US679638A - Cigar cutter and lighter. - Google Patents

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P atpn-'ted .luly 30, I90I.

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(Application tiled-leb. 14, 1901.) (No- Model.)

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UNTTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CARL A. ROSENHOLZ, OF VARDNER, IDAHO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-THIRD TO SEYMOUR PHILIP REARICK, OF SAME PLACE.

CIGAR CUTTER AND LIGHTER.

SPEGIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent NO. 679,638, dated July 30. 1901.

Application filed February I4, 1901. Serial No. 47,243. (No model.)

To (all whom, it may concern:

Beit known that l, CARL A. RosENHoLz, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of IVardner, in the county of Shoshone and State of Idaho, have invented a new and Improved Cigar Cutter and Lighter, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to that class of cigarlighters in which a wick of an oil or spirit lamp is ignited by an electric spark; and one object is to so connect the lamp or torch with the body portion or hood that it may swing and rotate freely with relation to the body portion or hood, thus preventing the twisting and possible breaking of the electric wires, and, further, to provide in connection with the device a cigar-tip cutter Operated by a swinging movement of the torch.

I will describe a cigar cutter and lighterembodying my invention and then point out the novel features in the appended claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the iigures.

Figure 1 is a side view of a device embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a front view. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section, and Fig. 4 is a top View of one of the electrodes.

The device comprises a hollow body portion or hood l, on the lower end of which the lamp or torch is mounted to swing. This lamp or torch has a fount 2 for oil or spirits, and removably connected to the fount is the wicktube 3. This wicktube extends through a casing 4 on the lower end of the hood or body portion 1 and is pivotally connected therein by pins or trunnions 5, extending from the wick-tube into the side walls of said casing. As here shown, these pins or trunnions extend from a collar 6, secured to the wick-tube, and in this collar is a curved cutting-blade 7, designed to clip off the tip of a cigar when said tip is inserted through an opening 8 in the front wall of the casing 4.

Attached to the upper end of the body or hood l and arranged forward thereof is a tube 9, with which a flexible tube 10 is removably connected. The current-carrying wires extend through the tube 10, and one is in electrical connection with the metallic portion of the device, and consequently with an electrode ll on the upper end of the wick-tube. This connection is indicated at 12. The other wire is carried downward and connects with a metal rod 13, which extends through a bushing 14., of insulating material, inserted in the lower end of the tube 9. Mounted to swing relatively to this rod 13 is the other electrode 15. This electrode 15 is pivoted to the side 6o walls of a boxing 16, adjustably connected to the rod 13. As here shown, the front wall of this boxing is provided with a slot through which a screw 17 passes into said rod. Attached to the rear side of the rod 13 is a spring 65 1S, the free end of which is designed to engage With the upper portion of the electrode 15 when the said electrode 15 is moved outward by the electrode 1l engaging therewith, the spring 1S permitting said electrode 15 to 7o yield sufficiently to permit the electrode 11 to pass it, and thus break the connection and make the spark.

The Wick-tube is free to rotate in the collar 6, and therefore should a person twist or turn the lamp or torch while swinging thesame said twisting motion will not be transmitted to the conducting-wires by means of which the device is suspended. Therefore there is very little or no danger of breaking the wires 8o or of abrading their insulating-cover.

In operation after inserting the tip of a cigar through the opening 8 a person by graspingthe fount 2 of the lamp may rock the same, causing the blade '7 to clip off the tip of the 85 cigar, and during'this rocking movement the electrode 11 will engage with and separate from the electrode 15, thus making the spark to ignite the wick or the gas formed at the end of the wick. Upon releasing the hold on 9o the fonct the lamp will swing back to its normal or vertical position, passing the Wick into the hood 1, which will extinguish the flame.

It will be noted that the wick-tube extends a considerable distance into the fount, as at 3a. 95 This is to prevent an unequal pressure of oil on the wick should the fount be turned upside down, as in such event the oil would surround the tube Without engaging the wick.

Having thus described my invention, I 10o claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. In a cigar-lighter, a hood or body portion, a collar mounted to swing on the lower end of said hood or body, a lamp having its wicktube extended through the collar and adapted to rotate therein, an electrode carried on the Wick-tube, a spring-pressed electrode forward of the hood or body portion, and electrical Ybearings in said boxing, a cutter-blade carried by said collar, a lamp having its wicktube extended through said collar and mounted to turn therein, an electrode carried by the wick-tube, a swinging electrode forward of the hood or body portion, and electrical connections for said electrodes, substantially as specified.

3. A cigar-lighter, comprising a hood or bod-y portion, a lamp mounted to swing thereon, an electrode carried by said lamp, a tube attached to and arranged forward of said hood or body portion, a metal rod extended from the lower portion of said tube but insulated therefrom, a casing vertically adjustable on the lower portion of said rod, an electrode pivoted to said casing, and a spring attached to the rod and adapted to bear its free end against said electrode, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I have signed m'y naine to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

CARL A. ROSENHOLZ.

Witnesses:

J oHN H. WEBER, C. H. WENTZ.

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