Ash tray

• US 4,018,235 A
• Filed: 06/04/1975
• Issued: 04/19/1977
• Est. Priority Date: 04/21/1975
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: April A. Smith
• Original Assignee: April A. Smith
• Inventors: Smith, April A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Michell, Robert W.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Millin, V.
• Application Number:
  US05/583,757
• Time in Patent Office: 685 Days
• Field of Search: 131/236, 131/256
• US Class Current: 131/236
• CPC Class Codes: A24F 19/025 of the disposable type
• CPC Class Codes: A24F 19/14 with extinguishers
• CPC Class Codes: A24F 19/145 using fluid or sand

Abstract

An upright vessel provided with a removable lid having a downwardly directed funnel member which depends through an opening in the top of the vessel. A disposable receptacle detachably suspended from the funnel member for receiving cigarette or cigar butts and ashes. In one embodiment the receptacle is fluid-permeable and fluid contained within the vessel permeates the disposable receptacle to extinguish lighted or smoldering ashes or butts. In another embodiment, the disposable receptacle is a fluid-impermeable integument provided with an inner fluid-absorptive lining which is maintained in a wet condition by an extinguishing fluid contained within the disposable receptacle.

Claims

1. An ash tray for receiving and extinguishing ashes and butts for providing for convenient and sanitary disposal of the smokers'"'"' waste accumulated therein, said ash tray comprising:

a. an upright hollow vessel having an opening in the top thereof for receiving smokers'"'"' waste therethrough;

b. a disposable flexible receptacle detachably supported within said vessel and communicating with the opening in the top thereof for receiving said smokers'"'"' waste therein; and

c. means for contacting smokers'"'"' waste contained in said disposable receptacle with a fire-extinguishing fluid,

said disposable receptacle being fluid-permeable and detachably supported within said vessel such that at least the lower portion thereof is suspended within a fire-extinguishing fluid contained within the lower portion of said vessel.

2. An ash tray for receiving and extinguishing ashes and butts for providing for convenient and sanitary disposal of the smokers'"'"' waste accumulated therein, said ash tray comprising:

a. an upright hollow vessel having an opening in the top thereof for receiving smokers'"'"' waste therethrough;

b. a disposable flexible receptacle detachably supported within said vessel and communicating with the opening in the top thereof for receiving said smokers'"'"' waste therein; and

c. means for contacting smokers'"'"' waste contained in said disposable receptacle with a fire-extinguishing fluid,

said disposable receptacle consisting of a fluid-impermeable outer integement and being provided with an inner fluid-absorptive lining which is maintained in a wet condition by an extinguishing fluid contained within said disposable receptacle.