Year: 1886

page_text: FREDERICK PLAISTER of 1 Cambridge Street, St. Ebbs, Oxford, College Servant
do hereby declare the nature of my said invention to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is to manufacture a new and improved combination
of useful appliances for smokers, in one unique construction.
In carrying out my invention I form an ash pan, of a dished form, having a
flange of suitable breadth to hold cigars, in a horizontal position or thereabouts.
The flange has a number of grooves formed therein to retain the cigars. A suitable
stem rises from the ash pan, in a vertical position, to which a receptacle for matches
is fixed. This receptacle is formed as a frustum of a cone, the outside of which
is roughened so as to be utilised for lighting matches and fusees.
The bottom of the match box is sufficiently raised to permit one two or moro
cigar cutters to be arranged in the annular space thereby formed. Corresponding
ports or holes are made in and near the lower edge of the conical box, for the
insertion of the ends of the cigars required to be sheared or cut. The cutters are
put in motion by pressure applied to a central stem which passes up through a
tube in the match box, to the lower end of which stem the cutters are fitted. The
cutters and stem are caused to rise again, after removal of the pressure, by means
of a spring in the lower stem.
At the upper end of the movable stem, a suitable knob or other handle is fitted,
to which luminous paint is applied, so as to render the apparatus sufficiently
visible in the dark, and thereby add to its usefulness.
In some cases I also add a call bell, which is likewise operated by the moveable
stem.

page_text: I FREDERICK PLAISTER, of 1 Cambridge Street, St. Ebbs, Oxford, College Servant,
do hereby declare the nature of my said invention 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 manufacture a new and improved combination
of useful appliances for smokers, in one unique construction.
In carrying out my invention, I form an ash-pan, of a dished form and pre-
ferably circular, having a flange of suitable breadth to hold cigars in a horizontal
position or thereabouts. The flange has a number of grooves formed therein to
retain the cigars. A suitable stem rises from the ash-pan, in a vertical direction,
to which a receptacle for matches is fixed. This receptacle is formed as a frustum
of a cone, the outside being roughened so as to be utilised in lighting matches and
fusees.
The bottom of the match box is sufficiently raised to afford space for one, two,
or more cigar cutters to be arranged in the annular space thereby formed.
Corresponding ports or holes are made in and near the lower edge of the conical
box, for the insertion of the ends of the cigars required to be sheared or cut. The
cutters are put in motion by pressure applied to a central stem which passes up
through a tube in the match box, to the lower end of which stem the cutters are
fitted. The cutters and stem are caused to rise again, after removal of the pressure
by means of a spring fitted in the lower stem.
At the upper end of the movable stem, a suitable knob or other handle is fitted,
to which luminous paint may be applied, so as to render the apparatus sufficiently
visible in the dark, and thereby add to its usefulness. I also sometimes add a call
bell to the apparatus, actuated in any convenient manner.
And in order that my said invention may be particularly described and
ascertained, reference is hereby made to the accompanying drawings, in which
similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.
Fig. 1 is a plan view Fig. 2 a side view, and Fig. 3 a section.
a is the ash-pan, b is a flange having grooves cc formed therein, for cigars to
rest in. d is the stem attached to the ash pan, having slots at ee for the cutter
bar to pass through. The cutter bar has sharp edges at f1 f¹ which cut the ends
of cigars, when passed through the apertures g. g. h is the raised bottom of the
match-box. From the bottom h the tube k rises vertically, enclosing the tube m.
n is a handle for pressing the tube m downwards against the force of the spring o,
to cut the cigars, and which spring o afterwards raises the tube and cutter. The

page_text: external surface of the box i is serrated or otherwise roughened for the purpose of
igniting matches thereon.
I sometimes add luminous paint to the handle as herein before mentioned.
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
The manufacture and use of the improved combination of appliances for smokers,
constructed, arranged, and operating, substantially as herein before described and
shewn on the drawings.