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US 6,161,549 AGranted
Ash tray
OwnerKyung Pyo Leeinventor
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Abstract
The present invention relates to an ash tray, and more particularly to an ash tray which can sanitarily control as well as automatically extinguish a smoking cigarette butt when it is put in the ash tray. In accordance with the present invention, the ash tray comprises a tube body in which cigarette butts are received and a porous member is equipped to the inward lower; a cap covering the upper end of the tube body; and an aroma tube coupled to the lower of the tube body in which an aromatic is equipped therein.
Claims3
An integral ash tray assembly for receiving and extinguishing smoking cigarette butts comprising:
- a hollow tube body having an upper end portion and a lower end portion;
- a cap assembly disposed over said upper end portion including an inserting hole for receiving cigarette butts and a hinged cover for covering said inserting hole and for exposing said inserting hole to receive a cigarette butt;
- an aroma tube containing an aromatic material coupled to the lower portion of said tube body;
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- a removable and replaceable first porous member formed of a mesh material on which cigarette butts are deposited, wherein said first porous member is located above said aroma tube through which aroma from said aroma tube passes a second aroma tube and a second porous member disposed above said first aroma tube and below said first porous member, wherein said second porous member has a mesh with a mesh structure equal to or smaller than that of said first porous member;
- said integral ash tray being closed and sealed when said hinged cover is closed so that no smoke is exhausted from said ash tray assembly to the ambient environment.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.