Patent Application
20240324659
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The disclosure relates to filtering apparatuses and more particularly pertains to a new filtering apparatus for filtering particles out of cigarette smoke.
The prior art relates to filtering apparatuses for cigarettes and includes filters using cotton wool and filters using activated carbon.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a tube having a smoking end and a suction end, and a perimeter wall which is gas impermeable. A first filter is coupled to and is positioned within the tube adjacent to the suction end. The first filter comprises a first filtering substance that is gas permeable and is configured for capturing particulates in smoke when the smoke flows through the first filtering substance. The first filtering substance comprises cotton wool. A second filter is coupled to and is positioned within the tube adjacent to the first filter. The second filter comprises a second filtering substance that is gas permeable and is configured for capturing particulates in the smoke when the smoke flows through the second filtering substance. The second filtering substance comprises one of coconut activated carbon and bamboo activated carbon.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
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A second filter 26 is coupled to and is positioned within the tube 12 adjacent to the first filter 20. The second filter 26 comprises a second filtering substance 28 that is gas permeable. The second filtering substance 28 is a powder and comprises one of coconut activated carbon and bamboo activated carbon. Coconut activated carbon is carbon that is extracted from coconut husks which then undergoes an activation process to create pores in the carbon which increases a surface area of the carbon for enhanced adsorption of a variety of substances. Bamboo activated carbon is carbon extracted from bamboo stems which undergoes a similar activation process. The second filter 26 also comprise a pair of screens 30, each which is coupled to and is positioned within the tube 12. Each of the pair of screens 30 is spaced apart from each other and retains the second filtering substance 28 therebetween. Each of the pair of screens 30 is gas permeable. The wrapper 24 and each of the pair of screens 30 is coupled to the tube 12 by frictionally engaging an inner surface 32 of the tube 12.
In a first embodiment 34 a sleeve 36 is coupled to and is positioned within the tube 12. The sleeve 36 is adjacent to the second filter 26 and extends beyond the smoking end 14 of the tube 12. The sleeve 36 is hollow and is configured for receiving a smoking implement 40 through a distal end 38 of the sleeve 36 relative to the tub. The sleeve 36 is coupled to the tube 12 by frictionally engaging the inner surface 32 of the tube 12. In a second embodiment 42 the second filter 26 is positioned adjacent to the smoking end 14 of the tube 12, and the tube 12 is configured to insert the smoking end 14 of the tube 12 into the smoking implement 40.
In use, the smoking implement 40 is inserted into the sleeve 36, or the smoking end 14 of the tube 12 is inserted into the smoking implement 40 depending on the embodiment. The smoking implement 40 burns tobacco, marijuana, or the like and a user sucks on the suction end 16 of the tube 12 to draw smoke through the tube 12. As the smoke is drawn through the tube 12, the first filtering substance 22 and the second filtering substance 28 capture particulates in the smoke, including tar particles which include the majority of mutagenic and carcinogenic agents in smoke created from the combustion of tobacco and marijuana.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
