Smoking pipe tamper means
OwnerGarland Harold Kanadyinventor
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Abstract
An improved smoking pipe tamper means is provided wherein the tamper means is attached externally to any conventional lighter mechanism, said tamper means being adapted to slideably move between a first position wherein an enlarged tamper head means of the tamper means is contiguous to the exterior portion of the body member of said light mechanism and a second position wherein said enlarged tamper head means is spaced away from said light mechanism. In one embodiment the improved smoking pipe tamper means is adapted so that same can be interchangably placed upon a rectangular shaped lighter mechanism without damage to said tamper means or said lighter mechanism.
Claims4
An extendible pipe tamper for use with a rectangular lighter mechanism case, said pipe tamper comprising
- a. a guide means, said guide means comprising a generally rectangular box having one of its sides open, said open side being adapted to functionally mate with an end of said rectangular case;
- b. a guide tube means longitudinally positioned through said rectangular box, said guide tube means being positioned near the side opposite the open side of said rectangular box;
- c. a narrow longitudinal slot positioned on a side of said rectangular box, said slot being in open communication with said guide tube means from a first end of said rectangular box to near a second end of said rectangular box;
- d. an elongated body means slideably positioned in said guide tube means;
- e. a tamper head means positioned on a first end of said elongated body means;
- and,
- f. a thumb-engageable means positioned on a second end of said elongated body means and extending through said slot
- so that said tamper head means is extended by moving said thumb-engageable means toward said second end of said rectangular box and retracted by moving said thumb-engageable means toward said first end of said rectangular box.
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