AN IMPROVED CIGAR-CLIPPER
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Friedrich Hermann Felix Engel, Civil Engineer and
.
Patent Agent, in the City of Hamburg, Germany, for an Invention of
"AN IMPROVED CIGAR-CLIPPER." A communication from Johann Wilhelm
Wohlers, trading under the Firm of W. Campbell & Co., Nachfl, of Hamburg,
in the German Empire.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Friedrich Hermann Felix
Engel at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 13th November
1880.
"
FRIEDRICH HERMANN FELIX ENGEL, Civil Engineer and Patent Agent, in
the City of Hamburg, Germany. AN IMPROVED CIGAR-CLIPPER." A com-
munication from Johann Wilhelm Wohlers, trading under the Firm of W. Campbell
& Co., Nachfl, of Hamburg, in the German Empire.
This clipper produces a wedge-like cut from out of the cigar, and has for its
purpose to give a larger sectional surface than those clippers which cut the end
plain off from the cigar, as is the case with those machines now generally in use.
Another advantage gained by this improved clipper is that the smoker can only
partly or not at all touch the sectional surface with the tongue, and will
consequently not be molested by the disagreable taste of the tobacco.
The apparatus consists of a hilt or stem furnished at one end with a metal
hopper of about the shape of a cigar and for receiving the end of the cigar. The
lower end of the hopper has a rectangular or other angular shaped opening in its
wall at opposite sides, at which sides the hopper is somewhat enlarged in width.
The knife is of angular shape and corresponds in form with the sectional opening
through the wall of the hopper. This knife is hinged to the lower end of the hilt,
and is by the action of a spring kept away from the opening formed in the hopper.
For clipping a cigar the end of same is placed in the hopper and the angular knife
pressed through the opening of the hopper, and on its way it must cut out from
the cigar an angular shaped part as desired. The knife is by a stop or catch
prevented from entering the hopper further than required for cutting the cigar and
returns in its original position by the action of the spring before mentioned.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Friedrich Hermann Felix Engel in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 13th May 1881.
FRIEDRICH HERMANN FELIX ENGEL, Civil Engineer and Patent Agent, in the
City of Hamburg, Germany. "AN IMPROVED CIGAR CLIPPER." A communica-
tion from Johann Wilhelm Woblers, trading under the Firm of W. Campbell & Co.,
Nachfl, of Hamburg, in tho German Empire.
The object of this Invention is to construct a cigar cutter for cutting a V shaped
piece off the end of a cigar so as to produce a groove and thereby increase the
surface for the smoke to pass through on its way into the mouth of the smoker.
To this end the Invention consists in constructing a cutter that has a funnel
shaped opening for the insertion of the end of a cigar, and a V shaped knife for
detaching the end of the cigar from the body and producing the groove in said
end, all as hereinafter more fully described.
In the accompanying Sheet of Drawings, Fig. 1 is a side view of this improved
cigar clipper or cutter, and Figs. 2 and 3 are vertical sections thereof. Fig. 4 is a
ground plan and Fig. 5 a horizontal section just above the stop pin d. Fig. 6 is a
face view of a cigar after the point has been cut off by said clipper or cutter.
A, represents the shell of the cutter, which shell may be made similar to the
handle of a pocket knife, but at one end it carries a funnel like guide a for
receiving the point of the cigar. This funnel is very clearly shown in Fig. 3.
To the other end of the shell A is pivoted a lever B which carries a V shaped
knife Cas clearly shown in the Drawing. A suitable spring m is employed to
throw the lever B up in the direction out of the funnel, but it is arrested and
prevented from protruding by the end of the knife catching or "edging" the top
rim of funnel a as will be understood from reference to Fig. 2.
The end of the cigar is inserted into the funnel a when the knife is out as in
Figs. 1 and 2, and then the knife is forced in to detach the point of the cigar from
the body thereof, and at the same time cut a V shaped groove into the body of
the cigar, as is illustrated by Fig. 6.
If the knife is pressed down it is arrested in this closed position by a spring
catch placed inside of the shell. The point of the catch enters a boring or
opening 8 of the handle B. For opening the knife again a pressure is exerted on
pin d fastened with one end to spring catch r and projecting with the other
end from the opposite side of the sholl.
Having now described the nature and particulars of the said Invention in such
wise that the same may be readily carried into practical effect, I claim,-
A cigar clipper or cutter constructed of the handle A, lever B, and V shaped
knife C, said bandle being provided with a guide a and stop pin d, substantially as
herein described in reference to and shown by and in the accompanying Sheet of
Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Friedrich Hermann Felix Engel, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Ninth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty one.
F. H. F. ENGEL (L.S.)