Holder For Diverse Smoking Items Or Materials (e.g., Matchbox Attached To Ash Tray, Etc.) Patents (Class 224/278)
  • Patent number: 10843740
    Abstract: A vehicle floor structure is provided including: a vehicle interior opening formation section provided inside a vehicle cabin, and demarcating a vehicle interior opening that opens into the vehicle cabin; a vehicle exterior opening formation section provided further toward a vehicle lower side than a floor inside the vehicle cabin, and demarcating a vehicle exterior opening that opens toward a vehicle exterior; a storage section provided at the vehicle lower side of the floor, and demarcating a storage space that connects the vehicle interior opening and the vehicle exterior opening together; and a pull-out receptacle disposed inside the storage section at a position corresponding to the vehicle interior opening, and capable of moving from inside the storage section to the vehicle exterior through the vehicle exterior opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Atsushi Mizutani, Yuma Saiki, Momoko Azuma, Yusaku Morita, Kanako Naruse
  • Patent number: 10458594
    Abstract: An adjustable hanger assembly is provided that includes a slider base and a slider that can be adjusted vertically within the slider base and held in a vertical position by an engagement with the slider base. A spring provided in the slider base enables the slider to be maintained in a normally engaged, locked position. By pushing the slider in, toward to the slider base, for example, with a finger or thumb, the slider can be disengaged from the slider base and moved up or down. The assembly can also include a mounting bracket for fixedly securing the assembly to a wall. The mounting bracket can engage the slider base and can be configured to enable the slider base to be adjusted horizontally with respect to the mounting bracket. The hanger assembly can be adjusted both vertically and horizontally after being fixedly secured to a wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Inventor: Kenneth William Burton
  • Patent number: 10393479
    Abstract: A mounting system for a concealed carry holster for securing the holster to a storage location. The mounting system uses a belt clip of the holster to attach the holster to a bracket. The bracket has a spring action restraint that cooperates with the belt clip to retain the holster in the mounting system. The restraint is accessible from a front of the holster to allow easy removal from the bracket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Inventor: Richard N. Bradford
  • Patent number: 10017193
    Abstract: The comfort device (10) includes a table (12) including a plate (22) and attachment unit (14, 16) including: a lateral fixed support (46), attached to a vertical wall (20), including a first connecting portion by sliding, an attachment member (52) secured to the plate (22), including a second connecting portion by sliding, mating the first, and unit retractable unit for blocking the attachment member on the lateral fixed support, active at the end of a predefined travel of the first connecting portion on the second connecting portion. These blocking units are movable between a blocking position in which the first and second connecting portions are secured to each other, and a release position in which the first and second connecting portions are free to move relatively to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: ALSTOM TRANSPORT TECHNOLOGIES
    Inventors: Christophe Pailler, Francis Langlois
  • Patent number: 9527453
    Abstract: A trim assembly is provided for a motor vehicle. The trim assembly includes a trim panel, a storage compartment in the trim panel and a trap door. The trap door divides the storage compartment into a first chamber and a second chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Kathleen M. Parlow, Nicholas Alphonse Billardello, Kevin Preuss, Scott Holmes Dunham
  • Patent number: 8851349
    Abstract: A frictional pad has a pair of inclined slots in a pair of sidewalls to hold a handheld electronic device at an incline with respect to the pad. The pad can also have a squat dome.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: American Covers, Inc.
    Inventors: Alan J. Wheatley, Bryce Craig
  • Patent number: 8490846
    Abstract: A frictional pad has a pair of inclined slots in a pair of sidewalls to hold a handheld electronic device at an incline with respect to the pad. The pad can also have a squat dome.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: American Covers, Inc.
    Inventors: Alan J. Wheatley, Bryce Craig
  • Patent number: 8322584
    Abstract: The support for cooling a container is a portable holder for a container of chewing tobacco that can be releasably attached to a vehicle air conditioner vent. The support includes a substantially circular front wall having at least one front rib formed on an inner face thereof. A semi-cylindrical sidewall extends peripherally from the inner face of the front wall, and at least one side rib is formed on an inner face thereof. A rear strap or wall extends across the sidewall, forming a pocket for holding the container. The rear wall is adapted for releasable attachment to the vent. In use, the at least one front rib and the at least one side rib space the container apart from the respective inner faces of the front wall and the sidewall to permit cool air to circulate around the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Inventor: Jonathan M. Dethmers
  • Patent number: 5680974
    Abstract: A cupholder assembly includes a housing adapted for mounting in a vehicle, and a cupholder unit comprising a cupholder base for supporting the bottoms of a pair of cups, and a pair of cupholder arms pivotally connected with respect to the base and moveable between an extended position for laterally supporting the cups and a stored position. The cupholder unit is pivotally mounted to the housing for movement between a stored position inside the housing, wherein the arms are retracted, and a use position extended at least partially outside the housing, wherein the arms are extended. The cupholder unit is adapted to receive a cover for covering the cupholder unit when in the stored position. The assembly further comprises an ashtray unit with an ashtray cover pivotally coupled to the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 28, 1997
    Assignee: Atlantic Automotive Components, Inc.
    Inventor: Daniel R. Vander Sluis
  • Patent number: 5462212
    Abstract: A cigarette lighter keeper comprising a one-piece base plate formed of a rigid material in a rectangular configuration having short parallel side edges with a vertical center line therebetween and long parallel upper and lower edges with a horizontal center line therebetween, the one-piece base plate having a front face and a rear face parallel with respect to each other; and forwardly extending brackets integrally formed with the front face of the base plate, each of the brackets extending outboardly from the base plate essentially perpendicular to the front face at the inboard extents then arcuately curved away from the horizontal center line and then formed with an opposite curve at the outboard extents thereof, the intermediate extents of the brackets together constituting the greater portion of a circular cross-section for receiving and supporting a cigarette lighter therein, the bracket being fabricated of a resilient material to allow the positioning and removal of a cigarette lighter within the interm
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 31, 1995
    Inventor: Robert N. Hertel, Jr.
  • Patent number: 5199449
    Abstract: A tiltable ashtray, e.g. for motor vehicles, includes an ash receptacle, a support housing for a lighter and a lighter which are removably disposed in a receiving housing that is tiltably pivotally supported in an external frame receivable in a recess. The ash receptacle, receiving housing and lighter can be removed from the receiving housing and replaced with a storage bin. Detachable clip connectors hold those elements in the receiving housing enabling the bin to replace the other elements, and vice-versa. A contact assembly on a circuit board in the receiving housing is connectable to an electrical system. It includes an electrical contact for the cigarette lighter and an additional contact connection to an electric light in the receiving housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 1991
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1993
    Assignee: Gebr. Happich GmbH
    Inventors: Volker Dabringhaus, Gunter Dietz, Udo Gutlein, Hans-Joachim Haase
  • Patent number: 4865237
    Abstract: A carrier for adjustably encircling and simultaneously positioning, a beverage container or article on a vehicle door, includes an insert portion and a support portion, both preferably resilient, and a receptacle. The insert portion, functioning in conjunction with the support portion, provides for removable, adjustable, and preferably clampable carrier mountability on vehicle doors of different interior thicknesses. The support portion is preferably equipped with horizontally and longitudinally aligned slots and the receptacle is equipped with a pair of resilient, container-encircling arms and a base member, all having hooked tab ends for cooperative releasable, adjustable spring-urged interconnection with the slots. Selection of particular slots for interconnection allows the carrier to accommodate beverage containers or articles of different diameters in close confinement and upright position. In a varient embodiment, a coin-tray-article container is substituted for a beverage container receptacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 12, 1989
    Inventor: Louis Allen
  • Patent number: 4537439
    Abstract: An ash tray of the drawer type is movably installed in an instrument panel of an automotive vehicle. The ash tray in its right position functions to receive ash of a cigarette in its ash receiving cavity formed on its right side, and can take its reverse position upon being turned upside down so as to disable it from receiving cigarette ash while enabling to store articles at an article storing section formed on its reverse side, so that the ash tray becomes useful even for a nonsmoker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 1984
    Date of Patent: August 27, 1985
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Syuichi Otani
  • Patent number: 4392683
    Abstract: A retractable ashtray, particularly for motor vehicles, comprises a release mechanism made integral in a plastic material.This mechanism comprises essentially a base plate and a body hinged to said plate and having two opposite walls one of which bears a hook and the other a pin, on which an idle pawl is mounted. The latter cooperates, during movements of the ashtray from the in-use position to the out-of-use position and vice versa, with the ribs born by the base plate, movements of the hinged body with respect to the base plate being opposed by a spring which tends to space apart from each other the two elements, the maximum spacing between them being determined by the engagement of a hook born by the base plate with a hook born by a wall of the body hinged to said base plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 1981
    Date of Patent: July 12, 1983
    Assignee: ITW Fastex Italia S.p.A.
    Inventor: Alberto Bassi