US1850503A - Smoking appliance - Google Patents

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March 22, 1932. J. HUNTER SMOKING APPLIANCE Filed April 3, 1930 Patented Mar. 22, 1932 PATENT OFFICE JAMES HUNTER, OF NEWFANE, NEW YORK SMOKING APPLIANCE Application filed April 3, 1930. Serial No. 441,320.

This invention relates to that type of smoking appliances in which a tubular casing is arranged to entirely enclose the cigar or cigarette While being smoked, said casing being detachably connected to the mouth piece, and suitable air inlets being provided for supporting combustion, the object of the tubular casing being to retain the ash as it falls from the cigar or cigarette and thus prevent it from being scattered about. The object of the present invention is to provide air inlets of such nature as to keep the tubular casing cool during the smoking operation, as more fully hereinafter set forth.

In the drawings annexed:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of one form of my device.

Figure 2 is an end view of the outer end of the tubular casing.

Figure 3 is a transverse section on the line 3-3 of Figure 1.

Figure l is a side elevation showing a modified form of my device, and

Figure 5 is a transverse section 011 the line 55 of Figure 4.

Referring to Figures 1, 2 and 3, designates a mouth piece of any convenient form except that it is provided with an annular series of longitudinal grooves 11 on its exterior, which grooves extend to the outer end of the inoutn piece. Adapted to slidably fit onto the fluted end of the mouth piece is a tubular casing 12, long enough to accommodate the cigar or cigarette. structed, it will be observed t iat when a cigar or cigarette is placed in the mouth piece 10 in the usual manner and the tubular casing is slipped over the fluted end of the mouth piece, the cigar or cigarette will be entirely enclosed, and while being smoked the necessary air for supporting combustion will be drawn in through the grooves 11. The air will then be drawn in at various points around the mouth piece and traverse the tubular casing to the point where combustion takes place, whereby the air thus drawn in by the smoker will be utilized not only to support combustion, but to keep the tubular casing cool. To additionally cool the tubular casing, if necessary, the end wall of the tubular casing may As thus conbe provided with a plurality of fine holes, but the combined area of these holes will not be sufficient to support combustion since it is desirable, as stated, to draw most of the air required to support combustion into the casing through the grooves 11. After the cigar or cigarette is smoked the mouth piece is removed from the end of the tubular casing and the stump is discharged therefrom, and then the mouth piece is telescoped into the tubular casing for compactness and protection in carrying the appliance in the pocket of the user, this being due to the fact that throughout its length the mouth piece 10 is of smaller diameter than the interior of the casing 12.

In Figures at and 5, the construction is the same except that the open end of the tubular casing is crimped to provide interior longitudinal frooves 13 instead of providing the mouth piece with grooves.

I claim:

A smoking appliance embodying a mouth piece and a tubular casing having a fixed closed end-wall at its outer end for enclosing the tobacco article, said mouth-piece being formed of less diameter throughout its length than the interior of the casing, and air-grooves provided to permit its total enclosure to shorten the appliance for the pocket between the mouth-piece and casing and each having a closed terminal at one end, whereby a partial insertion of the mouthpiece into the casing will expose one end of the grooves to the atmosphere, and a further insertion of the mouthpiece beyond the closed ends of the grooves will close the grooves to the atmosphere.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aflix my signature.

JAMES HUNTER.

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