Therapeutic cigarette-substitute

• US 4,149,548 A
• Filed: 09/21/1978
• Issued: 04/17/1979
• Est. Priority Date: 09/21/1978
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: John C. Bradshaw
• Original Assignee: John C. Bradshaw
• Inventors: Bradshaw, John C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Michell, Robert W.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Millin, V.
• Application Number:
  US05/944,255
• Time in Patent Office: 208 Days
• Field of Search: 126/263, 44/3 R, 44/3 A, 426/132, 426/134, 426/107, 128/212, 128/208, 128/401, 128/255, 266/219, 131/8 A, 131/171 A, 131/170 A, 252/70
• US Class Current: 131/273
• CPC Class Codes: A24F 42/10 Devices with chemical heating means
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 31/00 Devices for introducing or retaining media, e.g. remedies, in cavities of the body A61M25/00 takes precedence ; introducing or retaining ophthalmic products into the ocular cavities A61F9/0008

Abstract

In a preferred embodiment, there is provided an elongated article having a simulated-appearance of a cigarette but being a chemically-resistant chewable plastic having each of opposite ends thereof coated with an edible material preferably inclusive of a tobacco flavor-imparting composition and preferably inclusive further of caffeine, and an intermediate portion of the elongated article having therein isolated adjacent enclosure spaces separated from one-another by a rupturable septum rupturable by application of stress to said article, having sodium hydroxide in one of the enclosure spaces and having hydrochloric acid in the other of the enclosure spaces in amounts and proportions and concentrations sufficient to produce water and heat sufficient to heat the oppositely-coated ends of the elongated article when the septum is ruptured.

Claims

1. A simulated cigarette device comprising in combination:

an elongated article having compartment space formed therein divided into at-least two enclosure spaces separated from one-another by a rupturable septum adapted to rupture when subjected to stress, a first chemical being contained within one of the two enclosure spaces and a second chemical being enclosed within a remaining second one of the two enclosure spaces, the first chemical and the second chemical being such that when admixed, an exothermic reaction takes place producable of heat; and

at-least one end of the elongated article being coated by an edible substance.

2. A simulated cigarette device of claim 1, in which said one and said remaining second one of the two enclosure spaces are positioned at a location spaced-away-from said one end.

3. A simulated cigarette device of claim 2, in which said one end includes interior heat-conductive structure in heat-transfer contact with said one and said second one of the two enclosure spaces such that heat is conducted to said one end and said edible substance when said septum is ruptured sufficiently for said first and second chemicals to mix and react.

4. A simulated cigarette device of claim 3, in which said elongated article includes chemically-resistant and substantially non-rupturable walls forming said one and said remaining second one of the two enclosure spaces.

5. A simulated cigarette device of claim 4, including a chewable substantially non-rupturable plastic as an outer surface of said article and on which said edible substance is coated at said one end.

6. A simulated cigarette device of claim 5, in which said heat-conductive structure comprises liquid-enclosure structure having a consumable liquid therein.

7. A simulated cigarette device of claim 6, in which said consumable liquid comprises substantially water.

8. A simulated cigarette device of claim 7, in which both said one end and an opposite end of said elongated article are coated by said edible substance.

9. A simulated cigarette device of claim 8, in which said edible substances is substantially caffeine.

10. A simulated cigarette device of claim 9, in which said edible substance is inclusive of a tobacco flavor-imparting composition.

11. A simulated cigarette device of claim 8, in which said edible substance is inclusive of a flavor-imparting composition.

12. A simulated cigarette device of claim 1, in which said edible substance is inclusive of caffeine.

13. A simulated cigarette device of claim 1, in which said edible substance is inclusive of a flavor-imparting composition.

14. A simulated cigarette device of claim 1, in which said edible substance is inclusive of caffeine and of tobacco flavor-imparting composition.