US 12,239,159 B2
Interface for smokable element to connect to a smoke and/or tar filter and related methods
Lane Kleppen, Seattle, WA (US)
Assigned to Filter420, LLC, Seattle, WA (US)
Filed by Filter420, LLC, Seattle, WA (US)
Filed on Dec. 10, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/547,708.
Application 17/547,708 is a continuation of application No. 16/168,373, filed on Oct. 23, 2018, granted, now 11,219,242.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/683,607, filed on Jun. 11, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0142239 A1, May 12, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. A24F 7/04 (2006.01); A24D 3/02 (2006.01); A24D 3/04 (2006.01); A24D 3/18 (2006.01); A24F 13/06 (2006.01)
CPC A24D 3/0275 (2013.01) [A24D 3/04 (2013.01); A24D 3/18 (2013.01); A24F 7/04 (2013.01); A24F 13/06 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system, comprising:
an air filter comprising an opening; and
an interface component configured to interface with a smokable element to the air filter, wherein the interface component comprises a continuous horn-shaped channel defining a hollow inner chamber extending from a first end of the interface component to at least near a second end of the interface component,
wherein part of the interface component near the second end is inserted into the opening of the air filter,
wherein the interface component is coupled with the air filter to permit a flow of air through the hollow inner chamber of the interface component and the opening in the air filter,
wherein the interface component comprises an elastomeric material that configures the interface component to be deformable from a first shape to a second shape that permits insertion of the smokable element into an opening at the first end of the interface component in response to receipt of a squeezing force, and to be deformable to a third shape that yields a press fit with the smokable element in response to release of the squeezing force while the smokable element is inserted into the opening at the first end of the interface component,
wherein application of a rotating force to a knob of the interface component causes the squeezing force to be applied to the opening at the first end of the interface component, and
wherein the squeezing force results in a change to a cross-sectional shape of the opening at the first end of the interface component.