US2764984A - Cigarette snuffing attachment for cigarette packages - Google Patents

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United States Patent CIGARETTE SNUFFING ATTACHMENT FOR CIGARETTE PACKAGES Sidney 0. Cohen, Hickman Mills, and Mont E. Goodell, Kansas City, Mo., and Claude J. Hilton, Wichita Falls, Tex., and Herbert E. Somerville and Maurice J. Street, Kansas City, Kans.

Application March 15, 1954, Serial No. 416,228

1 Claim. (Cl. 131-4) This invention relates to snufier arrangements for extinguishing rolls of smoking tobacco such as cigars and cigarettes, and has to do particularly with the provision of a package having a built-in snutfer or self-contained construction for permitting such extinguishment.

It is the most important object of the present invention to provide a package such as those commonly employed to contain cigarettes with a snuifer conveniently mounted therein or attached thereto so that the smoker will always have the snufier handy and ready for use particularly when there is no other means readily available for receiving the smoked cigar or cigarette.

Another important object of the present invention is the provision of a snufler for packages of cigarettes that is contained within the package and which may be opened for use after removal of but a few of the cigarettes and which snuflfer is packed in a collapsed condition at the factory.

Still another object relates to the way in which the snuffer is made inexpensively and easily while providing means to eliminate any fire hazard; and to many additional objects including important details of construction, all of which will be made clear as the following specification progresses.

In the drawing:

Figure 1 is a fragmentary, top plan view on an enlarged scale partially broken away and partially in section of a package of cigarettes showing a cigarette snufling attachment made pursuant to the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a view similar to Fig. 1 showing the snufierexpanded after removal of some of the cigarettes from the package.

Fig. 3 is an edge elevational view of the package of cigarettes illustrating the snutfer in dotted lines.

An initially closed, hollow, substantially rectangularly parallelepipedal package having a plurality of laminated walls consisting of top wall 11, bottom wall 13, side walls and 17, and end walls 19 and 21 is particularly adapted for packaging a plurality of cylindrical cigarettes 12 of a given diameter. Package 10 includes a main paper body portion 14, a cellophane wrapping 16 and a liner within the body portion 14 that includes a layer 18 of paper covered with metal foil 20, interposed between the lining 18 and the body 14.

A snufier 22 is an integral part of the package 10 and particularly of the layers 18 and 20. Snutfer 22 consists of a frusto-conical, hollow body having an inner lamination 24 and an outer lamination 26 integral with parts 20 and 18 respectively of the package 10. Accordingly, since the lamination 24 consists of metal foil, the snnfier 22 is lined entirely with a noninflammable material.

As seen in Fig. 1 of the drawing, the flexibility of the materials from which laminations 24 and 26 are made,

permits packaging of the cigarettes 12 to the full capacity of the package 10 by folding the snuifer 20 along creases 23 and 25 into a flat collapsed condition along the innermost face of one wall of the package 10. It is only necessary, therefore, to remove but a few of the cigarettes 12 in order to expand the snuifer 22 to its frusto-conical shape as shown in Fig. 2, positioned to receive a cigarette to be extinguished.

Conveniently, the snutfer 22 is disposed along one side wall of the package 10 where it is immediately exposed to view and to subsequent use when the package of cigarettes 10 is opened in the usual manner by tearing away a portion of the top thereof. Manifestly, the large uppermost end of the snuifer 22 is open for ready reception of the cigarette, but a bottom wall 28 may be provided closing the lowermost small end of the snulfer 22 if desired. It is not essential however, that the wall 28 be provided if the lowermost end of the snuifer 22 is in close engagement with the bottom wall 13 of the package 10 so that the snuifer 22 collects the ashes and does not permit the same to mix with the remaining cigarettes 12 of the package 10.

Having thus described the invention what is claimed as new and desired to be secured by Letters Patent is:

A disposable package for substantially cylindrical cigarettes of given diameter having a built-in snutfer for extinguishing the latter, said package comprising an initially closed, hollow, substantially rectangularly parallel pipedal, paper body having a bottom, a pair of sides, a pair of ends and a top; and a laminated liner within the body having an inner paper layer and an outer layer of metal foil, said liner being of configuration substantially conforming to the interior of the body, said liner having a bottom wall, a pair of side walls, a pair of end walls and a top wall, the outer layer of the bottom wall, top wall, side walls and one end wall being in respective engagement with the inner surface of the bottom, top, sides and one end of the body, the other end wall of the liner proximate the other end of the body including an elongated, tubular, upright, substantially frusto-co'nical, snuffer portion integral with the remainder thereof, the upper and lower ends of said snuifer portion being respectivelyof larger and smaller diameters than said first-mentioned diameter, said snutfer portion of said other end wall being of looped cross-section and being normally collapsed along a pair of opposed, longitudinal creases therein to normally dispose the snutfer portion in flattened, superposed relationship upon the inner surface of the remainder of said other end wall, the upper end of said snuifer portion being disposed immediately below said top wall, and portions of the top and the top wall being removable to provide access to cigarettes within the package and said snuffer portion of the lining.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,196,320 Weber Aug. 29, 1916 1,722,465 Gray July 30, 1929 2,078,735 Schleber Apr. 27, 1937 2,101,593 Osborn Dec. 7, 1937 2,206,596 Brown July 2, 1940 2,298,146 Mersbach Oct. 6, 1942 2,418,188 Nixon Apr. 1, 1947 FOREIGN PATENTS 463,098 Germany July 21, 1928

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