US171584A - Improvement in cigar-cutters - Google Patents

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LSHEPARD.

CIGAR-CUTTER.

v A 11mm (0 Patented Deg. 28,1876.

N.FETER5. PHUTO-LITHOGRAFHER, WASHINGTON, D C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JACKSON SHEPARD, OF ALLEGHENY, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT I N ClGA'R-CUTTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 171,584, dated December 28, 1875; application filed November 15, 1875.

- To all whom it may concern:

tion, in which Figure I" is an end elevation. Fig. 2 is a side elevation.

This invention relates to cigar-cutters; and consists in the construction and arrangement of parts, as hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, A represents the bed -block, generally of wood, cut away at the back for attachment to a table. It is grooved endwise on top for the cigars, and has the usual scale and movable guard. Pivoted at the end of the bed-block A at b is a wrist-lever, B, working in a vertical plane transversely of the bed A. Outside this lever B, resting against the shoulder-pins c c, is the under knife 0, which has a concave cuttingedge, as shown, and extending over the end surface of the block A, the concave edge corresponding to the groove in bed A. Outside of this, and pivoted to the prolonged shoulderpin 0, is the upper knife D, which also has a concave cutting-edge, as shown. Its lower end is slotted, and in it works the lower end of lever B, which is bent over to suit. Then attached to a pin on the face of knife 0, and to the end of lever B, which projects through the slot in knife D, is a retractile spring, .5", to keep the knives always apart after using, so as to be ready for the next cut. The rear upper edge of the block is recessed as a thumbhole, a, so that in laying the cigar in position it may be held while cutting, without liability of the thumb to slip or press against the sharp edge of the block.

The lever B is bent over at its rear end, so

as to come'in toward the middle of device.

The purpose of this is the purpose of my invention, namely-to allow the operator to cut the cigar with one hand, and with the same handadjust and hold the cigar at the proper position. This will be seen from the following operation: v

The slide being adjusted, the uncut cigar is laid in the groove, with its fag end projecting over knife 0, the thumb of operator lying out of the way in recess' a. Then, while holding the cigar thus, he brings his wrist, or the ball of his hand, down upon the lever B, depressing its near end, throwing its far end up, and with it the slotted end of knife D, which then comes down, and the cigar is cut off neatly between the two knives. Pressure being released, the spring throws the knives clear of each other, and the device is ready again.

In case a left-handed man wishes to use thehaving its upper end curved to form acuttingblade, and its shank slotted, the operating-lever B, having its short arm connected to said slotted shank, and its long arm projecting forward and laterally toward the bed, substantially as shown, whereby the hand that holds the cigar, or the wrist thereof, may manipulate the lever, as set forth.

2. The bed-block A of a cigar-cutting machine, having the recessed thumb-hole a and longitudinal cigar-channel, substantially as.

shown, and for the purpose specified.

In testimony that I claim-the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 22d day of October, 1875.

. JACKSON SHEPARD. Witnesses:

JOHN MILLER, F. J. MCTIGHE.

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