Cigarette package holder combination

• US 4,252,237 A
• Filed: 03/17/1980
• Issued: 02/24/1981
• Est. Priority Date: 03/17/1980
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Paul S. Baclit
• Original Assignee: Paul S. Baclit
• Inventors: Baclit, Paul S.
• Primary Examiner(s): Dixson, Jr., William T.
• Application Number:
  US06/131,187
• Time in Patent Office: 344 Days
• Field of Search: 206/86, 206/85, 206/87, 206/88, 206/89, 206/90-95, 206/246, 206/236, 431/343, 131/139, 131/134
• US Class Current: 206/86
• CPC Class Codes: A24F 15/18 combined with other objects

Abstract

A combination holder for a package of cigarettes and ancillary items. It includes a main compartment for the cigarettes, a compartment for ashes and butts, one for a book of matches, and one for a lighter, and a clip for detachably clipping onto a person'"'"'s belt, or a sun visor in an automobile, etc. An extinguisher is included in the ash compartment in the form of a perforated metal insert. The holder is unitary and effectively integral. It is preferably of plastic material, and it includes a cover for the main compartment and a cover for the ash compartment that are swingable between closed and opened positions, and are integral with the body of the holder.

Claims

1. A combination holder for a cigarette package and ancillary items comprising,

a main component made of thin-wall material that is continuous therearound in transverse directions and having a back wall and a large-expense front wall,

the main compartment including a body having a cover integral with the back wall and connected thereto by a live hinge, and swingable about the hinge between an open position and a closed position closing the top of the main compartment,

an ash compartment made of thin-wall material and having a back wall substantially commersurate in width with the front wall of the main compartment and secured thereto, the ash compartment having a front side and including a door on the front side extending the width of the ash compartment and integral with the body of the ash compartment and connected thereto by a transverse live hinge at the top of the door adjacent the top of the ash compartment, and swingable about that hinge so that its bottom end swings between a closed position and an open position operable for exposing the interior downwardly for emptying the ash compartment,

said door being releasably held by friction in the closed position.

2. A combination holder according to claim 1 wherein,

the ash compartment includes means for providing friction for holding the door thereof in closed position, that includes side wall elements on the door and the body of the ash compartment that overlap in frictional interengagement, and body includes a transverse ledge at the bottom and the door has a conformation overlapping with the ledge in frictional interengagement therewith.

3. A combination holder according to claim 1 wherein,

the main compartment has an upwardly directed opening having and upwardly extending flange on the sides other than the back wall, and the cover when in closed position overlaps said flange in frictional engagement therewith,

the ash compartment has a cover integral with the body of that compartment and connected thereto by a live hinge, and

the ash compartment has upwardly extending flanges at the sides spaced forwardly from the front wall of the main compartment, and the cover of the ash compartment is movable between open position and closed position and when in closed position overlapping said flanges in frictional engagement therewith and it frictionally engages the front wall of the main compartment.

4. A combination holder according to claim 3 wherein,

the door of the ash compartment is hinged at a position below the top of the compartment, leaving a top space in the compartment above the hinge, and

an extinguisher is positioned in said top space, the extinguisher including a perforated metal plate at one side, transversely, leaving the remainder of the top space in communication with the space therebelow.

5. A combination holder according to claim 1 wherein,

the holder is provided with a clip on the back thereof for detachably mounting the holder on another object,

the clip having one end embedded in the back wall of the main compartment and an outer end exposed therefrom and constituting a spring element for frictionally gripping said object on which the holder is mounted,

the holder also includes a compartment on said door of the ash compartment for holding a match folder,

said match folder compartment including a flat plate and said flanges secured to the door positioning the flat plate outwardly from the door, and the space between the flat plate and door being open to the exterior at top and bottom for the insertion therethrough of an element of the match folder.

6. A combination holder according to claim 1 wherein,

the holder includes a lighter compartment of thin wall material, continuous therearound in transeverse directions and open at the top, and secured to the main compartment and ash compartment at one side of the latter and extending in superposed relation to both of those compartments in front-to-rear direction.