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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7195147 | Portable promotional ashtray A portable promotional ashtray and methods of manufacturing the same. The portable promotional ashtray may have a rectangular outer housing with an upper lip attached to the front portion and having a promotional display a rectangular drawer having a rear portion th... | 03/27/2007 |
| 6926332 | Articulating storage compartment Disclosed is a low cost articulating map pocket or storage compartment that requires few manufacturing steps. The articulating map pocket provides for a closed locking detent feature and in one preferred embodiment a full open locking detent feature also. ... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6349728 | Portable cigarette smoking apparatus A puff-on-demand cigarette smoking apparatus for decreasing unnecessary tobacco burning as well as decreasing the generation of side stream smoke. The portable cigarette smoking apparatus can be used to smoke traditional cigarettes and includes a reusable... | 02/26/2002 |
| 6019594 | Child safe retraction mechanism for a smoking material lighter A retaining apparatus includes a smoking material ignition device having a flame producing end; a holder for engagingly receiving the ignition device so that the flame producing end is exposed; a housing for releasibly receiving the holder; a spring-biase... | 02/01/2000 |
| 6014974 | Multi-purpose accessory for smokers A multi-purpose accessory is a substantially parallelepiped rigid casing (1) able to house a packet (3) of cigarettes and a cigarette lighter (4). The casing has a major surface with a shaped depression (6) for resting the cigarette. An end portion of the... | 01/18/2000 |
| 5472001 | Smokeless cigarette filter device A smokeless cigarette filter device has a barrel fabricated out of molded, heat resistant durable material. A structure on a first end of the barrel is for covering the mouth and nose of a smoker. An element is provided for holding a cigarette within the ... | 12/05/1995 |
| 5199449 | Tiltable ashtray or storage bin for motor vehicles, or the like A tiltable ashtray, e.g. for motor vehicles, includes an ash receptacle, a support housing for a lighter and a lighter which are removably disposed in a receiving housing that is tiltably pivotally supported in an external frame receivable in a recess. Th... | 04/06/1993 |
| 4934384 | Tobacco pipe combustion accessory A tobacco pipe combustion maintenance accessory for maintaining continuous burning of tobacco in the bowl of a pipe once the tobacco is initially ignited. The device includes a generally flat body having a curvilinear concave reflective surface on one sid... | 06/19/1990 |
| 4830026 | Ash tray apparatus with cigarette lighter for automotive vehicle In an ash tray apparatus provided with a cigarette lighter, the ash tray is pivoted open downward and the lighter is slided open frontward side by side, thus providing an easy access of the user to the cigarette lighter when the ash tray is completely ope... | 05/16/1989 |
| 4517994 | Flat cigarette lighter A gas-fueled cigarette lighter having front and rear walls defined by plates which are joined together by a plurality of ribs to resist pressure produced by the gas, wherein the lighter has a flat ultra-thin format which lends itself to insertion between ... | 05/21/1985 |
| 4478230 | Lighter forming an extinguishing ash-tray The lighter comprises a chamber for receiving ashes of cigarettes or cigars, said chamber having at least one wall formed by a portion of the body of the lighter and comprising an opening bored in a wall of said body and normally closed by a flap beneath ... | 10/23/1984 |
| 4350171 | Arrangement for holding cigarettes An arrangement for holding cigarettes has a lower part with an inner hollow and an open end, and an upper part provided with a holding member for holding a plurality of cigarettes. The upper part is movable relative to the lower part between a closed posi... | 09/21/1982 |
| 4279591 | Adjustment gasification device for gas lighters Gasification device for a gas lighter: A container has an adjustment body installed to it and has a burner above the adjustment body. A porous mass is located in the container. An integral bottom closes the container. Grooves through the bottom permit liq... | 07/21/1981 |
| 4207906 | Method of making a cigarette A method of making a cigarette having a core of one grade of tobacco and at least one substantially circumferential wrapping of a second grade of tobacco which comprises applying to a moving base or conveyor a first stream of the core tobacco and a pair o... | 06/17/1980 |
| 4094326 | Fire proof cigarette box An ashtray and cigarette box including an adjustable timer cooperating with a snuffing out cover and an audible alarm which alerts the user if the cover has not been closed after a preselected interval of time.... | 06/13/1978 |
