IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR SPLITTING AND PUNCTURING CIGAR ENDS
Year: 1877

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LETTERS PATENT to Herbert John Haddan, of the Firm of Herbert and Com-
pany, Patent Agents, of 67, Strand, in the City of Westminster, Civil Engineer,
for the Invention of IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR SPLITTING AND
PUNCTURING CIGAR ENDS." A communication from abroad by the Firm of
Wendes and Company, of Greiffenberg, Silesia, in the Empire of Germany.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Herbert John Haddán at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 27th November 1877.
HERBERT JOHN HADDAN, of the Firm of Herbert and Company, Patent Agents,
of 67, Strand, in the City of Westminster, Civil Engineer.
" IMPROVEMENTS IN
APPARATUS FOR SPLITTING AND PUNCTURING CIGAR ENDS." A communication from
abroad by the Firm of Wendes and Company, of Greiffenberg, Silesia, in the
Empire of Germany.
The improvements consist in constructing a convenient portable or fixed apparatus,
by means of which the ends of cigars may be split, punctured, or perforated, so
that cigars so treated may draw and burn more evenly, and the leaf not be liable
to unwrap as in the present system of cutting off the end of cigars.
The apparatus consists of two cylindrical tubes made capable of passing one
within the other, the inner provided with a nozzle for the reception of a cigar end,
and an inner cylinder carrying a knife or needle. Around said cylinder is coiled
a spring, and the inner tube with its inner cylinder and knife are actuated by
placing a cigar with its end in the nozzle, and thereby pressing down the inner
tube within the outer, when the spring causes the knife to project and perforate or
slit the cigar.
The apparatus can be made wholly of metal, and in such sizes that it can be
worn on the watch chain, or with a base, so that it can be stood or operated on a
table or against a wall.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Herbert John Haddan in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 24th
May 1878.
HERBERT JOHN HADDAN, of the Firin of Herbert and Company, Patent Agents,
of 67, Strand, in the City of Westminster, Civil Engineer. "IMPROVEMENTS IN
APPARATUS FOR SPLITTING AND PUNCTURING CIGAR ENDS." A communication from
abroad by the Firm of Wendes aud Company, of Greiffenberg, Silesia, in the
Empire of Germany.
The improvements consist in constructing a convenient portable or fixed apparatus,
by means of which the ends of cigars may be split, punctured, or perforated, so
that cigars so treated may draw and burn inore evenly, and the leaf not be liable
to unwrap as in the present system of cutting off the end of cigars.
The apparatus consists of two cylindrical tubes made capable of passing one
within the other, the inner provided with a nozzle for the reception of the cigar
end, and an inner cylinder carrying a knife or needle. Around said cylinder is
coiled a spring, and the inner tube with its inner cylinder and knife are actuated
by placing a cigar with its end in the nozzle, and thereby pressing down the inner
tube within the outer, which causes the knife to project and perforate or slit the
cigar.
The apparatus can be inade wholly of metal, and in such sizes that it can be
worn on the watch chain, or with a base, so that it can be stood or operated on a
table or against a wall.
The accompanying Drawing will illustrate a convenient mode of performing
the Invention,―
Fig. 1 being a sectional elevation of portable apparatus open, and Fig. 3, of same
compressed; Fig. 4 being a plan; these views are double the actual size.
Fig. 2 is an external elevation (natural size) of the same apparatus in its open
or normal position.
Fig. 5 is sectional elevation open.
Fig. 6, plan; and Fig. 7, sectional elevation compressed, of apparatus intended to
be fixed on a table or to a wall, or on any support.
All the letters represent like parts.
a is outer fixed tube or cylindrical case; b, bottom; m, knife fixed to the bottom b
or screw 8, as shown; c, inner or moveable cylinder; d, mouth-piece thereto with
knife guide d, d, as shown'; f is the spring; 8, screw stop; p, grove in which screw &
works.
From what has been said the working of the apparatus is obvious.
In witness whereof, I, the Herbert John Haddan, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of May, in the year of our Lord
1878