High speed cigar holder and ashtray

A portable cigar holder comprising:

• a vertical flexible tube of a resilient, flexible, heat-resistant rubber material, and a rigid heat-resistant cup of lesser height than the vertical flexible tube and connected coaxially to a lower end of the vertical flexible tube to define a cigar-receiving tubular body comprising an upper flexible tubular portion and a lower rigid tubular portion, the cigar-receiving tubular body sufficient to enclose a majority of an unsmoked cigar placed vertically therein, the vertical flexible tube having an open upper end spaced above the cup and a first un-flexed diameter;
• the vertical flexible tube comprising a cylindrical flexible tubular sidewall above the rigid cup, the sidewall being split vertically downward from its open upper end on opposite sides to define two aligned and horizontally-spaced substantially V-shaped slots with open upper slot ends and with lower slot ends terminating at or above a rim of the rigid cup, and further to define two opposing flexible substantially semi-cylindrical vertical sidewall halves corresponding to the slots above the rigid cup capable of flexing apart from one another outwardly beyond the un-flexed first diameter independently of the rigid cup;
• and wherein,
• each substantially V-shaped slot comprises a pair of spaced opposing serrated flexible edges formed in the cylindrical flexible tubular sidewall, the opposing serrated flexible edges having a wider spacing at the open upper slot ends and a narrower spacing toward the lower slot ends corresponding to a range of cigar ring gauges such that the opposing serrated flexible edges and the opposing vertical substantially semi-cylindrical sidewall halves of the vertical flexible tube above the rigid cup may flex outwardly independently of the rigid cup when a cigar with a ring gauge larger than at least one of the cigar ring gauges in the range is inserted in a horizontal orientation into the slots between the opposing serrated flexible edges a distance sufficient to resiliently clamp the cigar therebetween;
• and, further wherein
• each of the opposing flexible substantially semi-cylindrical vertical sidewall halves comprises a horizontally-spaced set of the serrated flexible edges from each of the substantially V-shaped slots, the horizontally-spaced set of the serrated flexible edges capable of flexing horizontally apart from one another on their respective flexible substantially semi-cylindrical sidewall halves.