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US 4,350,171 AGranted
Arrangement for holding cigarettes
OwnerAlexander Kemmelinventor
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Abstract
An arrangement for holding cigarettes has a lower part with an inner hollow and an open end, and an upper part provided with a holding member for holding a plurality of cigarettes. The upper part is movable relative to the lower part between a closed position in which the upper part closes the open end of the lower part and the cigarettes are accommodated in the latter, and an open position in which the upper part is retracted from the lower part and the cigarettes are located outside the latter so as to be exposed.
Claims7
A cigarette dispenser comprising:
- a container in the shape of a wine bottle and having a lower annular member terminating at its upper end in an upwardly-facing annular edge, and a separate upper annular member terminating at its lower end in a downward-facing annular edge which releasably engages said upwardly-facing annular edge of said lower annular member, said upper annular member at its upper end presenting an upwardly extending neck of substantially smaller diameter than its downwardly-facing annular edge;
- a holding disc received in said lower annular member of the container and movable vertically therein;
- means rigidly coupling said upper annular member of said container to said disc to raise and lower said disc along the inside of said lower annular member when said upper annular member is raised and lowered with respect to said lower annular member;
- a plurality of tubular cigarette holders mounted on said disc and extending up from the disc, each of said tubular holders being open at the top and shaped and dimensioned to hold the lower end of an individual cigarette;
- and spring means acting on said cigarette holders to tilt their upper ends laterally outward when said disc is raised to the upper end of said lower annular member.
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