TOBACCO CARTRIDGE FOR PIPE-LIKE SMOKING DEVICE

• US 3,760,814 A
• Filed: 08/31/1971
• Issued: 09/25/1973
• Est. Priority Date: 08/31/1971
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: David B.L. Brickwood, Kenneth B. Fether, Peter Steer Sampson
• Original Assignee: David B.L. Brickwood, Kenneth B. Fether, Peter Steer Sampson
• Inventors: Fether, Kenneth B., Brickwood, David B. L., Sampson, Peter Steer
• Primary Examiner(s): Reich, Joseph S.
• Application Number:
  US05/176,700
• Time in Patent Office: 756 Days
• Field of Search: 131/3,15C,224,230
• US Class Current: 131/348
• CPC Class Codes: A24D 1/14 Tobacco cartridges for pipes

Abstract

A cartridge of tobacco for use with a pipe-like smoking device. The cartridge includes a charge of tobacco mounted in a rigid support which holds one end thereof and forms an enclosed chamber which chamber includes a trap chamber for waste juices from the tobacco. An aperture in the rigid support provides communication with the enclosed chamber for access to one end of the tobacco charge therethrough.

Claims

1. A cartridge of tobacco for use within a bowl of a pipe-like smoking device, said cartridge comprising:

a. a charge of tobacco, b. a lightweight thin-walled rigid support holding one end of the charge of tobacco having means therein defining an enclosed elongate chamber which is adapted to be a trap chamber for trapping therein fluid material which may be present during smoking, c. said support means including a horizontal surface below the charge of tobacco adapted to locate the cartridge vertically within a bowl of a pipe-like smoking device, and the portion of said thin-walled rigid support defining the elongate chamber extending downwardly below the level of the horizontal surface and adapted to support the cartridge horizontally within a bowl of a pipe-like smoking device, and d. means providing an aperture means in said thin wall of said rigid support, said aperture means communicating with the said one end of the tobacco charge through the enclosed elongate chamber means and said aperture means being adapted to assist in the location of the cartridge within a bowl of a pipe-like smoking device.

2. A cartridge as claimed in claim 1, wherein said horizontal surface is provided by means of a shoulder in the thin-walled rigid support and which forms an abutment, said abutment being adapted to provide a vertical flat surface in the thin-walled rigid support, the aperture means being provided in this vertical flat surface and said abutment further providing a firm seating for the cartridge within a bowl of a pipe-like smoking device.

3. A cartridge as claimed in claim 2, wherein the lightweight thin-walled rigid support is made from a synthetic resin.

4. A cartridge as claimed in claim 3, wherein the lightweight thin-walled rigid support includes an incombustible filter against which the tobacco charge abuts, an encircling band adapted to hold the tobacco charge against the lightweight thin-walled rigid support said band enclosing both the end of the tobacco charge and the lightweight thin-walled rigid support.

5. A cartridge as claimed in claim 4, wherein the lightweight thin-walled rigid support includes a second filter in abutment with said incombustible filter on the face remote from said tobacco charge.

6. A cartridge as claimed in claim 5, wherein the tobacco charge is enclosed in a sheath of reconstituted tobacco leaf.

7. A cartridge as claimed in claim 1 including a rupturable sheet of material covering said aperture means.

8. A cartridge of tobacco for use within a bowl of a pipe-like smoking device, said cartridge comprising:

a. a cylindrical charge of tobacco, b. a lightweight thin-walled rigid support holding one end of the charge of tobacco and having means therein defining an enclosed elongate chamber which is adapted to be a trap chamber for trapping therein fluid material which may be present during smoking, c. said support means including a horizontal surface below the charge of tobacco adapted to locate the cartridge within a bowl of a pipe-like smoking device, and the portion of said thin-walled rigid support defining the elongate chamber means extending downwardly below the level of the horizontal surface and adapted to support the cartridge horizontally within a bowl of a pipe-like smoking device, d. means providing an aperture in said thin-wall of said rigid support, said aperture means communicating with the said one end of the tobacco charge through the enclosed elongate chamber means and said aperture means being adapted to assist in the location of the cartridge within a bowl of a pipe-like smoking device, e. an incombustible filter against which the tobacco charge abuts, f. an encircling band which encloses both the end of the tobacco charge and the lightweight thin-walled rigid support to hold the tobacco charge against the lightweight thin-walled rigid support, g. a second filter in abutment with said incombustible filter on the face remote from said tobacco charge, aNd h. a sheath of reconstituted tobacco leaf in which the tobacco charge is enclosed.