Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Aug., 1886.
Complete Left, 30th Apr., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 31st May, 1887
I HARRY ALLDAY trading as Horton and Allday of No. 195 Warstone Lane
Birmingham in the County of Warwick Manufacturing Jeweller and Silversmith do
hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as follows:-
My invention consists of a cutter or piercer for cutting or piercing the ends of
cigars the parts of the said cutter or piercer being constructed and combined and
used substantially as herein after described.
My new or improved cigar cutter or piercer may constitute an independent
instrument or be combined with a match box or cigar or cigarette case and I will
describe it as combined with and carried by the lid of a match box.
To the lid of the match box I attach a small barrel in which a tube or rod slides.
To one end of this tube or rod an angular cutter or a tubular cutter or piercer is
affixed and to the other end of the cutter tube a milled head is connected the said
milled head being situated at the joint end of the lid. At the end of the lid most
distant from the joint and on its upper side is a cupped recess of a size and shape
proper for receiving the end of the cigar to be cut or pierced. When the sliding
cutter is pressed inwards the said cutter passes across the recess and cuts or pierces
the end of the cigar placed in the said recess. The sliding cutter is pressed outwards
so as to withdraw its cutting end from the recess by a coiled spring one end of the
said spring bearing against the barrel in the lid and the other end against a collar on
the cutter tube. The sliding cutter is guided in its motion and locked and unlocked
in the following manner.
In the cutter tube is a longitudinal slot opening into a cross slot at the end of the
said tube near the milled head. A pin passed through the top of the match box lid
works in the said slots. This pin by engaging in the longitudinal slot prevents the
rotation of the cutter during the cutting or piercing operation. After the cutter has
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page_text: been pushed home the head of the cutter tube is turned through about a quadrant so
as to cause the cross slot in the said tube to engage with the pin. The cutter is
thereby locked in its advanced position and the coiled spring is compressed. In order
to withdraw the cutter for the purpose of cutting or piercing the end of a cigar the
cutter tube is turned in a contrary direction to that by which it was locked. By this
motion the longitudinal slot is brought opposite the pin and the cutter is projected
outwards by the action of the compressed coiled spring. The end of the cutter is
now clear of the recess in the lid and by placing the end of the cigar in the said recess
and advancing the cutter the said end of the cigar is cut or pierced as before
described.
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W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.
A New or Improved Oigar Cutter or Piercer
I HARRY ALLDAY trading as Horton and Allday of 195 Warstone Lane,
Birmingham in the County of Warwick, Manufacturing Jeweller and Silversmith, do
hereby declare the nature of my Invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
My invention consists of a cutter or piercor for cutting or piercing the ends of
cigars the parts of the said cutter or piercer being constructed and combined and used
substantially as hereinafter described.
My new or improved cigar cutter or piercer may constitute an independent
instrument or be combined with a match box or cigar or cigarette case and I will
describe it as combined with and carried by the lid of a match box.
To the lid of the match box I attach a small barrel in which a tube or rod slides.
To one end of this tube or rod an angular cutter or a tubular cutter or piercer is
affixed and to the other end of the cutter tube a head is connected, the said head
being situated at the joint end of the lid. At the end of the lid most distant from the
joint and on its upper side is a cupped recess of a size and shape proper for receiving
the end of the cigar to be cut or pierced. When the sliding cutter is pressed inwards
the said cutter passes across the recess and cuts or pierces the end of the cigar placed
in the said recess. The sliding cutter is pressed outwards so as to withdraw its

page_text: cutting end from the recess by a coiled spring one end of the said spring bearing
against the barrel in the lid and the other end against a collar on the cutter tube.
The sliding cutter is guided in its motion and locked and unlocked in the following
manner.
In the cutter tube is a longitudinal slot opening into a cross slot at the end of the
said tube near the head. A pin passed through the top of the match box lid works in
the said slots. This pin by engaging in the longitudinal slot prevents the rotation of
the cutter during the cutting or piercing operation. A spring catch may be used
instead of the pin for locking the cutter tube. In this case the pin serves to release
the catch. After the cutter has been pushed home it is locked by the pin or catch
described in its advanced position and the coiled spring is compressed. In order to
withdraw the cutter for the purpose of cutting or piercing the end of a cigar, the
cutter tube is turned through a portion of a circle, or the catch released, when the
cutter is projected outwards by the action of the compressed coiled spring. The end
of the cutter is now clear of the recess in the lid and by placing the end of the cigar
in the said recess and advancing the cutter the said end of the cigar is cut or pierced
as before described.
I will now proceed to describe with reference to the accompanying Drawing the
manner in which my invention is to be performed.
Figures 1 and 2 represent partly in longitudinal vertical section and partly in side
elovation and Figures 3 and 4 in horizontal section a match box to the lid of which my
new or improved cigar cutter or piercer is applied. In Figures 1 and 3 the cutter is
represented in its withdrawn position and in Figures 2 and 4 in its advanced position.
Figure 5 represents a cross section taken through the cutter ; Figure 6 represents an
elevation taken at the front end of the match box; Figure 7 represents a cross
section taken through the barrel, cutter tube and spring catch and releaser and
Figure 8 represents an elevation taken at the back or joint end of the match-box;
Figures 9. 10 and 11 represent a modification for releasing the cutter.
The sameletters of reference indicate the same parts in the several Figures of the
drawing.
a is the body of the match box and 6 is the jointed lid of the same carrying my
improved cigar cutter or piercer.
In the said lid 6 is a barrel c partly cylindrical and partly angular, in which barrel
the square tube d works, the said tube d carrying at its front end the angular cutter e.
Or in place of an angular cutter a tubular cutter or piercer may be used. To the
outer end of the cutter tube d, a head d' is affixed and in the said cutter tube a spring
catch is situated the said spring catch engaging with a notch or recess in the disc g
rivetted in the joint end of the barrel d. The construction of the spring catch is best
seen in the enlarged view Figure 11. The outer end of the spring carrying the
catch passes through a guiding slot in the fixed disc g and head of the cutter
tube d and on the extreme end of the said spring is a button or projection which
lies upon and works against the said head d².
i is a headed pin bearing upon the spring of the catch for releasing the said
catch. The said releasing pin i works in a slot in the square tube d carrying the
cutter e (see Figure 7) and assists in guiding the said tube and preventing the
rotation of the cutter.
Around the cutter e is a coiled spring k by means of which the said cutter when
released is pressed outwards or made to take the withdrawn position represented in
Figures 1 and 3.
The
One end of the said spring k when compressed bears against a collar on the end of
the cutter tube d and the other end bears against the inner end of the barrel c.
collar on the cutter tube d is cut away to permit it to pass the pin i when the parts are
in the withdrawn position Figures 1 and 3: 1 is the cupped recess for receiving the
end of the cigar to be cut or pierced and m is an angular opening in the front of the
lid b through which the piece cut from the cigar passes from the barrel c.
When the pin is used to lock the cutter tube in place of the catch fa cross slot is
nade at the joint end of the cutter tube d which cross slot is by a twisting motion of

page_text: the cutter tube made to engage with the said pin i after the cutter has been pushed
home so as to lock the said tube. The angular cutter e being in the withdrawn
position Figures 1 and 3 it is ready for cutting off the end of a cigar, the acting
end of the said cutter being clear of the recess into which the end of the cigar is
introduced. By placing the end of the cigar in the said recess and advancing the
cutter e by pressure upon the head the parts of the cutter take the positions
represented in Figures 2 and 4. As the cutter e advances its end cuts off the end of
the cigar placed in the recess the cut away part escaping through the end opening m.
The spring k is compressed and the spring catch snaps into the notch or slot in the
disc and locks the cutter in its advanced position. In order to release the cutter e
for withdrawing it preparatory to the cutting off of the end of a cigar the pin or
pusher i is pressed down. Its inner end is thereby made to depress the spring of the
catch fand withdraw the said catch from the notch or slot in the disc g. The cutter
is thus released and is projected outwards by the action of the compressed coiled
spring kas represented in Figures 1 and 3.
9
Instead of releasing the cutter tube d by pressing upon the pin or pusher i the said
cutter tube may be released by depressing the button or projection h on the end of
the spring of the catch f.
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This modification is represented in longitudinal section with the cutter withdrawn
in Figure 9 and in longitudinal section with the cutter in its advanced position in
Figure 10 Figure 11 represents a portion of Figure 10 drawn to a larger scale.
In Figure 11 the spring catch fis represented engaged with the recess in the disc
and in Figure 10 depressed out of the said recess for releasing the cutter tubo d.
In order to release the cutter tube d the button or projection h which is milled on its
outer face is pressed down by the finger as represented in Figure 10; the catch fis
thereby withdrawn from the recess in the disc g and the cutter e is projected
outwards into the position represented in Figure 9 by the coiled spring k.
The parts of Figures 9. 10 and 11 which I have not described are constructed in
the manner herein before described with respect to Figures 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7 and 8
and corresponding parts are marked with the same letters of reference.
The improved cigar cutter or piercer horein before described may be applied to a
cigar or cigaretto caso instead of to a match box, or the said cigar cutter or piercer may
constitute an independent instrument.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention and
the manner in which the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is :—
First The new or improved cigar cutter or piercer hereinbefore described and
illustrated in the accompanying Drawing; that to say, a cigar cutter or piercer in
which the parts are constructed and arranged and act substantially as described and
illustrated.
Secondly The combination with a cigar cutter or piercer of the kind claimed in
claim 1 of the parts hereinbefore described and illustrated in the accompanying
Drawing for fastening the cutter or piercer in its advanced position and for releasing
the said cutter or piercer for permitting it to take its withdrawn position.
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