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Smoking device

US4216786A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateJun 15, 1979
Grant dateAug 12, 1980
Priority date
Expiry dateJun 15, 1999

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
  • CPC primaryA24F1/26
  • WIPO fieldOther consumer goods
  • WIPO sectorOther fields

Abstract

A smoking device is provided which includes a base having compartments for holding tobacco or the like and a lighter. At one end of the base is a rotatable, longitudinally extending and hollow burning chamber having an elongated longitudinal opening in one side thereof and having relatively small orifices in either end. A lighter is positioned in one of the compartments of the base so that its flame when lit, extends adjacent one of the orifices in the burning chamber. The other orifice in the chamber has located proximal thereto, a rotatable smoking stem provided with an orifice which may be aligned with the chamber orifice by appropriate rotation of the smoking stem. Further rotation of the stem disengages its orifice from alignment with the chamber orifice and locates the stem in a storage compartment in the base. The rotatable burning chamber may be rotated about its longitudinal axis so as to align the elongated opening therein with the tobacco compartment for loading the chamber. Further rotation disengages such alignment and locates the burning chamber in its smoking mode. A stop mechanism and designations are provided to indicate to the user which mode the burning chamber i…

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