US2467405A

US2467405A - Ash tray

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Publication number: US2467405A
Application number: US655174A
Authority: US
Inventors: Mary E Phaturos
Original assignee: JAMES R DOBSON
Current assignee: JAMES R DOBSON
Priority date: 1946-03-18
Filing date: 1946-03-18
Publication date: 1949-04-19
Anticipated expiration: 1966-04-19

Description

April 1949- 'M. E. PHATUROS 2,467,405

ASH TRAY Filed March 18, 1946 2 Sheets-Sheet l April 19, 1949. P os 2,467,405

ASH TRAY Filed March 18, 1946 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Eig. 4

I i I IN VEN TOR.

Jflacy E. P/zafurod Patented Apr. 19, 1949 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE ASH TRAY Mary E. Phaturos, Akron, Ohio, assignor to James R. Dobson, Akron, Ohio Application March 18, 1946, Serial No. 655,174

4 Claims.

This invention relates particularly to a cigarette ash tray.

An object of the invention is to provide a cigarette or like ash tray having improved cigarette supporting means provided thereon by which a lighted cigarette will be extinguished with a uniformly burnt end, and therefore with a minimum of waste.

Another object of the invention is to provide a cigarette or like supporting device, as for ash trays, in which is provided improved means for firmly retaining a cigarette in supported position even though the ash tray may be shifted, dropped or jarred.

Another object of the invention is to provide a cigarette supporting device, including improved means for effectively choking a cigarette received in the same in a manner which reduces to a minimum the usual moisture condensation along the portions of the cigarette contacting the support, and thereby reducing waste due to uneven burning of the cigarette if relit shortly after application to the support.

Other objects of the invention will be manifest from the following brief description and the accompanying drawings.

Of the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 is a top plan view of an ash tray having incorporated therein improved cigarette supporting means embodying the features of the invention.

Figure 2 is an enlarged fragmentary crosssection of a cigarette supporting element, taken substantially on the line 2-2 of Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a fragmentary cross-section taken on the line 3-3 of Figure 2.

Figure 4 is a fragmentary top plan view of an ash tray illustrating a modified form of cigarette supporting device.

Figure 5 is a fragmentary edge view, on an enlarged scale, of the ash tray shown in Figure 4.

Figure 6 is a fragmentary cross-section taken substantially on the line 66 of Figure 5.

Referring particularly to Figures 1, 2 and 3 the numeral l designates an ash tray having a bottom portion H and an annular rim l2. Integral with the bottom ll may be a central upright portion [3 from which may radially extend a plurality of relatively narrow elements or ribs I4, I, these ribs each having provided in the upper edge thereof at least one transversely extending recess 15. The opposite sides of the recess l may converge inwardly, as best shown in Figure 2, the spaces between said sides being relatively narrow as compared with the diameter of ciga- 2 rettes of known types, whereby such cigarettes may be pressed into the recess against said opposite sides.

Integral with the element [4 may be inwardly oppositely projecting portions l6 and H, which are arranged to engage opposite sides of a cigarette, pressed into the recess [5 as described, at points somewhat above the center line of the cigarette, the spaces between the projections I6 and I! being for this purposeslightly less than the diameter of the cigarette. The projections l6 and l! preferably are rounded as shown to prevent damage to the cigarette when it is inserted into or removed from the recess [5.

The upper portion of recess l5 may be enlarged as indicated at l8 to provide a rounded seat for supporting a cigar A, for example, which may extend to recesses I!!! provided in the edge of rim l2.

In the use of the improved ash tray for supporting a cigarette B, the latter is pressed by the finger into recess I5 to extend transversely of rib or element M, as shown in chain-dotted lines in Figure 1, the cigarette in this inwardly pressed position being engaged or pressed along opposite sides above the center line thereof. In this manner the lower portion of the cigarette is flattened against the converging sides of the recess and is thoroughly choked to prevent passage of air therethrough, so that the lit end of the cigarette upon burning up to the adjacent face of the rib M will cease to burn further.

Even though the cigarette may extend from one side of rib M in unbalanced condition (see chaindotted lines in Figures 1 and 3) the projections l6 and I! will effectively retain it firmly in extended condition, thereby obviating any tendency of a cigarette, whether lit or not, to drop into the ashes which may have collected in the bottom of the ash tray.

Referring particularly to the modified form of the invention illustrated in Figures 4, 5 and 6, there is provided an ash tray 30 having an annular relatively narrow rim 3|, around the top.

edge of which may be a plurality of cigarette receiving and supporting recesses 32. The recesses 32 may be shaped substantially like the cigarette receiving recesses l5 previously described, like portions therefore being given like numerals with the sufiix a. Provided in the bottom of recesses 32, however, may be a transversely extending, rounded upward projection 33, which when a cigarette C is pressed into the recess 32 past'the projections Ilia and Ila, as shown in Figure 5, will serve to flatten opposite side portions of the cigarette against the oppositely converging sides of the recess. In this manner this passage of air through the cigarette will be choked off to a. maximum degree and moisture due to condensation along the portion of the cigarette contacting the edge portions of the supporting recess will be reduced to a minimum, with a consequent saving on cigarettes which are relit for smoking before such moisture might otherwise have an opportunity to evaporate.

Other modifications of the invention may be resorted to without departing from the spirit thereof or the scope of the appended claims.

What is claimed is:

1. An ash tray support for cigarettes, comprising a relatively narrow, substantially nonresilient element provided with a recess into which a cigarette may be pressed to extend transversely of said element, said recess being defined by spaced unyielding side portions of said element, said side portions having spaced rounded projections thereon between which the cigarette may be urged into the recess, the space between said projections being less than the diameter of the cigarette, said projections being positioned to be above the center of the cigarette in the inwardly pressed position thereof and being adapted to hold the cigarette constrictingly pressed against said opposite side portions and with the top of the cigarette above the top of the projections, the opening to said recess outwardly of said projections being free and unobstructed to permit-pressing the cigarette with a finger into full constrictive engagement with said opposite side portions.

2. An ash tray support for cigarettes. comprising a relatively narrow, substantially nonresilient element provided with a recess into which a cigarette may be pressed to extend transversely of said element, said recess being defined by spaced unyieldingside portions of said element, said side portions having spaced rounded projections thereon between which the cigarette may be urged into the recess, the space between said projections being less than the diameter of the cigarette, said projections being positioned to be above the center of the cigarette in the inwardly pressed position thereof and being adapted to hold the cigarette constrictingly pressed against said opposite side portions and with the top of the cigarette above the top of the projections, the opening to said recess outwardly of said projections being free and unobstructed to permit pressing the cigarette with a finger into full constrictive engagement with said opposite side portions, the opposite faces of said side portions converging inwardly in the direction away from said "projections.

3. An ash tray support for cigarettes, comprising a relatively narrow, substantially nonresilient element provided with a recess into which a cigarette may be pressed to extend transversely of said element, said recess being defined by spaced unyielding side portions of said element, said side portions having spaced rounded projections thereon between which the cigarette may be urged into the recess, the space between said, projections being less than the diameter of the cigarette, said projections being positioned to be above the center of the cigarette in the inwardly pressed position thereof and being adapted to hold the cigarette constrictingly pressed against said opposite side portions and with the top of the cigarette above the top of the projections, the opening to said recess outwardly of said projections being free and unobstructed to permit pressing the cigarette with a finger into full constrictive engagement with said opposite side portions, the opposite faces of said side portions converging inwardly in the direction away from said projections, and an outward projection being positioned at the inner end of the recess to engage the cigarette in the inwardly pressed position thereof to aid in spreading the same against said converging sides of the recess.

4. An ash tray support for cigarettes, comprising a piece of substantially non-resilient elongated material formed to provide a recess into which a cigarette may be pressed against opposed unyielding side portions defining the recess to extend transversely of said support, said support having thereon rounded projections to be at opposite sides of said recess and between which the cigarette may be urged into the recess, the space between said projections being less than the diameter of the cigarette, said projections being positioned to be above the center of the cigarette and being engageable therewith to hold the same against said side portions and being adapted to hold the cigarette constrictingly pressed against said opposite side portions and with the top of the cigarette above the top of the projections, the opening to said recess outwardly of said projections being free and unobstructed to permit pressing the cigarette with a finger into full constrictive engagement with said opposite side portions.

MARY E. PHA'I'UROS.

REFERENCE S CIT ED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

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