Cigar Weekly

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- Kenneth L. Keller of Jacksonville, Fla., has developed a cigarette butt extinguishing receptacle.

According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "receptacle for extinguishing and storing spent smoking items, namely cigarette or cigar butts, comprising a container and a cap connected to the container for receiving and storing the butts. The cap contains a porous snuffing tube formed within and through the cap and an odor absorbent material contained within the cap. The odor absorbent material absorbs the smoke and odors emitted from the butt when it is being extinguished within the snuffing tube. Once the spent smoking item is extinguished within the tube it is then released into the container."

The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. June 14, 2004 on June 3.

The original application was filed on June 14, 2004, and is available at: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=7,380,553.PN.&OS=PN/7,380,553&RS=PN/7,380,553.

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