Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Sept., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 14th June, 1899-Accepted, 29th July, 1899
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I, JOHN GEORGE GLOVER, of Elberton, Finchley Road, County of Middlesex,
Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for object, combining a cigar tipper cutter, or piercer with
a cigar case.
For the purpose of this invention, I remove a portion of each half of the band
of a folding cigar case and insert or affix thereto a socket and a V or other cutting
blade or piercer respectively, one being made to fit within or on the other for
severing or venting the end of a cigar in the act of closing the case.
If the appliance be for severance, the socket may be plugged or shut off at
the inner end to ensure the cut off tip dropping out when the case is tilted, and if
the blade be of V shape it could conform to the entrance hole for closing
it to prevent the entrance of dust.
If a piercer be provided, a re-opening of the case would release the piercing
points from the cigar.
1000
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said John George Glover.
I, JOIN GEORGE GLOVER, of Elberton, Finchley Road, County of Middlesex,
Gentleman, 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:-
This invention has for object, combining a cigar tipper, cutter, or piercer with
a cigar case.
For the purpose of this invention, I remove a portion of each half of the band
of a folding cigar case and insert or affix thereto a socket and a V or other cutting
blade or piercer respectively, one being made to fit within or on the other for
severing or venting the end of a cigar in the act of closing the case.
If the appliance be for severance, the socket may be plugged or shut off at
the inner end to ensure the cut off tip dropping out when the case is tilted, and if
the blade be of V shape it could conform to the entrance hole for closing
it to prevent the entrance of dust.

page_text: If a piercer be provided, a re-opening of the case would release the piercing
points from the cigar.
My invention will be clearly understood by reference to the annexed drawings.
Figure 1 elevation of cigar case open and showing a V cutter in a recess in
one half of the holder frame and a hollowed projection in the other half frame
with a recess for the V cutter to enter.
Figure 2 top or plan of same, the base of the cone opening being shut off by a
bottom strip to prevent the V shaped piece or tip cut out of the cigar falling into
the case.
Figure 3 part elevation of a cross cutting blade a little distance up in one half
cone recess of the frame, which blade forms the bottom of the cone of the other
half of the frame when the two half frames are closed up, the severed tip of the
cigar falling into the body of the case for being shaken out when re-opened.
Figure 4 outside plan view of an opened cigar case with a cross cut blade in a
recess of one half frame only, against which blade the cigar can be placed by one
hand as the case is closed by the other, the face of the opposite half frame being
plain.
Figure 5 represents portions of two half cases, in a recess of one of which a
couple of piercing pins are fitted for piercing the end of a cigar for venting it
to prepare it for free smoking, the other half frame having a hollow cone shaped
projection which is slotted for the piercing pins to enter when the cigar case is
closed, it being necessary in this instance to re-open the case before the pierced
cigar can be removed from the hollow cone shaped projection.
Figure 6 plan of the two half cases shown at Figure 5.
In all the figures, I have represented a folding or hinged cigar case, the cutter
or piercer being within the top edge of one half border frame but it or they may
be at any other part of such a frame and if the frame be of greater depth than that
shown, each half frame can have a cutter blade or a piercing pin to enter a cigar
from opposite sides of the cigar tip.
The view Figure 1 shows a filled cigar case open with spring bulbous fasteners
but such system or appliances as fasteners form no part of my invention.
Referring to Figures 1 and 2, A, V-shaped cutter in cone shaped opening B of
half frame C. D, V-shaped recess in cone-shaped projection E of other half
frame of a folding cigar case.
According to Figure 3, A, flat blade cutter in cone shaped opening B of one
half case (D), cone shaped projection from inner face of half case F', under
which projection the cross cut blade A passes to close the passage into the cigar
case when the two halves are shut, the tip of the cigar severed thereby falling
into the interior of the case C, F.
Referring to Figure 4, A, flat cross cut blade in the recess B (cone or other) of
the frame (of one half case, the face of the frame F of the other half case being
perfectly flat to push the tip of a cigar over the blade A for nearly severing or
quite severing the tip, if only nearly severed the tip can be readily removed, such
as by pulling it away by hand from the body or mouth end of the cigar.
At Figures 5 and 6, I show a couple of piercing pins A, A, in the cone recess B
of the half frame C. E being the projection of the other half frame F provided
with a slot-D for the points of the pins A to enter for venting a cigar, as before
explained.
Figure 7 shows a folding cigar case open and provided with a spring closer, one
half frame (having a spear like cutter A in a kind of half round container, as
seen more particularly in the top edge or plan view Figure 8 to pass through
a hole in a cup shaped appliance E of the other half casing or frame F, into
which cup the end of a cigar can be placed when the two halves (, F, are in or
about the position shown at Figure 8 when the mere fact of closing the case will
cause the spear shaped cutter A to pass through and sever a V shaped piece out
of or from the cigar.
In all the foregoing figures I have shown the cigar end cutting, tipping, or

page_text: piercing, to be effected by appliances at the longer end of the casing, but at
Figures 9 and 10 the appliances are shown at the middle of the longer edges
where they serve by a close fit of D to E also as the catch for holding the case in a
closed condition without necessitating other kinds of fasteners.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
1. Providing the border frame of a folding cigar case with a cutter or piercer A
in a recess B of or from one half frame C and a projection E on or from the face
of the other half frame F, all as herein described and substantially as repre-
sented on the annexed drawings.
2. Manufacturing the border frame of a foldable cigar case with hollows and
projections respectively and coinciding with each other, as set forth, and forming
or fixing a cutter or a piercing appliance in such a recess, as and for the purposes
described and as shown on the drawings.
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said John George Glover.
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said John George Glover.