Method and apparatus for supporting breakable capsule in a conical smoking apparatus
AssigneeIP Trademark Holdings, Inc.
InventorPedro Almonte
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Abstract
A smoking product and method of making thereof for the consumption of a smokable substance. The product has a hollow conical shape that allows for the easy insertion of smokable substances. Additionally, the conical or frustoconical shape of the product provides for larger amounts of smokable substances in the end of the product the consumer lights, resulting in an initial slower prolonged burn. Additionally, the product includes a supporting filter tip with a frangible capsule contained therein and is packaged for sale in packaging in an unfilled state allowing a user to remove the product from the packaging, fill it with the user's selected custom smokable filler and form a custom smoking product.
Claims15
A packaged smoking apparatus that generates a smokable article, comprising:
- a) a package having a package interior and an end portion with a sealed opening;
- b) a smokable cone being hollow with a cone interior and cone sidewall;
- c) a reinforcing tip having a tip interior, the reinforcing tip occupying a position within the cone interior, the reinforcing tip having a stiffness that is greater than the stiffness of the cone sidewall;
- d) wherein, the reinforcing tip has a plurality of transversely oriented panels forming a plurality of pathways through the tip interior;
- e) a first frangible capsule positioned between a first selected two of the plurality of transversely oriented panels, the frangible capsule having a first outer shell and a first capsule interior;
- f) wherein the first frangible capsule is held in place by a wedging force generated by wedging apart the first selected two transversely oriented panels by direct contact between the first outer shell of the first frangible capsule and the first selected two transversely oriented panels;
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- g) wherein the smokable cone is packaged for sale inside the package interior as an assembly.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.