US2318149A - Ash receiver - Google Patents

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y 3- s. FERMAN 2 318 149 AS H RECEIVER Filed May 21, 1941 Patented May 4, 1943 STAT E S PAT E T ()FF ICE Claims.

This invention relates to an improvement in ash receivers or trays which may be relatively small but, nevertheless, can accommodate a larger number of cigarette or cigar stubs than the ordinary tray of similar size, the principal object of the invention being to provide an improved tray so constructed that it will also, when desired, snuff out or extinguish lighted cigarettes or cigars, thereby materially lessening the danger of fire, and which improvement will be simple in construction, efiicient in use and inexpensive to manufacture.

In the drawing accompanying and forming a part of this specification, Fig. 1 is a top viewof one form of this improved ash tray.

Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a view similar to that shown in Fig. 1 illustrating a different form of ash tray, and

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary section thereof taken on the line 4-4 of Fig. 3.

Similar characters of reference indicate corre sponding parts in the several views.

Before explaining in detail the present improvement and its mode of operation, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the details of construction and arrangement of parts illustrated in the accompanying drawing since the invention is capable of other embodiments, and that the phraseology employed is for the purpose of description and not of limitation.

This improved ash tray comprises a base tray 2 which may be of any shape desired. As shown in Fig. 1, it is of rectangular or square formation,

while, in Fig. tion.

The tray 2 is constructed with a flat bottom and upstanding side walls 3 and has its edge portion 4 fluted as at 5, Fig. l, or provided with a series of recesses 6, Fig. 3.

Within the tray 2 and spaced from the upstanding side walls 3 thereof to form an ash receiving portion 3' is a smaller tray 7 having its upstanding side wall outwardly curved with a convex outer surface, so that it, together with the interior bottom surface of the outer tray 2, will act to hold cigarettes in the angular position shown in Fig. 2 and cause snufiing out of the lighted end thereof.

This tray 1 is preferably round or of circular formation so that its upturned edge 8, which is shown as curved, is of such form and construction that it will provide a wedge-shaped recess or space 1" into which the lighted end of a cigarette or cigar may be inserted to pinch and extinguish it and which, together with the upturned edge of 3, it is of round or circular formathe outer tray 2 will hold the cigarette in an upright angular position.

The upper edges of the trays may be formed in any suitable manner but, as shown, the outer tray has flutes 5 or recesses 6 and the inner tray is smooth. In the present instance, the smaller tray 1 is preferably secured to the larger tray 2 by an adhesive 9 of suitable material to permit the shifting of the smaller tray into various positions within the main tray 2, although the twotrays may be integral.

Thus, it will be seen that, in the use of this improved ash tray, when a burning cigarette or cigar is placed in the inner ash tray, as at l0, and forgotten, when it burns away to a point where the remainder of the cigarette becomes topheavy, it will drop into the outer tray, as at l2, and not outside thereof or on to the floor or furniture where it is liable to cause damage. Furthermore, the inner tray will support a lighted cigarette in such position that it will not ignite butts in the outer tray, causing annoying smoke, or interfere with the positioning of many cigarettes around such outer tray.

In the modified form illustratedin Figs. 3 and 4, all parts are the same except the outer tray which is indicated as 22 having an upstanding wall 23 and the recesses 6 hereinbefore referred to.

When it is desired to extinguish a cigarette or cigar, the butt, instead of being dropped indiscriminately into either tray, may be inserted into the angular recess 7" formed by the outer upturned edge of the inner tray and the bottom of the supporting tray, as indicated at l3 in Figs. 2 and 4, so that it will be noted that the construction of the trays is such that they will act as a snufier to extinguish the lighted end of the cigarette or cigar and at the same time hold the butt in this angular position.

In actual practice, it has been found that an ash tray of this improved construction with the outer tray of but four inches in diameter, either round or square, is capable of accommodating more than two packages of cigarettes or over forty cigarette stubs while, .at the same time leaving the inner tray free for the use of the smoker without any interference from the stubs.

In conclusion, it will thus be seen that this improved ash tray is so constructed that the upstanding side walls flare outwardly from the juxtaposed bottom portions with the side wall of the inner tray having a convex curvature on its outer side, these side walls being so spaced apart as to form therebetween a recess of varying diameters adjacent to said juxtaposed bottom portions thereby forming the wedge-shaped recess hereinbefore referred to adjacent to said juxtaposed bottom portions, and has five advantages over the ordinary ash tray-(l) it will serve to extinguish or snufi out the burning end of a cigarette while at the same time maintainin it in a partially upright position to prevent it falling from the tray; (2) the outer tray of comparatively small size will accommodate the remains of two or more packs of cigarettes in a partially upright position; (3) leaving the inner tray free to hold lighted cigarettes in such position that they will not ignite the remains of other cigarettes in the outer tray; (4) should the lighted cigarettes held in the inner tray be forgotten and gradually burn away, the remains will fall into the outer tray instead of on the floor or furniture, and (5) when a lighted cigarette is laid across the parallel upper edges of the trays as is not uncommonly the practice, when the lighted end has partially burned away so as no longer to be supported by the upper edge of the inner tray, the ash will break away so that the cigarette will naturally fall down in to the relatively wide space between the two trays.

Having. thus explained the nature of my said invention and described a way of constructing and using the same, although without attempting to set forth all of the forms in which it may be made or all of the modes of its use, I claim:

1. An ash receiver comprising a pair of superposed ash receiving members, one being located within the ash receiving portion of the other and forming therebetween a wedge-shaped recess for holding and snufilng stubs, and means for securing said members together optionally in anyone of a plurality of relatively lateral positions.

2. An ash receiver comprising a pair of superposed ash receiving members, one being located within the ash receiving portion of. the other and forming therebetween a wedge-shaped recess for holding and snufling stubs, and adhesive means for releasably securing said members together optionally in any one of a plurality of relatively lateral positions, said members having their upper edges substantially in the same plane.

3. An ash receiver comprising a pair of superposed ash receiving members, one being located within the ash receiving portion of the other, said inner member being provided with an outwardly extending uniformly curved upturned wall providing therebetween and the outer member a wedge-shaped recess within said outer ash receiving portion for holding and snufiing stubs, and means for securing said members together optionally in any one of a plurality of relatively lateral positions.

4. An ash receiver comprising a pair of superposed ash receiving members, one being located within the ash receiving portion of the other, said inner member being provided with an outwardly extending uniformly curved upturned wall providing therebetween and the outer member a. wedge-shaped recess for holding and snuifing stubs, and adhesive means for releasably securing said members together optionally in any one of a plurality of relatively lateral positions, said members having their upper edges substantially in the same plane.

An ash tray comprising a pair of receptacles, one within the other, with their bottoms in juxtaposition and their upstanding side walls outwardly flaring from such juxtaposed bottom portions and with their upper edges substantially in the same horizontal plane, the side walls being so spaced apart as to form therebetween a recess of Varying diameters adjacent "to said juxtaposed bottom portions, thereby forming a wedge-shaped recess adjacent to said juxtaposed bottom portions whereby a cigarette may be readily inserted between the spaced apart walls and be snufied out in the wedge-shaped recess, the upstanding wall of the outer receptacle terminating in a relatively flat bottom ash receiving portion extending laterally beyond the outermost periphery of said inner receptacle.

SIDNEY FERMAN.

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