Ashtray – Wikipedia
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For the article with a homophone title, see Sandrier.
And ashtray is a container intended to receive tobacco ash, and incidentally the cigarette and cigar butts. The most famous models, small, are for domestic use. However, there are large models, called “external ashtrays”, placed on the floor or fixed to the wall (public places, airports, etc.)
There is a great diversity of forms depending on the place and tastes:
- For domestic uses it is generally mobile and decorative.
- In public places where smoking is forbidden, the ashtray is generally fixed and is found before entry.
- For the beach, the beach conical ashtray intended for the recovery of butts is today in the heart of eco-design.
Exterior ashtray [ modifier | Modifier and code ]
An “external ashtray” is a kind of specialized trash can, intended to receive tobacco waste (ashes, butts, etc.).
These very large ashtrays can be found everywhere in public places (street, beach, airports, etc.). They were developed at the end of XX It is century to reduce soil pollution linked to cigarettes. They can be fixed to the wall and are then called external “wall ashtrays”.
In English -speaking countries, these collective ashtrays are called cigarette butt receptacles or cigarette butt disposals .
Pocket ashtrays [ modifier | Modifier and code ]
Companies in the tobacco industry finance the distribution of pockets, to reduce the abandonment of butts.
According to Pascal Diethelm: “By offering portable ashtrays, [the tobacco industry] managed to put responsibility for the end consumer while the entire production chain is a problem: deforestation, massive water need, recourse to pesticides, children’s work in plantations, world transport … ” [ first ] .
Many cigarette brands offer their printed ashtray of their logo.
Cendriers are also advertising supports for all kinds of trademarks and commercial names, in particular restaurants.
The Cendriers collection is called Téphraphilie.
The word Cendrier, in its current current sense of small containers, sets or plates with marked edges, in various more or less luxurious materials, devoted to the ash collection of smokers of tobacco only appeared in the heyday, around 1890 .
The technical meaning of the word ashtray is both more varied and often very old. In former French of XI It is century, the ashtray designated a canvas which is used to collect ashes and extract if necessary by leachate the alkalis they contain. By extension, the worker who collects or sells ashes can be named ashtray . The term attested in the vita of Saint Evroul written around 1150 designates the linen that washerwomen or housewives regularly employ to sink their laundry [ 2 ] .
The Paris size register designated in 1292 by this term an ash and push merchant. The great universal dictionary of the 19th century of Larousse editions has a male entrance ashtray or feminine ashtray , indicating a merchant or a merchant of ash [ 3 ] .
The medieval progress of the mechanical arts probably left in the twelfth century a technical name of the plateaus collecting ashes, even mobile or sliding parts, ovens and heating stoves, where the ashes of a home fall by gravity or shaking. now controlled. This term became very common with generalization from 1780, at least in Western and Nordic Europe, cast iron stoves. The cooks or stoves near which the housewives are busy, are equipped with drawers for this function. The different heating systems of the boilers that equip the steam locomotives are thus provided with fireplace ashtrays, that is an empty space placed below the fireplace with wood or coal and a sheet, where snails and ashes fall.
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