Patent ID: 7770295
Filing Date: 2010-08-10
Classification: A24F

Abstract:
1. A cigar cutter comprising: a housing defining a passage for a head of a cigar to be cut; a pair of opposed cutting blades within said housing, each cutting blade having a cutting edge movable toward the cutting edge of the other cutting blade in a toward motion having an inward terminus wherein said edges are not exposed, and movable away from the cutting edge of the other blade in an away motion, wherein said cutting edges cooperate during said toward motion to cut the cigar; a biasing element engaging each of said blades and causing said away motion; a latch for automatically engaging both of said blades approximate the inward terminus of said toward motion; wherein each of said cutting blades comprises a slot; said slots of said blades become aligned as said blades approach said inward terminus of said toward motion; said latch comprises a pawl biased into said aligned slots; said pawl engages said aligned slots to retain said blades at said inward terminus; said cutting blades each comprise a bridge having a guide for receiving and guiding the other of said cutting blades during said toward motion; and wherein said biasing element comprises a pair of compression springs each disposed on an opposite side of said passage and each extending between said cutting blades.