Patent ID: 6715494
Filing Date: 2004-04-06
Classification: A24F

Abstract:
A two-piece smoking pipe vaporization chamber with directed heat intake comprising in combination:a lower chamber member having a bowl portion formed therein to hold materials from which vapor is to be extracted, said bowl portion communicating with a vapor intake conduit at a vapor intake orifice thereof disposed below said bowl portion, said vapor intake conduit adapted to mate with a smoking pipe conduit; a lower screen member disposed in said bowl portion of said lower chamber member over said vapor intake orifice; an upper chamber member adapted to mate with said lower chamber portion in a substantially air-tight manner to form a vaporization chamber, said upper chamber member including a generally-conical-shaped heat intake conduit communicating therewith and having a heat intake orifice at a distal end thereof and adapted to accept output from a heat source; and at least one heated intake air turbulence member comprising an impeller disposed between said heat intake orifice and said vapor intake orifice.