Improvements in Machines for Making Cigarettes.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Apr., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 18th Jan., 1895-Accepted, 23rd Feb., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machines for Making Cigarettes.
We, ANDREW PANTIA SCARAMANGA, and EUSTRATIO PANTIA SCARAMANGA,
both of 110 Cannon Street, in the City of London, Merchants, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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This invention relates to improvements in the machine described in the Speci-
fication of our former Patent No. 14544 of 1893.
In the present machine the tobacco is placed (by hand or mechanically).
lengthways of the fibre into a narrow trough having a roller at each end carrying
an endless band which forms the bottom of the trough. Above the roller at the
mouth of the trough and geared with it is a feed roller which is turned inter-
mittently driving the other two rollers and the endless band and by this means
portions of the tobacco are intermittently fed from the trough between the rollers
into a box open on three sides on the other side of the rollers.
A pusher usually having a concave end forces the tobacco transversely out of the
box into one of a series of slots formed in a cylindrical block and there strongly
compresses it. The pusher is then slightly withdrawn in order to form with the
slot a complete cylindrical or other shaped mould.
The paper tube is held at one end of the mould by a pair of fingers and a
propelling pin pushes the tobacco into it as in our former machine.
Attached to and working with the propelling pin is a mould cleaner or cleaners
which in form resemble the propelling pin with a washer preferably of leather
fixed to it. The propelling pin may also have a cleaning ring attached to it.
The cylindrical block is given an intermittent rotary movement so that each slot
is used as a mould and each slot is cleaned in turn.
A. P. SCARAMANGA.
E. P. SCARAMANGA.
Improvements in Machines for Making Cigarettes.
We, ANDREW PANTIA SCARAMANGA, and EUSTRATIO PANTIA SCARAMANGA,
both of 110 Cannon Street, in the City of London, Merchants, 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 improvements in the machine described in the Speci-
fication of our former Patent No. 14544 of 1893.
In the present machine the tobacco is placed (by hand or mechanically)
lengthways of the fibre into a narrow trough having a roller at each end carrying
an endless band which forms the bottom of the trough. Above the roller at the
mouth of the trough and geared with it is a feed roller which is turned inter-
mittently driving the other two rollers and the endless band and by this means
portions of the tobacco are intermittently fed from the trough between the rollers
into a box open on three sides on the other side of the rollers.

page_text: A pusher usually having a concave end forces the tobacco transversely out of the
box into one of a series of slots formed in a cylindrical block and there strongly
compresses it. The pusher is then slightly withdrawn in order to form with the
slot a complete cylindrical or other shaped mould.
The paper tube is held at one end of the mould by a pair of fingers and a
propelling pin pushes the tobacco into it as in our former machine.
Attached to and working with the propelling pin is a mould cleaner or cleaners
which in form resemble the propelling pin with a washer preferably of leather
fixed to it. The propelling pin may also have a cleaning ring attached to it.
The cylindrical block is given an intermittent rotary movement so that each slot
is used as a mould and each slot is cleaned in turn.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 is a side elevation and Figure 2 a plan of a machine constructed
according to this invention.
Figure 3 is a section on the line 3-3 Figures 1 and 2.
Figure 4 shews the cylinder to a larger scale.
Figure 5 is a part side elevation showing the rollers and d, band c and box m
to a larger scale.
Figure 6 is a part end elevation showing the box m pusher n and slotted
cylinder o to a larger scale.
Figure 7 is a detached plan view of the slide
g.
Figure 8 is a detached end elevation showing the paper holding mechanism.
Figure 9 is an elevation of the part t showing a notch on its under side to receive
the bolt q
Figure 10 is a local section showing the bolt q³ withdrawn t merely resting on its
nose and not being locked to q.
Figure 11 is a similar view showing the bolt g³ in its forward position with
its thick part engaged with the notch on the underside of t so locking the
. latter to q.
a is a trough, bb two rollers in it, c an endless band on them and d another roller.
The rollers and d are geared together by the pinions d' (Figure 3) fixed to
them. is a bevel pinion on the roller d gearing with the bevel pinion e' on the
shalte whose other end carries the spur pinion gearing with the wheel f' on the
shaft f. This shaft also has fixed to it the ratchet wheel driven by a pawl g on
'the lever g pivotted on the shaft f. The lever gl is connected by the link g' to the
rocking lever g³ pivotted at g' and this in its turn is connected by the link g³ to the
rocking lever g pivotted at y'. The lever 9' has a bowl.g upon it which works in
the cam groove in the cylinder (shown to a larger scale at Figure 4) whose
axis carries the bevel wheel h³ gearing with the bevel wheel j' upon the shaft j
which also carries the toothed wheel gearing with the pinion on the main
shaft. is a box, shown to a larger scale Figures 5 and 6, it has three sides
namely a top, bottom and one end (the right hand end in Figure 5) but is open on
the other three sides. Each time the roller d is turned, as above described, this
box is filled with tobacco. n is a pusher shown to a larger scale at Figure 6, it is
connected by a link n' to a rocking lever n³ (Figure 3) pivotted at n³ and carrying
a bowl working in the cam groove in the cylinder (Figure 4). o is a slotted
cylinder, shewn to a larger scale in Figure 6, it is mounted on an axle ol and has a
ring of of ratchet teeth at one end. It has a step by step motion of rotation given
to it by a pawl pon a lever pivotted on the shaft o'. The lever P is pulled in
one direction by the spring p fixed to it whose other end is fixed to a 'projection on
the underside of the frame of the machine, and is moved in the other direction by
the incline q' on the slide 9 shown separately at Figure 7. This slide has on its
underside a bowl q2 working in the cam groove 12 in the cylinder 13 mounted on the
Inain shaft 1. is a pusher and a cleaning rod, these are fixed to brackets rl
and fixed to the slide t working in the guide t¹ fixed to the bed of the machine

page_text: and the block q** on the slide y. q' is a bolt working in the block q* and it carries
at one end the bowl g', working in the cam groove 9 in the bed of the machine.
As the slide g works to and fro the bolt q alternately connects and disconnects
the slides g and t so that the pusher and cleaning rod s travel with the slide
during part only of its course as has already been described with reference to
Figures 9 to 11.
Figure 8 shows the paper holding mechanism which for clearness is omitted from.
Figures 1 to 3. It consists of a short nozzle u which in Figures 1 and 2 is just to
the right of the slotted cylinder o and is a continuation of the mould formed by one
of its slots and the pusher n. The paper tubes are put on this nozzle and are held
there by the jaws pivotted at vand drawn together by the elastic band v²..
w is a block pivotted at to and situated between the jaws v. 10 is an arm fixed to
the block to its end lying in the path of the projections 9° 7' (Figure 7) on the
slide g.
When the slide moves from left to right of Figure 7 the end of the
arm to first rides along the top (in that figure) of the projection * the jaws v being
held open by reason of the turning of the block to between them. When the
arm comes to the end of the projection the jaws » close to be again opened
when the arm to passes along the bottom (in Figure 7) of the projection q' for it is
to be observed that whichever way the arm wo is deflected the jaws v are opened.
When the slide q moves from right to left w³ passes along the bottom (in Figure 7)
both of q' and qº.
In place of turning the cylinder o one step for each cigarette, several cigarettes
might be compressed in succession in the same slot and the cylinder o may be turned
by hand when necessary instead of automatically.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is :-
1. The combination of a cylinder capable of revolving on its axis and having a
number of longitudinal slots in its surface, a pusher for feeding tobacco radially
into the slots and means for pushing the tobacco longitudinally out of the slots.
2. The combination of a cylinder capable of revolving on its axis and having a
number of longitudinal slots in its surface, a pusher for feeding tobacco radially
into the slots, and means for pushing the tobacco longitudinally out of the slots and
for cleaning them.
3. The combination of the cylinder o, pusher n and reciprocating rods and s.
4. The combination of a box open on three sides, means for feeding tobacco into
the box lengthwise of the fibre, a mould and a pusher working transversely to the
box and carrying the tobacco from it into the mould.
5. The combination of the trough a, band c, rollers & and d, box m, pusher n,
slotted cylinder o and reciprocating rods and s
6. Machines for making cigarettes, substantially as described and shown in the
drawings.
Dated this 17th day of December 1894.