Improvements in Devices for Splitting or Outting Olgar Ends.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Oct., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 27th July, 1892-Accepted, 27th Aug., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Devices for Splitting or Outting Olgar Ends.
I, Dr. DANIEL HAVELOCK FISHER of 48 Caldervale Road, Clapham Park,
London, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The present invention has for its object a device for cutting or splitting the ends
of cigars in such a way as to obtain a perfectly free draught and at the same tiine
not to interfere with the cohesion of the cigar end itself.
The device consists essentially of two cylinders, one within the other. In the
upper is a cup; in the lower a blade knife. The cup (which may be of various
sizes and depths) is kept in position by a spring, preferably spiral, within the
cylinders and held in place by two pins either stationary or screwed at will and
which allow of the depth of cut being regulated. These pins are inserted on either
side of the inner cylinder.
In the cup is a slot admitting the insertion of a thin short blade knife from the
lower cylinder when downward pressure is exerted by the hand or otherwise. An
absolutely clean and accurate incision is thereby obtained in the centre of the end
point of cigars, the blade knife remaining stationary.
The cylinders may be made of various metals, but a convenient metal is nickel
plate. Numerous forms, useful and ornamental, may be employed to carry out this
device, such as a bottle, a telescope, an auctioneer's hammer (which may be made
as ornaments for watch chains, etcetera) and a match box, or, with slight modifi-
cations, the arrangement may be fitted to the ordinary cutters used in cigar shops.
Dated this 26th day of October 1891.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, Patent Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Devices for Splitting or Outting Oigar Ends,
I, Dr. DANIEL HAVELOOK FISHER of 48, Caldervale Road, Clapham Park,
London, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
The present invention has for its object a device for cutting or splitting the ends
of cigars in such a way as to obtain a perfectly free draught and at the same time
not to interfere with the cohesion of the cigar end itself.
The invention is best described by aid of the accompanying drawings, in which,
Figure 1 shows a section of a pocket apparatus;
Figure 2 a side view of a cigar and cutting apparatus ;
Figure 8 isometrical view of match box and cutter combined;
Figure 4 sectional view of modification.
In these, A is a cup, cone or cylinder with elongated rounded end; B a spring
bearing against the cup holder; C knife; D holder for the cup; E box containing
matches, or it may be cigars. Cup A is slotted so as to allow knife C to pass
through or into it.
The mode of action is as follows:-
The cigar end is pressed into the cup in Figures 1 and 4, till the cup is brought
down so as to surround the knife, which latter rises up into the cigar, cutting the

page_text: through the cigar end, and in Figure 3 the box lid is closed thus forcing the knife
through the cigar end in cup A. In Figure 1, F F are two set pins regulating the
position of the knife and sliding when. not screwed up tight in slots G G, thus
regulating the depth of the cut.
It is obvious that pins or stops can in a similar manner be made to stop the knife
in any position in other forms of apparatus, as at F, Figure 4.
The cylinders may be made of various metals, but a convenient metal is nickel
plate. Numerous forms, useful and ornamental, may be employed to carry out
this device, such as a bottle, a telescope, an auctioneer's hammer (which may be
made as ornaments for watch chains, etcetera) and a match box, or, with slight
modifications, the arrangement may be fitted to the ordinary cutters used in cigar
shops.
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
I claim is :-
1. The improvements in devices for splitting or cutting cigar ends which consist
in forming the cigar end receiver cup shaped and provided with a slot and forming
the knife so as to enter this slot and cut the cigar end while in position in the cup
substantially as described.
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2. The general arrangement of device for cutting cigar ends substantially as 2
described and ilustrated.
Dated
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Tided and unustrated.
Dated this 20th day of July 188
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of Liverpool, Manchester, Nottingham, and London, Patent Agents.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of Liverpool, Manchester, Nottingham, and London, Patent Agents.