US1938964A - Combination table and ash tray - Google Patents

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Dec. 12, 1933. c. F. HOGUE 1,938,964

COMBINATION TABLE AND ASH TRAY Filed June 17, 1931 INVENTOR C. F. Hogm BY m S ATTORNEY Patented Dec. 12, 1933 UNITED STATES COMBINATION TABLE AND ASH TRAY Carl F. Hogue,

Stockton, Calif.

Application June 17, 1931. Serial No. 544,941

1 Claim.

This invention relates to smokers articles and particularly to ash trays.

The principal object of my invention is to provide an article of this character arranged to be' permanently mounted in connection with a card table in such a manner that the tray will not project above the table level to interfere with the cards or the movements of the players, and so that it cannot be knocked off, as frequently occurs with loose ash trays.

A further object is to provide an ash holding receptacle .in connection with the device so mounted that it may be emptied whenever necessary without tipping up'or otherwise disturbing the table. The ash tray as a whole is also constructed so that it may be either easily attached to card tables already in use, or it may be'put out with the tables as factory equipment.

A further object of the invention is to produce a simple and inexpensive device and yet one which will be exceedingly effective for the purpose for which it is designed.

These objects I accomplish by means of such structure and relative arrangement of parts as will fully appear by a perusal of the following specification and claim.

In the drawing similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several views:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the device as applied to a card table. Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation of the device. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the ash receptacle detached.

Referring now more particularly to characters of reference on the drawing, the device comprises a shallow dished tray 1 having a circular opening 2 of suflicient size to receive cigar and cigarette butts thereto, and provided around its rim with a flat outwardly projecting flange 3. Depending from the flange adjacent its junction with the tray is a cylindrical skirt 4 adapted to project into an opening of suflicint size cut in the table top 5 so that the flange will rest on said top around the opening. Studs or bolts 6 depend from the flange and through the top, hafing nuts on their under ends for securing the same to the table.

supported skirt. I have here shown only one tray mounted on the table but there would preferably be two disposed at diametrically opposed corners, which will take care of the needs of all the players.

With certain card tables, the folding leg construction is such that the ash trays in the corners would interfere with the folding movement. In such tables, I would mount four individual trays, of smaller size and located in a convenient position in front of the different players.

From the foregoing description it will be readily seen that I have produced such a device as substantially fulfills the objects of the invention as set forth herein.

While this specification sets forth in detail the present and preferred construction of the device, still in practice such deviations from such detail may be resorted to as do not form a departure from the spirit of the invention, as defined by the appended claim.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and useful and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

In combination with a thin table top having an opening therein, a shallow dish over the opening, a flange about the dish resting on and secured to the top about the opening, said dish having a relatively small opening in the bottom, a skirt formed with the dish, and projecting through the opening in close engagement with the walls thereof and depending to a point below the under surface of the table top, and an ash receptacle fitting about and removably secured to the depending portion of the skirt.

CARL F. HOGUE.

Engaging the skirt on the outside is a cylindrical ash receptacle '7'having opposed bayonet slots 8 removably engaging and supported by pins 9 projecting outwardly from the skirt. It will therefore be seen that ashes and butts deposited on the tray may be easily discharged into the receptacle below, and when the latter needs to be emptied it is a simple matter to reach under the table and disengage the receptacle from the

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