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US 3,966,442 AGranted
Odor masking and filtering ashtray
AssigneeAladdin Industries, Incorporated
InventorBruce M. Waters
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Abstract
An odor masking ashtray is constituted by an ashtray provided with openings in its side for the insertion of cigars, cigarettes and pipes serving as a base supporting a housing in which is mounted a fan positioned between two filters so that smoke and other objectionable odors may be drawn upwardly from the ashtray through the filters and in the process filtered out of the air and/or masked.
Claims9
A filtering ashtray apparatus comprising:
- an ashtray base having a vertically extending side wall provided with openings therein sufficiently large to accommodate items being smoked and to permit their movement therein;
- an annular housing on the top of said ashtray base extending therein to rest on the side wall thereof enclosing said ashtray base except for said openings;
- said openings extending below the bottom of said housing;
- filter means mounted in said housing;
- and a motor driven fan mounted in said housing for drawing air and smoke in said ashtray through said openings, through said filter means and out of the top of said housing.
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