US792864A - Cigar-tip cutter. - Google Patents

Description

PATENTED JUNE 20, 1905.

E. WALKER.

CIGAR TIP CUTTER.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 11, 1904.

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EDWIN WALKER, OF ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA.

CIGAR-TIP CUTTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 792,864, dated June 20, 1905. 7

Application filed May 11, 1904- Serial No. 207.494:-

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWIN WALKER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Erie, in the county of Erie and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cigar-Tip Cutters, of which the following is a specification. The present invention appertains to certain novel and useful improvements in a cutter mechanism adapted to be used for cutting or perforating the end or tip of a cigar.

In carrying out my invention I have in con- I templation so constructing the cutter and its operating mechanism that when a cigar is placed with its tip or end in the cutter-head and actuating pressure is applied to the latter a rotary and reciprocating motion will be imparted to the cutting member whereby the latter will be forced or thrust into the end of the cigar to pierce or perforate the same, while when such actuating pressure is removed or ceases and the cutter is returned to its normally inoperative position the cutting member will be drawn into its socket away from the tip seat or opening.

It is also my intention to provide a mechanism through the medium of which a clean regular incision or perforation may be made in the tip of the cigar without disturbing or breaking the wrapper, for in operating my device the pressure is not applied to the cigar, as is the case when the latter is jammed or thrust into the cutter .to operate the knife or blade; but such actuating pressure is applied directly to the cutter-head by the operator depressing the head with the fingers, thus preventing the breaking or destruction of the wrapper of the cigar.

A further object of my invention is to devise and construct a cutter which will embody the essential and desired features of simplicity, durability, and convenience, while pos sessing theadvantage of ease and positiveness in operation.

With the above-recited objects and others of a similar nature in view my invention consists in the construction, combination, and arrangement of parts, as is described in this specification, delineated in the accompanying drawings, and set forth in the appended claims.

In the drawings hereto annexed like characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a side view, partly in elevation and partly in section. of a cutter embodying my improvements, the depressed cutting position of the mechanism being shown in dotted lines. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the cutter-head. Fig. 3 is a bottom plan view of the same. Fig. 4 is a vertical sectional view taken through the tubular cutter-blade and hollow spindle.

Referring now to'the accompanying drawings in detail, the letter A indicates, as a whole, the frame of the device, this comprising in the present instance the base-plate 5 and the supporting-standard 6, extending upward therefrom. Pivotally secured, as at 7 to the standard are the laterally-projecting approximately parallel arms 8 and 9, pivotally supporting and sustaining at their outer ends the cutter-head of the device, which latter I have designated as an entirety by B. The body of this cutter-head comprises, essentially, the horizontally-disposed top plate 10, which also forms a rest for the fingers of the operator in actuating the mechanism, a socketed casing or housing 11 for the reception of the cutter member or blade and its operating mechanism, and a vertically-disposed web or bar 12, formed integral with and connecting the parts 10 and 11. Through this web pass the pivot-pins 13 13, connecting the arms 8 and 9 to the head. The top plate is formed with a relatively large approximately circular opening 14, through which the body of the cigar is thrust to placethe tip thereof in the seat-opening 15 out in the portion 11, this apertured top plate insuring that the cigar when inserted shall be truly alined with the cutter-blade, so that the latter in its movement shall pierce the center ofthe cigar-tip. This tip-seat 15, which in the present instance is nearly circular in. form and has the wall thereof inclined or diverged outwardly to conform to the shape of the cigar end, communicates with the tubular socket 163, in which the cutter member proper moves. My preferred cutter comprises an approximately hollow cylindrical spindle portion 17, carrying a tubular perforating pin or blade 18, the point of the latter being beveled and sharpened. The spindle and blade are hollow or tubular to permit the cuttings to pass therethrough and drop into a receiving-cup in the base of the frame. Around the body of the spindle 17 there is formed the helical groove 19, designed to engage with and seat the similarly-arranged rib or thread 20, projecting from the inner wall of the socket, so that when a rotary motion is given to the spindle a reciprocating movement will simultaneously be imparted to the latter. In order to impart such rotary motion to the spindle and its cutter, the surface of the former is fluted or grooved longi tudinally, as at 21, to cooperate with the toothed or rack face 22 of the bar 23, the lat ter sliding in a way or slot 24:, extending transversely through the laterally-widened part 25 of the housing and meeting the socket portion at approximately right angles. The end of the smooth non-serrated part 26 of the bar 23 is connected with a short angular arm 27, which projects from the arm 9, the free extremity of the arm 27 being slotted for the reception of the set-screw 29, such slot being designated in the drawings by the numeral 28." The shank of the screw is threaded into the end of the bar, as is clearly seen in Fig. 3, this construction above recited permitting the arm 27 to have slidable movement relative to the bar the distance of the length of the slot.

From the above description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, the construction and operation of my invention will be readily understood. The cigar (shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1) is passed through the opening in the top plate 10 of the head and the tip rested in the seat-opening. The operator then depresses the cutter-head to the position shown in dotted lines in said figure by bearing upon the plate 10 with the fingers, and during the downward travel of the cutterhead the arm 27, swinging backward toward the vertical standard 6, will retract the bar 23. As the bar slides in its slot the rack portion thereof engaging with the fluted surface of the cutter-spindle will cause the latter to revolve, and the spindle will take a path of vertical movement in its socket through the cooperation of the ribs of the socket with the' helical groove in the spindle. .Thus the blade or cutter point will be advanced until it projects through the seat-opening, as is shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1, and the tip of the cigar will be neatly and thoroughly pierced or perforated, the cuttings passing through the tubular blade and hollow spindle and dropping into a receiver on the base of the frame. When the cigar is lifted from the cutter and pressure is removed from the head, the latter will be returned to its normally inoperative position through the medium of the tensionspring 30, bearing against the arm 9,v for the purpose of forcing and holding the latter in the position shown in full lines in Fig. 1.

The many advantages incident to my improved cutter other than those specified will be readily apparent, so that it is unnecessary to enumerate the same in detail. The supporting-frame may be made in any desired ornamental form or shape, and, while 1 have herein shown and described one embodiment of my invention it will of course be understood that I do not confine myself to all the precise details of construction thereof, as there may be modification and variation with respect to certain parts without departing from they spirit of the invention or sacrificing any of the advantages.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. A device of the character described comprising a supporting-frame, a cigar-receiving member pivotally connected therewith, said member comprising a socketed portion, an apertured top plate and a web connecting the socketed portion with the top plate, a rotatable reciprocating cutter mounted in the socketed portion and adapted to pierce or perforate the tip of a cigar placed in the receiving member, and means to actuate the cutteroperated by the depression of the cigar-receiving member.

2. A device of the character described comprising a supporting-frame, an arm, a cigarreceiving member pivotally connected to said arm, a reciprocating and rotating cutter carried by the receiving member and adapted to pierce or perforate a cigar placed in the receiving member, means operatively connected to said arm for imparting a rotary movement to thecutter, and means for reciprocating said cutter.

3. A device of the character described comprising a main frame, a depressible cigar-receiving member arranged adjacent to the main frame, and pivotally connected thereto, a rotary, reciprocating cutter carried by the cigarreceiving member, and means to actuate the cutter operated by the depression of the cigar-receiving member.

4. A device of the character described comprising a frame, a swinging cigar-receiving member mounted for movement on said frame, a reciprocating and rotating cutter carried thereby, means for rotating said cutter during giving reciprocating movement to the cutter. I

5. A device of the character described, comprising a frame, an arm pivoted thereto, a cigar-receiving member pivoted to said arm and having a seat therein for the reception of a tip of a cigar, said member having a socket communicating with the tip-seat, a cutter in said socket, a comparatively short arm projectingat an angle to the first-mentioned arm, and-means connected to said short arm for moving the cutter into the seat to pierce or cut a cigar resting therein.

6. In a device of the character described, a cutter-head, comprising a cutter-casing having a seat-opening for the reception of a cigar-tip, a horizontally-disposed top-plate spaced apart from the casing and having an aperture for the passage of a cigar-tip, a webplate connecting the top plate and casing, and a cutter in said casing adapted to be projected through the tip-opening in the casing.

7. The combination of a frame, the cutterhead, a pivotal'connection between the cutterhead and the frame, a rotatable, reciprocating cutting-blade carried by the head, and means connected to the pivotal connection for imparting movement to said cutter.

8. The combination of a frame, a cutterhead, a plurality of pivoted arms pivotally securing the cutter-head to the frame, said outter-head having a cigar-tip-receiving seat therein and a socket communicating with said seat, a spindle mounted to vertically reciprocate in said socket, a cutter-blade carried by said spindle and adapted to project into the tip-receiving seat during the reciprocation of the spindle, and means actuated by the movement of the cutter-head for operating said spindle and the blade.

9. The combination of a frame, a cigar-receiving member therefor, said member comprising an apertured top plate, a socketed cutter casing or housing connected to said top plate, a rotary cutter mounted in the socket of the housing, and means for impartinga rotary motion to the cutter.

10. The combination of a frame, a cigar-receiving member therefor, said member comprising an apertured top plate, a web and a socketed cutter casing or housing carried by said web, a fluted rotary spindle adapted to reciprocate in the socket of the casing, a rotary cutter-blade carried by said spindle, means for imparting a rotary motion to the spindle, said latter means comprising a rackbar movably mounted in a slot formed in the casing and communicating with the socket, such rack-bar engaging with the fluted surface of the spindle, and means for reciprocating the cutter.

11. The combination of aframe, an arm pivoted thereto, a cigar-receiving member pivoted to said arm, said receiving member having'a cigar-tip seat therein, a rotatable, reciprocating cutter mounted adjacent to the seat and adapted in its reciprocation to project into the latter, means for reciprocating the cutter means for rotating the cutter, and a connection between the last-mentioned means and the pivoted arm.

12. The combination of a frame, a cigar-receiving member therefor, said member having a seat therein for the reception of a cigar-tip,

an opening for the body of the cigar and a 7 seat for the tip, a rotating cutter mounted beneath said seat and adapted to be reciprocated to project into the seat, means for reciprocating the cutter and means including a sliding rack for rotating the cutter.

14. The combination of asupporting-frame, a plurality of arms pivoted to said frame, a cutter-head pivotally secured to said arms, a reciprocating and rotating cutter carried by the head, an angular arm extending from one of the first-mentioned arms, a sliding member connected to said angular arm and adapted to impart a rotary movement to the cutter, and means to reciprocate the cutter.

15. Thecombination of asupporting-frame,

a plurality of arms pivoted thereto, a cigar-re- 9 cigar-receiving member to its normal elevated position after it has been depressed.

16. The combination of a frame, an arm pivoted to said frame, a cigar-receiving member carried by said arm and having a seat therein for a tip of a cigar, a rotatable, vertically-reciprocating cutter mounted adjacent to said seat and adapted to be reciprocated to project into the seat when the member is depressed, means for elevating the receiving member to its normal position after it has been depressed, to move the cutter away from the seat, and means operated by the movement of the cigar-receiving member for actuating the cutter.

17. The combination of a frame, a swinging arm carried by said frame, a cigar-receiving member carried by said swinging arm and having a seat therein for the tip of a cigar, a vertically-reciprocating cutter mounted adjacent to the seat and adapted to be recipro cated to project into said seat when the swinging arm and the cigar-receiving member are depressed, a spring for returning the arm and cigar-receiving member to normal position after such parts have been depressed, and means for actuating the cutter operated by the depression of the cigar-receiving member.

18. The combination of a frame, a cigar-receiving member, a swinging support connect ing the cigar receiving member with the frame, a rotatable, reciprocating cutter carried by said cigar receiving member, and means actuated by the movement of the cigarreceiving member for operating said cutter.

19. Thecombination of aswingingsupport, a cigar-receiving member carried by said support, a vertically reciprocating and rotating cutter for said cigar-receiving member, means for reciprocating the cutter and means connected to the swinging support adapted to im part rotary movement to the cutter during the movement of the swinging support.

20. A device ofthe character described comprising a main frame, a depressible cigar-receiving member pivoted thereto, a rotary, reciprocating tubular spindle carried by said member, a tubular cutter-blade carried by the spindle, and means for actuating the spindle and the blade operated by the depression of the cigar-receiving member.

21. The combination of a main frame, a depressible cigar-receiving member pivotally connected to the main frame, a reciprocating and rotating cutter carried by said member, and means for imparting a rotary and reciprocating movement to said cutter.

22. Inadevice of the class described, a movable cigar-receiving member provided with a tip-seat and with a finger-rest in a different plane from said tip-seat, a reciprocating-and rotating cutter arranged to traverse the tipseat, and means actuated by the movement of the receiving member for imparting reciprocating and rotating movement to said cutter.

23. Inadeviceof the class described, a movable cigar-receiving member provided with a tip-seat and with a finger-rest in a plane above the tip-seat, a reciprocating and rotating cutter arranged to traverse the tip-seat, and means for giving reciprocating and rotating movement to said cutter on the movement of the cigar-receiving member.

24:. In a device of the class described, a depressible cigar receiving member, parallel arms pivoted to said member and adapted to sustain the same in normal position during its up-and-down movement, a reciprocating and rotating cutter, and means operated on the depression of said member for giving reciprocating and rotating movement to said cutter.

In testimony whereofI have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EDWIN WALKER.

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