The invention relates to an arrangement for handling cigarette and cigarillo butts.
For smokers of cigarettes and cigarillos, the problem often arises of what they are to do with the butts of smoked cigarettes or cigarillos when no ashtray is available. Often, the cigarette or cigarillo butts are then simply discarded, which is not only unsanitary and contributes to pollution of the environment, but rather also entails the danger that the discarded cigarette or cigarillo butts, if they have not been properly extinguished, can trigger a fire, in particular if cigarette or cigarillo butts are discarded in the great outdoors.
The object of the invention is to provide a remedy here.
This object is achieved with an arrangement that has the features of Claim 1.
Preferred and advantageous configurations of the invention are the subjects of the subclaims.
The arrangement according to the invention has bags into which cigarette or cigarillo butts can be put and stored therein until they can be properly disposed of.
For example, the butt-filled bags of the arrangement according to the invention can be kept in the cigarette pack itself until they are disposed of.
The invention also makes it possible to store the strips of the arrangement as compactly as possible with at least two bags that are joined together in the cigarette pack, so that the bags are then always available and within reach if they are required to store a cigarette or cigarillo butt until it can be properly disposed of.
Other details and features of the invention follow from the description below of preferred embodiments with reference to the drawings.
Here:
One arrangement according to the invention in the embodiment shown in
For the accommodation in a cigarette or cigarillo pack (
If a bag 3 is required to accommodate a cigarette or cigarillo 12 and to store it until final, proper disposal, the sleeve 9 is pulled from the arrangement (
Then, the bag 3 is opened (cf.
An environmentally safe and non-polluting handling of cigarette or cigarillo butts 12 is thus possible until they can be disposed of at a suitable disposal site.
The material of which the arrangement according to the invention consists is preferably a material that is heat-resistant, so that cigarette or cigarillo butts 12 that are not extinguished or not completely extinguished can be accommodated. For example, metal-coated, in particular aluminum-coated, paper has proven its value as material, whereby the aluminum coating comes to rest on the inside of the bag 3.
As shown in
In one embodiment, not shown, arrangements for sealing thereof, such as straps, or the like, can also be assigned to each bag 3 in the area of the access opening 10.
In the embodiment that is shown in
In all embodiments of the invention, the bags 3 can also consist of a tube (section) that is sealed on one end, e.g., with a weld or sealing seam 5.
As shown in
For the accommodation in a cigarette or cigarillo pack (FIGS. 11/12), the arrangement according to the invention, as shown in FIGS. 11/12, folds together flat and is used in cigarette or cigarillo packs (FIGS. 11/12). The arrangement can be stored in a cigarette or cigarillo pack in the area of its narrow side (
When a bag 3 is required to accommodate a cigarette or cigarillo pack 12 and to store it until final, proper disposal, the arrangement is unfolded, specifically at least to the extent that the first bag 3 can be grasped for separation.
Then, (cf.
In one embodiment, not shown, arrangements for sealing thereof, such as straps, or the like, can also be assigned to each bag 3 in the embodiment shown in
In the embodiments that are shown in
For the accommodation in a cigarette or cigarillo pack (FIGS. 20/21), the arrangement according to the invention, as shown in FIGS. 20/21, is folded flat and inserted into cigarette or cigarillo packs. Thus, the arrangement (
If a bag 3 is required to accommodate a cigarette or cigarillo butt 12 and to store it until final, proper disposal, the arrangement is unfolded specifically at least to the extent that the first bag 3 can be grasped for separation.
Then, (cf.
In summary, a preferred embodiment of the invention can be described, for example, as follows:
An arrangement for accommodating cigarette or cigarillo butts and optionally also cigarette or cigarillo ashes comprises a strip 1 with bags 3 that are connected together and that can be separated along at least two longitudinal perforations 7 and tear-off aids 4. The strip 1 can be stored in a cigarette or cigarillo pack in rolled-up or folded form.
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