RU2645568C1 - Device for formation of smoking gas mixture in hookah - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: tobacco industry.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to the device for forming the smoking gas mixture in the hookah, which comprises a heater of the smoking filler of the non-combustion type and a capacity associated with the heater to accommodate said smoking filler adapted to provide the access thereto, wherein the device is made in a solid housing including the cover consisting outside of a protective casing with an inner heat reflector, in which a heater in the form of a graphite electrode or an electric bulb is accommodated, and the housing base in the form of a cup set on the hookah by means of a gas outlet branch pipe, wherein through openings are made in the protective casing and the heat reflector of the cover, connecting the housing with the atmospheric air.

EFFECT: ensuring fire safety.

6 cl, 9 dwg

Description

The invention relates to the field of meeting the vital needs of a person, namely to smoking accessories for a hookah, and more particularly to devices for forming a smoking gas mixture in a hookah.

Hookah is the oldest smoking device of the currently known, which uses special tobacco - moissan. Other types of tobacco for hookah are simply not suitable. They will not smoke. On the principle of smoking moissile, the whole hookah system is arranged. Such tobacco is placed in a cup, covered with foil, on which hot coals are placed. At the same time, tobacco does not burn, but melts, as in an oven, emitting a special mixture of vapors of essential oils, glycerin and water. Tobacco moissil has a specific consistency. It is soft, juicy. Only it can be used when smoking a hookah. In addition to tobacco shredded leaves, moissile contains molasses, honey, fruit extracts and even fruit slices, aromatic herbs and glycerin, which give a pleasant taste to hookah tobacco smoke, therefore, from ancient times, hookah has attracted lovers to conduct this unhurried relaxing procedure.

Many users of the classic hookah consider it unsafe to use it outside special facilities where well-trained personnel can safely load tobacco and hot charcoal into the smoking bowl. Since a modern person during the day has a desire to smoke a hookah and relax without going into the hookah, this procedure requires safe hookahs that can be used everywhere, including being in a car while parking and relaxing.

Thus, a safe to use hookah with the inventive device for forming a smoking gas mixture must meet a number of stringent requirements.

Firstly, it must guarantee the fire safety of the procedure so that in the event of accidental rollover there is no ignition of foreign objects from hot coals, which is especially dangerous in an unequipped room, for example, in a car.

Secondly, preparing a smoking bowl for a smoking procedure should also be simple and safe, like filling a portioned tablet with a coffee machine.

Thirdly, the hookah should provide various smoking aromas, which the smoker can order in the hookah.

Fourthly, the time for preparing the smoking bowl for the smoking procedure should be commensurate with the assembly of the hookah itself.

Fifth, the smoking procedure should not differ from the usual smoking procedure of a classic hookah, as well as the organoleptic properties of the inhaled smoking gas mixture.

Various technical solutions are known from the prior art that make it possible to simplify and facilitate the preparation of a hookah for use, and at the same time secure its use. For example, an electronic hookah bowl is known (see RF patent for utility model No. 130798, class A24F 1/30, 2013), comprising a housing with an evaporation cavity for smoking liquid, a rod-shaped heater connected to a power source, however, one or more openings are made in the housing for communicating the vaporization cavity with the atmosphere. The housing is filled with the required amount of smoking fluid and includes a heater with an electronic converter connected to a power source. Upon receipt of power, the heater heats up and heats the steam tank, which contributes to the abundant evaporation of smoking fluid, which, when the user draws in air through the mouthpiece of the hookah, enters the user's lungs. The well-known electronic hookah bowl allows you to increase the fire safety of the hookah, but it has its drawbacks.

Firstly, the claimed design of a collapsible housing with a vaporization cavity for smoking fluid is a complex technical solution, in which, unlike the classic version of the bowl, there are threads, gaskets (to prevent leakage of smoking fluid), an electronic converter and other complex structural elements that reduce reliability device operation compared to a classic hookah.

Secondly, it is known that for a classical hookah the bowl is a consumable item and can be replaced at any time by another one, for example, when changing smoking tobacco.

Thirdly, in contrast to the classic hookah, the user of which can use dozens of different options for smoking tobacco, the user from the electronic hookah bowl is limited in choosing only a few smoking liquids.

Fourth, the obtained organoleptic properties of the inhaled smoking gas mixture of smoking liquid are very different from the gas mixture of smoking tobacco, so lovers of inhaling the smoking gas mixture of a classic hookah are unlikely to be satisfied with its alternative replacement with a gas mixture of smoking liquid.

Closest to the claimed technical solution is a prototype device for forming a smoking gas mixture in a hookah (see RF patent for utility model No. 140206, class A24F 1/30, 2014), characterized in that it contains a smoking filler heater non-combustible type and a tank associated with the heater for accommodating the above-mentioned smoking filler, configured to provide access to it, and the heater of the smoking filler is provided with a cavity for accommodating carbon. The known solution is aimed at the formation at the outlet of the hookah of a smoking gas mixture equivalent to (according to the organoleptic properties of the inhaled smoke) a smoking gas mixture obtained in classical hookahs. Crystalline carbon, which does not contain volatile substances in the form of gases and resins, which are the main sources of ash formation, can be used as carbon. Modifications such as graphite, diamond, graphene, carbin, lonsdaleite, fullerite, carbon fiber, etc. can be used as crystalline carbon. The device allows you to maintain a constant temperature of the fuel element in the range of 450-950 ° C, depending on the type of carbon used. The main advantage of the known technical solution is the electric or gas heating of carbon, which, as in a classic hookah, heats the smoking mixture.

The main disadvantage of the known technical solution, like the classic hookah, is the impossibility of its use in unequipped rooms, for example, in a car due to coal or crystalline carbon heated to a high temperature.

In addition, when using a gas burner for heating carbon, the risk of fire increases significantly.

Another disadvantage of using crystalline carbon in the form of its modifications, such as graphite, diamond, graphene, carbin, lonsdaleite, fullerite, carbon fiber, is its cost. Even if you use pure graphite (99.99%), the cheapest of the proposed options, its price exceeds the cost of charcoal by at least 10 times, not to mention the other proposed options for crystalline carbon.

The objective of the claimed technical solution is to eliminate these drawbacks of the known technical solution, namely, the creation of a simple device that can be safely operated even in a car, but at the same time retaining the high quality (organoleptic properties) of the inhaled smoke of a smoking gas mixture characteristic of a classic hookah.

The specified task in the device for forming a smoking gas mixture in a hookah containing a heater of a non-combustible type of smoking filler and a container associated with the heater for accommodating said smoking filler, configured to provide access to it, is solved by the fact that the device is made in a detachable housing including a lid, consisting outside of a protective casing with an internal thermal reflector, in which a heater is placed in the form of a graphite electrode or an electric lamp, and also the case is in the form of a bowl mounted on a hookah using a gas outlet pipe, while through holes are made in the protective casing and the heat reflector of the lid connecting the case with atmospheric air.

The specified implementation of the device for forming a smoking gas mixture in a hookah allows you to maximize the design of the device to a classic hookah, while there is no need to periodically refuel the device with hot coals, which means that the operation of the hookah is significantly increased, which allows it to be used even in a car.

To maintain high qualities (organoleptic properties) of the inhaled smoke of the smoking gas mixture, the heater is made in the form of a graphite electrode placed between the electrical contacts. The use of a graphite electrode eliminates extraneous odors inherent in conventional tubular electric heaters (TEN) due to oxidation of the metal on the surface of the TEN due to contact with the gas mixture during heating.

Similarly, the problem can be solved by using a small-sized electric incandescent lamp or its variant, a halogen lamp, as a heater. Unlike a conventional incandescent lamp, a halogen lamp has several advantages - it has smaller dimensions with the same electrical power and a long service life. It is known that in incandescent lamps most of the consumed electrical energy is converted into thermal radiation (up to 70% or more), and a smaller part is converted into luminous flux. The presence of small-sized lamps with a power of 30-50 W makes it easy to install them in the body of the device for heating the smoking gas mixture. The advantage of a heater in the form of an incandescent lamp or a halogen lamp is that:

- the tungsten filament of the lamp is in a sealed bulb and does not enter into a chemical reaction with the heated substance;

- the power of the heater is easily regulated by changing the voltage (or current) of the lamp.

To increase the safety of the claimed device, the housing is made in the form of a hollow cylinder or an ellipsoid of revolution, the cover and base of which are connected by a quick-detachable multi-threaded threaded or bayonet connection. This form of the housing can significantly simplify the operation of the device and ensure its simple pairing with the help of a gas outlet pipe with a hookah shaft.

To increase the functionality of the device, the housing can be made in the form of a hollow cylinder or an ellipsoid of revolution, divided inside by vertical partitions into sector sections, each section being equipped with an autonomous heater and smoking filler. Depending on which section the heater is currently operating in, we get one flavor or another. The specified implementation of the device allows using one housing of the device and without replacing the smoking mixture to get several smoking aromas at once.

To simplify the design of the device, but to maintain its functionality, the housing can be made in the form of a hollow cylinder or an ellipsoid of revolution, divided inside by vertical partitions into sector sections, while the lid of one of the sections is equipped with a heater, and the base is made in the form of a rotary drum with the possibility of installing any section of the base with smoking filler under the section of the lid with a heater. For quick-detachable connection of the cover and the base of this housing design, it is advisable to use multi-thread with the number of threads corresponding to the number of drum sections and the length of rotation of the housing cover equal to the arc length of the side surface of the section.

The use of a non-combustible type heater in the device in the form of a graphite electrode or lamp (incandescent or halogen) located in the housing cover of the claimed device allows it to provide high operational reliability and fire safety and, accordingly, guarantees its safe use together with a standard hookah even in such an unsuitable place for this procedure, it’s like a car, which has no analogues among hookahs known from the prior art, and, therefore, meets the criterion “invent are treacherous levels. "

The essence of the claimed technical solution is illustrated by the drawings - presented in FIG. 1-9 drawings.

In FIG. 1 shows a drawing of the inventive device using a heater in the form of a graphite electrode (rod), consisting of: the base of the housing (bowl) 1; thermal reflector 2 with through holes 3 for air passage; a protective casing 4 with through holes 5 for air passage; detachable lock connection 6 (bayonet or threaded connection) of the upper and lower parts of the housing; a graphite electrode 7 mounted between the holders of the electrode 8 with electrical leads 9; supports 10 for accommodating the smoking filler 11 placed in the foil; a pipe 12 connecting the inventive device with a hookah shaft made with through holes 13 through which air flows 14 passing through the inventive device enter the hookah shaft (the hookah itself is not shown conventionally).

In FIG. 2 shows a drawing of the inventive device using a heater in the form of an electric lamp (incandescent or halogen), additionally consisting of: a reflector 15 and a protective casing 16 with through central holes in which a cartridge 17 with a lamp 18 is installed, electrical contacts 19 for connecting the connector 20 (connector 20 is shown by a dash-dot line).

In FIG. 3-7 presents drawings of the claimed device using a heater in the form of an electric lamp and sectional execution of the device casing. In FIG. 3 shows a general view of the device (it does not change for the upper part of the rotary and lower non-rotary cases) and sections A-A and BB are indicated, which are shown in FIG. 4-7. Referring to FIG. 3, the claimed device includes: a sectional base 21 with a pipe 22; upper sectional cover 23 with temperature switch 24. In section AA in FIG. 4 (Fig. 6) shows the internal structure of the base 21, where: 25 - sectional partitions dividing the volume of the base into separate sections, each of which is connected to a common outlet pipe 22; in each section there is a smoking filler 26a-26g placed in the foil. In section BB in FIG. 5 shows the structure of the upper rotary part of the sectional casing 23, where: 27 - sectional partitions dividing the volume of the upper part of the casing into separate sections; in one of the sections a heater is installed in the form of an electric lamp 28. In section BB in FIG. 7 shows the structure of the upper fixed part of the sectional casing 23, where: 29 - sectional partitions dividing the volume of the upper part of the casing into separate sections; 30a-30g - sectional heaters in the form of electric lamps placed in each section.

In FIG. Figure 8 shows view B: drawing of a temperature switch 24 with a set of discrete heater temperatures.

In FIG. 9 is an electrical diagram of an embodiment of a heater switch with a discrete set of resistors Rl - Rn for selecting a heater temperature, by turning the temperature switch 24 of which the desired mode of operation of the heater is selected - electric lamp 18 (the switch for graphite heater 7 can be performed in a similar way), where: 32a and 32b — terminals of the power source 33 (for example, a car battery), 34a and 34b — wires connecting the electrical contacts 19a and 19b of the lamp 18 to the power source (via lyuchatel 24).

The claimed device operates as follows.

After assembling the hookah (it is not shown in the figures), the inventive device is put on the upper part of the standard hookah shaft. To ensure the tightness of the connected parts on the pipe 12 of FIG. 1, 2 (or 22 of Fig. 3) a rubber sealing ring is installed (the ring is conventionally not shown in the figures).

First, we consider the operation of the single-section device shown in FIG. 1 or FIG. 2. Since there are fundamental differences in the operation of the devices shown in FIG. 1 or FIG. 2, no, besides performing the heater, we consider the operation of the device with a graphite electrode (Fig. 1). On the upper part of the pipe 12, which extends into the base 1 and is equipped with a special flat platform for laying the smoky filler 10, through the open housing cover (the removable cover is a reflector 2 and a protective casing 4 connected together), the smoking mixture 11 is placed in foil. After that, the housing is closed using a rotary lock 6. Through a graphite heater 7, mounted in massive metal holders 8 connected by wires 9 to a voltage source (not shown in FIG. 1), an electric current is passed, the value of which controls the temperature of the heater 7 in the range of 450-950 ° C (an embodiment of the discrete temperature controller in the range from 450 to 950 ° C is shown in Fig. 8). By changing the temperature of the heater, each smoker can choose the most suitable gas composition for the smoking mixture. By selecting resistors Rl-Rn, you can create a temperature scale for the heater in the desired range, for example: "450 °"; "550 °"; "650 °"; "750 °"; "850 °"; "950 °." The temperature controller consists of a discrete set of resistors (the electrical circuit can be performed similarly to that shown in Fig. 9, where a graphite heater 7 is installed instead of the electric lamp 18), which are switched by switch 24. In position R0 of switch 24 (the lowest position in the circuit), the resistance is sequential the resistor included in the circuit is zero (there is no resistor), the current reaches its maximum value and the heater temperature is also about 950 ° C. In the position of the switch 24 in the Rn position (the highest position in the diagram), the resistance of the resistor connected in series in the circuit is equal to the maximum value, the current reaches the minimum value and the heater temperature is also about 450 ° C.

If necessary, the detachable case of the device makes it easy to change one smoking filler to another. Since the heat capacity of the hollow body is low, after 2-3 minutes after turning off the heater, the body can be safely opened and the smoking filler can be replaced. Each smoker selects the duration of the hookah smoking session and the temperature of the heater individually, focusing on the organoleptic properties of the inhaled smoke of the smoking gas mixture.

A distinctive feature of the device shown in FIG. 2, is that an electric lamp 18 is used as a heater, which heats up when an electric current is passed through it through contacts 19. Since most of the electric energy consumed by the lamp is converted into thermal radiation, the lamp is an effective heater for the small interior space of the inventive device and smoking filler. By adjusting the current through the lamp 18 with a conventional rheostat or discrete resistance switch Rl-Rn 24, shown in FIG. 9, you can easily change its temperature. Since the filament of the lamp is isolated from the gas medium inside the housing, it does not react chemically with the gas mixture and does not create odors.

Consider the features of the multi-sectional chamber shown in FIG. 3. Each chamber section with a non-rotary design can be equipped with an individual heater 30a-30g (see Fig. 7) or one heater 28 (see Fig. 5) with a rotary design of the upper part of the sectional housing 23. There are no fundamental differences from the operation of a single-section camera , but the number of used smoking fillers in this case can be significantly increased. If one heater 28 is used (Fig. 5), it is necessary to combine the heater section with the section of the desired smoking filler 26a-26g (Fig. 4). If a variant of the device with a fixed housing cover is used (Fig. 6 and Fig. 7), then one of the sections with a filler 26a-26g is selected and one of the heaters 30a-30g is turned on. For ease of understanding, FIG. Figures 4-7 show embodiments of a case with four sectional cameras, but there are no fundamental restrictions for increasing the number of cameras to 8, 16, or more pieces. Basically, this will be determined by the diameter of the device and the volume of smoking filler of each chamber.

Thus, the inventive device allows you to create a safe device that can be operated in various rooms not specially adapted for this, but at the same time maintain the high quality (organoleptic properties) of the inhaled smoke of the smoking gas mixture inherent in a classic hookah.

Claims (6)

1. A device for forming a smoking gas mixture in a hookah, comprising a heater of a non-combustible type of smoking filler and a container associated with the heater for accommodating said smoking filler, configured to provide access to it, characterized in that the device is made in a detachable housing including a lid, comprising outside from a protective casing with an internal thermal reflector, in which a heater is placed in the form of a graphite electrode or an electric lamp, and also the base to rpusa in the form of a bowl mounted to the water pipe by means of vent pipe, with a protective casing and a heat reflector cap is provided with through holes connecting the housing with the atmospheric air. 2. The device according to p. 1, characterized in that the heater is made in the form of a graphite electrode, placed between the electrical contacts. 3. The device according to claim 1, characterized in that the heater is made in the form of an incandescent lamp or a halogen lamp. 4. The device according to p. 1, characterized in that the housing is made in the form of a hollow cylinder or an ellipsoid of revolution, the cover and base of which are connected by a quick-detachable connection. 5. The device according to p. 1, characterized in that the housing is made in the form of a hollow cylinder or an ellipsoid of revolution, divided inside by vertical partitions into sector sections, each section being equipped with an autonomous heater and smoking filler. 6. The device according to p. 1, characterized in that the housing is made in the form of a hollow cylinder or an ellipsoid of revolution, divided inside by vertical partitions into sector sections, while the lid of one of the sections is equipped with a heater, and the base is made in the form of a rotary drum with the possibility of installing any section of the base with smoking filler under the section of the lid with a heater.

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