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US 11,864,583 B1Granted
Method and apparatus for a smoking shell with a reinforcing tip having a visible V-shaped blocking element
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 v-shaped visual indicator 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.
Claims27
A smoking product comprising:
- (a) a conical smoking sheet having upper and lower conical ends and a conical interior;
- (b) a reinforcing sheet having first and second sections, wherein the first section is rolled with top and bottom portions, and having a reinforcing tip interior and a longitudinal centerline;
- (c) the second section is located in the reinforcing tip interior and includes at least four folded panels, each of the at least four folded panels having top and bottom panel edges,
- wherein a first two of the at least four folded panels are both directly attached to each other and have bottom panel edges which are both substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal centerline and located substantially at a first vertical level,
- wherein a second two of the at least four folded panels which are not the first two of the at least four folded panels satisfy at least one of the following conditions:
- (1) having bottom panel edges that are not substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal centerline;
- (2) having bottom panel edges which are both not located substantially at the first vertical level;
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- (3) having one bottom panel edge that is not substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal centerline and another bottom panel edge which is not located at the first vertical level;
- (d) the reinforcing sheet forming a reinforcing tip and being located in the conical interior and forming a conical smoking product, the conical smoking product being packaged for sale while being unfilled with a smokable filler, wherein bottom panel edges of the first two of the at least four folded panels form a V-shape which is clearly visibly distinguishable compared to the bottom edges of the remainder of the at least four folded panels.
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A smoking product comprising:
- (a) a conical smoking sheet having upper and lower conical ends and a conical interior;
- (b) a reinforcing sheet having first and second sections, wherein the first section is rolled with top and bottom portions, and having a reinforcing tip interior and a longitudinal centerline;
- (c) the second section is located in the reinforcing tip interior and includes at least four folded panels, each of the at least four folded panels having top and bottom panel edges,
- wherein a first two of the at least four folded panels are both directly attached to each other and have bottom panel edges which are both substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal centerline and located substantially at a first vertical level,
- wherein a second two of the at least four folded panels which are not the first two of the at least four folded panels satisfy at least one of the following conditions:
- (1) having bottom panel edges that are not substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal centerline;
- (2) having bottom panel edges which are both not located substantially at the first vertical level;
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- (3) having one bottom panel edge that is not substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal centerline and another bottom panel edge which is not located at the first vertical level;
- (d) wherein bottom panel edges of the first two of the at least four folded panels form a V-shape;
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- (e) the reinforcing sheet forming a reinforcing tip and being located in the conical interior and forming a conical smoking product, the conical smoking product being packaged for sale while being unfilled with a smokable filler.
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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) wherein, each of the panels in the plurality of transversely oriented panels have upper and lower panel edges, wherein the upper panel edges of each of the plurality of transversely oriented panels being substantially located in a common upper plane, and further two of the plurality of transversely oriented panels immediately adjacent each other having lower panel edges being substantially located in a common lower plane and the lower panel edges forming a main V-shape, and further at least one other of the plurality of transversely oriented panels having a lower panel edge not substantially located in the common lower plane;
- f) wherein the smokable cone is packaged for sale inside the package interior as an assembly.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.