Ernesto Torres

US Patent:

6695136, Feb 24, 2004

Filed:

Jan 10, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/339851

Inventors:

Ernesto Torres - Los Angeles CA 90061

International Classification:

B65D 8510

US Classification:

206 88, 206 89, 206246, 206249, 219267, 219269, 224544

Abstract:

An automobile cigarette case with electrical lighter for dispensing lit cigarettes to the driver of an automobile, having a substantially rectangular case housing which is selectively mountable on the dashboard of an automobile. The case housing contains an electric lighter having an electrical cord which terminates in a lighter adaptor which may be plugged into a standard cigarette lighter outlet for powering of the electric lighter. The case with electrical lighter has a cigarette passageway which holds a plurality of cigarettes and directs and biases the cigarettes toward the electric lighter whereupon they are ignited. After the cigarette has been ignited, a coiled lighter spring is allowed to expand, and thereby raises the unlit end of the cigarette so that it partially protrudes from an opening on top of the case housing, where it may be easily grasped by a user.