Improvements in Cigar-tip Perforators.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Dec., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 29th Aug., 1893-Accepted, 14th Oct., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cigar-tip Perforators.
1, REUBEN COHEN, of 38, City Councillor Street, Montreal, in the Dominion
of Canada, Foreman in Cigar Factory, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention has reference to improvements in cigar-tip perforators, for the
purpose of rendering them more effective, and so adapted as to cut a hole or
opening in the cigar at the time of their abstraction therefrom, and thus enable
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the cigar to be smoked more freely than with the vents at present in use.
also to overcome the difficulties that, at present, exist, for a great many cigars are
in their manufacture made too hard and compact in that portion of the cigar
usually placed in the mouth.
According to my invention the cigar-tip perforator may consist of a small
punching from a thin sheet of metal or any other suitable substance, said
punching having one of its extremities pointed or barbed and its other extremity
formed with a head.
The tip of the cigar having been removed the pointed or barbed extremity of
the perforator is inserted into the end of the cigar when this latter is fresh or
newly made, the barbed extremity wedging its way freely into the cigar and the
head coming against its end. When the cigar is dry, and the perforator is with-
drawn, the barbs cut a passage, through which the smoke can freely pass.
Instead of making the perforator from sheet metal punchings, it may be formed
from wire.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cigar-tip Perforators.
1, REUBEN COHEN, of 38 City Councillor Street, Montreal, in the Dominion of
Canada, Foreman in Cigar Factory, 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, reference being had to the
accompanying drawings and to the letters and figures marked thereon, that is to
say :-
This invention has reference to improvements in cigar tip perforators for the
purpose of rendering them more effective and so adapted as to cut a hole or
opening in the cigar at the time of their abstraction therefrom, and thus enable
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the cigar to be smoked more freely than with the vents at present in use.
also to overcome the difficulties that at present exist, for a great many cigars are
in their manufacture made too hard and compact in that portion of the cigar
usually placed in the mouth.
And in order that my invention may be readily understood, I will describe the
same fully with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which :-
Fig. is an elevation of a cigar having my improved perforating device
attached.
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page_text: Fig. 3 is a part diametrical section and part elevation of the cigar shown in
Fig. 1.
Fig. 4 is an elevation of the vent device detached.
Fig. 5 is an elevation of a modification of the vent device.
A is an ordinary cigar having the tip at B removed In this is inserted the tip
perforator C, which, as shown in Figs. 1, 3, and 4, consists of a small punching
from a thin sheet of metal, or any other suitable substance, being in the form of a
dart, and having a mushroom head. The point of the dart being pressed into the
cigar when the cigar is fresh from being newly made allows the point to wedge
freely into the cigar by the inclines u. When the cigar is dry, on withdrawing
the vent device the points and edges are caused to cut a passage for the smoke
to pass freely through. In the modification shown in Fig. 5 the same thing is
provided for, only that the body is formed out of a round wire of metal, having a
flat head c and a point provided with an incline b, set the opposite way to that
shown in Fig. 4; but the operation of cutting a passage in the cigar will be
performed by this construction just as well as by that shown in Fig. 4.
I do not confine my invention to the precise details above described, because it
is evident that considerable variations can be made in the form and materials out
of which the invention is formed. For example, the vent device may be made of
metal, bone, hard rubber, etc., and the body of the vent apparatus may be of any
configuration of cross-sections required or desired; also the point of the vent
apparatus may be made in various forms; but in any case they will be provided
with the cutting-edge b.
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 :-
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1. The improved cigar tip perforator having an exterior broad head adapted to
abut against the end of a cigar, from which the tip has been removed, and an
interior broadened point for cutting a passage in the cigar, substantially as
described and shown, and for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 20th dar of August 1893
ERNEST DE PASS,
Chartered Patent Agent,
78, Fleet Street, London, and 6, Victoria Street, Nottingham,
Agent for the Applicant.