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US 6,726,051 B1Granted
Outdoor cigar and cigarette butts receptacle
OwnerRobert D. Rennickinventor
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Abstract
A portable repository for discarded smoking products and incidental trash consisting of a hollow body having a closed upper surface and a pivotable bottom member providing a variable degree of closure for the lower surface, the bottom member normally providing a recessed cavity. An aperture is provided near the upper end to access the cavity for trash deposit having an appended ledge for butt snuffing and perforations in the sidewall for tying the repository to a support post.
Claims10
A portable repository for discarded smoking products, comprising:
- (a) a hollow body having a closed upper surface and adapted to permit a variable degree of closure for the open lower surface, thereby defining a recessed cavity having upstanding sidewalls conjoined with the closed upper surface;
- (b) an aperture located proximal to the upper surface of the rigid body of sufficient dimensions to allow a smoking product to be deposited within the cavity;
- (c) a formed ledge, being generally horizontal in orientation, mounted upon the outer sidewall of the hollow body and positioned adjacent to the lower periphery of the aperture;
- (d) a planar member sized to conform generally to the periphery of the lower surface of the hollow body and adapted to provide for selective intermittent closure of the cavity and for the containment of any deposited smoking products when the member rotated into a closed first position;
- (e) a fastener means functionally and pivotally connecting said planar member to the lower periphery of the hollow body and adapted to permit manual rotation of the planar member from the closed first position to an open second position, in which latter such second position permits evacuation of the accumulated hollow body contents;
- (f) a detent means adapted to arrest the planar member into the closed first position when it is manually rotated to such first position, so as to provide a receptacle for discarded smoking products;
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- (g) a means to mount said repository to a support post adapted to present the repository to prospective users.
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A portable repository for discarded smoking products, comprising:
- (a) a hollow body having a closed upper surface and adapted to permit a variable degree of closure for the open lower surface, thereby defining a recessed cavity having upstanding sidewalls conjoined with the closed upper surface;
- (b) an aperture located proximal to the upper surface of the rigid body of sufficient dimensions to allow a smoking product to be deposited within the cavity;
- (c) a formed ledge, being generally horizontal in orientation mounted upon the outer sidewall of the hollow body and positioned adjacent to the lower periphery of the aperture;
- (d) a planar member sized to conform generally to the periphery of the lower surface of the hollow body and adapted to provide for selective intermittent closure of the cavity and for the containment of any deposited smoking products when the member is rotated into a closed first position;
- (e) a fastener means functionally and pivotally connecting said planar member to the lower periphery of the hollow body adapted to permit manual rotation of the planar member from the closed first position to an open second position, in which latter position such permits evacuation of the accumulated hollow body contents, and further comprising an opposing pair of external projections with interconnect the hollow body and the planar member;
- (f) a detent means adapted to arrest the planar member into the closed first position when it is manually rotated to such first position, so as to provide a receptacle for discarded smoking products;
- and,
- (g) a means to mount said repository to a support post adapted to present the repository to prospective users.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.