Portable, pocket size ash tray

A portable, powered air purifying ash tray for use with smoker items comprising:

• an approximately pocket size, box-type housing having a first internal compartment including means for supporting a smokers item for receiving ashes from the smoker item, an enclosed second internal compartment having a covered top and bottom and means for placing said second compartment in fluid communication with the environment surrounding said ash tray, said second compartment located alongside said first internal compartment substantially in-line therewith, and a partition separating said first compartment and said second compartment and permitting fluid communication therebetween;
• a first cover on said housing positionable between a first closed position covering said first compartment and a second, open position uncovering said first compartment;
• a filter mounted to said partition such that substantially all of the fluid communication between said first compartment and said second compartment is through said filter;
• a fan mounted in said second compartment for exhausting air from said first compartment through said filter into said second compartment and thence out of said compartment into the environment surrounding said ash tray through said means provided therefor;
• a portable electrical power supply mounted in said second compartment being for energizing said motor;
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• a control circuit for selectively coupling said power supply to said motor for the energizing thereof.