Ash-retaining safety cigarette

Claim 1

IN A CIGARETTE HAVING A LIGHTING END AND A MOUTHPIECE END, A TUBULAR CIGARETTE PAPER MEMBER OF CONSTANT DIAMETER AND A CONSTANT DIAMETER FILLER WITHIN SAID MEMBER, THE IMPROVEMENT COMPRISING, (U) AN OPEN-ENDED TROUGH-SHAPED ASH RETAINING MEMBER OF POROUS FIRE RESISTANT MATERIAL, UNIFORMLY SECURED IN FIRM LAMINATED RELATIONSHIP THROUGHOUT ITS ENTIRE LENGTH TO A PORTION OF THE OUTSIDE LOWER HALF CIRCUMFERENCE OF SAID TUBULAR PAPER MEMBER, (2) SAID ASH RETAINING MEMBER INCLUDING A FRONT END CONTIGUOUS TO AND LONGITUDINALLY EVEN WITH SAID LIGHTING END OF SAID TUBULAR MEMBER AND A REAR END ADJACENT TO BUT INWARDLY SPACED FROM SAID MOUTHPIECE END OF SAID TUBULAR MEMBER, (3) SAID ASH RETAINING MEMBER FURTHER INCLUDING ADJACENT ITS REAR END A WIDE INTEGRAL NON-POROUS FIRE RESISTANT SNUFFER BAND CONTIGUOUS TO PORTIONS OF THE REMAINING UPPER HALF OF SAID TUBULAR MEMBER, (4) SAID ASH RETAINING MEMBER FURTHER INCLUDING A REARWARDLY DIVERGING SUPPORT MEANS OF SUBSTANTIALLY PLANAR FORM, SAID SUPPORT MEANS BEING INTEGRAL WITH THE REAR END OF SAID ASH RETAINING MEMBER AND BEING FOLDABLE AWAY FROM THE ADJACENT SURFACES OF SAID TUBULAR MEMBER TO MAINTAIN, WHEN SO FOLDED, SAID MOUTHPIECE END OF SAID CIGARETTE IN SPACED UPRIGHT SUPPORTING RELATIONSHIP WITH RESPECT TO A SUPPORTING SURFACE, (5) WHEREBY WHEN SAID CIGARETTE, IN LIGHTED CONDITION AND IN UPRIGHT RELATION, IS DISCARDED, WITH THE FRONT END AND REAR SUPPORT MEANS OF SAID ASH RETAINING MEMBER BOTH CONTACTING A COMBUSTIBLE SUPPORTING SURFACE, THE FIRE RESISTANT TROUGH WILL COLLECT AND RETAIN THE ASHES FROM THE LIGHTED CIGARETTE AND THE SNUFFER BAND WILL EXTINGUISH THE CIGARETTE, THUS AIDING IN THE PREVENTION OF ACCIDENTAL FIRE TO SAID SUPPORTING SURFACE.