Instrument for cooling smoke

Claim 1

IN A SMOKING INSTRUMENT INCLUDING MEANS FOR HOLDING TOBACCO FOR BURNING AND A STEM EXTENDING FROM SAID TOBACCO HOLDING MEANS TO A MOUTHPIECE FOR CONVEYING SMOKE THERETO, THE IMPROVEMENT COMPRISING A METALLIC TUBE IN SAID STEM TO CONVEY SMOKE THERETHROUGH, A SEEBECK GENERATOR UNIT MOUNTED WITHIN SAID STEM ADJACENT SAID HOLDING MEANS, A PELTIER REFRIGERATING CELL UNIT MOUNTED WITHIN SAID STEM ADJACENT SAID MOUTHPIECE, SAID SEEBECK GENERATOR INCLUDING NEGATIVE AND POSITIVE THERMOELECTRIC SEMI-CONDUCTOR LEGS SPACED FROM EACH OTHER AND HAVING A METALLIC HEAT CONDUCTOR MEANS EXTENDING INTO SAID HOLDING MEANS TO BE HEATED BY THE BURNING TOBACCO AND THERMALLY AND ELECTRICALLY CONNECT THE ENDS OF SAID SEEBECK LEGS NEAREST SAID HOLDING MEANS, SAID PELTIER REFRIGERATING CELL INCLUDING NEGATIVE AND POSITIVE THERMO ELECTRIC SEMI-CONDUCTOR LEGS SPACED FROM THE OTHER AND MOUNTED WITHIN SAID STEM ADJACENT SAID MOUTHPIECE, AND HAVING A METALLIC JUNCTION MOUNTED WITHIN SAID STEM TO THERMALLY AND ELECTRICALLY CONNECT THE ENDS OF SAID PELTIER LEGS NEAREST TO SAID MOUTHPIECE, AND ELECTRICAL LEADS CONNECTING THE FREE END OF THE NEGATIVE THERMO ELECTRIC SEMICONDUCTOR LEG OF EACH UNIT TO THE ADJACENT FREE END OF THE POSITIVE THERMO ELECTRIC SEMI CONDUCTOR LEG OF THE OPPOSITE UNIT, SAID JUNCTION SURROUNDING SAID METALLIC TUBE IN SURFACE TO SURFACE CONTACT THEREWITH.