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WO2012170056A2 - Dispositif à fumer en forme de cigare - Google Patents

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WO2012170056A2
WO2012170056A2 PCT/US2011/049450 US2011049450W WO2012170056A2 WO 2012170056 A2 WO2012170056 A2 WO 2012170056A2 US 2011049450 W US2011049450 W US 2011049450W WO 2012170056 A2 WO2012170056 A2 WO 2012170056A2
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A24—TOBACCO; CIGARS; CIGARETTES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES; SMOKERS' REQUISITES
    • A24F—SMOKERS' REQUISITES; MATCH BOXES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES
    • A24F1/00—Tobacco pipes
    • A24F1/28—Tubular pipes, e.g. in the form of cigars

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  • This invention is in the field of smoking pipes and other smoking devices.
  • Traditional pipes generally consist of a bowl (burning chamber, combustion chamber), with an open end that is generally expected to be held in an open end up position when in use.
  • the bowl in turn is generally connected by a thinner hollow airway tube to a mouthpiece.
  • the material used for the bowl often has a major impact on the pipe properties when in use.
  • the chemistry of the burning process, and the resulting smoke can be influenced by the bowl, either favorably or unfavorably.
  • bowls made from porous heat-resistant materials are favored.
  • the porous nature of the bowl, as well as the bowl's basic heat conductivity thickness, can have an impact on the overall temperature of the pipe when in operation, helping the user keep the burning temperature in the optimal range.
  • a porous bowl material can also help absorb excess moisture from the smoke.
  • the bowl material may also char in a desirable manner that also positively contributes to the overall flavor of the smoke, and hence to smoking enjoyment.
  • materials such as briar or other dense woods, porous stone such as meerschaum or clay, or other materials such as corncobs may be used.
  • Briar in particular is highly prized, but it is available in only limited quantities. Briar for pipes is obtained from Erica arborea (briar bush) burls.
  • This bush grows only in a few habitats, and the small, ball-sized burls, which form near the base of the tree between the root and the trunk, typically take from 40 to 100 or more years to form, and must be elaborately seasoned and cured before use. These days such briar burls are hard to find.
  • pipe mouthpieces which are intended to be placed in the mouth repeatedly over time, are more commonly made from non-porous materials for sanitation and ease of cleaning.
  • the invention is based, in part, on the insight that pipes, although traditional, have now somewhat gone out of style to the point where a younger person may occasionally feel conspicuous when smoking a pipe in public. Thus, at least in terms of present fashions, a cigar-like form factor is often more socially acceptable for public occasions.
  • the invention is also based, in part, on the insight that the market for cigars is quite different from the market for pipes - that is the two markets largely address different populations of users, with the cigar market being quite a bit bigger. It is likely, however, that at least an appreciable percentage of cigar users may value the unique experience and flavors available to pipe smokers, if it were not for the form- factor of traditional pipes.
  • the invention also is based, in part, on the insight that pipe smokers often value the use of materials, such as briar, due to the unique and almost "nutty" flavor that a briar bowl, for example, can impart to the smoking experience.
  • briar is available in limited quantities, and is thus extremely expensive. Large and relatively defect- free chunks of briar, suitable for carving large and thick traditional pipe bowls, are particularly difficult to find because briar itself is not overly large, and often may possess internal defects .
  • the invention is also based, in part, on the insight that the use of metal parts in basically wooden or stone pipes, at least where the metal is exposed to heat, has substantial drawbacks because metal expands and contracts differently from the other pipe materials, and thus can with time cause the pipe to crack.
  • the invention is also based, in part, on the insight that if the tendency in the pipe making field towards making pipes with very thick bowls, intended for lifetime use, was abandoned in favor of thinner bowl designs with a more limited use lifetime, this trade-off might be commercially acceptable. That is, at the proper price point, a substantial portion of the market, might be willing to accept a competitively priced thinner wall bowl (combustion chamber) design, that has a more limited use lifetime (e.g. on the order of a year or 50 to 1000 uses).
  • the invention may be a cigar shaped pipe, ideally made from premium materials such as briar, yet designed to be low cost to manufacture.
  • the device may use a comparatively thin-walled combustion chamber, which both keeps material costs to a minimum, and also enables a comparatively simple and easy to manufacture design.
  • the pipe will not use metal parts or clips, but rather will use an end cap that generally made of the same materials as the main pipe body, and thus will have similar thermal expansion properties, as well as having the same beneficial combustion chamber properties.
  • the end cap (and for that matter the pipe body itself) may be made of briar, Morta (bog oak), ceramic, graphite, glass, or other fire resistant materials. This end cap utilizes a unique O-ring design to hold the pipe's end cap onto position, thus enabling easy loading and cleaning. This design also helps to prevent pipe cracking problems and loose part problems that can otherwise occur (due to differential thermal expansion) when metal parts are used.
  • the invention thus creates a low-cost pipe, with a cigar-like form factor preferred by modern smokers, which nonetheless delivers a premium smoking experience because the pipe may be based on the finest materials available.
  • the pipe is further designed to be easy to use, load, and clean, as well as to be simple and easy to manufacture.
  • Figure 1 shows an assembled cigar shaped smoking device, an exploded cross section showing the internal chambers, mouthpiece, and end cap of the device, and the combustion process and air flow that occurs when the device is in use.
  • Figure 2 shows a more detailed close-up of the various portions of the device.
  • Figure 3 shows the process of loading the device with smoking material.
  • the invention may be a substantially cylindrical smoking pipe, and will often be referred to in this specification in the alternative as a cigar shaped smoking device, device, or pipe.
  • Figure 1 shows the exterior of an assembled cigar shaped smoking device (100), an exploded cross section (102) showing the internal chambers (104), (106), (108), mouthpiece (110), and end cap of the device (112), and the combustion process and air flow that occurs when the device is in use (114).
  • This pipe will generally comprise a substantially a substantially cylindrical body (116). That is, although the body of the device may deviate somewhat from a true cylinder - it may be textured, and may also have a curved end (118), particularly near the mouthpiece. Thus from a distance, the overall impression of the body of the device, and indeed the device as a whole, will be that it is a roughly cylindrical object.
  • the body (116) may be made of a heat resistant porous material, such as briar, or other material such as wood or wood-like natural organic materials (e.g. bog- wood, briar, cherry wood, corncob, olivewood, maple, mesquite, oak and other woods).
  • a porous non-organic material e.g. catlinite, clay, meerschaum, soapstone and the like.
  • the dimensions of the device are shown in more detail in Figure 2.
  • the generally cylindrical body (116) will generally have a length (200) and radius (202).
  • the device will be made in various sizes, and often these sizes will fall within the same size ranges typically used to make small to large sized cigars.
  • the length of the cylindrical portion of the body (200) will generally be between 6 cm and 25 cm, and the radius of the body (202) (here termed the "first radius” or “body radius”) will often be between 8 mm and 30 mm.
  • the interior of the body e.g. the various chambers 104, 106, 108) will be hollow - both to accommodate the burning or combustion chamber (104), and also the airway chamber (106) and mouthpiece chamber (108).
  • the interior of the body will be configured into a distal (that is the section of the body towards the cap end (112) that is away from the user's mouth in normal use) and substantially cylindrical burning chamber (104).
  • the interior of this hollow combustion chamber or burning chamber (104) will have a second radius (burning chamber radius) (204).
  • This combustion chamber or burning chamber (104) will be connected to a substantially cylindrical airway chamber (106).
  • the interior of this airway chamber which itself will usually be cylindrical, will have a third radius (airway radius) (206).
  • the airway chamber in turn will connect to a proximal (i.e. end closer to the user's mouth in normal use), and substantially cylindrical mouthpiece chamber (108) with a fourth radius (mouthpiece chamber radius) (208).
  • the burning chamber (104) will be connected by a first junction (210) to the airway chamber (106), and the airway chamber (106) in turn will be connected by a second junction (212) to the mouthpiece chamber (108).
  • the burning chamber (104), airway chamber (106), and mouthpiece chamber (108) will generally each have a different radius (204), (206), (208).
  • junction (210) between the burning chamber (104) and the airway chamber (106), as well as the junction (212) between the airway chamber (106) and the mouthpiece chamber (108) may be abrupt (that is, a 90 degree angle)
  • one or both junctions (210), (212) may be tapered so as to create an angle greater than 90 degrees at the tapered junction, thereby reducing turbulence in the air flow through the pipe, and lowering the amount of moisture condensation at the tapered junction(s).
  • condensation is undesirable because it creates a noisy pipe "gurgle", and also can potentially cause an unpleasant taste to be delivered to the user.
  • the second radius (burning chamber radius) (202) will be larger than the fourth radius (mouthpiece chamber radius) (208), and the fourth radius (mouthpiece chamber radius) (208) will be larger than the third radius (airway radius) (206).
  • the burning chamber (108), airway chamber (106), and mouthpiece chamber (108) will usually all be aligned in a straight line (214) about a common axis.
  • the thickness of the device's material (i.e. wall thickness) (216) at the burning chamber i.e. the difference between the first radius (body radius) (202) of the device body and the second radius (burning chamber radius) (204) of the burning chamber
  • the thickness of the device's material (i.e. wall thickness) (216) at the burning chamber i.e. the difference between the first radius (body radius) (202) of the device body and the second radius (burning chamber radius) (204) of the burning chamber) will be set to between 2 mm and 6 mm in thickness.
  • This is substantially less than many pipes that are designed for lifetime use, and is done this way in order to maintain the cigarlike shape of the device on the outside, while keeping the dimensions of the internal burning chamber large enough to function adequately.
  • This design also is very efficient in terms of its use of scarce and expensive materials such as briar.
  • the distal end (away from the smoker's mouth) of the body will have an attached stepped cylindrical end cap (112).
  • this end cap will be comprised of the same heat resistant porous material as the main body.
  • the end cap (112) may be composed of briar as well.
  • This end cap (112) will generally comprise a larger diameter distal first cylinder (218), often with a radius substantially similar to the first radius (body radius) (202) of the main body (116).
  • the end cap's first cylinder (218) will then usually step down in radius, often abruptly (i.e. a 90 degree drop) to a proximal side second cylinder (220).
  • This second end cap cylinder (220) will usually have a radius that is at least slightly less than that of the second radius (burning chamber radius) (204) of the burning chamber (104) inside the main body (116).
  • This second end cap cylinder (220) will also have a substantially cylindrical outer indentation (222) configured to hold a deformable O-ring (224).
  • This deformable O-ring (224) will ideally be made of a temperature resistant but at least semi-elastic material such as rubber or silicone, and this O-ring will be mounted in this cylindrical outer indentation (222).
  • the end cap (112) will be held in place by a friction fit or elastic fit caused by the elastic deformation of the O-ring (224). This friction fit will help affix the end cap to the distal portion (and burning chamber) of the device body.
  • At least the portion of the end cap (112) that is visible when the end cap is affixed to the body (1 16) may be rusticated and/or colored darker than the body and optionally may be further given a textured surface so as to at least somewhat resemble the ash surface of a partially smoked cigar.
  • various dyes such as Fiebing's leather dye, available from the Fiebing Company, Milwaukee Wisconsin, may be used to achieve the desired color effect.
  • This optional rusticated or textured surface is represented on some of the representations of the end cap (1 12) as small circles (226). For clarity, this optional textured surface is not always shown, however.
  • the end cap (112) will usually have at least one (often several or more) hollow air opening(s) (228) that extend from the proximal (smoker side) radius of the second cylinder through at least a portion of the distal first cylinder of the end cap and to the outside, thereby allowing air to flow from outside of the pipe to the burning chamber (104) when the end cap is affixed to the body.
  • the device will also have a hollow mouthpiece (1 10), usually made from a separate and preferably non-porous material such as amber, polyoxybenzylmethylenglycolanhydride
  • This hollow mouthpiece (1 10) will usually be inserted into the proximal end of the body (1 16) at the mouthpiece chamber (108), and the end of the mouthpiece (230) will generally protrude past the proximal portion of the device's body.
  • the distal end of the mouthpiece may be beveled in a manner that is complementary to junction (212), thus helping to achieve a good seal between the mouthpiece and the airway chamber (206).
  • the mouthpiece (110) may be affixed to the body by various methods, often the mouthpiece will have a substantially cylindrical tenon portion (232) that is configured to be inserted into the mortise region created by the mouthpiece chamber (108). This thus creates a mortise and tenon type joint that can help hold the mouthpiece in place firmly in the proximal end of the body (1 16).
  • This basic mortise and tenon type joint can be further supplemented with glue or other binding methods and methods as needed.
  • the mouthpiece (1 10) will generally be substantially cylindrical, and may have a maximum sixth radius (mouthpiece radius) (234) that is less than the first radius (body radius) (202).
  • This mouthpiece will generally have a hollow interior (236) that extends from the proximal portion (user mouth end) of the mouthpiece to the distal portion of the mouthpiece. This will create a complete linear airway or air flow passage that extends from at least the proximal end of the mouthpiece to the distal end of the body (1 16). The airflow passage will then further extend, when the device is in use, from the distal end of the body (1 16) through the at least one hollow air opening (228) of the end cap (112), and from there to the outside air.
  • the hollow interior of the mouthpiece (236) may be a simple cylinder, in a preferred embodiment, the hollow interior of the mouthpiece may be tapered from a first distal radius that is substantially similar to the third radius (airway radius) (206) of the airway chamber, to a smaller proximal second radius (not shown) that is, for example less than 80% of the third radius (206) of the airway chamber ( 106).
  • Figure 2 also shows alternate views of the mouthpiece (1 10) from the proximal (user side) (238) and the distal (body side) (240), these thus represent top (238) and bottom (240) views of the mouthpiece (1 10) which otherwise is generally shown in cross-section.
  • Figure 2 also shows alternate views of the end cap (112) from the proximal (user side (242) and distal side (244). These represent bottom (242) and top (244) views of the end cap (1 12) which otherwise is generally shown in cross section.
  • the lengths of the combustion chamber (104), airway chamber (106), and mouthpiece chamber (108) may vary. Generally the sum of these three lengths will be equal to the body length (200). Often the length of the combustion chamber will be between 30 to 70% of the body length, the length of the airway chamber will be between 10 to 65% of the body length, and the length of the mouthpiece chamber will often be between 5 to 20% of the body length. However these limits are only approximate, and in some embodiments the various lengths may fall outside of these limits. In one embodiment, these relative dimensions, in terms of the percent of body length (200), may be approximately as shown in Figure 2.
  • Figure 3 shows the process of loading the device with smoking material.
  • the end cap is removed (by pulling the end cap off), and the smoking material (300) is loaded into the burning chamber (104).
  • the smoking material (302) is lit, and the end cap (112) is placed into position (304), (306).
  • a complete airway will be formed where outside air (308) may enter the device through the at least one air opening in the end cap (228), flow past the combustion chamber or burning chamber (104), through the airway chamber (106), into the mouthpiece chamber (108), through the hollow interior of the mouthpiece (236) and to the user (310).
  • Delrin® is a Dupont registered trademark.
  • Lexan® is a registered trademark of GE Plastics, now SABIC Innovative Plastics.

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L'invention porte sur une pipe en forme de cigare, idéalement réalisé à partir de matériaux de grande qualité tels que de la bruyère, mais conçu cependant de façon à être de faible coût à fabriquer. Le dispositif utilise une chambre de combustion à paroi comparativement mince, qui, tout à la fois, maintient les coûts en matériau à un minimum, et autorise également une configuration comparativement simple et facile à fabriquer. Dans une mode de réalisation préféré, la pipe n'utilisera pas d'attaches ou de pièces en métal, mais utilisera plutôt un capuchon d'extrémité qui est constitué par les mêmes matériaux que le corps de pipe principal, et aura ainsi des propriétés de dilatation thermique similaires. Ce capuchon d'extrémité utilise une configuration de joint torique unique pour maintenir le capuchon d'extrémité de la pipe en position, de façon à permettre ainsi un chargement et un nettoyage faciles. Cette configuration aide également à empêcher des problèmes de fissures de la pipe et des problèmes de pièces lâches qui peuvent, sinon, se produire (du fait de la dilatation thermique différentielle) quand des pièces métalliques sont utilisées.
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