U.S. patent application number 15/693471 was filed with the patent office on 2018-03-01 for protective case that facilitates the joining of ground, smokable tobacco and herbs with preformed conical smoking wrappers by gravity and inertia through applied force and motion and the method of the same..
The applicant listed for this patent is Samuel Albert Collier, Elijah Ocean Hedlund-Lunde. Invention is credited to Samuel Albert Collier, Elijah Ocean Hedlund-Lunde.
Application Number | 20180055087 15/693471 |
Document ID | / |
Family ID | 61240213 |
Filed Date | 2018-03-01 |
United States Patent
Application |
20180055087 |
Kind Code |
A1 |
Collier; Samuel Albert ; et
al. |
March 1, 2018 |
Protective case that facilitates the joining of ground, smokable
tobacco and herbs with preformed conical smoking wrappers by
gravity and inertia through applied force and motion and the method
of the same.
Abstract
This protective case facilitates the joining of ground, smokable
tobacco and herbs with preformed conical smoking wrappers by
gravity and inertia through applied force and motion. The case and
method of joining by the case improves upon an otherwise time
consuming, current method, by eliminating the filling and
compacting practice of the current method. The case also improves
messiness and transportation as added features.
Inventors: |
Collier; Samuel Albert;
(Gervais, OR) ; Hedlund-Lunde; Elijah Ocean;
(Salem, OR) |
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Applicant: |
Name |
City |
State |
Country |
Type |
Collier; Samuel Albert
Hedlund-Lunde; Elijah Ocean |
Gervais
Salem |
OR
OR |
US
US |
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Family ID: |
61240213 |
Appl. No.: |
15/693471 |
Filed: |
August 31, 2017 |
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Application
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Filing Date |
Patent Number |
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62381478 |
Aug 30, 2016 |
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Current U.S.
Class: |
1/1 |
Current CPC
Class: |
A24C 5/06 20130101; B65D
25/04 20130101; A24C 5/42 20130101; A24F 17/00 20130101; B65D 85/10
20130101 |
International
Class: |
A24C 5/42 20060101
A24C005/42; B65D 85/10 20060101 B65D085/10; B65D 25/04 20060101
B65D025/04; A24F 17/00 20060101 A24F017/00; A24C 5/06 20060101
A24C005/06 |
Claims
1. A case comprising a main body with a cavity or cavities in one
end and a fitted lid or cover creating an enclosed chamber at the
other end with a separate piece between said main body and fitted
cover having a funnel or funnels,
2. the case of claim 1 may contain any number of cavities,
corresponding funnels and corresponding enclosed chamber size
3. the main body of claim 1 comprising cavities which are conical
or cylindrical bearing a size and shape so that said cavity or
cavities facilitate the insertion of one or more cone-shaped
wrappers, where said cone wrappers consist of a rolled, cylindrical
or conical, elongated tubes consisting of thin wrapping material,
each tube having two ends, one end being open and free from
blockage and being designated herein as the fill end, while the
other end, whether open or closed or blocked by any substance or
combination of substances, is being designated herein as the filter
end, and where said cone-shaped wrapper sizes correspond to
industry standard and non-industry standard sizes of preformed and
hand rolled cones and or papers
4. the cavity sizes of claim 1 facilitate the compacting of ground
smokable tobacco and/or herbs within said cone-shaped wrappers
while inserted into the cavity or cavities, where said cone-shaped
wrappers, upon completing the joining process, are fully joined
with said ground smokable tobacco and/or herbs, meeting any desired
density upon removal from said cavities
5. the cavities of claim 1 prevent said cones from ripping, tearing
or breaking while said ground smokable tobacco and/or herbs are
being joined to the cones within said cavities or while said case
is subject to outside forces while being used for transport and
storage of said joined cones and ground smokable tobacco and/or
herbs being
6. the fitted lid or cover of claim 1 being designed and capable of
assembly with the main body, whereupon said assembly causes an
enclosed chamber that corresponds in size to the amount of ground
smokable tobacco and/or herbs at the opposite end of the case in
which the cavity or cavities are made, yet without compaction of
said ground smokable tobacco and/or herbs within the enclosed
chamber before said process of joining said cone or cones to said
ground smokable tobacco and/or herbs begins, and
7. the cap, lid or cover of claim 1 comprises a small ledge at the
inner seam where the cap, lid or cover abuts with the main body or
an assembly comprising the main body and funnel piece, where within
the enclosed chamber, the spilling of ground smokable tobacco
and/or herbs through the small gap between the pieces during the
joining process is impeded, and
8. the funnels of claim 1 between the enclosed chamber end of said
case and the cavity end of said case, consists of one or more,
funneling passageways corresponding to the number of said cones
that said case is being used to join with ground smokable tobacco
and/or herbs, where
9. the funnels of claim 1 narrow toward the cone or cones and fit
within the fill end of said cone or cones and prevent the closure
of the fill end of said cone or cones
10. the funnels of claim 1 also provide directional flow of said
ground smokable tobacco and/or herbs into said cone or cones in
which the flow of ground smokable tobacco and/or herbs is, to some
degree, impeded when the direction of force is reversed from the
intended joining process, whereby the method of joining ground
smokable tobacco and/or herbs and preformed smoking cones to a
desired amount and compaction is facilitated by the following
method.
11. A method of joining ground smokable tobacco and/or herbs with
preformed, cone-shaped smoking wrappers to a desired amount and
density, using the case of claim 1 by applying force and motion
12. the case in claim 11, comprising one or more parts, which when
assembled and/or when all openings have been closed, causes an
adequate sized enclosed chamber on one end for the inserting of
ground smokable tobacco or herbs in amounts corresponding to the
number and volume of said cones intended to be filled, and
13. the case in claim 11, comprising cone shaped cavity or cavities
on the opposite end of said case from said enclosed chamber,
whereupon being fully assembled and/or closed, features a
passageway, channel, funnel, or directional aperture allowing
and/or promoting the transfer of ground smokable tobacco and/herbs
from said enclosed chamber end of the case to the cavity end of the
case when force is applied
14. the ground smokable tobacco and/or herbs of claim 11 are
inserted into said enclosed chamber end of said case, and the
preformed cone-shaped smoking wrappers are inserted into the cavity
end of the case, whereupon the case is then tapped one or more
times on the side or end of the container where inertia from the
tapping produces force through the long dimension of the cone or
cones within the case, which force, being in the direction of
passing from the fill end of said cone or cones to the filter end
of said cone or cones and causing the ground smokable tobacco
and/or herbs to move from the initial enclosed chamber end of the
case in which the ground smokable tobacco and/or herbs was first
inserted, toward the cone or cones and ultimately, through the fill
end of the cone or cones through the interior and settling in the
filter end of said cone or cones wherein the ground smokable
tobacco and/or herbs eventually compress
15. the applied force and motion of claim 11, whereby whatever
desired and varying degrees of force, and by way of inertia and/or
gravity, the ground smokable tobacco and/or herbs, fully pass from
said enclosed chamber end, which the ground smokable tobacco and/or
herbs was first inserted, into the cone or cones, whereupon it is
also compacted by continuing said tapping motion until the desired
fill and density is reached, whereby the ground smokable tobacco
and/or herbs and smoking cones are joined to the desired amount and
density.
Description
CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED PROVISIONAL APPLICATION
[0001] This present application claims priority upon Provisional
application No. 62/381,478 filed on Aug. 31, 2016.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Related Art
[0002] The claimed invention is related to the tobacco and herbal
smoking community and is a tool that addresses common problems that
exist with the conventional method of joining these, typically
granulated, smokable products into hand-rolled or manufactured
cone-shaped smoking wrappers; called cones. It has also invented to
exist as a carrying case whereupon completing the joining
process.
[0003] The conventional method, as mentioned, is by using a single
cone to scoop up small amounts of ground smokable tobacco and
herbs, holding the open end of the cone upward allowing the small
amount to fall into the cone. This is done until a the desirable
amount is reached and then a thin blunt-tipped object is used to
compact the product. That process is repeated until the cone is
filled to the desired point.
[0004] The amount of time, effort and mess that is consistent with
using the conventional method to join smokable tobacco and/or
smokable herbs into the cones has caused many to look for a
solution. Moreover, the susceptibility to accidental breakage when
carrying the joined cones becomes an unavoidable consequence that
the claimed invention has also addressed.
[0005] For the joining process, the practice of gravity joining
cones for selling to consumers exists within the cannabis industry
overseas in the manufacturing of cannabis cigarettes. In that
industry, they have a similar problem to the problems expressed
above, which is being able to join the cannabis to cones with
speed. The tool they use is a disc shaped tray approximately 20
inches in diameter and is made to hold cones with the openings
facing upward while gravity and tapping allows for the cannabis to
fill the cones. It appears that it can be used for joining tens or
hundreds of cones at once. However, the solution they have chosen
has an open top which allows a greater chance for mess, it uses a
greater amount of cannabis than can fit in the cones they are
filling for the purposes of allowing the weight of the excess to
aid in the compacting process, and the tray is just beyond the size
and scope of the portability characteristics that this invention
was intending to meet.
[0006] As far as the protective function of the claimed invention,
there are no cases similar at all. This problem is a secondary
problem which is an unavoidable consequence of joining a cone but
not smoking it right away or joining more than one cone at a time
and saving one or more for later. However, the only solutions are
not intended to be solutions but is the consumer using what they
can find. The claimed invention in this application has this
solution as one of its primary functions.
BRIEF SUMMARY OF INVENTION
[0007] The claimed invention is enclosed allowing for greater speed
and less mess; it has all of the aforementioned, portability
characteristics in that it can carry the joined cones and protect
them from breakage while maintaining a size which makes stowing and
transportation feasible. How this is accomplished is by first,
enclosing the process where the smokable product is inserted into
the cones, second, by making the joining process easier by not only
combining the methods of inserting and compacting the smokable
product into the cones, but also by directing the flow of the
product into the cones all in one motion that can be repeated as
needed to achieve the desired outcome without the necessity for
precise aim.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS
[0008] For a complete understanding of the claimed invention,
reference is now made to the following drawings and consequent
detailed description of the invention:
[0009] FIG. 1 is an exploded, elevation view from the wider side of
the assembly showing items 1, 2 and 3 disassemble yet maintaining
the individual orientation when assembled
[0010] FIG. 2 is an exploded, elevation view from the narrower side
of the assembly; otherwise similar to FIG. 1
[0011] FIG. 3 is an elevation view of a partial assembly of items 1
and 3
[0012] FIG. 4 is an elevation view of a the full assembly of items
1, 2 and 3
[0013] FIG. 5 is a perspective view of item 1 showing the middle
lip 4 and the base lip 5 as well as a perspective view of one half
of the snap fit 6
[0014] FIG. 6 is a perspective view of item 3 showing a perspective
view of some of the funnels 12 and also the other half of the snap
fit 7
[0015] FIG. 7 is a cross section drawing of the full assembly of
items 1, 2 and 3 allowing a view of the relationship of each part
to one another in their assembled state as well as the a cross
section of the cone-shaped cavities (8) and a view of the small
edge (11) inside the cover (2) that impedes spillage
[0016] FIG. 8 is a plan view from the top of the full assembly of
items 1, 2 and 3 with a broken line (9) indicating the plane from
which FIG. 7 is cut with the arrows indicating the view of FIG.
7
[0017] FIG. 9 is a perspective view of FIG. 8 for clarity
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
[0018] The claimed invention can be constructed of many different
materials such as wood, plastics and metals. It can also have many
different shapes. The key elements that make the claimed invention
unique is that the claimed invention has cone-shaped cavities that
support the cones from breaking during and after the joining
process, and that the cavities are large enough to allow for the
ground tobacco and/or herbs to be tightly compacted within the cone
wrappers; that the cavities size varies from the exact size of the
cone wrappers up to double the size of the cone wrappers; that the
claimed invention has funnels providing for aimless flow of the
ground smokable products into the cones; and that the claimed
invention has a chamber where the ground tobacco and/or herbs can
be inserted whereupon the grounds, the cones and the process of
joining or filling and compacting the cone wrappers can then be
enclosed within the claimed invention. The shape and the material
used are basically unlimited.
[0019] The size is typically limited to the size of the cones and
the number of cones intended to be joined and carried by the case.
This could range from one cone to as many as one is likely to find
still portable and still remain functional.
[0020] The version of the claimed invention represented in the
associated drawings comprises three pieces, the body (1), the cover
(2) and the funnel cap (3). The assembly of the pieces is by first
inserting the opening end of the cone-shaped cavities of the body
(1) into the open and fitted end of the funnel cap (3) until the
snap fits (6, 7) are fully aligned as in FIG. 3. Then inserting the
body (1) and funnel cap (3) assembly (FIG. 3) into the open end of
the cover (2) until fully seated as shown in FIG. 4.
[0021] How it is used is by pouring ground smokable product into
the cover (2) while the open end of the cover (2) is upward. Then
insert the cone-shaped wrappers into the cavities (8) of the body
(1). Then assemble the 3 pieces as described in the previous
paragraph; snapping the funnel cap (3) onto the body (1) until the
snap fits (6, 7) are fully aligned with one another and the funnel
cap (3) rest on the middle lip (4) of the body (1), and with the
cone-shaped wrappers being held open at their open end by the
directional apertures (or funnels (12)) of the funnel cap (3). Then
the body (1) and funnel cap (3) assembly (FIG. 3) are turned with
the open end of the cone-shaped wrappers facing down then inserted
in the open end of the cover (2), open upward, until the cover (2)
fully rests on the base lip (5) of the body (1). Then the entire
assembly (FIG. 4, FIG. 9) is turned over so that the ground
smokable products may fall toward the cone-shaped wrapper openings
that are aimed toward the ground smokable products. The entire
assembly (FIG. 4, FIG. 9) is then tapped with varying degrees of
force and motion cause the product to first fill and then compact
the ground smokable product with the same varying degree of
tapping, producing varying outcomes which are all acceptable
outcomes but allowing the end user to choose for themselves the
desired compaction and fill of the joined cone or cones.
[0022] How it works is that the chamber (10) created between the
cover (2) and the funnel cap (3) when assembled is, firstly, large
enough for the measured amount of ground smokable product that is
intended to be joined so that when the body (1) and funnel cap
assembly (FIG. 3) is inserted fully into the cover (2), it does not
compact the ground smokable product within the cover. Also, the lip
(11) inside the cover (2) prevents the ground smokable product from
falling in between the cover (2) and the body (1) and funnel cap
(3) assembly (FIG. 3). Finally, when tapping the case on surfaces
that may very in degrees of hardness, the force and motion applied
to the case is also applied to the ground smokable product within
the case. The inertia caused by the force and motion on the ground
smokable product causes it to continue moving toward the cone
wrappers when the case has stopped moving upon colliding with said
surface. Once the ground smokable product has collected within the
cone wrappers, the ground smokable products can no longer freely
move with each collision of the case against said surface.
Therefore, the applied force and motion causes the ground smokable
product to settle and compact under its own weight.
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