Tobacco – Tobacco users' appliance – With ash receiver
Reexamination Certificate
2000-10-26
2002-07-09
Derrington, James (Department: 1731)
Tobacco
Tobacco users' appliance
With ash receiver
C131S189000, C131S238000, C131S231000, C131S241000, C040S407000, C446S024000, CD27S114000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06415799
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a smoking terminating device and more particularly pertains to a new smoking deterring ashtray device for using as a smoking deterrent to get the user to stop smoking.
2. Description of the Prior Art
The use of a smoking terminating device is known in the prior art. More specifically, a smoking terminating device heretofore devised and utilized are known to consist basically of familiar, expected and obvious structural configurations, notwithstanding the myriad of designs encompassed by the crowded prior art which have been developed for the fulfillment of countless objectives and requirements.
Known prior art includes U.S. Pat. No. 3,757,801; U.S. Pat. No. 4,733,675; U.S. Pat. No. 2,105,904; U.S. Pat. No. 4,926,573; U.S. Pat. No. 4,881,554; and U.S. Pat. No. Des. 160,654.
While these devices fulfill their respective, particular objectives and requirements, the aforementioned patents do not disclose a new smoking deterring ashtray device. The inventive device includes a base member; and also includes a body assembly including a torso-shaped body member being securely disposed upon said base member and having a passageway extending therethrough with the torso-shaped body member further having an upper portion, a lower portion and a front; and further includes an ashtray assembly including a container being securely mounted upon the base member; and also includes a cigarette/cigar support assembly being securely disposed upon the container and being disposed upon the front and at the lower portion of the torso-shaped body member.
In these respects, the smoking deterring ashtray device according to the present invention substantially departs from the conventional concepts and designs of the prior art, and in so doing provides an apparatus primarily developed for the purpose of using as a smoking deterrent to get the user to stop smoking.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In view of the foregoing disadvantages inherent in the known types of smoking terminating device now present in the prior art, the present invention provides a new smoking deterring ashtray device construction wherein the same can be utilized for using as a smoking deterrent to get the user to stop smoking.
The general purpose of the present invention, which will be described subsequently in greater detail, is to provide a new smoking deterring ashtray device which has many of the advantages of the smoking terminating device mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new smoking deterring ashtray device which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art smoking terminating device, either alone or in any combination thereof.
To attain this, the present invention generally comprises a base member; and also includes a body assembly including a torso-shaped body member being securely disposed upon said base member and having a passageway extending therethrough with the torso-shaped body member further having an upper portion, a lower portion and a front; and further includes an ashtray assembly including a container being securely mounted upon the base member; and also includes a cigarette/cigar support assembly being securely disposed upon the container and being disposed upon the front and at the lower portion of the torso-shaped body member.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the invention in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the invention that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
In this respect, before explaining at least one embodiment of the invention in detail, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited in its application to the details of construction and to the arrangements of the components set forth in the following description or illustrated in the drawings. The invention is capable of other embodiments and of being practiced and carried out in various ways. Also, it is to be understood that the phraseology and terminology employed herein are for the purpose of description and should not be regarded as limiting.
As such, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the conception, upon which this disclosure is based, may readily be utilized as a basis for the designing of other structures, methods and systems for carrying out the several purposes of the present invention. It is important, therefore, that the claims be regarded as including such equivalent constructions insofar as they do not depart from the spirit and scope of the present invention.
Further, the purpose of the foregoing abstract is to enable the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the public generally, and especially the scientists, engineers and practitioners in the art who are not familiar with patent or legal terms or phraseology, to determine quickly from a cursory inspection the nature and essence of the technical disclosure of the application. The abstract is neither intended to define the invention of the application, which is measured by the claims, nor is it intended to be limiting as to the scope of the invention in any way.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a new smoking deterring ashtray device which has many of the advantages of the smoking terminating device mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new smoking deterring ashtray device which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art smoking terminating device, either alone or in any combination thereof.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a new smoking deterring ashtray device which may be easily and efficiently manufactured and marketed.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide a new smoking deterring ashtray device which is of a durable and reliable construction.
An even further object of the present invention is to provide a new smoking deterring ashtray device which is susceptible of a low cost of manufacture with regard to both materials and labor, and which accordingly is then susceptible of low prices of sale to the consuming public, thereby making such smoking deterring ashtray device economically available to the buying public.
Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new smoking deterring ashtray device which provides in the apparatuses and methods of the prior art some of the advantages thereof, while simultaneously overcoming some of the disadvantages normally associated therewith.
Still another object of the present invention is to provide a new smoking deterring ashtray device for using as a smoking deterrent to get the user to stop smoking.
Yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new smoking deterring ashtray device which includes a base member; and also includes a body assembly including a torso-shaped body member being securely disposed upon said base member and having a passageway extending therethrough with the torso-shaped body member further having an upper portion, a lower portion and a front; and further includes an ashtray assembly including a container being securely mounted upon the base member; and also includes a cigarette/cigar support assembly being securely disposed upon the container and being disposed upon the front and at the lower portion of the torso-shaped body member.
Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a new smoking deterring ashtray device that would allow the user to see how smoke builds up in the tubular members to effectively deter smokers to quit smoking.
Even still another object of the present invention is to provide a new smoking deterring ashtray device that serves as a convenient and effective way to get smokers to quit their habit of smoking.
These together with other objects of the invention, along with
Derrington James
Walls Dionne A.
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