US2216166A - Smoker's appliance - Google Patents

Description

Patented Oct. 1, 1940 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE SMOKEWS AIEILIANCEl Anton Fischer, North Bergen, N. J.

Application December 20, 1938, Serial No. 246,793`

1 Claim.

This invention relates to smokers appliances, particularly such as are adapted to contain cigars and cigarettes, and especially the device is intended to be removably attached to the interior of an automobile, or like vehicle, convenient of access to the riders therein.

An object of the invention is to provide means secured at different points on the interior of the vehicle to which may be removably engaged a cigarette container or the like, provided with a spring hinged cover, and arranged to deliver a single cigarette at each operation.

A further feature is in the provision of means for selectively dispensing a single cigarette into position to be manually grasped by movement of the delivery spindle.

Another purpose is to produce an attractive appearing casing, which may be finished to suit the nish of the vehicle, and which occupies no material space therewithin.

These objects are attained by the simple and novel construction and combination of parts hereinafter described and shown in the accompanying drawing, forming a material component of this disclosure, and in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective View of an embodiment of the invention shown in an open position, parts being broken away to disclose the interior.

Figure 2 is a longitudinal sectional view taken substantially in the plane indicated by the numerals 2-2 of Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a perspective View looking from the rear of the container.

Figure 4 is a perspective view of the anchoring means permanently connected wherever it may be desired.

Referring in greater detail to the drawing, the

numeral l5 designates, in general, an elongated,

rectangular plate bracket provided with screw receiving openings I6, and having a central cut-out Il, its edges I8 being out-turned, and forming in eiect, an anchorage, having its Walls inclined to agree with the corresponding walls `2li of a plate hanger 2 I, fixed on the rear of a container 22.

This container may be made of any required material, preferably sheet metal, in the form of an oblong rectangle to suit the length of cigarettes, or other goods x, to be disposed therein.

This container is provided at its upper rear edge with a hinge 23, provided with automatic closing means as the spring element 24, and by which is united a cover 25, having its front end and edges arranged overlappingly with respect to the top of the container, its normal position being closed.

Disposed longitudinally in the end walls of the container, is a tube 2B mounted for rotation, and having on its extending ends knobs 29 of any preferred configuration suited to be grasped by the iingers.

Fixed on the tube 28, within the container is a trilobed dispenser 30, having three spaces 3l, of such magnitude as to readily receive a ciga- 5 rette therein, and which are directed by guides 32 xed respectively on the iront and rear walls of the container.

Directly below the container is a receiver 35, having open ends 36 attached permanently to the 10 front and rear walls of the container by tubular beads 31, which may or may not have rods embedded therein.

The walls of the receiver 35, converge toward the center and are connected by a loop-like trayv 38, into which the cigarette is eventually delivered. These walls are formed convergently at their end edges so that the length of the loop is materially less than the distance between the end walls of the container, thereby facilitating eX- traction of a cigarette.

As shown `particularly in Figure 2, a group of loose cigarettes may be entered through the top of the container to rest partially on the dispenser 30 and on the guides 32.

It will now be seen bytwirling the knobs 29 in either direction, one of the cigarettes will have been disposed in the elongated space 3 I, and then delivered to the discharger 35, where it may be removed by hand.

It is noticed that a single cigarette is delivered only. That the rest are retained in suitable condition within the container, and that its use avoids the mussiness of dropping cigarette packages around the premises.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new and desired to secure by Letters Patent, is:

A dispensing container for cigarettes comprising an open topped casing receptive of the cigarette and having a hinged cover at its top, a receiver open at its ends and connected at its upper side edges to the bottom edges of the side walls of said casing, the walls of said receiver being straight, flat and convergingly inclined towards the bottom, and also towards its lower end edges, a curved loop-like connection between the bottom edges of the receiver walls and constituting a tray of lesser length than a cigarette, a circular dispenser having a diameter equivalent to the space between the side Walls of said casing and rotatably mounted in the end walls thereof, said dispenser having three longitudinal grooves each to receive a single cigarette, guides in said casing directing cigarettes into the grooves, and knobs on the ends of said dispenser accessible for manual operation.

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