Device for Trimming the Tip of a Cigar
AssigneeCigarmedics, Inc.
InventorLuigi Lucente
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Abstract
A cigar cutter has a housing into which a moveable actuator assembly extends. A rotatable cutter blade is located in a hollow space of the housing, the cutter blade rotating in the hollow space under the control of the moveable actuator assembly. A receptacle adjacent the rotatable cutter blade receives the tip of a cigar, and rotation of the cutter blade in the hollow space severs the cigar tip from the remainder of the cigar. The residue formed by the severed tip is then discarded. A hemispherical-shaped cut is created at the tip of the cigar.
Claims14
A cigar cutter, comprising:
- a housing;
- a movable actuator assembly extending into the housing;
- a rotatable cutter blade in the housing, the cutter blade operatively connected to the actuator, the cutter blade disposed in at least one hollow space in the housing, the cutter blade including a sharp blade edge;
- a receptacle adjacent the at least one hollow space, the receptacle and the at least one hollow space adapted to receive a tip of a cigar, the tip of the cigar extending into the at least one hollow space and adjacent the sharp blade edge;
- the actuator assembly moveable between a first position in the housing where the cutter blade is in a first inert rotative position, and a second position where the cutter blade has traversed a hemispherical path.
A method of trimming the tip of a cigar from a cigar, comprising the steps of:
- locating the tip of the cigar adjacent and in the projected path of a cutting blade, the cutting blade being rotatable about a central axis, the cutting blade having a sharp blade edge;
- rotating the cutting blade, the sharp blade edge cutting into the tip of the cigar and severing the tip of the cigar from the remainder of the cigar.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.