Improvements in and relating to Combined Match Boxes and Cigar Cutters.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 6th June, 1893-Accepted, 22nd July, 1893
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Combined Match Boxes and
Cigar Cutters.
I, JOHN WALTER MAILLOT, Designer, of North Attleborough, in the County
of Bristol and State of Massachusetts, United States of North America, 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:-
My invention is an improved match box and cigar cutter.
which the cover is provided with a transverse opening, for
tip of the cigar, and the box with a blade arranged in a
said cigar.
It is of that class in.
the admission of the.
plane transverse to.
My invention consists in details of construction all hereinafter set forth.
These details are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which-
Figure 1, shows the box in side elevation with the cover closed, and part of the.
wall removed to show the details.
Figure 2, is a similar view, with the cover raised.
Figure 3, shows a rear edge view of the box, partly in section.
In these drawings M, indicates the body of the box, which may be, as shown, of
ordinary shape.
It has a cover N, hinged at o, on the rear edge. The knife A, is a thin blade,
which is a part of the upper end of a spring shank F. The lower end of this shank
is held by means of a socket p, in which it is inserted from above, the socket being.
fixed to the inner wall at the rear edge. The knife is thus made removable for
sharpening. The cover of the box has the usual transverse openings C, one on
each side. These are both made flaring outwards by swaging in the metal of the
cover, as shown in Figure 3, which forms short funnel shaped projections, extending.
inwards towards each other with a smooth rounded flare, outwardly.
The blade is arranged nearer to one, and so as to act with a shearing cut, as the
cover moves with the cigar, past the blade. The tip of the cigar extends across.
into the opposite funnel, and when severed is turned out by reason of the smooth
and even flare of the interior surface. Heretofore these projections have been
formed by soldering in short tapering tubes, but this construction leaves an edge,
and is not so economical to make nor so effective.
The rear part of the cover carries a peg or projection B, which, when the cover
is clused, extends down in rear of the spring shank of the knife. When the cover.
is opened the peg is thrown forward and bears against the rear of the shank and
presses it forward, thus moving the knife in a direction opposite to the movement.
of the cover, and cigar. This quickens the cutting movement, and shearing action
of the knife.
The peg or projection is better formed upon a block shown in Figure 2. This
block forins the upper part of the hinge and is soldered or otherwise secured in the
rear edge of the cover.
In swaging the cover I make the upper back corner to conform to the holes and
on the front edge form a boss G, which affords a bearing for the thumb in opening
the box and cutting the tip.
The knife shank and peg also form a spring which holds the cover closed. The
knife may be easily removed for sharpening, and as easily replaced.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is-
1. In combination with a match box having a cover provided with an opening,.

page_text: the knife arranged in described relation to the opening in the cover, and having a
spring shank, a peg carried by the cover and operating upon the spring shank,
substantially as described.
2. In combination with a match box having a pivoted cover formed with a
perforation, a spring located within the box and having a knife blade rigidly
mounted upon its upper end, and means carried by the cover acting upon the spring
for holding said cover normally closed and forcing the knife across the perforation,
substantially as described.
Dated this 6th day of June 1893.
JENSEN & SON,
77, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agents.