Abstract: The invention relates to a cutter for cutting the tip off a cigar. The cutter has a flat housing with mutually aligned openings which are arranged on a wide side of the housing and form a through-opening for inserting the cigar. The cutter further includes at least one flat blade 6 which is arranged in the housing and has lateral sliding surfaces 6a, 6b which are guided in an essentially straight path between corresponding mutually parallel guide surfaces 2a, 2b disposed in the housing. Also disposed in the housing is a resilient element 2 which is biased against one of the sliding surfaces 6a of the blade . The blade 6 can be moved with a handle 6c to slide the blade edge 6d into the plane of the through-opening. The resilient element has the form of a leaf spring 8 with a nose-shaped projection 9 which lockingly and releasably engages with a groove 6e formed in the sliding surface 6a of the blade when the blade (6, 7) is retracted.

Abstract: A collapsible cigar corer tool assembly is disclosed having a body and a collapsible cigar corer including at least one cutting aperture with a fixed, circumferential, cutting blade. The cap of a cigar is prepared for coring an opening by urging the cap against the cutting blade and by rotating the cigar relative to the aperture. The cigar corer is mounted on the tool assembly such that it pivots between two positions, a first closed position in which the cutting aperture is housed within the body, and a second open position in which the cutting aperture is in an operative position outside the body.