US3426762A

US3426762A - Tobacco ash receiver

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Publication number: US3426762A
Application number: US626548A
Authority: US
Inventors: Charles Vitale
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1967-03-28
Filing date: 1967-03-28
Publication date: 1969-02-11
Anticipated expiration: 1986-02-11

Description

Feb. 11, 1969 c. VITALE TOBACCO ASH RECEIVER Filed March 28, 1967 INVENTOR. CHARLES VITALE ZZZ Mi ATTORNEY United States Patent 2 Claims ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE Ash tray having coil cigarette clamps spaced inward from the rim to insure that any butt falling therefrom will land within the rim, with a quench receptacle having a lid with a wick and a dropper tube passing therethrough.

Background This invention relates to tobacco ash receivers, and more particularly to ash trays for holding cigarette butts, receiving the ash therefrom, and for quenching embers being discarded to prevent fire hazards and obnoxious odors.

Heretofore ash trays have been provided with grooves or sockets in their rims to receive smoldering butts. As these burn away, they become unbalanced, and may fall away from the tray and outside of its rim as a fire hazard. Furthermore when a glowing butt is attempted to be snubbed or snuffed, a smoldering portion may be missed, and tenaciously continue to give off an obnoxious odor, even from the bottom of the tray.

The objects of the present invention are to avoid these difficulties, to prevent discarded butts from escaping the tray, and to facilitate quenching of smoldering butts.

Summary According to the present invention, the ash tray has clamps spaced inward from the rim thereof to insure butts falling from the clamps will land within the rim, and a receptacle for quenching liquid secured to the tray and provided with means for applying said liquid to a smoldering butt. Preferably the receptacle has a lid with a nozzle for a wick depending therefrom into the liquid. Alternately or additionally, the lid has a socket for a dropper comprising a tube depending into said liquid.

In the drawing:

FIGURE 1 is a perspective view of an ash tray according to the preferred embodiment of the present invention; and

FIGURE 2 is a vertical cross section taken along the line 22 of FIGURE 1.

In the form shown the ash receiver comprises a tray of fireproof material such as metal or ceramic, having an upstanding rim 12 to retain discarded ashes or butts therein. The tray 10 is provided with a support for a smoldering cigarette butt, comprising a strut 14 extending above the bottom of the tray and terminating in a clamp 16 spaced inward from the rim 12 for a sufficient part of the length of said butt to insure that the butt falling from the clamp 16 will land within the rim 12. The clamp 16 is preferably at least two convolutions of a coil of metal wire, and the strut 14 preferably has an end of the wire embedded in the ceramic of the tray 10, or welded or otherwise secured to the metal thereof.

A receptacle 18 for quenching liquid is secured to the tray 10, and preferably comprises a tube or bottle inserted or embedded in a socket 20 in the tray. The receptacle 10 18 is provided with a lid 22, preferably formed with a nozzle 24, for a wick 26 depending therefrom into the liquid in the bottom of the receptacle.

The lid 22 also has a socket 28 for a dropper 30 having a tube 32 passing through the lid down into the liquid in the bottom of the receptacle.

In operation, as shown in FIGURE 2, a smoldering cigarette butt is clamped intermediate its ends in the clamp 16. As the lighted end burns away, the butt shortens and becomes unbalanced, and the longer end tends to fall. 20 The spacing of the clamp 16 a sutficient distance from the rim 12 insures that such falling butt will land within the rim 12.

If it is desired to extinguish a glowing butt, the same may be removed from the clamp 16 or from the mouth of the smoker, and the smoldering end applied to the exposed end of the wick 26. The moisture tends to spread and completely quench the butt.

If a glowing butt has been dropped onto the bottom of the tray, the dropper may be removed from the socket 30 28 and a drop of liquid applied by the tube 32 to the smoldering end, and similarly quench the same.

What is claimed is:

1. Tobacco ash receiver comprising a tray of fire proof material having a bottom and an upstanding rim there- 3 around, a receptacle for quenching liquid secured to said tray, a lid for said receptacle, and a dropper having a tube passing through said lid and depending into said liquid, said dropper being removable for use to extinguish the lit end of a cigarette.

2. Tobacco ash receiver as claimed in claim 2, in which said lid has a nozzle, and said nozzle has a wick therein depending therefrom into said liquid, and said lid and nozzle are removable to facilitate filling quenching liquid into said receptacle.

References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,968,118 7/1934 Ausbrooks 131-236 2,059,137 10/1936 Mountjoy 131-236 2,210,291 8/1940 Herr 131 240 2,213,046 8/1940 Mather 131 240 2,250,178 7/1941 Brush 131 240 2,508,575 5/1950 Klekot 131--236 JOSEPH s. REICH, Primary Examiner.

US. Cl. X.R. 131 240