US3810476A - Cigarette holder - Google Patents

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US3810476A
US3810476A US00263513A US26351372A US3810476A US 3810476 A US3810476 A US 3810476A US 00263513 A US00263513 A US 00263513A US 26351372 A US26351372 A US 26351372A US 3810476 A US3810476 A US 3810476A
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A24—TOBACCO; CIGARS; CIGARETTES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES; SMOKERS' REQUISITES
    • A24F—SMOKERS' REQUISITES; MATCH BOXES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES
    • A24F13/00—Appliances for smoking cigars or cigarettes
    • A24F13/02—Cigar or cigarette holders
    • A24F13/04—Cigar or cigarette holders with arrangements for cleaning or cooling the smoke

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  • ABSTRACT Apparatus to aid the tobacco smoker in overcoming the smoking habit in the form of a cigarette holder arranged to admit ambient air in parallel with the cigarette smoke in response to inhalation suction.
  • the flowpath through the holder includes two smoke storage chambers and a flow restrictor between the two chambers. Air is admitted into the upstream chamber. The downstream chamber is larger than the upstream chamber.
  • the flowpath is arranged so that smoking with the holder results in substantially the same feel in terms of temperature, flow rate and resistance to flow that he experiences when smoking without the filter.
  • the structure is arranged to accommodate a withdrawal method in which the size of the air inlet opening is increased from time to time.
  • the device employs a single shank with a series of bodies each with a different size air inlet hole.
  • the holder is dismantled from time to time during the withdrawal course. 1t is arranged so that the tars are filtered out of the smoke and retained in the holder where they will be visible for psychological effect.
  • One method for aiding smokers to overcome the smoking hibit involves introduction of air into the smoke as the smoker inhales.
  • the proportion of air is increased from time to time so that the smoker inhales less and less smoke.
  • a number of devices utilizing this principle have been offered to the smoker who finds himself unable to stop smoking without some mechanical aid.
  • smokers find it easier to quit with some of them than with others. That difference may be attributed to psychological factors that attend use of those devices.
  • the invention provides a structure that contributes to this result in a numberof ways.
  • the holder is arranged so that it will retain liquid and solid matter entrained in the smoke that passes through it.
  • the construction is such that a disassembly and reassembly process, must be conducted to change the proportion of air that is inhaled with the smokeso that the smoker cannot easily orby simple adjustment diminish the proportion of air.
  • the construction is such that the trapped solids and liquids, generally called tars, are exposed to view when he'goes through the process of changing the proportion of inlet air both so that he can feed that the device is protecting him from inhalation of those tars while presenting him with an abhorent indication of what he may have been inhaling prior to his attempt to stop smoking.
  • the preferred form of the invention uses a transparent or translucent material so that the smoker can observe the rate atwhich tars are collected whereby he is presented information from which he can gage the quantum of tars in cigarette smoke by observing the rate at which the holder is befouled. 7
  • the preferred embodiment is arranged so that the full magnitude of the tar problem is presented to the smoker whereby he can feel that smoking must be deleterious to his health and can believe that the apparatus is effective in protecting him and in helping him to break his addiction.
  • the faithfulness with which the smoker uses such a device is related to the degree, particularly at the start of the withdrawal program, in which the device simulates the smoking experience to which the user is'accustomed.
  • the likelihood that the smoker will use the apparatus is increased greatly if the temperature of the gases he inhales and if the pressure at which he inhales them, and if the time delay between application of suction pressure and the receipt of smoke all simulate closely what happens when his cigarette or smoked without a holder. This requirement is met by providing appropriate flow restrictors, storage spaces and an appropriate labyrinth in the flowpath through the holder.
  • the invention has as its object the provision of a structure which meets these functional and psychological objectives and which overcomes the problems and permits manufacture of an effective and inexpensive product of good quality-
  • the preferred embodiment of the invention is shown in the accompanying drawing. Nonetheless, as will be explained some of those features can be omitted without sacrificingcompletely the objects of the invention.
  • FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a cigarette holder embodying the invention and in-which a portion of the cigarette has been inserted;
  • FIG. 2 is a central longitudinal cross-sectional view of the holder shown in FIG. I and shown on an enlarged scale;
  • FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view taken on line 3-3 of FIG. 2;
  • FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view taken on line 4-4 of FIG. 2;
  • FIG. 5 is a perspective view of afragment of the upstream end of one of the members of the holder illustratinghow the channel is formed.
  • the holder 10 shown in the drawings is the preferred embodiment. At one end it is provided with a bit 12 that the smoker holds in his mouth between his teeth At its other end the holder is provided with a recess 26.
  • the holder is formed in two sections called the shank and the body, respectively.
  • Thebody 18 is provided with a metallic ring 20 atits forwardend in which the end of the cigarette is received. It is permanently fixed to the remainder of the body and is made of metal for aesthetic reasons.
  • the remaining portion of the body is made of polypropylene plastic.
  • the preferred form is sufficiently transparent so that the accumulation of tars within is visible but the preferred form has an amber or gray cast so that the color of the tars that collect within is not materially different from the color of the holder.
  • the shank 16 is formed in two parts to facilitate manufactureyone is the stem 22 and the other is a plug 24. These elements are best shown in FIG. 2.
  • the holder is recessed at 26 to receive the end of a cigarette. That recess is generally cylindrical terminating in a wall portion 28. In the embodiment shown the interior surface is stepped to three different diameters corcurrently in popular use.
  • a flat 30 extends across one side at the inner end of the recess. That flat serves two purposes. At its forward end it serves as a stop to limit the maximum degree of cigarette insertion so that a cavity 34 remains after a cigarette has been inserted.
  • that flat 30 serves to increase the wall thickness below a cutout or notch 36 formed in the outer wall of the body 18 as seen in FIG.
  • the plug 24 has larger diameter than it does at the right end.
  • the change in diameter is made abrupt so that a shoulder 54 is formed.
  • the flowpath for air and smoke continues from the storage cavity 46 through a small passageway 56, which leads from the side of the plug near the left end of storage cavity 46 where plug diameter is increased, to an opening at the left end of the plug where it communicates with a large storage chamber 58 formed within the stem 16.
  • the plug is press-fitted into the stem so the communication between the chambers 46 and 58 is afforded only through the passage 56.
  • the chamber 58 tapers down to a relatively narrow passageway to its opening 62 at the bit end of the device.
  • the recess 36 and the air inlet opening 38 and the storage chamber 34 form the beginning of a passageway through the holder which is formed, in series, by opening 40, channel 44, storage chamber 46, passageway 56, and chambers 58 including its outlet 62 at the bit.
  • the metal ring 20 is press-fitted to the body 18 so that they are joined permanently.
  • the plug 24 is permanently installed by press-fitting into the stem 22 and is not removable.
  • the body 18 and the shank 16 are separable and the user is expected to separate them, both to clean the plug portion of the shank and to replace the body 18.
  • the complete product includes a shank assembly and a number of body assemblies. The several body assemblies are alike except that the air inlet hole 38 has a different diameter in each body.
  • the product is supplied with instructions that suggest to the user that the body be replaced every several days or every week. At each replacement the body with the next larger air hole is attached to the shank and the previously used body is disposed.
  • the air inlet opening is omitted entirely from one of the bodies.
  • the accompanying instructions suggest that body be used first.
  • the diameter of the initial storage chamber or of the hole 40 at its outlet be less than the diameter of the plug 24 at the point where the plug seals off the cavity. This is necessary so that the smoke flow will be confined to the channel 44.
  • That channel has a sufficiently small cross-sectional area so that it offers a degree of resistance to flow roughly corresponding to the decrease in resistance to inhalation suction occasioned by the addition of the air hole 38.
  • the actual resistance is not critical because the smoker is accustomed to a wide range of inhalation resistances as the cigarette changes in length while being smoked. Nonetheless, some resistance is required and it is provided by the opposition to flow through channel 44.
  • That channel can have various forms. In one series of models it is formed as a recess which has semicircular cross-section.
  • the diameter of the section can have any value from twenty-eight to forty-five thousandths of an inch with thirty-nine thousandths being taken as the apparent optimum size.
  • the radius of the plug exceeds the radius of the opening 40 of chamber 34 by about twenty thousandths of an inch. That dimension remains substantially the same for all of the bodies of a set. Stated another way, flow resistance through the channel remains uniform notwithstanding that air inlet opening size changes.
  • the smoke is introduced to an annular cavity.
  • the outer diameter of the plug is stepped so that at its upstream end that annular cavity has greater cross-sectional area than it does at its downstream end.
  • the cavity is treated as though it was two cavities arranged side by side in series.
  • the first of thes cavities, the one with the larger cross-sectional area, is longer than the other.
  • the step change in diameter is made abrupt so that a substantially square shoulder is formed.
  • the channel 44 extends radially in the end surface of the plug.
  • the outlet passage opens at the base of the plug at its downstream, larger diameter end.
  • this construction is effective in separating out the solids and liquid constituents of the smoke so that most are deposited on the surface of the plug primarily on the portion of reduced diameter and in the region of the step change in diameter. It appears to make no difference whether the flowpath 56 is formed by drilling as shown or is formed simply as a notch extending from the rear wall of the plug to the surface of the plug at the small diameter section of the chamber.
  • the passageway 56 offers sufficiently low resistance to flow so that it can be considered to be part of chamber 58 which constitutes a relatively large volume smoke space.
  • a cigarette holder of the kind that has an exit opening at one end, and that has a cigarette recess at its opposite end in which the end of a cigarette may be inserted, and whose interior walls define a passageway for smoke from the cigarette recess to the exit opening, the improvement in which said passageway comprises, in series from said cigarette recess to said exit opening, means defining a smoke storage cavity, means defining a transverse channel, means defining an annular smoke storage cavity having an inner wall, and means defining an opening in said inner wall of said annular cavity means which communicates with said exit opening, said channel means extending from one point of said smoke storage chamber transversely to and into said annular cavity means;
  • said holder further comprising means providing an air inlet extending through said holder from its exterior to said flowpath at a point upstream from said channel means.
  • said holder comprises at least two separable subassemblies, a first one of said subassemblies being substantially cylindrical and having said cigarette recess formed axially in one end and having means providing a second recess formed axially in its opposite end, and having an axial opening extending between them and communicating with them;
  • a second one of said separable sections comprising a shank having an outlet opening at one end and a plug at the other, the plug being positioned in said recess means of the first subassembly with its end in abutment with an end wall of said recess means and covering said axial opening, said channel means being formed in said end of said plug whereby smoke flowing through the holder is confined to flow through said channel means;

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GB2663673A GB1400655A (en) 1972-06-16 1973-06-05 Cigarette holder
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JP6675473A JPS5511304B2 (de) 1972-06-16 1973-06-13
DE2330546A DE2330546A1 (de) 1972-06-16 1973-06-15 Zigarettenhalter
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US4038994A (en) * 1975-11-10 1977-08-02 Aikman Leslie N Tobacco smoke filter unit
US4158364A (en) * 1977-09-22 1979-06-19 Albert P. Marinko Tobacco smoke filter
US4254782A (en) * 1979-11-09 1981-03-10 Ligeti Enrique C Tobacco smoke filter
US4532942A (en) * 1979-12-18 1985-08-06 Aikman Leslie N Miniature tobacco filters
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US20130167850A1 (en) * 2011-12-30 2013-07-04 Rabih Al-Aawar Cigarette protector
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