Retractable ashtray, particularly for motor vehicles

A retractable ashtray, particularly for motor vehicles, characterized in that its release mechanism is integrally made of plastic material and comprises a first and a second wall hinged to each other along a common edge by a thinning of their thickness at said edge, and a third wall integral with said second wall and opposite thereto, said third wall bearing a pin on which an idle pawl is mounted, said first wall having arcuate guide ribs thereon which are concentric to the hinge axis, and are intended to guide the pawl during relative movements of the two walls hinged to each other when the ashtray is moved from its retracted out-of-use position to its extracted in-use position and vice versa, and to provide a stop abutment for the pawl at said two ashtray positions as well as a hook, and said second wall also bearing a hook intended to engage said hook of said first wall, a spring being interposed between said first and said third wall which urges said two hooks toward engagement.