Patent Application
20200139378
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The disclosure and prior art relates to smoking accessory devices and more particularly pertains to a new smoking accessory device for storing and transporting everything needed for grinding smoking matter and rolling the smoking matter for smoking.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a housing having a plurality of compartments. A grinder has a plurality of grinder teeth and a peripheral wall enclosing the grinder teeth. A plurality of cap teeth is coupled to and extends from a top cap. The grinder is insertable into the top cap for grinding plant matter. A funnel tapers away to a tube section extending from a base of the funnel. Openings extend through the grinder for passing ground plant matter through the funnel and into the tube section. The tube section is open for passing the ground plant matter into a rolling paper wrapped around the tube section.
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 grinder 30 has a first end 32. Each of a plurality of grinder teeth 34 is coupled to and extends from the first end 32 of the grinder 30. A peripheral wall 36 is coupled to the grinder 30. The peripheral wall 36 extends around the first end 32 enclosing the grinder teeth 34. The grinder 30 includes a funnel 38 tapering away from the first end 32 and a tube section 40 extending from a base 42 of the funnel 38. The tube section 40 is transparent allowing a person to see contents within the tube section 40. The grinder 30 is positionable in the grinder storage compartment 24 by insertion of the tube section 40 into the grinder storage compartment 24.
A top cap 44 is couplable to the housing 12 such that the top cap 44 covers the top 16 of the housing 12. The top cap 44 has a top wall 46 and a perimeter wall 48 coupled to and extending from the top wall 46 surrounding a bottom surface 50 of the top wall 46. Each of a plurality of cap teeth 52 is coupled to and extends from the bottom surface 50 of the top wall 46. The first end 32 of the grinder 30 is insertable into the top cap 44 wherein the grinder teeth 34 and the cap teeth 52 are configured for grinding plant matter 54 positioned in the top cap 44 by rotation of the top cap 44 relative to the grinder 30. Each of a plurality of openings 56 extends through the first end 32 of the grinder 30 wherein the first end 32 is configured for the cap teeth 52 to push ground plant matter 54 through the openings 56 and into the funnel 38. The funnel 38 directs the ground plant matter 54 into the tube section 40. The tube section 40 is open at a second end 58 of the grinder 30 wherein the tube section 40 is configured for passing the ground plant matter 54 into a rolling paper wrapped around the tube section 40.
A compacting rod 60 has a head 62 and a shaft 64. The head 62 has a diameter complementary to a diameter of the tube section 40 wherein the compacting rod 60 is configured for compacting the ground plant matter 54 into the rolling paper. The head 62 is cylindrical having a flat surface 66 perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the shaft 64. A tail 86 may be coupled to the shaft 64 opposite the head 62. The tail 86 has a rounded end facing away from the shaft 64 and also has a diameter complementary to the diameter of the tube section 40.
A first guide line 68 extends circumferentially around the tube section 40. The first guide line 68 is spaced from the second end 58 of the grinder 30 wherein the first guide line 68 is configured for indicating where to align the rolling paper such that the rolling paper extends a desired amount beyond the second end 58 of the grinder 30 to allow for closing of the rolling paper. A second guide line 70 extends circumferentially around the tube section 40 in spaced relationship to the first guide line 68. The second guide line 70 is positioned between the first guide line 68 and the second end 58 of the grinder 30. The second guide line 70 is positioned closer to the first guide line 68 than the second end 58 of the grinder 30. The second guide line 70 is spaced from the first guide line 68 a distance corresponding to the length of a glass filter or crutch, which may be between 0.5 and 1.5 centimeters. Combined with transparency or sufficient translucence of the tube section 40, the second guide line 70 provides a visible indicator, or fill line, showing how much ground plant matter 54 to introduce into the tube section 40. When the rolling paper is removed from the tube section 40 with the ground plant matter 54, the remaining gap is sized to receive the glass filter or crutch.
A channel 74 extends through the top cap 44 wherein the top cap 44 is configured for being coupled to an extrinsic object such as a key chain, or the like, by a tether. The tether may be a strap, chain, ring, wire, or the like. The channel 74 is fully enclosed by the top wall 46 of the top cap 44 such that the channel 74 is not in environmental communication with an enclosure 78 formed by coupling the top cap 44 to the housing 12. A top seal 76 may be provided to inhibit environmental communication between the enclosure 78 and ambient air around the housing 12. The top seal 76 may be an O-ring of conventional design to prevent water or moisture from entering the enclosure 78 and preventing odor from emanating from the enclosure 78.
A bottom cap 80 is selectively couplable to the bottom 18 of the housing 12 wherein the bottom cap 80 encloses the plant matter storage compartment 26. The plant matter storage compartment 26 is isolated from the other compartments 14 by being the sole compartment 14 positioned on the bottom 18 of the housing 12. This minimizes exposure to ambient air to preserve the plant matter being stored. A bottom seal 82 is positioned between the bottom cap 80 and the housing 12 wherein the plant matter storage compartment 26 is sealed from the ambient air when the bottom cap 80 is coupled to the housing 12. Similar to the top seal 76, the bottom seal 82 may also be an O-ring of conventional design preventing water or moisture from entering the plant matter storage compartment 26 and preventing odor from emanating from the plant matter storage compartment 26.
In use, the filter storage compartment 22 and the paper storage compartment 20 are used in an expected manner for storage of these conventional smoking accessories. A desired amount of the plant matter 54 stored in the plant matter storage compartment 26 is placed into the top cap 44 while the top cap 44 is in an inverted position to contain the plant matter 54. The grinder 30 is then used to grind the plant matter 54 in the top cap 44. The grinder 30 and top cap 44 may be turned over such that the ground plant matter 54 may pass through into the funnel 38 and through the tube section 40 into a prepared rolling paper on the tube section 40 as previously described. The compacting rod 60 is used to tamp the ground plant matter 54 into the prepared rolling paper. When filled as desired, the rolling paper is removed from the tube section 40 and any additional conventional preparations prior to smoking may be performed such as introduction of a filter, or the like.
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.
This application claims priority to U.S. application Ser. No. 15/607,805 files on May 21, 2017.
| Number | Date | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parent | 15607850 | May 2017 | US |
| Child | 16735618 | US |
