KR102467483B1 - Portable stick type hookah - Google Patents

Abstract

One embodiment of the present invention is a portable stick-type water cigarette, when ignited from an external heat source, a combustible heat source that transfers heat to a medium; a medium unit which is heated by the combustible heat source to generate an aerosol; a first filter that contains water and passes the generated aerosol through the water; A portable stick-type water cigarette comprising a; second filter for filtering the aerosol that has passed through the water so that the user can inhale it.

Description

Portable stick type hookah {Portable stick type hookah}

The present invention relates to a portable stick-type hookah, and more specifically, a hookah device, which is a type of conventionally known tobacco device, reduced to a size small enough to be portable, regardless of user's place. It relates to a portable hookah in the form of a stick that allows smoking through the.

Hookah (shisha or hookah) refers to a cigarette made so that a user can inhale tobacco smoke after filtering it with water using a series of devices. Hookah can provide users with a smoking experience through a smoking method using charcoal and a tool that is difficult to carry, and has the advantage of being less harmful than regular cigarettes, but cumbersome preparation process and long smoking time make it difficult to carry while smoking. There is something extremely difficult about it.

A hookah includes a container partially filled with water or other liquid. When the mouthpiece of the hookah is sucked, a negative pressure is formed in the container, and a smoke shaft with a headpiece at the upper end protrudes into the water at least a certain amount to keep the tobacco heated together with the charcoal at the upper part. . Finally, the mixture of smoke particles produced by heating the cigarette is inhaled by the smoker.

The technical problem to be solved by the present invention is that the existing hookah has a considerable weight and volume and has the inconvenience of having to be assembled together with various parts that are difficult to carry individually and cleans the various components constituting the hookah. It is to provide a stick-type hookah that has improved all the points that were difficult to meet hygiene standards because it was difficult to do.

A hookah according to an embodiment of the present invention for solving the above technical problem is a portable stick-type hookah, comprising: a combustible heat source that transfers heat to a medium when ignited from an external heat source; A medium unit for generating an aerosol by being heated by the ignition combustible heat source; a first filter containing water and passing the generated aerosol through the contained water; and a second filter filtering the aerosol that has passed through the water so that the user can inhale it.

According to the present invention, a user can simply smoke through a hookah regardless of location.

In addition, according to the present invention, since the appearance of the hookah is in the form of a stick, it is possible to provide the user with a smoking feeling similar to that of smoking through a conventional cigarette.

The hookah device according to the present invention can be simply reused by replacing only the used heat source and the aerosol generating substrate (medium).

1 is a view showing an example of the structure of a portable stick-type hookah according to the present invention.
2 is a view for explaining a case including a combustible heat source and a medium part.
3 is a view showing another example of the structure of a portable stick-type hookah according to the present invention.
4 is a view showing another example of the structure of a portable stick-type hookah according to the present invention.
5 is a diagram schematically showing an aerosol movement process in a portable stick-type hookah according to the present invention.

The terms used in the embodiments have been selected from general terms that are currently widely used as much as possible while considering the functions in the present invention, but they may vary according to the intention of a person skilled in the art or precedent, the emergence of new technologies, and the like. In addition, in a specific case, there is also a term arbitrarily selected by the applicant, and in this case, the meaning will be described in detail in the description of the invention. Therefore, the term used in the present invention should be defined based on the meaning of the term and the overall content of the present invention, not simply the name of the term.

When it is said that a certain part "includes" a certain component throughout the specification, it means that it may further include other components without excluding other components unless otherwise stated. In addition, terms such as “…unit” and “…module” described in the specification mean a unit that processes at least one function or operation, which may be implemented as hardware or software or a combination of hardware and software.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail so that those skilled in the art can easily carry out the present invention. However, the present invention may be implemented in many different forms and is not limited to the embodiments described herein.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

1 is a view showing an example of the structure of a portable stick-type hookah according to the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, the structure of the portable stick-type water cigarette according to the present invention includes a combustible heat source 110, a medium unit 120, a first connection unit 130, a first filter 140, and a second connection unit 150 , it can be seen that the second filter 160 is included. The configurations shown in FIG. 1 show configurations necessary for schematically explaining the structure of a portable stick-type hookah according to the present invention, and according to an embodiment, an additional configuration in addition to the above-described configuration is a portable stick-type hookah according to the present invention. It can also be included in hookah.

First, the combustible heat source 110 is ignited by a user to generate heat, thereby heating the medium included in the medium unit 120 to generate an aerosol. The combustible heat source 110 is made of a short cylindrical shape in accordance with the overall shape of a portable stick-type hookah with a material containing an ignition aid in a combination of carbon and various metal salts, and the user uses an external heat source such as a lighter or match to combustible heat source By igniting (110), heat can be generated.

The metal salt included in the combustible heat source 110 may be a metal salt mixed with calcium, potassium, copper, and the like, and the ignition aid may be calcium peroxide (CaO ₂ ) whose purity is appropriately adjusted experimentally or empirically. In addition, the combustible heat source 110 may include carboxymethyl cellulose, deionized water, and the like in a certain ratio.

The medium unit 120 includes an aerosol-generating substrate and is heated by an ignited combustible heat source to generate an aerosol. Here, the aerosol-generating substrate includes a tobacco material for incorporating a nicotine component into the aerosol to be generated.

The medium unit 120 may be manufactured in various ways, and as an example, it may be manufactured from a sheet, a strand, or chopped cut sheath. In addition, the medium unit 120 may include at least one of glycerin, propylene glycol, ethylene glycol, dipropylene glycol, diethylene glycol, triethylene glycol, tetraethylene glycol and oleyl alcohol as an aerosol generating material, but is limited thereto It doesn't work. In addition, the medium part 120 may contain other additives such as flavoring agents, wetting agents, and/or organic acids.

The medium part 120 may be surrounded by a heat conducting material. As an example, the thermal conduction material surrounding the medium unit 120 may be a metal plate or a cylindrical metal case having thermal conductivity greater than or equal to a predetermined value. The heat conduction material surrounding the medium part 120 prevents the medium part 120 from receiving direct heat from an external heat source and at the same time efficiently transfers the heat transferred from the combustible heat source to the medium part 120, It performs a function of assisting the medium unit 120 to generate aerosol at an appropriate temperature and speed.

2 is a view for explaining a case including a combustible heat source and a medium part.

Referring to FIG. 2, the case 200 includes both a combustible heat source 210 and a medium part 230, and a combustible heat source 210 and a medium part ( It can be seen that the metal 250 for thermal conduction physically separating the 230 is located.

In FIG. 2, the metal for heat conduction 250 is shown only in the form of a metal plate separating the combustible heat source 210 and the medium part 230, but according to the embodiment, the metal for heat conduction 250 is the medium part 230 It has already been described that it can be implemented in the form of a cylindrical metal case surrounding the whole. The metal for heat conduction 250 is made of a metal having a heat conduction coefficient greater than or equal to a predetermined value. The case 200 of FIG. 2 includes a combustible heat source 210, a medium part 230, and a metal for heat conduction 250, and may be separated from the housing. A description of the housing will be described later with reference to FIG. 3 .

Hereinafter, the description of FIG. 1 will be continued.

The first connection part 130 is a medium located between the medium part 120 and the first filter 140, and is pierced so that the aerosol generated from the medium part 120 can be smoothly transferred into the first filter 140. have a form Here, the piercing shape of the first connection part 130 refers to the sharp shape of the first connection part 130, and the protruding type structure of the first connection part 130 is the first filter 140. ) By being inserted into, the first connection portion 130 and the first filter 140 can be coupled. The first connector 130 serves to create a passage and a passage for supplying aerosol to the first filter 140, and since it is adjacent to the combustible heat source 110, it can be manufactured using a material with high heat resistance.

The first filter 140 is a filter through which the aerosol generated in the medium unit 120 passes, and when the first connection unit 130 and the second connection unit 150 are inserted into the first filter 140, the medium unit 120 ) direction or the second filter 160 has a closed structure so that water inside the first filter 140 does not flow out. The first filter 140 has a cylindrical shape identical to the overall shape of the hookah according to the present invention, and the direction of the medium part 120 and the second filter so that the first connection part 130 and the second connection part 150 can be inserted. A thin film cover is overlaid in the (160) direction. Among the insides of the first filter 140, filtering is performed only on the surface of the smoke bubbles that come into contact with water, so that the contact surface between the water included in the first filter 140 and the aerosol flowing from the medium part 120 is widened. The water present inside the first filter 140 is preferably 60% or less of the volume of the first filter 140, and according to the embodiment, by including a certain or more curved structure inside the first filter 140, The contact surface between water and aerosol can be increased.

In FIG. 1, the thin film cover of the first filter 140 is shown as a first cover 140A in the direction of the medium unit 120 and a second cover 140B in the direction of the second filter 160, For convenience, referring to FIG. 1 , it can be seen that water is contained within the first filter 140 above a certain level under the assumption that the first filter 140 is transparent.

The second connection unit 150 is a medium located between the first filter 140 and the second filter 160, and the aerosol generated from the medium unit 120 and filtered through the water of the first filter 140 is transferred to the second connection unit 150. It has a piercing shape so that it can be smoothly transferred to the filter 160. Here, the piercing shape of the second connection part 150 refers to the sharp shape of the second connection part 150, and the protruding structure of the second connection part 150 is inserted into the first filter 140. The second connection unit 150 and the first filter 140 may be coupled. The second connection unit 150 performs a function of generating a passage and a passage for supplying aerosol to the second filter 160 . Unlike the first filter 140, the second filter 160 does not contain water therein.

The second filter 160 performs a function of filtering the aerosol that has passed through the water of the first filter 140 so that the user can inhale it. The second filter 160 may be a cellulose acetate filter, and the second filter 160 may have a cylindrical shape according to the shape of a portable stick-type hookah. The second filter 160 may be a tubular shape including a hollow therein or a recessed shape. When the second filter 160 is composed of a plurality of segments, at least one of the plurality of segments may be manufactured in a different shape.

Although not shown in FIG. 1, the second filter 160 may be manufactured to generate flavor. As an example, flavoring liquid may be sprayed onto the second filter 160, or a separate fiber coated with flavoring liquid may be inserted into the second filter 160. In addition, at least one capsule may be included in the second filter 160 . Here, the capsule may generate flavor to add flavor to the aerosol generated in the medium unit 120 and enhance the user's smoking feeling.

Depending on the embodiment, the second filter 160 may include a segment for cooling the aerosol. Here, the cooling segment may be made of a polymer material or a biodegradable polymer material. For example, the cooling segment may be made of only pure polylactic acid, but is not limited thereto. Alternatively, the cooling segment may be made of a cellulose acetate filter perforated with a plurality of holes. However, the cooling segment is not limited to the above example, and may be applicable without limitation as long as it can perform a function of cooling the aerosol.

3 is a view showing another example of the structure of a portable stick-type hookah according to the present invention.

The portable stick-type hookah shown in FIG. 3 includes the combustible heat source 110, the medium unit 120, the first connection unit 130, the first filter 140, the second connection unit 150 and the second connection unit 150 described in FIG. Filter 160 is shown contained in a cylindrical housing similar to a traditional cigarette. The housing is a component that integrates each component constituting the portable stick-type hookah, and may be made of a material with strong heat resistance.

More specifically, in FIG. 3, the first connection part 130 and the second connection part 150 are not inserted into the thin film cover of the first filter 140, and the user uses the portable stick-type water cigarette according to the present invention. Prior to this, by applying force to the first connection part 130 and the second connection part 150 in the direction in which the first filter 140 is located, the protruding structure of the first connection part 130 and the second connection part 150 A specific part of the first filter 140 is passed through. After the first connection part 130 and the second connection part 150 are coupled to the first filter 140, the user can enjoy smoking through the hookah according to the present invention by igniting the combustible heat source with an external heat source. .

For convenience of description, hereinafter, the combustible heat source, the medium portion, and the first connection portion include a first area 310, the first filter is a second area 330, and the second connection portion and the second filter are included. This area is referred to as the third area 350, and although not shown in FIG. 3, the third area 350 is assumed to include a mouthpiece that the user contacts to inhale the aerosol.

4 is a view showing another example of the structure of a portable stick-type hookah according to the present invention.

FIG. 4 schematically shows that the first area 310 and the third area 350 are combined with the second area 330 in FIG. The first connection part and the second connection part located at are inserted into the first filter to create a path through which the aerosol can pass.

5 is a diagram schematically showing an aerosol movement process in a portable stick-type hookah according to the present invention.

In FIG. 5 , the first area 510 , the second area 530 , and the third area 550 are the same as the first area 310 , the second area 330 , and the third area 350 in FIG. 3 , respectively. It means a configuration, and will be described with reference to FIG. 1 .

First, when a user ignites the combustible heat source 110 and inhales it while bringing his or her mouth 50 into contact with the mouthpiece in the third area 550, the aerosol generated in the first area 510 passes through the second area 530. go to

In the second area 530, there is a first filter 140 filled with water at least a certain amount, and the aerosol moving through the first connection part 130 in the first area 510 is the water of the first filter 140. After being filtered in contact with the first filter 140, it is transferred to the third region 550 through the second connection part 150 coupled to the first filter 140. Although FIG. 5 shows that the aerosol passing through the first connection part 130 directly contacts the water of the first filter 140, according to the embodiment, the aerosol passing through the first connection part 130 directly enters the first filter 140. It does not come into contact with the water of the filter 140 and may come into contact with the water of the first filter 140 while flowing through the second connection part 150 .

The above case may occur when the positions where the first connection part 130 and the second connection part 150 are inserted into the first filter 140 are opposite, and in the present invention, the first area 510 generates In order to prevent aerosol from flowing into the third area 550 without contacting water at all in the second area 530, the positions where the first connection part 130 and the second connection part 150 are inserted are adjusted.

As an example, the first connection part 130 is inserted into the first through-hole of the first filter 140, the second connection part 150 is inserted into the second through-hole of the first filter 140, and the first Any one of the through-hole and the second through-hole may be implemented so that suction is performed in a state in which the first filter 140 is in contact with (submerged) water. By being implemented as above, according to the present invention, the aerosol can necessarily pass through the water of the first filter 140, and an aerosol having a unique flavor of the hookah device can be generated.

According to the present invention, a user can simply smoke through a hookah regardless of location.

In addition, according to the present invention, since the appearance of the hookah is in the form of a stick, it is possible to provide the user with a smoking feeling similar to that of smoking through a conventional cigarette.

The hookah device according to the present invention can be simply reused by replacing only the used heat source and the aerosol generating substrate (medium).

Specific implementations described in the present invention are examples and do not limit the scope of the present invention in any way. For brevity of the specification, description of conventional electronic components, control systems, software, and other functional aspects of the systems may be omitted. In addition, the connection of lines or connecting members between the components shown in the drawings are examples of functional connections and / or physical or circuit connections, which can be replaced in actual devices or additional various functional connections, physical connection, or circuit connections. In addition, if there is no specific reference such as "essential" or "important", it may not necessarily be a component necessary for the application of the present invention.

In the specification of the present invention (particularly in the claims), the use of the term "above" and similar indicating terms may correspond to both singular and plural. In addition, when a range is described in the present invention, it includes an invention in which individual values belonging to the range are applied (unless there is a description to the contrary), and each individual value constituting the range is described in the detailed description of the invention Same as Finally, unless an order is explicitly stated or stated to the contrary for the steps constituting the method according to the present invention, the steps may be performed in any suitable order. The present invention is not necessarily limited according to the order of description of the steps. The use of all examples or exemplary terms (eg, etc.) in the present invention is simply to explain the present invention in detail, and the scope of the present invention is limited due to the examples or exemplary terms unless limited by the claims. it is not going to be In addition, those skilled in the art can appreciate that various modifications, combinations and changes can be made according to design conditions and factors within the scope of the appended claims or equivalents thereof.

Claims (9)

As a portable stick-type water cigarette,
A combustible heat source ignited from an external heat source;
a medium unit which is heated by the combustible heat source to generate an aerosol;
a first filter for passing the generated aerosol through water;
a second filter filtering the aerosol passing through the water so that the user can inhale it;
a piercing-shaped first connection part positioned between the medium part and the first filter and transferring the aerosol generated in the medium part to the inside of the first filter; and
A second connection part in a piercing form located between the first filter and the second filter and passing an aerosol passing through the water of the first filter to the second filter;
One of the first connection part and the second connection part is inserted into the first filter to contact the water inside the first filter,
The first filter includes a first through-hole disposed in one area facing the medium portion and into which the first connection part is inserted, and a second through-hole disposed in another area toward the second filter and into which the second connection part is inserted. and
Any one of the first through-hole and the second through-hole is arranged to come into contact with the water inside the first filter, and the aerosol delivered to the inside of the first filter through the first connection part is passed through the inside of the first filter. After contact with the water of the, portable stick-type hookah that is transmitted to the second filter through the second connection portion. According to claim 1,
The water cigarette,
A portable stick-type water cigarette, characterized in that a metal plate having a thermal conductivity of a predetermined value or more is positioned between the combustible heat source and the medium part. According to claim 1,
The medium part,
A portable stick-type hookah, characterized in that surrounded by a metal cylindrical case having a thermal conductivity of a predetermined value or more. delete According to claim 1,
The first connection part,
coupled to the medium part,
A portable stick-type water cigarette characterized in that a portion of the first connection portion is inserted into the first through-hole so that the aerosol generated in the medium portion can move inside the first filter. According to claim 5,
The second connection part,
connected to the second filter,
A portable stick-type water cigarette characterized in that a portion of the second connection portion is inserted into the second through-hole so that aerosol present in the first filter can move to the second filter. delete According to claim 1,
The first filter,
A portable stick-type water cigarette, characterized in that it contains less than 60% of the volume of the first filter. According to claim 1,
The water cigarette,
Further comprising a cylindrical housing including the combustible heat source, the medium unit, the first filter and the second filter,
The combustible heat source and the medium unit,
A portable stick-type water cigarette, characterized in that it can be removed from the housing in a way that the connection with the first filter is released while being coupled to each other.

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