Patent Application
20110036362
The present invention relates to a safety cigarette holding device, in particular to a cigarette holding device capable of preventing a damage of properties or an occurrence of a fire accident.
Ashtray is a device indispensable to the daily life of a smoker, and its function is to collect cigarette ashes produced by a burning cigarette and holding the cigarette at a fixed position.
In general, a conventional ashtray comes with a well structure, and a groove disposed on a sidewall of the well structure, such that when a smoker smokes a cigarette, the smoker may temporarily put the cigarette held between fingers to some other place for doing other affairs or taking a break. However, a burning cigarette may have a safety issue, and thus it is necessary to put the burning cigarette at a safe place.
The groove of the ashtray is provided for placing a cigarette temporarily, but the groove generally holds the cigarette by a small contact area, so that when there is a wind or after the cigarette has been burned for a while, the center of gravity is changed, and the cigarette may be fallen out or separated from the groove, and a cigarette spark may damage a tabletop or even may cause a fire.
Therefore, it is an important subject for the present invention to disclose a safety cigarette holding device for placing a burning cigarette safely.
In view of the aforementioned shortcomings of the conventional ashtray, the inventor of the present invention based on years of experience in the related industry to conduct extensive researches and experiments, and finally developed a safety cigarette holding device in accordance with the present invention to hold a cigarette safely.
Therefore, it is a primary objective of the present invention to provide a safety cigarette holding device comprising a containing well and at least one carrying platform. The containing well comprises a bottom portion and a surrounding portion formed and extended upwardly from the periphery of the bottom portion. The containing well is in a polygonal or circular shape. The carrying platform is provided for carrying a cigarette, and the carrying platform includes a U-shaped groove thereon, and the U-shaped groove has a plurality of ditches, and the carrying platform disposed at the bottom portion and inside the surrounding portion. If there are several carrying platforms, the carrying platforms are arranged radially.
The safety cigarette holding device of the invention further comprises a cigarette snuffing unit installed at the bottom portion of the containing well, and the cigarette snuffing unit includes a plurality of concave holes disposed at the top of the cigarette snuffing unit.
With the safety cigarette holding device of the present invention, a burning cigarette will not fall onto a tabletop or floor to reduce or eliminate the chance of damaging properties or the occurrence of a fire accident.
Other features and advantages of the present invention will become apparent in the following detailed description of the preferred embodiments with reference to the accompanying drawings.
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If the cigarette is placed at the carrying platform 30, the U-shaped groove 32 is provided for fixing the cigarette without a risk of rolling or shaking the cigarette. When a burning cigarette is placed at the carrying platform 30, the ditches 34 provide a space for passing an air flow, such that the cigarette can continue burning. The carrying platforms 30 are installed at the bottom portion 10 and inside the surrounding portion 20, so that when the burning cigarette is blown away by a strong wind or its center of gravity is shifted after the cigarette has been burned for a while, the burning cigarette or cigarette ashes will fall into the containing well 3 only and will not fall onto a tabletop or any other place, so as to prevent damaging properties or causing a fire.
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With the aforementioned structure, the safety cigarette holding device of the invention can carry a cigarette by the carrying platform and receive cigarette ashes by the containing well. With the integration of the aforementioned carrying platform and containing well, a burning cigarette carried by the carrying platform will fall into the containing well when the burning cigarette is blown by a strong wind or the center of gravity of the cigarette is shifted after it has been burned for a while, so as to prevent damaging properties or causing a fire. Therefore, the invention can achieve the effect of placing a cigarette safely.
While the invention has been described by means of specific embodiments, numerous modifications and variations could be made thereto by those skilled in the art without departing from the scope and spirit of the invention set forth in the claims.
