Year: 1898

page_text: We, WILLIAM ANDSTEM, Mechanician, of 7, Kristiansgaten, and GUSTAF ADOLF
HAGELBERG, Lawyer, of 7, Eriksgaten, both in Helsingfors, Finland, in the Empire
of Russia, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved cigarette machine for filling the paper
tubes, or envelopes, with tobacco, and is designed, more particularly, to be worked
by hand.
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According to our invention, the movement of a hand lever causes a rotary
cylinder, or carrier, arranged below a holder containing the paper tubes, or
envelopes, and formed with grooves or channels, to receive the tubes. The move-
ment is such that the cigarettes on being filled fall out, and a fresh tube drops
into the succeeding groove or channel. The paper tubes are successively carried
towards the spout of a filling trough on to which they are placed and retained
in position by a suitable device. While 80 retained, the tobacco
rammed in by means of a plunger adapted to work in said trough, the latter
being located a little to one side of, but below, a hopper from which the
tobacco is fed downwards by a presser rod, weight, or other mechanical con-
trivance, and is cut off by a suitable knife. The retaining device, on being re-
leased, permits the grooved cylinder, or carrier, to return to its initial position.
The same operations take place at each reciprocating movement of the hand
lever.
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page_text: than that of the filling trough Q, and the cross section of this latter is greater
than the thickness of the knife E. The tobacco in the hopper is forced down,
say by a spring controlled presser rod K. The knife E, on being pressed inwards,
cuts off the requisite quantity of tobacco for filling a paper tube, then pushes it
into the filling trough, and finally closes the trough, as shewn in Figs. 3 and 6.
The plunger then advances and enters the trough.
In proximity to the hopper, is the holder C for the paper tubes; it is provided
with an inclined bottom formed with an opening just above the groove or channel
in the cylinder D. As previously mentioned, this cylinder on moving endwise
with its axis G, brings the unfilled paper tubes to the filling trough and then
remains stationary until the completion of the filling operation, after which, it
retires to its initial position. On the next movement of the hand lever, the cylin-
der receives a rotary (or a rocking) movement, throws out the filled cigarette,
and receives another unfilled paper tube.
The mechanism is clearly shewn in Figs. 1 and 2, the hand lever M being
pivoted at m to the wide part of the frame A. By means of the stud n, on said
hand lever, a horizontal movement is imparted to the knife E (pivotted at r) and
this stud, during the movement of the lever to the left travels along the curved
edge of the knife and presses it against the column of tobacco in the hopper B.
On moving the lever to the right, the stud n presses against the horn O and with-
draws the knife. The hand lever has rigidly, attached to it a sector K provided
with a lug i adapted to strike against pins or teeth W on the cylinder axis, and
cause it, together with the cylinder, to turn through 90°.
Instead of the sector K on the hand lever M, we may, in some cases, provide a
projection on the knife E to act on the teeth W of the cylinder axis.
Un said hand lever there is also a second stud V so arranged as to travel in
a slot in a link N connected at one of its ends to a cross head q on the plunger F.
The head of the hand lever M extends beyond the pivot m and terminates in
a curved arm b, formed with two friction surfaces, adapted to slide and bear
against the end a of a bell crank lever L in such a manner as to force this latter,
when requisite, against a spring block s so as to retain the paper tube in position
on the spout H. The pressure of the block s is regulated by a set screw t.
To enable cigarettes of various lengths to be made by this machine, the stroke
of the cylinder axis must be adjusted by the nuts y to the length of cigarette
required.
The working of the machine is as follows:-
On moving the hand lever M from left to right, the arm a of the bell crank
lever L engages the lower friction surface of the curved arm band, at the same
time, the fixed sector K on the hand-lever passes over the cylinder
axis G, whereupon the lug i strikes against the pins or teeth W on the axis G and
so rotates the cylinder D). The stud V of the hand lever M during this first
movement, acts on a tooth of the slotted link N and causes the plunger to
recede towards the right of the machine until the cross head q comes against
the end of the slotted part of the frame A and causes the cylinder D to move
towards the spout H of the filling trough Q. As soon as the cross head arrives
at the end of the guide-way in the frame A, the stud V escapes from the tooth j
and passes up the slot in the link N. This movement of the hand lever M in
the link does not affect either the plunger or the cylinder axis G, and only the
lower friction surface of the arm 6 moves over the arm a. On the latter reaching
the end of b, it passes on to the lower friction surface, and on the return of the
hand lever the block s is forced against the spout H by the wedge-shaped part of
the friction surface and so retains the paper tube in position on the spout. During
the movement of the hand lever M, the stud n comes against the horn O of the
knife E and by pressing against it withdraws the knife so allowing the tobacco
under pressure of the rod R, in the hopper B, to be forced out on to the bottom
plate of the frame A. On reversing the hand lever, its stud n travels along the
curved back of the knife E thereby causing a suitable quantity of tobacco to

page_text: be cut off and, as before stated, to be pushed into the filling trough. In the
meantime, the stud V has returned to the lower end of the slot in the link N,
and by a further movement of the lever the plunger is also caused to move back,
and thus the filling of the paper tubes is effected. The cross head 9 returns the
cylinder D to its initial position by striking against a ring T on the axis G.
In front of the cylinder D) is arranged a knife, Fig. 7, which, on the rotation
of the cylinder cuts off the ends of the tobacco protruding from the cigarette.
This completes one working operation, and is repeated at each reciprocating
motion of the hand lever M.
Improvements in Cigarette Fining machines.
We, WILLIAM ANDSTEM, Mechanician, of 7, Kristiansgaten, and GUSTAF ADOLF
HAGELBERG, Lawyer, of 7, Eriksgaten, both in Helsingfors, Finland, in the Empire
of Russia, 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, reference being had to the drawings accompanying the
Provisional Specification and to the letters and figures marked thereon, that is
to say-
This invention relates to an improved cigarette machine for filling the paper
tubes or envelopes with tobacco, and is designed, more particularly, to be worked
by hand.
or
is
According to our invention, the movement of a hand lever causes a rotary
cylinder or carrier, arranged below a holder containing the paper tubes
envelopes, and formed with grooves or channels, to receive the tubes. The move-
ment is such that the cigarettes on being filled fall out, and a fresh tube drops
into the succeeding groove or channel. The paper tubes are successively carried
towards the spout of a filling trough on to which they are placed and retained
in position by a suitable device. While SO retained, the tobacco
rammed in by means of a plunger adapted to work in said trough, the latter
being located a little to one side of, but below, a hopper from which the
tobacco is fed downwards by a presser, rod, weight, or other mechanical con-
trivance, and is cut off by a suitable knife. The retaining device, on being re-
leased, permits the grooved cylinder or carrier to return to its initial position.
The same operations take place at each reciprocating movement of the hand
lever.
In the drawings filed with our Provisional Specification;
Fig. 1 is a side elevation,
Fig. 2 a plan, and
Fig. 3 a vertical cross section of our improved machine.
Fig. 4 shows the rotary cylinder arranged beneath the holder containing the
paper tubes or envelopes, and which, by way of example, is represented as having
four grooves or channels.
Fig. 5 is a detail of the head of the hand lever.
Fig. 6 is a cross section through the knife and filling trough, this arrangement

page_text: differing from that shewn in Fig. 3 by the cutting edge of the knife being
adapted to close the trough.
Fig. 7 shews an oscillating carrier provided with a single groove or channel.
The arrangement can, if desired, be modified so as to cause the hand lever to
move in a vertical direction instead of in a horizontal one, by simply altering
the means for transmitting the movement of the lever.
The several parts forming the machine are carried by a frame A, one end of
which forms a slide way. This frame is provided with feet P' by which it can
be secured to a table, bench, or the like, when to be used.
At or about the wide part of the frame A is fixed a hopper B, having a funnel
shaped mouth for the introduction of the tobacco.
As seen in Fig. 3, the cross section of this hopper B is considerably larger
than that of the filling trough Q, and the cross section of this latter is greater
than the thickness of the knife E. The tobacco in the hopper is forced downward,
say by a spring controlled presser rod R. The knife E, on being pressed inwards,
cuts off the requisite quantity of tobacco for filling a paper tube, then pushes it
into the filling trough, and finally closes the trough (as shewn in Figs. 3 and 6)
the plunger then advancing and entering the trough.
In proximity to the hopper is the holder C for the paper tubes; it is provided
with an inclined bottom formed with an opening just above the groove or channel
in the cylinder D. As previously mentioned, this cylinder on moving endwise
with its axis G brings the unfilled paper tubes to the filling trough, and then
remains stationary until the completion of the filling operation, after which, it
retires to its initial position. On the next movement of the hand lever, the cylin-
der receives a rotary (or a rocking) movement, throws out the filled cigarette,
and receives another unfilled paper tube.
The mechanism is clearly shewn in Figs. 1 and 2, the hand lever M being
pivoted at m to the wide part of the frame A. By means of the stud
n on said
hand lever, a horizontal movement is imparted to the knife E (pivoted at r) and
this stud, during the movement of the lever to the left travels along the curved
edge of the knife and presses it against the column of tobacco in the hopper B.
On moving the lever to the right, the stud n presses against the horn O and with-
draws the knife. The hand lever has rigidly attached to it a sector K provided
with a lug i adapted to strike against pins or teeth W on the cylinder axis G and
cause it, together with the cylinder, to turn through 90°.
Instead of the sector K on the hand lever M, we may, in some cases, provide a
projection on the knife E to act on the teeth W of the cylinder axis.
On said hand lever there is also a second stud V so arranged as to travel in
a slot in a link N connected at one of its ends to a cross head q on the plunger F.
The head of the hand lever M extends beyond the pivot m and terminates in
a curved arm 6 formed with two friction surfaces adapted to slide on and bear
against the end a of a bell crank lever L in such a manner as to force this latter,
when necessary, against a spring blocks so as to retain the paper tube in position
on the spout H.
The pressure of the blocks is regulated by a set screw t.
To enable cigarettes of various lengths to be made by this machine, the stroke
of the cylinder axis must be adjusted by nuts y to the length of cigarette
required.
The working of the machine is as follows:-
On moving the hand lever M from left to right, the arm a of the bell crank
lever L engages the lower friction surface of the curved arm band, at the same
time, the fixed sector K, on the hand-lever, passes over the cylinder
axis G, whereupon the lug i strikes against the pins or teeth W on the axis G, and
so rotates the cylinder D. The stud V of the hand lever M during this first
movement acts on a tooth j of the slotted link N and causes the plunger F to
recede towards the right of the machine; until the cross head q comes against

page_text: the end of the slotted part of the frame A and causes the cylinder D to move
towards the spout of the filling trough Q. As soon as the cross head 7 arrives
at the end of the guide way in the frame A, the stud V escapes from the tooth j
and passes up the slot in the link N. This movement of the hand lever M in
the link, does not affect either the plunger or the cylinder axis, and only the
lower friction surface of the arm b moves over the arm a. On the latter reaching
the end of b, it passes on to the lower friction surface, and on the return of the
hand lever the blocks is forced against the spout H by the wedge shaped part of
the friction surface and so retains the paper tube in position on the spout.
During the movement of the hand lever M the stud n comes against the horn O
of the knife E, and by pressing against it withdraws the knife, so allowing the
tobacco under pressure of the rod R in the hopper B, to be forced out onto the
bottom plate of the frame A. On reversing the hand lever, its stud n travels along
the curved back of the knife E thereby causing a suitable quantity of tobacco to
be cut off and, as before stated, to be pushed into the filling trough. In the mean-
time the stud V has returned to the lower end of the slot in the link N, and by a
further movement of the lever the plunger is also caused to move back, and thus
the filling of the paper tube is effected.
The cross head returns the cylinder D to its initial position by striking against
a ring T on the axis G.
In front of the cylinder D is arranged a knife D* Fig. 7, which, on the rotation
of the cylinder, cuts off the ends of the tobacco protruding from the cigarette.
This completes one working operation, and is repeated at each reciprocating
motion of the hand lever M.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is-
1. A cigarette filling machine in which the tobacco, received from a hopper, is
fed by a knife into a filling trough and is then forced by a plunger into paper
tubes or envelopes supplied from a holder and delivered into a cylinder, or carrier,
(having a rotary (or a rocking and endwise movement) which brings them to the
spout of the filling trough, on which they are are held by a suitable device while
being filled, substantially as described.
2. In a cigarette machine, as above claimed, a feed hopper of a width con-
siderably larger than the thickness of the knife used in conjunction therewith,
and the thickness of which knife is less than the diameter of the filling trough,
said trough being located to one side of but below the hopper, the bottom plate
of which is arranged at such a distance as to permit the said knife to work between
the hopper and its bottom plate, substantially as described and shewn.
3. In a cigarette filling machine, the means for throwing out the cigarettes
when filled, and for receiving and conveying the empty paper tubes, or envelopes,
to the spout of the filling trough, consisting of a cylinder having a number of
grooves or channels (or a segmental carrier having a single groove or recess)
adapted to receive through suitable mechanism periodical rotary and endwise
movements, substantially as described and shewn.
4. In a cigarette filling machine (as under Claim 1) the arrangement whereby
the knife, plunger, cylinder (or carrier) together with the spring block for retain-
ing the paper tubes or envelopes on the spout of the filling trough, are all actuated
by the reciprocating hand lever, substantially as described and shewn.
5. In a cigarette filling machine, operating the knife by means of a stud on
the hand lever arranged to travel along the curved back of such knife and to act,
on its receding movement on a horn formed thereon, substantially as described
and shewn.
6. In a cigarette filling machine, operating the plunger from the handlever by
means of a slotted link connected therewith, substantially as described.

page_text: 7. In a cigarette filling machine, imparting a reciprocating movement to the
grooved cylinder (or to the carrier) by means of the plunger and a rotary (or a
rocking) motion obtained directly from the handlever, or from the knife, sub-
stantially as described.
8. Our improved cigarette filling machine constructed, arranged and combined
to operate substantially as herein before described and as shewn in the annexed
drawings.
Dated this 12th day or January 19
ERNEST DE PASS,
Chartered Patent Agent,
78, Fleet Street, London, and
54, Market Street, Nottingham,
Agent for the Applicants.
ERNEST DE PASS,
Chartered Patent Agent,
78, Fleet Street, London, and
54, Market Street, Nottingham,
Agent for the Applicants.