Snap-off Smoking Device Assembly with Segmented Body

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing smoking devices are not designed as separable assemblies for individual use, lacking convenience in carrying and disposal.

Innovation Solution

A snap-off smoking device assembly featuring a body with spaced boreholes and score lines, allowing individual devices to be separated and discarded, made from wood or wood materials with optional impregnation, enabling easy separation and disposal.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If smoking devices are made as individual separate pipes, then each device can be used independently, but it becomes inconvenient to carry multiple devices and dispose of used ones

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveconvenience of carrying and disposalVSAvoidstructure as separable assembly

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The smoking device is divided into multiple individual pipes that are segmented along score lines within a single body, allowing each pipe to be separated and used independently while maintaining compact storage when together

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Multiple individual smoking pipes are combined into a single integrated body structure, enabling convenient carrying of multiple devices as one unit while allowing easy separation of individual pipes when needed

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

2Reliability

If smoking devices are made as reusable permanent pipes, then durability is improved, but environmental waste and disposal issues arise

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedurability of smoking deviceVSAvoidenvironmental waste from disposal

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSObject-generated harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

Each individual pipe within the assembly is designed as a disposable component that can be used once and then discarded, eliminating the need for cleaning and maintenance while reducing environmental waste from permanent devices

Inventive Principle:

Principle #27Cheap short-living objects (Disposable)

Solution Approach 2:

The design allows for easy discarding of used individual pipes while recovering and reusing the main body structure containing multiple pipes, optimizing resource utilization

Inventive Principle:

Principle #34Discarding and recovering

3Ease of operation

If multiple smoking devices are carried separately, then individual use is convenient, but portability and storage become problematic

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveconvenience of individual useVSAvoidspace required to carry multiple devices

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSVolume of moving object

Solution Approach 1:

Multiple individual smoking pipes are nested within a single body structure, allowing them to be carried compactly together while maintaining the ability to separate and use each pipe individually

Inventive Principle:

Principle #7Nested doll (Nesting)

Data Source

PatentUS12053017B1Snap-off smoking device assembly

Publication Date: 2024.08.06 TRAPANI CHARLES C

AI summary

A snap-off smoking device assembly including a base plate having a base plate passage defined therein and a base plate aperture formed therethrough; a base plate insert adapted to be slidably positioned within at least a portion of the base plate passage and repeatably slidable between a retracted position and an extended position within the base plate passage, wherein the base plate insert aperture extends through a portion of the base plate insert; and an insert release button, wherein a portion of the insert release button is positioned through the base plate insert aperture and wherein the insert release button is repeatably slidable between an engaged position and a disengaged position, wherein in the retracted position and the engaged position at least a portion of the insert release button extends through the base plate insert aperture and into at least a portion of the base plate aperture.