Cigar ventilating device

A cigar ventilating device, comprising:

• support body means, guide socket means at a forward end of said support body means for receiving an end portion of a cigar, piercing means within said forward end of said support body means, actuating means connected to said piercing means to control movement of said piercing means in a forward piercing direction to enter and form a hole in a cigar end portion positioned in said guide socket means and then in an opposite rearward retracting direction to withdraw from the hole so formed, spring means for urging said piercing means and said actuating means in said rearward retracting direction, interengageable stop means associated with said piercing means and said support body for limiting movement of said piercing means and said actuating means in said rearward retracting direction, said actuating means being at a rearward end of said device and being engageable by the thumb of a user to move said piercing means in said forward actuating direction against the action of said spring means, an elongated projectile having a forward end portion forming said piercing means and having a rearwardly facing annular shoulder at the rear end of said piercing means, said support body means having a central passage receiving said projectile and including an annular portion which projects inwardly into said passage to provide forwardly and rearwardly facing annular shoulders, said interengageable stop means being formed by said rearwardly facing annular shoulder of said projectile and said forwardly facing annular shoulder of said body means, and said spring means comprising a coiled compression spring around a rearward portion of said projectile and having a forward end engaged with said rearwardly facing annular shoulder of said body means.