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US 6,776,167 B1Granted
Spent-cigarette respository with detachable column
AssigneeEagle Manufacturing Company
InventorJohn G. Gillispie
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Abstract
A molded plastic repository for spent smoking materials having separate base and column pieces with connecting portions which are connected for use by a connector which engages the connecting portions. The base and column are molded as a single piece then severed in a plane so as to provide similar connecting portions in relation to the severing plane. The method of fabricating and assembly provides a savings in storing and shipping the repository.
Claims6
A repository for spent smoking materials, comprising
- a base for supporting said repository in a free-standing upright orientation on a horizontal surface and having a connecting portion,
- a hollow column arranged to extend upwardly from said base, said hollow column being a separate piece from said base and having a connecting portion, and
- a connector for slidingly engaging said base and said hollow column at the connecting portions so as to connect said base and said hollow column in a rigid manner, wherein
- said base and said hollow column connecting portions abut each other, the connecting portions being mirror images of each other in a plane between said base connecting portion and said column connecting portion,
- each said connecting portion includes a circumferential groove for engaging said connector so as to prevent movement of each connecting portion in the connector in the direction of slidingly engaging, and
- the connector includes connecting clips having protruding tabs for mating with the circumferential groove of each connecting portion.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.