Patent ID: 6907886

Claim:
A cigar tip plug cutter, comprising: a support platform, said support platform having a first central orifice and at least two openings spaced from said first central orifice; a cylindrical cutting blade, said blade orthogonally mounted to said support platform above said first central orifice; a cigar tip receiving plate, said receiving plate having an upper surface, a lower surface, a concave depression in said upper surface and a second central orifice in said concave depression, said second central orifice being sized shaped and disposed to slidably accept said cutting blade; a cigar plug ejector, said ejector having a rod portion, a base portion and at least two support portions, each of said support portions having an upper end and a lower end and being sized, shaped and disposed to fit slidably through said at least two openings in said support platform; said base portion having an upper surface, a lower surface, central portion and a first perimeter; said rod portion having an upper end and a lower end and being sized shaped and disposed to fit slidably through said cylindrical blade and being attached at its lower end to said central portion of the upper surface of said base portion; said support portions being attached at their lower ends adjacent said first perimeter of said base portion and attached at their upper end to said lower surface of said cigar tip receiving plate while fitted through said at least two openings in said support platform; said rod portion extending through said first central orifice in said support platform and through said cylindrical cutting blade; said cigar tip receiving plate being urged away from said support platform by at least two compression springs; a platform cover, said platform cover being sized and shaped to fit slidably over said cigar tip receiving plate and having a third central orifice sized, shaped and disposed to accommodate the closed end of a cigar and permit access to said concave depression in the upper surface of said cigar tip receiving plate and said cylindrical blade; said platform cover being joined to said support platform; and whereby, when the closed end of a cigar is urged against said cigar tip receiving plate and said cylindrical blade and twisted about a central axis, said receiving plate will be displaced toward said support platform and said rod portion will be urged away from said platform cover while said cylindrical blade will cut through said cigar end, cutting a plug therefrom, and when said cigar is removed and pressure applied to said lower surface of said base portion of said cigar plug ejector, said rod portion will serve to eject said plug from said cylindrical blade.