Compact smoking apparatus and manufacture thereof

• US 6,736,143 B2
• Filed: 01/10/2002
• Issued: 05/18/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 01/10/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Bryan Rennecamp
• Original Assignee: Bryan Rennecamp
• Inventors: Rennecamp, Bryan
• Primary Examiner(s): Griffin, Steven P.
• Assistant Examiner(s): LOPEZ, CARLOS N
• Application Number:
  US10/044,259
• Publication Number:
  US 20020088469A1
• Time in Patent Office: 859 Days
• Field of Search: 131/187, 131/191, 131/240.1, 131/241, 131/242, 206/242, 220/810, 220/345.1
• US Class Current: 131/240.1
• CPC Class Codes: A24F 1/00 Tobacco pipes
• CPC Class Codes: A24F 23/00 Cases for tobacco, snuff, or chewing tobacco

Abstract

A compact wooden smoking apparatus wherein the body of the apparatus has a constant peripheral contour in cross sections taken in any plane generally parallel to the body top and body bottom. A wooden blank for use in the manufacture of a plurality of compact wooden smoking apparatuses, the wooden blank having a constant peripheral contour in cross sections taken in any plane generally perpendicular to its longitudinal axis. A method for manufacturing a compact wooden smoking apparatus involving milling an elongate piece of wood into an elongate wooden blank imparting a constant peripheral contour in cross sections taken in any plane generally perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the piece of wood, and cutting lateral sections from the wooden blank to produce a plurality of smoking apparatus body sections.

Claims

1. A compact wooden smoking apparatus comprising:

a smoking apparatus body having a body top, a body bottom, and body external side walls;

wherein the body has a constant peripheral contour in cross sections taken in any plane generally parallel to the body top and body bottom;

a smoking material receptacle in the body having a smoking material receptacle opening at the body top;

a pipe receptacle separate from the smoking material receptacle; and

a lid for the smoking material receptacle, the lid having a lid top, a lid bottom, a lid width, lid depth, and lid external walls;

wherein the lid has a constant peripheral contour in cross sections taken in any plane generally parallel to the lid top and lid bottom; and

a replacement lid section extending upwardly from the smoking apparatus body bottom, the replacement lid section having a constant peripheral contour in cross sections generally parallel to its top and bottom, which constant peripheral contour corresponds to the constant peripheral contour of the body, such that when the replacement lid is attached to the body, the lid and body are alignable such that the compact smoking apparatus including body and replacement lid section has a constant peripheral contour in cross sections from the body top through the replacement lid.