Cigarette snuffing attachment for an ashtray
AssigneeWarner-Lehman Corporation
InventorJames Arlo Lehman
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Abstract
A cigarette snuffing attachment for an ashtray comprises a snuffing tube to receive and extinguish a cigarette, having a lever-operated removable bottom to permit the dropping of the cigarette but through the tube and into the ashtray, there being specialized means of attaching the snuffing device to the conventional snuffing eyelet provided in most, if not all, vehicle ashtrays, and a slightly modified attachment means fits household ashtrays, the attaching means including a clamp having two gripping elements, one of which is screw controlled, the clamp being selectively attachable to the snuffing device such that the latter is adjustable both angularly and vertically relative to the ashtray.
Claims6
A cigarette snuffing attachment for an automobile ashtray having a snuffing eyelet, said attachment comprising:
- a. snuffing device having means to extinguish a lighted cigarette;
- b. a clamp for clamping an ashtray;
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- c. means connecting said clamp to said snuffing device, whereby said snuffing device is attached to an ashtray to insure the complete and safe snuffing of cigarette butts placed therein, said connecting means is angularly adjustable to permit installation of said snuffing device at a selected orientation relative to an ashtray to which said device is attached;
- d. said clamp and said snuffing device are connected by a shaft and are rotatable relative to one another on said shaft, and said connecting means includes detents to permit the selection of one of several angular orientations of the snuffing device relative to the clamp about said shaft.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.