Patent ID: 6012459
Filing Date: 2000-01-11
Classification: A24F

Abstract:
In a hand-held cigarette smoking device for capturing sidestream smoke having an on-board cigarette lighter, said device having:i) a cigarette combustion chamber;ii) a cigarette holder at an end of said cigarette combustion chamber;iii) a sidestream smoke filtration chamber;iv) means for conducting sidestream smoke from a lit cigarette in said combustion chamber into said sidestream smoke filtration chamber;v) an electric fan for drawing sidestream smoke from said combustion chamber, through said conducting means and into said sidestream smoke filtration chamber;vi) means for controlling fan operation;vii) said on-board cigarette lighter positioned in an end of said cigarette combustion chamber opposite said cigarette holder end; and comprising:a) a lighter filament;b) flexible wire for supplying electrical current to said filament;c) a guide extending along said cigarette combustion chamber and mean for mounting said lighter filament on said for reciprocal movement of said filament toward and away from said cigarette holder;d) a detent connected to said mounting means for locating said lighter filament at predetermined cigarette positions to locate said filament at a cigarette tip end for a predetermined cigarette length when such cigarette is inserted in said combustion chamber for smoking, said flexible wire being of a length to accommodate such reciprocal movement of said filament; ande) finger grip means connected to said detent for manually moving and locating said detent means at a desired cigarette length position.