US1725196A - Extinguisher for cigarettes and cigars - Google Patents

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Aug. 20, 1929. R. H. JOHNSON EXTINGUISHER FOR CIGARETTES AND CIGARS P0] Johnson; W fltkom o Filed Sept. 28. 1927 Patented Aug. 20, 1929.

Ro H. JOHNSON, 'or LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

EXTINGUISHER FOR CIGARETTES AND CIGARS.

Application filed September 28, 1927. Serial No. 222,678.

This invention relates to extinguishers for cigarettes and cigars, and an object of .the invention, in general, is to'lnsure extinguishing of a lighted cigarette or cigar when the same is left burning by the smoker.

An important object of the invention is to provide for holding the lighted cigarette or cigar in a manner to permit of the same burning for an interval of time, before being extinguished, so that, so long as the smoker places the cigarette or cigar' in the holder at intervals between smoking periods, without resulting in extinguishing of the cigarette or cigar, and so that if the smoker allows the cigarette 0r cigar to remain unsmoked for a predetermined len' h of time, it will be automatically extingulshed at the end of that time.

Another object of the invention is to provide for ejection of the extinguished cigarette or cigar into a suitable receptacle.

Another object is to provide a. device of this character in which the holder for the cigarette or cigar can be rotated for disposing of the extinguished cigarette or cigar. Another object is to make provision for releasing the extinguished cigarette or cigar by a rocking motion of the holder.

Another object is to provide a device of this character in which the ci arette or cigar can be placed in different orifices according as to whether the smoker has finished with the same or desires to continue smoking the cigarette or cigar.

Another object is to provide a construction that readily lends itself to being formed of cla Another object is to provide a construction which will readily lend itself to beautiful designs.

Another object is to provide a construction which will permit of adjustment of the effective depth of the snufier pocket through positionable vertical sliding overlap of one side of the pocket in relation to the other sides of said pocket.

Another object is to provide a construction which includes a member provided with a tubular orifice and a means for positioning said member so that the inclination of the tubular orifice can be changed in opposite directions from the critical an 1e of repose of the cigarette inserted in sai orifice.

Another object is to provide a construction in which a holder is rockably mounted and is provided with grooves WhlCh are endwise positionable by rocking of the holder, from an angle of repose for a cigarette lying in said groove to an angle at which gravity will cauie the cigarette to slide into the snu'fier poc et.

Another object is to provide a construction in which a grooved holder can be rocked so as to position the groove successively at an angle of repose for a cigarette lying therein, an angle at which gravity acts to slide said cigarette, and alignment of the groove with the seat opening so that the cigarette will be precipitated by gravity through said opening.

Other objects and advantages will appear in the subjoined detailed description.

The accompanying drawings illustrate several different forms of the invention.

- Fig. l is a side view of an extinguisher for cigarettes and cigars, constructed in accordance with the provisions of this invention.

Fig. 2 is a plan view, partlytin section, on the line indicated by 22 Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is an enlarged fragmental vertical section on the line indicated by 3-3 Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a fragmental vertical section on the line indicated by 44 Fig. 2.

Fig. 5 is a sectional view similar to Fig. 4 excepting that the holder is rocked into position to discharge the cigarette or cigar into the receptacle.

Referring to the drawings, for the form of the invention there illustrated, there is provided a holder 11 which is movably mounted on a suitable support 12.

In this instance, the lower portion of the support 12 constitutes a receptacle13 adapted to receive extinguished cigarettes and cigars, and the upper portion of the support 12 constitutes a socket or recessed concave bearing seat 14 in which the holder 11 is removably seated. In the particular instance illustrated, the seat 14 is hemi-spherical and the holder 11 is correspondingl shaped so that it may be rotated or rocke within the seat, for a purpose to appear hereinafter.

In this particular instance, the main body of the holder 11 constitutes a substantially spherical member 15 and protruding upwardly from this spherical member 15 1s a neck 16 that surrounds a tubular draft opening 17 which extends not only through the neck 16 but also through the spherical member 15 and adapted, when the neck is uppermost, to communicate at its lower end with the receptacle 13 through an approximately vertical opening 171 centrally of the seat 14.

In this particular instance the receptacle 13 and the seat 14 constitute an upper section of the support 12 and a lower section 18 of said support constitutes a tray within which the receptacle 13 removably fits. The lower end of the receptacle 13 is provided with a number of annular shoulders 19 engaging annular shoulders 20 on the tray 18.

The holder 11 is provided at intervals around the neck 16 with a number of orifices to receive cigarettes or cigars. These orifices are of three types, those indicated at 21, those indicated at 22 and those indicated 221. The orifices 21 extend aslant inwardly and downwardly and communicate at their inner ends with a draft opening 17. In this particular instance, there are four orifices 21 arranged at intervals around the upper portion of the spherical member 15. The onfices 21 are adapted to receive burning cigarettes or cigars and a cigarette is indicated at a in Fig. 3. The angle at which the orifices 21 extends, relative to the horizontal, is such that the cigarette or cigar will be held without slipping and the diameter of the orifices 21 is such that the cigarette or cigar will closely fit said orifices. The smoker will insert the lighted cigarette or cigar in one of the orifices 21 with the lighted end positioned in the draft opening 17. Thus air will have access to the lighted end of the cigarette or cigar so as to support combustion. If the smoker does not remove the burning cigarette or cigar before it has burned to a plane at which the cigarette or cigar is in contact with the wall of the orifice 21, such contact will extinguish the fire.

The orifices 22, together with the seat 14, constitute a snutfer pocket and extend downwardly and, in this instance, substantially parallel with the draft opening 17 and, in this instance, form channels in the opposite sides of the spherical member 15. When the neck 16 is pointing upwardly, the lower ends of the orifices 22 are closed by the wall of the seat 14. Normally the holder 12 will be positioned with the neck 16 pointing upwardly so that the orifices 22 will not be in register with the opening 171.

The orifices 221, of which there are two, in this instance, together with the seat 14, constitute a snufi'er pocket and extend downwardly and, in this instance, substantially parallel withthe draft opening 17, so that when the neck 16 is pointing upwardly, the lower ends of the orifices 221 are closed by the wall of the seat 14. The holder 11 may be rocked to a position that will cause the orifices 221 to register with the opening 171. When the smoker desires to discard his lighted cigarette or cigar, he will place the same in one of the orifices 22 or 221. In Fig. 4 a cigar or cigarette is indicated at b in one of the orifices 22. That portion of the orifices 22 adjacent to the lighted end of the cigarette or cigar constitutes, together with the adjacent wall of the seat 14, a pocket which prevents access of suflicient air to the cigarette or cigar to support combustion and, consequently, the fire is extinguished. To eject the cigarette or cigar from the holder 11, said holder will be rocked from the position shown in Fig. 4 into the position shown in Fig. 5 so as to communicate that orifice 22, in which the cigarette or cigar butt is positioned, with the opening 171, whereupon gravity will cause the cigarette or cigar butt; to pass downwardly through the opening 171 into the receptacle 13. The cigarette or cigar butt falls upon the tray 18 and may finally be disposed of by lifting off the receptacle 13 from the tray 18 and dumping the contents from said tray.

Instead of rocking the holder 11 in the seat 14, when it is desired to discharge the extinguished cigar or cigarette, the holder may be lifted out of the seat, whereupon the cigar or cigarette will drop out of the open-' ing 22 into the receptacle 13.

It will be seen from the foregoing that.

by properly rocking the member 11 into different positions, the effective depths of the snufi'er pockets may be altered from a very slight depth to a relatively great depth. \Vhen the depth is slight, and the cigarette is placed in the pocket, a certain ampunt of air will have access to the burning end of the cigarette so that the cigarette will continue to burn at least for a time. If, however, the member 11 be positioned with the neck 16 vertical, a cigarette placed in one of the snuifer pockets will soon be extinguished for lack of air, since such positioning of the member 11 will cause the snulfer pockets to become relatively deep. It will be readily understood that the member 11 and seat 14, constituting as they do the walls of the snuli'er pockets, the pocket walls of the member 11 are in sliding overlap with the wall of the seat 14. It will also be seen that the member 11 may be tilted to a. position in which one of the orifices 22, or 221, may be positioned so as to lie at an angle of repose for a cigarette inserted in said orifice, so that the lighted end of the cigarette will be sufficiently exposed to cause said cigarette to continue burning. From this position, wherein the orifice holding the cigarette is at an angle of repose for the cigathe neck 16 assumes a slighter angle to the vertical and gravity will cause the cigarette to descend into the snufier pocket efined by the wall of the seat and'the walls of the orifice. This position of the orifice is a precipitous one. It is also clear that the member 11 may be rocked so as to successively position the groove holding a cigarette at an angle of repose for the cigarette, an angle of precipitation for said cigarette, and in alignment with the seat opening 171 so as to cause discharge of the cigarette from the groove through said openin The material of which the invention is made, preferably, is of a relatively hi h heat-absorbin nature so that, when t e burning portion of the cigar .or cigarette comes in contact with the wall of the orifice in which the cigar or cigarette is laced, the heat of the burning portion will e so rapidly conducted away as to materially aid in extinguishing the fire.

I claim:

1. An extinguisher for cigarettes and cigars comprising a support provided with a hemispherical seat, the seat provided with an approximately vertical opening, a holder rotatably fitting in the seat and provided with an orifice adapted to be positioned in and out of registration with the opening by rotation of the holder into different osltions so that a cigarette positioned in the orifice will fall through said opening when in register with the orifice.

2. An extin isher for cigarettes and cigars comprising a support forming a receptacle and a seat, the seat provided with an approximately vertical opening communicating with the interior of the receptacle, and a holder movably mounted in the seat and provided with an orifice adapted to be positioned in and out of registration with the opening by movement of the holder into different positions so that a cigarette positioned in the orifice will fall through said opening when in register with the orifice.

3. An extinguisher for cigarettes and cigars comprising a support forming a receptacle and a seat in its upper portion and a tray to removably hold the receptacle, the seat provided with an approximately vertical opening communicating with the interior of the receptacle, and a holder movably mounted in the seat and provided with an orifice adapted to be positioned inand out of registration with the opening by movement of the holder. into different positions so that a cigarette positioned in the orifice will .fall through said opening when in register with the orifice.

4. An extinguisher for cigarettes and cigars comprising a support forming a receptacle and a seat, the seat provided with an opening communicating with the interior of t e receptacle, and a holder movably mounted 1n the. seat and provided with a draft opening adapted to register with the seat openin when the holder is in one posi t1o n, said older rovided with a. second pmfice adapted to e positioned out of registration w1th the seat opening when the holder is in said position, said orificeada t- -ed to be positioned in re 'strationwith t e seat opemng when the ho der is moved into another POSItlOD."

5. An extinguisher for cigarettes comprismg a support provided with a hemispherical seat, an ash receptacle, the seat provided with an opening placed over the ash receptacle, a ho derrotatable in any plane fitting the seat and provided with an orifice to loosely fit a cigarette, said orifice ada ted to be positioned in and out of substantlally vertical alignment with the opening by rotation .of the holder into different positions. 6. An extinguisher for cigarettes comprismg a support provided with a seat, the seat having steep sides inwardly and downwardly converging to a central openin a holder movably fitting in the seat an provided with a groove in its side, the groove being of a size to loosely fit a cigarette, the wall .of the seat providing a closure vfor one side and the lower end of the groove when the holder is in one position, and providing a guide to the central opening when the holder 1s moved into another position.

7. An extinguisher for cigarettes comprismg a support forming a receptacle and a seat in its upper portion and a tray to removably hold the receptacle, the seat wall converging inwardly and downwardly to a central opening, a holder fitting in the seat and provided with'an orifice of a size to loosely fit a cigarette, the wall of the seat providing a closure for the lower end of the orifice when the holder is in one position and providin guiding means to the central opening w en the holder is raised from the seat.

8. An extinguisher for cigarettes comprising a support forming a receptacle and a seat, the seat provided with an opening communicating with the interior .oi the receptacle, a holder rockably mounted in the seat and provided with a groove of greater depth than the diameter of a cigarette, the holder being movable into different positions so as to alter the angle of the groove from an angle of repose for a cigarette therein to an angle at which gravity causes the cigarette to slide in the groove, the wall of the seat overlapping the lower portion of said groove when the groove lies in a precipitous position so as to form a snufi'er pocket into which the cigarette is urged by gravity.

9. An extinguisher for cigarettes comprising a support forming a receptacle and a seat, the seat provided with an 0 ening comwhich gravity causes the cigarette to slide municatin with the interior 0 the recepin the groove, thence into alignment with the tacle, a holder rockably mounted in the seat seat opening so that the cigarette will dis- 10 and provided with a groove, the groove charge throu h said opening.

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