Cigar Cu
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Dec., 1886.
Complete Left, 9th Sept., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 11th Oct., 1887.
JAMES DOUGLAS CARTER 34 Muschamp Road East Dulwich in the County of
Surrey Stationer do hereby declare the nature of my said invention to be as follows:-
A Pocket Cigar Cutter, that will make a round hole running up the end of the
cigar, about an eighth, or half an inch long, so that it will have the appearance of
being bored like a pipe.
My Invention is a round hollow cutter that revolves as it is boring the cigar.
For making the cutter in the form of a charm, there are two tubes about an inch
long, one to slide easily within the other, the outside tube is closed at one end, and
the inner tube is shaped to receive the end of the cigar at one end, the cutter is
fastened to the outer tube in the centre at the top so that it revolves freely, a double
spiral slot is cut in the top part of the cutter exactly opposite each other, and worked
by the inner case being held in position by a pin running through the double slot,
inside the inner and outer cases there is a spiral spring which presses the inner case
forward.
The cigar is pressed against the inner case, and is cut or bored by means of the case
sliding up and so making the cutter revolve and project, so cutting the cigar.
Inside the cutter is a piece of wire worked by the pin of the inner case, which clears
it of any tobacco dust. A catch may be fitted to hold the inner case up while the
cigar is withdrawn, to prevent the cleaning wire forcing the Tobacco cuttings back
into the bore.
There are several ways to obtain the movement, and they can be made any shape
or placed on the top of pencil cases, etc.
1
1000
JAMES DOUGLAS CARTER.

page_text: JAMES DOUGLAS CARTER 34-Muschamp Road East Dulwich in the County of
Surrey Stationer do hereby declare the nature of my invention for A POCKET CIGAR
CUTTER and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
The object of my invention is to provide a small pocket implement which may if
desired be worn as a charm upon the watch chain and which will serve to bore the
end of a cigar in the direction of its axis by removing a plug of tobacco therefrom
and not by the insertion of a sharp pointed needle which will simply form a hole and
compact the tobacco about the hole without removing any of the material from the
cigar.
My improved device includes the combination with a tube having a flaring mouth
to receive a cigar tip and a tubular cutter concentric therein of a pin or ejector within
the tubular cutter for ejecting the material from the cutter after the plug has been
cut from the cigar.
The tubular cutter is preferably arranged to rotate in the flaring mouth which
receives the segar tip and the device as a whole may consist of inner and outer tubes
connected at their one end and forming an annular space between then the inner
tube having a spiral groove and a tubular cutter projecting therefrom, an intermediate
tube terminating in a flaring mouth and fitting in the annular space between the
inner and outer tubes, an ejector permanently connected with the intermediate tube
by a pin which passes through the spiral slot and which serves to rotate the tubular
cutter as the inner and outer tubes are pressed longitudinally to project the cutter
within the flaring mouth and a spring which serves to return the inner and outer
tubes and the cutter after their sliding longitudinally to produce the operation of the
device. The construction of the example of the invention which is shown in the
accompanying drawings will be more fully understood from the following description
and the invention consists in novel combination of parts which are hereinabove
briefly referred to and hereinafter particularly pointed out in the claims.
In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is an external view of a device upon an
enlarged scale embodying my invention. Figure 2 is a longitudinal section of the
device, the parts being at rest. Figure 3 is a section similar to Figure 2 but showing
the tubular cutter as projected within the flaring mouth for operation upon a cigar
tip, and Figure 4 is a partly longitudinal section of a cigar perforated or bored by.
iny instrument.

page_text: Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures.
S designates a cigar which has in its end a hole or perforation S of suitable size
and formed by removing a corresponding plug of the tobacco from the segar. It will
be seen that a perforation of this kind in the end of the cigar is much more desirable
than a hole formed by a sharp pointed needle or device which compacts the tobacco
around the hole, as when the tobacco is not compacted around the hole the cigar
will draw with greater freedom. It is the purpose of my device to form the hole
or perforation S.
In the present example of my invention the device includes a flaring mouth A to
receive the tip of a cigar, and a tubular knife or cutter B which has a sharp edge.
the two such parts being so connected as to provide for the sliding of the cutter
relatively to the flaring mouth in order that it may be maintained in position
approximately below the mouth A as shown in Figure 2 or projected within the
mouth A as shown in Figure 3.
In the present example of my invention the part or portion of the device which
slides relatively to the mouth A consists of an outer tube C and an inner tube D
which are connected at their ends distant from the mouth as indicated at H and an
intermediate tube E which has the mouth A secured to it and which is received
in the annular space between the inner and outer tubes C. D.
The inner tube D is approximately closed at its outer end and has projecting from
such closed end a tubular cutter B and the tubes C. D. may be slid lengthwise towards
the flaring mouth A by pressure applied to the right hand end of the instrument and
against the force of a spring G interposed between the flaring mouth piece A and the
closed head of the inner tube D. After the spring G is compressed by pressure
exerted upon the tubes C. D. and the cutter B projected within the mouth A as shown
in Figure 3 the tubes C. D. are returned to their normal or first position as shown in
Figure 2 by the action of the spring G after a slight movement of the outer case to
the left.
I have also shown a pin or ejector F which as here shown is fixed to the head f¹
which fits the inner tube D with comparative.snugness and is connected by a pin f
with the intermediate tube E and in this example of my invention the pin fis
received in the spiral slot f³ in the inner tube D. Consequently it will be seen that
when pressure is exerted upon the right hand end of the device as shown in the
drawing the parts being in the position shown in Figure 2 the outer and inner
tubes C. D. will be slid forward on the intermediate tube E and will thereby project
the cutter B. within the mouth A and serve to pierce the end of the cigar. The
ejector or pin F and its head f¹ being however fixed to the intermediate tube E by a
pin remain stationery while the cutter B is advanced beyond the pin or ejector.
When however pressure is removed from the right hand end of the device after a
slight movement to the left and after the parts have been returned to the position
shown in Figure 3 to pierce the cigar the outer and inner tubes C. D. are at once
returned by the action of the spring G to the position shown in Figure 2 and as the
cutter B slides back from the pin or ejector F the plug of tobacco removed from the
cigar is ejected from the cutter B.
I have here represented at the end of the device a ring b whereby it may be
suspended from a watch chain if desired.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what claim is
1 The combination of a tube having a flaring mouth to receive a cigar tip and a
tubular cutter concentric therein and a pin or ejector within the tubular cutter for
ejecting therefrom the material removed by the cut substantially as herein described.
2 The combination of a tube having a flaring mouth to receive a cigar tip and a
tubular cutter concentric therein said parts being movable lengthwise one relatively
to the other and a pin or ejector within the tubular cutter for ejecting therefrom the
material removed by the cut substantially as herein described.

page_text: 3 The combination with a tube having a flaring mouth to receive a cigar tip and a
tubular rotary cutter concentric therein one of said parts being movable lengthwise to
cause the projection of the cutter into the mouth substantially as herein described.
4 The combination with a tube having a flaring mouth piece and a pin or ejector
fixed in the tube, of a second tube having extended from it a tubular cutter surrounding
the pin or ejector sliding within the first named tube and connected therewith by a
pin and spiral groove or slot substantially as herein described.
5 The combination with the inner and outer connected tubes D. C the inner tubes
having a spiral slot or groove, and the projecting cutter B of the intermediate tube E
terminating in a flaring mouth, an ejector F connected with the intermediate tube by
a pin f and a spring & substantially as herein described.
Dated this 9th day of September 1887.