Smokeless non-tobacco cigarette

• US 3,200,819 A
• Filed: 04/17/1963
• Issued: 08/17/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 04/17/1963
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Herbert A. Gilbert
• Original Assignee: Herbert A. Gilbert
• Inventors: Gilbert, Herbert A.
• Application Number:
  US04/273,624
• Time in Patent Office: 853 Days
• US Class Current: 128/202.21
• CPC Class Codes: A24F 40/10 Devices using liquid inhalable precursors
• CPC Class Codes: A24F 40/46 Shape or structure of electric heating means
• CPC Class Codes: A24F 40/485 Valves; Apertures
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 15/06 Inhaling appliances shaped like cigars, cigarettes or pipes

Claims

1. A SMOKELESS NON-TOBACCO CIGARETTE COMPRISING (A) AN EXTERNAL TUBE HAVING INNER AND OUTER END PORTIONS, (B) A FLAVOR CARTRIDGE IN THE OUTER END PORTION, (C) HEATING MEANS IN THE TUBE, (D) A TUBULAR LINER ALSO IN THE TUBE AT LEAST PARTIALLY SURROUNDING AND SPACED FROM THE HEATING MEANS AND HAVING (E) AN INTERNAL WALL SHAPED TO PRODUCE TURBULENCE IN THE AIR STREAM DRAWN THROUGH THE SPACE BETWEEN THE HEATING MEANS AND TUBULAR LINER, (F) A MOUTHPIECE ON THE INNER END PORTIONS OF THE TUBE FOR DRAWING ATMOSPHERE AIR BY INHALING THROUGH THE OUTER END PORTION OF THE TUBE INCLUDING THE CARTRIDGE AND THROUGH THE SPACE BETWEEN THE HEATING MEANS AND LINER AND INTO THE MOUTH OF THE USER, AND SAID CARTRIDGE HAVING AIR PASSAGES THERETHROUGH COMMUNICATING AT THE OUTER END OF THE TUBE WITH THE ATMOSPHERE AND AT THE INNER END OF THE TUBE WITH SAID SPACE AND ULTIMATELY WITH THE MOUTHPIECE FOR PERMITTING AIR TO BE DRAWN PAST THE FLAVOR CARTRIDGE FOR INHALATION BY THE USER AT THE MOUTHPIECE.