Patent GB-190310679-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Cigarette Machines.
Inventor: NEWTON PHILIP ARTHUR
Filed: 1903-05-11
Granted: 1904-04-14
Abstract: 10,679. Newton, P. A., [American Tobacco Co.]. May 11. Cigarette - making machines.-The machine is of the type in which a continuous paper strip is wrapped about a continuous filler rod of tobacco and the edges are pasted together to form a continuous cigarette rod which is afterwards cut into cigarette lengths. The machine forms cigarettes of flat or elliptical or other form. The tobacco, shaped to rod form by rollers such as those shown at 11, Fig. 2, passes into a shaped trough 25, Figs. 13, 15, and 17, along with the paper wrapper x and an endless feed tape y. The guiding-flanges are, preferably, formed on separate parts 27, 28, Fig. 13. The tobacco is compressed by means of the rollers 36, 35, Fig. 2, and the filler rod, thus formed, then passes beneath the adjustable tongue 40, Fig. 15, which has a free end. One edge of the wrapper x is next pasted by the pasting- diso 60, folded over, and pressed down first by the rotating brush 51, Fig. 2, or the like, and next by the adjustable strip 52, Fig. 17. The feed tape y is here deflected outwards and downwards to leave the trough. The cigarette rod, after passing beneath the piece 55, Fig. 2, next arrives at the guides 85, 86, between which it is cut by a rotary knife 88. The cigarettes are then pressed to form and ejected. Figs. 2 and 6 show one form of the pasting-mechanism. The pasting-disc 60, adjustable axially by means of the screws 73, 74, bears against the paste roll 61, provided with an adjustable doctor blade 65, which is notched at 66 for producing a line of paste on the roll 61. Grinding- rolls 63, 64 are arranged as shown. The rolls 61, 63, 64 rotate in the paste trough 62 detachably connected to the slide 71, which can be adjusted on the bracket 70 by the screw 72. The bracket 70 can be tilted on the slide 75 by the screw 78 and the slide 75 can be adjusted on the frame 76 by the screw 77. The bracket 70 carries the pasting-disc. In a simpler form, shown in Fig. 22, the pasting- disc 60 is carried by an arm 151, which is pivoted on the axis of the past roll 61, and is adjusted by a screw 152. The cutting and pressing mechanism is shown in Figs. 2 and 18. The cutting-disc 88 is carried by a lever 91, 94 provided with an adjustable arm 97 bearing on the broad cam 96. The cigarette v is pressed between the spring-supported die 110 and the die 111 actuated by the lever 114 adjustably connected to the lever 94. The cutting and pressing mechanism is mounted on a slide so that it follows the movement of the cigarette rod. The slide is reciprocated by the eccentric 89, Fig. 2, and the connecting-rod 90, Figs. 2 and 18. Fig. 25 shows a modification of the cutting and pressing mechanism. The stationary die 160 is provided with guiding-eyes for the cigarette rod, and the movable die 162 is reciprocated by the arms 166 connected to the lever 164 operated by the arm 167. This arm is fixed to the arm 168, which depends from the cutting-lever 169. To prevent the cigarette from sticking to the die 162, a laterallymovable plate 170 is provided, operated by the bellcrank lever 171. The grooves in the dies may have rounded edges for forming creases on the edges of the elliptical cigarettes.