CA2497111A1 - Compartmentalized cigarette snuffer and receptacle - Google Patents
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
- B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A24—TOBACCO; CIGARS; CIGARETTES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES; SMOKERS' REQUISITES
- A24F—SMOKERS' REQUISITES; MATCH BOXES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A24—TOBACCO; CIGARS; CIGARETTES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES; SMOKERS' REQUISITES
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A24—TOBACCO; CIGARS; CIGARETTES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES; SMOKERS' REQUISITES
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
- B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
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Abstract
A compartmentalized cigarette snuffer and receptacle (10) includes a container having a storage compartment sized to receive cigarettes and cigarette butts therein (16) and a cigarette snuffer compartment (14) containing mounted therein a heat sink (20) for extinguishing the lit end of a cigarette when inserted into the cigarette snuffer compartment (14). The storage and cigarette snuffer compartments are separated within the container by a dividing wall (18). Each compartment has a separate opening and a corresponding independently actuable lid (32, 50) mounted thereon. Each lid is releasably closable for selective actuation by a user between an open position providing access to the corresponding the compartment, and a closed position sealing closed, in an air-tight fitment, the corresponding compartment.
Description
COMPARTMENTALIZED CIGARETTE SNUFFER AND RECEPTACLE
Field of the Invention This invention relates to a comparhnented device which enables a user to efficiently extinguish a partially smolced cigarette in a first compartment and store the remainder portion of the cigarette in a second comparhnent for example for later reuse and conslunption.
Background of the Invention Due to current societal influences, today's cigarette smokers are under pressure to comply with restrictive smoking legislation often requiring them to smoke outside of buildings, and often in situations where no or limited ash trays are available. Further, smokers often do not have sufficient time to smoke a complete cigarette, for example during a break in the work day, and thus must extinguish their lighted cigarettes prior to their full consumption. FLUther, many public places entirely forbid smoking and do not at all provide ashtrays where cigarettes can be conveniently extinguished and deposited. In many outdoor facilities, again there is a lack of ashtrays for the deposition of cigarette butts, leaving the smoker no choice but to deposit them on the ground.
Most smokers fmd it wasteful to be forced to tluow away a partially smoked cigarette and distasteful to deposit the butt of a cigarette on the ground or out of a car window or the like. hi an attempt to save a partially smoked cigarette or to avoid throwing a butt on the ground, conscientious smolcers will extingLUSh the lighted end and return the bLltt or the un-smoked 2 5 portion to a pocket or the cigarette package. This has been foLmd to be unsatisfactory since a cigarette extinguished in the presence of air results in an accumulation of tobacco by-products at the burring tip, which adversely affects the taste of the cigarette once re-lighted. Cigarette butts stored within the cigarette package in the presence of un-smoked cigarettes ar a also unsatisfactory since the un-smolced cigarettes generally become contaminated by ash or odours emanating from the extinguished cigar ette butt. Storing uncovered cigarette butts in a pocket or purse is obviously undesirable.
In the prior art the applicant is aware of United States Patent No. 3,107,674 which issued October 22, 1963 to Smith for a Smoker's Appliance. This appliance has two cylindrical bores, each of which is open at one end. An extinguishing bore has a sealed bottom end and a storage bore has a longitudinal slot facilitating finger contact with the extinguished cigarette stored therein for moving the extinguished cigarette longitudinally toward the open end of the bore.
The applicant is also aware of United States Patent No. 4,777,968 which issued October 18, 1988 to Beloff for a Device for Extinguishing Cigars. This device is tabular, having a closed end and being closable by a cap at the other end. The tube contains a thermally conductive snuffer, which rapidly dissipates heat fiom the lighted end ofthe cigar.
In the former patent reference a difficulty with preventing cigarette residue from contaminating a normal storage area such as a pocket or purse is perceived. In the latter, the inconvenient need for the use of both hands to open and close the device is evident.
Applicant is also aware of heat-sins devices such as have been sold by Kemledy 2 0 Productions of Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada under the Trade Marlc Easy Out wherein a generally cylindrical hollow metal sleeve which is open ended at both ends is provided for placement into an ashtray so as to orient the bore of the sleeve vertically. A
lit cigarette is slid snugly downwardly into the bore and extinguished by extraction ofthe heat ofthe lit embers in the de-oxygenated cavity formed by the open-ended sleeve resting with one end covered by the ashtray 2 5 and the other end plugged by the girth of the cigarette.
It is an object of the present invention to provide a unitary device which may be operated by a single hand, the device having discrete separate compartments for snuffing and for storing partially smoked cigarettes, where each comparhnent is secL~rely and releasably closable so as to seal each compartment by a flip type lid generally operable by the thumb of the hand within which the device is held.
Summam of the Invention The present invention is a container having a cigarette snuffer compartment and cigarette butt receptacle comparhnent. In one embodiment of the invention, a body or housing is provided, having opposed sidewalls, opposed end walls and a bottom wall joining the opposed end walls to define a hollow generally rectangular interior cavity. An internal spacer or wall is spaced fiom and parallel to the end walls and orthogonal to the bottom wall so as to form first and second cigarette-receiving compartments within the cavity.
The first cigarette-receiving compartment, also identified herein as the snuffer compartment, is sized to receive the lit end of a burning cigarette tluough an aperture or opening.
The aperture or openng is opposite the bottom wall and closable by a removable cap having a flip-up, that is pivotable access lid. A cigarette snuffer, for example a hollow tube or capsule having one end sealed closed and one open end and manufactL~red from metallic, ceramic or other material having high thermal conductivity, is positioned or mounted within the first cigarette-receiving compartment so as to axially align the base of the tube with the compartment apentitre for 2 0 cooperation therebetween. The tube frictionally engages the inside surface of, or is otherwise mounted within the first cigarette-receiving compat-tment. An apertured end of the bottom wall closes off the tube or sleeve opposite to the flip-up lid.
A second cigarette-receiving compartment is sized to receive both, or alternatively, 2 5 cigarette butts and partially consumed cigarettes after they have been extinguished in the snuffer compartment. Tlus second compartment is substantially larger than the first compartment. It too has an opening opposite the bottom wall, which is also closable by a removable cap having a flip-up access lid. The end cap has peripheral walls which depend therefrom and are sized to fiictionally engage the inside surface of the second cigarette-receiving compartment enabling the end cap to be removably motmted onto the container.
The flip up access lids facilitate opening of each compartment by use of the thwnb of the hand within wluch the device is held. Removal of the caps facilitate cleaning of the compartments and removable parts.
In summary, the compartmentalized cigarette snuffer and receptacle according to the present invention includes a container having a storage compartment sized to receive cigarettes and cigarette butts therein and a cigarette snuffer compartment containing molmted therein a heat sinlc means for extinguishing the lit end of a cigarette when inserted into the cigarette snuffer compartment. The stor age and cigarette snuffer compartments are separated within the container by a dividing wall. Each compaWnent has a separate opening and a corresponding independently actuable lid moLmted thereon. Each lid is releasably closable for selective actuation by a user between an open position providing access to the corresponding the compartment, and a closed position sealing closed, in an air-tight fitment, the corresponding compartment.
In one embodiment the container and the dividing wall are rigid and the container is a rectangvilar parallelepiped. The lids may be motmted on a common side of the container, or, for 2 0 example, on opposite ends of the container. Each lid may be pivotally mounted on a hinge mounted to the container. The lunges may be a single common hinge, that is common to both lids.
Each hinge or the common lunge may be a flexible hinge of flexible material.
In one embodiment the heat sink means is a metal cylinder having a closed end and 2 5 an opposite open end. The open end is aligned with the opening in the cigarette snuffer compartment. The container may include opposite end walls. The cylinder may be aligned parallel with, and adjacent, one end wall ofthe opposite end walls ofthe container. The dividing wall may be adjacent the cylinder and parallel to the one end wall.
Field of the Invention This invention relates to a comparhnented device which enables a user to efficiently extinguish a partially smolced cigarette in a first compartment and store the remainder portion of the cigarette in a second comparhnent for example for later reuse and conslunption.
Background of the Invention Due to current societal influences, today's cigarette smokers are under pressure to comply with restrictive smoking legislation often requiring them to smoke outside of buildings, and often in situations where no or limited ash trays are available. Further, smokers often do not have sufficient time to smoke a complete cigarette, for example during a break in the work day, and thus must extinguish their lighted cigarettes prior to their full consumption. FLUther, many public places entirely forbid smoking and do not at all provide ashtrays where cigarettes can be conveniently extinguished and deposited. In many outdoor facilities, again there is a lack of ashtrays for the deposition of cigarette butts, leaving the smoker no choice but to deposit them on the ground.
Most smokers fmd it wasteful to be forced to tluow away a partially smoked cigarette and distasteful to deposit the butt of a cigarette on the ground or out of a car window or the like. hi an attempt to save a partially smoked cigarette or to avoid throwing a butt on the ground, conscientious smolcers will extingLUSh the lighted end and return the bLltt or the un-smoked 2 5 portion to a pocket or the cigarette package. This has been foLmd to be unsatisfactory since a cigarette extinguished in the presence of air results in an accumulation of tobacco by-products at the burring tip, which adversely affects the taste of the cigarette once re-lighted. Cigarette butts stored within the cigarette package in the presence of un-smoked cigarettes ar a also unsatisfactory since the un-smolced cigarettes generally become contaminated by ash or odours emanating from the extinguished cigar ette butt. Storing uncovered cigarette butts in a pocket or purse is obviously undesirable.
In the prior art the applicant is aware of United States Patent No. 3,107,674 which issued October 22, 1963 to Smith for a Smoker's Appliance. This appliance has two cylindrical bores, each of which is open at one end. An extinguishing bore has a sealed bottom end and a storage bore has a longitudinal slot facilitating finger contact with the extinguished cigarette stored therein for moving the extinguished cigarette longitudinally toward the open end of the bore.
The applicant is also aware of United States Patent No. 4,777,968 which issued October 18, 1988 to Beloff for a Device for Extinguishing Cigars. This device is tabular, having a closed end and being closable by a cap at the other end. The tube contains a thermally conductive snuffer, which rapidly dissipates heat fiom the lighted end ofthe cigar.
In the former patent reference a difficulty with preventing cigarette residue from contaminating a normal storage area such as a pocket or purse is perceived. In the latter, the inconvenient need for the use of both hands to open and close the device is evident.
Applicant is also aware of heat-sins devices such as have been sold by Kemledy 2 0 Productions of Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada under the Trade Marlc Easy Out wherein a generally cylindrical hollow metal sleeve which is open ended at both ends is provided for placement into an ashtray so as to orient the bore of the sleeve vertically. A
lit cigarette is slid snugly downwardly into the bore and extinguished by extraction ofthe heat ofthe lit embers in the de-oxygenated cavity formed by the open-ended sleeve resting with one end covered by the ashtray 2 5 and the other end plugged by the girth of the cigarette.
It is an object of the present invention to provide a unitary device which may be operated by a single hand, the device having discrete separate compartments for snuffing and for storing partially smoked cigarettes, where each comparhnent is secL~rely and releasably closable so as to seal each compartment by a flip type lid generally operable by the thumb of the hand within which the device is held.
Summam of the Invention The present invention is a container having a cigarette snuffer compartment and cigarette butt receptacle comparhnent. In one embodiment of the invention, a body or housing is provided, having opposed sidewalls, opposed end walls and a bottom wall joining the opposed end walls to define a hollow generally rectangular interior cavity. An internal spacer or wall is spaced fiom and parallel to the end walls and orthogonal to the bottom wall so as to form first and second cigarette-receiving compartments within the cavity.
The first cigarette-receiving compartment, also identified herein as the snuffer compartment, is sized to receive the lit end of a burning cigarette tluough an aperture or opening.
The aperture or openng is opposite the bottom wall and closable by a removable cap having a flip-up, that is pivotable access lid. A cigarette snuffer, for example a hollow tube or capsule having one end sealed closed and one open end and manufactL~red from metallic, ceramic or other material having high thermal conductivity, is positioned or mounted within the first cigarette-receiving compartment so as to axially align the base of the tube with the compartment apentitre for 2 0 cooperation therebetween. The tube frictionally engages the inside surface of, or is otherwise mounted within the first cigarette-receiving compat-tment. An apertured end of the bottom wall closes off the tube or sleeve opposite to the flip-up lid.
A second cigarette-receiving compartment is sized to receive both, or alternatively, 2 5 cigarette butts and partially consumed cigarettes after they have been extinguished in the snuffer compartment. Tlus second compartment is substantially larger than the first compartment. It too has an opening opposite the bottom wall, which is also closable by a removable cap having a flip-up access lid. The end cap has peripheral walls which depend therefrom and are sized to fiictionally engage the inside surface of the second cigarette-receiving compartment enabling the end cap to be removably motmted onto the container.
The flip up access lids facilitate opening of each compartment by use of the thwnb of the hand within wluch the device is held. Removal of the caps facilitate cleaning of the compartments and removable parts.
In summary, the compartmentalized cigarette snuffer and receptacle according to the present invention includes a container having a storage compartment sized to receive cigarettes and cigarette butts therein and a cigarette snuffer compartment containing molmted therein a heat sinlc means for extinguishing the lit end of a cigarette when inserted into the cigarette snuffer compartment. The stor age and cigarette snuffer compartments are separated within the container by a dividing wall. Each compaWnent has a separate opening and a corresponding independently actuable lid moLmted thereon. Each lid is releasably closable for selective actuation by a user between an open position providing access to the corresponding the compartment, and a closed position sealing closed, in an air-tight fitment, the corresponding compartment.
In one embodiment the container and the dividing wall are rigid and the container is a rectangvilar parallelepiped. The lids may be motmted on a common side of the container, or, for 2 0 example, on opposite ends of the container. Each lid may be pivotally mounted on a hinge mounted to the container. The lunges may be a single common hinge, that is common to both lids.
Each hinge or the common lunge may be a flexible hinge of flexible material.
In one embodiment the heat sink means is a metal cylinder having a closed end and 2 5 an opposite open end. The open end is aligned with the opening in the cigarette snuffer compartment. The container may include opposite end walls. The cylinder may be aligned parallel with, and adjacent, one end wall ofthe opposite end walls ofthe container. The dividing wall may be adjacent the cylinder and parallel to the one end wall.
Brief Description of the Drawings Figure 1, is an exploded perspective view of the comparhnentalized cigarette snuffer and receptacle of the present invention.
Figvu a 1 a, is a perspective view of the assembled cigarette snuffer and r eceptacle of Figure 1.
Figure 2 is a sectional view taken along line 2-2 of FigLUe 1.
Fig~~re 3 is a sectional view taken along line 3-3 of Figiue 1.
Fig~.~re 4 is the view of Fig<ue 2 showing the device positioned to conveW
ently receive a cigarette to be extinguished.
Figi.~re 5 is, in perspective view, a fiu-ther embodiment of the compartmentalized snuffer and receptacle according to the present invention.
Figiue 6 is, in perspective view, the snuffer compartment cap with its lid in its open 2 0 position.
Figure 7 is a cross sectional view along line 7-7 in Figure 6.
Figlue 8 is a cross sectional view along line 8-8 in Figure 6.
Figure 9 is, in perspective view, the storage compartment cap with its lid in its open position.
Fig~.ue 10 is a cross sectional view along line 10-10 in Figure 9.
Figvu a 1 a, is a perspective view of the assembled cigarette snuffer and r eceptacle of Figure 1.
Figure 2 is a sectional view taken along line 2-2 of FigLUe 1.
Fig~~re 3 is a sectional view taken along line 3-3 of Figiue 1.
Fig~.~re 4 is the view of Fig<ue 2 showing the device positioned to conveW
ently receive a cigarette to be extinguished.
Figi.~re 5 is, in perspective view, a fiu-ther embodiment of the compartmentalized snuffer and receptacle according to the present invention.
Figiue 6 is, in perspective view, the snuffer compartment cap with its lid in its open 2 0 position.
Figure 7 is a cross sectional view along line 7-7 in Figure 6.
Figlue 8 is a cross sectional view along line 8-8 in Figure 6.
Figure 9 is, in perspective view, the storage compartment cap with its lid in its open position.
Fig~.ue 10 is a cross sectional view along line 10-10 in Figure 9.
WO 2004/019710 _ _ PCT/CA2003/000640 Figure 11 is a cross sectional view along line 11-11 in Figure 9.
Fig~.ire 12 is a rear elevation view of the device of Fig<.vre 5.
Figure 13 is a cross sectional view along line 13-13 in Figure 12.
Figure 14 is, in perspective view, the cigarette snuffer heat sink according to one embodiment of the present invention.
Detailed Description of Embodiments of the Invention With reference to the drawing figures, wherein similar characters of reference denote corresponding parts in each view, the compartmentalized cigarette snuffer and receptacle 10 has a hollow body 12 which is divided into first and second receiving compartments 14 and 16 respectively by an internal dividing wall 18. Body 12 may be transparent or translucent so that a user may at a glance determine whether a pauial cigarette or cigarette butt is present in a comparhnent.
2 0 A snuffer 20, manufactL~red from material of high thermal conductivity, fits snugly within first compartment 14. Snuffer 20 is generally cylindrically shaped, having a cigarette butt receiving bore 22 which terminates at end 20a of snuffer 20. An euarged outwardly flared, generally frusto-conical entry flange 24 may surround one or both ends of receiving bore 22, for example adjacent the open end 20b of snuffer 20, opposite closed end 20a.
Snuffer 20 may be 2 5 frictionally mounted or otherwise secured within first cigarette-receiving compartment 14, and may be held in place for example by end cap 30 inserted into the open end of comparhnent 14.
End cap 30 has a flip-up access lid 32 having a snap closing latch 32a.
Peripheral walls in the form of sleeve 34 depend therefrom. Sleeve 34 has an end wall 34a at an end opposite to access lid 32, which may lie in contact with open end 20b of snuffer 20. An aperture 3 6 formed in end wall 34a is aligned with bore 22 of snuffer 20. Sleeve 34 may be mounted by frictional contact with the adjacent internal sLUfaces of hollow body 12 and dividing wall I 8 to retain the sleeve securely in place.
The placement of a lighted and partially consmned cigarette 40, as illustrated in FigLUe 4, tluough aperture 36 of end wall 34a and into bore 22 of snuffer 20 will quickly extinguish the cigarette through the rapid dissipation of heat fiom the lit embers of the cigarette.
The partially consLUned cigarette 40 may then be placed within second cigarette-receiving compartment 16 and retrieved later for continued smoking.
Compartment 16 is preferably sized to at least accormnodate partially consmned cigarettes 42 or cigarette butts, but may also be sized to accommodate one or more cigarettes which have not yet been lit, for example if such cigarettes are angularly inserted within compartment 16. A removable end cap 48 closes compartment 16 and has an integral flip-up access lid 50. A perimeter sleeve 52 depending from cap 48 frictionally contacts the adjacent internal surfaces of hollow body 12 to retain the cap securely in place.
Flip-up lids 32 and 50 within end caps 30 and 48 respectively, permit a user of this 2 0 device to readily open either lid with the thumb of the hand within which the cigar ette snuffer and butt receptacle is held. Easy removal of end caps 30 and 48 facilitates cleaning of this device.
With further reference to the drawing figures, again wherein similar characters of reference denote corresponding parts in each view, in an alternative embodiment, not intended to be limiting, the compartmentalized cigarette snuffer and storage receptacle according to the present invention has a hollow body 112 which is divided into a first snuffing comparhnent 114 and a second storage compartment 116 by an internal dividing wall 118. Again, body 112 may advantageously be transparent or translucent, for example manufactured of plastic, so that a user may at a glance determine whether a partial cigarette or cigarette butt is present in the storage compartment.
A snuffer 120, manufactured from mater ial of high thermal conductivity, for example metal, fits snugly within bore A in first compartment 114. Bore A is defined between the radially inward edges of a radially spaced array of vanes 121, radially spaced about the axis of symmetry of butt receiving cylinder 122. Again, snuffer 120 as better seen in Figl.~res 9 and 10 generally cylindrically shaped, having cigarette butt receiving cylinder 122 which terminates at end 120a of snuffer 120. It is understood that the snuffer need not necessarily be cylindrical, as other shapes would work so long as the lit end may be brought into contact with a highly head conductive heat sins. Flange 124 swroltnds ends 120b of snuffer 120, opposite closed end 120a.
Snuffer 120 is frictionally mounted between vanes 121 or otherwise secured within bore A of first cigarette-receiving compartment 114. Flange 124 moLmts into a supporting frame 130a within cap 130. Cap 130 is inserted into frictional mating engagement in the open end of compartment 114 and retained therein by ribs 130b engaging the imler surfaces of sidewalk 114a of compartment 114. Frame 130a sandwiches flange 12 against the ends of vanes 121.
Cap 130 has a flip-up access lid 132 having a snap closing latch. Latch release 132a snaps closed onto frame 130a. Lid 132 pivots between its open and closed positions about 2 0 lunge 134. Hinge 134 may be a flexible plastic lunge extending along one edge of frame 130a.
An opposite edge of frame 130a is sandwiched between latch release 132a and latch bar 136.
Storage compartment 116 is preferably sized to at least accommodate partially conswned cigarettes 142 or cigarette butts, but may also be sized to accommodate one or more 2 5 cigarettes which have not yet been lit, for example if such cigar ettes are angularly inserted within compartment 116. A cap 148 is frictionally mounted into compartment 116 by the engagement of ribs 148a on rim 152 with the firmer sLUfaces of side walls 116x. Cap 148 selectively closes off access to the compartment by flip-up access lid 150. Lid 150 pivots about hinge 151 which, again, may be of flexible plastic. Rim 152 seats snugly circumferentially within the opening into comparhnent 116 so as to seat frame 154 of cap 148 down onto the rim of the compartment.
Frame 154 flames lid 150 when in its closed position. A latch is provided to releasably lock lid 150 into frame 154. Latch release flange 156a and latch bar 156b snap onto, so as to snugly sandwich therebetween, frame edge 154a so as to provide releasable locking of lid 150 in its closed position.
As before, the provision of flip-up lids 132 and 150 within caps 130 and 148 respectively, permit a user to readily open either lid with the thumb of the hand for access to either the cigarette snuffer or storage compartment. Easy removal of caps 130 and 148 facilitates cleaning.
Thus, as may be seen, the present invention enables a smoker to regain control of the smoker's cigarette smoking situation by providing a dual propose reusable container to extinguish and salvage pautly smoked cigarettes to be relit later and to act as a portable ashtray for storing filter remains for later disposal. To extinguish a cigarette, the smoker holds the container in a flee hand and pushes the snuffer lid open with the thmnb. The burning end of the cigarette is inserted into the snuffer. The smoker then waits approximately ten seconds or so to extinguish and cool the cigarette, removes the cigarette, and closes the lid with the thumb.
The smoker may then pinch off the small charred tip on the remaining cigarette. To store the extinguished cigarette the 2 0 smoker rotates the container in the hand to access the storage compaWnent, then pushes the storage lid open with the thLUnb. The smolcer may then place the extinguished cigarette portion inside the storage compautment and close the lid with the thumb. The cigarette is thus stored to remain fresh and odoLU free; ready to be refit at the smoker's convenience.
2 5 For use as a portable ashtray the smoker extinguishes the smoked cigarette as per above, then places the filter remains in the storage compartment. The smoker may then dispose of filter remains in a proper garbage receptacle when available. This enables a smoker courteous control when an ashtray is not available.
Fig~.ire 12 is a rear elevation view of the device of Fig<.vre 5.
Figure 13 is a cross sectional view along line 13-13 in Figure 12.
Figure 14 is, in perspective view, the cigarette snuffer heat sink according to one embodiment of the present invention.
Detailed Description of Embodiments of the Invention With reference to the drawing figures, wherein similar characters of reference denote corresponding parts in each view, the compartmentalized cigarette snuffer and receptacle 10 has a hollow body 12 which is divided into first and second receiving compartments 14 and 16 respectively by an internal dividing wall 18. Body 12 may be transparent or translucent so that a user may at a glance determine whether a pauial cigarette or cigarette butt is present in a comparhnent.
2 0 A snuffer 20, manufactL~red from material of high thermal conductivity, fits snugly within first compartment 14. Snuffer 20 is generally cylindrically shaped, having a cigarette butt receiving bore 22 which terminates at end 20a of snuffer 20. An euarged outwardly flared, generally frusto-conical entry flange 24 may surround one or both ends of receiving bore 22, for example adjacent the open end 20b of snuffer 20, opposite closed end 20a.
Snuffer 20 may be 2 5 frictionally mounted or otherwise secured within first cigarette-receiving compartment 14, and may be held in place for example by end cap 30 inserted into the open end of comparhnent 14.
End cap 30 has a flip-up access lid 32 having a snap closing latch 32a.
Peripheral walls in the form of sleeve 34 depend therefrom. Sleeve 34 has an end wall 34a at an end opposite to access lid 32, which may lie in contact with open end 20b of snuffer 20. An aperture 3 6 formed in end wall 34a is aligned with bore 22 of snuffer 20. Sleeve 34 may be mounted by frictional contact with the adjacent internal sLUfaces of hollow body 12 and dividing wall I 8 to retain the sleeve securely in place.
The placement of a lighted and partially consmned cigarette 40, as illustrated in FigLUe 4, tluough aperture 36 of end wall 34a and into bore 22 of snuffer 20 will quickly extinguish the cigarette through the rapid dissipation of heat fiom the lit embers of the cigarette.
The partially consLUned cigarette 40 may then be placed within second cigarette-receiving compartment 16 and retrieved later for continued smoking.
Compartment 16 is preferably sized to at least accormnodate partially consmned cigarettes 42 or cigarette butts, but may also be sized to accommodate one or more cigarettes which have not yet been lit, for example if such cigarettes are angularly inserted within compartment 16. A removable end cap 48 closes compartment 16 and has an integral flip-up access lid 50. A perimeter sleeve 52 depending from cap 48 frictionally contacts the adjacent internal surfaces of hollow body 12 to retain the cap securely in place.
Flip-up lids 32 and 50 within end caps 30 and 48 respectively, permit a user of this 2 0 device to readily open either lid with the thumb of the hand within which the cigar ette snuffer and butt receptacle is held. Easy removal of end caps 30 and 48 facilitates cleaning of this device.
With further reference to the drawing figures, again wherein similar characters of reference denote corresponding parts in each view, in an alternative embodiment, not intended to be limiting, the compartmentalized cigarette snuffer and storage receptacle according to the present invention has a hollow body 112 which is divided into a first snuffing comparhnent 114 and a second storage compartment 116 by an internal dividing wall 118. Again, body 112 may advantageously be transparent or translucent, for example manufactured of plastic, so that a user may at a glance determine whether a partial cigarette or cigarette butt is present in the storage compartment.
A snuffer 120, manufactured from mater ial of high thermal conductivity, for example metal, fits snugly within bore A in first compartment 114. Bore A is defined between the radially inward edges of a radially spaced array of vanes 121, radially spaced about the axis of symmetry of butt receiving cylinder 122. Again, snuffer 120 as better seen in Figl.~res 9 and 10 generally cylindrically shaped, having cigarette butt receiving cylinder 122 which terminates at end 120a of snuffer 120. It is understood that the snuffer need not necessarily be cylindrical, as other shapes would work so long as the lit end may be brought into contact with a highly head conductive heat sins. Flange 124 swroltnds ends 120b of snuffer 120, opposite closed end 120a.
Snuffer 120 is frictionally mounted between vanes 121 or otherwise secured within bore A of first cigarette-receiving compartment 114. Flange 124 moLmts into a supporting frame 130a within cap 130. Cap 130 is inserted into frictional mating engagement in the open end of compartment 114 and retained therein by ribs 130b engaging the imler surfaces of sidewalk 114a of compartment 114. Frame 130a sandwiches flange 12 against the ends of vanes 121.
Cap 130 has a flip-up access lid 132 having a snap closing latch. Latch release 132a snaps closed onto frame 130a. Lid 132 pivots between its open and closed positions about 2 0 lunge 134. Hinge 134 may be a flexible plastic lunge extending along one edge of frame 130a.
An opposite edge of frame 130a is sandwiched between latch release 132a and latch bar 136.
Storage compartment 116 is preferably sized to at least accommodate partially conswned cigarettes 142 or cigarette butts, but may also be sized to accommodate one or more 2 5 cigarettes which have not yet been lit, for example if such cigar ettes are angularly inserted within compartment 116. A cap 148 is frictionally mounted into compartment 116 by the engagement of ribs 148a on rim 152 with the firmer sLUfaces of side walls 116x. Cap 148 selectively closes off access to the compartment by flip-up access lid 150. Lid 150 pivots about hinge 151 which, again, may be of flexible plastic. Rim 152 seats snugly circumferentially within the opening into comparhnent 116 so as to seat frame 154 of cap 148 down onto the rim of the compartment.
Frame 154 flames lid 150 when in its closed position. A latch is provided to releasably lock lid 150 into frame 154. Latch release flange 156a and latch bar 156b snap onto, so as to snugly sandwich therebetween, frame edge 154a so as to provide releasable locking of lid 150 in its closed position.
As before, the provision of flip-up lids 132 and 150 within caps 130 and 148 respectively, permit a user to readily open either lid with the thumb of the hand for access to either the cigarette snuffer or storage compartment. Easy removal of caps 130 and 148 facilitates cleaning.
Thus, as may be seen, the present invention enables a smoker to regain control of the smoker's cigarette smoking situation by providing a dual propose reusable container to extinguish and salvage pautly smoked cigarettes to be relit later and to act as a portable ashtray for storing filter remains for later disposal. To extinguish a cigarette, the smoker holds the container in a flee hand and pushes the snuffer lid open with the thmnb. The burning end of the cigarette is inserted into the snuffer. The smoker then waits approximately ten seconds or so to extinguish and cool the cigarette, removes the cigarette, and closes the lid with the thumb.
The smoker may then pinch off the small charred tip on the remaining cigarette. To store the extinguished cigarette the 2 0 smoker rotates the container in the hand to access the storage compaWnent, then pushes the storage lid open with the thLUnb. The smolcer may then place the extinguished cigarette portion inside the storage compautment and close the lid with the thumb. The cigarette is thus stored to remain fresh and odoLU free; ready to be refit at the smoker's convenience.
2 5 For use as a portable ashtray the smoker extinguishes the smoked cigarette as per above, then places the filter remains in the storage compartment. The smoker may then dispose of filter remains in a proper garbage receptacle when available. This enables a smoker courteous control when an ashtray is not available.
As will be apparent to those skilled in the art in the light of the foregoing disclosure, many alterations and modifications are possible in the practice of this invention without departing from the spirit or scope thereof. Accordingly, the scope ofthe iizvention is to be construed in accordance with the substance defined by the following claims.
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1. A compartmentalized cigarette snuffer and receptacle comprising:
a container having a storage compartment sized to receive cigarettes and cigarette butts therein and a cigarette snuffer compartment containing mounted therein a heat sink means for extinguishing the lit end of a cigarette when inserted into said cigarette snuffer compartment, said storage and cigarette snuffer compartments separated within said container by a dividing wall, and each having an opening and a corresponding independently actuable lid mounted thereon, each said lid releasably closable for selective actuation by a user between an open position providing access to the corresponding said compartment, and a closed position sealing closed in an air-tight fitment said corresponding compartment.
a container having a storage compartment sized to receive cigarettes and cigarette butts therein and a cigarette snuffer compartment containing mounted therein a heat sink means for extinguishing the lit end of a cigarette when inserted into said cigarette snuffer compartment, said storage and cigarette snuffer compartments separated within said container by a dividing wall, and each having an opening and a corresponding independently actuable lid mounted thereon, each said lid releasably closable for selective actuation by a user between an open position providing access to the corresponding said compartment, and a closed position sealing closed in an air-tight fitment said corresponding compartment.
2. The device of claim 1 wherein said container and said dividing wall are rigid and wherein said container is a rectangular parallelepiped.
3. The device of claim 2 wherein said lids are mounted on a common side of said container.
4. The device of claim 1 wherein each said lid is pivotally mounted on a hinge mounted to said container.
5. The device of claim 4 wherein each said lunge is a common hinge, common to both said lids.
6. The device of claim 4 wherein each said hinge is a flexible hinge of flexible material.
7. The device of claim 2 wherein said lids are mounted opposite ends of said container.
8. The device of claim 1 wherein said heat sins means is a metal cylinder having a closed end and an opposite open end, said open end aligned with said opening in said cigarette snuffer compartment.
9. The device of claim 2 wherein said heat sins means is a metal cylinder having a closed end and an opposite open end, said open end aligned with said opening in said cigarette snuffer compartment.
10. The device of claim 9 wherein said container includes opposite end walls and wherein said cylinder is aligned parallel with and adjacent one end wall of said opposite end walls of said container, and wherein said dividing wall is adjacent said cylinder and parallel to said one end wall.
11. The device of claim 10 wherein each said lid is pivotally mounted on a hinge mounted to said container.
12. The device of claim 11 wherein each said hinge is a common hinge, common to both said lids.
13. The device of claim 12 wherein each said hinge is a flexible hinge of flexible material.
14. The device of claim 1 wherein said container is manufactured of substantially transparent material.
15. The device of claim 1 wherein outer walls of said storage compartment are substantially transparent.
16. The device of claim 1 wherein said dividing wall is a single common wall common to both said compartments.
17. The device of claim 2 wherein said dividing wall is a common planar wall common to both said compartments.
18. The device of claim 5 wherein said lids are mounted on a common side of said container.
19. The device of claim 18 wherein said common hinge is located between opposite ends of said container on one side of said container, and wherein said lids extend from said common hinge to said ends of said container.
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