Loading tube

• US 10,473,323 B2
• Filed: 04/12/2017
• Issued: 11/12/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 04/12/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Brendan J. Squashic, Zacaria R. Oxford
• Original Assignee: Brendan J. Squashic, Zacaria R. Oxford
• Inventors: Squashic, Brendan J., Oxford, Zacaria R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Bhat, Nina
• Application Number:
  US15/485,307
• Publication Number:
  US 20170292694A1
• Time in Patent Office: 944 Days
• Field of Search: 131194, 131273, 12820221
• CPC Class Codes: A24F 40/10 Devices using liquid inhalable precursors
• CPC Class Codes: A24F 40/44 Wicks
• CPC Class Codes: A24F 40/70 Manufacture
• CPC Class Codes: F22B 1/28 in boilers heated electrically superheating using an electrical heat source independent from heat supply of the steam boiler F22G1/165

Abstract

A loading tube has Japanese cotton placed within a polymer tube. The tube has a hollow, cylindrical form with a tip and an opposite tail. The Japanese cotton advances through the tube exiting at the tip and withdrawing from the tail. The tube has a sidewall with a thickness and an inner diameter suitable for containing Japanese cotton and then advancing it into an atomizer. The outer diameter of the tube cooperates with an aperture in the coil of the atomizer. The tip and the tail have a rim with a square cut. The tube has its size that relates its length to its inner diameter, and to its thickness within a range. The tube utilizes polypropylene for its construction. Alternative fibrous material may be substituted for Japanese cotton.

Claims

1. A method of delivering a wick into vaping equipment, the vaping equipment having a coil, comprising:

providing a hollow, elongated tube having a tip and an opposite tail, said tip being spaced ahead of said tail;

placing a wick into said tail and leaving a portion of the wick outwardly from said tail;

orienting said tip towards the coil of the vaping equipment;

inserting said tip into the coil;

pushing said tube through the coil leaving the wick behind thus delivering the fibrous material into the coil; and

,

withdrawing said tube from the vaping equipment.

2. A device delivering a wick into vaping equipment, comprising:

a tube, generally hollow, elongated and round, having a length and an outer diameter;

said tube having a sidewall, a tip, an opposite tail, and an inner wall generally concentric with said sidewall, said inner wall being spaced inwardly by said thickness, said tip being spaced ahead of said tail, said tip is adapted to insert into the vapinq equipment;

said sidewall having a thickness imparting rigidity to said device;

said tube said tip having a rim and said tail having a rim, each of said rims occupying a plane perpendicular to the length of said tube, each of said rims having a width defined by said thickness of said sidewall, an outer edge, and an inner edge spaced inwardly from said outer edge, said inner edge extending from said inner wall;

each of said rims being square wherein said outer edge and said inner edge of each of said rims occupy a common plane perpendicular to said length;

wherein said inner wall has a coefficient of friction from about 0.1 to about 0.3;

wherein said length has a ratio to said thickness of about 40 to about 600 and said length has a ratio to said outer diameter of about 4 to about 12; and

,

wherein said device is adapted to admit a wick into said tail and then is adapted to deliver the wick from said tip into the vaping equipment.

3. The device delivering a wick of claim 2 wherein said wick is Japanese cotton and said tube is polypropylene;

and,

wherein said inner wall has a profile roughness factor from about 300×

10<sup>−

6</sup> to about 80×

10<sup>−

6</sup> and porosity less than 10% by area.