SUBSTITUTE FOR A SMOKING ARTICLE SUCH AS A CIGARETTE

• US 3,683,936 A
• Filed: 12/12/1969
• Issued: 08/15/1972
• Est. Priority Date: 12/12/1969
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Cyril F O'Neil Jr
• Original Assignee: Cyril F O'Neil Jr
• Inventors: O'Neil, Cyril F. Jr.
• Primary Examiner(s): Koren, Samuel
• Assistant Examiner(s): Pitrelli, J. F.
• Application Number:
  US04/884,541
• Time in Patent Office: 977 Days
• Field of Search: 131/10.1,171,170,9 128/201,208 401/132
• US Class Current: 131/271
• CPC Class Codes: A24B 15/16 of tobacco substitutes
• CPC Class Codes: A24F 42/20 Devices without heating means
• CPC Class Codes: A24F 42/60 Constructional details

Abstract

This invention provides a substitute for a smoking article wherein the taste and aroma of burning tobacco may be inhaled without the inhalation of smoke created by the combustion of tobacco.

Claims

2. The invention of claim 1, wherein said cyliNdrical configuration is achieved by spiral rolling of the said sheet member.

3. The invention of claim 1, wherein said micro-cells and abrasive particles respectively, are secured on opposite surfaces of said sheet member.

4. The invention of claim 1, wherein said wrapped, convoluted member is attached in longitudinal continuation to a rod-like body of combustible material, said member and said body having impermeable means disposed therebetween to prevent the passage into said member of smoke from said body when the latter is ignited.

5. The invention of claim 1, wherein the content is synthesized smoke.