US1849416A - Combined cigarette container and ash-tray - Google Patents

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March 15,1932. M. ALTBUCH 1,849,416

COMBINED CIGARETTE CONTAINER AND ASH TRAY Filed March 26, 1930 a 1m) NT R BY Patented Mar. 15, 1932 MORRIS ALTBUCH, OF BROOKLYNQNEWZYORK comamnn CIGARETTE CONTAINER AND, Asia-rear i i g] Application filed March 26, 1930. erial No.43,055.-" l I The present invention relates to a combined cigarette container and ash-tray, and has for its main object to provide a device of this type which is exceedingly simple in construction, durable in use and capable of manufacture on a commercial scale, or in other words one which is not so difficult to produce as to be beyond the reasonable cost of such a contrivance.

Another object of the invention is to construct a device of the type mentioned, wherein the cover of the container is detachable and so shaped that it is capable of serving as an ash-tray.

With these and other objects in view, which will more fully appear as a nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in the combination, arrangement and construction of parts hereinafter described, pointed out in the appended claims and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, it being understood that many changes may be made in the size and proportion of the several parts and details of construction within the scope of the appended claims without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

One of the many possible embodiments of the invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a central longitudinal section taken through a combined cigarette contain-' er and ash-tray constructed in accordance with the present invention; and F 1g. 2 1s a perspective view of the device, the elements being taken apart, one constituting the cigarette container and the other being shown in a position 'to serve as an ash-tray.

Referring now to the drawings, thenumeral 10 indicates a hollow body, provided with a base 11, to the underface of which is attached in any suitable manner a felt sheet 12, to prevent scratching'or otherwise injuring the support onto which the said body is hollow, to receive a container 13 which is placed. The body 10 may be of any suitable providedwith a substantially circular flange 14 atits open end, the said flange resting on top of the body 10 and being attached to the latter by nails 15,01 otherwise. Thev container 13 and its flange 14 are made of one integral piece, preferably of sheet metal, which obviously may be shaped by stamping. Onto the body 10 is fitted a cover 16, comprising a receptacle 17, around the open end f of which is formed a flange 18. In the case illustrated in the drawings this cover has the shape of a hat, which is adapted to be placed on the representation of thehuman head which forms part of the body 10 The flange 18, which constitutes the brimof the hat, is provided with a plurality of transverse depressions 19, each adapted to receive a cigarette 20, as shown in Fig. 2 of the drawmgs.

When the elements are assembled, as illustrated in Fig. lot the drawings, the cigarettes in the container 13 are concealed from View, a close fit between the, cover 16 and the body 10 providing a substantially air-tight closure to prevent the cigarettes from drying up. When the device is to be put to use,

the cover 16 is removed from the body 10 and I placed in its inverted position, shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings, it thereby constituting an ash-tray. One or more cigarettes may be placed, while burning, into the depressions 19 in the flange 18 of thecover and are thus held against rolling off the ash-tray. It is I obvious that the cigarette ashes may be placed into the cover 16 in the usual manner. When the cover is again to be placed upon the body 10, thecigarette ashes must, obviously, first be withdrawn therefrom.

The device herein described is inexpensive to manufacture by reason of the fact that the body lOmay be molded, and the container 13 and cover 16 are obtained by stamping operations.

' What I claim is 1., A 7 combined cigarette container and ash-tray, comprising a body having a flat base adapted tobe placed on a support, an

open cigarette-receiving container on said body, and a cover including an open recep- Atacle provlded with a laterally pro ectlng flange around its open end adapted to be fitted onto the said body to close said con tainer, said flange having transverse depressions each of which is adapted to receive a cigarette when said cover is removed from said body and placed in inverted position on a support.

2. A combined cigarette container and ash-tray according to claim 1, said body being hollow to receive said container, and

said container having a flange resting-on the open top of said body.

Signed at New York city,-in the countyof New York, and State of New York, this 14th day of March, A. D. 1930. r a. MORRIS ALTBUGH..

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