EP1615512B1 - Receptacle de poche servant a eteindre et a conserver provisoirement des bouts de cigarette - Google Patents

Receptacle de poche servant a eteindre et a conserver provisoirement des bouts de cigarette Download PDF

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EP1615512B1
EP1615512B1 EP04741448A EP04741448A EP1615512B1 EP 1615512 B1 EP1615512 B1 EP 1615512B1 EP 04741448 A EP04741448 A EP 04741448A EP 04741448 A EP04741448 A EP 04741448A EP 1615512 B1 EP1615512 B1 EP 1615512B1
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A24—TOBACCO; CIGARS; CIGARETTES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES; SMOKERS' REQUISITES
    • A24F—SMOKERS' REQUISITES; MATCH BOXES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES
    • A24F19/00—Ash-trays
    • A24F19/10—Ash-trays combined with other articles
    • A24F19/14—Ash-trays combined with other articles with extinguishers

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  • the invention relates to a portable container for extinguishing and for the temporary storage of cigarette stubs referred to in the preamble of claim 1 Art.
  • a portable device for extinguishing cigarette butts is from the WO 01/39618 known.
  • the container contains four cylindrical blind holes. In each blind hole, a burning cigarette butt can be inserted. The cigarette butt goes out after several seconds by itself.
  • An ashtray with such a device for extinguishing cigarette butts is also from the US 3840027 known.
  • This ashtray consists of an open-topped container for receiving the extinguished cigarette butt and the device for extinguishing the cigarette butt.
  • the device for extinguishing the cigarette butts can be rotated about a horizontal axis by 180 degrees, so that the cigarette butts fall into the container.
  • This ashtray is suitable because of its size and because the container is not open as a portable container.
  • a portable container for extinguishing and disposal of cigarette butts is from the US 6321757 known.
  • This container contains a compartment for receiving un-smoked cigarettes, a compartment for receiving ash and cigarette stubs, and a blind hole for receiving a burning cigarette butt.
  • the cigarette butt must be inserted into the relevant blind hole to extinguish it and, after it has been extinguished, removed by hand from the blind hole and placed in the compartment for the ash and cigarette butt.
  • a container for extinguishing and disposing cigarette butts having a drum rotatable about an axis with elongated recesses for temporarily receiving a butt of a cigarette and a chamber for storing the extinguished cigarette butts.
  • This container is relatively complicated and unwieldy and its shape is not suitable as a portable container that can be carried as a personal utensil.
  • a similar container with the same disadvantages is known from the US 2661747 ,
  • the invention has for its object to develop a portable container for extinguishing burning cigarette butts and the temporary storage of the deleted cigarette butt, which is easy to handle and can be carried as a personal utensil.
  • a container according to the invention for extinguishing and temporarily storing cigarette butts consists of a housing formed by two housing halves, the first housing half containing a drum rotatable about an axis with at least one recess parallel to the axis for temporarily receiving a cigarette butt and the second housing half forms a closed to the environment chamber for the storage of the deleted cigarette butt.
  • the housing includes an opening through which a cigarette butt to be disposed of is introduced into one of the recesses of the drum.
  • the opening of the housing is located opposite a front side of the drum.
  • the drum is rigidly connected to a cover which either opens or closes the opening of the housing.
  • the drum is subdivided into at least two, preferably many sub-bodies, wherein adjacent sub-bodies are separated by a gap running perpendicular to the axis.
  • Each gap is associated with a arranged on a side wall of the container element which projects into the associated gap.
  • Fig. 1 shows a container according to the invention for extinguishing burning cigarette ends and the temporary storage of the extinguished cigarette butts.
  • the container consists of a two-part housing, the two housing halves are denoted by the reference numerals 1 and 2, and a lid 3 which is rotatable about an axis 4 extending in the longitudinal direction of the housing.
  • the lid 3 contains at least one opening 5, preferably two openings as in the example shown.
  • the diameter of the opening 5 is slightly larger, for example by 1.5 mm, than the diameter of a cigarette.
  • the two housing halves 1 and 2 are releasably secured together. You can, for example, be moved in the longitudinal direction of the housing against each other.
  • Fig. 2 shows the disassembled into its parts container in exploded view and Fig. 3 shows the composite container, but all the items are shown transparent.
  • Fig. 3 For the sake of clarity of drawing, the reference numbers have been omitted with one exception.
  • the example of Fig. 3 includes a small modification to the example of Fig. 2. Reference numeral 26 concerning the modification has been given, its meaning will be explained later.
  • the two case halves 1 and 2 each consist of a side wall 6 and 7, respectively
  • the top wall 10 of the first housing half 1 has a bore 12 for receiving a rod 3 attached to the rod 13 and an opening 14 which in certain rotational positions of the lid 3 with a the two openings 5 of the lid 3 is aligned.
  • the bottom 8 of the first housing half 1 contains a recess 15 for the axial bearing of the rod 13.
  • a plurality, for example, four, spaced apart elements 16 are arranged, whose function will be explained later.
  • the drum 17 includes a bore 18 for receiving the rod 13.
  • the drum 17 is provided with at least one recess 21.
  • two recesses 21 are present, which lie opposite each other with respect to the bore 18.
  • the number of recesses 21 is equal to the number of openings 5 in the lid 3 and the recesses 21 are aligned with the openings 5 in the lid 3.
  • the recesses 21 are sized so that there is room for a cigarette.
  • the drum 17 is divided in the longitudinal direction into a number of n same drum parts 19, which are separated by a respective gap 20.
  • the number n of the drum parts is larger by 1 than the number of elements 16.
  • the drum parts 19 form a single body, ie the drum 17 is preferably formed in one piece.
  • the second housing half 2 preferably includes an inner bottom 22 which is curved so that the distance to the bottom 9 increases with increasing distance from the rod 13.
  • the inner bottom 22 can either be arranged as shown on the bottom 9 or on the top wall 11.
  • the elements 16 are in columns 20.
  • the elements 16 are approximately triangular in shape, with one side of the triangle being curved, optionally.
  • the opening 14 of the container is opposite to an end face 25 of the drum 17. In certain rotational positions of the drum 17 thus one of the openings 5 of the lid 3, the opening 14 of the container and one of the recesses 21 of the drum 17, so that a cigarette butt can be inserted and temporarily picked up by the recess 21.
  • the elements 16 are preferably very thin and the gaps 20 between the drum parts 19 correspondingly narrow to keep the air circulation between the chamber with the cigarette butts and the recesses 21 in the drum 17 as low as possible, so that in the recess 21 into the cigarette butt due missing air supply as soon as possible extinguished.
  • the height of a drum part 19 may be about the same size as the filter piece of a commercial cigarette, that is about eight to twelve millimeters.
  • the height of a gap 20 should be less than the diameter of a cigarette to prevent the cigarette butt from clogging the gap 20 and possibly blocking the whole mechanism.
  • the height of the drum parts 19 and the column 20 1 to 3 millimeters.
  • FIGS. 4 to 6 illustrate how, as the lid 3 is rotated, the cigarette butt is progressively removed from the recess 21 in the body 17 due to the action of the elements 16.
  • These figures show in plan view of one of the elements 16, one edge of which is fixed to the side wall 6, one of the drum parts 19 and a cigarette butt 24.
  • the size of the container is sized so that it can be comfortably held by a human hand.
  • the side walls 6 and 7 of the two housing halves 1 and 2 have two parallel walls, which are connected by a semicircular arc, so that the shape of the container is similar to the shape of a 4.5 V flat battery.
  • the length of the container in the direction of the axis 4 is dimensioned so that even a whole, just burned only cigarette in the container fits.
  • the chamber formed by the second housing half 2 can accommodate about ten to twenty cigarette butts. Of course, the number depends on the size of the cigarette butt.
  • the second housing half 2 can also be formed wider than the first housing half 1.
  • the openings 5 in the lid 3 are provided with advantageous locking positions.
  • latching positions are advantageously provided for the intermediate positions in which the cover 3 covers the opening 14 of the container. In the example with two openings 5 in the lid 3 so four offset by 90 ° locking positions are provided.
  • the elements 16 can be realized in various ways. They may, for example, be formed in one piece with the first housing half 1 or be inserted as individual or connected by a web elements, for example by means of a liquor from the outside or from the inside into the side wall 6 of the first housing half.
  • a further variant, which is shown in FIG. 3, is to limit the end of the recesses 21 on the end face of the drum 17 facing the bottom 8 by a closing bottom surface 26, so that a cigarette butt inserted into the recess 21 is at most until reaches this bottom surface 26 and has no contact with the bottom 8.
  • the inner bottom 22nd is to limit the end of the recesses 21 on the end face of the drum 17 facing the bottom 8 by a closing bottom surface 26, so that a cigarette butt inserted into the recess 21 is at most until reaches this bottom surface 26 and has no contact with the bottom 8.
  • Another variant is instead of a two-part housing, in which the two housing halves 1 and 2 are releasably secured to each other, to use a one- or multi-part housing, in which either the top wall 11 or the bottom 9 is formed so that the chamber can be emptied with the cigarette butts.
  • the bottom 9 includes a hinged lid so that the container can be easily emptied.

Claims (4)

  1. Contenant pour l'extinction et la conservation temporaire de mégots de cigarettes, sachant que le contenant présente un tambour (17) pouvant tourner autour d'un axe (4) et comportant au moins un évidement (21) s'étendant parallèlement à l'axe (4) pour réceptionner temporairement un mégot de cigarette et une chambre fermée envers l'environnement pour stocker les mégots de cigarettes éteints, caractérisé en ce que le contenant présente une ouverture (14) qui est agencée à l'opposé d'une face frontale (25) du tambour (17) et qui, dans certaines positions de rotation du tambour (17), est en alignement avec au moins un évidement (21) du tambour (17), en ce que le contenant présente un couvercle (3) relié avec le tambour (17) et comportant au moins une ouverture (5) pour l'introduction d'un mégot de cigarette, l'ouverture (14) du contenant étant soit ouverte, soit dégagée par le couvercle (3), en ce que le tambour (17) est subdivisé en au moins deux parties de tambour (19), des parties de tambour adjacentes (19) étant séparées par une fente (20) s'étendant perpendiculairement à l'axe (4), et en ce qu'un élément (16) agencé sur une paroi latérale (6) du contenant est attribué à chaque fente (20), ledit élément (16) venant s'engager dans la fente (20) de manière à modifier la section transversale dudit au moins un évidement (21) lorsque le tambour (17) est tourné.
  2. Contenant selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que la chambre présente un fond intérieur courbé (22).
  3. Contenant selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce qu'une extrémité dudit au moins un évidement (21), opposée à la face frontale (25) du tambour (17), est obturée par une surface de fond (26).
  4. Contenant selon l'une des revendications 1 à 3, caractérisé en ce que le nombre de parties de tambour (19) se monte au moins à quatre.
EP04741448A 2003-04-11 2004-04-05 Receptacle de poche servant a eteindre et a conserver provisoirement des bouts de cigarette Expired - Lifetime EP1615512B1 (fr)

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EP20030100994 EP1466536A1 (fr) 2003-04-11 2003-04-11 Dispositif d'extinction et de stockage temporaire de megots de cigarette
EP04741448A EP1615512B1 (fr) 2003-04-11 2004-04-05 Receptacle de poche servant a eteindre et a conserver provisoirement des bouts de cigarette
PCT/EP2004/050447 WO2004089125A1 (fr) 2003-04-11 2004-04-05 Receptacle de poche servant a eteindre et a conserver provisoirement des bouts de cigarette

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US1912598A (en) * 1932-01-04 1933-06-06 Joseph X Snadden Cigarette extinguisher
US2661747A (en) * 1949-06-06 1953-12-08 Peter M Manion Smoker's receptacle
US2737350A (en) * 1952-09-05 1956-03-06 Stanley G Craig Combined ash receiver and power operated cigar and cigarette butt pulverizer and extinguisher
US3651817A (en) * 1970-01-09 1972-03-28 William W Baker Cigarette extinguisher receptacle
US3620225A (en) 1970-01-22 1971-11-16 Doris S Bailey Ashtray
US3695277A (en) * 1970-03-16 1972-10-03 Dominick Moffa Cigarette extinguisher
US3840027A (en) * 1973-07-23 1974-10-08 R Patterson Combination cigarette extinguisher and ash tray
DE2604899A1 (de) 1976-02-07 1977-08-18 Wilhelm Wilken Vorrichtung zum loeschen von zigarren und zigaretten
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