Portable Cigarette Holder, Extinguisher and Ashtray

Abstract

A novel, portable cigarette holder, extinguisher ashtray, which is capable of fitting into the pocket, purse or handbag of a smoker. The holder-ashtray has been designed with a special throat consisting of three precision placed throttles that firmly holds the inserted cigarette by compressing the sides of the lighted cigarette, causing the lighted cigarette to be extinguished and held without damage for relighting. The holder-ashtray has restricted internal throat throttles which press the sides of a lighted cigarette butt inserted into the holder-ashtray and smothers the cigarette. The entrance to the holder-ashtray is flared to enhance entry of the lighted end of the cigarette into the holder-ashtray. The interior of the holder-ashtray is gradually flared away from the throat to encourage the cigarette butt to drop into the interior of the holder-ashtray once the cigarette has been inserted past the throttles in the throat. When inverted, the holder-ashtray retains the cigarette butt against the bottom of the throttles which acts as a stopper and prevents ashes from falling out. The holder ashtray is designed to hold standard manufactured cigarettes as well as an adaptor that will allow the holder ashtray to accommodate various diameter size slim cigarettes.

I claim: 
     
         1 . A portable cigarette extinguisher-holder-ashtray suitable for being carried in the pocket of a cigarette smoker and capable of receiving the lighted end of a cigarette butt comprising:
 a) a generally enclosed chamber with an opening therein for receiving and holding a cigarette butt, the width of the chamber being slightly larger in size than the diameter of a conventional cigarette, and the width of the chamber gradually increasing in the direction away from the opening; and   b) a designed restriction throat, between the chamber and the opening which presses against the sides of the lighted cigarette butt as it is admitted into the chamber that is adapted to smother the lighted end of the cigarette butt by preventing combustion sustaining oxygen from reaching the lighted end of the cigarette.   
     
     
         2 . An ashtray as defined in  claim 1  wherein the chamber is cylindrical and elongated in shape and the restriction throat consisting of three oval shaped areas protruding into the chamber. 
     
     
         3 . An ashtray as defined in  claim 1  wherein the opening into the chamber is flared in a direction away from the restriction. 
     
     
         4 . An ashtray as defined in  claim 2  wherein a removal cap is located at the end of the chamber opposite the opening. 
     
     
         5 . An ashtray as defined in  claim 3  wherein the opening is convex in shape. 
     
     
         6 . An ashtray as defined in  claim 1  where the throat  5  will receive an array of adaptors  FIG. 4  to accommodate various smaller diameter manufactured slim cigarettes.