US3124143A - Smoking accessories - Google Patents

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Marc'h 1o, 1964 F. T. BARTOLOMEO 3,124,143

SMOKING ACCESSORIES Filed May 7, 1957 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 F|G.I

INVENTOR. Frank T. Bartolomeo Arp@- March 10 1964 F. T. BARTOLOMEO 3,124,143

SMOKING ACCESSORIES Filed May 7. 1957 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 INVENTOR. Frank T. Barjolomeo wrm United States Patent Oiiice dllgld Patented Mar. l0, 1964 3,124,143 SMKNG AQCESSRHES Frank 'lll Bartolomeo, 130 Kirkwood Ave., Merrick, NX.;

.luiia A. Bartolomeo, exeeutrix of said Frank T. ilartoomeo, deceased Filed May 7, 1957, Ser. No. 657,574 2 Claims. (Cl. 13l 253) This invention relates generally to the class of tobacco and is directed particularly to a smokers accessory.

In my pending applications Serial Nos. 592,312 and 599,843, now abandoned, there have been disclosed and claimed certain improvements in cigarettes* and like articles directed to the prevention of the smoker drawing into his mouth and lungs harmful volatilized tars and other substances resulting from the tobacco. Another feature associated with the improved constructions shown in the copending applications referred to is the provision of a means whereby the hot smoke and vapors will be cooled somewhat before passing into the mouth of the smoker to not only bring about a desired condensation of the volatilized substances but also to generally add to the pleasure of smoking the cigarette.

In the disclosures of the several embodiments of the inventions in the copending applications, the different constructions for the cigarette are illustrated and described without reference to the manner in which the constructions shown and claimed are produced and it is an object of the present invention to provide an article which may be employed by the smoker to produce the formations or constructions shown in the said copending applications in cigarettes as they are now marketed, these cigarettes lacking the formation or formations shown in the copending applications.

The means by which the desired condensation of volatile products of combustion may be effected in a cigarette and whereby the pleasure of smoking the cigarette is augmented, consists of or is provided by a number of air passageways formed obliquely in the body of the cigarette and which passageways open through the outside or wrapper portion of the cigarette and converge toward the longitudinal axis of the cigarette. In certain aspects of the invention, the passages are in crossed relation and not only open at one end through the wrapper of the cigarette but at the other ends open through the end face of the butt end portion of the cigarette and, in all cases, such passageways are confined or restricted to a small section or short portion of the butt end of the cigarette and do not extend into the part of the cigarette which is conventionally burned or smoked.

A further object, in the light of the foregoing, is to provide an accessory to be carried by a smoker which will enable him to form such air passageways in a cigarette not provided with such in its manufacture, and which article in a simplified form embodies a sleeve or jacket into which the butt end of the cigarette is inserted and which has a guide means to facilitate the extension of a sharp penetrating element at the desired angle through the butt end of the cigarette.

Another object of the invention is to provide an article for producing desired air passageways in and through the butt end of a cigarette which is constructed in a novel manner whereby a movable portion of the article, when shifted in the proper direction after applying the article to the cigarette, will automatically project penetrating elements into and through the cigarette to form the desired air passageways.

A further object of the invention is to provide a smokers accessory for use in the manner above described, which will not only function efficiently for the accomplishinent of the desired result but which may be economically produced.

The invention will be best understood from a consideration of the following detail description taken in connection with the accompanying drawing forming part of the specification, with the understanding, however, that the invention is not confined to a strict conformity with the showing of the drawing but may be changed or modified so long as such changes or modifications mark no material departure from the salient features of the invention as expressed in the appended claims.

In the drawings:

FiG. l is a View in longitudinal section through one embodiment of the present invention and through the butt end of a cigarette upon which the invention is shown mounted and illustrating the manner in which a penetrating implement may be thrust through the cigarette for the formation of the desired air passage;

FlG. 2 is a transverse section taken substantially on the line 2 2 of PEG. l;

FlG. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view through a second embodiment of the invention and through the butt end of a cigarette upon which it is shown mounted and illustrating in dotted outlines the position assumed by the passage-forming needles carried by a reciprocable sleeve forming a part of the article;

FG. 4 is a transverse sectional view taken substantially on the line 4 4 of FIG. 3;

PEG. 5 is a transverse sectional view taken substantially on the line 5 5 of FIG. 3;

FIG. 6 is a View in longitudinal section of a third embodiment of the invention showing the same applied to the longitudinally sectioned butt end portion of a cigarette and illustrating a carrier for a single needle swung out toward a position of operation, there being shown in dotted outline the forward end of the needle carrier and the needle in position for use;

FG. 7 is a sectional detail taken substantially on the line 7 7 of FIG. 6;

FlG. 8 is a longitudinal section through a fourth embodiment of the invention showing the same mounted upon the longitudinally sectioned butt end portion of a cigarette and showing the single needle carrier in closed or retracted position; and

FIG. 9 is a transverse sectional view taken substantially on the line 9 9 of FIG. 8.

Referring now more particularly to the drawings, reference will iirst be had to the form of the invention illustrated in FIGS. 1 and 2.

The numeral l@ generally designates a sleeve or jacket having a bore or passage l2 of a diameter to relatively snugly receive a cigarette. This bore diameter is of the proper size to receive the outside tip covering or jacket where such may be present on the cigarette or it may obviously readily receive an untipped form of cigarette.

The body of a cigarette is generally designated ld and and the numeral le designates a conventional wrapper while the numeral 1S designates the tobacco filling therein and in the illusurated cigarette, there is shown a filter mouth piece or filter body 20 which may be of any character such as the well-known cellulose type of filter or a filter made up of micaceous material or any other suitable filtering substance.

The numeral 2l designates a tip covering such as is frequently applied to cigarettes but it will be understood that while such covering has been here illustrated and has been illustrated in the succeeding figures, the invention is in no respect limited to the type of cigarette upon which it is to be used.

In the form of the invention thus far described, the sleeve or jacket 10, which may be made of metal, plastic or any other suitable material, is provided with a number of obliquely directed guide openings 22 which are equidistantly spaced circumferentially of the body. Any number of these openings may be provided but it is preferred that there be three or four. These openings are located at the correct distance from the end of the jacket or sleeve toward which they are directed and at the proper angle to the longitudinal axis of the sleeve so that when the sleeev is placed on the butt end of the cigarette and the said end of the jacket, which may be referred to as the rear end and which is designated jitla, an air passageway may be formed which will lie partly in the tobacco body and will extend entirely through the body of filter material 20 to open through the end face 29a of the filter material.

In addition to the guide passages 22 located as described, there is provided a second group of guide passages 23 which are disposed nearer to the rear end of the jacket and which are arranged to from a greater or wider angle with respect to the longitudinal axis of the jacket than the passageways 22. These passages 23 are angled so that when the jacket is placed on the cigarette with the end a in the plane of the end face 29a and a suitable penetrating instrument is extended through them, the desired passage will be formed entirely in the body of the filter material and will terminate within the filter body rather than extending to and opening through the end face 2i). These passages 23 may be in any suitable number.

The numeral 24 generally designates a penetrating implement which may be employed for forming the desired passageways in and through the cigarette butt. This implement may be a steel or other suitable metal or it may be formed of plastic or any other material which will function satisfactorily and is, of course, pointed at one end as indicated at 25 and in its use, as illustrated in FIG. 1, where it may be desired to form an air passage or a number of passages completely throught he length of the filter body and partly in the tobacco body, it is inserted into a passage 22 after the sleeve has been properly located on the cigarette and pushed or forced inwardly and forwardly in the manner shown. The cigarette and the sleeve may then be turned to facilitate the extension of the penetrating implement through another passage 22 after the implement has been withdrawn from the first formed passage, as will be obvious.

The passages 22 and 23 may be offset one from the other in the diametrical lines as shown in FIG. 2 so that they will merely cross or they may be placed on the diametrical lines of the cigarette and the jacket so that the passages will intersect.

In the use of the passages 23, where the penetrating implement is so guided that it will not project through the end face 2da of the filter body, the several passages can be formed to meet and join approximately on the longitudinal axis line of the cigarette within the filter body, as indicated by the dotted lines 26.

In the second embodiment of the invention illustrated in FIGS. 3 and 4, the jacket is provided with or carries a sleeve which is adapted to be shifted longitudinally of the jacket to effect the desired formation of passageways through the body of the cigarette or through the filter material. In this second embodiment, the jacket is generally designated 27 and the cigarette with the filter tip of the same construction as that described in connection with FIG. 1 is generally designated 28. The filter tip in this cigarette 28 is designated 29.

The reciprocable sleeve carried by the jacket 27 is designated 30 and this sleeve carries in the forward end,

upon the inner side thereof, a key 31 which is adapted for sliding movement in one of several needle slots 32 which are formed in and longitudinally of the surface of the jacket 27 from the forward end 36a of the jacket through a substantial portion of the length thereof. Each of these slots 32 terminates at its forward end in and communicates with an obiiquely directed needle guide passage 33. In this embodiment of the invention there are preferably four of the slots 32 and, of course, there would be four of the needle guide passages 33 although there may be more or less as desired and these needle guide passages 33 are located with respect to the rear end 30!) of the jacket at approximately the same position as the passages 23 formed in the jacket l0. With the passages 33 so located, they will lie approximately at the inner end of the filter body 29 when the jacket is properly positioned on the cigarette, that is, with the end 30h in the plane of the end face of the cigarette and the filter so that the passages, when formed, will lie entirely within the filter body and open through the end face of the filter body.

The sliding sleeve forms a needle carrier and each of the slots 32 has positioned therein a needle 34 of suitable length and which needles are of a highly flexible material so that they may bend easily in the use of the device in the manner hereinafter described.

Each of the needles has a hinge end 35 through which passes a suitable pivot element 36 carried in and extending across the wall of the sleeve in an obvious manner, the inner wall of the needle carrier sleeve being provided with a suitable recess 37 to receive the hinge end of each needle.

The opposite end of the needle which, of course, is pointed as indicated at 38 is normally housed in or covered by the wall of the sleeve when the sleeve is in retracted position and in the use of the device when the sleeve is shifted or slid toward the rear end of the jacket, the pointed end 38 of each needle will ride into the associated guide passage 33 and the needle will be fiexed so that it will be directed obliquely through the body of filter material in the manner illustrated in dotted lines.

FIGS. 6 and 7 illustrate the third embodiment of the invention and in these figures in which this embodiment is shown mounted upon a cigarette, the cigarette is generally designated 39 and the filter body is designated 40.

Here, in this third embodiment, the jacket into which the butt end of the cigarette is inserted, is generally designated 41, the rear end being designated 41a.

The jacket 41 is provided with a number of circumferentially spaced needle guide passages 42 which are disposed approximately the same distance from the rear end 41a of the jacket as the passages 23 and 33 hereinbefore referred to. Also these passages 42 are angled approximately the same as the previously described passages referred to so that the penetrating element will pass into and through the major portion of the length of the filter body.

On the jacket 41, there is positioned a needle carrier sleeve generally designated 43. This sleeve is located on the forward end portion of the jacket and is held against longitudinal or reciprocatory movement thereon but is permitted rotary motion or movement on the jacket. Any suitable means may be employed for retaining the sleeve so that it may be turned around the jacket but held against longitudinal movement as, for example, the surface of the jacket may be provided with a circumferential groove 44 and the sleeve may be provided with a screw or pin 4S extending through the wall thereof and having its inner end slidably engaged in the groove 44.

The sleeve 43 has formed at the outer surface or wall the longitudinal channel 46 which, at its forward end, merges in a recess 47.

Adapted to lie in the channel 46 is a needle guide which is generally designated 48 and which is here shown as comprising a slotted tube 49 which has at its forward end hinge ears 50 while lie in the recess 47 and is retained in position by a pivot pin 51 which is extended chordally gf and through the sleeve 43 as shown in dotted line in The slot of the guide tube 49 is inside of the tube remote from the channel 46 and such slot is designated 52 and at each end of the slot a suitable stop means is located thereacross for the purpose hereinafter set forth, the stop means at the slot ends being designated 53 and 54.

Within the guide tube is the passage forming needle or penetrating element 55 which, as in previously described elements, has a pointed advancing end and rearwardly directed end 56 and adjacent to the forward end of the guide, the needle or penetrating element has fixed thereto a button 57 which is connected with the needle by a reduced neck portion 58 which lies in the slot.

In the use of the implement of the invention shown in FIGS. 6 and 7, the sleeve 43 is rotated to the proper position where upon extension of the needle 55 rearwardly from the tubular guide, the point of the needle can enter a guide passage 42 and upon being further advanced from the guide, the needle can be forced into and obliquely through the body 40 of filter material as illustrated in dotted lines in FIG. 6. In this filter, the guide is shown infull lines partly swung out from the channel 46 and in the dotted outline of the pivoted end of the guide, it is shown in the fully outswung position so that the needle can be extended directly into an adjacent guide passage.

In the second and third embodiments of the invention, the sleeve illustrated has been mounted on the jacket so that it may have a predetermined direction of movement on the jacket.

In the fourth embodiment of the invention as illustrated in FIGS. 8 and 9, a sleeve is illustrated for supporting the needle carrier with respect to the jacket but it is not movable relative to the jacket but other means is provided as hereinafter described for positioning the needle where it can be extended into the cigarette.

In this last named embodiment, the cigarette is generally designated 59 and the body of filter material in the butt end thereof is designated 60.

The numeral 61 designates an elongate tubular jacket corresponding to those hereinbefore described and having the open forward and rear ends 61a and 61b respectively.

The numeral 62 designates one of a desired number of obliquely directed piercing needle or pin guide openings which, as in the previously described embodiments, is at a predeterminately spaced distance from the rear end 61h of the jacket so that when a filter cigarette is in the jacket, the piercing pin when projected through the guide opening will enter the cigarette preferably in the rear end portion of the filter body.

Secured upon and encircling the jacket 61 between the forward end 61a and the guide opening 62 is the sleeve 63 which, in this case, is not movable on the jacket. The rearward end of this sleeve is turned to a reduced diameter through a portion of its length forming the end extension cuf 64 and the surface of this cuff has formed therein and therearound the recess 65 in which is located for rotary movement around the cuff the collar ring 66.

The outer side of the sleeve has formed therein a channel 67 corresponding to the channel 46 of the third embodiment for receiving a tubular piercing pin guide 68 of the same or similar form as the guide 4S. Like the guide 4S, this guide 68 has the longitudinal Slot 69 in the wall thereof which is remote from the bottom of the channel 67 in which the guide is adapted to position, the forward and rear ends of the slot having positioned thereacross the stops 76 and 71 respectively.

The rearwardly directed end of the piercing pin guide 68 extends from the channel 67 across the collar 66 and has a pivot ear or pivot ears 72 which position adjacent to fixed ears 73 which are carried by the collar 66. In the construction illustrated, there are two such ears 72 and two ears 73, and ears '72 are shown-between the ears 73 but it will be readily apparent thatthis arrangement may be changed as may be desired solongas the required pivotal connection between the end of the guide and collar is effected and in the illustrated construction, this pivotal connection between the ears is attained by means of a short pivot pin 74 which, as shown in FIG. 9, passes transversely through the interleafed ears.

The guide houses the elongate pointed and preferably flexible piercing pin 75, the pointed end 76 of which is at the rear end of the guide and the opposite or nonpointed end of the pin has attached thereto by means of a short neck 77, a manipulating button 78, the neck 77 lying in the slot and the button being outside the guide and extending over the slot as will be readily apparent particularly upon reference to FIG. 9.

It is believed that it will be readily apparent that in the use of the invention in the form of the fourth embodiment, that the tubular guide 66 is swung outwardly on the pivot 74 after rotating the collar 66 to the proper position where the pin can be aligned with an opening 62 and when the proper angular position of the guide is obtained, the piercing pin may then be slid rearwardly from the guide so as to extend the point of the pin through the opening and into the body of filter material 66 to the desired extent. The angular disposition of the opening or openings is such that the air passage formed by the pin can be extended completely through the filter body t0 open through the rear end face thereof or the passage may be only formed part-way through and then by turning the collar to a position where the pin can be extended through a second opening 62, another passage can be formed which will merge with the first passage at approximately on the longitudinal center of the cigarette.

As hereinbefore stated, any number of guide openings may be formed in a circular series around any one of the illustrated jackets and also while there has been illustrated only in the first described embodiment two groups of these circumferentially disposed openings, one of which groups being at a different angle to the longitudinal axis of the jacket than the openings of the other group, the jackets of the second, third and fourth embodiments may be provided with openings corresponding to the openings 22, if desired, and other necessary adjustments may be made in the associated parts of the accessory to enable the user to form an air passage or air passages through a part of the tobacco filling as well as through the body of filter material.

The accessory as disclosed in any one of the embodiments described may be constructed of any desired or suitable material such as metal, plastic or the like, and the needles or piercing pins may also be formed of any suitable material and preferably should be resilient or ilexible to a certain or necessary degree, particularly in the form of the invention shown in FIG. 3 or the piercing pins must bend as they are forced into the guide openings 33.

From the foregoing, it will be seen that there is provided by the present invention, by its several embodiments, a novel article or smokers accessory by means of which cigarettes or similar smoking articles may be provided with air passageways which will not only improve or greatly add to the pleasure of smoking but will materially benefit the smoker in that the resultant condensation of volatilized tars and other substances will be prevented frorn passing into the smokers mouth and into his lungs. It is believed that the extensive investigations which have been made by medical investigators clearly indicate undeniable harmful results are had 0r come about from smoking and that such harmful results are directly traceable to the absorption in the mouth and through the lung tissues of harmful volatilized tars which are formed by the heat of combustion of the burning tobacco. Consequently, it` will be seen that by the use of a device such as that shown here in any one of the different described embodiments, to form air passages in the cigarette at the butt end thereof which will bring about a condensation of the volatilized harmful substances, material benefits to the health of the smoker will be obtained.

What is claimed is:

1. A srnokers accessory of the character and for the purpose stated comprising a tubular jacket having a longitudinal axis of constant inside diameter throughout its length and adapted to snugly receive a cigarette or like smoking article, the jacket having a Wall with an opening extending therethrough toward one end thereof and oblique to the longitudinal axis of the jacket, the said opening being located at a distance spaced from the end of the jacket toward which its inner end is directed whereby a pin, needle or like elongate pointed element may be extended therethrough into an end portion of a cigarette in the jacket toward and in close proximity to that end of the cigarette intended for placement in the mouth of the smoker, there being a second opening through the jacket wall oblique to and forming a wider angle with said axis than the rst opening and located between a plane passing across the jacket through the first opening and the said end of the jacket.

3 2. The combination with a smokers accessory as dened by claim 1, of an elongate pointed penetrating article of a size to pass through said wall opening and of a length to extend at least to approximately the longitudinal axis of the jacket.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 66,325 Guinand July 2, 1867 522,076 Miller June 26, 1894 582,706 Vorel May 18, 1897 915,807 Taylor Mar. 23, 1909 1,740,606 Knudsen Dec. 24, 1929 1,778,482 Burns Oct. 14, 1930 FOREIGN PATENTS 17,383 Great Britain 1889 6,250 Great Britain 1893 26,937 Great Britain 1902 758,429 Great Britain Oct. 3, 1956

Claims (1)

1. A SMOKER''S ACCESSORY OF THE CHARACTER AND FOR THE PURPOSE STATED COMPRISING A TUBULAR JACKET HAVING A LONGITUDINAL AXIS OF CONSTANT INSIDE DIAMETER THROUGHOUT ITS LENGTH AND ADAPTED TO SNUGLY RECEIVE A CIGARETTE OR LIKE SMOKING ARTICLE, THE JACKET HAVING A WALL WITH AN OPENING EXTENDING THERETHROUGH TOWARD ONE END THEREOF AND OBLIQUE TO THE LONGITUDINAL AXIS OF THE JACKET, THE SAID OPENING BEING LOCATED AT A DISTANCE SPACED FROM THE END OF THE JACKET TOWARD WHICH ITS INNER END IS DIRECTED WHEREBY A PIN, NEEDLE OR LIKE ELONGATE POINTED ELEMENT MAY BE EXTENDED THERETHROUGH INTO AN END PORTION OF A CIGARETTE IN THE JACKET TOWARD AND IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO THAT END OF THE CIGARETTE INTENDED FOR PLACEMENT IN THE MOUTH OF THE SMOKER, THERE BEING A SECOND OPENING THROUGH THE JACKET WALL OBLIQUE TO AND FORMING A WIDER ANGLE WITH SAID AXIS THAN THE FIRST OPENING AND LOCATED BETWEEN A PLANE PASSING ACROSS THE JACKET THROUGH THE FIRST OPENING AND THE SAID END OF THE JACKET.

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