US1540285A - Combination match safe and ash tray - Google Patents

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June 2,1925- Filed May 12. 1924 I BY- IN VEN TOR HENRY GEORGE EDMUND KEY/vows f z wzl ATTOR NE 5 Patented June 2,1925. 2

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

HENRY GEORGE EDMUND REYNOLDS, or sunmnnmnn, nnrrrsn consume, curate. i

COMBINATION MATCH SAFE AND ASK TRAY.

Application filed m 12, 1924. Serial 80.712353.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY GEORGE EDMUND Rni nonns, a subject of the King of Great Britain, and a resident of Summerland, in the Province of British Columbia,

Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combination Match Safes and Ash Trays, of which the following is a specification. My invention relates to improvements in combination match safes and ash trays,'the objects of which are to provide a convenient means for containing matches and cigarette or cig-a-r ashes, which may be attached to a vertical surface such as the Windshield of a motor car, to provide means whereby the matches can be easily placed into or withdrawn from the matchsafe, to provide for an automatic closure for the ash tray and means for its removal for emptying when desired.-

The invention consists essentially of a container having vacuum cups for its attachment to the windshield within which.

a removable ash tray is carried, and a match safe pivotally mounted in the container, as will be more fully described in the followingi specification, in which ig. 1 is a section taken on the line 1--1 of Fig. 3. Fig. 2 is a side view showing the container opened for the removal of the ash tray.

Fig. 3 is a front view. In the drawings like characters of refergnce indicate corresponding parts in each gure.

The numeral 1 indicates generally the container having a pair of side walls 2 and a. bottom wall 3; the side walls are con- 4o nected together at their upper rear corners bya rod 4 upon which arear wall 5 is hinged. The rear wall 5 is provided with a plurality of vacuum cups 6 by which itis secured to the glass of the windshield 7, and at the lower extremity of the rear wall a spring tongue 8 is formed which is adapted to enage a rojection 9' for the purpose of i0 ding t e container in closed positlon.

Thenumeral 10 indicates a cover which is pivotally mounted to the side walls 2 as at 11 and isweighted as at 12- to restore the cover to a closed or horizontal position after use. In the rear half of the container an ash receptacle 13 is placed which may be readily withdrawn for emptying the ashes thum when the container 1 is tilted forwardly and I I upwardly as shown in Fig. 2.

The numeral 14 indicates generally a 4- match safe having a. front wall 15 which is provided with a vertical slot 16 through which the matches carried in'th'e safe are exposed to view, a serrated strip 17 is iminto the container after use; in order that the safe may be prevented from too great a forward movement a pair of pins 20 extending inwards fromthe side walls 2are placed to engage the stops 21 of the match safe side walls 22; the rear wall 23 is carried to a similar height to the front wall so'that the rear ed e of the weight 12 u on the cover 10,

when t e cover is 1n clo position, overhangs the rear wall "to prevent the match safe from forward or opening movement,

Having thus described the several parts of my invention I will now briefly explain the manner in. which it is used.

When it is desired to fill the match safe the forward portion of the cover 10 ,is raised and matches are placed therein; to remove a match the cover is raised and the match safe tilted forward; a match is then ippled between the forefinger and the t e thumb engagin the match through the slot 16 of the ront wall 15. When a match has been withdrawn from the safe, the weighted floor 19 withdraws the match safe 1; into position within the container, the upper end of the rear wall 23 striking the wei ht 12 and tilting the cover 10 which fa ls-back into closed position when the match to its normal position.

To de 13 it su ces to de ress the rear end of the cover 10 with the urning end of the ciga rette or cigar to form an inclined runway when the ash is broke oil and allowed to slide down the runway into the ash recepsafe becomes restored sit ashes into the ash receptacle prising a main container, a match safe pivotally, mounted in the main container from, a pivotally mounted cover for both the match safe and ash receptacle adapted to swing outward from the container when the cover is tilted, and means for returning the match safe into the container after use. 2. A device of the class described comprising a main container, a match safe mounted to swing outward from the main container, an ash receptacle, a stop carried by the container for limiting the outward movement of the match safe, and a common cover for the match safe and ash receptacle.

3. A device of the class described comprising a main c0ntainer, a match safe pivotally mounted in the main container to swing forward, an ash receptacle also contained within the main container, a pivotally mounted cover common to both safe in the inwardly withdrawn position.

4. A device of the class described comprisingv a main receptacle, a match safe pivotally mounted within the main recep-.

tacle to swing forward at its upper end, means for automatically returning the match safe from its inwardly swung position after use, an ash receptacle contained in-the main receptacle, a; common cover for the match safe and ash receptacle, and means for permitting the withdrawal of the ash receptaclerearward from the container and the match safe forward from the container. Dated at Summerland, British Columbia, Canada, this 2nd day of May, 1924.

HENRY GEORGE EDMUND REYNOLDS.

Witnesses MURIEL ESTHER CREEsn, HAROLD HICKMAN CHEESE.

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