Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
131200000 | Smoke treating | 23 |
20090050163 | SMOKING DEVICE INCORPORATING A BREAKABLE CAPSULE, BREAKABLE CAPSULE AND PROCESS FOR MANUFACTURING SAID CAPSULE - A smoking device includes a recipient or able to receive burning products, preferably tobacco, and a filter element connected to the recipient, wherein the filter includes at least one breakable capsule, the capsule having a initial crush strength from 0.5 to 2.5 kp, and keeping a crush strength from 0.5 to 2.5 kp and a deformation of less than two third of its diameter prior to rupture after having been submitted to a smoking test. The invention is also relating to the capsule suitable for being incorporated in a smoking device, and to the process of manufacture of the capsule. | 02-26-2009 |
20090071488 | Colored Smoke Module For Cigarette - A colored smoke module is disclosed that is mountable to at least a portion of a cigarette or other smoking device. The colored smoke module produces colored smoke when burned. Further, the colored smoke module is user mountable to a cigarette or other smoking device. | 03-19-2009 |
20100163064 | TEMPLATED CARBON MONOLITHIC TUBES WITH SHAPED MICRO-CHANNELS AND METHOD FOR MAKING THE SAME - Disclosed is a method for forming an article with template shaped channels by (a) mixing a precursor with a fibrous template, (b) forming the mixture into a pre-determined shape, (c) curing the mixture to form a precursor composite, (d) carbonizing the precursor composite, and (e) decomposing the fibrous template to yield a shaped carbon article with template shaped channels. | 07-01-2010 |
20130032157 | COLORED SMOKE MODULE FOR CIGARETTE - A colored smoke module is disclosed that is mountable to at least a portion of a cigarette or other smoking device. The colored smoke module produces colored smoke when burned. Further, the colored smoke module is user mountable to a cigarette or other smoking device. | 02-07-2013 |
20140174458 | SELF-CONTAINED ELECTRONIC SMOKING DEVICE THAT PRODUCES SMOKE AND ASH BY INCINERATION - Embodiments include an electronic smoking device that produces authentic smoke and ash by incinerating smoking material placed directly onto a heating source that obtains a high temperature. This heat could also be harnessed for warmth or lighting cigars and cigarettes. The device may be an electronic pipe with a housing compartment, a power source, an atomizer heating source, a mouthpiece, a power trigger, a charger, and airflow ducts. The heating source may include one or more filaments that get heated in the burnable material compartment. The device may be conical in shape as to be a compatible water-pipe accessory. The housing may include several separable sections, including a battery housing and a burn housing that may separate from each other. The device may include adapters including plugged bifurcated adapters, to mitigate leaking from burn housing into the battery adapter, a ceramic dish, and insulation. | 06-26-2014 |
20160044960 | Smoke and/or Vapor Ignition, Cooling and Dispensing Device - A device which generates, cools and dispenses smoke and/or vapor intended for therapeutic use as well as recreational and flavor enjoyment providing ease of control and operation of said device, while heating the desired herb or essential oil enough to be combusted and/or vaporized, then subsequently chilled before being dispensed to the user by air stream. It also provides additional possible benefits such as filtration of condensed tars from cooled smoke, and possible decreased respiratory irritation. In one preferred embodiment, the device may be constructed as a single simple and portable home use unit. In another preferred embodiment, a single or multiple channeled commercial dispensing unit for use on many commercial levels of application. It may be used with materials such as different types of tobacco and/or herbs such as lavender, chamomile, peppermint, | 02-18-2016 |
131201000 | Material separator and trap | 17 |
131202000 | Filter and/or absorber | 17 |
20080216851 | Smoking articles with restrictor and aerosol former - Provided is a smoking article including a smokeable filler with a high aerosol former content and a filter. Preferably, the smokeable filler includes about 4 wt % glycerin to about 35 wt % glycerin. The filter includes a cylindrical tube attached to the tobacco rod with tipping paper, a first filter segment at a location along said cylindrical tube adjacent and in a downstream relation to said tobacco rod, and a flow restricting filter segment at a location adjacent and in a downstream relation to the first filter segment. In an embodiment, the filter also includes a cavity adjacent and in a downstream relation to the flow restricting filter segment, and a ventilation zone at a location along the cavity including perforations that extend through the tipping paper and the cylindrical tube. Preferably, the ventilation zone is in a downstream relation to the flow restricting filter segment. | 09-11-2008 |
20080230077 | NON-POLLUTING SMOKING DEVICE - A non-polluting smoking device through which smoke is first inhaled and then exhaled, the device containing a filter or series of filters for filtering harmful toxins and unpleasant odors, thereby preventing same from being emitted into the air. | 09-25-2008 |
20090025736 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MAKING TOBACCO SMOKE FILTERS - A composition useful for treating the substrate of a tobacco smoke filter. A tobacco smoke filter comprising one or more than one free porphyrin or one or more than one free metal phthalocyanine. A seamless tobacco smoke filter ( | 01-29-2009 |
20100006112 | FILTER INCLUDING RANDOMLY-ORIENTED FIBERS FOR REDUCTION OF PARTICLE BREAKTHROUGH - Provided is a cigarette filter and method of making the filter. The filter includes an adsorbent dispersed within the filter and a downstream plug of randomly-oriented fibers. The randomly-oriented fibers mechanically capture adsorbent particles entrained in tobacco smoke. One or more plugs of axially-oriented fibers may also be located upstream and/or downstream of the adsorbent, and are included in an amount sufficient to adjust the length of the filter. | 01-14-2010 |
20100186759 | CIGARETTE FILTER - A tobacco product filter includes a storage mineral. | 07-29-2010 |
20100206318 | FILTER FOR A TOBACCO PRODUCT - The invention relates to a cigarette holder-type component, which is intended to be attached to a tobacco product and can be adapted to the suction head of the tobacco product so that the smoke travels through the component during smoking. The component contains porous material, into which an aqueous solution containing at least one aldehyde-binding compound has been absorbed to form an aldehyde-binding filter. In the component that is to be attached to the tobacco product, the water content of the material is kept at a level where the aldehyde-binding compounds are capable of reacting with the aldehydes in the smoke, changing them into a harmless form. | 08-19-2010 |
20110240045 | ENVIRONMENTALLY DEGRADABLE CIGARETTE FILTER - An environmentally degradable cigarette filter includes a filter element of a bloomed cellulose acetate tow and a plug wrap surrounding said filter element. A weak organic acid and a pH adjusted inorganic ester salt are encapsulated in a matrix material which is in contact with the tow. The pH adjusted inorganic ester salt has a pH less than or equal to 8. When the cigarette filter is discarded into the environment, water liberates the weak acid and the ester salt from the matrix material. The weak acid hydrolyzes the ester liberating a strong acid. The strong acid catalyzes the degradation of the cellulose acetate tow. (The weak acid also hydrolyzes the cellulose acetate tow, but after the strong acid is generated, the strong acid becomes the dominant acid catalyst for the cellulose acetate tow degradation.) | 10-06-2011 |
20120125350 | SMOKING OR VAPORIZING IMPLEMENT - 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. | 05-24-2012 |
20120174933 | Vaporizing Pipe Comprising Wire Coils - Provided is a vaporizing pipe made from wound wire coils. The vaporizing pipe comprises two halves: a pipe unit and a filter unit. The pipe unit has a bowl for holding smoking material. The filter unit contains a flame filter for providing vaporization temperatures, as known in the art. The pipe unit and filter unit attach by twisting/rotating (“attachment by nested coils”). The windings of the coils screw together in a manner similar to screw threads. The pipe unit can comprise 1, 2 or more coils. The filter unit can comprise 1, 2, 3 or more coils. Air gaps can be disposed between coils, thereby providing thermal insulation. The coils can be made of stainless steel wire for example. The wire can have a diameter of about 0.050-0.075 inches for example. | 07-12-2012 |
20120186593 | Filter with both conventional and scented filtration - A multi-component filter for tobacco smoke and the like comprises a mouthpiece section and two filter sections respectively containing conventional filtration material and scented filtration material in the form of porous scented paper adapted to disguise the odor of the smoke with a fresh clean odor. The sections are telescopically assembled with small spring clips co-operating with annular grooves for releasable connection of the same. | 07-26-2012 |
20130037039 | TOBACCO SAVING DEVICE - The present invention is a tobacco saving device utilized by a cigarette smoked by a user that includes a hollow elongated tube with a first end to accommodate slight diameter variations in the cigarettes that are placed within the hollow elongated tube and a second end that receives a standard tobacco cigarette that is utilized to connect a cigarette filter at the one end and a half of the cigarette at the other end with a gap between the ends. The tobacco saving device can also utilize a filter pusher that includes a distal end, a proximal end, an elongated stem and a plunger head disposed on the distal end of the elongated stem to remove tobacco residue formed within the elongated tube. The device can also have a tapered end on one of the ends of the hollow elongated end. | 02-14-2013 |
20130192613 | Substituted Cellulose Acetates and Uses Thereof - The present invention relates to substituted cellulose acetates and methods of use thereof. One embodiment of the present invention provides a cigarette filter material having a filter having a substituted cellulose acetate having a polar substituent that has an oxygen atom covalently bonded to a nonmetal selected from the group of sulfur, phosphorus, boron, and chlorine; wherein the nonmetal is present in at least 0.01% by weight of the substituted cellulose acetate. | 08-01-2013 |
20130269717 | PERSONAL MOUTHPIECE - A personal mouthpiece that can be used for smoking devices is provided. Such a mouthpiece includes a pipe portion and a core portion. The pipe portion may be configured to receive smoke from a smoking device and to direct the smoke to a mouth of a user. The core portion may have a first end configured to removably attach to the smoking device and a second end configured to removably attach to the pipe portion. During an exemplary use, smoke from the smoking device travels through the core portion prior to receipt at the pipe portion. | 10-17-2013 |
20140053855 | SMOKING DEVICE INCORPORATING A BREAKABLE CAPSULE, BREAKABLE CAPSULE AND PROCESS FOR MANUFACTURING SAID CAPSULE - A smoking device includes a recipient or able to receive burning products, preferably tobacco, and a filter element connected to the recipient, wherein the filter includes at least one breakable capsule, the capsule having a initial crush strength from 0.5 to 2.5 kp, and keeping a crush strength from 0.5 to 2.5 kp and a deformation of less than two third of its diameter prior to rupture after having been submitted to a smoking test. The invention is also relating to the capsule suitable for being incorporated in a smoking device, and to the process of manufacture of the capsule. | 02-27-2014 |
20140158143 | SMOKING APPARATUSES WITH INTEGRATED RETAINER FOR RETAINING A FLEXIBLE SCREEN - A smoking apparatus for a smoking product, comprising: a substantially hollow stem defining a bore having a bore diameter, a bowl proximate the first end of the hollow stem, the bowl. having an open end configured to receive the smoking product therethrough and a bottom end opposite the open end, the bowl further including: a screen retention area defined by the contour of the inner wall and disposed opposite the open end of the bowl and configured to selectively retain a flexible screen, the screen retention area further including: a screen retainer disposed proximal the bottom end of the bowl, and a lateral boundary region disposed adjacent the screen retainer and configured to receive a circumferential edge of a flexible screen, and a shoulder support disposed adjacent the lateral boundary region and protruding inwardly into the bore diameter of the bowl to support the flexible screen opposite the screen retainer. In some examples, the smoking apparatus includes a hollow stem that terminates with an arcuate bend. | 06-12-2014 |
131207000 | Absorbent or particulate | 2 |
20100175703 | CONTINUOUS PROCESS FOR IMPREGNATING SOLID ADSORBENT PARTICLES INTO SHAPED MIRCO-CAVITY FIBERS - A process of impregnating fine adsorbent particles such as carbon dust or APS silica gel powder into the micro-cavities of shaped fibers comprises the steps of continuously conveying shaped fibers with micro-cavities to a reservoir of the fine adsorbent particles. The fibers pass through the reservoir to thereby produce relative motion between the fibers and the particles. Additionally, impact forces are created between the shaped fibers and the fine particles to assist in impregnating the particles into the micro-cavities of the fibers. Any excess particles are removed from the fibers outside the reservoir, and subsequently the shaped fibers impregnated with fine adsorbent particles are collected for later use in filter applications such as cigarette filter and air filter applications, for example. | 07-15-2010 |
20130220349 | DEFORMABLE TABLET WITH WATER TRIGGERED CATALYST RELEASE - A tablet contains reagents with catalytic activity, release of which is triggered by exposure of the tablet to water. A malleable capsule includes: (a) a flexible polymer; (b) a plasticizer; and (c) a catalyst disposed within the capsule, wherein a portion of the catalyst is released from the capsule upon exposure of the capsule to water. | 08-29-2013 |