Portable vaporizer

• US 8,869,792 B1
• Filed: 07/21/2011
• Issued: 10/28/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/22/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Chung J.U. Lee
• Original Assignee: Chung J.U. Lee
• Inventors: Lee, Chung Ju
• Primary Examiner(s): Hand, Melanie
• Assistant Examiner(s): HAIRELL, AUNDRIA C
• Application Number:
  US13/188,450
• Time in Patent Office: 1,195 Days
• Field of Search: 128/202.21, 128/200.11, 128/200.12, 128/200.14, 128/200.16, 128/200.18, 128/200.21, 128/200.24, 128/203.12, 128/203.15, 128/203.16, 128/203.17, 128/203.26, 128/203.27, 128/204.18, 128/204.21
• US Class Current: 128/202.21
• CPC Class Codes: A24F 40/20 Devices using solid inhalable precursors
• CPC Class Codes: A24F 40/40 Constructional details, e.g. connection of cartridges and battery parts
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 11/042 electrical
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 15/0006 using rotating means
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 15/0021 Mouthpieces therefor
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 15/06 Inhaling appliances shaped like cigars, cigarettes or pipes
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3368 Temperature
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3606 cooled
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/7545 for solid matter, e.g. microaggregates
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/8206 battery-operated
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2206/14 Static flow deviators in tubes disturbing laminar flow in tubes, e.g. archimedes screws

Abstract

A portable apparatus for vaporizing herbs and plants comprising a housing or mixing chamber, which incorporates a vaporizing/heating element and a rotatable mixing element that allows for an effective level of mixing of the heated plants and the herbs during the vaporization process.

Claims

1. An apparatus for vaporizing herbs and plants comprising:

a housing, which contains a power source and an activation button for the power source and a vaporizing chamber;

the vaporizing chamber has a heating element, which is connected to the power source, and at least one rotatable stirring element;

the housing has at least one roller, which engages the at least one rotatable stirring element;

the herbs and the plants are placed within the vaporizing chamber;

a cap, a filter and a mouthpiece engage the vaporizing chamber;

so that when the herbs and plants are heated by the heating element to form vapors, the at least one rotatable stirring element creates a concurrent mixing of the herbs and the plants during the vaporization, and the vapors from the herbs and the plants are able to pass through the filter and the cap and exit through the mouthpiece.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the at least one rotatable stirring element is manually operated.

3. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the at least one rotatable stirring element is motor operated.

4. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein there is a first rotatable stirring element and a second rotatable stirring element.

5. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein there is a cooling apparatus, which is placed in between the cap and the mouthpiece;

the cooling apparatus comprises;

a cooling apparatus body with a first end and a second end;

the first end of the cooling apparatus body engages the cap;

the second end of the cooling apparatus body engages the mouthpiece; and

between the first and second ends of the cooling apparatus body, there is a condenser element, which cools down the vapors from the herbs and the plants.