A NEW OR IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR LIGHTING AND CUTTING THE ENDS OF CIGARS
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Richard, of No. 10, Rue de la Fidélité,
Paris, Gentleman, for the Invention of "A NEW OR IMPROVED APPARATUS
FOR LIGHTING AND CUTTING THE ENDS OF CIGARS."
Sealed the 16th February 1864, and dated the 27th August 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Richard at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
27th August 1868.
I, CHARLES RICHARD, of No. 10, Rue de la Fidélité, Paris, Gentleman,
do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention of "A NEW OR IMPROVED
APPARATUS FOR LIGHTING AND CUTTING THE ENDS OF CIGARS," to be as follows,
that is to say :-
My Invention relates to a portable apparatus, having the form of'a pistol,
for cutting and lighting the ends of cigars, the butt end forming a receptacle
for matches. The apparatus is composed of a stock, made, of metal or of any
other suitable material, having its barrel cut by a longitudinal slide, and a
collar at its end. An internal tube is set in the barrel, and is likewise cut by
a straight slide, ending on the side of the butt end with a spiral screw, and its
orifice is provided with a screw ring. This tube is kept within the stock by a
rod serving to maintain it, and which, by means of notches, causes it to take a
circular motion.. A wick holder moves in the tube along the double slide by
means of a knob. It has two arms forming pincers, which open freely to
receive and keep firm any substance easily lighted and forming the wick.
the end of the barrel is set a lid on a circular spring, and fixed by two ears on
an axis. The inner surface of this lid is rough to permit of the lighting of the
matches by their being rubbed against it. When the knob on the slide is
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page_text: brought backward and towards the butt end of the pistol, it causes the helical
screw to take a circular motion, which closes the lid of the barrel, but when
the knob is moved in a reverse direction, that is to say, is made to advance on
the slide towards the end of the barrel, it disengages a hook from the screw,
and the lid is forced back on the barrel. The butt end of the stock is shut by
another lid, on which is placed the blade for cutting the end of cigars. This
part of the apparatus is composed of a blade set in a frame between two plates;
it slides from bottom to top and from top to bottom when pushed by a spring
having a catch which retains it or allows it to fall. This lid has a hole,
through which the end to be cut is introduced.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Charles Richard in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
24th February 1864.
TO. ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
RICHARD, of No. 10, Rue de la Fidélité, Paris, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-seventh year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Charles Richard, Her special license that I, the said Charles
Richard, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Charles Richard, my executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and all times thereafter
during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "A NEW OR IMPROVED
APPARATUS FOR LIGHTING AND CUTTING THE ENDS OF CIGARS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Charles Richard, my executors or adminis-
trators, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, or under the
hand and seal of one of them, should particularly describe and ascertain
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be
performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office
within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.
.NOW KNOW YE, that 1, the said Charles Richard, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following

page_text: statement, reference being had to the annexed Sheet of Drawings, in which
the same letters of reference, marked in the several Figures, indicate similar
parts, that is to say :—
My Invention consists in the construction of a small and portable apparatus
having the form of a pistol, and serving for cutting and lighting the ends of
cigars, and is composed of a stock A, Figures 1 and 2, the butt end of which
is hollow to form a receptacle for matches. The apparatus is made of metal
or any other suitable material; the barrel has a slit B, B', cut in a longitudinal
direction, and ending at C. The pistol may be made of two pieces, the stock
and the barrel, united by soldering. A tube D, Figure 4, is set in the barrel
and has likewise a straight slit terminating on the side of the butt end with a
helical screw D', Figure 3; its orifice is provided with a small screw ring E'.
This tube is kept within the barrel by a rod F, Figures 1 and 4, serving to
maintain it, and by means of the notches G, G', causes it to have a circular
movement. A wick holder H, Figures 4, 5, and 6, is kept in the tube, and
moves in the slide by means of the knob K fixed to it. It is provided with two
arms, forming pincers, which open freely at 1 to receive and hold securely any
substance easily lighted, and forming the wick for lighting the cigar. A lid L,
Figures 1, 4, 7, and 8, is set at the end of the barrel on a circular spring M,
fixed between two ears to the axis N. The inner surface of the lid is provided
with a hook o, and is rough, having on its centre a metal knob cut at angles
to permit of the lighting of matches when rubbed or pressed upon; when the
knob k on the slide B, B', is brought backward towards the butt end of the
pistol, it causes a circular movement to be given to the tube by means of the
helical screw D', Figure 3, by which the orifice of the barrel is closed, the
hook o of the lid catching under the collar C, behind the screw ring E. The
same circular movement of the helical screw when the knob K is brought
forward disengages the hook o, and the lid L being pressed by the spring M is
forced on the barrel, and thereby opens and permits of the wick holder H to
present the wick to be lighted.. The butt end P, R, Q, Figure 4, of the stock
as aforesaid, is hollow, and forms a receptacle for placing matches, serving to
light the wick 1. The part of the butt end receiving the matches is closed by
the partition A, which separates it from the tube D. The butt end is
provided with the lid P, by which it is closed; this lid carries the blade or
knife q, Figures 4, 9, 10, having two notches q' and q". The lid p is provided
with the plate R, having the cap R' and notch R", Figures 11 and 12, with
the spring S,. to which the catch T at its upper end is set with the pin U,
Figures 9 and 18. W, Figure 16, is another plate, having a round hole X.
The blade is placed on a frame v between the two plates R and X, and

page_text: slides from bottom to top and from top to bottom within the frame v, being
maintained by the spring S, the catch which presses the blade at 9¹ to support
it, and the catch T of the spring S falling into the notch q" of the blade
prevents it to uncatch. The hole X of the plate W serves for the introduction
of the cigar to be cut, the end of which penetrates into the cap R' when
the blade g is raised, the pin-u operating in the notch R" disengages the catch
from the notch of the blade and sets this last free.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and the best
means for putting the same into execution, I declare that I do not confine
imyself to the precise details of construction berein-before described, as they
may be varied without deviating from the principle of my Invention; but what
I claim and wish to be protected by the herein in part recited Letters
Patent, is,―.
First, the construction of a portable apparatus having the form of a pistol
for cutting and lighting the ends of cigars, as herein-before described, and
represented in the annexed Drawing.
Secondly, the arrangements and application of a moveable blade on cigar
holders and other similar articles, as herein-before described, reference being
had to the Figures of the annexed Drawing.
Thirdly, the wick holder put in motion by the knob k, and the helical
movement by which the wick is extinguished, as herein-before described,
reference being had to the Figures of the annexed Drawing.
Fourthly, the arrangements of the lid L for opening and shutting the barrel,
and the mode of preparing its surface for the lighting of matches, as herein-
before described, reference being had to the Figures of the Drawing.
In witness whereof; I, the said Charles Richard, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twentieth day of February, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.
-Witness,
HY. GILBEE,
10, Rue de la Fidélité,
Paris.
C. RICHARD. (L.S.)