Buckles – buttons – clasps – etc. – Buckles – Penetrating prong
Reexamination Certificate
2000-03-13
2001-11-27
Sakran, Victor N. (Department: 3626)
Buckles, buttons, clasps, etc.
Buckles
Penetrating prong
C024S187000, C024S181000, C024S16300K
Reexamination Certificate
active
06321420
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to the field of smoking apparatus, and more particularly to a novel belt buckle constructed in such a fashion as to have dual purposes serving as a belt buckle or closure as well as serving as a tobacco pipe.
2. Brief Description of the Prior Art
In the past, it has been the conventional practice to provide a pipe for smoking tobacco which includes a bowl having an elongated stem with an internal passageway communicating with the interior of the bowl. In general, a quantity of tobacco is placed inside the interior of the bowl and is ignited by a match or the like while the user is drawing air into the bowl, around the tobacco and through the stem passageway. In other instances, conventional pipes might have taken the form of decorative items wherein the bowl was carved or formed to represent various graphic renderings so as to disguise the item as a pipe. In other instances, prior pipes have included means for filtering the smoke of the pipe through water or other filtration systems prior to inhalation by the user.
Difficulties and problems have been encountered with each of the respective prior devices which stem largely from the fact that the pipes were used for solely smoking purposes and did not have any other function or utility. Furthermore, no apparent effort has been made to disguise or to configure a pipe into a decorative or utilitarian device which is totally non-associated with the smoking procedure.
Therefore, a long-standing need has existed to provide a pipe in a suitable form which is not only decorative but incorporates a totally different function as in the function associated with a smoking procedure. Such a device should be able to hold a quantity of tobacco and provide sufficient draft for ignition and maintain burning of the tobacco while the device is being smoked. The device should be unrecognizable as a pipe from a visual and functional standpoint.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Accordingly, the above problems and difficulties are avoided by the present invention which provides a novel tobacco belt pipe which in one functional application serves as a closure for the opposite ends of a belt and in another functional application serves as a smoking pipe. The belt pipe of the present invention includes a rectangular or other geometrically shaped tubing which includes an endless passageway having an opening defined as a receptacle for insertably receiving a quantity of tobacco and further having a plurality of apertures arranged around the tubing wherein the plurality of apertures are in a remote and spaced-apart relationship with respect to the receptacle for holding the tobacco. Closure means are provided around the tubing so as to be rotatable thereon and which further include an opening having a position remote from the receptacle so as to close the receptacle and a second or operative position where the opening is in registry with the receptacle during a smoking procedure. Means are provided for orienting the closure means whereby the means will only rotate and will not slide along the length of the tubing on which it is mounted. A pipe stem is secured to a rotatable bearing which is carried in rotatable relationship on the tubing remote from the closure device. The passageway in the pipe stem is open-ended, having one end in communication with the slit provided in the tubular member. Therefore, as the pipe stem is rotated about its mounting on the tubular member, the passageway in the pipe stem will always be in registry with the slit and the passageway.
A further object of the present invention provides a novel belt buckle having means for accepting a quantity of tobacco which may be readily smoked through a pipe stem and which further includes passageways through the pipe stem, the buckle frame and further includes a closure for the receptacle.
Yet another object resides in providing a belt buckle which may be readily assembled and disassembled from an end of a belt and which may be used as a smoking pipe when disassembled from the belt and that may be used as a closing buckle for the opposite end of the belt when it's in its non-operating smoking condition.
Therefore, the belt buckle pipe of the present invention serves not only as a belt buckle but also serves as a smoking pipe. Both uses are distinct from one another in that visually one use of the device is not discernible from the other use of the device.
Therefore, it is among the primary objects of the present invention to provide a novel buckle pipe which serves the dual purpose as a belt buckle and a smoking pipe.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a novel belt buckle pipe which includes a tubular frame having a linear segment with a quill for receiving and packing a quantity of tobacco while including a closure element with an opening suitably registerable with the receptacle and which further includes a pipe stem serving both as a pipe mouthpiece as well as a tang for a belt buckle.
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patent: 3252194 (1966-05-01), Albiniano
patent: 4521939 (1985-06-01), Chabot et al.
patent: 4562620 (1986-01-01), Oliver, Jr.
patent: 5609281 (1997-03-01), West
Marrs Roger A.
Sakran Victor N.
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