US2650595A - Rest for cigarettes, cigars, and pipes - Google Patents

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J. J. HARKINS REST FOR CIGARETTES, CIGARS, AND PIPES Sept 1, 1953 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed July .19, 1949 ATTORNEY Sept. 1, 1953 J. J. HARKINS 2,650,595

REST FOR CIGARETTES, CIGARS, AND PIPES Filed July 19. 1949 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 AAAAAA IIH - Jizmesllfarkp'lzs.

ATTORNEY INVENTOR Patented Sept. 1, 1953- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE REST roa CIGARETTES, CIGARS, AND PIPES James J. Harkins, Wheeling, W. Va. Application July 19, 1940, Serial No. 105,609

2 Claims. 1

The present invention relates to a smokers safety appliance for cigars, cigarettes and pipes. It is an object of the invention to provide a safe rest for lighted cigars or cigarettes formed from a single blank of material readily bendable to accommodate the blank for use separately or in combination with many different types of receptacles, such as dishes. pans, jars, drinking glasses and the like.

Another object is to provide a compound device constructed to serve as a rest for cigars and cigarettes of any length and to further serve as a brace or stall for smoking pipes.

A further object is to provide a novel rest for cigarettes and cigars adapted to be hygienically packaged for individual use in public places, whereby the usual germ infected rest of public ash trays need not be used and instead the present novel rest may be folded and mounted temporarily upon an available support.

Still a further object is to provide an inexpensive, non-breakable smokers rest adapted for mass production by simple stamping, cutting or punching operations.

The many uses and advantages of the present invention will be more apparent after reading the following description with reference to the accompanying drawings, which illustrate several applications or uses of the invention.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view showing the present invention set up for use in a tray or dish.

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of the device illustrated in Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a top plan view of the same form of the invention, but showing how it may be used to serve as a pipe stall.

Fig. 4 shows a general plan view of a pattern of a blank such as may be formed into the structure of the rest shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3.

Fig. 5 is a longitudinal view of the invention positioned to serve as a rest for cigars instead of the cigarettes shown in the preceding figures.

Fig. 6 is a side perspective view of the invention applied to an ordinary drinking glass.

Fig. 7 is a top plan view of the invention as applied to the drinking glass.

Referring in detail to the drawings and first with reference to Fig. 4, the present invention is shown in its unfolded blank form. It comprises a single strip H) of bendable material such as light weight metal or any other suitable fire resistant material. The strip I0 is scolloped along each top and bottom longitudinal edge to spectively. As may be observed from the drawings, either edge may be positioned uppermost after the strip II] has been folded into cigar or cigarette supporting position.

The rests H and I2 are each formed with little dips or sumps l3 to provide for the free flow of air below the cigarettes or cigars, thus preventing scorching and collection of moisture on the underside thereof.

From the material of the blank strip l0 intermediate the ends thereof and dividing the cigarette rests ll into two separate rows is a central tab M. This tab 14 is bendable to form a hook l5 for engagement with the rim of a glass I6, for example, see Figs. 6 and 7. Also, from the material of the strip l0 cut in from the opposite edge intermediate the cigar rests I2 is a trapezoidal shaped tab IT. The tab I1 is bendable to form an extinguishing device for cigarettes, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The snuff-out fin is curved upwardly to more efficiently serve to put out the cigarettes when desired and to provide a wedging action on the cigarette end.

In addition to the foregoing, there is cut from the material of the blank to one side of the tabs I6 and IT, a third tab 18 of specific shape, proportioned and positioned to serve as a cigarette ash separator or dropper when it is folded outwardly at right angles to the strip 10, see Figs. 1 and 2. The free end of the tab [8 is curved to form a yoke 19 to effectively separate the ashes from the cigars and cigarettes.

The blank l0 of Fig. 4 may be readily formed into the rest as illustrated in the other figures and prior to folding may be packaged in sealed containers, or envelopes suitable for carrying in a vest pocket. When opening the package the blank, if it is to be applied to a glass, is folded so as to have a spread greater than the chord of the mouth of the glass at the diverging ends opposite to the apex of the fold. This will assist in mounting and act as a spring to provide for a snug fit, see Figs. 6 and 7.

As shown in Fig. l the apex of the rest has a fiat surface 20, which fits flush against the interior side wall of a receptacle when the hook I5 is engaged over the rim. This surface 20 has a steacbling effect on the mounting.

The several tabs and their respective functions are apparent from the drawings and the structure of each tab is specially arranged to provide for eflicient action. For example, tab H which forms the extinguishing fin structure is curved upward sharply to extinguish by means form cigarette rests H and cigar rests [2, reof a wedge-action, and tab I8 is curved into 3 yoke 19 to conform to the cigarette at the lighted ash end.

In actual use whether the rest is applied to a tray or glass or used separately, the V-form of the same provides means for supporting varying lengths of cigars or cigarettes as they become burned shorter and shorter. This arrangement has a safety factor and assures having an ever ready rest regardless of the length of the cigars and cigarettes to be placed thereon.

Another use shown inFig. 3 for the rest is as a stall for a pipe, numbered 22. This keeps the pipe from capsizing and dumping its contents.

7 What I claim is:

1. A smokers appliance formed from sheet.

material having a substantially V-shaped plan 7 form and having means whereby the appliance may be supported upon a flat surface by the lower edges of each arm of said V, the armsof said. V

being of substantial height and having "a pair' of oppositely disposed scalloped edges with plane surfaces intermediate adjacent scallops on each edge, said plane surfaces providing spaced point contact with the flat supporting surface and means to support a cigar or cigarette in pairs lower portion of the apex of the V has an inwardly and upwardly directed portion adapted to extinguish a cigarette or cigar and one of said arms of the V has an inwardly struck in and horizontally disposed portion adapted to separate ashes from a cigar or cigarette, said extinguisher, ash separator and the inner face of the other arm of the V being adapted when the same is placed upon a flat surface to support the bowl of a tobacco pipe,.the stem of said pipe being disposed substantially along the axis of the V and directed away from the apex thereof.

JAMES J. HARKINS.

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