Smoking system

• US 4,214,658 A
• Filed: 08/21/1978
• Issued: 07/29/1980
• Est. Priority Date: 08/21/1978
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Design Impressions, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Simple Pleasures, Inc.
• Inventors: Crow, Floyd
• Primary Examiner(s): Ross, Herbert F.
• Application Number:
  US05/935,675
• Time in Patent Office: 708 Days
• Field of Search: 206/236, 206/237, 206/244, 206/246, 206/249, 206/250, 206/252, 206/267, 206/253, 217/62
• US Class Current: 206/244
• CPC Class Codes: A24F 23/04 combined with other objects, e.g. with filling devices for pipes

Abstract

A smoking system is provided to hold a smoking pipe and smoking material in a compact container and provide a quick and efficient method to fill the pipe with the smoking material.

Claims

1. A smoking system comprising:

a receptable having a first cavity and a second cavity therein, said second cavity being shallower than said first cavity and having a thick base;

openings in said receptacle leading to each of said cavities;

smoking pipe means removably disposed in said first cavity and having a bowl portion disposed on one end thereof;

the length of said smoking pipe means being greater than the depth of said second cavity;

smoking material disposed in said second cavity whereby said bowl portion of said smoking pipe means can be filled with said smoking material by inserting said smoking pipe means in said second cavity and tamping said bowl portion of said smoking pipe means against said thick base of said second cavity while gripping the other end of said smoking pipe means;

cover means associated with said receptacle across said openings of said cavities, said cover means movable to alternatively close or expose one or both of said cavities.

2. The smoking system of claim 1 including a resilient element disposed in said first cavity, whereby said pipe compresses said resilient element when said pipe is in said cavity and said cover closes said first cavity, and said resilient element biases said pipe to expose a portion of said pipe above said receptacle when said cover is moved to open said first cavity.

3. The smoking system of claim 2 wherein said resilient element is a spring.

4. The smoking system of claim 2 wherein said resilient element is a spongy material.

5. The smoking system of claim 1 wherein said cover is slidably mounted on said receptacle between a pair of guides associated with said receptacle.

6. The smoking system of claim 1 wherein said cover means includes a recess formed in the top surface at one end of said cover means.