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US 5,269,328 AGranted
Safety cigarette holder
AssigneeSuper Gadget Ashtray Ltd.
InventorIstvan Gasparics
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Abstract
A cigarette holder for use on an ashtray is provided. Opposed cylinders rotate and move freely within opposite compartments to grip the cigarette, but are constrained to extend from opposite open ends of such compartments a distance which leaves a minimum separation between the cylinders which is less than the diameter of a cigarette.
Claims18
Apparatus for holding a cigarette on an ashtray, comprising:
- a) a housing having first and second spaced, opposed compartments, each said compartment having an open end, said open end of said first compartment facing the open end of said second compartment;
- b) two movable non-flammable cigarette-contacting elements, one of said cigarette-contacting elements movable in each said compartment to partially extend from the open end of the compartment in which said cigarette-contacting element is movable;
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- c) spring means to bias each said cigarette-contacting element towards the open end of each said compartment;
- wherein each said cigarette-contacting element is adapted to move within its respective compartment between a retracted position and a position of maximum extension wherein a portion of said cigarette-contacting element extends from the open end of said compartment, whereby the separation of said cigarette-contacting elements when each is in its said position of maximum extension from said compartments is less than the diameter of said cigarette.
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An ashtray comprising means for holding a cigarette on said ashtray, said cigarette-holding means comprising:
- a) a housing having first and second spaced, opposed compartments, each said compartment having an open end, said open end of said first compartment facing the open end of said second compartment;
- b) a movable non-flammable cigarette-contacting element provided in each said compartment and partially extending from the open end of said compartment;
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- c) spring means to bias each said cigarette-contacting element towards the open end of each said compartment;
- wherein each said cigarette-contacting element is adapted to move within its respective compartment between a retracted position and a position of maximum extension wherein a portion of said cigarette-contacting element extends from the open end of said compartment, whereby the separation of said cigarette-contacting elements when each is in its said position of maximum extension from said compartments is less than the diameter of said cigarette.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.