Improvements in Cigar Tip Cutters.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 18th July, 1887.
Specification Accepted, 19th: Aug., 1887.
Improvements in Cigar Tip Cutters.
I, ALFRED JULIUS BOULT of 323 High Holborn in the County of Middlesex, M.I.M.E.
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:
This invention relates to those cigar-tip cutters used principally in retail cigar
stores for the convenience of purchasers who desire to cut off the mouth end of the
cigar before lighting it.
The invention consists in an improved combination of parts constituting the cutter
hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed.
In the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification:
Fig. 1 is a front elevation of the device with hidden parts denoted by dotted lines.
Fig. 2 is a plan of the same.
Fig. 3 is an end elevation with a part broken away.
Fig. 4 is a plan of the cutter jaws showing straight and V cutters combined.
Fig. 5 shows a detached tail of cam, cutter bar and spring.
In the several figures the same letters of reference are used to indicate the same
parts.
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A is the dish to catch the cut off tips; it may as shown by the dotted lines A'figure 1,
extend upwards to the cutter jaws and thus form an enclosed chamber instead of an
open dish. B is a hollow pillar firmly secured to the dish by the tap screw b. C is a
spiral spring shown in dotted lines inserted in the hollow of the pillar and winding
around the stem of the cutter head D, which passes into the hollow of the pillar. The
tendency of the spring is to lift the cutter head when released from downward pressure.
The pillar B terminates at the top in two side jaws B¹ B₁ of triangular shape.
lower corner of both jaws is provided with counter sunk apertures 6' which receive the
tips of the cigars as they are held below the cutter blades in the act of cutting off
their ends. There are attached to the cutter head by the screws two blades Ĕ, E
each being long enough to overlap the apertures b¹.
Each

page_text: The blades may be shaped perfectly straight as in figure 2 or they may each have a
V form as in figure 4 F is the operating lever a sort of two horned cam which is
pivotted on the pin G held in the jaws B¹ B¹. The shape of the cam part of this
doubled handled lever is such as to cause the cutter head to be pressed down whichever
horn of the lever is depressed. The ends of the handles are shown mounted with
balls H but any proper handle may be substituted. The operation is as follows: The
cigar I is inserted into one of the apertures, either one of the horns of the lever is
pressed down and the cutting blades sliding past the orifices will slice off the tip of the
cigar which projects inside the jaw. When the downward pressure on the lever is
released the spring acts to restore the blades to their normal position.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention as communicated to me by my foreign correspondent, and in what manner
the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is:-
:-
The cigar tip cutter herein described consisting essentially of the hollow pillar B,
suitably supported and having side jaws B¹ B₁ and apertures 61; the vertically moving
cutter head D having its stem inserted into the hollow of the standing pillar and being
provided with cutting blades E, E; the spiral spring C winding about the stem of the
cutter head and supporting the same and the cam lever F bearing upon and pressing
down the cutter head when actuated, for the purpose of cutting off the cigar tips
passed through the apertures & the whole arranged and operating substantially as
described.
Dated this 18th day of Jul 1987