Patent GB-190408597-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Machines for Applying Bands or Labels to Cigars or other Articles.
Inventor: BRIGGS WILLIAM CYRUS
Filed: 1904-04-14
Granted: 1904-12-15
Abstract: 8597. Briggs, W. C. April 14. Affixing labels.-Relates to a cigar &c. banding or labelling machine. The cigars are fed by the hopper 2, Fig. 5, having adjustable side plates, to the travelling chains 3, which are adjusted in tension by the device 6<d> and pass round a shaft 6 driven intermittently by ratchet and eccentric gearing from the shaft 14. Plates 18, by which the width of the delivery opening may be varied, are used for guiding the cigars &c., and curved flanges 20 prevent them from rolling out of the pockets in the chains 3. The cigars are received by catches 21 on a rod 22, normally held in the position shown in Fig. 7 by a helical spring. The catches are, at intervals, moved into the position shown in Fig. 28 by arms attached to the rod 22 being engaged by an arm on the shaft 25 oscillated by ratchet gearing. The cigars are then delivered to a carrier 27, Fig. 7, which is similarly oscillated. The ribbon of printed bands or labels X passes from a spool through a guide 34 and between feed-rollers 35, which are intermittently driven by the chain 40, Fig. 5, toothed gearing, pawl 45, and crank-arm 49. The rod 48 is adjustably connected to the arm 46, so that the amount of motion given thereto may be regulated. The labels are cut by cutter3 37, Fig. 7, the lower one being reciprocated by a slide 51 having lugs 52 between which extends an arm 53 attached to the oscillating lever 9. The paste is forced to the paste wheel 38 by means of a weight 56, and ratchet gearing and piston working in a cylinder containing the paste. The paste wheel 38 is rotated by ratchet gearing 58 &c. The bands are pressed against the paste wheel by a spring table 39. The cigar is delivered from the carrier to a cradle consisting of arms 88 and arms 90 fast on the shaft 87. The arms 88 are prevented from moving freely on the shaft 87 by brakes. The hubs of the arms 90 are partially enclosed by flanges between which the pasted bank is guided. A band or belt 61, which is adjusted in tension by a spring metal plate 85, passes over the pulley 62, roller 63, and roller 64 loose on the rod 107 in bearings on the lever 70 on the shaft 65. The roller 64 and lever 70 are oscillated by the arm 66 and roller 67 working in a cam-groove, and form a pocket in which the cigar and pasted band rest, as shown in Fig. 28, a movable shield 84 formed with end pieces 108, Fig. 23, attached to the rod 107 and connected by a cross-piece 109, beneath which the wrapping-belt passes, closing the mouth of the pocket. Rails formed on the end pieces 108 bear against antifriction rollers on each side of the roller 63, and thus prevents the shield from coming in contact with the roller 63. A belt 72 which passes under the pulley 62 is then traversed by the roller 81 coming in contact with the nose-piece 79, and the wrapping-belt 61 is also traversed, the label being thus wrapped round the cigar. To prevent the cigar from adhering to the curved wall of the bracket, a separator 101 having fingers 100 controlled by a spring 102 is used, a spring hook 104 engaging a pin on one of the fingers 101 for this effect. The cigars are ejected by a cradle 111 oscillated by being connected to a cam 112 into which a roller 113 attached to the main frame projects.