Patent GB-189815437-A (GB)
Title: Machine for Rolling Paper Mouth-pieces and Inserting them in the Tubes of Cigarettes.
Inventor: HAGELBERG GUSTAF ADOLF
Filed: 1898-07-13
Granted: 1899-07-13
Abstract: 15,437. Hagelberg, G. A., and Lindel÷f, L. July 13. Cigarette-making machines.-Relates to a machine for rolling paper mouthpieces and inserting them in the tubes of cigarettes. The main driving-shaft 14 of the machine is revolved by means of belt gearing or by means of a handle fixed to the flywheel 15. The paper for forming the mouthpieces is in the form of a roll, and is conducted between rollers 6 and 7. The paper is fed forward intermittently by the roller 6, which receives motion from a rack 27 operated by a cam 26 on the shaft 14, the said rack engaging a pinion 28 on the shaft of the roller. A cutting-arrangement 8, carried on a support 88, consists of two pairs of shears 9, 10 and 11, 12 arranged at an angle with each other. The cutters 10 and 12 are fixed, and the cutters 9 and 11 are secured to the part 8, which is oscillated about a shaft, motion being imparted through connecting-levers by a cam 24. The paper, after passing through the cutters, is seized by the jaws 54, 55, Figs. 1, 3, and 6, which are spring-controlled and are operated from a cam 42 connected by levers to the rocking shaft 46, upon the ends of which the rods carrying the jaws are coupled. A plunger 13, terminating in a spindle 64 provided with a slit to receive the paper, is employed to roll up the mouthpiece. The plunger receives an intermittent rotatory and reciprocating motion. The rotatory motion is derived, through the gear-wheels 18, 19, Fig. 1, from a pulley 16 which bears on a raised portion of the flywheel 15. The reciprocating motion is obtained from a cam 23 and a lever 82. A wing 17<1> on the end of the shaft 17 engages a piece on the flywheel 15 so as to cause the plunger 13 to occupy a position suitable for receiving the paper. In each of the jaws 54, 55 there is a movable spring-controlled pin 66, 67, at one end of which is fixed a washer k operated by the plunger 13, and at the other end one-half l of an obliquely-cut tube, which serves to facilitate the introduction of the paper mouthpiece into the paper cigarette tube. For pushing the mouthpiece into the paper tube, a rod 56 is provided which carries an arm 59 having a disc of the same external diameter as the mouthpiece surrounded by a hub 112. The rod 56 is operated by means of the cam 23 and lever 21. To hold the paper tube in position during the insertion of the mouthpiece, a pair of grippers are provided which are opened and closed by means of a wedge-piece which is actuated by a cam. The arrangement for transporting the tubes, Figs. 1 and 20, consists of a sloping holder 116, to which the tubes are admitted, and an elevating-device 125 which raises the tubes to the inclined plane 119, from whence they are carried away by the recessed cylinder 2. The piece 125 is operated by a lever 131, and is provided with a lip 133 which stops the motion of the piece 125 by striking against a projection 134. Owing to the action of the spring 127, the rod 128 carrying the container 129 completes the required movement. The cylinder 2 receives a rotatory motion from the cam 39 and lever 40, and a longitudinal motion from the cam 37. The tube is retained in position on the cylinder 2 by means of an arm 5, and is carried over the ends l of the oblique tube by the motion of the cylinder. The operation of the machine is as follows :- When the required length of paper has been cut off and wound upon the spindle 64, the mouthpiece occupies a position such that at one end it is surrounded by the hub 112 and at the other end by the ends l of the oblique tube, which are enclosed by a cigarette tube. The mouthpiece is fed forward into this tube, and the ends and the spindle 64 are withdrawn. The cigarette tube is now grasped by the grippers, and the rod 56 advances and pushes the mouthpiece until it has been fully inserted in the tube.