JPS593760Y2 - ashtray - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to an ashtray equipped with a cigarette extinguishing device, and particularly to an ashtray suitable for installation in an automobile.

Conventional automobile ashtrays are equipped with metal fittings for snuffing out cigarettes, but snuffing out cigarettes while driving is extremely dangerous, and the flame often remains unextinguished.

If you dispose of the fire in the ashtray without extinguishing it, it will spread to other ashtrays and make the inside of your car smelly.

Furthermore, although it is known that the ashtray has an airtight structure, if the airtightness is poor or the volume of the ashtray is large, it takes a very long time to extinguish smoke.

Therefore, the present invention aims to provide an ashtray that can extinguish fire easily and safely, and can reliably extinguish fire in a short period of time.

The figure shows an automobile ashtray according to the present invention.

Reference numeral 1 denotes an ashtray body, which is attached to the lower part of the instrument panel of an automobile (not shown).

This ashtray main body is provided with a sliding guide part 2 on the side surface and a lid part 3 on the end surface.

A cigarette extinguishing device 4 is attached to the upper part of the ashtray body 1.

This cigarette extinguishing device essentially consists of an upper plate 5 and a lower plate 6, the upper plate 5 is rotatably supported on the ashtray body 1 by a spring 7, and the lower plate 6 is rotatable to the upper plate 5 by a pin 8. is supported by.

Both ends of the spring 7 are fastened to the ashtray body 1 with screws 9, and the center portion thereof is held by the upper plate 5.

This spring functions as a rotation axis of the upper plate 5 and also as a spring that urges the upper plate 5 upward.

Both ends B/, B// of the pin 8 are held by the upper plate 5, and the center portion thereof passes through the bent portion 6' of the lower plate 6.

In order to rotate the lower plate 6 about this pin 8, contact rods 10 and 11 are fixed to the inner wall of the ashtray body 1.

When the upper plate 5 and the lower plate 6 rotate around the spring 7, this contact rod contacts the bent portion 6' of the lower plate 6 and rotates the lower plate.

The upper plate 5 and the lower plate 6 have a recess 12.1 having a substantially semicircular cross section.
3 each has two pieces.

These recesses align with each other when the lower plate 6 pivots upward around the pin 8 to form a blind cigarette insertion hole 14°1.
form 5.

When the lower plate 6 pivots downward, the cigarette search hole 14.
The cigarette inserted in 15 falls into the ashtray body 1.

The entrance portions 12' and 13' of these recesses 12 and 13 are as follows:
To facilitate insertion of a cigarette, it is widened as shown or fitted with a cigarette guide.

Further, a fluorescent paint is applied to the entrance portions 12' and 13' so that the cigarette insertion hole can be visually recognized even at night.

Next, a method of using the ashtray configured as described above will be explained.

When the ashtray is pulled out from the lower part of the instrument panel, the upper plate 5 rotates upward around the spring 7 under the action of the spring 7.

At this time, the bent part 6' of the lower plate 6 hits the contact rod 10, so the lower plate rotates upward around the pin 8, and its recess 13 matches the recess 12 of the upper plate 5, causing the cigarette insertion hole. 14.15 (see Figure 1).

When a finished cigarette is inserted into the cigarette insertion hole 14, 15, it will be extinguished reliably in a few seconds.

Thereafter, when the ashtray is pushed into the lower part of the instrument panel, the upper plate 5 hits the edge of the lower part of the instrument panel and rotates downward around the spring 7.

At this time, the bent portion 6' of the lower plate 6 hits the contact rod 11, so the lower plate 6 rotates downward around the pin 8, and the cigarette insertion hole 1
4.15 opens (see Figure 2).

Therefore, the cigarette falls into the ashtray body 1.

Although the present invention has been described below with respect to an automobile ashtray, the present invention can also be applied to other ashtrays, such as tabletop ashtrays.

In that case, the shape of the ashtray body and the means for rotating the lower plate can be changed.

Further, in the above embodiment, the cross sections of the recesses in the upper plate and the lower plate are approximately semicircular, but they may be formed in other shapes.

As described above, in the present invention, the upper plate attached to the upper part of the ashtray body and the lower plate rotatably supported by the upper plate each have at least one or more recesses, and further, the lower plate When the lower plate is rotated upward by this means, the recesses of the upper plate and lower plate meet to form a blind cigarette insertion hole, and when the lower plate is rotated downward, this Since the cigarette insertion hole is opened and the cigarette falls from this insertion hole into the ashtray body, the fire can be extinguished quickly and reliably.
Moreover, the fire extinguishing operation is simple and safe.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view of the embodiment with the lower plate open, and FIG.
The figure is a perspective view of the lower plate. Codes in the figure 1...Ashtray body, 5...Upper plate, 6...Lower plate, 10.11...Lower plate rotation means, 12.13・・・・・・Concavity, 14°15・
... Cigarette insertion hole.

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] At least one or more recesses 12 and 13 are formed in the upper plate 5 attached to the upper part of the ashtray body 1 and the lower plate 6 rotatably supported by the upper plate, respectively, and the lower plate is further rotated. Means 10.11 is provided, whereby when the lower plate is rotated upwards, the recesses of the upper plate and the lower plate meet to form a blind cigarette insertion hole 14,15, and when the lower plate is rotated downwards, the recesses of the upper plate and the lower plate meet, and when the lower plate is rotated downwardly, This ashtray has a cigarette insertion hole that allows cigarettes to fall through the hole into the ashtray body.