Patent GB-190210955-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Cigarette Making Machinery.
Inventor: NEWTON PHILIP ARTHUR
Filed: 1902-05-13
Granted: 1902-11-27
Abstract: 10,955. Newton, P. A., [American Tobacco Co.]. May 13. Cigarette-making machines. -Fig. 1 shows a side view, and Fig. 5 a plan of the machine with certain parts broken away. Tobacco is fed into the machine by the endless band e, which lies in a recess in the upper table f provided' with adjustable slides h. The main shaft a drives the inclined shaft m, which drives the horizontal shaft o provided with a cam disc p operating a bent lever actuating a second lever carrying a pawl engaging a ratchet-wheel gearing with the wheel 3 of the shaft 5 of the band-carrying roller j. The roller 24 leaves a narrow space through which the tobacco is fed to the disintegrating-mechanism, consisting of sliding bars 7, 8 connected by a lever 14, operated from the camp by the rod 13, and carrying horizontal bars 10, 11 respectively provided with three and with two rows of pickers. The disintegrated tobacco falls between reciprocating side plates, operated by projections on the bars 7, 8, upon the conveyer 15, which carries it between guide-plates to meet the belt 25. The tobacco is then carried between the belts 15, 25 beneath the roller 55 to the shaping-mechanism, the charge being separated by a cam - actuated knife. The conveying-mechanism is operated intermittently by means of segmental gearing provided with suitable starting-mechanism. The shaping-mechanism, shown in section in Fig. 23, comprises a case formed by fixed bottom plates 62, adjustable side blocks 64, a movable plate 63 operated by a cam-actuated lever and carrying a block 94, a glass cover 70, and ends respectively provided with an adjustable inlet and two adjustable outlets. The tobacco, formed into cores by the blocks 64. 94, is forced out by the reciprocating rammers 96, carried by slides which are reciprocated by means of side racks 109, a connecting gear-wheel 110, and a rack 108 attached to one slide and operated by the segment 107. The cigarette tubes or shells are supplied from a hopper 126 provided with two delivery channels, each having a side plate adjusted by the screws 130, and a reciprocating side plate operated by slides actuated by a three-armed lever. The shells are prevented from falling down the channels by spring-held cut-offs. The shells are transferred to the nozzles of the outlets of the shaping-mechanism by sliding bars having stepped upper surfaces and carrying wedge-shaped cams 145, which operate pins 148 on the cut-offs. The shell is held on the nozzle by a rubber roll carried by a three-armed lever. The filled shells or cigarettes, removed by cam-actuated levers, drop upon an endless band 163, which is provided with a series of small projections, such as beads threaded upon a string. The cigarettes are moved into position by means of a lever lying at one side of the band and an angle bar carried by a second lever at the other side. A pair of narrow tapes overlying the belt serve to support and forward the cigarettes when they leave it. A rotating drum lying beneath the tapes carries projecting blades which place the cigarettes accurately at right-angles to their line of travel before the tapes deliver them to the pockets or recesses in the surface of the carrying-drum, in which they are supported while the ends are cut by a rotating blade carried by a shaft adjustably supported by cone screws. The cigarettes are positioned in the carrying- drum, before cutting, by means of an adjustable cam surface and a striking spring piece operating on opposite ends, and are held in place by spring plates carried by a rod supported in the frame of the machine. After cutting, the cigarettes are returned to the tapes by the carrying-drum, and transmitted to a carrier which removes them from the machine.