Tobacco – Tobacco users' appliance – Supports
Reexamination Certificate
1999-11-16
2001-05-22
Derrington, James (Department: 1731)
Tobacco
Tobacco users' appliance
Supports
C131S257000, C131S260000, C131S187000, C131S224000, C131S178000, CD27S138000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06234179
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND—FIELD OF INVENTION
This invention relates to a smoking article holder that inserts into one of the spare-tee-holding-holes found in the dash of most golf carts.
BACKGROUND—DESCRIPTION OF PRIOR ART
Smoking golfers often find themselves with a lighted cigar/cigarette and nowhere to place it when they are about to hit the golf ball. The golfer usually will lay the smoking article in the grass or balance it somewhere in the golf cart if he does not want to place it in the ground. Several smoking article holders to be used while playing golf have been devised but they have some drawbacks.
Petrone (U.S. Pat. No. 4,838,285), Photakis (U.S. Pat. No. 5,588,448), and Hasselgren (U.S. Pat. No. D380,862) described similar holders for smoking articles designed to be inserted vertically into the ground. This type of holder presents several disadvantages:
1) Due to their vertical oriented design they are not intended and cannot be inserted in the horizontally aligned said spare-tee-holding-hole since the smoking article will obviously fall.
2) Furthermore, they cannot be successfully modified to be used in the horizontal position by moving the tee-shaped segment 90-degrees since the standard golf tees are not tapered-shaped but consist of a uniform diameter straight segment with one pointed or sharp end and a flange head on the other. This uniform diameter of the tee-shaped segment does not produce enough friction in said spare-tee-holding-holes to eliminate its rotation by torsional forces allowing it to rotate on its axis and the smoking article to fall.
3) They are designed to be inserted in the ground and as such have to be inserted and removed after each and every shot the golfer makes.
4) Since they are inserted in the ground the golfer has to carry in his pocket a dirty object.
Knudsen (U.S. Pat. No. 5,909,735) describes a holder that is designed for the horizontally aligned golf-tee-holding-holes in the dash of most golf carts. He addresses the problem of the rotation of the holder in its axis allowing the smoking article to fall by incorporating a “clamp” to hold the smoking article. Some disadvantages of his holder include:
1) The smoking article has to be of an specific size for it to be held in place by said “clamp”. Since smoking articles come in very different sizes the smoker would have to obtain multiple holders of different sizes and even that will not guarantee that any particular size article will be adequately clamped. Smaller sized articles cannot be clamped and will fall, larger sized articles will be crushed by the clamp and/or unrolled, something that the fine-cigar smoker dislikes.
2) Although his design allows for the holder to be inserted into the horizontally aligned holes which are found in most golf carts. It does not provide for it to be used in the vertically aligned holes still found in some models of golf carts.
3) The smooth pin that is described tends to loosen inside the retaining hole, allowing the holder to rotate on its axis.
SUMMARY INCLUDING OBJECTS AND ADVANTAGES
A smoking article holder specially designed to be inserted into the spare-tee-holding holes found in the molded plastic dashboards of most golf carts. It provides the golfer a holder to place his cigar/cigarette while he/she executes the golf shot. Its design allows for it to be inserted into horizontally as well as vertically placed tee-holding-holes. In its preferred embodiment the segment that inserts into said spare-tee-holding hole is made of moldable plastic so that it deforms when pushed into said hole providing for a secure hold. The smoking article holding segment is designed so as to be able to accommodate smoking articles of very different sizes.
Objects and Advantages
Accordingly, the main object and advantage of my invention is to eliminate the disadvantages described in the previous inventions and to provide the smoking golfer with:
1) An inexpensive smoking article holder with a 90-degree rotating, tapered-shaped-segment that allows it to be inserted firmly and securely into either the vertically or horizontally oriented tee-holding-holes found in the dash of golf carts.
2) Allows him to insert smoking objects of different sizes without having to buy a different holder to fit each different size smoking article.
3) Its innovative vertical holding position of the larger sized smoking articles decreases their torsional effect on the tapered-shaped-segment that inserts into said spare-tee-holding-holes minimizing its tendency to twist on its axis.
4) The moldable plastic design of the tapered segment deforms with pressure further increasing its hold inside the spare-tee holding-hole and decreasing any twisting possibility.
REFERENCES:
patent: D. 379551 (1997-05-01), Hubbard
patent: 4838285 (1989-06-01), Petrone
patent: 5588448 (1996-12-01), Photakis
patent: 5909735 (1999-06-01), Knudsen
Derrington James
Walls Dianne A.
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