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Hand-held smoker's device for sidestream smoke control

US6158530A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateOct 28, 1998
Grant dateDec 12, 2000
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Expiry dateOct 28, 2018

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
  • CPC primaryA24F13/00
  • WIPO fieldOther consumer goods
  • WIPO sectorOther fields

Abstract

A cigarette combustion unit for the use in a hand-held cigarette smoke filtering device for filtering sidestream smoke emitted from a cigarette burning in the unit comprising: i) an elongate closed combustion chamber for a burning cigarette, a lower wall portion of the combustion chamber at least having an air porous portion to permit air to enter the combustion chamber, ii) a cigarette holder in an end of the combustion chamber for holding a cigarette in the combustion chamber with its burning end spaced from chamber interior wall surfaces, and iii) a sidestream smoke outlet in the end above the cigarette holder.

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