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US 5,325,876 AGranted
Ashtray with ozone generator and catalytic exchanger
OwnerTsung-Hsun Yanginventor
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Abstract
The ash tray includes a device for filtering the nicotine in the cigarette smoke and for changing the cigarette smoke into a harmless gas. The device includes a catalytic exchanger, an ozone generator, a fan, a transformer and a filter enclosed within an enclosure including a base plate and a bowl-shaped cover member.
Claims2
An ash tray comprising:
- an enclosure including a base plate with a top surface which has a central recess and a plurality of grooves that extend from the periphery of said base plate to said central recess, and an inverted bowl-shaped cover member having a lower portion provided with a plurality of notches along the periphery of said lower portion and connected to the periphery of said base plate, said cover member and said base plate cooperatively confining a hollow space therebetween, said notches communicating said hollow space and an exterior of said enclosure, said cover member further having a topmost portion provided with a through-hole which communicates said hollow space and the exterior of said enclosure;
- a pair of holding members fixed on opposite sides of an inner wall surface of said cover member;
- a catalytic exchanger member provided detachably between said pair of holding members adjacent to said through-hole;
- an ozone generating device provided detachably between said holding members below said catalytic exchanger;
- an exhaust fan unit provided detachably between said holding members below said ozone generating device and capable of drawing air to pass through said ozone generating device;
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- a transformer mounted on a lowermost portion of one of said holding members and connected electrically to said ozone generating device for providing a high voltage to said ozone generating device to facilitate production of ozone gas.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.