IMPROVE- MENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR MAKING CIGARS,
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Henry Johnson, of 47, Lincoln's Inn Fields,
in the County of Middlesex, and of 166, Buchanan Street, in the City of
Glasgow, North Britain, Gentleman, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
LETTERS PATENT to John Henry Johnson, of 47, Lincoln's Inn Fields,
in the County of Middlesex, and of 166, Buchanan Street, in the City of
Glasgow, North Britain, Gentleman, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR MAKING CIGARS, -A communica
sion from abrood by Albert Reiniger of Stuttgart, Wurtemberg.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Henry Johnson
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
9th September 1861.
I, JOHN HENRY JOHNSON, of 47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, in the County of
Middlesex, and of 166, Buchanan Street, in the City of Glasgow, North
Britain, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR MAKING CIGARS," a commu-
nication from abroad by Albert Reiniger, of Stuttgard
This Invention relates to a peculiar construction and arrangement of
machinery or apparatus for cutting and delivering the proper charges of
tobacco to be subsequently made up into cigars, and to a machine for rolling
such charges inside the outer leaf.
In the first-mentioned machinery, the tobacco is fed forwards by means of.
two endless bands, the lower one forming an endless table, whilst the upper
one, which is slightly inclined towards the delivery end of the table, serves to
compress slightly the tobacco as it proceeds towards the point of its delivery
between suitable feed rollers, actuated by a rack and pall motion. At this
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point a knife descends, and cuts off a certain. regulated quantity sufficient to
make one cigar. The tobacco thus severed, falls into one of four revolving
boxes provided with hinged covers, and carried by four revolving arms.
fast as the box is filled, the arins are rotated, so as to bring an empty box into a
position suitable for the reception of the next charge, and as each box arrives at
its lowest vertical position, its cover is opened, and its contents dropped into one
of a series of small troughs below. This series of troughs is made to slide
forward for the extent of a single trough after cach discharge of a box, until
the whole are filled, when their contents are removed to the rolling machine
to be rolled inside the leaf.
This rolling machine consists essentially of a segmental or convex curved
table, over which a sheet of india-rubber cloth is loosely extended. Over this
table a pair of rollers carried in vibrating arms is made to run to and fro
from end to end of the table, at the same time doubling or folding the cloth
in such a manner that the tobacco and its wrapping leaf which are placed
between the folds are rolled together, and delivered at the opposite end. By
inserting a piece of paper behind the leaf, the roll may be simultaneously
enveloped in paper, in which it is retained during the drying process.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Henry Johnson in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the Sth March 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, Jons
HENRY JOHNSON, of 47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, in the County of Middlesex,
and of 166, Buchanan Street, in the City of Glasgow, North Britain,
Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of September in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fifth year of Fler
reign, did, for. Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said John Henry Johnson, Her special license that I, the said John
Henry Johnson, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said John Henry Johnson, my executors, administrators, or
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and
at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for

page_text: "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR MAKING CIGARS," a communi-
cation from abroad by Albert Reiniger, of Stuttgart, Würtemberg, upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said John Henry Johnson, my
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my hand and
seal, or under the hand and seal of one of them, should particularly describe
and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal
Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said Letters l'atent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Henry Johnson, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, reference being had to the accompanying Drawings, and
to the letters and figures marked thereon, that is to say:-
This Invention relates to a peculiar construction and arrangement of
machinery or apparatus for cutting and delivering the proper charges of
tobacco to be subsequently made up into cigars, and 'to a machine for rolling
such charges inside the outer leaf.
In the first-mentioned machinery, the tobacco is fed forward by means of
two endless bands, the lower one forming an endless table, whilst the upper
one which is slightly inclined towards the delivery end of the table; serves to
compress slightly the tobacco as it proceeds towards the point of its delivery.
between suitable feed rollers, actuated by a rack and pall motion. At this
point a knife descends and cuts off a certain regulated quantity sufficient to
makeonecigar. The tobacco thussevered, fallsinto one of four revolving boxes
provided with hinged covers, and carried by four revolving arms. As fast as
the box is filled, the arms are rotated so as to bring an empty box into a posi-
tion suitable for the reception of the next charge, and as each box arrives at
its lowest vertical position, its cover is opened,and its contents dropped into
one of a series of small troughs below. This series of troughs is made to slide
forward for the extent of a single trough after each discharge of a box, until
the whole are filled, when their contents are removed to the rolling machine
to be rolled inside the leaf,
This rolling machine consists essentially, of a segmental or,convex-curved
table, over which a sheet of india-rubber cloth is loosely extended; over this
table a pair of rollers carried in vibrating arms is made to run to and fro from
end to end of the table, at the same time doubling or folding the cloth in such
amanner that the tobacco and its wrapping leaf, which are placed between the
folds, are rolled together and delivered at the opposite end. By inserting a

page_text: piece of paper behind the leaf, the roll may be simultaneously onveloped in.
paper, in which it is retained during the drying process.
And in order that the said Invention may be fully understood, I shall now
proceed more particularly to describe the same; and for that purpose I shall
refer to the several Figures ou.the Sheets of Drawings hereunto annexed, the
same letters of referonco indicating corresponding parts throughout all the
corresponding Figures.
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Figure 1 on Sheet 1 of the accompanying Drawings, represents a side eleva-
tion of the machine for dividing the tobacco into the proper quantity fora cigar;
Figure 2 is a corresponding plan of the same; Figure 3 is a side elevation of
the rollers between. which the tobacco passes, and the mechanism for actuating
the same; Figure 4 is an eud view of the same rollers; Figure 5 represents
an elevation of the machine employed for rolling the tobacco prepared by the
previous machine, and imparting to it the form of a cigar; Figure 6 isa plan of
the same inachine; and Figure 7 on Sheet 2 of the Drawings, represents a per-
spective view full size of the delivery end of the dividing machine herein-before
first referred to. The tobacco intended to form the interior orbody of the cigar is
placed upon the endless web A, and carried thereby under the web A' (Figure 1),
these webs being actuated in the following manner:-The shaft D being
rotated, the rod E (Figure 4). by reason of the eccentric F, and the palls G
and II, and ratchet wheel I imparts a rotatory motion to the spur wheels .1,
which with the wheels K mounted upon the axes of the rollers round
which the endless webs are passed. These webs are consequently traversed in
the direction indicated by the arrows. The tobacco after passing the rollers,
enters upon a third endless web, which slightly compresses it, and pushes it
forward into the box L provided with a lid or cover. The box is closed by the
hook and the eccentric R,and the tobacco which it contains is separated
from the rest by a knife S (Figure 3), and retained inside the box until the
latter assumes a perpendicular position. The lever Q then opens the lid or
hinged cover of the box, when the tobacco drops out into one of a series of
troughs or receptacles P beneath. During the return of the palls G and H,
the bell-crank lever M, by the intervention of the rod N and pall n, causes
another box to advance towards the knife, into which is deposited the proper
quantity of tobacco as before, whilst thepall Ont the sametime causes another
trough or receptacle.to advance along the table, which troughs are removed
as soon as they are all filled. The machine above described serves to supply
several rolling machines, whilst at the same time, the tobacco is worked in a
dry state, and with little or no waste.
The essential feature of novelty in the rolling machine (Figures 5 and 6).is

page_text: the employment in combination with the rest of the parts, of a segmental or
curved rolling table, upon which a piece of webbing coated with caoutchouc
seems to effect the rolling of the tobacco inside the leaf. The tobacco depo-
sited by the first-mentioned machine in the troughs or receptacles above
referred to, is taken therefrom separately, and deposited in the trough or
channel a formed in one end of the rolling table, whilst at b is laid the enve-
loping leaf, and a little beyond that again a sheet of paper, inside which the
leaf is dried when rolled round the tobacco. The workman now depresses
the treadle c, which through the connecting rod and two toothed sectors,
imparts a traversing motion to the rollers d over the surface of the curved
table towards ff, which rollers double or fold over the piece of india-rubber
covered webbing stretched over the table, and thereby roll the tobacco and
leaf between the folds; the rolled cigar dropping into the hooked rollers fat
the opposite end of the table. The cigar is now taken by the attendant, and
deposited in order to prevent the unrolling of the covering, into a pair of
nippers in a small frame. The rollers in the meantime are returned by the
aid of a counterweight to their original position, in readiness to re-commence
their operation'upon another cigar. Skilled labouris not required in attending
to this machine, but the workman should be careful and accurate in the
adjustment of the leaf and wrapper.
The roller g provided with a ratchet wheel and detent, permits of a greater
or less tension being imparted to the webbing, and hence cigars of different
thicknesses, and more or less tightly rolled may be produced.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of the said
Invention, and the manner in which the same is or may be used or carried
into effect, I would observe, in conclusion, that what I consider to be novel.
and original, and therefore claim as the invention secured to me by the herein-
before in part recited Letters Patent, is, the general constructoin, arrangement,
and combination of machinery or apparatus for making cigars substantially
as herein-before described and illustrated by the Drawings.
In witness whereof I, the said John Henry Johnson, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Eighth day of March, One thousand eight
J. HENRY JOHNSON. (L.S.)

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Henry Johnson, of 47, Lincoln's Inn Fields,
in the County of Middlesex, and of 166, Buchanan Street, in the City of
Glasgow, North Britain, Gentleman, for the Invention, of "IMPROVE-
PRIPAD MARTHA CICADO."
communion
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Henry Johnson
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
9th September 1861.
I, JOHN HENRY JOHNSON, of 47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, in the County of
Middlesex, and of 166, Buchanan Street, in the City of Glasgow, North
Britain, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR MAKING CIGARS," a commu-
nication from abroad by Albert Reiniger, of Stuttgard
This Invention relates to a peculiar construction and arrangement of
machinery or apparatus for cutting and delivering the proper charges of
tobacco to be subsequently made up into cigars, and to a machine for rolling
such charges inside the outer leaf.
In the first-mentioned machinery, the tobacco is fed forwards by means of
two endless bands, the lower one forming an endless table, whilst the upper
one, which is slightly inclined towards the delivery end of the table, serves to
compress slightly the tobacco as it proceeds towards the point of its delivery
between suitable feed rollers, actuated by a rack and pall motion. At this
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page_text: point a knife descends, and cuts off' a certain regulated quantity sufficient to
make one cigar. The tobacco thus severed, falls into one of four revolving
boxes provided with hinged covers, and carried by four revolving arms. As
fast as the box is filled, the arms are rotated, so as to bring an empty box into a
position suitable for the reception of the next charge, and as each box arrives at
its lowest vertical position, its cover is opened, and its contents dropped into one
of a series of small troughs below. This series of troughs is made to slide
forward for the extent of a single trough after each discharge of a box, until
the whole are filled, when their contents are removed to the rolling machine
to be rolled inside the leaf.
This rolling machine consists essentially of a segmental or convex curved
table, over which a sheetofindia-rubber cloth is loosely extended. Over this
table a pair of rollers carried in vibrating arms is made to run to and fro
from end to end of the table, at the same time doubling or folding the cloth
in such a inauner that the tobacco and its wrapping leaf which are.placed
between the folds are rolled together, and delivered at the opposite end. By
inserting a piece of paper behind the leaf, the roll may be simultaneously
enveloped in paper, in which it is retained during the drying process.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Henry Jolinson in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the Sth March 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, JOHN
HENRY JOHNSON, of 47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, in the County of Middlesex,
and of 166, Buchanan Street, in the City of Glasgow, North Britain,
Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of September in the year of our Lord.
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fifth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said John Henry Johnson, Her special license that I, the said John
Henry Johnson, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said John Henry Johnson, my executors, administrators, or
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and
at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for

page_text: "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR MAKING CIGARS," a communi-
cation from abroad by Albert Reiniger, of Stuttgart, Wurtemberg, upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said John Henry Johnson, my
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my hand and
seal, or under the hand and seal of one of them, should particularly describe
and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal
Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I; the said John Henry Johnson, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, reference being had to the accompanying Drawings, and
to the letters and figures marked thereon, that is to say :-
This Invention relates to a peculiar construction and arrangement of
machinery or apparatus for cutting and delivering the proper charges of
tobacco to be subsequently made up into cigars, and to a machine for rolling
such charges inside the outer leaf.
In the first-mentioned machinery; the tobacco is fed forward by means of
two endless bands, the lower one forming an endless table, whilst the upper
one which is slightly inclined towards the delivery end of the table, serves to
compress slightly the tobacco as it proceeds towards the point of its delivery
between suitable feed rollers, actuated by a rack and pall motion. At this
point a knife descends and cuts off a certain regulated quantity sufficient to
makeonecigar. The tobacco thussevered, falls into one of four revolving boxes
provided with hinged covers, and carried by four revolving arms. As fast as
the box is filled, the arms are rotated so as to bring an empty box into a posi-
tion suitable for the reception of the next charge, and as each box arrives at
its lowest vertical position, its cover is opened, and its contents dropped into
one of a series of small troughs below. This series of troughs is made to slide
forward for the extent of a single trough after each discharge of a box, until
the whole are filled, when their contents are removed to the rolling machine
to be rolled inside the leaf.
This rolling machine consists essentially, of a segmental or convex-curved
table, over which a sheet of india-rubber cloth is loosely extended; over this
table a pair of rollers carried in vibrating arms is made to run to and fro from
end to end of the table, at the same time doubling or folding the cloth in such
amanner that the tobacco and its wrapping leaf, which are placed between the
folds, are rolled together and delivered at the opposite end. By inserting a

page_text: piece of paper behind the leaf, the roll may be simultaneously enveloped in
paper, in which it is retained during the drying process.
And in order that the said Invention may be fully understood, I shall now
proceed more particularly to describe the same, and for that purpose I shall
refer to the several Figures on the Sheets of Drawings hereunto annexed, the
saine letters of referenco indicating corresponding parts throughout all the
corresponding Figures.
Figure 1 on Sheet 1 of the accompanying Drawings, represents a side eleva-
tion of the machine for dividing the tobacco into the proper quantity for a cigar;
Figure 2 is a corresponding plan of the same; Figure 3 is a side elevation of
the rollers between which the tobacco passes, and the mechanism for actuating
the same; Figure 4 is an end view of the same rollers; Figure 5 represents
an elevation of the machine employed for rolling the tobacco prepared by the
previous machine, and imparting to it the form of a cigar; Figure 6 isa plan of
the same machine ; and Figure 7 on Sheet 2 of the Drawings, represents a per-
spective view full size of the delivery end of the dividing machine herein-before
first referred to. The tobacco intended to form the interior or body of the cigaris
placed upon the endless web A, and carried thereby under the web A4 (Figure 1),
these webs being actuated in the following manuer:-The shaft D being
rotated, the rod E (Figure 4), by reason of the eccentric F. and the palls G
and E, and ratchet wheel I imparts a rotatory motion to the spur wheels J,
which gear with the wheels K mounted upon the axes of the rollers round
which the endless webs are passed. These webs are consequently traversed in
the direction indicated by the arrows. The tobacco after passing the rollers,
enters upon a third endless web, which slightly compresses it, and pushes it
forward into the box L provided with a lid or cover. The box is closed by the
hook and the eccentric R,and the tobacco which it contains is separated
from the rest by a knife S (Figure 3), and retained inside the box until the
latter assumes a perpendicular position. The lever Q then opens the lid or
hinged cover of the box, when the tobacco drops out into one of a series of
troughs or receptacles P beneath. During the return of the palls G and H,
the bell-crank lever M, by the intervention of the rod N and pall », causes
another box tondvance towards the knife, into which is deposited the proper
quantity of tobacco as before, whilst thepall Oat the sametime causes another
trough or receptacle to advance along the table, which troughs are removed
as soon as they are all filled. The machine above described serves to supply
several rolling machines, whilst at the same time, the tobacco is worked in a
dry state, and with little or no waste.
The essential feature of novelty in the rolling machine (Figures 5 and16), is

page_text: the employment in combination with the rest of the parts, of a segmental or
curved rolling table, upon which a piece of webbing coated with caoutchouc
seems to effect the rolling of the tobacco inside the leaf. The tobacco depo-
sited by the first-mentioned machine in the troughs or receptacles above
referred to, is taken therefrom separately, and deposited in the trough or
channel a formed in one end of the rolling table, whilst at bis laid the enve-
loping leaf, and a little beyond that again a sheet of paper, inside which the
leaf is dried when rolled round the tobacco. The workman now depresses
the treadle c, which through the connecting rod and two toothed sectors,
imparts a traversing motion to the rollers over the surface of the curved
table towards ff, which rollers double or fold over the piece of india-rubber
covered webbing stretched over the table, and thereby roll the tobacco and
leaf between the folds; the rolled cigar dropping into the hooked rollers fat
the opposite end of the table. The cigar is now taken by the attendant, and
deposited in order to prevent the unrolling of the covering, into a pair of
nippers in a small frame. The rollers in the meantime are returned by the
aid of a counterweight to their original position, in readiness to re-commence
their operation upon another cigar. Skilled labouris not required in attending
to this machine, but the workman should be careful and accurate in the
adjustment of the leaf and wrapper.
The roller g provided with a ratchet wheel and detent, permits of a greater
or less tension being imparted to the webbing, and hence cigars of different
thicknesses, and more or less tightly rolled may be produced.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of the said
Invention, and the manner in which the same is or may be used or carried
into effect, I would observe, in conclusion, that what I consider to be novel
and original, and therefore claim as the invention secured to me by the herein-
before in part recited Letters Patent, is, the general constructoin, arrangement,
and combination of machinery or apparatus for making cigars substantially
as herein-before described and illustrated by the Drawings.
In witness whereof I, the said John Henry Johnson, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Eighth day of March, One thousand eight
hundred and sixty.two
J. HENRY JOHNSON. (L.S.)