US834334A - Combined key-ring, tag, cigar-cutter, and screw-driver. - Google Patents

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PATENTED OCT. 30, 1903. 0. G. TAYLOR. COMBINED KEY RING, TAG, CIGAR CUTTER, AND-SCREW DRIVER.

APPLICATION FILED 0OT.2, 190.5.

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(STATES PATENrr OFFICE oHARLEs elf TAriloRfoF'HART oRD, CONNECTICUT; comsmsb KEY-RING, TAG, IcieAnourrzn. 'AND scsEw-omvgm I v This invention relates to a combined imimplement for use as a tag for a keyerlng, a

; c1 ar-chpper, and ascrew-driver;

.' n the accompanying drawing the figure isa side view of the'lmproved implement.

. g Referring to the drawing, the numeral 5 designates a key-ring of any approved type;

"2, a tag perforated at 3 atone end to receive said key-ring and at 4 at its opposite ex' 1 tremity, the'perforation 4 being countersunk my more'readily to receive a ci ar-tip.-

Connected to, the back of tfte tag by a ivot 6" is a blade 6, shaped to form a screwriver 7 at one end and sharpened on its lower edge at 8 to form the movable knife9 5 ,As will be-o served from the drawing, the f lower end of plate ,6 is curved at 9 to con-- form to the curved lower surface of the tag 2 when said blade is turned upon its pivot to rest parallel with the longitudinal axis of said tag. L j v Q 7 a By.. ivoting the blade adjacent to the edge 0 the tag, as shown at 6., a broad bearing-surface is formed forsaid blade against the tag when it is swung at right angles thereto, thereby affording Suflicient support for the rounded end of the blade above its pivot to be sustained against deflection when'the device is used as a screw-driver;

In the drawing the blade 6 is shown swung 4 on its ivot to a partially open position, the screw river end of the same constituting a handle by which the blade maybe manipulated to clip off the ti of a cigar; but to" re-' vent interference withthe ocket the b ade maybe swung inward so t at it'will be in line with and will be concealed by the body of the tag. When the screw-driver 7 is to be used, the blade is swung downward on its pivot until Specification of Letters Patent.

I I Application flied October 2, 1905 Serial No. 281,071. l

Patented Qct.3d, 1906.

lane, when'the or turning the said end 7 lies in a vertical tag will serve as a handle screw-driver.

contiguous to the inner e ges, of the tag 2 and blade 6, thereby enabling the cutting edge 8- to be operated with the eatest amount of leverage. Furthermore, so locating the ivot the body of the blade 1s readily brought ack of the-tag, and when used as a screwdriver the blade finds a ready support against the rear wall of said'tag and 1s prevented from deflection while actuating the screw.

I am made aware that-it is not new to have a cigar-cutter in which the cutti -blade is pivoted upon anothenblade in which is the perforation for the cigar-tip; but in suchiconcutting end sharpened upon both sides with a oint, thus forming anerasera in 'my device vthe cutting-blade is pivoted jtag and adjacent'to the edgeof lthe'tag and has one cutting edge only on the side of'its pivot. a a

- With such construction as'described there is produced a cigar-cutter with which daner of the cuttmg edges of the cuttingfilade being movedto one side and catching into anything, such as the interior of a pocket, 1s obviated, as there is not an point to catch, and on one side the end of t ecutting-blade is blunt and could not catch, and

there is not a point to be pushed in, and an pressure a ainst that edge would rather tend to. swing t e blade into alinement with the other blade than to cause it tocut.

I claim is I I As anarticle of manufacture'an lmplement' curved and opposite the curve an inclined cutting edge, said plate vbeing; pivoted adjacent to its edge near the edge of the tag,

I As will be observed, the ivot 6 is located struction the cutting-blade is pivoted along a the middle lineof the other. blade and has its 7 off from. the middle line of-the perforated though the other side has a cutting edge Having thus described the invention, what consisting of an oblong tag provided with a curved lower end perforatedto receive a cigar-tip, and a plate shaped to tool form at its outer end, and having one extremity and being of substantially the length of the torsional strain when the tool at the end of :0 tag, whereby a long leverage is obtained, said plate isinuse. and'when the plate is turned on its pivot to ln'testimony whereof I afiix my signature at position parallel Withthe tag the cuttin in presence .of two witnesses. 5 edge will be concealed behind said tag, m

the curved surfaces of the late andteg will CHARLES TAYLOR be concentric, and when t eplate is turned Witnesses: at right an les to the tag a bearin -support S. S. GROTTA,

of the width of said tag is provide to resist FRANCES E. BLODGETT.

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