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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7434584 | Vaporization pipe with flame filter A vaporizer device that uses a flame for vaporizing flavor and psychoactive compounds from smoking materials such as tobacco. The present device has a filter unit 34 with a porous flame filter 36. The flame filter 36 can be made of open-cell cer... | 10/14/2008 |
| 6698435 | Folding smoking pipe A foldable smoking pipe is constructed from a flat blank of metal, small enough to fit in a wallet, that can be folded into a functional smoking pipe with an integrated bowl, screen, and stem. The stem is formed by multiple flat panels folded to create a ... | 03/02/2004 |
| 5819756 | Smoking or inhalation device A device for smoking tobacco or another smoking product or for inhaling aerosols released by corresponding substances when they are heated. The substances that constitutes the smoking product is shredded, granulated or otherwise crushed. The smoking produ... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5810019 | Process and apparatus for tobacco batch preparation and expansion A tobacco expansion process and apparatus is provided to form a tobacco batch having a predetermined amount of tobacco, contact the batch with steam, load the batch onto a spool assembly, and impregnate the batch with an expansion agent. A double conduit ... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5345951 | Smoking article A smoking article in which a flavored aerosol is generated by heat transfer to a flavor bed from the combustion of a heat source is provided. The article generates substantially no sidestream smoke. The transfer of heat from the heat source to the flavor ... | 09/13/1994 |
| 5269327 | Electrical smoking article An article is provided in which a tobacco flavor medium is electrically heated to evolve inhalable tobacco flavors or other components in vapor or aerosol form. The article has a plurality of charges of the tobacco flavor medium which are heated sequentia... | 12/14/1993 |
| 5159940 | Smoking article A smoking article in which a flavored aerosol is generated by heat transfer to a flavor bed from the combustion of a carbon heat source is provided wherein the carbon heat source and the flavor bed are contained within a non-combustible substantially cyli... | 11/03/1992 |
| 5135009 | Smokable article The present invention relates to a smokable article which is intended to permit the smoker to avoid the condensates usually present in the smoke while retaining the taste experience familiar from conventional cigarettes; this is achieved in that a sheet-l... | 08/04/1992 |
| 5115820 | Smokable article A smokable article including an aerosol generating zone which has a combustion element and a carrier for an aerosol precursor which coaxially surrounds the combustion element, flow passages in the aerosol generating zone and a mouthpiece. The combustion e... | 05/26/1992 |
| 5027837 | Cigarette A cigarette includes a longitudinally segmented combustible fuel element, and a substrate carrying tobacco extract and glycerin positioned physically separate from the fuel element. The fuel element is composed of a carbonaceous material and is extruded i... | 07/02/1991 |
| 4966171 | Smoking article A smoking article in which a flavored aerosol is generated by heat transfer to a flavor bed from the combustion of a carbon heat source is provided. The article generates substantially no sidestream smoke. The transfer of heat from the heat source to the ... | 10/30/1990 |
| 4928714 | Smoking article with embedded substrate The smoking article of the present invention has a short, combustible, preferably carbonaceous, fuel element, generally less than about 30 mm long, which is substantially free of volatile organic material. A physically separate aerosol generating means, p... | 05/29/1990 |
| 4870979 | Smoker's pipe 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.... | 10/03/1989 |
| 4756318 | Smoking article with tobacco jacket The present invention preferably relates to a smoking article which is capable of producing substantial quantities of aerosol, both initially and over the useful life of the product, without significant thermal degradation of the aerosol former and withou... | 07/12/1988 |
| 4730626 | Dry bowl smoker's pipe 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 com... | 03/15/1988 |
| 4708151 | Pipe with replaceable cartridge 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 aero... | 11/24/1987 |
| 4596258 | Smoking devices A smoking device is disclosed which allows the user to regulate the air he inhales to consist of pure tobacco smoke, pure air, pure air carrying volatile substances, or a mixture of tobacco smoke and air carrying volatile substances. This is accomplished ... | 06/24/1986 |
| 4577645 | Reduced moisture smoker's pipe 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 mo... | 03/25/1986 |
| 4527571 | Smoking pipe assembly 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.... | 07/09/1985 |
| 4362169 | Air flow dry bowl pipe 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 bowl... | 12/07/1982 |
| 4290437 | Change-a-bowl pipe The present invention relates to a smoking pipe having a retroverted-flow filter around a bit member and having a bowl placed within a bowl receptacle for enabling quick and easy changing of the smoking bowl while additionally creating an air cooling spac... | 09/22/1981 |
| 4278100 | Method and apparatus for separating tobacco from rejected cigarettes Tobacco in cigarettes rejected in the cigarette manufacturing operation is recovered by subjecting the cigarettes to a series of ripping actions which open the wrappings to expose the tobacco and a series of screening operations which result in effective ... | 07/14/1981 |
| 4198993 | Combination smoking and drinking article An article that serves the dual function of a smoking pipe and drinking receptacle, and thereby permits the concurrent smoking of tobacco and consumption of a beverage through use of a single instrument. The article has the general configuration of a mug,... | 04/22/1980 |
| 4190063 | Smoker's pipe A smoker's pipe has a tobacco bowl for burning tobacco and a stem extending from the bowl. A control system produces a draft via a free flow of air through tobacco in the bowl whereby the tobacco burns freely and evaporates moisture in the tobacco and eli... | 02/26/1980 |
| 4058130 | Pipe-cigaret A Pipe-cigaret constructed according to the present invention consists of a T-shaped single sheet of flexible material having a shorter section of a substantially rectangular shape and an elongated section of a substantially rectangular shape extending fr... | 11/15/1977 |
| 4020853 | Smoking pipe A smoking pipe which can be made of an artistically ornamented ceramic such as porcelain wherein means is provided for maintaining the outer wall at a sufficiently low temperature to permit comfortable handling by the smoker, there being spaced inner and ... | 05/03/1977 |