Automobile cigarette case with an automatic electrical lighter

Claim 1

A cigarette case and automatic lighter for delivering a lighted cigarette to an operator comprising a container for housing all the operating components; a movable enclosure inside the container comprising two walls for accommodating the cigarettes according to their lengths and forming a channel at the bottom thereof; a rockable plate normally closing the bottom opening of said channel and resiliently urged to remain in that position; a trough positioned in front of said plate for receiving a single cigarette when the plate is manually moved away from the channel opening; a stop secured to a portion of the container and extending to one end of said trough for rotating the cigarette about a substantially vertical axis when the trough and the rockable plate are normalized; an electric heater coil mounted adjacent to said rockable plate for lighting the end of the cigarette that remains in a vertical axis within the container; an electric switch connected in series between the electric heater coil and a source of electric power for supplying current to the heater coil; a signal lamp connected in parallel with the connection to the heater coil; a resiliently operated rod coupled to the plate formed with an oval portion for contact with the cigarette when in its rotated position; said rod for turning the switch on to light the cigarette is manually removed from the container; a wet sponge in between the rear wall of the container and the enclosure; a pair of bars along which said enclosure moves; and a stop with a spring which returns said rockable plate carrying a cigarette from the cigarette case.