Improvements in Cigarette Machines.
Year: 1898

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cigarette Machines.
I, EMIL MOONELIS, Manufacturer, residing at 17, Elizabeth Street, New York,
in the County and State of New York, in the United States of America, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to a machine for making cigarettes singly in contra-
distinction to those machines that employ a continuous band of paper for the
wrapper, and it is intended to be used principally in the making of cigarettes
with tobacco wrappers, or what is known in the trade as "all-tobacco " cigarettes.
Heretofore the machines which have been designed for this purpose have proved
inefficient in many respects, notably in that they were unable to properly handle
and roll the wrapper upon the filler and secure even, slightly uniform, and
commercially-marketable articles. The veinous formation of the tobacco-leaf
used for wrappers in making these cigarettes requires a delicacy of manipu-
lation which the skilled hand is able to give and which it is the aim in the
present machine to simulate, a feature heretofore but partially understood and
provided for in all-tobacco cigarette machines. Ancillary to this main problem
of delicately handling the tobacco wrapper are others depending thereon which
are also to an extent provided for and which, together with the main feature,
will be discussed in the following specification.
To these ends the invention consists, first, of a machine comprising essentially
a reciprocating feeder carriage supporting intermittently operating feeding
devices which are thrown into and out of gear with the operating mechanism
of the machine by the movement of the carriage, and suitable cigarette forming
devices comprising a rolling table and apron which are adapted to receive the
successive charges of tobacco from the feeding devices and roll the wrapper
thereupon to form the cigarettes.
The invention relates, secondly, to improvements in the wrapper applying
and cigarette perfecting devices and comprises improvements in the pasting
device for applying a line of paste to one edge of the tobacco wrapper; and,
a wrapper holding device for holding the wrapper in position upon the rolling
apron preparatory to its being rolled upon the cigarette.
The invention consists thirdly of means for stretching the rolling apron
through the medium of a device operated by the bunch-roller supporting arms.
The rolling apron is extended over the arched rolling table and supported at
one end by a suitable support, and at the other end upon suitable rock-arms
extending up from the rock-shaft from which also extends an actuating rock-
arm which is operated upon by a suitable rocking cam supported upon the
rock shaft which carries the bunch-roller supporting arms. The apron stretch-
ing cam, thus supported, is so shaped that it will stretch the apron at the proper
time and hold it in stretched position until the cigar or cigarette is completely
formed and ejected from the machine.
This part of the invention consists further of an arched rolling table having

page_text: a longitudinally extending curved depression, said depression being curved from
side to side of the roiling table to approximate the perfecto shape of cigar or
cigarette. Co-operating with this improved form of rolling table is employed a
bunch-roller of corresponding shape, that is, with a concave periphery of the
same form longitudinally as the transverse surface of the rolling table.
The feeding mechanism comprises à reciprocating carriage movable in the
direction of its length in fixed guides which are supported above a table in any
suitable manner, as by brackets. The feeder-carriage is movable toward anl
away from the point of deposit to the forming mechanism hereinafter described.
Mounted on rollers journaled between the side plates of the carriage, is an end-
less belt to which the tobacco in loose form is fed from a supply-hopper and
upon which it is carried forward to the feeder-rolls which are also journaled
upon the carriage. By means of a terminal tightener the belt is sustained taut,
so as to facilitate an equable distribution of the tobacco thereon and insure its
proper delivery to the rolls. To avoid waste and retain the tobacco upon the
belt, the side plates of the carriage are provided with flaring strips or flanges,
which project inward beyond the sides and lie just out of contact with the upper
surface of the belt. In passing beneath the plain-faced feeder-roll the tobacco
is slightly compressed to prevent crumbling and consequent waste and is fed
forward into the receiving-chute by being caught by projecting teeth of the
feeder-roll proper.
As will appear later on, the several mechanisms constituting the machine
are actuated successively, and it is therefore essential that the feeder-carriage
should have an intermittent motion. To effect this, duplicate levers are employed,
they being fixed upon a rock-shaft journaled in bearings on the machine-frame.
These levers extend forward and upward from the shaft and terminate in
enlarged heads which are notched to receive gudgeons projecting laterally from
the forward end of the feeder-carriage and through which connection horizontal
reciprocatory motion is imparted to the carriage. From a point at or near the
centre of this rock-shaft an arm extends downward and is provided with a ter-
minal roller which latter is yieldingly retained in close engagement with a cam
upon the main shaft of the machine. As the action of this cam serves only to
impart motion in one direction or move the carriage forward in its guides, the
reverse movement of the carriage is effected by means of a retractile spring
connected with a downward-projecting arm of the rock-shaft. During such time
as the carriage remains at rest or in its normal position that is, at the limit
of its backward movement-the feed mechanism is brought into action through
the gearing now to be described. Fixed to the shaft carrying the toothed feeder-
roll is a pinion which, through the shifting of the carriage, is periodically
brought into engagement with a continuously-rotating gear-wheel mounted upon
a shaft journaled in a stationary bracket extending up from the main frame.
motion being imparted to the gear referred to, through a sprocket-wheel keyed
upon and revolving with the main shaft, and a sprocket-pinion upon the gear-
shaft driven by a chain belt.
Upon the opposite side of the carriage and keyed to the shaft of the feeder-
roll proper last mentioned, is a worm-pinion, which meshes with and drives a
worm-gear carried by bracket-bearings secured to the side plate of the carriage.
This shaft carries a worm meshing with a worm-wheel upon the shaft of the
forward feeder-belt roll, upon which latter a gear is fixed and meshes with a
pinion carried by the shaft of the plain-faced feeder-roll. Having geared the
feeder-belt and feeder-rolls together in a manner to render them dependent for
motion upon the reciprocation of the carriage, it will be obvious from the fore-
going description that the feed mechanism will operate only during the periods
that the pinion is meshing with the constantly rotating gear and that by chang
ing the form of the cam the period of engagement between the carriage-feed gear
and the driving-gear from the main shaft may be regulated as desired to increase
or decrease the quantity of tobacco fed to the receiving-chute. The periodical

page_text: discharge of the tobacco from this chute is effected by means of an approximately
right-angular lever pivoted to the carriage track or guide, the short arm thereof
being bent up and lying in the path of travel of a pin, projecting from the side
plate of the carriage, and is thereby tripped at each forward movement of the
carriage. This motion serves to depress the long arm of the lever, which lies
in engagement with an angular extension of a shaft, to which shaft the gate of
the tobacco-receiving chute is fixed and held normally closed by a plate-spring,
the action of the lever, however, being sufficient to overcome the resistance of
the spring and open the gate, thereby permitting the tobacco contained in the
chute to fall upon the rolling-table.
In being discharged from the feeder-chute the tobacco is caught in a pocket,
formed by the rolling-apron between the side plates of the rolling-table. This
apron is secured at its forward end to the terminal vertical face of the arched
bed of the table and at its opposite extremity to the rod connecting duplicate
rock arms or levers which latter are arranged upon opposite sides of the table
and pivoted upon a common rock-shaft or with their axes alined. Rearward
from a suitable point, the table-bed is cut away to permit the apron to sag down-
ward to form a receiving-pocket, into which, as before stated, the tobacco is
discharged from the feeder-chute.
The closing of the chute-gate occurs immediately upon the reversal of the
feeder-carriage, which upon reaching the limit of its backward movement brings
a tamping device into position to act upon the pocketed tobacco. Mounted in
bracketed bearings, fixed to one of the feeder-guides of the main frame, is a rock-
shaft which, through an integral arm, a sliding rod, and a cam carried by the
main sprocket-wheel, receives motion from the main shaft. This motion is trans-
mitted by a terminal depressor-arm of the rock-shaft to a tamper, the rods thereof
being slidingly mounted in tubular bearings arranged at the forward end of
the feeder-carriage, between the side plates thereof, and supported normally
elevated by helical springs which encircle the rods. By the action of the cam
the depressor-arm is oscillated and the tamper forced downward against the
action of its springs until it enters and compresses the tobacco contained in the
receiving-pocket of the rolling apron, its retraction being rendered automatic
by the resulting expansion of the springs when released by the cam. Extending
across the arched bed of the rolling-table and beneath the apron is a roller
rotatably mounted and carried in upper terminal bearings of duplicate rock arms
or levers.
An oscillatory movement is imparted to the levers to carry the
roller forward and backward over the arched table-bed, and thereby apply
the wrapper to the filler contained in the bight. Projecting downward from the
axis of these oscillating levers is an arm, provided with a terminal roller, which
is yieldingly retained in close contact with a cam upon the main shaft, a retrac-
tile spring being employed to effect a retraction or reversal of the levers and at
the same time insure positive action.
Rigid upon and partaking of the motion of the roller-carrying lever-shaft
is an arm, which in action engages and trips the short arms or an angular exten-
sion of the apron-carrying levers, causing the latter to move rearward a distance
sufficient to draw the apron taut.
By a proper relative arrangement of the engaging arms just referred to the
straining of the apron is made subsequent to the forward motion of the roller,
which latter, lying beneath the apron and moving from its normal position to a
point on the arched bed-plate of the table, closes the looped pocket by folding
the apron upon itself, the contained tobacco being thereby given the desired
shape. At a suitable point the pasted wrapper is placed upon the apron and
taken up by the action of the roller in a manner to compactly inclose the filler.
Upon reaching the limit of their forward movement the levers carry the roller
beyond the rolling-table, and thereby discharge the cigarette, which passes there-
from and is caught in semi-circular openings of a rotary cutter. Simultaneous
with the ejection of the cigarette from the rolling-table the apron-carrying

page_text: levers are brought into action and moved rearward, drawing the apron taut.
Upon the further rotation of the cam, however, and acted upon by the retractile
spring the levers resume their normal position, thereby reforming the pocket
preparatory to the succeeding discharge.
Rotatably mounted in bearings formed in forward-projecting lugs of the side
plates of the rolling-table, is a shaft carrying duplicate discs, provided with a
series of circumferential notches which are alined so as to receive and retain
the cigarette as it leaves the rolling-table. Motion is imparted to the rotary
cutter from the cam upon the main shaft, through the pawl and ratchet, bell-
crank lever, and connecting-rod, between the long arm of the bell-crank lever
and the pawl-carrying arm. The rotation of the cutter through a half revolu-
tion brings the cigarette into engagement with stationary blades, and continued
movement serves to reduce the cigarette to a desired length, and thereafter it
falls from the cutter upon guides and is by them directed to a suitable recep-
tacle, the cuttings falling from the knives into chutes. If desirable, chutes may
also be placed upon each side of the rolling-table, a catch-tray being provided
for the collection of waste.
Suitable levers pivoted upon a rock-shaft support a wrapper holding bail or
loop. A rock-arm keyed to said rock-shaft carries a roller which bears upon the
semi-circular cam keyed to the main shaft. The cam has a concentric portion
for about two-thirds of its circumference to hold bail or loop normally in inopera-
tive position, and a cut-out portion for the remaining third of its circumference
to allow a spring to move the bail into engagement with a wrapper.
purpose of the bail is to hold the tobacco wrapper in position upon the rolling
apron, with its inner edge projecting slightly over the transverse depression of
the rolling table, to have the charge of tobacco rolled within it.
The
A paste-box or receptacle is rigidly supported upon the forward ends of arms
which are pivoted to the supporting frame. A grooved spreading roller is jour-
naled in the sides of the paste-box and has a portion of its periphery projecting
through a cut-out portion in the lower front part of the paste receptacle. An
arm is secured to and projects forwardly from the side of the feeder carriage
and supports a gravity pawl journaled upon the forward cut-away portion of
the arm.
An inclined slioulder formed upon the arm is adapted to engage with
the beveled face of the gravity pawl and prevent its backward movement, the
rear portion of the gravity pawl being rounded to enable it to move freely in
a forward direction upon its pivot. A small ratchet-wheel is secured to the
projecting end of the journal of the spreading-roll and is normally in position
to be engaged by the gravity pawl upon the forward movement of the carriage
for intermittently rotating the spreader-roll.
A rod or link is pivoted to one of the pivoted supporting arms of the paste
box and a rock-shaft journaled in suitable brackets and has a rock-arm keyed
to it, which rock-arm is pivotally connected to the lower end of the rod or link.
Another rock-arm is keyed to a suitable rock-shaft and a stop lug is secured to
the upper end of said other rock-arm and adapted to engage one of the vertical
parts of supporting frame. A spiral spring engages said other rock-arm at one
end and a stationary pin at its other end for holding the connected parts in
position for supporting the pivoted arms and the pasting device mounted there-
upon in elevated position. Another rock-arm projecting from rock-shaft carries
a roller which is adapted to be engaged by the extreme portion of the cam once
in each revolution for delivering the paste-box down into position to apply a
strip of paste to the wrapper just prior to the completion of the rolling of the
cigarette. A rotary pasting brush is journaled in the forward ends of arms
secured to the paste-box and a small sprocket wheel is keyed to the journal end
of paste-brush and a sprocket chain gears the sprocket with a similar sprocket
mounted upon a constantly rotating shaft. The brush is constantly rotated in
contact with the spreading roll and receives the paste therefrom to be applied
to the edge of the cigarette wrapper.

page_text: A rotary shaft has keyed to it a pair of cutter discs which are located at the
proper distance apart to cut the cigarette to the desired length. The cutter
discs have curved or hooked cutting portions which are adapted to receive the
cigarettes from the rolling apron and carry them over into engagement with
the stationary knives which are formed preferably with inclined cutting edges.
Curved guide-arms project up from plates secured to a stationary part of the
machine frame, for confining the cigarettes within the cutting devices. Keyed
to the rotary shaft is a ratchet wheel which is adapted to be engaged by a spring-
pressed pawl pivoted to an oscillating arm journaled upon the shaft and inter-
mittently oscillated by a link connecting the arm with one of the arms which
support the forming-roller.
Curved cigarette ejecting arms project up between the cutting discs, from a
pivotally mounted plate or deflector which is hung on suitable pivots. The
deflector plate and ejector arms are held in normally inactive position by a
spiral spring attached at one end to one of the side walls of deflector and at its
other end to a stationary pin. Extending rearwardly from the deflector plate
is an arm having an up-turned end which is supported in the path of an arm
extending from a rock-shaft and adapted to be engaged thereby for tilting
deflector plate and arms against the action of the spring. Chutes are provided
at each side of the cutters for conveying the cigarette butts to a suitable recep-
tacle. Pins limit the movement of the deflector plate and the connected. parts.
An endless feeder belt is supported upon feed-rollers in front of and to one
side of the machine for receiving wrappers placed upon it by one operator (who
first separates the tobacco wrappers), and feeds them into position to be taken
by the second operator who places them upon the cigarette rolling-apron. The
feed-belt. is intermittently fed forward by means of a ratchet wheel keyed to
the journal of the forward belt roller and a spring-pressed pawl mounted upon
an oscillatory arm operated by the link which connects said arm to the bunch
roller supporting lever.
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The arched rolling-table has preferably a transversely curved longitudinally
extending shallow recess or cavity formed in its upper working face. The roll-
ing apron is of the usual form, being made of some suitable flexible cloth, such
as rubber cloth. The apron extends forwardly from the supports and rests upon
the concave working surface of the arched rolling table and has its forward end
attached to a bar supported between the rock-arms which are keyed to a rock-
shaft journaled in bearings of the frame. An actuating rock-arm extends rear-
wardly from the rock-shaft and carries at its rear end an anti-friction roller.
The bunch-roller supporting arms are keyed to a rock-shaft and carry in their
upper ends the freely journaled bunch-roller which is formed with a longitu-
dinally curved concave periphery. The bunch-roller is adapted to travel over
the concave working face of the rolling table, forming with the table a space
approximating the shape of the perfecto cigar or cigarette. The rock-shaft has
keyed to it a rocker-arm to the upper end of which is attached an apron tighten-
ing cam of such shape that the rock-arms will be moved and held to tighten and
hold the apron taut during the entire operation of rolling the cigar or cigarette.
The cam is formed with a depression or low portion, to allow the rolling apron
to remain loose or slack before the rolling operation commences, and a high
concentric portion upon which the anti-friction roller rides for holding the apron
taut during the rolling operation. A spiral spring is attached to the cam
rocker-arm at one end and to a stationary point at the other end for holding
the cam and the bunch-roller supporting arms in normal retracted or inoperative
position, with the rolling apron slack.

page_text: Improvements in Cigarette Machines.
I, EMIL MOONELIS, Manufacturer, of 17, Elizabeth Street, New York, in the
County of New York, and State of New York, United States of America, 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 a machine for making cigarettes singly in contra-
distinction to those machines that employ a continuous band of paper for the
wrapper, and it is intended to be used principally in the making of cigarettes
with tobacco wrappers, or what is known in the trade as all-tobacco" cigarettes.
Heretofore the machines which have been designed for this purpose have proved
inefficient in many respects, notably in that they were unable to properly handle
and roll the wrapper upon the filler and secure, even slightly, uniform and
commercially-marketable articles. The veinous formation of the tobacco-leaf
used for wrappers in making these cigarettes requires a delicacy of manipu-
lation which the skilled hand is able to give and which it is the aim in the
present machine to simulate, a feature heretofore but partially understood and
provided for in all-tobacco cigarette machines. Ancillary to this main problem
of delicately handling the tobacco wrapper are others depending thereon which
are also to an extent provided for and which, together with the main feature,
will be discussed in the following specification.
To these ends the invention consists, first, of a machine comprising essentially
a reciprocating feeder carriage supporting intermittently operating feeding
devices which are thrown into and out of gear with the operating mechanism
of the machine by the movement of the carriage, and suitable cigarette forming
devices comprising a rolling table and apron which are adapted to receive the
successive charges of tobacco from the feeding devices and roll the wrapper
thereupon to form the cigarettes.
The invention relates, secondly, to improvements in the wrapper applying
and cigarette perfecting devices and comprises improvements in the pasting
device for applying a line of paste to one edge of the tobacco wrapper; and,
a wrapper holding device for holding the wrapper in position upon the rolling
apron preparatory to its being rolled upon the cigarette.
The invention consists thirdly of means for stretching the rolling apron
through the medium of a device operated by the bunch-roller supporting arms.
The rolling apron is extended over the arched rolling table and supported at
one end by a suitable support, and at the other end upon suitable rock-arms
extending up from the rock-shaft from which also extends an actuating rock-
arm which is operated upon by a suitable rocking cam supported upon the
rock shaft which carries the bunch-roller supporting arms. The apron stretch-
ing cam, thus supported, is so shaped that it will stretch the apron at the proper
time and hold it in stretched position until the cigar or cigarette is completely
formed and ejected from the machine.
This part of the invention consists further of an arched rolling table having
a longitudinally extending curved depression, said depression being curved from
side to side of the rolling table to approximate the perfecto shape of cigar or
cigarette. Co-operating with this improved form of rolling table is employed a
bunch-roller of corresponding shape, that is, with a concave periphery of the
same form longitudinally as the transverse surface of the rolling table.
Referring to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specifi-
cation.

page_text: Figure 1 is a view in side elevation of one embodiment of the invention,
illustrating the action of the mechanism by which the tobacco is fed in desir-
able quantities to the rolling-table.
Figure 2 is a similar view of the opposite side of the machine, showing the
manner in which the tobacco is caught, held, and compressed preparatory to
being inclosed within the wrapper.
Figure 3 is a view in front elevation, and
Figure 4 is a top plan view representing the action of the machine as illustrated
in Figure 2.
Figure 5 is a view in diagram showing that portion of the feeding mechanism
which performs in part the first step in the operation that is to say, the feed-
ing of the tobacco to a receiving-chute.
Figure 6 is a similar view showing the discharge of the tobacco from the
chute to the pocket of the rolling device or the completion of the first step in
the operation.
Figure 7 is a view in diagram illustrating the second step or the shaping of
the filler.
Figure 8 is a view in diagram showing the filler taken up, also the applica-
tion of the wrapper.
Figure 9 is a similar view showing the cigarette passing from the rolling-table
to the cutter.
Figures 10 and 11 are similar views in diagram illustrating the action of the
cutter, and
Figure 12 is a view in diagram showing the finished cigarette passing through
the discharge-chute.
Figure 13 is a fragmentary view in elevation of the actuating mechanism by
which the carriage of the feeder is reciprocated.
Figure 14 is a similar view showing the gearing of the feed-rolls.
Figure 15 is a fragmentary view of the mechanism controlling the discharge
of the tobacco from the feeder to the rolling-table.
Figure 16 is a similar view of the actuating mechanism of the roller, and
Figure 17 is a fragmentary view of the cutter-actuating mechanism.
Figure 18 is a side elevation of my improved cigarette machine in a slightly
modified form showing further features of improvement, the parts being in the
position they assume when the feeding devices are depositing a charge of tobacco
upon the rolling apron.
Figure 19 is an enlarged perspective view of the front portion of the same
machine.
Figures 20 and 21 are enlarged diagrammatic elevations of the same showing
the parts in two positions; Figure 20 representing the position shown in
Figure 18, and Figure 21 representing the position the parts assume when the
rolling apron has started to roll the cigarette and the pasting device has des-
cended to apply a line of paste upon the wrapper, the wrapper being held by
the holding device.
Figure 21 is a detail view of the gravity pawl which operates the paste spread-
ing roll of the paster.
Figure 22 is a detail side elevation of part of the opposite side of the machine
from that shown in Figures 19 and 20.
Figures 23 and 24 are enlarged detail side elevations showing the forming
devices and cutting and ejecting devices in proper relation thereto.
Figure 25 is a detail side elevation, with part broken away, showing a modi-
fied form of the cigarette forming devices, the essential features only being
shown.
Figure 26 is an elevation of the same parts in another position, parts being
broken away.
Figure 27 is an end elevation of the same.

page_text: Figure 28 is a top plan view of the same, the apron being removed.
Figure 29 is a cross sectional view of the rolling table showing the forming
roller in operative relation thereto.
The feeding mechanism comprises a reciprocating carriage 1, movable in the
direction of its, length in fixed guides 2, which are supported above a table 3
in any suitable manner, as by brackets 4. The feeder-carriage is movable
toward and away from the point of deposit to the forming mechanism herein-
after described. "Mounted on rollers 5, journaled between the side plates 6 of
the carriage, is an endless belt 7, to which the tobacco in loose form is fed
from a supply hopper and upon which it is carried forward to the feeder-rolls 8
and 9, which are also journaled upon the carriage. By means of a terminal
tightener 10 the belt is sustained taut, so as to facilitate an equable distribution
of the tobacco thereon and insure its proper delivery to the rolls. (See Figures 1
and 2). To avoid waste and retain the tobacco upon the belt, the side plates
of the carriage are provided with flaring strips or flanges 11, which project
inward beyond the sides and lie just out of contact with the upper surface of the
belt. In passing beneath the plain faced feeder-roll 8 the tobacco is slightly
compressed to prevent crumbling and consequent waste and is fed forward into
the receiving-chute 12 by being caught by projecting teeth 13 of the feeder-
roll proper, 9. (Figure 5).
As will appear later on, the several mechanisms constituting the machine
are actuated successively, and it is therefore essential that the feeder-carriage
should have an intermittent motion. To effect this, duplicate levers 14 are em-
ployed, they being fixed upon a rock-shaft 14", journaled in bearings 15 on the
machine-frame. These levers extend forward and upward from the shaft and
terminate in enlarged heads 16, which are notched to receive gudgeons 17, pro-
jecting laterally from the forward end of the feeder-carriage and through which
connection horizontal reciprocatory motion is imparted to the carriage. From
a point at or near the centre of this rock-shaft an arm 18 extends downward
and is provided with a terminal roller 19, which latter is yieldingly retained
in close engagement with a cam 20 upon the main shaft 21 of the machine.
As the action of this cam serves only to impart motion in one direction or move
the carriage forward in its guides, the reverse movement of the carriage is
effected by means of a retractile spring 22, connected with a downward-project-
ing arm 23 of the rockshaft. (See Figure 13). During such time as the carriage
remains at rest or in its normal position-that is, at the limit of its backward
movement the feed mechanism is brought into action through the gearing now
to be described. Fixed to the shaft carrying the toothed feeder-roll 9 is a
pinion 24, which through the shifting of the carriage is periodically brought
into engagement with a continuously-rotating gear-wheel 25, mounted upon
a shaft 26, journaled in a stationary bracket 27, extending up from the main
frame, motion being imparted to the gear 25, referred to, through a sprocket-
wheel 28, keyed upon and revolving with the main shaft, and a sprocket-pinion 29
upon the gear-shaft driven by a chain belt 30. (See Figure 2).
Upon the opposite side of the carriage and keyed to the shaft of feeder-roll 9
last mentioned is a worm pinion 31, which meshes with and drives a worm-
gear 32, carried by an angularly-disposed shaft 33, journaled in bracket-bear-
ings 34, secured to the side plate of the carriage. This shaft carries a worm 35,
meshing with a worm-wheel 36 upon the shaft of the forward feeder-belt roll 5,
upon which latter a gear 37 is fixed and meshes with a pinion 38, carried by
the shaft of the plain-faced feeder-roll 8. (See Figs. 1, 4 and 14). Having
geared the feeder-belt and feeder-rolls together in a manner to render them
dependent for motion upon the reciprocation of the carriage, it will be obvious
from the foregoing description that the feed mechanism will operate only dur-
ing the periods that the gear 25 is meshing with constantly-rotating gear 24
and that by changing the form of the cam the period of engagement between

page_text: the carriage-feed gear and the driving gear from the main shaft may be regu-
lated as desired to increase or decrease the quantity of tobacco fed to the receiving-
chute. The periodical discharge of the tobacco from this chute is effected by
means of an approximately right-angular lever 39, pivoted at 40 to the carriage
track or guide 2, the short arm 41 thereof being bent up and lying in the path
of travel of a pin 42, projecting from the side plate 6 of the carriage, and is
thereby tripped at each forward movement of the carriage. This motion serves
to depress the long arm 43 of the lever, which lies in engagement with an
angular extension 44 of a shaft 45, to which shaft the gate 46 of the tobacco-
receiving chute is fixed and held normally closed by a plate-spring 47, the
action of the lever, however, being sufficient to overcome the resistance of the
spring and open the gate, thereby permitting the tobacco contained in the chute
to fall upon the rolling-table. (See Figure 1).
In being discharged from the feeder-chute the tobacco is caught in a pocket 48,
formed by the rolling-apron 49 between the side plates 50 of the rolling-table 51.
This apron is secured at its forward end to the terminal vertical face 52 of the
arched bed 53 of the table and at its opposite extremity to the rod 54, connect-
ing duplicate rock arms or levers 55, which latter are arranged upon opposite
sides of the table and pivoted upon a common rock-shaft or with their axes
alined, as at 56. Rearwardly from a point 57 the table-bed is cut away to
permit the apron to sag downward to form a receiving-pocket, into which, as
above stated, the tobacco is discharged from the feeder-chute. (See Figures 1, 6
and 16).
The closing of the chute-gate occurs immediately upon the reversal of the
feeder-carriage, which upon reaching the limit of its backward movement brings
a tamping device 58 into position to act upon the pocketed tobacco. Mounted
in bracketed bearings 59, fixed to one of the feeder-guides 2 of the main frame,
is a rock-shaft 60, which, through an integral arm 61, a sliding rod 62, and
a cam 63, carried by the main sprocket-wheel 28, receives motion from the
main shaft. This motion is transmitted by a terminal depressor-arm 63ª of the
rock-shaft to a tamper 64, the rods thereof being slidingly mounted in tubular
bearings 65, arranged at the forward end of the feeder-carriage, between the
side plates thereof, and supported normally elevated by helical springs 66,
which encircle the rods 67. (See Figure 15). By the action of the cam the
depressor-arm is oscillated and the tamper forced downward against the action
of its springs until it enters and compresses the tobacco contained in the receiv-
ing-pocket of the rolling-apron, (see Figure 7.) its retraction being rendered
automatic by the resulting expansion of the springs when released by the cam.
Extending across the arched bed of the rolling-table and beneath the apron is
a roller 68, rotatably mounted and carried in upper terminal bearings 69 of
duplicate rock arms or levers 70. An oscillatory movement is imparted to the
levers to carry the roller forward and backward over the arched table-bed. and
thereby apply the wrapper to the filler contained in the bight. Projecting down-
ward from the axis of these oscillating levers is an arm 71, provided with a
terminal roller 72, which is yieldingly retained in close contact with a cam 73
upon the main shaft, a retractile spring 74 being employed to effect a retraction
or reversal of the levers and at the same time insure positive action.
Rigid upon and partaking of the motion of the roller-carrying lever-shaft is
an arm 75. which in action engages and trips the short arms or an angular
extension 76 of the apron-carrying levers 55. causing the latter to move rear-
ward a distance sufficient to draw the apron taut. (See Figure 16).
By a proper relative arrangement of the engaging arms just referred to the
straining of the apron is made subsequent to the forward motion of the roller,
which latter, Iving beneath the apron and moving from its normal position to
a point 77 on the arched bed-plate of the table, closes the looped nocket (see
Figure 8) by folding the apron upon itself, the contained tobacco being thereby

page_text: given the desired shape. At a point 78 the pasted wrapper is placed upon the
apron and taken up by the action of the roller in a manner to compactly inclose
the filler. Upon reaching the limit of their forward movement the levers carry
the roller beyond the rolling-table, and thereby discharge the cigarette, which
passes therefrom and is caught in semi-circular openings of a rotary cutter.
(See Figures 9 and 10). Simultaneous with the ejection of the cigarette from
the rolling-table the apron-carrying levers are brought into action (see Figure 16),
and moved rearward, drawing the apron taut. Upon the further rotation of
the cam, however, and acted upon by the retractile spring the levers resume
their normal position, thereby reforming the pocket preparatory to the succeed-
ing discharge.
Rotatably mounted in bearings 79, formed in forward-projecting lugs 80 of
the side plates of the rolling table, is a shaft 81, carrying duplicate discs 82,
provided with a series of circumferential notches 83, which are alined so as
to receive and retain the cigarette as it leaves the rolling-table. (See Figure 4).
Motion is imparted to the rotary cutter from the cam upon the main shaft
through the pawl and ratchet 84, bell-crank lever 85, and connecting-rod 86,
between the long arm of the bell-crank lever and the pawl-carrying arm. (See
Figure 17). The rotation of the cutter through' a half-revolution brings the
cigarette into engagement with stationary blades 87, and continued movement
serves to reduce the cigarette to a desired length, and thereafter it falls from
the cutter upon guides 88 and is by them directed to a suitable receptacle 89,
the cuttings falling from the knives into chutes 90. If desirable, chutes 91
may also be placed upon each side of the rolling-table, a catch-tray 92 being
provided for the collection of waste.
Referring now to Figures 18 to 24 of the drawings a slightly modified form
of machine will be described. This form of the machine embodies all of the
main features above described, with some slight differences in details of construc-
tion, and also contains additional features of improvement which are claimed as
novel in the present patent. Only those features which have not already been
described will be explained in the following description.
Suitable levers 95 pivoted upon a rock-shaft 96 support a wrapper holding
bail or loop 97. A rock-arm 98 keyed to said rock-shaft 96 carries a roller 99
which bears upon the semi-circular cam 100 keyed to the main shaft 21. The
cam 100 has a concentric portion 100 for about two-thirds of its circumference
to hold bail or loop normally in inoperative position, and a cut-out portion 100
for the remaining third of its circumference to allow a spring 101 to move the
bail into engagement with a wrapper. The purpose of the bail 97 is to hold
the tobacco wrapper in position upon the rolling apron 49 with its inner edge
projecting slightly over the transverse depression 51" of the rolling table, to
have the charge of tobacco rolled within it.
A paste-box or receptacle 105 is rigidly supported upon the forward ends of
arms 106 which are pivoted to the supporting frame at 107. A grooved spread-
ing roller 108 is journaled in the sides of the paste-box 105 and has a portion of
its periphery projecting through a cut-out portion 105 in the lower front part
of the paste receptacle. An arm 109 is secured to and projects forwardly from
the side of the feeder carriage 1, and supports a gravity pawl 110 iournaled
at 111 upon the forward cut-away portion of the arm 109. An inclined
shoulder 112 formed upon the arm 109 is adapted to engage with the beveled
face of the gravity pawl 110 and prevent its backward movement, the rear
portion of the gravity pawl being rounded to enable it to move freely in a for-
ward direction upon its pivot. A small ratchet-wheel 113 is secured to the
projecting end of the journal 114 of the spreading-roll 108 and is normally in
position to be engaged by the gravity pawl 110 upon the forward movement of
the carriage for intermittently rotating the spreader-roll.
A rod or link 115 is pivoted at 116 to one of the pivoted supporting arms 106

page_text: of the paste-box and 117 is a rock-shaft journaled in suitable brackets 118 and
having a rock-arm 119 keyed to it, which rock-arm 119 is pivotally connected
to the lower end of the rod or link 115. Another rock-arm 120 is keyed to the
rock-shaft 117 and 121 is a stop lug secured to the upper end of said rock-
arm 120 and adapted to engage one of the vertical parts of the supporting
frame 4. A spiral spring 122 engages said rock-arm 120 at one end and a
stationary pin at its other end for holding the connected parts in position for
supporting the pivoted arms and the pasting device mounted thereupon in
elevated position. 125 is another rock-arm projecting from rock-shaft 117 and
carrying a roller 126 which is adapted to be engaged by the extreme portion 127°
of the cam 127 once in each revolution for delivering the paste-box down into
position to apply a strip of paste to the wrapper just prior to the completion of
the rolling of the cigarette. A rotary pasting brush 130 is journaled in the for-
ward ends of arms 131 secured to the paste-box 105 and a small sprocket wheel 132
is keyed to the journal end of paste-brush 130, and a sprocket chain 133 gears
the sprocket 132 with a similar sprocket wheel 134 mounted upon the constantly
rotating shaft 135 which is driven by band-wheel 136, endless band 137 and
band-wheel 138. The brush 130 is constantly rotated in contact with the spread-
ing roll 108 and receives the paste therefrom to be applied to the edge of the
cigarette wrapper.
The arrangement of the operating mechanism of the cigarette forming mecha-
nism in this form of the machine is somewhat different from the same mechanism
in the form of machine shown in Figures 1 to 17 of the drawings, and these
differences will now be pointed out. In place of the cam 73 on shaft 21, is
found a cam 127 formed with an extreme excentric portion 127", a recess 127b,
a concentric portion 127°, and a slight eccentric portion 127d. As explained
above the rocker arm 75 and forming-roller supporting levers 70 are keyed to
the same journal or rock-shaft which is rocked by arm 71 and cam 127, and as
the rocker-arm 75 operates, through rock-arm 76 and apron-supporting arms 55,
to tighten or loosen the apron 49, it will be clear that the rolling apron is
directly controlled by the same mechanism which effects the movement of the
cigarette-forming roller. The sequence of the movements and the parts of the
cam 127 for effecting the movements will be hereinafter explained.
As in the first-described form of machine, a rotary shaft 81 has keyed to it
a pair of cutter discs 82 which are located at the proper distance apart to cut
the cigarette to the desired length. The cutter discs have curved or hooked
cutting portions which are adapted to receive the cigarettes from the rolling
apron 49 and carry them over into engagement with the stationary knives 87
which may be formed with inclined cutting edges. Curved guide-arms 139
project up from plates 139" secured to a stationary part of the machine frame,
for confining the cigarettes within the cutting devices.
Curved cigarette ejecting arms 140 project up between the cutting discs 82,
from a pivotally mounted plate or deflector 141 which is hung on suitable
pivots 142. The deflector plate 141 and ejector arms 140 are held in normally
inactive position by a spiral spring 143 attached at one end to one of the side
walls 144 of deflector 141 and at its other end to a stationary pin 145. Extend-
ing rearwardly from the deflector plate 141 is an arm 146 having an upturned
end 146 which is supported in the path of an arm 70 extending from the rock-
shaft of bunch-roller supporting arms 70 and adapted to be engaged thereby
for tilting deflector plate 141 and arms 140 against the action of the spring 143.
Pins 149 limit the movement of the deflector plate 141 and the connected parts.
An endless feeder belt 150 is supported upon feed-rollers (the forward one 151
of which is shown) in front of and to one side of the machine for receiving
wrappers placed upon it by one operator (who first separates the tobacco wrap-
pers) and feeds them into position to be taken by the second operator who
places them upon the cigarette rolling apron 49. The feed-belt 150 is inter-

page_text: mittently fed forward by means of a ratchet wheel 152 keyed to the journal of
the forward belt roller 151 and a spring-pressed pawl 153 mounted upon an
oscillatory arm 154 operated by the link 155 which connects said arm 154 to
the bunch roller supporting lever 70.
In this form of the machine, a slightly different arrangement of devices is
provided for reciprocating the feeder carriage from the oval shaped cam 20. A
rock-shaft 160 journaled in frame 4 has a depending rock-arm 161 carrying an
anti-friction roller 162 which is constantly in engagement with cam 20, and a
long rock-arm 163 projecting upwardly from rock-shaft 160 is connected through
link 164 with the reciprocating carriage 1. 165 is a strong spiral spring con-
necting rock-arm 163 with a stationary point of the machine frame and causing
rock-arm 161 to follow the contour of cam 20, the spring moving carriage 1 in
one direction and cam 20 moving the carriage in the opposite direction.
The operation of this form of the machine is briefly as follows: The machine
being in the position indicated in Figures 18, 19, 20 and 23, a wrapper is taken
by the second operator from belt 150 and placed upon the rolling-apron 49 above
the rolling table with its forward edge projecting slightly over the depression 51",
when the machine is thrown into operation by shifting a clutch (not shown).
It will be observed that, when the machine is started, the carriage is held in
its forward position by the engagement of rock-arm 161 with the extreme eccen-
tric portion of cam 20, after it has deposited a charge of tobacco upon apron 49;
the apron-carrying arms 55 are in forward position to let the rolling apron 49
slack to form a receiving pocket 48 for the charge of tobacco, the apron con-
trolling rock-arm 76 being disengaged from rocker-arm 75; the forming roller 68
is just behind the pocket in the apron, its controlling rock-arm 7.1 being in
recess 1276 of cam
engagement with
the
127, and
wrapper holding
bail 97 is held in disengaged position by its controlling rock-arm 98 being in
engagement with portion 100" of cam 100. The shaft. 21, rotating in the direc-
tion indicated by the arrows in Figures 20 and 21, first causes the concentric
portion 127 of cam 127 to engage arm 71 and start the forming roller 68 for-
ward slightly and hold it stationary till arm 98 falls into engagement with
recess 100b of cam 100 for moving bail 97 into engagement with the wrapper
on the rolling apron 49, and the cam 20 has allowed the spring 165 to move the
feeder carriage rearwardly to throw the feed into operation: Immediately after
bail 97 has engaged the cigarette wrapper, the extreme eccentric portion 127
of cam 127 engages arm 125 and forces the pasting device downwardly to apply
a line of paste upon the wrapper being held by the bail 97, said eccentric por-
tion 127 of the cam being slightly flattened at its end to hold the pasting brush
in contact with the wrapper for an instant, and said brush being rotated while
in contact with the wrapper. During the time the pasting device is moving,
into operative position, the portion 127d of cam 127 engages and passes arm 71
for further advancing the forming roller and tightening the rolling apron
slightly for an instant preparatory to the final rolling of the cigarette, and then
allow these parts to fall back slightly into the position shown in Figure 21.
After the pasting of the wrapper, the portion 127 of the cam 127 passes arm 125
and allows the pasting device to return to normal elevated position, and the
concentric portion 100 of cam 100 again engages arm 98 for withdrawing the
holding bail 97 out of engagement with the wrapper, said portion 127* of
cam 127 immediately thereafter coming into engagement with arm 71 and mov-
ing forming roller 68 to its extreme forward position, as shown in Figure 24,
thereby completing the rolling of the cigarette and causing the apron to be
tightened just prior to the sealing of the cigarette by reason of the passing of
rocker-arm 75 under rock-arm 76. It will be observed from Figure 24 that the
forming roller 68 moves beyond the front edge of the rolling table and thereby
causes the straightening out of the portion of the apron which forms the rolling
pocket for the purpose of insuring the ejection of the cigarette from the apron

page_text: to the cutting discs. This does away with the objectionable possibility of the
cigarette sticking to the rolling apron at the delivery end on account of the
surplus paste. The completely rolled cigarette is deposited upon two of the
cutter hooks of cutting discs 82, and the cutters revolved to cut the butts from
the cigarette. If a cigarette fails to drop from between the cutter discs 82,
the engagement of arm 70" with arm 146 rocks plate 141 and arms 140 and
causes the cigarette to be ejected and deposited at the proper point.
The modifications shown in Figures 25-29 will now be described. The arched
rolling-table 51 has preferably a transversely curved longitudinally extending
shallow recess or cavity formed in its upper working face, as shown in Figure 29.
The rolling-apron 49 is of the usual form, being made of some suitable flexible
cloth, such as rubber cloth. The apron extends forwardly from the supports 200
and rests upon the concave working surface of the arched rolling table and has
its forward end attached to a bar supported between the rock-arms 55 which are
keyed to a rock-shaft 56 journaled in bearings of the frame. An actuating rock-
arm 76 extends rearwardly from the rock-shaft 56 and carries at its rear end an
anti-friction roller 76°.
The bunch-roller supporting arms 70 are keyed to a rock-shaft 70° and carry
in their upper ends the freely journaled bunch-roller 68 which is formed with
a longitudinally curved concave periphery, as shown in Figure 29. The bunch-
roller is adapted to travel over the concave working face of the rolling table 51,
forming with the table a space approximating the shape of the perfecto cigar
or cigarette. The rock-shaft 70° has keyed to it a rocker-arm 75" to the upper
end of which is attached an apron tightening cam 201 of such shape that the
rock-arms 55 will be moved and held to tighten and hold the apron taut during
the entire operation of rolling the cigar or cigarette. The cam 201 is formed
with a depression or low portion 201", to allow the rolling apron to remain loose
or slack before the rolling operation commences, and a high concentric por-
tion 201b upon which the anti-friction roller 76 rides for holding the apron taut
during the rolling operation. A spiral spring 202 is attached to the cam rocker-
arm 75 at one end and to a stationary point at the other end for holding the
cam and the bunch-roller supporting arms in normal retracted or inoperative
position, with the rolling apron slack.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is:
1. In a cigarette-making machine, the combination of the cigarette-forming
devices, suitable tobacco-feeding mechanism, operating mechanism for the form-
ing devices, and means for automatically throwing the feeding mechanism into
and out of gear with the said operating mechanism of the forming devices to
operate and arrest the feed with proper relation to the movement of the form-
ing devices, substantially as set forth.
2. In a cigarette-making machine, the combination of the cigarette-forming
devices, suitable tobacco-feeding mechanism, a feed-chute constructed to receive
the tobacco from the feeding mechanism, operating mechanism for the forming
devices, means for automatically throwing the feeding mechanism into and out
of gear with the said operating mechanism, and means for automatically dis-
charging the contents of the feed-chute to the forming devices, substantially as
set forth.
3. In a cigarette-making machine, the combination of the forming mechanism,
with a reciprocating carriage supporting suitable feeding devices, and gearing
between the forming mechanism and feeding devices adapted to be thrown into
and out of gear by the movement of the carriage, substantially as set forth.
4. In a cigarette-making machine, the combination of the forming mechanism with
the reciprocating carriage supporting suitable feeding devices, a feed-chute adapted

page_text: to receive the tobacco from the feeding devices, gearing between the forming
mechanism and feeding devices adapted to be thrown into and out of gear by
the movement of the carriage and means operated by the movement of the car-
riage for discharging the tobacco from the feed-chute, substantially as set forth.
5. In a cigarette-making machine, the combination of suitable forming
mechanism, with a reciprocating feeder-carriage, feed-rolls and an endless feed-
belt carried by the carriage, and suitable operating-gearing between the forming
mechanism and feeding devices thrown into and out of gear by the movement
of the carriage, substantially as set forth.
6. In a cigarette-making machine, the combination of suitable forming
mechanism, operating means, a constantly-operating gear-wheel 25 driven from
the operating means, a reciprocating feeder-carriage inovable toward and away
from the point of deposit, an endless feed-belt supported in the carriage, feed-
rolls journaled in the carriage, and a gear 24 journaled upon the carriage and
geared to the feed rolls and belt and adapted to be thrown into and out of gear
with the gear 25 by the movement of the carriage, substantially as set forth.
7. In a cigarette-machine, the combination of suitable forming-mechanism,
means for operating the forming mechanism, a continuously-rotating gear-
wheel 25 driven therefrom, a reciprocating feeder-carriage movable toward and
away from the point of deposit to the forming mechanism, rollers 5 journaled in
the carriage, an endless belt 7 supported upon the rollers 5, the worm-wheel 36
and gear 37 on shaft of one roller 5, the smooth feed-roll 8 also journaled in
the feed-carriage and provided with a gear 38 meshing with the gear 37, a feed-
roll 9 journaled in the carriage and provided with a worm 31 which gears with
a worm-wheel 32 carried by an inclined shaft 33 journaled in brackets 34, a
worm 35 also carried by said shaft 33 and gearing with the worm-gear 36, and
a gear-wheel 24 on the shaft of roll 9 which is adapted to be brought into and
out of mesh with the continuously-rotating gear-wheel 25, substantially as and
for the purpose set forth.
8. In a cigarette-making machine, the combination with a reciprocating feeder-
carriage, feeder mechanism supported upon the carriage and comprising an end-
less carrier, an evener-roll and a picking-cylinder supported adjacent to the
discharge end of the feeder-carriage in working relation to the endless carrier,
and gearing for imparting an intermittent motion to the feeding-mechanism,
as specified.
9. In a cigarette-making machine, the combination with the forming-apron.
and the reciprocating feed-carriage, and means for operating it, of a tamper
mounted upon the movable carriage and designed to compress the filler within
the pocket of the forming-apron, and means for operating the tamper, as
specified.
10. In a cigarette-making machine, the combination of a reciprocating feeder,
means for operating the feeder, a tamping device carried by the feeder, means
for operating the tamping device, a forming-apron, and a forming and wrapper-
applying roller, as specified.
11. In a cigarette-machine, the combination of a feeding device, an arched
rolling-table, an apron supported above the table and having one end secured to
one end of the table, the rock-arms 55 keyed to shaft 56 and supporting the other
end of the apron, the rock-arms 70, the apron-roller 68 journaled in the rock-
arms 70, above the table and beneath the apron, the rock-arm 76 also keyed to
shaft 56, the arm 75 carried by arms 70, and suitable means for operating rock-
arms 70, substantially as set forth.
12. In a cigarette-making machine, the combination of a cigarette rolling
device, suitable tobacco feeding mechanism, and a wrapper pastino device adapted
to be intermittently operated by the tobacco feeding device, substantially as set
forth.
13. In a cigarette-making machine, the combination of a cigarette rolling

page_text: device, intermittently operating tobacco feeding mechanism, a normally inac-
tive wrapper pasting device, means for moving the pasting device into position
to paste the wrapper, a paste-spreading roll in the pasting device, and means
operated by the intermittently operating feeder carriage for intermittently
rotating the spreading roll of the pasting device, substantially as set forth.
14. In a cigarette-making machine, the combination of cigarette rolling
devices, intermittently operating tobacco feeding mechanism, a pivotally mounted
cigarette pasting device comprising a paste receptacle or reservoir, a paste dis-
tributor roll journaled in the reservoir, and a paste applying brush supported
in contact with the distributor roll, means for moving the pasting device into
and out of operative position, and means carried by the movable feeding devices
for intermittently rotating the distributor roll, substantially as set forth.
15. In a cigarette-making machine, the combination of cigarette rolling
devices, a reciprocating feeder carriage supporting tobacco feeding mechanism, a
paste receptacle or reservoir pivotally mounted upon a stationary support and
having an open side, a rotary paste distributor roll journaled in the reservoir
in the open side, a ratchet wheel keyed to the journal of the distributor roll, a
pawl-carrying arm mounted upon the reciprocating feeder carriage adapted to
intermittently engage said ratchet wheel for rotating the distributor roll, a paste
applying brush supported in contact with the distributor roll, and means for
moving the pasting device for bringing the paste brush into contact with the
wrapper, substantially as set forth.
16. In a cigarette-making machine, the combination of cigarette forming
devices, a reciprocating feeder carriage supporting tobacco feeding devices, a
paste reservoir or receptacle pivotally mounted upon a stationary support, an
intermittently rotated distributor roll journaled in said receptacle, a rotary paste
applying brush journaled in suitable arms extending from the receptacle and
supported thereby in contact with the distributor roll, means for constantly
rotating the paste applying brush, means for supporting the receptacle and
attached parts in elevated position, and means for intermittently lowering the
pasting device for bringing the pasting brush in contact with the cigarette-
wrapper, substantially as set forth.
17. In a cigarette-making machine, the combination of suitable cigarette
forming devices, suitable tobacco feeding mechanism, a pirotally mounted past-
ing device provided with a paste applying brush, a power shaft, a cam on said
shaft, a rock-arm mounted upon a rock-shaft connected to the pasting device,
and a spring engaging said rock shaft for holding the pasting device in elevated
position, substantially as set forth.
18. In a cigarette-making machine, the combination of the cigarette rolling
table. the rolling apron, means for holding a cigarette wrapper in position upon
the apron, a pasting device having a rotatable pasting brush, means for moving
the pasting brush into contact with the cigarette wrapper when so held upon the
apron, and means for rotating the brush while it is in contact with the wrapper,
as set forth.
19. In a cigarette-making machine, the combination of the cigarette rolling
table, the rolling apron, the forming roller, a wrapper holding device compris-
ing a pair of oscillatory arms, a wrapper holding bail supported upon said arms
and adapted to engage a cigarette wrapper upon the rolling table, a spring for
holding the wrapper-holding device in retracted position, means for moving said
device into operative position at the proper time with respect to the cigarette
rolling mechanism, a pasting device having a rotatable pasting brush, means for
moving the pasting device into engagement with a cigarette wrapper on the roll-
ing apron, means for holding the brush in engagement with the wrapper for
an instant while it is rotating, and means for rotating the brush, as set forth.
20. In a cigarette-making machine, the combination of the arched rolling
table formed with a transverse depression or cut-out portion adjacent to its rear
edge, the rolling apron, the forming roller, suitable tobacco feeding mechanism,

page_text: and means for holding a cigarette wrapper upon the rolling apron adjacent to
the cut-out portion of the table, substantially as set forth.
21. In a cigarette-making machine, the combination of the arched rolling
table, the rolling apron, the forming roller, suitable tobacco feeding mechanism,
and an oscillating wrapper holding device held normally in inactive position and
adapted to intermittently move over into engagement with the arched table for
holding the wrapper in position to receive the formed filler of tobacco, substan-
tially as set forth.
22. In a cigarette-making machine, the combination of the arched rolling
table, the rolling apron, the forming roller, suitable tobacco feeding mechanism,
and a wrapper holding device comprising a pair of oscillatory arms, a wrapper
holding bail supported upon said arms and adapted to engage a cigarette wrapper
upon the rolling table, a spring for holding the wrapper-holding device in
retracted position, and means for moving said device into operative position at
the proper time with respect to the cigarette rolling mechanism, substantially
as set forth.
23. In a cigarette-making machine, the combination of suitable cigarette
forming devices, suitable tobacco feeding mechanism and a cigarette cutting
device comprising a pair of disc cutters formed with hook-shaped cutting portions
and stationary cutting blades operating in conjunction with said disc cutters,
substantially as set forth.
24. In a cigarette-making machine, the combination of cigarette forming
devices, suitable tobacco feeding mechanism for supplying the forming devices
with successive charges of tobacco, a pair of cigarette cutting discs, the stationary
cutters operating in conjunction with the cutting discs, a pivotally mounted deflec-
tor plate, the ejector arms supported upon said plate, a spring for holding said plate
in normal position, and an arm projecting from the plate and adapted to be
engaged by a movable part of the forming devices for operating the ejectors, as
set forth.
25. In a cigarette-making machine, the combination of an arched roiling
table, the rolling apron, the forming roller journaled upon the oscillatory sup-
porting arms, and intermittently movable cutting discs mounted upon a suitable
shaft, the ratchet wheel keyed to said shaft, an oscillatory pawl-carrying arm,
and a link connecting said oscillatory arm with one of the arms supporting the
forming roller, substantially as set forth.
26. In a cigarette-making machine, the combination of the rolling table, the
rolling apron, the forming roller, and operating mechanism, the endless belt
supported upon the conveyor rollers, a ratchet wheel upon the journal of one of
said rollers, an oscillating arm carrying a pawl adapted to engage said ratchet
wheel, and a link connecting said arm to the forming roller operating mech
anism, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
27. In a machine for forming cigars or cigarettes, the combination of the
arched rolling table, the rolling apron firmly secured at one end, the rock-armis
supporting the other end of the apron, a rock-shaft, a rocker-arm, secured upon-
the rock-shaft, an apron-tightening cam secured to said rocker-arm and formed
with a low part and a high concentric working part, an operating arm extending
from the apron-supporting arms and in engagement with the apron-tightening
cam, the bunch-roller, the rock-arms on the rock-shaft supporting the bunch-
roller, an operating rock-arm for operating the rock-arm and rocker-arm, as set
forth.
28. In a machine for forming cigars or cigarettes, the combination of an
arched rolling table, formed with a transversely curved longitudinally extending
concavity or depression, with a rolling apron supported above the table and firmly
secured at one end, the rock-arms supporting the other end of the apron, a rock-
shaft and a rocker-arm supported thereby, a cam on rocker-arm, an operating
arm extending from the apron supporting arms and adapted to be engaged by
the cam of the rocker-arm, a bunch-roller formed with a longitudinally curved

page_text: concaved periphery, the rock-arms on the rock-shaft supporting the bunch-roller,
an operating rock-arm on said rock-shaft, and a cam operating said rock-arm for
operating the bunch-roller and its apron-supporting rock-arms, substantially as
set forth.
Dated oven ay of September 1000.
HARRIS & MILLS,
23, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents.