Plant Life Patents (Class D27/119)
  • Patent number: 7757696
    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
  • Patent number: 6156088
    Abstract: A smoke and odor purifying system which can be incorporated within a housing that can serve both as a table centerpiece and an ashtray. The system having an esthetically pleasing flower vase construction with petal shaped appendages for resting of cigarettes or the like. A floral arrangement is made up of individual artificial flowers. Each flower having an opening in the bud for drawing in smoke-filled air and passing it through the system. Also defined within the petals of the housing are a plurality of intake openings through which cigarette smoke, as well as secondary smoke from the surrounding area may be drawn downwardly through the device. An electrically or battery powered fan means, positioned below a filtration and odor-treatment system, drives the smoke through the system which includes an electrostatic prefiltering bed followed by an activated charcoal bed, an H.E.P.A. filter and finally another activated charcoal bed containing an air freshening material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2000
    Inventor: Venanzio Cardarelli
  • Patent number: D480504
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2003
    Assignee: UltraTech International, Inc.
    Inventor: Curtis Taylor
  • Patent number: D588307
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2009
    Inventor: Bruce Lambertz
  • Patent number: D620193
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: Smith News Company, Inc.
    Inventor: William Brent
  • Patent number: D683069
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Inventor: Bruce Lambertz
  • Patent number: D801578
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Inventor: Lisa Keefer
  • Patent number: D876168
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Inventor: Hyun Joo Kim
  • Patent number: D912308
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: NINGBO MOTORMAN E-COMMERCE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Weizhen Chen