Jewelry smoking device
OwnerGeorge Gershbeininventor
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Abstract
Jewelry smoking devices are described which are in the form of ornamental pipe members suitable for being worn as items of jewelry. Each smoking device has a tobacco receiving portion for receiving smoking tobacco for the purpose of burning the same, and conduit means for carrying smoke from the tobacco receiving portion to a mouthpiece. The devices are in the general forms of pipe rings, pipe bracelets, and the like, and are decorative as well as being functional pipes which can be smoked as normal pipes are or while worn as items of jewelry.
Claims11
A combination jewelry and pipe smoking device comprising a tobacco receiving portion for receiving loose smoking tobacco;
- a mouthpiece portion;
- a conduit portion extending between said tobacco receiving and mouthpiece portions for conducting smoke from the former to the latter;
- mounting means for mounting the device on the body of the wearer and defining surfaces which normally comes into contact with the body of the wearer when said device is being smoked, whereby the jewelry and smoking device may be worn as an item of jewelry while smoking the same and may be smoked after being removed and manually supported subsequent to removal of the same from the wearer;
- insulating means in the nature of an insulating material associated with at least one of said surfaces for reducing the flow of heat from said tobacco receiving portion to said surface and for protecting the wearer from the heat developed in the device during smoking a mouthpiece portion;
- a conduit portion extending between said tobacco receiving and mouthpiece portions for conducting smoke from the former to the latter;
- said tobacco receiving portion having an external surface configuration providing a visual illusion of a smoking device;
- and camouflaging means having an external surface which forms part of and blends with said external surface configuration of said tobacco receiving portion for camouflaging the nature of the device as a smoking device and providing a visual illusion of a device other than a smoking device, whereby it is not visually discernable when worn as an item of jewelry that the device is also a smoking device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.