Smoking Stent with Side Openings for Moisture Collapse
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing devices that prevent the collapse of cigars or cigarettes when wet often compromise the smoking experience by being aesthetically unpleasing or obstructing the direct taste of tobacco, or fail to maintain smoke flow due to internal support structures that cause tobacco to collapse around them.
Innovation Solution
A smoking stent with a tubular body and side openings is inserted into the mouth end of a wrapped smoking product, maintaining structural integrity and allowing smoke to flow through its central conduit while preventing moisture-induced collapse.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Strength
If a solid spike is used for internal support, then structural integrity is maintained, but smoke flow is blocked and tobacco collapses around the spike
Solution Approach 1:
The stent is constructed as a mesh structure with interconnected openings that allow smoke to pass through while maintaining structural support. This porous design enables simultaneous achievement of structural integrity and smoke flow, resolving the contradiction between these two requirements.
Solution Approach 2:
The mesh stent provides structural support at critical locations where the cigar wall becomes soft and collapses, while maintaining open pathways for smoke flow through its interconnected openings. Different regions of the stent provide localized support without completely blocking the smoke path.
2Strength
If a holder is used to prevent wetting, then structural integrity is maintained, but direct taste of tobacco is prevented and aesthetics are compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The invention extracts only the essential function of structural support from the traditional holder concept, eliminating the external holder structure that prevents direct taste. The stent is inserted internally into the cigar, providing support without extending outward to block the smoker's direct contact with the tobacco.
Solution Approach 2:
The stent is nested within the cigar structure itself, inserted into the mouth end and positioned inside the tobacco fill. This internal nesting allows the stent to provide structural support without interfering with the external appearance or the smoker's direct taste of the tobacco.
3Ease of operation
If tobacco is allowed to touch the mouth, then direct taste is achieved, but moisture-induced collapse occurs
Solution Approach 1:
The stent is inserted into the cigar before smoking begins, establishing structural support in advance. This preliminary action ensures that when the tobacco is later moistened by the smoker's mouth, the stent is already in place to prevent collapse, allowing direct taste without compromising structural integrity.
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AI summary
A smoking stent that is inserted into a wrapped smoking product to create a smoking assembly. The presence of the stent prevents the end of the wrapped smoking product from losing integrity when made wet by the mouth. The stent device has a tubular body that defines a central conduit. Side openings are disposed along the tubular body that provide access to the central conduit. The stent device is inserted within the mouth end of the wrapped smoking product so that the central conduit of the tubular body extends into the fill. When the wrapped smoking product is lighted, the smoke is drawn out of the wrapped smoking device through the central conduit of the stent device.