Cigarette puncher

Claim 2

A cigarette puncher comprising a body member, an elongated guide slot in said body member of a width permitting the snug insertion of the end of a cigarette therein and an elongated punch member mounted in one end of said elongated guide slot having an axis parallel to the axis thereof, whereby a cigarette positioned in said slot can be moved into engagement with said elongated punch member to effect the punching of an aperture in the paper of the cigarette, wherein said body member includes a clip portion, a punch carrier portion connected to the clip portion by a bent end connector portion with the clip portion being of a width to be received snugly within one end of a cigarette pack and additionally including a rotary punch support means mounted on said punch carrier portion and having a plurality of individual punch members of different diameter mounted thereon.

Claim 3

The invention of claim 1 wherein said rotary punch support means includes an actuator lever engageable with detent means so as to be positionable in one of several different positions with each of said different positions correspondingly positioning one of said punch members in the lower end of said elongated guide slot.

Claim 4

The invention of claim 1 additionally including a cigarette lift tab on a lower end of the clip portion to be positioned at the bottom of the pack when the clip portion is received in the pack.

Claim 5

The invention of claim 3 wherein said rotary punch support means includes an actuator lever engageable with detent means so as to be positionable in one of three different positions with each of said different positions correspondingly positioning one of said punch members in the lower end of said elongated guide slot.

Claim 6

The invention of claim 1 wherein said punch members are of cylindrical shape and have an outer cutter end planar surface canted at an acute angle with respect to the axis of the punch member.

Claim 7

A cigarette puncher comprising a body member, an elongated closed ended guide slot in said body member of a width permitting the snug insertion of the end of a cigarette therein and an elongated punch member of generally cylindrical shape having an outer cutter end planar surface canted at an acute angle with respect to its axis mounted in one end of said elongated guide slot having an axis parallel to the axis thereof, whereby a cigarette positioned in said slot can be moved into engagement with said elongated punch member to effect the punching of an aperture in the paper of the cigarette and wherein said body member includes a clip portion and a punch carrier portion, said clip portion being dimensioned to be received in one end of a cigarette pack having parallel front and rear relatively large panels joined by parallel end panels of smaller size with said clip portion being of a width slightly less than the width of the end panels and said body member further including a bent end connector portion connecting said punch carrier portion to said clip portion and wherein said closed ended guide comprises first and second aligned slot portions respectively provided in the punch carrier portion and the clip portion.

Claim 8

A cigarette puncher comprising a body member, an elongated closed ended guide slot in said body member of a width permitting the snug insertion of the end of a cigarette therein and an elongated punch member of generally cylindrical shape having an outer cutter end planar surface canted at an acute angle with respect to its axis mounted in one end of said elongated guide slot having an axis parallel to the axis thereof, whereby a cigarette positioned in said slot can be moved into engagement with said elongated punch member to effect the punching of an aperture in the paper of the cigarette and wherein said body member includes a clip portion and a punch carrier portion, said clip portion being dimensioned to be received in one end of a cigarette pack having parallel front and rear relatively large panels joined by parallel end panels of smaller size with said clip portion being of a width slightly less than the width of the end panels and said body member further including a bent end connector portion connecting said punch carrier portion to said clip portion and wherein said closed ended guide comprises first and second aligned slot portions respectively provided in the punch carrier portion and the clip portion.

Claim 9

The invention of claim 6 wherein said punch carrier portion includes a rotary punch support means from which a plurality of different diameter punch members extend.

Claim 10

The invention of claim 7 wherein said rotary punch means includes an actuator lever engageable with detent means so as to be positionable in each one of a plurality of portions correspondingly positioning one of said punch members in one end of said elongated closed ended guide slot.