Patent GB-189818945-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Cigarette Machines.
Inventor: MOONELIS EMIL
Filed: 1898-09-05
Granted: 1899-02-11
Abstract: 18,945. Moonelis, E. Sept. 5. Cigarette-making machines.-Relates to a machine for making single cigarettes, as distinguished from a continuous cigarette rod, and particularly the "all-tobacco" variety. The feeding-mechanism comprises a reciprocating carriage 1 moving on fixed guides 2 under the action of the cam-actuated lever 14. The carriage carries an endless belt passing over rollers 5, Fig. 7, journalled within it, and intermittently feeding tobacco to a smooth-faced feeder-roll 8 and a toothed feeder-roll 9 mounted on the shaft of the worm pinion 31, Fig. 1. The tobacco is fed into a hopper 12 during the time that the carriage is in its most rearward position. At this time a pinion on the shaft of the feederroll 9 comes into engagement with a continuously-rotating gear-wheel 25 journalled in a bracket on the main frame. The motion of the feeder-roll 9 is communicated at slower speed to the roll 8 and the rollers 5 through the medium of the worm pinion 31, worm gear 32, worm 35, wheel 36 on the shaft of the forward roller 5, and wheels 37, 38 driving the roll 8. On the forward movement of the carriage the feed stops, and by the action of the pin 42 on the lever 41, 43 the gate 46 of the hopper is opened and the tobacco discharged to a pocket in the apron 49 which rests on the rolling- table 51. Fig. 7 shows a tamping-device 58, which descends to compress the tobacco in the pocket when the carriage has returned to its rearward position. It is depressed by means of a cam-actuated rod 62 and lever 63<a>. The apron is secured at its forward end 52 to the table 51, its rear end being held by a rod 54 carried by duplicate rock levers 55, the cam-controlled movement of which enables it to be slackened to form the pocket for the tobacco and tightened during the process of rolling. This rolling is effected by the roller 68, carried by the rock-levers 70 and arranged to traverse the rolling-table from left to right. The pasted wrapper is placed on the table at the point 78, Fig. 7, before the roller 68 commences its movement. Fig. 9 shows the rolled cigarette c in the act of being released from the apron and discharged to the trimming-knives 79, which operate in conjunction with fixed blades 87, Fig. 1, the cuttings falling on side chutes 90 and the cigarettes by chute 88 to a receptacle 89. The operative parts of the machine are controlled by cams on the main shaft 21. Some modifications are shown in Fig. 19. An unpasted wrapper is placed on the apron, and a wrapper holder 97 carried by rock-levers 95 advances so as to hold it in place while a paste brush 130 descends together with the paste box 105 and grooved spreading-roller 108 to paste the edge of the wrapper. Intermittent rotation of the brush and spreading-roller is effected by the action of the pawl 110, supported by the carriage, and the ratchet-wheel 113 on the shaft of the spreading-roller. Curved cigarette-ejecting arms 140 project upwards between the trimming-knives from a pivoted deflector plate 141, and ensure the discharge of the cigarette. An endless belt 150 conveys wrappers to the operator. Further modifications relate to the cigarette-rolling mechanism. The levers 55 are operated by means of a cam-plate moving with the levers 70. The rolling-table is concave transversely, and the roller 68 has a concave periphery so that a cigarette is rolled tapering at both ends.