US3405718A - Cigarette sheath perforator - Google Patents

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US3405718A
US3405718A US560270A US56027066A US3405718A US 3405718 A US3405718 A US 3405718A US 560270 A US560270 A US 560270A US 56027066 A US56027066 A US 56027066A US 3405718 A US3405718 A US 3405718A
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A24—TOBACCO; CIGARS; CIGARETTES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES; SMOKERS' REQUISITES
    • A24F—SMOKERS' REQUISITES; MATCH BOXES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES
    • A24F13/00—Appliances for smoking cigars or cigarettes
    • A24F13/24—Cigar cutters, slitters, or perforators, e.g. combined with lighters
    • A24F13/26—Cigar cutters, slitters, or perforators, e.g. combined with lighters formed as pocket devices

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  • a device for preforating the paper wrapper of a cigarette is formed of a longtiudinally extending tubular support member arranged to receive and hold at least a major portion of the length of a cigarette. Diametrically opposed longitudinally extending rows of apertures are provided in the support member.
  • Enclosing the support member is a housing which contains a pair of plate members located along the oppositely disposed lines of apertures. Each plate member contains a number of rods aligned with the apertures through the support member. Normally, the plate members are spring biased in a position spaced outwardly from the support member. Buttons or projections are formed on the outer surface of the plate members and extend through openings in the housing so that the projections are accessible from the exterior of the housing. When the projections are depressed inwardly the plate members move toward the support member and their rod members pass through the apertures in the support member for perforating a cigarette disposed within the member. Accordingly, in a single mechanical operation perforations are formed in the paper Wrapper of a cigarette disposed within the support member.
  • the apertures through the support member are offset in the longitudinal direction on opposite sides of the support member.
  • This invention relates to a device for the perforation of a cigarette paper tubular sheath in several spots.
  • the object of the present invention is to provide a device for perforating the paper sheath of a cigarette with a plurality of apertures along its length whereby, when being smoked, the smoke drawn from the burning end is diluted with air drawn in through the apertures thus reducing the irritating effects of the smoke.
  • a device for the perforation of the paper of a cigarette at a plurality of points along the length thereof comprising means defining a support for the cigarette, said support means having apertures therein, and rod means slidable in the apertures, said rod means being arranged to move inwardly to perforate a cigarette in said support means.
  • a device for forming a plurality of apertures in two rows along the length of a cigarette, the apertures on one row being out-of-phase with those of the other row said device comprising a tubular cigarette-receiving member having apertures therein corresponding to those to be placed in the cigarette, a casing substantially surrounding said member and having two opposed longitudinal walls each with an opening therein, a pin slidable in each said aperture of the tubular member, a first plate carrying the pins of one row, a second plate carrying the pins of the other row, a first button rigid with the first plate and extending outwardly through one of said openings, a second button rigid with the second plate and extending outwardly through the other of said openings, a first leaf spring biasing the first plate and pins outwardly, and a second leaf spring biasing the second plate and pins outwardly, pressure on said buttons inwardly causing said pins to produce said apertures in the cigarette.
  • FIG. 1 is a longitudinal section of the device
  • FIG. 2 is an external view of the device as viewed from the direction indicated by arrows IIII of FIG. 1;
  • FIG. 3 is a cross-section of the device on the line III-III of FIG. 1;
  • FIG. 4 is a cigarette perforated by the device of FIGS. 1 to 3.
  • an inner body 1 in one or two pieces defines a longitudinal support 1a for a cigarette S, which is introduced to the support 1a through an intake opening 1b.
  • the support is closed at the opposite end, by a wall 10 acting as an end-stop for the cigarette.
  • a wall 10 acting as an end-stop for the cigarette.
  • Radially-movable rods 3 can slide in openings 2 and the inner ends project into the central support .la, and can thereby perforate the paper tubular sheath of the cigarette S.
  • the rods are secured to two diametrally opposite operating plates or other members 4.
  • Each member 4 has an outer push-button 4a which on application of external pressure causes the rods to slide radially inwardly.
  • the two push-buttons 4a may be actuated to obtain simultaneously the movement of the two series of rods 3 in the centripetal directions.
  • the operational members 4 are assembled within recesses 5d formed in the two portions A and B of the easing 5.
  • Leaf springs 6, having openings 6a for the passage of the rods 3, are mounted between the inner walls of the operational members 4 and the outside of the body 1, provided, over the apropriate length, with flat portions 10 for supporting the springs.
  • the springs 6 bias the push-buttons 4a outwardly and allow for the insertion of the cigarette by retracting the rods 3.
  • the two operational members 4 although similar to each other, carry rods 3 which are not mounted. symmetrically with respect to the actuation axis of the push- 'buttons 4a. Said members are mounted with one reversed with respect to the other in order to present the rods 3 of each member, offset or out-of-phase with respect to those of the other member, so that the perforations in the cigarette paper sheath are not opposite each other. Furthermore, flanges 1e allow for accurate setting up of the inner body 1 within the casing 5, and complete the guide surfaces for the members 4.
  • the hereinbefore described device with the full introduction of the cigarette S into the central tubular support 1a of the inner body 1 and by the simultaneous pressing of two push-buttons 4a, effects the formation of the apertures F, as shown in FIG. 4.
  • the apertures are formed along two diametrically opposite generating lines corresponding to the lines of the two series of the rods 3, and out-of-phase by the same amount as the two series of the rods.
  • the device enables, with a single operation
  • the device may also be used for the perforation of the flattened or oval section cigarettes, by means of a preliminary handling of the same cigarettes, as generally occurs to the conventional cigarettes of the flattened type before lighting them, to make then rounder and thus adaptable to the circular cross-section of the central support 1a.
  • a preliminary handling of the same cigarettes as generally occurs to the conventional cigarettes of the flattened type before lighting them, to make then rounder and thus adaptable to the circular cross-section of the central support 1a.
  • the device enables perforation of a cigarette immediately before the lighting thereof.
  • a device for forming perforations in the paper wrapper of a cigarette at positions along the length of the cigarette spaced from its mouth piece, and comprising a longitudinally extending tubular support member arranged to receive in closely fitting engagement at least a major portion of the length of a cigarette, said support member having a first and a second lonigtudinally extending row of apertures arranged therethrough said support member, said second row of apertures disposed on the opposite side of said support member from said first row of apertures, and said apertures disposed in said second row offset longitudinally with respect to said apertures in said first row, a housing laterally enclosing said support member, said housing spaced from said support member at least along the rows of said apertures and forming recesses therebetween, a first plate member disposed within one of the recesses radially outwardly from an opposite said first row of apertures, a second plate member disposed within another one of the recesses radially outwardly from and oppoite said second row of apertures,
  • tubular support member is closed at one end and is open at the other end for inserting a cigarette therein whereby said support member is arranged to receive substantially the entire length of the cigarette with the exception of the mouthpiece end thereof.
  • said means for biasing said first and second plates comprising a pair of leaf springs, each of said leaf springs contacting the radially outer surface of said support member and the radially inner surface of one of said first and second plate members.
  • tubular support member has a circular transverse section for receiving a cigarette in closely fitting relationship.

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US4046152A (en) * 1976-09-13 1977-09-06 Jac Eduard Purdon Cigar-cigarette perforating devices
US4061148A (en) * 1975-10-11 1977-12-06 Imperial Group Limited Perforating apparatus for articles
WO1979000518A1 (en) * 1978-01-17 1979-08-09 H Thompson Methods and apparatus for treating smoking articles
US5218976A (en) * 1991-10-16 1993-06-15 Products And Patents, Ltd. Device to perforate packaged cigarettes
US20030110639A1 (en) * 2001-12-17 2003-06-19 Zimmerman Iii Clarence Cigarette air hole puncher
US20110277327A1 (en) * 2010-05-12 2011-11-17 Reid Gerald W Cigar Cutter
US9220300B1 (en) 2013-11-19 2015-12-29 Louis F. Vastano Cigarette puncturing device
US11213069B2 (en) * 2019-05-28 2022-01-04 Jana Jones Marshall Cigar piercer

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US210501A (en) * 1878-12-03 Improvement in cigar-perforator and match-box
US582706A (en) * 1897-05-18 Combined match-box and cigar-perforator
FR339557A (fr) * 1904-01-13 1904-06-13 William John Dixon Machine à percer l'extrémité des cigares avant de les fumer
US1518663A (en) * 1924-02-01 1924-12-09 George D Martin Cigar holder
US1938524A (en) * 1930-01-10 1933-12-05 William J Ground Holder for cigars or cigarettes
DE591435C (de) * 1934-01-22 Georg Skoda Zigarrenspitze mit nach aussen federndem Haltedorn
US2690754A (en) * 1952-03-18 1954-10-05 Burthey Claudie Coleman Cigarette shielding cigarette holder
GB893026A (en) * 1959-06-10 1962-04-04 Extractar Rights Ltd Improvements in or relating to smokers' accessories

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US210501A (en) * 1878-12-03 Improvement in cigar-perforator and match-box
US582706A (en) * 1897-05-18 Combined match-box and cigar-perforator
DE591435C (de) * 1934-01-22 Georg Skoda Zigarrenspitze mit nach aussen federndem Haltedorn
FR339557A (fr) * 1904-01-13 1904-06-13 William John Dixon Machine à percer l'extrémité des cigares avant de les fumer
US1518663A (en) * 1924-02-01 1924-12-09 George D Martin Cigar holder
US1938524A (en) * 1930-01-10 1933-12-05 William J Ground Holder for cigars or cigarettes
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US4061148A (en) * 1975-10-11 1977-12-06 Imperial Group Limited Perforating apparatus for articles
US4046152A (en) * 1976-09-13 1977-09-06 Jac Eduard Purdon Cigar-cigarette perforating devices
WO1979000518A1 (en) * 1978-01-17 1979-08-09 H Thompson Methods and apparatus for treating smoking articles
US4463770A (en) * 1978-01-17 1984-08-07 Harold Thompson Methods and apparatus for treating smoking articles
US5218976A (en) * 1991-10-16 1993-06-15 Products And Patents, Ltd. Device to perforate packaged cigarettes
US20030110639A1 (en) * 2001-12-17 2003-06-19 Zimmerman Iii Clarence Cigarette air hole puncher
US20110277327A1 (en) * 2010-05-12 2011-11-17 Reid Gerald W Cigar Cutter
US9220300B1 (en) 2013-11-19 2015-12-29 Louis F. Vastano Cigarette puncturing device
US11213069B2 (en) * 2019-05-28 2022-01-04 Jana Jones Marshall Cigar piercer

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