SMOKING APPARATUSES WITH INTEGRATED RETAINER FOR RETAINING A FLEXIBLE SCREEN

• US 20140158143A1
• Filed: 12/10/2012
• Published: 06/12/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/10/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Randal Barrett
• Original Assignee: Randal Barrett
• Inventors: Barrett, Randal
• Application Number:
  US13/710,327
• Publication Number:
  US 20140158143A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 131/202
• CPC Class Codes: A24F 1/02 with arrangements for cleaning or cooling the smoke hookahs A24F1/30
• CPC Class Codes: A24F 1/28 Tubular pipes, e.g. in the form of cigars

Abstract

A smoking apparatus for a smoking product, comprising: a substantially hollow stem defining a bore having a bore diameter, a bowl proximate the first end of the hollow stem, the bowl. having an open end configured to receive the smoking product therethrough and a bottom end opposite the open end, the bowl further including: a screen retention area defined by the contour of the inner wall and disposed opposite the open end of the bowl and configured to selectively retain a flexible screen, the screen retention area further including: a screen retainer disposed proximal the bottom end of the bowl, and a lateral boundary region disposed adjacent the screen retainer and configured to receive a circumferential edge of a flexible screen, and a shoulder support disposed adjacent the lateral boundary region and protruding inwardly into the bore diameter of the bowl to support the flexible screen opposite the screen retainer. In some examples, the smoking apparatus includes a hollow stem that terminates with an arcuate bend.

Claims

1. A smoking apparatus for a smoking product, comprising:

a substantially hollow stem defining a bore having a bore diameter, the hollow stem including a first end, a second end, and an inner wall, the second end disposed opposite the first end; and

a bowl proximate the first end of the hollow stem, the bowl having an open end configured to receive the smoking product therethrough and a bottom end opposite the open end, the bowl being integrally coupled to the first end, the bowl further including;

a screen retention area defined by the contour of the inner wall and disposed opposite the open end of the bowl and configured to selectively retain a flexible screen, the screen retention area further including;

a screen retainer, the screen retainer disposed proximal the bottom end of the bowl;

a lateral boundary region, the lateral boundary region being disposed adjacent the screen retainer and extending across the bore diameter a distance greater than the inside diameter of the bowl, the lateral boundary region being configured to receive a circumferential edge of the flexible screen; and

a shoulder support, the shoulder support being disposed adjacent the lateral boundary region and protruding inwardly from the lateral boundary region into the bore diameter of the bowl to support the flexible screen opposite the screen retainer.

2. The smoking apparatus of claim 1, wherein the screen retainer is defined by a restricted-opening that is less than the outer diameter of the flexible screen and holds the flexible screen in the screen retention area.

3. The smoking apparatus of claim 1, wherein the screen retainer, the lateral boundary region, and the shoulder support cooperate together to retain the flexible screen in the screen retention area.

4. The smoking apparatus of claim 1, wherein the hollow stein is configured to draw air and vaporized smoking product from the bowl.

5. The smoking apparatus of claim 1, wherein the second end of the hollow stem defines a restricted-flow opening.

6. The smoking apparatus of claim 1, wherein the open end of the bowl further includes a reinforced lip, the reinforced lip having a wall thickness that is twice the wall thickness of the bowl.

7. The smoking apparatus of claim 1, wherein the shoulder support defines the bottom end of the bowl.

8. The smoking apparatus of claim 1, wherein the shoulder support and the screen retainer cooperate to receive and release the flexible screen to and from the lateral boundary region through the open end of the bowl.

9. A smoking apparatus for a smoking product, comprising:

a substantially hollow stem defining a bore having a bore diameter, the hollow stem including a first end, a second end, and an inner wall, the second end disposed opposite the first end, the first end terminating with an arcuate bend; and

a bowl disposed proximal the arcuate bend of the first end, the bowl having an open end configured to receive the smoking product therethrough and a bottom end opposite the open end, the bowl being integrally coupled to the first end of the hollow stem, the bowl further including;

a screen retention area defined by the contour of the inner wall and disposed opposite the open end of the bowl and configured to selectively retain a flexible screen, the screen retention area further including;

a screen retainer, the screen retainer disposed proximal the bottom end of the bowl and where the screen retainer defines a constriction to the bowl in the screen retention area and where the bore of the constriction is less than the outer diameter of the flexible screen; and

a lateral boundary region, the lateral boundary region being disposed adjacent the screen retainer; and

a shoulder support, the shoulder support being disposed proximal the lateral boundary region, the shoulder support extending inwardly from the lateral boundary region into the bore diameter of the bowl to support the screen opposite the screen retainer.

12. The smoking apparatus of claim 12, wherein the second end of the hollow stem is configured to receive a variety of smoking-product filters.

10. The smoking apparatus of claim 12, wherein the lateral boundary region is configured to receive a circumferential edge of the flexible screen.

11. The smoking apparatus of claim 12, wherein the screen retainer, the lateral boundary region, and the shoulder support cooperate together to retain the flexible screen in the screen retention area.

13. The smoking apparatus of claim 12, wherein the stem is configured to draw air and vaporized smoking product from the bowl.

14. The smoking apparatus of claim 12, wherein the second end of the hollow stem is configured with a restricted-flow opening and cooperates with the shoulder support to minimize the smoking product from being inhaled by the user.

15. The smoking apparatus of claim 12, wherein the shoulder support and the screen retainer cooperate to receive and release the flexible screen to and from the lateral boundary region through the open end of the bowl.