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US 5,887,596 AGranted
Vehicle ashtray
Assigneefischerwerke Artur Fischer GmbH & Co. KG
InventorsChristiane Ziegler, Roland Dettling, Bernd Schenk, Ulrich Nienhaus
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Abstract
A vehicle ashtray has a housing fastenable to a vehicle, an ashtray drawer movable under the action of a spring force from a close basic position to an open end position, and a stop member arranged so that said ashtray drawer remains in a half-open position and is movable to said open end position only after overcoming a resistance.
Claims9
A vehicle ashtray, comprising a housing adapted to be arranged in a vehicle;
- an ashtray drawer which is guided in said housing so as to be withdrawable from said housing;
- a spring which displaces said ashtray drawer from a closed basic position in which said ashtray drawer is located in said housing to an open end position in which said ashtray drawer extends outwardly of said housing;
- releasable locking means for holding said ashtray drawer against a force of said spring in said closed basic position;
- an overcomeable stop member against which said spring displaces said ashtray drawer during movement from said closed basic position in direction toward said open end position, said stop member holding said ashtray drawer against the force of said spring in a half-open intermediate position in which said ashtray drawer is located between said closed basic position and said open end position, so that said ashtray drawer after overcoming of said stop member is displaceable further from said half-open intermediate position to said open end position.
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