Permanent ash receptacle

Claim 1

A CIGAR AND CIGARETTE ASH RECEPTACLE COMPRISING IN COMBINATION, A CANTILEVER BRACKET HAVING AN END PORTION PROVIDED WITH ATTACHMENT MEANS TO SECURE SAID BRACKET TO STATIONARY MEMBER AND AN OPPOSITE END PORTION COMPRISING A PAIR OF OPPOSITELY DISPOSED GENERALLY ARCUATE ARMS HAVING SUBSTANTIALLY PARALLEL END PORTIONS AND FORMING A GENERALLY U-SHAPED HORIZONTAL BRACKET PORTION, AN ASH RECEIVING TRAY FORMED WITH A RELATIVELY DEEP CUPSHAPED ASH RECEIVING PORTION PROVIDING A RELATIVELY LOW CENTER OF GRAVITY FOR SAID TRAY ANDAN ANNULAR FLANGE AT THE UPPER END THEREOF, AND MEANS MOUNTING SAID TRAY ON SAID BRACKET COMPRISING AT LEAST ONE PIVOT PIN INTERSECTING THE SUBSTANTIALLY PARALLEL END PORTIONS OF SAID ARMS AND SAID TRAY SUBJACENT SAID ANNULAR FLANGE AND SPACED FROM THE VERTICAL AXIS COMPRISING SAID CENTER OF GRAVITY ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE THEREOF FROM SAID ATTACHMENT MEANS THEREBY REQUIRING THE PORTION OF SAID ANNULAR FLANGE NEAREST SAID ATTACHMENT MEANS TO REST ON SAID BRACKET PORTION TO DISPOSE SAID ASH RECEIVING PORTION UPWARDLY, SAID ASH RECEIVING PORTION BEING OF SUCH SIZE AS TO PASS THROUGH SAID BRACKET PORTION UPON PIVOTING OF SAID TRAY ON SAID BRACKET TO INVERTED POSITION WHEREIN SAID FLANGE ON SAID TRAY ENGAGES THE UNDERSIDE OF SAID BRACKET PORTION TO RETAIN SAID TRAY IN SUCH INVERTED POSITION.