Improvements in Cigarette-making Machines.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Apr., 1897-Accepted, 5th June, 1897
CUMII,MIC DE BUITIVATION,
Improvements in Cigarette-making Machines.
I, CHARLES LAURENT, of 130 Avenue Malakoff, Paris, in the Republic of
France, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to an improved cigarette making machine, which like
other apparatus of this kind consists of two semi-cylindrical pieces, hereinafter
termed "spoons," exactly uniform in all parts and which, when placed against one
another form a hollow cylinder or tube, in which the tobacco is to be placed and
which is subsequently surrounded by a sheet of cigarette-paper. Each of these
spoons can be simultaneously or successively withdrawn in opposite directions, so.
that the tobacco remains enclosed in the sheet of paper, thus forming a cigarette
of a perfectly cylindrical shape.
Cigarettes of any other sectional form may of course be obtained by modifying
the curvature or sectional form of the spoons.
As the two pieces or spoons, forming the mould, aro exactly uniform in shape,
wo have represented only one of them in Figures 1 and 2 of the accompanying:
drawing, in cross section and elevation respectively.
Each of the spoons A and B terminales at one of its extremities in a fixed,.
vertical end plate C D which closes the same; this end plate has an opening of
such a shape that it can receive and enclose the extremity of the other spoon, so as
to enable each of them to execute a rotary movement around a common generator
line H while nevertheless maintaining an absolute independence which allows of
their being disengaged by a drawing action in an opposite direction.
Figure 3 shows in section the two spoon shaped pieces connected, the mould or
machine being in an open position; Figure 4 shows the machine in a closed.
position.
By the possibility of the two spoons being thus separated while preserving in
common the generator line opposite the opening, an open box is formed, into which
the tobacco can be introduced and which is then closed again for the purpose of
surrounding it with the sheet of cigarette paper.
Projections a are left in the orifices cut into the end plates and owing to the
hole a provided at the extremity of the spoons, the two parts of the apparatus can-
not become separated when forming an open box (Figure 3), whilst on the other-
hand they are absolutely independent when forming a closed box (Figure 4), 80.
that in this position the two spoons can be slid along in longitudinal directions.
The end plates C D may be of a more or less complex form or of comparatively
smaller dimensions according as the apparatus is intended to serve for domestic use-
or to be carried in the packet; the axis of rotation may even be suppressed as in
the arrangement shown in Figures 5 and 6 which represent a simple and rough.
device which in its manipulation requires more ability than the apparatus shown in.
Figures 1, 2, 3, 4.
In Figure 5 the end-plate is entirely hollowed to permit of the introduction of
a mouth-piece.
The projection a may be likewise omitted.
Figures 7 and 8 represent an apparatus in which the end-plate is made in two.

page_text: pivotal pieces, being less inconvenient when carried in the pocket; but in principle
the apparatus remains absolutely the same.
Obviously I may construct my improved cigarette making machine of any desired
dimensious and of any suitable metal, say iron or copper (which may be nickeled,
silvered or gilt) or of aluminium or the like, also ebonite or any other appropriate
material.
Having now partionlarly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is :-
1. A cigarette-making machine comprising two spoon shaped pieces which
become disengaged in opposite directions.
2. The arrangement, at the extremity of each spoon shaped piece, of an end
plate serving the purpose of a hinge joint for the other spoon, without however
presenting any point of connection.
3. The projection a for connecting the two spoon shaped pieces when open and
which leaves them independent during the time that they are closed, substantially
as described.
4. My improved cigarette making machines constructed substantially as
herein before described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 2nd day of April 1897.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.