US2707473A - Combined ashtray and cigarette extinguisher - Google Patents

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May 3, 1955 u LOW] 2,707,473

COMBINED ASHTRAY AND CIGARETTE EXTINGUISHER Filed 001;. 4, 1950 2 Sheets-$heet l INVENTOR. LE0 LOW! May 3, 1955 L. LOW! COMBINED ASHTRAY AND CIGARETTE EXTINGUISHER Filed Oct. 4 1950 United States Patent COMBINED ASHTRAY AND CIGARETTE EXTINGUISHER Leo Lowi, Asbury Park, N. J. Application October 4, 1950, Serial No. 189,080 1 Claim. (Cl. 131-235) This invention relates to new and useful improvements in molded glass ash trays and more particularly, the aim is to provide a novel and valuable ash tray and cigarette extinguisher which also may be of marked utility as an advertising device, and which, furthermore, incorporates improved cigarette snuifers, and which, in addition, is not only of one-piece construction, but is of a contour such that it may be readily produced in a mold cavity without the aid of cores or other special inserts.

A further object of the invention is to obtain all the advantages just above mentioned and at the same time to have the new ash tray include glassportions so disposed that the ash tray may be rested directly on a table or the like, or be carried by a suitable holder, as in motor cars, or on trains, buses and at other public places.

A feature of the invention is that two of said glass portions are oppositely located pintle-like projections, and two others thereof, these spaced apart in a line substantially perpendicular to the direction of spacing of said pintle-like projections, are so shaped as to present for mations employable either as stop elements or as handle v or finger-piece instrumentalities.

All said projections are so shaped and arranged that they are adapted to coact with a simple, eificient and inexpensive holder incorporating a skeletal cradle relative to which the ash tray is carried so as to be rotatable about said pintle-like projections for dumping out accumulated ashes. In this case, the other two projected glass portions in coaction with the holder provide a means whereby normally the ash tray is prevented from accidental overturning. At the same time, however, the holder is so constituted that when desired a part thereof may be readily resiliently temporarily displaced relative to the remainder of the holder thereby to render the last-named means inoperative and so permit rotation of the ash tray for discharge of its ashes. When, on the other hand, the ash tray is rested directly on a table or the like, the two projections last referred to serve as conveniently graspable finger-pieces to facilitate lifting the ash tray.

For further comprehension of the invention, and of the objects and advantages thereof, reference will be had to the following description and accompanying drawings, and to the appended claim in which the various novel features of the invention are more particularly set forth.

In the accompanying drawings forming a material part of this disclosure:

Fig. 1 is a top plan view showing one embodiment of the ash tray.

Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof.

Fig. 3 is a vertical section, taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is a bottom plan view.

Fig. 5 is an end elevation of the ash tray as seen from the right of Fig. 1.

Fig. 6 is a fragmentarydetail section, taken on the line 6-6 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 7 is a view similar to Fig. 1 of a modified form of ash tray.

with properly located parts Fig. 8 is also a view similar to Fig. 1 of another form of ash tray.

Fig. 9 is a partial diagrammatic view in perspective, wherein the ash tray of Figs. 1-6 is outlined in dot and dash, and wherein salient parts of a holder of a kind hereinabove referred to are also shown.

Fig. 10 is a perspective view of one complete form of holder.

Fig. 11 is a front elevation of the holder shown in Fig. 10 with the tray of Figs. 1-6 shown in dot and dash lines.

Fig. 12 is a fragmentary detail section, taken on the line 12-12 of Fig. 10.

7 Referring now to the drawings more in detail, an ash tray 20 according to the invention is of elliptical main outline as shown. A central circular portion 21 thereof is shaped as illustrated in Fig. 3 to provide a magnifying glass the upper convexly rounded face 22 of which constitutes the principal floor portion of a main ash cup 23. The bottom face of the magnifying glass is plane, for securement thereto, as by a suitable adhesive, of a sheet element 24 carrying an advertising message, such as the phrase, seen in Fig. 1, Smoke Smiths Mixture. The ash tray may be made of glass, plastic or any other material, with or without magnifying features.

The ash tray 20 has higher bottom portions 25, and a circular inverted recess portion 26, at the top of which the bottom plane face of the magnifying glass is located. The ash tray 20 also has coplanar lower bottom portions 27, on which the ash tray is supported when it is directly rested on a table or the like. As will be noted, the said two bottom portions 25 are alike and symmetrically arranged; and the said two bottom portions 27 are also alike and symmetrically arranged.

Said bottom portions 27 are of such size as to provide glass material for having formed therein the lower portions of an arcuately extending line of cigarette snuifers each of which is of a different diameter from that of an adjoining one. As herein shown, there are four of said snuifers 28 along each of said arcuate lines. A particular feature of the snuffers is the formation of an annular bead around the upper open end of each thereof, the bead for each of the snuifers of maximum diameter being designated 29.

The upper surface of the ash tray 20, at opposite ends thereof, has a plurality of channels 30; each of these desirably of a size to accommodate a cigar. Diagonally disposed relative to said channels 30 are symmetrically placed substantially triangular recesses 31, to establish outer wall portions 32, transverse to which are a plurality of channels 33, each of these being of a size to accommodate a cigarette.

The ash tray is provided with a pair of diametrically opposed pintle-like projections 34, and at right angles to the latter with finger piece-like projections 35.

When the ash tray is rested directly on a table or the like, the projections present convenient handles whereby the ash tray may be readily grasped for lifting, re moval, overturning to discharge ashes, etc. When the ash tray is to be carried in a holder, the pintle-like projections 34 serve to mount the ash tray rotatably, while the said projections 35 are so placed as to be cooperable of the holder whereby to prevent accidental rotation of the ash tray relative to the holder.

Referring in this connection now particularly to Fig. 9, one form of holder comprises a cradle-like skeletal construction incorporating, for acting as journals for the projections 34, a pair of aligned sleeves or collars 36, supported, for example, on inverted V-frarne portions as indicated at 37; with said holder also incorporating a pair of upstanding parts 38 adapted to bear at their upper ends against the under sides of the projections 35. The construction is such that the frame portions 37 can be sprung slightly to spread the collars 36 further apart and thus to facilitate engagement of the pintles 34 in the latter. In like manner the upstanding portions 38, can be sprung slightly to provide clearance for the handles 35. This permits of the ash tray being rotated through an angle of approximately 180 to spill its contents.

In Figs. 1012, a holder of similar construction is shown. It will be noted that the collars 36 these corresponding to the collars 36 and 36, are supported on inverted V-frames comprising end portions of like bent wire members 40. Said members are made of spring wire, with their opposite ends flattened as indicated at 40 for secure anchorage, as by brazing, welding or the like, to the collars 36. The U-shaped portions 38 of said members 40 are equivalents of the upstanding parts 38 of Fig. 9 Due to the resiliency of the wire of the members 40 the collars 36 may be readily abnormally temporarily spaced, for mounting and demounting the ash tray; and, also due to the resiliency of said wire, either of the upstanding parts 33 may be temporarily displaced, to permit deliberate rotation of the ash tray. Thus, upon forcing said part 33 to its broken line position in Fig. 11, and manual raising of the projection 35 ,at the right in Fig. 11 is permitted thereby causing the ash tray to be swung through substantially 180 in a counterclockwise direction.

The collar 36 shown at the left in Fig. 10 is made rather long and with a fairly widely distended end portion 41, which end portion is recessed and threaded for taking the shank of a screw 42, Thereby said collar, and consequently the entirety of the holder, may be mounted on such a support such as the escutcheon plate 43 having a suitable number of screw-holes or the like such as indicated at 44, whereby said plate or the like may be afiixed to a wall. When the plate 43 or the like is not used, the holder rotatably carrying the ash tray as already described, may be rested directly on a table or the like with the uniplanarly lying bottom stretches 45 of the bent wire members 40 contacting the table.

In Fig. 7 the parts to which are applied reference numerals with single primes added, and in Fig. 8 the parts 4 to which are applied reference numerals with double primes added, correspond, respectively, to the parts to which have been applied the same reference numerals but without primes.

While I have illustrated and described preferred embodiments of my invention, it is to be understood that I do not limit myself to the precise constructions herein disclosed and the right is reserved to all changes and modifications coming within the scope of the invention as defined in the appended claim.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by United States Letters Patent is:

A molded glass ash tray shaped to present a substantially central principal ash cup, a pair of like pluralities of well-like depressions alongside said cup, each of said depressions being formed as a cigarette snufier, a wire frame support comprising outwardly diverging end sections, sleeve bearing means secured to said end sections at the point where they diverge, and vertical sections between said end sections converging together, said ash tray having fingerlike projections, said ash tray being pivotally mounted in said bearing means and supported by said fingerlike projections on said vertical sections to prevent tipping thereof.

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