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US 4,340,072 AGranted
Smokeable device
AssigneeImperial Group Limited
InventorsAnthony J. N. Bolt, Brian C. Chard
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Abstract
A smokeable device has an annular fuel rod in gaseous communication with a mouth-end chamber. The chamber contains a quantity of inhalent material which, when contacted by hot gases during smoking forms an aerosol for inhalation by the smoker.
Claims8
A cigarette-simulating smokeable device for releasing an aerosol into the mouth of a smoker comprising:
- (a) a rod of fuel having a longitudinally extending passage therethrough;
- (b) a chamber in gaseous communication with an end of the passage whereby during smoking hot gases from the burning fuel rod enter the chamber
- (c) inhalant material located in the chamber which, when contacted by the hot gases during smoking forms an aerosol for inhalation by the smoker,
- (d) the chamber having at an end remote from the fuel rod a mouth-end closure member which is permeable to the aerosol.
1 more element
A device as claimed in any preceding claim in which the end of the fuel rod to be lighted is closed by a combustible member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.