Patent GB-191015931-A (GB)
Title: A Machine for Cutting, Folding, and Collecting Cigarette and other Papers.
Inventor: MAYER-VERRIE JULIUS
IPC: B65H31/24
Filed: 1910-07-04
Granted: 1911-02-09
Abstract: 15,931. Verrie, J. Mayer-. July 4. Delivery apparatus; cutting-apparatus.-Two partly-overlapping strips 1 of cigarette or other partly-overlapping strips 1 of cigarette or other paper, previously gummed, printed, or otherwise treated, are cut by a shears 2 into sheets, which are laid on a table 7, and held by one of a series of plates 3 while their non-overlapping edges are folded over the plate by hinged flaps 12. Presser feet 14, 16 hold the papers in position and the operation is repeated until the required number are collected and folded. The plates 3 are mounted either on a vertical or horizontal spindle. In one form, having a vertical spindle, the plates 3, Figs. 1 and 2, are mounted on vertical slides 8 on a carrier which is turned on a vertical spindle through a rightangle after 60 sheets have been collected by one plate, to bring the next plate into operative position by geneva gearing 4, 5, 6. When two strips are laid on the table 7, the slide 8 carrying the plate 3 which is above the table, is depressed by a cam-operated rod 9, to clamp the papers on the table. A sliding spring- controlled clamping-finger 14 is then depressed through cam-operated levers and rods 17, 19, 20, 21 until the ends of the paper strips are able to spring past the finger, which then closes and clamps the strips against the under side of the plate 3. This plate is then still further depressed, lowering the table 7 against the action of a spring 11, and thereby tilting, through the action of levers 13, the hinged flaps 12, which fold the outer parts of the paper strips over the plate 3. Cam-operated fingers 15 complete the movement of the flaps 12, and a spring-controlled sliding finger 16, cam-operated through rods 17<a> 22 is raised and depressed to clamp the papers above the plate 3. With the papers thus held, the plate 3 is raised and the operations are repeated until the desired number of papers, in this case sixty, have been collected. In another form of apparatus, Fig. 12, having the plates 3 mounted on an horizontal spindle, the table is made in two parts, each mounted on springs 39 attached to pivoted brackets which are turned down and sideways by cam-operated levers 25, 24 to allow a plate 3 to pass each time two sheets have been collected, folded, and clamped by the fingers 45, 46. The plates 3 in this case are moved through an angle of 45‹ at each movement. While no plate is present on the table 3 the two slips are fed on to the table and cut, and at the next movement of the plates they are folded and clamped, this sequence being continued until the desired number of sheets is collected on each plate 3. The folding-flaps are in this case worked by cam-operated levers. The plates 3 may be hollowed in the middle to allow for the double thickness of paper, and may have means for holding a paper base or shell for the folded papers. The cutting-knives 2 are preferably set sloping. In some cases the sheets may be merely collected on a slightly-curved table with curved holder and finger.