1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a portable cigarette ashes container, comprising a receptacle and a top portion, detachable from the receptacle, and having a top side in which a circular aperture to the interior of the receptacle and a further aperture to an upwards open pocket situated in the receptacle are situated, in which pocket a gas container of a cigarette lighter with lighter device belonging to it protruding above the top side is received.
2. Description of Related Art
A container of this type is priorly known from U.S. Pat. No. 5,673,709. This container comprises an open receptacle, which by a partition wall is divided into a chamber for ashes and cigarette butts, and a chamber for the gas container of a cigarette lighter, and a circular lid, which is arranged to be screwed to the open end of the receptacle. The lid is provided partly with an feeding-in aperture for inserting and dropping cigarette butts into an intended space, and partly with an aperture for reaching the lighter device of the cigarette lighter. In order to prevent ashes from falling out through the feeding-in aperture this aperture is provided with a spring-loaded flap on the under side of the lid. A container of this type is impaired by several disadvantages which makes it unsuitable for the intended purpose. Due to the fact that the lid has to be screwed on the receptacle the edge of the partition wall and the lighter device have to be located low enough to permit the flap to pass by without scraping against the partition wall or the lighter device. This results in the fact that if the container is inclined or is held upside-down, ashes will fall out through the aperture above the cigarette lighter. This applies also if the lid is pushed onto the receptacle and is locked by a snap-in closure. It is difficult to adjust the aperture in relation to the cigarette lighter in order to minimize the interspace, which, anyhow, cannot be completely eliminated. This is especially embarrassing because the lid has to be removed and replaced each time the container has to be emptied, which often is carried out in dull light.
The object of the invention is to achieve a portable container of the type mentioned by way of introduction, which is improved such, that the above mentioned inconveniences are eliminated in a simple and efficient way. It is especially important that the container can have a shape that permits keeping of the container without inconvenience in a pocket or handbag. It is also important that the container is almost hermetic sealed, and that the container can be easily opened and closed.
This is achieved, according to the invention, in that the portable container is characterized by the subject matter mentioned in the following claims.
With such a portable container for ashes with a built-in cigarette lighter for lighting a cigarette available a smoker always knows where to get rid of the glowing butt, namely by pushing the butt with the glow foremost down into the tubular passage. The mouth end or mouthpiece of the cigarette forms a plug that relatively quick chokes the glow, because the top portion is integrated with the pocket for the cigarette lighter and has a cap that in closed position closes the tubular passage, and consequently forms an airtight seal of the space enclosing the ashes and the cigarette butts. When the next butt or a following butt is pushed down into the passage the lowest butt falls down in the receptacle, which when required can be removed for emptying.
The invention is more clearly described in the following with reference to the attached drawings which schematically show by way of example two embodiments of a portable container according to the invention.
a,b,c,d are views of the container according to the invention as seen from four different directions with open cap and closed cap, respectively.
The top side 6 of the top portion also has a pocket 12 extending from the aperture 8 with the same interior shape as the gas container 13 of a conventional cigarette lighter which is pushed down into the pocket 12 with its lighter device 14 accessible at the upper side of the cigarette lighter, and with a discharge hole 15 for the gas directed up from the upper side of the top portion.
A cap 16 hingedly connected to the top portion 3 has an interior closure member 17, which closes the aperture 7 to the passage 9, when the cap is swung in over the top portion 3.
The preferred embodiment, that is shown in
Owing to these circumstances, the hinge 25 of the cap 16,
The invention is of course not restricted to the embodiments here shown and described by way of example but can be modified in different ways within the scope of the invention defined by the patent claims. Thus, the ridges 21 and 22 may for instance change places without influence on the locking function.
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