Patent ID: 8459270

Claim:
A device for processing cigarette butts, said butts being of the kind having a filter tip and having a tobacco and paper portion extending from the filter tip, said device comprising (a) A container having top and bottom sections, said top and bottom sections each having a sidewall, said sidewalls extending toward each other, the sidewall of one of said sections being larger in perimeter than the sidewall of the other section and said sidewalls being of shape such that one of said sections is nested within the other, (b) said top and bottom sections being held together in said nested position by a set of hinges, said hinges being arranged to allow at least one of said top and bottom sections to pivot back and forth on the other, (c) the sidewall of one of said top and bottom sections having a pair of openings therein, one of said openings being to accept said tobacco and paper portion, the other being to accept said filter tip, (d) the sidewall of the other of said top and bottom sections having a sharpened edge adjacent said openings, so that when one section is pivoted relative to the other section, said sharpened edge will move past said opening to cut off said filter tip from said tobacco and paper portion, (e) so that the user may then insert the cut-off filter tip through another of said openings to store such cut-off filter tip in said container until the user is ready to discard it.