Abstract: In one embodiment, a container for storing cigarette or cigar ash has a body, a mouthpiece opening with a connection surface, an end section with an igniting and a closure device, a secure and release device, a grip, and a filter. In another embodiment, a container includes an inner tube, a filter, an outer tube, a stopper and a handle, and connecting ends. In yet another embodiment, a disposal receptacle to store ash has a lid and a lower barrel where the lid includes an opening and a plate that covers the opening or exposes it, and all the components are made of non-flammable material including, but not limited to, non-flammable, hard plastic. In another embodiment, a method is disclosed that shows how a person uses the cigarette or cigar container and the disposal receptacle.

Abstract: A cigarette or cigar cover comprises attaching means for attaching to the cigarette/cigar, and covering means of a diameter so devised as to keep a distance between cigarette and cover. The covering means has a length so devised as to fully cover the cigarette to protect it from rain. In the cigarette cover, the attaching means is a generally cylindrical part of an inner diameter so devised as to hold the cigarette therein. The cover may also be useful to protect from humidity, dust and other interference.

Abstract: A combined cigarette cutter and container includes a cigarette cutter illustratively engaged to an upper inside surface of a lid of a container which holds preferably a single cigarette (or cigar). The user may partially smoke it, cut off the used portion using the cutter, insert the unused portion in the container, and close the lid. This provides a convenient carrying mechanism to permit later consumption of the cigarette or cigar. In other embodiments, the case has curved major surfaces with a fixedly-fastened cutter adjacent to one of the end walls. The cutter can be omitted to provide a case.

Abstract: What I believe is a totally new way to help the people addicted to smoking cigarettes to quit the habit by spacing the time between smokes and preventing the unconscious reach for one by means of a case or container for the cigarettes with a timing mechanism that will not open the container until a pre-determined time is reached. That timing mechanism can be reset from a few minutes to several hours therefore gradually reducing the absorption of nicotine until the craving for it is negligible and quitting the habit is easy.

Abstract: A box (1) for a pack of cigarettes has the shape of a hollow body dimensioned to receive a pack of cigarettes, the hollow body being delimited by at least four surfaces (2, 3, 4, 5) forming the walls of the body and a surface (6) forming a bottom constituted by a prolongation of one wall of the body and connected to that one wall by a bend line (7). The surface (6) forming the bottom of the body is prolonged by a flap (8) connected to the surface forming the bottom by a bend line (9) permitting positioning substantially at a right angle the flap relative to the surface (6) forming the bottom. The flap (8) has the form of a flexible dihedral with at least two legs (8A, 8B) of variable geometry, at least one (8B) of the legs (8A, 8B) of the dihedral being inserted within the body between a wall (17A) of the pack of cigarettes (17) and a wall (5) of the box so as to maintain the surface (6) forming the bottom of the body in closed position of the body.

Abstract: An article for assisting persons to quit smoking and a method for doing same comprising a cigarette case; an insert located within said cigarette case and dividing its interior into a plurality of spaces, each sized to hold a single cigarette; and a plurality of closure devices, each of which can be used to seal one such space as the smoker gradually tapers daily cigarette consumption downward. A preferred embodiment includes a clear plastic shell covering the outside of said cigarette case, behind which shell such inspirational and motivational materials as photographs, other images, and/or handwritten or printed matter may be positioned in such a way as to be visible to the user each time the cigarette case is accessed.

Abstract: The present invention pertains to improved closure arrangements which are durable in construction, yet easy to open and reclose, and which provide an initial hermetic seal with tamper evidency, all utilizing a one-piece lid design. In two embodiments according to the present invention, unique combinations of a mechanical interlocking closure system, heat-sealing or bonding, and a weakened failure zone are employed in the vicinity of the lid/container juncture to achieve these desirable characteristics. In a third embodiment of the present invention, a mechanical interlocking and sealing arrangement is utilized to achieve hermetic sealing of the container without the need for a heat seal or bonded region, and a weakened failure zone is located just inward of the mechanical interlocking connection.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a cigarette package includes a block section formed with a plurality of spaced apart, parallel bores open to the top of the block section. Each of the bores receives an individual cigarette which cigarette protrudes from the top of the block section. A cover is removably positioned at the top of the block section to enclose the protruding ends of the cigarettes.In another embodiment, a cigarette package includes a box section having an open top end and a cover hinged to a wall of the box section for movement between a closed position covering the open box top and an open position away from the box top. A block section of material fits within the box section such that the top end of the block section is at the open top end of the box section.

Abstract: A cut-open device in the form of a strip of material having sufficient strength and stiffness to tear the sealed portion of the inner paper wrapper of a cigarette package enables the inner wrapper to be opened along a zone coextensive with an end portion of the strip defined by a row of perforations spaced apart from the end portion of the strip.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing cigarette packages from a foil wrapping which surrounds the block of cigarettes on all sides and from a printed paper wrapper, which is closed at one end by means of a bottom fold. In order to be able to work the foil covering and the wrapper on a single folding device, at least one tab is produced on the foil blank by two incisions in the region of the subsequent bottom fold and the tab is bent over approximately at right angles. Thereupon, the foil blank and the wrapper blank are brought together and connected together in such a manner that the edges of the two blanks approximately coincide on three sides while on the fourth side the foil blank protrudes beyond the wrapper blank. The interconnected blanks are folded on a folding mandrel around the long and wide sides thereof and are glued together, overlapping, on at least one long or wide side before finally the bottom fold is produced by folding the flaps onto the tab which lies against the bottom of the folding mandrel.

Abstract: A device for retaining a lighted cigar, cigarette or the like which allows one to carry a lighted cigar or cigarette on his person, the device including a tubular shaped receptacle for receiving the lighted end of a cigar and a resilient retaining and heat dissipating means disposed within the receptacle body. The receptacle with the cigar received therein includes a venting means for dissipating heat and allowing continuous burning of the cigar. The device also includes a separate sanitary cap which covers the mouth-held end of the cigar whenever the cigar is being carried in a pocket or the like.