Passively cooled pipe
AssigneeTemple Kraft, LLC
InventorKenneth Ball
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Abstract
A passively cooled pipe made of a material with a high coefficient of thermal conductivity that has a lockable, invertable, combustion bowl/storage compartment. The pipe is designed for the combustion of dry organic matter. It has a series of passive radiator fins about the outer faces of its sides for the dissipation of heat there along its body, and an aggressive smoke mixing design in the bore of the shank section that aids in the removal of tar and smoke particles. The inside volume of the shank also has a series of passive radiator fins in operational contact with the sides of the shank. There is a removable locking tool housed in the passive radiator fins on one of the outer faces, used to lock the combustion bowl in either of its positions. The locking tool also disassembles the two halves of the pipe for cleaning.
Claims20
A pipe comprising:
- a pipe body having a distal end and a proximal end;
- a top plate mechanically attachable to said pipe body so as to define a smoke passage between the distal end and the proximal end of said pipe body;
- a bowl housing formed in the distal end of said pipe body;
- a mouthpiece formed in the proximal end of said pipe body;
- a bowl, removably insertable within said bowl housing;
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- a plurality of external fins arranged along an entire length of the smoke passage between the bowl housing and the mouthpiece and coupled to the smoke passage to conduct heat away from the smoke passage.
A pipe comprising:
- a pipe body having a distal end and a proximal end;
- a top plate mechanically attachable to said pipe body so as to define a smoke passage between the distal end and the proximal end of said pipe body;
- a bowl housing formed in the distal end of said pipe body;
- a mouthpiece formed in the proximal end of said pipe body;
- a bowl, removably insertable within said bowl housing;
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- a set of internal fins extending normally from an inner surface of said top plate so as to extend into said smoke passage.
A pipe comprising:
- an externally finned, rectangular cylinder having a distal end and a proximal end with a smoke passage defined there between;
- a mouthpiece extending from said proximal end;
- a bowl slidingly insertable into a matingly conformed axial through-recess in said distal end of said cylinder.
A pipe comprising:
- a washable, internally finned, rectangular cylinder having a distal end and a proximal end with a smoke passage defined there between;
- a mouthpiece extending from said proximal end;
- a bowl slidingly insertable into a matingly conformed axial through-recess in said distal end of said cylinder;
- wherein said smoke passage defines a series of hairpin turns of alternating direction to remove particulate from smoke drawn down the smoke passage from said bowl to said mouthpiece.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.