US1043363A - Cigar-cutter. - Google Patents

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A. 'SGHICKB Im, CIGAR swung- 1 APPLICATION FILED SEPT 1, 1911.

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, lhnm'il Patented N0v.5,1912.

V Cigar-Gutters, of which the following-is a specification. Y

cutting the tip from a cigar preparatory "to lighting the same, and more particularly "carried. in the pocket and to be grasped by .15

' eludes two flat I reciprocating members To it may concern:

members have cutting :edges which move 20 to form the members from which the cutter die for each of the two sliding membersas for receiving the end of the cigar preparatoryto cutting the tip therefrom; to proi vide an improvedlform' of cutting edge for to cigar cutters as are hereinafter described and claimed and illustrated in the drawing accompanying and forming a part of this application.

1 thy-invention in the accompanying drawing,

fet e havebeen forced'towar one another to cut .o. s PATENT tron.

ALFRED SCI-IIGKERLING, or new roan, n. r.

CIGAR-CUTTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 5, 19121.

' Application filed September 1-, 1911. Serial No. 647,296.

Be it known that I, ALFRED Sermons LING, a-citizen of the United States, andv a resident/of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county of New -York, and State of New York, have made and invented certain new and useful Improvements in 3 My invention relates to cigar cutters for tothat type of-vcigar'cutter designed to be the fingers, and which type commonly inormed from sheet metal and superposed one upon the other and secured together, which past one another as the cutter is operated; and. the objects of my invention are to provide a cutter of the type above referred to in which the two reciprocating members of the cutter are identical in form, so that a single cutting die only is necessary in order is formed, instead of a separate and distinct heretofore; to provide a cigar cutter of the class described with an unsharpened guide cigar cutters of the type'in question; and to provide such improvements in and relating.

have illustrated the preferred form of Whereiir- Figure 1 is a view illustrating my 1ming how'the same is held in thehand when Fi 2; F g. 4 is'ia'view. showing the ator the slidiu members thereof the tip from the cigar Fig. is aview showing a section upon'a' plane nd cated by two members identical in form with one another; from which it follows that a single cutting die only is necessary to out blanks for the members from a sheet of metal, the members or blanks being commonly formed from thin sheet metal as w1ll be understood. Figs. 7 and 8 show one of these members in its finished form but before the lugs thereof are bent in assembling the cutter; from which it will be seen that the same includes a fiat portion 10 of uniform thickness and width, the sides or edges 11, 11 thereof being parallel and having projecting lugs 12 adjacent. one end; and an opening 13 adjacent the other end through which the ends of the fingers are passed when the cutter of a capital W with inclined sides 16 and a projecting sharpened and pointed tooth 17 between the sides as shown. Shoulders are provided at 18' to provide stops ashereinafter explained.

After a number of blanks have been formed as aforesaid and finished and sharpened'to provide a cutting edge as explained; one of my improved cutters is formed by assembling two of them, the flat portions 10 of two blanks beingsuperposedone upon; the other and the pro ect1ng lugs 12 thereof being bent over so that the lugs of each member overlie the side edges 11 of the other, as best shown in Fig. 6, .to thereby secure the two members together. The sidev edges 11 of each member may slide through the bent overlugs of the other as w ll be understood from the drawing, the lugs connection with the sides or edges thus forming guides for the members in their movements.

It will be understood that with guides formed as above explained, the oscillating movement of one member relative to the other due to looseness or lost motion is greatest when the lugs are together and the parts in the position shown in Fig. 2, and least when the lugs are apart and the parts in the position shown in Fig. 4; and an important advantage gained in my cutter is that the unavoidable looseness or play which is necessarily present and which results in more or less binding action between the parts, and which tends to interfere with the smoothness, of operation of the cutter, is greatest when the cutting edges are just beginning to cut, as shown in Fig. 2, and becomes less or decreases as the resistance encountered by the cutting edges in cutting the cigar increases as the lugs separate from one another in approaching the position shown in Fig. 4 which they finally assume. The lugs engage one another as shown in Fig. 2 to form a stop for limiting the outward movement of the reciprocating members of the cutter; and the lugs of each member engage the shoulders 18 of the other as shown in Fig. to form a stop for limiting the inward movement of said members.

The location of the opening 14- relative to the lugs 12 is such that when the parts are in their outward positions shown in Fig. 2, the unsharpened portions 15 of the opening 141 will together form a smooth non-cutting guide for the end of the cigar; and as said members are moved together the sharp points or teeth 17 of the cutting edges of the openings will enter the cigar to assist in holding it in position as the cutting edges move past one another during the cutting operation.

.Having thus described and explained my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. A cigar cutter comprising two members having portions adapted to move past one another, and means for securing said members together and for guiding them in their movements; each of said members being provided with an opening, which openings may be made to register with one another, the periphery of each of said openings being formed with an unsharpcned portion and with a sharpened or knife portion of W-like form to thereby provide a projecting sharpened tooth between two side cutting edges, and the disposition of said openings being such that the tlllslltflilfljncii portions thereof form a guide for the tip of a cigar when the openings register with one another.

A cigar cutter com arising tweineinbers having portions adapted to move past Leashes one another, and means for securing said members together and for guiding them in their movements, each of said members being provided with anopening, which openings may be made to register with one another, the periphery of each of said open- 'ings being formed with an unsharpened portion and with a sharpened or knife porticn, and the disposition of said openings being such that the unsharpened portions thereof form a guide for the tip of a cigar when the openings register with one another.

3. A cigar cutter comprising two members having each a fiat portion adapted to rest and slide upon the like portion of the other, and each. of which flat portions is provided with two side lugs bent so as to overlie the edge of the fiatportion of the other member, to thereby secure the members together and guide them in their movements; the fiat portions of said members being each provided with an opening, which openings may be made to register with one another, the periphery of each of said- 0pen ings being formed with an unsharpened portion semi-circular in form and with a sharpened or knife portion, and the disposition of said openings being such that the semi-circular portions thereof form an un-( sharpened circular guide for the tip of a. cigar when the openings register with one another.

4. A cigar. cutter comprising two members haying portions adapted to move past one another, and means for securing'said members together and for guiding them in their movements; each of said members be ing providedwith an opening, which openings may be made to register with one another, the periphery of each of said openings having a curved portion and a second portion of W-like form sharpened to form a cutting edge, and the disposition of said openings being such that the curved portions thereof form a guide for the tip of a cigar when the openings register with one another.

5. A cigar cutter comprising two members identical in form with one another and each of which has an opening throu h which the tips of the fingers may be passer).- to operate the cutter, said members having each a flat'portion aoapted to rest and slide upon a like portion of the other, and each of which flat portionsis provided with two side lugs bent to overlie the edge of the flat portion of the other member to thereby guide them in their movements; the flat portions of said members having each an opening which openings may he made to register with one another and the periphery of each of which openings isaiormed withan unsharpened portion semi-circuiar in form and with a knife portion, and the disposition of said openings being such that the semicircular portions thereof together form anunsharphattan, in the county. of New York, and ened circular guide for the tip of a cigar State of New York, this 29th day of A11- 10 when the openings register .'with one an gus't- A. D. .1911. other; and stopsformed upon each of said members and with which the lugs of the APFRED'SOHICKERLING': other member engage at the end of the in- 'Witnesses: Ward movement of the members: R. N. FLINT,

'Signed at New Yorkyborough of -Man- A. V. WALsH..

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