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US 2021/0212360 A1Published application
Ash box
OwnerCleed Leonardo Harris, IIIinventor
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Abstract
An ash box for safely collecting smoking ash having a top and bottom surface that are substantially parallel. The top surface of the ash box has an aperture which is covered by a grating to permit smoking waste to enter the ash box, but also preventing children and pets from accessing the smoking waste. The ash box has an openable drawer collects the smoking waste that enters via the aperture, and the collected smoking waste can be removed by opening the drawer.
Claims12
A receptacle for a smoker's ashes comprising:
- a hollow prism having:
- a top surface joined to a first edge of a side wall,
- a second edge of said side wall is joined to a bottom surface,
- wherein said top and bottom surfaces are substantially parallel and the shortest distance separating a point on said top surface from a point on said bottom surfaces is less than the greatest distance separating a first point on said side wall from a second point on said side wall,
- said top surface of said prism having an aperture connecting the exterior of said hollow prism to its interior, said aperture having an area of between about 0.5 square inches and about 16 square inches, and a grating joined to said top surface of said prism in a manner effective to limit access to the interior of said prism to objects having a cross-sectional area of less than about 0.15 square inches, and
- said side wall includes a drawer slidingly coupled to the interior of said hollow prism, the drawer being configured to:
- (1) when closed, be positioned below said aperture in said top surface so as to collect anything that passes through said grating, and the exterior surface of said drawer is substantially flush with the exterior of said side wall, and (2) when extend to open in a direction away from said side wall.
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