Abstract: An improved cigarette butt receptacle device for receiving cigarette butts, the device having a base retaining a container member, a receiving tube member with a chute segment directing the butts into the receptacle member and a secondary housing member that encloses the chute segment to alter the external visual appearance. In an alternate embodiment, the device has a cap member that joins to the chute segment. In an alternate embodiment the device has a non-linear chute member.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 8, 2004
Date of Patent:
July 20, 2010
Inventors:
Mark D. Shaw, J. Tad Heyman, Laurence M. Bierce