摘要 |
<p>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cigarette butt receptacle and the like capable of easily extinguishing the fire of a cigarette butt or effectively using a volume of a pot of the butt receptacle.SOLUTION: Before accumulated butts 17 in a pot 3 of the cigarette butt receptacle gets higher or when no cigarette butt is burning, a presser plate 5 is locked to a normal position (Figure 4(a)). In the state, a cigarette butt 9 dropped by a smoker passes through the presser plate 5 to drop down and is accumulated on the bottom of the pot 3 of the cigarette butt receptacle. When a user wants to extinguish the fire of the butt in the pot or levels/lowers the height of a heap of the accumulated butts 17, the user pushes a presser bar 6 downward by hand and presses the presser plate 17 onto the heap of the accumulated butts 17 (Figure 4(b)).</p> |