DE102018108187A1 - Device for generating and inhaling smoke by means of tanks arranged one above the other - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention relates to a device for generating and inhaling smoke, in particular e-cigarette for generating and inhaling smoke, comprising at least two chambers, each of which is adapted and intended to receive a smoking agent, for example tobacco or a liquid to be evaporated. In addition, comprising at least one means for receiving a smoke arising within the chambers, wherein the means are both fluidly connected to the two chambers, as well as with a mouthpiece for inhaling the smoke. In this case, the means for receiving a smoke comprises at least one adjusting means, wherein by means of the adjusting means, a flow cross-section with respect to each chamber and / or with respect to the mouthpiece is adjustable. Thus, either a user can inhale either one of the two flue agents or both flames can be inhaled at the same time.

Description

The present invention relates to a device for generating and inhaling smoke, in particular an e-cigarette for generating and inhaling smoke by means of tanks arranged one above the other according to the preamble of patent claim 1.

Previous devices for generating and inhaling smoke, including previous e-cigarettes, make it possible to inhale only one taste at a time. This is due, inter alia, to the fact that previous e-cigarettes only provide a single holder so as to accommodate only one tank in which the smoking agent, for example a liquid to be evaporated, is arranged.

However, this has the disadvantage that the user is only limited to a taste of the smoke. Although it can be changed by a separate replacement of such a single tank in an already known from the prior art e-cigarette taste, but this is particularly complex and costly for the user.

The present invention therefore seeks to obviate the above problem, so that it is an object of the present invention to provide a device for generating and inhaling smoke, in particular an e-cigarette for generating and inhaling smoke, which makes it possible in a particularly simple, cost-effective and to offer individual tastes to individual tastes without a separate replacement of a smoking chamber. This object is therefore achieved by the subject matter of patent claim 1.

In particular, the device according to the invention for generating and inhaling smoke, in particular the here proposed e-cigarette for generating and inhaling smoke, at least two chambers, each of which is adapted and intended, a smoking agent, for example tobacco, or one to to absorb vaporizing liquid.

Furthermore, the device comprises at least one means for receiving a smoke arising within the chamber, wherein the means are both fluidly connected to the two chambers as well as to a mouthpiece for inhaling the smoke.

A core element of the present invention is that the means for receiving a smoke comprises at least one adjusting means, whereby by means of the adjusting means a flow cross-section with respect to each chamber and / or with respect to the mouthpiece is adjustable so that either one of the two flue means of the Users can inhale or inhale both flames at the same time.

The adjusting means may be a gripping surface, for example present on the mouthpiece or the means.

In this respect, the above-described means for receiving a smoke via the adjusting means described here offers the possibility that different tastes can be inhaled in succession or simultaneously. In this respect, the present device for generating and inhaling a smoke offers the possibility to offer the user individual flavors, without having to change the flavor to replace the flue.

For example, by operating the adjustment means, the means for receiving a smoke may be adjusted, but in particular rotated about the longitudinal direction, that a flow area with respect to a, for example, fixed, chamber is completely closed or, while a flow cross-section in Regarding the second chamber is completely open. Also intermediate positions (at least partially open and / or at least partially closed) are conceivable. For example, only one smoking agent is inhaled.

Alternatively, however, it is conceivable that, for example, the flow areas of both chambers are completely open or at least partially open. Via the means for receiving a smoke arising within the chamber, therefore, a mixture of the vapors of both smoke agents can arise, which are inhaled together through the one mouthpiece.

In this regard, "flow area" with respect to each chamber designates a cross section within a channel system associated with or disposed within the chamber, which leads to a mouthpiece of the device.

In accordance with at least one embodiment, the device for generating and inhaling smoke, in particular an e-cigarette for generating and inhaling smoke, comprises at least two chambers, each of which is designed and provided for this, a smoking agent, for example tobacco or a liquid to be evaporated to record. In this case, the device also has at least one means for receiving a smoke arising within the chambers, wherein the means are fluidically connected to the two chambers, So also with a mouthpiece to inhale the smoke.

According to the invention, the means for receiving a smoke comprises at least one adjustment means, wherein by means of the adjustment means a flow cross-section with respect to each chamber and / or in relation to the mouthpiece is adjustable, so either either one of the two smoke inhalable by one user or both flues simultaneously inhalable. The two chambers are arranged one above the other in a longitudinal direction and each of the chambers is connected by means of a, in particular at least partially lockable, channel system fluidly connected to the mouthpiece or connectable.

In accordance with at least one embodiment, the two chambers are installed in a, in particular portable, housing.
In particular, at least one, but preferably each, channel system may be at least partially shut off via the means for receiving a smoke arising within the chamber, whereby the above-described choice in tastes may be realized for the user.

For example, the housing is a housing of an e-cigarette for generating and inhaling smoke. The portable housing specified herein is adapted and intended to be used by a user, especially by hand. In this respect, the housing offered here can differ significantly from a fixed housing in its dimensions. In other words, in the housing, preferably all other components, such as a battery or an electronically operated heating system for heating the smoke of the device are installed. Thus, no further element for operating the device for generating and inhaling smoke is arranged outside the housing.

Furthermore, the housing is a self-contained housing which, however, can be reclosed, in particular for refilling the chambers and / or for exchanging the chambers.

In accordance with at least one embodiment, the mouthpiece has at least two openings, into each of which a channel system opens, so that via the openings, which are preferably shut off fluid connections.

At least one, preferably both openings may be formed in the form of a bore in a side wall of the mouthpiece. For example, the mouthpiece is formed like a hollow cylinder and open at deck and bottom surfaces, wherein a side surface has at least one opening.

Additionally or alternatively, a valve device for controlling or regulating a flow cross section of the opening may be arranged in or on at least one opening. For example, such a valve may be in the form of a flapper valve. For this purpose, it is conceivable that on a inner wall of the mouthpiece or on an outer wall of the mouthpiece, a flexible membrane is applied, which at least partially opens when inhaled and closes immediately after inhalation or a faulty exhalation in the mouthpiece itself.

Preferably, such a valve device is also mounted in such a way that upon rotation of the mouthpiece about the longitudinal direction for adjusting the flow cross-section and / or for selecting a flavor direction closes by itself. It is conceivable in this context that such a valve device is open or can be opened relative to the housing only in a single rotational position predetermined with respect to the longitudinal direction.

In accordance with at least one embodiment, the channel systems described above are formed on or in a common cover element, wherein the cover element is detachably mountable on the housing.

Such a lid member may be integrally formed, so that the lid member is free of screws, rivets or interruptions. For example, the lid member is formed with a plastic material. However, it is also conceivable that the cover element is formed with a metal, preferably an antiseptic metal. In particular, the common cover element can be washed and also reusable.

The cover element may be designed in the form of a screw cap, in particular wherein a wall thickness of the lid element is formed both in relation to a side surface of the lid element and on a top surface of the lid element such that at least two channels are formed therein or thereto. Each one channel is therefore intended to produce a respective associated fluid connection to a chamber. The number of channels is for example identical to the number of chambers.

In accordance with at least one embodiment, the cover element has at least one longitudinally continuous hole, within which the mouthpiece can be placed, so that the Mouthpiece in the longitudinal direction of the hole in the cover member protrudes at least partially, in particular wherein the channel systems open in a side surface of the hole, so that in each case a hole of the cover element in at least partial overlap overlap each with an opening of the mouthpiece can be brought to at least one continuous fluid connection to each Chamber and the mouthpiece to produce.

Preferably, the through hole is formed in a top surface of the lid member. The hole may be centered to the longitudinal direction.

The lid member is for example a screw cap with an internal thread and / or a snap closure. For example, one side surface of the lid member has a protrusion which can hook with another protrusion of the housing for releasable sealing.

According to at least one embodiment, at least one channel system opens laterally, that is, in a direction transverse to the longitudinal direction in the mouthpiece.

It is conceivable that the two chambers in the housing are connected to each other via a connecting device such that the two chambers are rotatable relative to a housing wall of the housing, in particular rotatable about the longitudinal direction. In this respect, the above-mentioned magazine-like arrangement of the chambers is generated around the longitudinal direction.

The device may comprise a twisting mechanism, which is actuated via the adjusting means.
It is also conceivable that the device has a level indicator and / or a level sensor, which measures a level of each chamber. If the level of a chamber falls below a minimum level, it is conceivable that a blocking device of the device automatically interrupts the fluid connection between the respective chamber and the mouthpiece. This blocking device can be operated electrically via the battery of the device. The battery of the device may be the only power source of the device. The battery is also preferably a heater operated to evaporate or heat the flue. For example, the locking device comprises a closing element, which moves into the respective fluid line or completely obstructs one end of the fluid line.

In accordance with at least one embodiment, the adjusting means is a mechanical adjusting means, for example an adjusting knob, which by pressing causes rotation of the mouthpiece about the longitudinal direction and / or rotation of the lid member in the longitudinal direction. Meanwhile, the mouthpiece and / or the cover element are fixed (generating a relative rotation of both components). Also, via the adjusting means, a rotation about the longitudinal axis of the chambers, which are arranged for example in the form of revolver drum, are generated.

For this purpose, the adjusting knob can be connected to a movement mechanism which can generate the above-mentioned rotations or at least one rotation.

In accordance with at least one embodiment, the adjusting means comprises an electric motor which generates a rotation of the mouthpiece in the longitudinal axis and / or a rotation of the lid member about the longitudinal axis.

For example, the adjustment means may also produce the above-mentioned rotation of the chambers relative to the housing wall of the housing.

In accordance with at least one embodiment, the device is designed to be portable, in particular having a maximum extent in the longitudinal direction of at most 15 cm, preferably of at most 10 cm, and a maximum width in a direction transverse to the longitudinal direction of at most 6 cm, preferably at most 4 cm.

These above dimensions have been found to be particularly advantageous if the above-described device just, as already shown, is designed as portable.

In the following, the device present here will be explained in more detail with reference to an embodiment and the associated figures.

• 1 schematische Draufansicht der erfindungsgemäßen Vorrichtung;
• 2 Querschnittsseitenansicht der erfindungsgemäßen Vorrichtung;

In the 1 to 2 are each shown in more detail in schematic / perspective views of individual elements of the invention described here.

• 1 schematic plan view of the device according to the invention;
• 2 Cross-sectional side view of the device according to the invention;

In the figures, the same or equivalent components are each provided with the same reference numerals. The elements shown here are not to be considered as true to scale. Rather, individual elements may be exaggerated for better understanding.

In the 1 is a schematic plan view of a device according to the invention described here 100 for generating and inhaling smoke, so here presented e-cigarette for generating and inhaling smoke represented.

Like from the 1 can be detected includes the device 100 in the plan view several chambers 1 , each in the longitudinal direction L are arranged one above the other (see also 2 ).

Each of the chambers 1 is set up and intended to receive a smoking agent, in particular, for example, to be evaporated liquid for an e-cigarette.

In addition, a means 2 to record one within the chambers 1 incurred smoke, the means 2 both fluidically with the two chambers 1 , as well as with a mouthpiece 3 connected to the inhalation of the smoke.

The in the 1 represented chambers 1 are in a portable case 4 installed, taking over each of the chambers 1 by means of a, in particular at least partially lockable channel system 5 , fluidic with the mouthpiece 3 are connected.

Moreover, in the 1 recognizable that the mouthpiece 3 several openings 31 has in each of which a channel system 5 flows so that over the opening 31 the fluid connections arise.

In addition, the shows 2 a common cover element 6 , wherein the cover element 6 on the case 4 mounted, in particular screwed and the channel systems 5 preferably completely in or on the cover element 6 , Especially in a side cover wall of the lid member 6 , integrated is installed.

For example, the cover element 6 formed with a plastic material which has been formed by means of an injection molding process, so that the channel systems 5 inside the lid element 6 for example, are automatically formed over such a casting process.

In addition, the cover element 6 in the longitudinal direction L a through hole 61 inside, within which the mouthpiece 3 is placed so that the mouthpiece 3 in the longitudinal direction L out of the hole 61 the lid element 6 at least partially stands out.

About it can in a side surface 61A of the hole 61 the canal systems 5 open, so each hole 61 the lid element 6 in overlap with an opening 31 of the mouthpiece 3 can be brought and at least one continuous fluid connection between each chamber 1 and the mouthpiece 3 is made.

However, as in the 2 represented, project the channel systems 5 from a base lid 63 in the longitudinal direction L out. For this purpose, the channel systems 5 in each case a first end, which in each case in an opening of a chamber 1 opens and in an upward direction, that is in a direction parallel to the longitudinal direction L from the base lid 63 protrudes. The base lid 63 therefore indicates for each channel system 5 one in the longitudinal direction L completely through opening 63A on. These openings 63A are magazine-like around the mouthpiece 3 in the base lid 63 arranged.

For example, the base cover 63 together with the channel systems 5 relative to the housing 4 in the longitudinal direction L rotatable.

The duct systems 5 protrude from the base lid 63 at least partially out. Again 2 can also be taken, are the openings 31 in the longitudinal direction L above the base lid 63 arranged. The duct systems 5 are in the 2 each drawn as a continuous single channels.

The invention is not limited by the description of the embodiment. Rather, the invention encompasses any novel feature as well as any combination of features, including in particular any combination of the claims, even if this feature or combination itself is not explicitly stated in the patent claims or in the exemplary embodiment.

LIST OF REFERENCE NUMBERS

1

chamber

2

medium

3

mouthpiece

4

casing

5

channel system

6

cover element

9

closure element

21

adjustment

31

openings

61

hole

61A

side surface

63

base cover

63A

Openings in the base lid

100

contraption

L

longitudinal direction

V

Direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction

Claims (8)

Device (100) for generating and inhaling smoke, in particular e-cigarette for generating and inhaling smoke, comprising - at least two chambers (1), each of which is arranged and provided for a smoking agent, for example tobacco or a liquid to be evaporated - at least one means (2) for receiving a smoke arising within the chambers (1), the means (2) being connected both fluidically to the two chambers (1) and to a mouthpiece (3) for inhaling the smoke characterized in that the means (2) for receiving a smoke comprises at least one adjusting means (21), wherein by means of the adjusting means (21) has a flow cross-section with respect to each chamber (1) and / or with respect to the mouthpiece (3 ) Is adjustable so that either either of the two smoke means inhalable by a user or both flue gases are inhaled simultaneously, the two chambers (1) in a longitudin alen direction (L) are arranged one above the other, and wherein each of the chambers (1) by means of a, in particular at least partially shut-off, channel system (5) are fluidly connected to the mouthpiece (3) or connectable. Device (100) according to Claim 1 , characterized in that the mouthpiece (3) has at least two openings (31), in each of which a channel system (5) opens, so that via the openings (31), preferably shut off, fluid connections arise. Device (100) according to Claim 1 or 2 , characterized in that the channel systems (5) are formed in a common cover element (6), wherein the cover element (6) on the housing (4) is detachably mountable. Device (100) according to at least one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the cover element (6) has at least one in the longitudinal direction (L) through hole (61) within which the mouthpiece (3) is placeable, so that the mouthpiece (3 ) in the longitudinal direction (L) from the hole (61) of the lid member (6) protrudes, in particular wherein in a side surface (61 A) of the hole (61) the channel systems (5) open, so that in each case a hole (61) of the Cover element (6) in cover overlap with one opening (31) of the mouthpiece (3) can be brought to at least one continuous fluid connection between each chamber (1) and the mouthpiece (3) to produce. Device (100) according to at least one of the preceding claims, characterized in that at least one channel system (5) opens laterally, that is to say in a direction (V) transversely to the longitudinal direction (L), in the mouthpiece (3). Device (100) according to at least one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the adjusting means (21) is a mechanical adjusting means (21), for example an adjusting knob, which presses a rotation of the mouthpiece (3) about the longitudinal direction (L ) and / or a rotation of the lid member (6) about the longitudinal direction (L) is generated. Device (100) according to at least one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the adjustment means (21) comprises an electric motor which permits rotation of the mouthpiece (3) about the longitudinal direction (L) and / or rotation of the cover element (6). generated around the longitudinal direction (L). Device (100) according to at least one of the preceding claims, characterized in that it is designed to be portable, and in particular has a maximum extent in the longitudinal direction (L) of at most 15 cm, preferably of at most 10 cm and a maximum width in one direction (V ) transverse to the longitudinal direction (L) of not more than 6 cm, preferably not more than 4 cm.

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