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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7243657 | Multi-function portable ashtray A multi-function portable ashtray is used particularly to be carried on in a user's hand. The ashtray structure of this invention is used for collecting cigarette ashes and snipes and for avoiding a user to be scalded by cigarette as smoking. Furthermore, the other ... | 07/17/2007 |
| 6748955 | Cigarette sidestream smoke and free-burn rate control device A device for minimizing cigarette sidestream smoke and reducing free-burn rate of a burning cigarette is disclosed. The device comprises a non-combustible tubular element encasing an effective length of a tobacco charge of a cigarette located in the tubular element.... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6311694 | Smoking article having reduced sidestream smoke A smoking article comprises a smoking accessory and a cigarette. The smoking accessory includes a holder and a substantially air-impermeable sleeve which is coupled to a distal portion of the holder and is coaxial therewith. The cigarette is received in t... | 11/06/2001 |
| 6260554 | Pipe A self-extinguishing pipe is described for use with tobacco or other smoking material. The pipe is made in two parts, a body and an endpiece, and holds a filter internally. The endpiece includes a reservoir for the tobacco or other smoking material at one... | 07/17/2001 |
| 6073633 | Safety smoking pipe with internal ash-cleaning and tobacco-packing mechanisms The safety smoking pipe includes first and second parts telescopically receivable one within the other and rotatable relative to one another. The first part includes an elongated tube having a screen adjacent one end. The second part includes an elongated... | 06/13/2000 |
| 5535761 | Cigarette holder A cigarette holder removably connectable between a window and a door frame of a vehicle for directing cigarette smoke out of the vehicle is provided. The cigarette holder comprises: a first and second rigid planar member having an interior and exterior su... | 07/16/1996 |
| 4936321 | Vehicle ash receiver with ash discharging device An arrangement that for receiving smoking residue that comprises an ash receiver body (22) that receives a cigarette with its burning end close to tube (28). A discharging device (30) that removes smoke and incinerates ashes from the receiver by wind rush... | 06/26/1990 |
| 4901739 | Folding, disposable receptacle for rubbish, such as an ashtray or a waste bin Receptacle constituted by an envelope (1) of thin, flexible material, defined by two rectangular side walls (2, 3) and by two lozenge-shaped bounding walls (4), provided with a longitudinal fold line (6) and a transverse fold line (7) and connected to the... | 02/20/1990 |
| 4644962 | Multi-purpose cigarette pipe A cigarette pipe having means of lighting the cigarette for smoking, receiving ashes, extracting nicotine while smoking and extinguishing cigarette light when finished smoking. The pipe includes a cigarette lighter, an ash tray, a cigarette holder/light e... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4570646 | Method and apparatus for smoking The present invention comprises a method and apparatus for smoking. The smoking apparatus is specifically designed for use by smokers in smoking cigarettes. Moreover, the smoking apparatus may be referred to as a generally closed smoking system because sm... | 02/18/1986 |
| 4413638 | Safety cigarette bottle A safety cigarette bottle for smoking cigarettes or the like. The bottle provides for safely smoking a cigarette to prevent a potential building fire and provides for clean housekeeping while smoking. The bottle includes a cigarette lighter with lighter c... | 11/08/1983 |
| 4386616 | Cigarette tube A tubular safety enclosure, adapted to be fitted about a cigarette while being smoked in order to minimize fire hazards, is disclosed. The safety enclosure is provided with two sections, one suitable for engagement with the filter end of the cigarette and... | 06/07/1983 |
| 4281672 | Smoking device A container having an open end and a closed end with a holding means pivotally coupled to the container at its open end for holding a cigarette. The holding means may be pivoted to an outside position for allowing the cigarette to be lit and to an inside ... | 08/04/1981 |
| 4194516 | Cigarette holder A cigarette holder utilizes an elongated cylindrical tube having one end thereof and the cylindrical surface thereof fabricated with a plurality of regular openings defining a screen. A finger grasping wire-like element is secured to a portion of the cyli... | 03/25/1980 |
| 4181136 | Pipe for drawing smoke through and extracting juice from a piece of fruit A pipe for smoking tobacco and the like while sucking a piece of fruit, the device permitting the smoke to contact pulp of the fruit to escort the natural flavors from the fruit thereby enhancing taste to the smoker.... | 01/01/1980 |
