
detachably coupling with the inhaling end 11 of the inhaler tube 10
for inhaling the smoke thereat.
[0041] One skilled in the art will understand that the embodiment
of the present invention as shown in the drawings and described
above is exemplary only and not intended to be limiting.
[0042] It will thus be seen that the objects of the present
invention have been fully and effectively accomplished. The
embodiments have been shown and described for the purposes of
illustrating the functional and structural principles of the
present invention and is subject to change without departure from
such principles. Therefore, this invention includes all
modifications encompassed within the spirit and scope of the
following claims.
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