Automatic cigarette butt extinguishing device
OwnerKenji Niidainventor
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Abstract
The device has a cigarette butt inserting inlet which is operated, as a cigarette butt is inserted, to close a detecting switch to start a cigarette butt extinguishing mechanism which, in turn, close another switch for maintaining the operation of the mechanism in a predetermined time, the mechanism including a drive motor, a series of speed reduction gears, and a pair of adjacent rollers connected by transmission belts to two specific ones of the gears respectively and rotated in the opposite directions at a same speed, and the transmission belts conveying the inserted cigarette butt into between the two rollers.
Claims12
An automatic cigarette butt extinguishing device comprising a case;
- a cigarette butt inserting inlet means mounted on the case;
- cigarette butt extinguishing means located in the case;
- means detecting a cigarette butt inserted into the cigarette butt inserting means to start the cigarette butt extinguishing means;
- and electrical circuit means responsive to said detecting means for maintaining the operation of the cigarette butt extinguishing means until the latter extinguishes the cigarette butt.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.