Smoking Article Warning Device
a warning device and smoking article technology, applied in the direction of cigar manufacture, signalling system, instruments, etc., can solve the problems of user fingers, extreme fire danger, distasteful and possibly hazardous smoke which can be drawn into the mouth and lungs of users, etc., to prevent both fire and toxic smoke exposure, save electricity, and improve viewing of a television
Inactive Publication Date: 2010-12-16
HEATH CELEVATORON C
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[0013]However, this burning of the skin of the user and / or exposure to toxic smoke can easily occur when a cigarette smoker does not notice that a cigarette ember is burning in close proximity to the cigarette's filter. Often a smoker only notices that the filter is burning by the acrid taste of the smoke but by then the smoker has already inhaled a significant amount of filter smoke. Also, frequently the ember of a cigarette falls off when it reaches the filter. This creates a dangerous situation because the still burning ember can start a fire if it falls into or onto combustible material.
[0019]As another advantage, a sleeve embodiment of this invention can be slid anywhere along the tobacco cylinder of a smoking article, allowing a smoker to selectively place the sleeve to be notified when a desired fraction (e.g. ½ or ⅓ or ¼) of the article has been consumed, in order to minimize smoking or to save some of the article for later smoking. In this way a smoking article can be smoked in selected increments for health reasons or for other reasons. When the smoker is on a plan to eliminate their habit and is allowed to smoke in ever decreasing but measured amounts, sliding the device to allow discerning of fractional use of the cigarette will help.
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The burning ember if allowed to advance too close to the proximal end of the smoking article, can burn the user's fingers or can ignite the non-tobacco filter material and produce a distasteful and possibly hazardous smoke which can be drawn into the mouth and lungs of a user.
Besides this health risk from smoking the filter, allowing the smoking article to burn too close to the filter or proximal end is an extreme fire danger.
Smokers who fall asleep or become distracted are in danger of starting a fire especially if the reason for the smoking article having advanced so far toward the proximal end is that they are asleep or have set the smoking article down and forgotten it.
However, Sprinkel does not provide any means to provide a visible indicator on a combustible sidewall of a cigar or cigarette since it employs markers deposited on a permanent sidewall.
Further, Sprinkel does not allow the user to adjust the position of the visual indicator to various positions between the distal and proximal end but instead simply provides fixed indicators on the noncombustible sidewall.
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[0047]Referring to FIGS. 1-5, a typical filtered smoking article is shown in FIG. 1 to include a cylinder of tobacco 2 that is wrapped in smoking paper. The tobacco cylinder is followed immediately by a filter 4. FIG. 2 illustrates a smoking article, such as in FIG. 1, that includes a warning sleeve 6 according to this invention. The sleeve 6 is substantially disposed around the tobacco cylinder 2 immediately preceding the filter 4. This positioning point for the sleeve 6, may be pre-selected by a user or smoker for the purpose of alerting the smoker when the ember has reached the tobacco-filter interface.
[0048]The device as shown in the as-used position of FIGS. 3 and 4 illustrates the smoking article of FIG. 2 having been lit and burning with an ember 8 leaving an ash 10. In operation, with the sleeve 6 in the as-used position, when the ember 8 reaches the sleeve 6, the sleeve 6 provides a visual, auditory or olfactory means for warning in that it changes color due to the heat, or...
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A user engageable device disposed within the tobacco burning path of a smoking article's ember at a pre-selected point. The device may include a visual and / or audible and / or olfactory warning component which alerts the user in response to a proximate ember. This provides one or a combination of a visual, audible, or olfactory alert to the user that the ember has reached a predetermined point. The device is preferably in the form of a sleeve frictionally engageable around the smoking article, but can also may be engaged upon or impregnated into a wrapper of the article's cylinder. Alternatively, the sleeve type device may be disposed within the wrapper. Alternatively the indicator material may also be in the form of selectively placed integrated or stick-on patches.
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[0001]This application is a Continuation-in-Part of U.S. application Ser. No. 11 / 308,444 filed Mar. 25, 2006, which is incorporated in it's entirety by reference.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0002]This disclosed device relates in general to devices for warning a smoker of a smoking article (as defined below) that the article's tobacco ember has reached a pre-selected point on the article's tobacco cylinder, e.g. in close proximity to a filter of the article. More particularly, the disclosed device provides the user a slidably engageable warning or measuring component that is user-positionable to a pre-selected point between the distal end of the smoking article which burns and the proximal end which may have a filter and thereby provide a warning to the user before the burning ember combusts the filter or gets too close to the proximal end and burns the user. The warning provides a means to alert the user that they are in danger of starting a fire should they become complacent.[0003]F...
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IPC IPC(8): A24F13/16A24F13/18G08B5/40A24D1/00
CPCA24D1/00A24D1/02A24D1/12
Inventor HEATH, CLIFTON C.
Owner HEATH CELEVATORON C
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