US1480550A - Guard for cigar cutters - Google Patents

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E. W. GATES GUARD FOR CIGAR GUTTERS Jan. 15, 1924.

Filed Dec. l4 1922 $01 lllllll :l

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Application filed December 14,1922. .SeriaI No, 606,850,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ERNEST W. GA'rEs, a

citizen of the United States, residing at,

lease the knife and cause it to clip off thepointed end. The arrangement'is such that the tip of a finger inserted carelessly in said orifice is liableto be clipped off. Accidents of this kindarennot uncommon, particularly when children experiment with the cutter.

The object of the invention is to provide a guard which is self-attaching tothe top plate, without change or modification of any part of the cutter, and'without the'emplloyment' of positive fastening means, the guard being adapted to receive the major portion of a cigar and prevent the possibility of the insertion of a finger tip in the orifice, and

also adapted to be quickly installed onthe cutter without liability of accidental dis-- placement. 7

Another object is to provide a guard characterized as above stated, and adapted to be moved endwise and actuate the letoff means, without requiring pressure on the cigar to accomplish this result, so that liability of injuring the wrapper by pressure thereon is prevented.

I accomplish these and other related objects by the improved guard construction hereinafter described and claimed.

Of the accompanyingdrawings forming a t part of this specification,-

Figure 1 is a perspective View of a guard embodying the invention.

Figure 2 shows, partly in section and partly in elevation, a cigar-cutter of well known construction, and, in section, the

uard of my invention engaged with the top plate of the cutter.

* g e-3. a fragmentary View Similarto portions of Figure 2,,showing' the guard depressed to actuatethe let-ofi means.

.1 The same reference characters in catethe :same parts in all the figures.

'In the drawings, a represents theasin of an automatic cigar cutter having a top plate in WhlGh 1s a. c gar-receiving;orlfioe be Within the casing and; spaced; below the orifice is a horizontally, monable ,clipp'ing knife 0, actuated by a spr ng, not-shown- Interposed between. the path ''of the knif and the top plate is a member d aQi' "W19?" off" mechanism, said memb r ha ing a smaller orifice form d tQiIcceive the pointed end portion-0f a cigar ff, the memb 6 being normally supported in Ethe position shown by Figure 2, with; its upper side slightly spacedbelow the top plate,andits lower side vslightlyspaced above the path O the knife. The member 01 is movable downward by the pressure of the "cigar upon it, to. the *position shown by Figure-,3, :thi s movement causingthe knife to'clip off the pointed end of the cigar. j

The construction and arrangement are such that: whenv the memblerjd is depressed,

the knife, previously. restrained atone end of its path, is. releasedan-d is forced across the agar toclip off its pointed end, the; cut- 'ter being then automatically set' for-the next action. V j v s In carrying out myainventioniyl: provide- 9,

self-attaching guard, composed of a cigarreceiving tube, having resilient means at one end, adapted to yieldingly engage the said top plate around the orifice b, and support the tube w1th its major portion projecting above the top plate sufliciently to prevent the insertion of a finger tip in said orifice. In the preferred embodiment of the in vention shown, the tube, which is prefer-.

ably seamless, is made of thin resilient metal. The outer portion 12-of the tube is continuous, and is adapted to be grasped to manipulate the tube in engaging it with the top plate, and in subsequently exerting endwise pressure upon it, to depress the member 03, as indicated by Figure 3.

I The inner end portion of the tube is peripherally discontinuous, and is composed of a plurality of resilient tongues 13, which are inclined relative to the axis of the tube, and are bent outward at their free ends to form radial ears 14.

The tongues are spaced apart, as shown, so .that the discontinuous end portion is adapted to be compressed by inward pressure on the tongues until the ears 14 are adapted to pass through the orifice b. When the ears are below the top plate, the release of the compressing pressure permits 7 the tongues to spring outward, and bear yieldingly on the wall of the orifice b, the ears 14 being at the same time caused to bear on the under side of the top plate, as shown by Figure 2. The tube is thus engaged with .the top plate in such manner that it is firmly supported in a position perpendicular to said plate, and is not liable to be accidentally tipped. There is a sufiicient space between the member d and the top plate to receive the ears 14;, as shown by Figure 2.

The diameter of the tube is preferably such that a cigar may be inserted loosely in the tube, without necessarily contacting therewith.

The described connection between the tube and the top plate permits a slight endwise depression of the tube from the position shown by Figure 2, to that shown by Figure 3, so that the member d may be depressed wholly by pressure exerted on the tube, Without the usual pressure on the cigar, which is liable to injure the wrapper. When pressure on the tube is released, the tube is restored to the position shown by Figure 2,

by the upward movement of the member (Z from the position shown by Figure 3.

The external surface of the tube may be provided with lines 16, representing portions of cigar wrappers, so that the tube simulates a bunch of cigars. This simulation may be heightened by coloring the said external surface like a cigar wrapper.

Advertising matter may be placed on the external surface of the tube.

I have found that, while it is a comparatively easy matter to engage the tube with the top plate, separation of the tube from the plate is considerably more difiicult.

It will be seen that the described guard is adapted to be quickly. and conveniently engaged with the top plate of a standard cigar-cutter, without any change or adapta- 2. A self-attaching guard for cigar-cutters, composed of a tube adapted to receive a cigar, and provided at one end portion with resilient tongues, adapted to yieldingly en age the top plate of a cigar-cutter, around tie margin of a cigar-receiving orifice therein.

3. A self-attaching guard for cigar-cutters, composed of a tube adapted toreceive a cigar, one end portion of the tube being composed of resilient tongues inclined rel ative to the axis of the tube, and bent outward at their free ends, said tongues being adapted to yieldingly engage the top plate of a cigar-cutter, around the margin of a cigar-receiving orifice therein.

4. A self-attaching guard for cigar-cutters, composed of a cigalrsreceiving tube, provided at one end portion with means for. slidably and yieldingly engaging the- I top plate of a cigar-cutter, around a clgarreceiving orifice therein, the arrangement being such that said tubeis capable of a limlted endwise movement to actuate a member of the cutter.

In testimony whereof- I have affixed my signature.

ERNEST W. GATES.

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