Quick extinguishing ash tray

An ash tray of circular shape formed with a circular projecting flange bounding an annular recess, in which sand may be placed, with a central cup section in which a bracket is fitted. The bracket is shaped with radial spokes, each terminating in an open ring of a size to fit a cigarette tip, with the spokes joined to a central open ring of a size to fit about a cigar tip. The spokes serve to hold a pipe of a varying size in place, depending on the placement of the pipe. The bracket is mounted to the inner sides of the cup so as to be raised above the bottom wall of the cup, to permit placement of sand in the cup bottom.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION 
My invention is an ash tray of circular shape formed with a circular 
projecting flange bounding an annular recess, in which sand may be placed, 
with a central cup section in which a bracket is fitted. The bracket is 
shaped with radial spokes, each terminating in an open ring of a size to 
fit a cigarette tip, with the spokes joined to a central open ring of a 
size to fit about a cigar tip. The spokes serve to hole a pipe of a 
varying size in place, depending on the placement of the pipe. The bracket 
is mounted to the inner sides of the cup so as to be raised above the 
bottom wall of the cup, to permit placement of sand in the cup bottom.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT 
Turning now descriptively to the drawings, in which similar reference 
characters denote similar elements throughout the several views, FIGS. 1-3 
illustrate the ash tray 10. An outer circular tray 15 is formed of a 
circular bottom wall 11 bounded by an upraised cylindrical side wall 12, 
joined at its top to a horizontal projecting flange 13. 
An inner circular tray 20 of smaller diameter concentrically freely rests 
on bottom wall 11 of the outer tray and is held in place by an upraised 
circular rim 18 extending upwards from bottom wall 11 about the external 
surface of cylindrical side wall 22 of the inner tray. 
Inner tray 20 is formed of a circular bottom wall 21 joined to side wall 
22, with a horizontal flange 23 projecting outwardly from the top of the 
side wall 22 to extend short of side wall 12 of the outer tray to provide 
an annular opening 26 to the annular recess 27 between side walls 12 and 
22 of the two trays. 
A bracket 30 is fixed to the inner surface 28 of inner tray 20 above the 
bottom tray wall 21. Bracket 30 is formed of a central open ring 31 to 
which short radial spokes 32 and long radial apokes 33 are alternately 
fixed with each spoke 32, 33 terminating in an open ring 34. The rings 34 
joined to the longer spokes 33 are joined to the inner wall 28 of tray 20 
to support bracket 30 freely above bottom wall 21. 
The circular hole 41 enclosed by central ring 31 is of a size to engage 
about the tip of a cigar, and the circular holes 42 enclosed by rings 34 
are of a size to engage about the tip of a cigarette. 
The spokes 32 and 33 are in triangular cross-section, as shown in FIG. 4, 
with the apex 45 pointed upwards so that the tapered side walls 46 of 
adjoining spokes will support the base of a pipe resting on adjacent 
spokes 32 and 33 permit placement of a pipe of a varying base size at a 
location of a range of width between the adjacent spokes. 
Sand 50 or other non-combustible powdered material may be placed inside the 
outer tray on the bottom wall 11 in the annular recess 27 as well as on 
the bottom wall 21 of the inner tray, with the sand serving to extinguish 
ashes falling off a cigar or cigarette 48 resting on flanges 13 or 23. 
Cylindrical radially oriented recess 47 are formed in the flanges 13 and 
23 for retention of a cigarette or cigar. 
Since obvious changes may be made in the specific embodiment of the 
invention described herein, such modifications being within the spirit and 
scope of the invention claimed, it is indicated that all matter contained 
herein is intended as illustrative and not as limiting in scope.