US2063977A - Smoker's utensil - Google Patents

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- Dec. 15, 1936. w. F. BLACK SMOKER S UTENSIL Filed June 7, 1934 INVENTOR.

' ATTORNEY.

Patented Dec. 15, 1936 A UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 8 Claims.

The invention relates to a smokers utensil, and particularly to a utensil for holding a lighted cigarette or cigar, for extinguishing and disposing of a cigarette or cigar stub, and for receiving ashes.

The primary object of the invention is to provide a device of this character including means providing a substantially air-tight chamber in which a lighted cigarette or cigar may be disposed to be extinguished.

A further object is to provide a device of this character having a receptacle and means associated therewith for receiving a lighted cigarette and operable to extinguish the same before delivering it to the receptacle.

A further object is to provide a device of this character having a receptacle provided with an opening and means associated therewith including a tray and a shiftable member, for delivering thereto ashes, stubs and the like, deposited on said tray.

A further object is to provide a device of this character comprising a receptacle having a pair of spaced cover plates having disaligned openings and means disposed between said plates for conveying ashes and stubs deposited in the upper plate opening to the lower plate opening.

A further object is toprovide a device of this character with novel means for holding a cigarette or cigar.

With these and other objects apparent from the following description in View, the invention consists in the novel construction, combination and arrangement of parts as hereinafter set forth and claimed.

In the drawing:

Figure l is a top plan view of the device.

Figure 2 is a view of the device in side elevation.

Figure 3 is a vertical sectional view of the device taken on line 3-3 of Figure 1.

Figure 4 is a fragmentary bottom plan view of the upper portion of the device.

Figure 5 is a vertical sectional view of the cigarette holder taken on line 55 of Figure 1.

Figure 6 is a fragmentary horizontal sectional view of the receptacle taken on line 66 of Figure 2.

Figure 7 is a fragmentary transverse sectional view of a modified form of the upper portion of the device.

Referring to the drawing, the numeral Hi designates a cylindrical receptacle provided with an open upper end. A wire ll of circular form is fixedly secured, as by soldering, to the inner face of the cylindrical side wall of the receptacle in spaced relation below the upper edge of the receptacle, the ends of said wire terminating in spaced relation. A top or top-plate I2 rests upon wire H at its edges, said plate having a cutout or opening l3 formed at one side thereof, the side edges of said opening extending substantially radially thereof and terminating adjacent the center thereof. A stud I l is fixedly carried by plate l2 centrally thereof and extends vertically upwardly therefrom. Adjacent the outer edge of plate l2 and extending downwardly therefrom in the vertical plane of the side edge of opening I3 is formed one or more flanges l5 each bearing upon an end of wire l l to prevent rotation of said plate l2 in receptacle I ll. Suitable means may also be provided to normally retain said plate in said recetpacle, as illustrated in Figure 6 wherein the receptacle is provided with outwardly directed pockets or off-sets it for the reception of tongues ll carried by plate l2 and adapted to be snapped to place in said pockets.

An annular member is fits closely in the upper end of receptacle Hi and is supported by plate l2, said member l8 being readily removable from and rotatable in said receptacle. Member Hi carries a spider H9; at the lower portion thereof, said spider comprising vertical plates whose lower edges are flush with the plane of the lower edge of member 98. Spider it? comprises a member 20 of suitable outline, octagonal as shown, from which extend a plurality of outwardly directed arm portions, preferably eight as shown in Figure 4. Each of said arm portions is preferably formed ofa strip of metal secured at one end thereof to member 213 and extending outwardly from said member at 2!, thence angularly of portion 2! to member 58 at 22, thence in engagement with and fixedly secured to member 8 at 23, thence inwardly in spaced relation and preferably parallel to portion 22 at 2 3, and terminating in an angularly extending portion 25 secured at its end to portion 2! intermediate the length of said last named portion. Parallel portions 22 and 2d of'the spider arm portions are preferably spaced apart a distance equal to the width of the strip from which they are formed, the dimension thereof preferably being slightly greater than the diameter of a cigarette and/or a cigar. A cover or plate 25 is disposed in member l8 and rests upon the spider l9, and said plate is provided with a cut-out or opening 21 of an outline similar to that of opening l3 in plate l2 but positioned diametrically opposite therefrom. Plate 26 is freely rotatable relative to member l8. At its center, plate 26 is provided with an opening 28 of a configuration similar to and for the reception of stud I4. A scraper plate 29, vertically positioned, is secured at its ends to opposite sides of the member 18 and bears upon plate 26 at its lower edge, said scraper plate preferably comprising a pair of parallel end portions interconnected by an arcuate central por tion 36 concentric of said plate.

In use, the member I3 is applied to the receptacle to position the opening 2'1 of plate 26 in diametrically opposed relation to opening it of plate I 2, and with the stud l4 projecting through opening 28 of plate 26. When so positioned, the spider l9 bears on plate [2 at its lower edge and is borne upon by plate 26 at its upper edge. One of the arm portions of spider l9 will always be exposed through plate opening 21, and a cigarette or cigar stub may be placed therein. Member l6 may then be rotated sufficiently to move said stub-containing spider arm entirely beneath plate 26, for which purpose member 18 is provided on its periphery with a plurality of finger tabs 3|, preferably equal in number to the number of arms of spider 99, by means of which member l8 may be rotated. The receptacle l carries an outwardly upwardly directed stop 32, and by moving an adjacently positioned tab 3! to a position coinciding with stop 32, the stub-containing spider arm will be moved wider plate 26 and a. succeeding spider arm will be positioned beneath opening 21 of plate 26 for the reception of another stub. When a stub-containing spider arm has been moved below plate 2'! in this manner, the plates I2 and 26 serve to seal the upper and lower open sides of the spider arm, whereby said arm structure provides a substantially airtight compartment in which a contained burning cigar or cigarette stub will be extinguished. As subsequent rotary movement is imparted to member l6 to bring the stub-containing spider arm above opening 13 in plate l2, the stub falls therefrom through opening !3 and into receptacle Hi. In the event the cigar or cigarette stub has not been extinguished before it is deposited in receptacle I6, it will be extinguished therein by virtue of the construction of the device wherein the spider l9 effectively renders substantially air-tight the passage between plates l2 and 26 whereby passage of air from opening 21 of plate 26 to the receptacle is practically barred. The maintainence of plate 26 in stationary position during rotation of member [8 is eifected by means of the stud i carried by plate l2 and passing through opening 28 of plate 26, so that the openings l3 and 21 of said plates [2 and 26, respectively, will always be positioned in diametrically opposed relation during operation of the device.

A suitable holder for lighted cigars and cigarettes may be used with the device, for instance, of the type illustrated in Figure 5. This holder comprises a socket 33 fitting over the upper end of stud l4- and bearing upon plate 26 at its lower end. On this socket 33 is fixedly mounted a head 34, preferably of concavo-convex form, which is disposed concentrically of plate 26 and is of a radius greater than the spacing of the inner edge of opening 2! from the center of plate 26. One or more cigar or cigarette holding hooks are carried by head 34, said hook members preferably comprising a rigid wire extending through an opening in head 34 and provided with an enlarged head 35 bearing upon the inner face of head 34 an secured thereto by solder 36, which solder may also serve to hold head 34 on socket 33. From head 34 the headed wire extends radially outwardly at an upwardly directed inclination at 31, thence horizontally radially outwardly at 38, thence perpendicularly and horizontally at 39, thence arcuately upwardly at 40 to form a hook slightly exceeding a semi-circle, and terminates in an upwardly directed head 4|. The outer end of the holder thus forms a hook whose size permits reception of a cigar or cigarette with a close fit, to securely hold the same without crushing, while the spacing between the end of portion 46 and portion 39 is less than the diameter of the cigar or cigarette, whereby the same cannot fall therefrom, but not so small that the cigar or cigarette cannot be inserted into the hook therethrough. Thus when a burning cigar or cigarette is held by hook 40 its ashes will fall onto head 34 or plate 26, and if it should be neglected for such a period that it burns at the hook-engaged portion thereof, it will fall upon plate 26. All of the ashes, etc., falling on plate 26 being directed into the path of movement of scrapers 29, whose inner ends extend below head 34, it will be seen that rotation of member It will cause scrapers 29 carried thereby to propel or move the same to and through opening 21 of plate 26 and onto plate [2, the material then being moved or propelled on plate l2 to opening l3 therein by spider 19. In this way the device is rendered self-cleaning to the extent that operation thereof discharges into receptacle [0 all matter deposited on plate l2, plate 26, or in the arms of the spider I9. To empty the receptacle, it is only necessary to remove the socket holder 33 and member I8, whereupon the receptacle contents can be emptied through opening i 3 in plate 12.

If desired, the device may be modified as illustrated in Figure 7, wherein the socket 33 is soldered at 65 to plate 26 in operative relation to stud-receiving opening 28 whereby the cigarette holder and the upper portion of the device may be removed from receptacle 19 as a unit, and whereby said upper portion of the device, i. e. member [8, plate 26 and the holder may serve as an ash tray, as during the time receptacle II] is being emptied.

The invention having been set forth, what is claimed as new and useful is:-

1. In combination, a receptacle, a plate fixedly carried by said receptacle in spaced relation below the upper end thereof, said plate having an opening at one side thereof, an annular member fitting into the upper end of said receptacle and resting upon said plate, a spider fixedly carried by said annular member and including a plurality of spaced sets of vertically disposed strips bearing on said plate, a vertical stud carried by said plate, a second plate bearing on said spider having an opening for the reception of said stud and an opening disposed in diametrically opposed relation to the opening of said first plate, a scraper fixedly carried by said annular member and bearing on said second plate, and a cigarette holder carried by said stud and including a head of a radius greater than the spacing of the inner end of said opening in said second plate from the center of said plate, said annular member, scraper and spider being rotatable as a unit relative to said receptacle and plates.

2. In combination, a receptacle, a plate fixedly carried by said receptacle in spaced relation below the upper end thereof, said plate having an opening at one side thereof, an annular member fitting into the upper end of said receptacle and resting upon said plate, the annular member forming substantially a continuation of the receptacle, a spider fixedly carried by said annular member and including a plurality of spaced sets of vertically disposed strips bearing on said plate, a vertical stud carried by said plate, a second plate bearing on said spider having an opening for the reception of said stud and an opening disposed in diametrically opposed relation to the opening of said first plate, and a scraper fixedly carried by said annular member and bearing on said second plate, said annular member, scraper and spider being rotatable as a unit relative to said receptacle and plates.

3. In combination, a receptacle, a plate fixedly carried by said receptacle in spaced relation below the upper end thereof, said plate having an opening at one side thereof, an annular member fitting into the upper end of said receptacle and resting on said plate, the annular member forming substantially a continuation of the receptacle, a spider fixedly carried by said annular member and comprising a plurality of spaced sets 01' vertically disposed strips bearing on said plate, a second plate bearing on said spider having an opening disposed in diametrically opposed relation to the opening of said first plate, means for holding said second plate in stationary relation to said first plate, and a scraper carried by said annular member and bearing on said second plate, said annular member, scraper and spider being rotatable as a unit relative to said receptacle.

4. In combination, a receptacle, a plate fixedly carried by said receptacle in spaced relation below the upper end thereof, said plate having an opening at one side thereof, an annular member fitting into the receptacle and resting on said plate, the annular member forming substantially a continuation of the receptacle, a spider carried by said annular member and bearing on said plate, a second plate bearing on said spider and. having an opening therein disposed in diametrically opposed relation to the opening of said first plate, means for holding said second plate against rotation, and a scraper carried by said annular member and bearing on said second plate, said annular member, spider and scraper being rotatable as a unit relative to said receptacle.

5. In combination, a receptacle including a top having an opening in one side thereof, a rotatable member carried by said receptacle and forming substantially a continuation of the receptacle, a spider disposed in said rotatable member and bearing on said top, a plate fixed relatively to said top bearing on said spider and having an opening in diametrically opposed relation to said top opening, and a scraper carried by said rotatable member and bearing on said plate, said spider and scraper being rotatable with said rotatable member.

6. In combination, a receptacle including a top having an opening in one side thereof, a rotatable member carried by said receptacle and forming substantially a continuation of the receptacle, a spider disposed in and rotatable with said member, said spider bearing on said top, and a plate bearing on said spider and having an opening therein spaced from said first named opening, said spider including a plurality of substantially radial vanes, the angle between adjacent vanes being less than the angle between adjacent edges of said top and plate openings whereby said spider forms a seal between said openings at all times.

7. The combination with a receptacle open at its upper end, of a pair of spaced, parallel, stationary, horizontal plates of high heat conductivity disposed adjacent the upper end of said receptacle, each of said plates having an opening therein staggered relative to the other opening, and a rotatable member forming substantially a continuation of the receptacle, said member having a portion interposed between said plates and comprising a plurality of substantially radial sets of spaced arms of high heat conductivity bearing on said plates, said sets of arms being spaced apart a distance less than the spacing between adjacent edges of said plate openings whereby at least one arm is interposed between adjacent edges of said openings at both sides of said plates in all positions of said rotatable member, the arms of each set cooperating with said plates to provide a narrow substantially sealed chamber in which a burning member may be extinguished by limitation of oxygen and by rapid heat transfer therefrom to said arms and plates before discharge thereof into said receptacle by said rotatable member.

8. In combination, a receptacle having a pair of spaced horizontal plates, each plate having an opening therein, said plate openings being spaced apart, and a rotatable member forming substantially a continuation of said receptacle, said member having a portion including a plurality of vanes spaced apart a distance less than the spacing of adjacent sides of said plate opening and disposed between said plates and shiftable between said openings, said member engaging said plates and the wall of said receptacle intermediate said plates to provide a substantially airtight seal between said openings at all times.

WILLIAM F. BLACK.

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