IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ROLL CATORAGGIOSO APPLICABLE TO COILS
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Robert James Goodbody, of Charleville Square,
Tullamore, King's County, Ireland, and Matthew Joseph O'Farrell,
of North King Street, in the City and County of Dublin, Ireland,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ROLL
CATORAGGIO "
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert James Goodbody
and Matthew Joseph O'Farrell at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 3rd November 1870.
We, ROBERT JAMES GOODBODY, of Charleville Square, Tullamore,
King's County, Ireland, and MATTHEW JOSEPH O'FARRELL, of North
King Street, in the City and County of Dublin, Ireland, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF ROLL TOBACCO, ALSO APPLICABLE TO COILS OF TOBACCO," to be as
follows:-
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Heretofore in manufacturing roll tobacco it has been the practice to
encircle the rolls with ropes before subjecting them to pressure in order
to prevent the rolls from spreading.

page_text: Now our Invention consists in making such rolls without the use of
ropes, thereby not only obviating the heavy expense attendant on the
wear and tear of such ropes, but also greatly improving the appearance
of the rolls. For this purpose we encircle each roll before pressing the
same with a band or cylinder of sheet iron, brass, copper, or other suitable
metal of a diameter exactly corresponding with that of the roll, and
after introducing the latter we place a block or plate of cast iron or other
strong material (also exactly fitting the band or cylinder) upon the top
of the roll so as to act as a follower, and we then subject the roll to
heavy pressure, until the tobacco is sufficiently compressed for sale. The
roll is then removed from the press, and is by preference kept in the band
or cylinder until required for sale, when it is forced out by gentle pressure.
Coils of tobacco (being of a small thickness and comparatively large
diameter) may be prepared in precisely the same manner, several such
coils being placed in one circular band or cylinder after having been
previously partially pressed with plates between them in order to flatten
the twist.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Robert James Goodbody and Matthew Joseph
O'Farrell in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 29th March 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, ROBERT
JAMES GOODBODY, of Charleville Square, Tullamore, King's County,
Ireland, and MATTHEW JOSEPH O'FARRELL, of North King Street, in
the City and County of Dublin, Ireland, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Third day of November, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the thirty-
fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said Robert James Goodbody and Matthew
Joseph O'Farrell, Her special licence that we, the said Robert James
Goodbody and Matthew Joseph O'Farrell, our executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as we, the said Robert James Goodbody and
Matthew Joseph O'Farrell, our executors, administrators, and 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

page_text: might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ircland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ROLL. TOBACCO, ALSO
APPLICABLE TO COILS OF TOBACCO," upon the condition (amongst others) that
we, the said Robert James Goodbody and Matthew Joseph O'Farrell,
our executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our
or their hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of one of us or 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 Robert James Goodbody, on behalf
of myself and the said Matthew Joseph O'Farrell, 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 thereof, reference being had to the accompanying
Sheet of Drawings and to the figures and letters marked thereon, that
is to say:-
Heretofore in manufacturing roll tobacco it has been the practice to
encircle the rolls with ropes before subjecting them to pressure in order
to prevent the rolls from spreading. On the other hand in manu-
facturing coils of tobacco which consist of one single layer of twist,
and which could therefore not be encircled by ropes, it has been the
practice to make them of a large diameter, and to put them into the
press without anything round them, in consequence of which they were
awkward for sale, and the outer rounds of the coil were greatly disfigured
by being squeezed out laterally.
Now our present Invention has for its object, firstly, to dispense with
the use of ropes in the manufacture of roll tobacco, thereby not only
obviating the heavy expense attendant on the wear and tear of such
ropes, but also greatly improving the appearance of the rolls; and
secondly, to confine and thus afford a lateral support to coils of tobacco
during their manufacture so as to improve their form and quality.
Our Invention consists in encircling each roll or coil before pressing
the same with a band or cylinder of sheet iron, brass, copper, or other
suitable metal of a diameter exactly corresponding with that of the
roll or coil. In making roll tobacco the roll is introduced into the band
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page_text: The whole apparatus containing the coils is then removed either to a
steam tube press, such as that described in the Specification to Goodbody
and Donovan's Patent, No. 620 of 1869, or to an ordinary steam kiln,
and the coils are there treated in the same manner as ordinary roll
tobacco, the intervening plates B having the effect of conducting the
heat effectually to every portion of the coils, and thus accelerating and
rendering more perfect the heating process. When sufficiently cool
after having been again removed to an ordinary cold press the apparatus
is placed between a frame, in which the cylinder A is retained by the
projecting studs a', a', fixed thereon, and the coils and plates are gently
forced out of the cylinder. The plates B are then removed from
between the coils, and these are repacked in the cylinder lying closely
upon cach other.
Pressure is now again applied by means of the
follower C, and after about 24 hours the coils are taken out, when they
will have assumed the shape of compact smooth discs with sharp corners
on their periphery, the several coils adhering slightly together. The
advantages of this mode of manufacturing the coils are the increased
rapidity of the process for pressing, the improved shape of the coils, and
the facility of selling small quantities without having to uncoil the
twist from a roll, namely, by detaching as many of the separate coils
from the mass as may be required.
For manufacturing ordinary roll tobacco the same process as above
described is employed, the cylindrical band being in this case by pre-
ference formed with an open joint, so as to be tightened upon the coil
by screws passing through external lugs or flanges on the band, so that
upon releasing the screws the band springs open and the roll may be
removed. The plates B are in this case dispensed with, except at the
top and bottom of the roll, and no repacking of the coil takes place after
it has been once pressed.
Having thus described the nature of our Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, what we claim under the herein-
before in part recited Letters Patent is,-
First. Manufacturing roll tobacco and coils of tobacco by enclosing
the same while subject to pressure within metal bands or cylinders, sub-
stantially as herein-before described.
Second. Manufacturing coils of tobacco by enclosing them while
subject to pressure within metal bands or cylinders with metal plates.

page_text: intervening between the separate coils, substantially as and for the
purpose herein-before described with reference to the accompanying
Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the Robert James Goodbody, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-second day of March, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
one.
ROBERT JAMES GOODBODY. (L.S.).