Method and apparatus for smoking

Claim 2

A smoking apparatus comprising: . A. a tobacco holding structure for receiving and holding tobacco material to be smoked including an inlet and an outlet wherein during the smoking process an individual may draw and induce air into and through said inlet, through the tobacco holding structure and the tobacco material therein and out said outlet; B. means associated with said tobacco holding structure for burning said tobacco material contained therein; and C. means for limiting and controlling the burning rate of the tobacco material contained within said tobacco holding structure, said means for limiting and controlling the rate of burning of the tobacco material including a normally closed chamber having tobacco material of said tobacco holding structure contained therein and wherein said normally closed chamber includes normally closed valve means for opening in response to the individual drawing and inducing air into said tobacco holding structure for enabling fresh air containing oxygen to be induced and drawn into said normally closed chamber during the tobacco burning process, and wherein the burning process is limited by the amount of oxygen within said normally closed chamber at any one time and wherein after the oxygen within said chamber has been depleted the smoking process can only be continued by the individual inducing additional air within said normally closed chamber.

Claim 3

The smoking apparatus of claim 1 wherein said burning means is movably mounted within said tobacco holding structure and includes an energy source for powering the same.

Claim 4

The smoking apparatus of claim 1 wherein said burning means includes an electrical coil; and means movably mounting said electrical coil within said tobacco holding structure for allowing said electrical coil to continuously move during the smoking process such that said coil may continuously engage unburned tobacco material held within said tobacco holding structure.

Claim 5

The smoking apparatus of claim 3 wherein said means movably mounting said coil within said tobacco holding structure includes spring means operatively connected to said coil and anchored within said tobacco holding structure wherein said spring means is positioned with respect to the tobacco material held within said tobacco holding structure such that the coil is continuously biased by said spring means to move toward and against unburned tobacco material held within said tobacco holding structure during the smoking process.

Claim 6

The smoking apparatus of claim 4 wherein said burning means further includes an electrical storage battery contained within said tobacco holding structure for energizing said coil.

Claim 7

The smoking apparatus of claim 1 wherein said normally closed chamber includes a movable wall and means for moving said wall in response to tobacco material within said tobacco holding structure being burned so as to generally maintain a constant space outside of said tobacco material within said normally closed chamber during the smoking process whereby said generally constant space can be filled with air to support the combustion process but wherein the burning of the tobacco material within said normally closed chamber is limited by that amount of air contained within said chamber until additional air is induced into said normally closed chamber.

Claim 8

The smoking apparatus of claim 1 including a smoke receiving chamber for receiving smoke exhaled by an individual utilizing said smoking apparatus, said smoke receiving chamber including an inlet that includes a one-way check valve that allows air and smoke to be directed into said smoke receiving chamber through said inlet but prohibits smoke within said smoke receiving chamber from passing therefrom out said inlet.

Claim 9

The smoking apparatus of claim 7 wherein said smoke receiving chamber includes an outlet and wherein said outlet includes a filter operatively associated therewith such that air directed out of said outlet is constrained to move through said filter.

Claim 10

The smoking apparatus of claim 8 wherein said filter normally disposed within the outlet of said smoke receiving chamber is interchangeable.

Claim 11

The smoking apparatus of claim 1 wherein said tobacco holding structure includes an elongated cigarette holder for holding a cigarette having a first burning end and a second opposite end, said second opposite end being the end normally held in the smoker's mouth wherein said cigarette holder includes a pair of spaced apart one-way check valves that are spaced apart a sufficient distance to allow said cigarette to be positioned and held therebetween by said cigarette holder, and wherein said one-way check valves are particularly oriented for unidirectional air movement through said cigarette holder such that air can only move from said first burning end of said cigarette towards and through said second end and not vice versa, whereby that area between said pair of one-way check valves define said normally closed chamber.

Claim 12

The smoking apparatus of claim 10 wherein said burning means includes a coil and means for movably mounting said coil adjacent said first burning end of said cigarette and means for moving said coil through said chamber during the smoking process such that said coil continuously moves toward said second end of said cigarette and is maintained adjacent the burning end of the cigarette during the smoking process.

Claim 13

The smoking apparatus of claim 11 wherein one of said check valves that forms a part of said chamber is movably mounted within said smokinq apparatus and includes means associated therewith for moving said one check valve during the smoking process for progressively decreasing the volume of said chamber as the smoking process is carried out.

Claim 14

The smoking apparatus of claim 12 wherein said one movable check valve and said coil are secured to a sliding member that is movably mounted for fore-and-aft movement within said chamber; and wherein there is provided a generally constant space and volume between said coil and said one movable check valve for limiting and controlling the burning rate of tobacco material during the smoking process.

Claim 15

The smoking apparatus of claim 13 wherein said one-way movable check valve is oriented such that air can only move through said one-way check valve towards said coil and not vice versa.

Claim 16

A smoking apparatus comprising: A. a cigarette holding structure for receiving and holding a cigarette having a first burning end and a second end opposite said burning end; B. said cigarette holding structure including an elongated burning chamber for receiving said cigarette; C. said burning chamber including a pair of spaced apart one-way check valves; D. said pair of spaced apart one-way check valves including a first check valve disposed adjacent said burning of said cigarette with a second check valve disposed adjacent the second end of said cigarette; E. said check valves being selectively oriented and including directional control means for allowing air and/or smoke to move through said first check valve means, through said burning chamber and out thereof through said second check valve means and wherein said check valve means and said directional control means prohibits air or smoke from moving into said chamber through said second check valve means and out of said chamber through said first check valve means; F. coil means movably mounted between said first check valve means and said burning end of said cigarette, said coil means including associated power means for energizing the same in order that said coil means may burn tobacco material about the burning end of the cigarette; G. means for movably mounting said coil and means for moving said coil towards said second end of the cigarette during the smoking process such that said coil is maintained generally adjacent unburned tobacco material about the burning end of the cigarette during the smoking process; and H. means for movably mounting said first check valve means and means for moving said first check valve means towards said second end of the cigarette during the smoking process for generally maintaining a constant space and volume between said coil and said first check valve means so as to limit and control the amount of oxygen within the burning chamber at any one time during the smoking process and consequently acting to limit and control the burning rate of the cigarette.

Claim 17

A smoking apparatus comprising: A. a cigarette holding structure for receiving and holding a cigarette having a first burning end and a second end opposite said burning end; B. said cigarette holding structure including an elongated burning chamber for receiving said cigarette; C. said burning chamber including a pair of spaced apart one-way check valves; D. said pair of spaced apart one-way check valves including a first check valve disposed adjacent said burning of said cigarette with a second check valve disposed adjacent the second end of said cigarette; E. said check valves being selectively oriented and including directional control means for allowing air and/or smoke to move through said first check valve means, through said burning chamber and out thereof through said second check valve means and wherein said check valve means and said directional control means prohibits air or smoke from moving into said chamber through said second check valve means and out of said chamber through said first check valve means; F. coil means movably mounted between said first check valve means and said burning end of said cigarette, said coil means including associated power means for energizing the same in order that said coil means may burn tobacco material about the burning end of the cigarette; G. means for movably mounting said coil and means for moving said coil towards said second end of the cigarette during the smoking process such that said coil is maintained generally adjacent unburned tobacco material about the burning end of the cigarette during the smoking process; and H. means for movably mounting said first check valve means and means for moving said first check valve means towards said second end of the cigarette during the smoking process for generally maintaining a constant space and volume between said coil and said first check valve means so as to limit and control the amount of oxygen within the burning chamber at any one time during the smoking process and consequently acting to limit and control the burning rate of the cigarette.

Claim 18

The smoking apparatus of claim 15 wherein said cigarette holding structure includes a pair of separable sections that includes means for axially connecting the same together and wherein when connected together said burning chamber is defined interiorly within said pair of sections.

Claim 19

The smoking apparatus of claim 16 wherein said means for movably mounting said coil and said first check valve means includes a sliding member movably contained within said burning chamber; and wherein said means for moving said coil and said first check valve means includes spring means operatively connected to said sliding member and further connected to said smoking apparatus for biasing said sliding member and said coil and first check valve means thereof towards said second check valve means.

Claim 20

The smoking apparatus of claim 17 wherein there is provided an associated smoke receiving device for receiving smoke exhaled by a smoker utilizing said smoking apparatus.

Claim 23

The method of smoking as recited in claim 19 wherein the step of controlling the rate of burning of tobacco material includes the step of progressively decreasing the volume of said burning chamber during the smoking process by effectively moving a wall structure thereof.