Patent ID: 6568400
Filing Date: 2003-05-27
Classification: A24F

Abstract:
A water pipe assembly, comprising:a container having a flat, imperforate bottom wall; a substantially cylindrical sidewall mounted about the periphery of said imperforate bottom wall and projecting upwardly therefrom, defining a container cavity therebetween that is adapted to hold a predetermined amount of liquid fluid; a vent means formed in said substantially cylindrical sidewall of said container; a smoke tube pivotally secured to said container; said smoke tube having a first, deployed position where it is disposed in fluid communication with said vent means; said smoke tube having a second, storage position where it is not in fluid communication with said vent means; said smoke tube having a distal free end adapted to be placed between the lips of a smoker when the pipe is in said first, deployed position; a bowl having a bottom wall with a passageway formed therein and a sidewall mounted about a periphery of said bottom wall to thereby define a bowl cavity, said bowl cavity adapted to hold loose leaf tobacco when said water pipe is used as a loose leaf tobacco water pipe; said bowl disposed in surmounting relation to said container; a tubular downspout that depends from said bottom wall of said bowl, said tubular downspout having a lumen in fluid communication with said passageway; a distal end of said tubular downspout disposed in said container cavity in predetermined spaced relation to said imperforate bottom wall; an adapter means for removably capping said bowl; said adapter means having a hollow interior; a hollow neck that depends from said hollow adapter means and that extends into said bowl cavity when said adapter means caps said bowl; a radial bore formed in said adapter means, said radial bore adapted to snugly receive therein an unlit end of a cigarette; said radial bore being in fluid communication with said hollow interior of said adapter means; whereby liquid fluid is introduced into said container cavity to a predetermined depth sufficient to submerge said distal end of said downspout; whereby suction applied to said distal end of said smoke tube by a smoker pulls smoke along a path of travel beginning at a burning end of a cigarette, extending through the cigarette to its unlit end, through said radial bore of said adapter means and into said hollow interior, through said downspout, through said liquid fluid, into said container cavity, and to the smoker through said vent means and said smoke tube; whereby toxins in said smoke are reduced to at least some extent by said liquid fluid so that smoke reaching said smoker has a reduced toxin content relative to smoke that travels directly from a cigarette to a smoker; and whereby a water pipe having utility as a loose leaf tobacco pipe is converted into a cigarette water pipe when said adapter means is fit onto said bowl.