Smoking device

A smoker's pipe comprising, in combination:

• a bowl assembly including
• a hollow cylinder having an inwardly shouldered end, a medial radial lighting opening, and a distal radial filler opening;
• a hopper mounted at said distal opening for supplying smoking material;
• a plunger movable axially in said cylinder and having a generally axial bore, a radial bowl cavity of generally the same cross-sectional outline and size as said filler opening, and perforations connecting said bore with the bottom of said bowl cavity;
• and spring and guide means acting between said shoulder and said plunger to urge the latter out of a first position, in which said bowl cavity is aligned with said medial opening, and a second position, in which said bowl cavity is aligned with said distal opening, said medial cavity is closed, and a first end of said plunger projects beyond the unshouldered end of said cylinder;
• flexible conduit means secured to the inner end of said plunger, in communication with said generally axial bore, for moving said plunger within said cylinder and said spring means;
• an inhalation and liquid chamber comprising a vertical tube, means capping the lower end of said tube so that the latter may be filled with liquid to a desired level, and a lateral aperture located above said desired level;
• and means securing said shouldered end of said cylinder in said lateral aperture with said flexible conduit extending toward the bottom of said chamber to terminate below said desired level.

In a smoker's pipe, in combination:

• a hollow cylinder having spaced radial openings;
• a plunger having a radial bowl cavity and slidable in said cylinder;
• conduit means for conducting smoke through said plunger from the bottom of said bowl cavity;
• and a hopper for smoking material connected to one of said openings,
• so that said plunger may be displaced between a first position, in which said cavity is aligned with said one of said openings for filling from said hopper, and a second position, in which said cavity is aligned with the other of said openings for lighting said material.

A smoker's pipe, comprising, in combination:

• an inhalation and liquid chamber;
• a bowl assembly including a hollow cylinder opening into said chamber and having spaced radial openings, and a plunger slidable in said cylinder and having a bore axially therethrough and a radial bowl cavity connected at its bottom by a restricted passage with said bore between the ends thereof;
• and means providing a passage for smoke and air to the bottom of said chamber from one end of said bore, for subsequent passage upward through liquid in said chamber,
• so that said plunger may be displaced between a first, resiliently maintained position aligned with one of said openings and a second position aligned with the other of said openings.

The method of smoking which comprises the steps of:

• 1. positioning a bowl cavity to be filled with smoking material at the top while affording access to the atmosphere at te bottom thereof;
• 2. displacing said bowl cavity from the filling position to a lighting position, and simultaneously cutting off said access to the atmosphere;
• 3. lighting the smoking material at the top of said cavity and burning it completely at a single long inhalation, while drawing the smoke and ashes of combustion through liquid into an inhalation chamber;
• 4. returning said bowl chamber to the filling position, to restore said access to the atmosphere;
• 5. and repeatedly making small inhalations from said chamber, while causing replacement air to pass to the chamber past the bottom of said cavity.