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US 2006/0231111 A1Published application
Smoking apparatus
OwnerRichard Elias, Carel Swanepoel +1inventors
InventorsRichard Elias, Carel Swanepoel, Ronald Pittman
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Abstract
A smoking apparatus includes a main, a lighter unit including a coil attached to the main body to receive electricity to heat the coil, and a control unit to control a supply of the electricity to the lighter unit. Accordingly, the smoking apparatus allows a user to light a smoking implement when the user does not have access to a personal lighting device.
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A smoking apparatus, comprising:
- a main body;
- a lighter unit including a coil attached to the main body to receive electricity to heat the coil;
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- a control unit to control a supply of the electricity to the lighter unit.
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A smoking apparatus, comprising:
- a lighter unit to light a smoking implement;
- a smokeless ashtray to reduce smoke emitting from the smoking implement;
- and
- a currency acceptor unit to accept currency, and to activate the lighter unit and the smokeless ashtray after accepting a predetermined amount of the currency.
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A smoking apparatus, comprising:
- a main body;
- an lighter unit provided at an outer surface of the main body;
- a smokeless ashtray disposed at the outer surface of the main body to draw smoke emitting from a smoking implement into the main body and filter the drawn smoke;
- a coin accepting unit to accept coins and to provide a current signal to the automobile style lighter unit for a first predetermined amount of time and to the smokeless ashtray for a second predetermined amount of time after calculating a predetermined amount of currency from the accepted coins;
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- a bill accepting unit to accept bills and to provide a current signal to the automobile style lighter unit for the first predetermined amount of time and to the smokeless ashtray for the second predetermined amount of time after calculating a predetermined amount of currency form the accepted bills.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.