US1220167A

US1220167A - Ash-tray.

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Publication number: US1220167A
Application number: US7141316A
Authority: US
Inventors: John H Astruck
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1916-01-11
Filing date: 1916-01-11
Publication date: 1917-03-27
Anticipated expiration: 1934-03-27

Description

I. H. ASTRUCK.

ASH TRAY.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. n. 1915.

1,220,167. Patented Mar. 27,1917.

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JOHN H. ASTRUGK, NEW YORK, N. Y.

ASH-TRAY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 2'7, 1917.

Application filed January 11, 1916. Serial No. 71,413.

To all 'wlwmit-may concern.-

Be it known that 1, JOHN H. AsTRUoK,

a citizen of the United States,:and a resident of New York city, in the county and "State of New York, have invented certain cigars or cigarettes upon the rim of the tray.

Inthe accompanying drawing:

Figure 1 is a perspective view-of an ash tray, embodying my invention;

Fig.2,aplan;

Fig. 3, a section on-line 33, Fig. 2; Fig. 4, a section on line M Fig. 2; v Fig. 5, a section on line 55 Fig. 2, and Fig. 6, a detail of part of the match box holding shoulder.

'The body of the ash tray comprises a bowl preferably formed of vitreous or ceramic material and of circular or other configuration. It has a wall 1 of such thickness, as to form-a horizontal rim 2 of such considerable width as to constitute a -rest for a cigar. Into this rim, are sunk, a plurality of grooves or -

rests

3 and 4, which serve for the accommodation ofcigars or cigarettes. These grooves are so formed that 'they'do not cross the wall radially or alonga minimum length of path, but that they traverse the wall on a diagonal so that their length is somewhat greater than the thickness of the-wall while furthermore the yarious grooves traverse the rim in dilferent oblique directions. In this way, the

- length. and consequently the security of. the

the tray.

more increases in depth from its outer toward its inner end, to impart a corresponding tilt to the cigar, and prevent the same from being readily knocked off.

In order to secure a match box to the tray, wall 1 is provided with a pair of opposed notches 5, that form between them, a projection or' shoulder 6 which is integral with wall 1, and is sunk flush or below the rim thereof, so that it presents no unsightly eminence and is not liable to be injured. Over shoulder 6 is adapted to be projected, a casing 7 which is designed to encompass a match box of conventional construction.

' Casing 7, is provided with a pair of resilient -end lugs 8 which are received ,by corresponding recesses 9, formed in the ends of shoulder 6. These lugs are furnished with bulges or protuberances 10, while recesses 9 have sockets 11 adapted to receive the same. Thus by slipping the casing over shoulder 6, lugs 8 will spring into recesses 9, while protuberances 10 will be projected into sockets 11, thus securely holding the casing to the tray. When the match box is next slipped into the casing, and over shoulder 6, its outer member will be projected over the lugs, so as to tighten the hold of the lugs on the shoulder, and to thus lock the casing to I claim:

1. An ash tray comprising a bowl hav-' ing a rim of a thickness suflicient to constitute a cigar rest, and a plurality of diagonally disposed grooves sunk into. said rim and traversing the same in difierent oblique directions.

2. An ash tray comprising a bowl having a horizontal rim of a thickness suificient to constitute a cigar rest, and a groovesunk into said rim and increasing in depth from its outer end toward its inner end, whereby a corresponding tilt is imparted to the cigar supported within said groove.

. JOHN H. ASTRUCK.