Patent GB-190623468-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Machines for Making Cheroots and the like.
Inventor: BOLLE CARL
Filed: 1906-10-23
Granted: 1907-09-12
Abstract: 23,468. BollÚ, C., [Brown, C. H.]. Oct. 23. Cheroots.-Relates to a cheroot &c. making machine of the rolling-apron type. The tobacco is placed in a hopper C, Fig. 2, having a revolving base 56 provided with a series of recesses 58 arranged in a circle eccentric to the casing of the hopper. These recesses are filled by means of blades 60, Fig. 4, and are intermittently and successively brought into position above a box L, Fig. 2, carried by a vertically reciprocating rod 5, whereby the doors 66 of the recess are opened and the tobacco is discharged into the box, which carries it down to the pocket in the rolling-apron. The apron F, which is of the shape shown in Fig. 14, operates in the same manner as that described in Specification No. 13,033, A.D. 1904, and is fastened at one end to a roller 343 mounted on the front end of the platform D, Fig. 5, which is carried by a frame 40 pivoted at 41, and at the other end to a spring- controlled bracket on the rear end of the platform, after passing over the bunch roller. This roller 46, Fig. 8, is journaled in a carriage G, which is pivoted to a vertical spindle 49 mounted on a bracket 250 sliding on a truck 251. The roller, which is preferably made with a double taper as shown, each half being independent, is' mounted on a pivoted frame 82, the swinging motion being obtained in one direction by the spring 30 and in the other ,by a bell-crank lever 25 and stop 26. A wrapper 201 and binder 202; of the shape shown in Fig. 5, are placed in position on a leaf-carrier I, Fig. 4, which is supported by a swinging hollow bracket, and are transferred to the apron F, on which they are momentarily held by a clamping- device 13 fixed to the box L, Fig. 2. The tobacco having been deposited in the pocket, which has been formed -by a plate carried by a spring-controlled rod 99, Fig. 2, operated by levers from a bell-crank 18 and stop 19, the bunch roller mounted on the carriage moves forwards to the position shown in Fig. 12 ; and a tapered pin 85 is shot forwards, to tighten the pocket about the tobacco, by a cam 92, Fig. 8, which is rocked by a lever 94 and a stop 95. The carriage then swings about its pivot through an arc, contracting the inner end of the pocket to form the inner end of the cheroot; immediately afterwards, the platform D swings about the pivot 49 contracting the outer end of the pocket, as shown in Fig. 14, and forming the outer end of the cheroot. By and during these operations the binder and wrapper are rolled on the tobacco, and a pasting-brush 79, Fig. 2, applies paste to the wrapper along the lines 78, Fig. 5. On completion of the rolling,' the cheroot falls upon cutters H, Fig. 5, the blades 54, 55 of which shear the ends. The main shaft 140, Fig. 6, of the machine operates the plate 185, Fig. 2, by means of a cam 222, bowl 221, and rod 180, Fig. 6. The racks 164, 165, Fig. 2, actuate the pasting-brush through bevel - wheels 43, 44, sprocket - wheels 161, 282, sprocket-chain 163, and a shaft 131 ; the shaft 5 carrying the box L is reciprocated from shaft 63, Fig. 2. The revolving base 56 of 'the hopper is rotated by means of a shaft 209, Fig. 6, and a star-wheel. The carriage is oscillated by means of a cam 145 acting through the lever 147 and pivot 49, Fig. 6, while the platform is operated by a similar cam 150. The leaf-carrier is swung by means of levers 301, 302 from a cam 300 on the main shaft 140.