IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF CIGARS
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Robert de Bary, of Finsbury Square, in the County
of Middlesex, Gentleman, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINERY FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF CIGARS."-A communication from
abroad by Julius de Bary, of Offenbach, Hesse Darmstadt.
Sealed the 25th September 1862, and dated the 27th March 1862.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert de Bary at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 27th
March 1862.
I, ROBERT DE BARY, of Finsbury Square, in the County of Middlesex,
Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN MACHINERY FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF CIGARS," (communicated to me
from abroad by Julius de Bary, of Offenbach, Hesse Darmstadt), to be as
follows:-
This Invention consists in certain improvements on a former Invention for
which Letters Patent were granted to me 1st Nov. 1859, No. 2493.
The mechanism then described for causing the rise and fall of the knife is here
replaced by two eccentrics. The tobacco on leaving the box, or case.
by which it is fed to the machine is guided to the knife, cut, compressed;.
and carried on to a band stretched over a curved plate free to oscillate about
a fixed point. There is a space or pocket formed in the band into which
the cut tobacco falls, and wherein it is pressed by a plunger; a roller advances,
folds the band over the tobacco, and the curved plate moving at the same
time carries on the cigar thus partially manufactured with it. To regulate
the thickness of the cigar, a roller is placed above the band which con-
solidates the tobacco as it passes under it. The external coatings for the cigars
are led up by an endless band, which through two guides, the lower of which

page_text: revolves, causes the coating to be wound round the cigar. Motion is com-
municated to the endless band by a drum or cylinder. round which it is passed.
There is a toothed wheel on the drum shaft in connection with a ratchet
having a curved branch proceeding from it bearing against a small roller
beneath, by the action of which the motion of the drum and band may be
regulated or stopped. The toothed wheel before mentioned, through a crank
and connecting rod, communicates motion to the curved plate which is in
unison with that communicating by the drum to the endless band. As
the curved plate oscillates it carries the cigars down, with it and deposits them
into compartments formed in an endless chain into boxes or into any other
convenient receptacle.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Robert de Bary in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
27th September 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ROBERT
DE BARY, of Finsbury Square, in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of March, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-fifth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto:
me, the said Robert de Bary, Her special licence, that I; the said Robert
de Bary, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others-as I; the.
said Robert de Bary, iny 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 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MACHINERY FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF CIGARS," (a communication from abroad:
by Julius de Bary, 'of Offenbach, Hesse Darmstadt) upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Robert de Bary, my executors or admi-
nistrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their?
bands and seals; 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,

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Robert. de Bary, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be, per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement, thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed,
that is to say
"
This Invention, consists in certain improvements, on a former Invention
for which Letters Patent were granted to me 1st November. 1859, No. 2493.
The mechanism then described for causing the rise and fall of the knife
is here replaced by two excentrics: The tobacco on leaving the box or
case by which it is fed to the machine, is guided to the knife, cut, com-
pressed; and carried on to a band stretched over a curved plate or sector
free to oscillate about a fixed point. There is a space or pocket formed
in the band into which the cut tobacco falls and wherein it is pressed
by a plunger; a roller advances, folds the band over the tobacco, and the
curved plate moving at the same time carries on the cigar thus partially
manufactured with it. To regulate the thickness of the cigar a roller is placed
above the band which consolidates the tobacco as it passes under it. The
envelopes or outer skins. for the cigars are led up by an endless band which
through two guides, the lower of which revolves, causes the envelope to be
wound round the cigar. Motion is communicated to the endless band.
by a drum or cylinder round which it is passed. There is a toothed wheel
on the drum shaft in connection with a ratchet having a curved arın or
branch proceeding from it bearing against a small roller beneath, by the
action of which the motion of the drum and band may be regulated or stopped.
The toothed wheel before mentioned, through a crank and connecting rod,.
communicates motion to the curved plate which is in unison with.
that communicated by the drum to the endless band. As the curved.
plate oscillates it carries the cigars down with it and deposits them into.
compartments, formed in an endless chain into boxes or into any other, con-
venient receptacle..
Figure 1 is a longitudinal elevation of the machine taken at the moment
when; the portion of tobacco to form the body of, the cigar is about being
passed to the machinery to be rolled into the outer skin. Figure 2 is a
longitudinal section of the machine shewing the sector A rolling up the
body. Figures 3 and 4 shew the sector in different positions. Figure 5 is
a front view of the knife and of the, compresser. The knife is at the
bottom of its course when the compresser is about to come in .contact
with the tobacco. The apparatus for feeding the rolling machinery with
tobacco is the same as that which formed the subject of former Patents

page_text: granted to me, that is to say, relating to the first and second divisions of
the work.
I will now. describe the improvements I have made in the construction of
the said machines. The mechanism which made the knife rise and fall, that
is, the grooved excentric teeth, have substituted for them the excentric
discs H, Figures 1 and 2. By this means, as soon as the tobacco u issues
through the open between the two plates E and M, it becomes placed
between the parts a, b, and c; the knife G then cuts that portion of tobacco
so placed. On each side of the knife a flat plate d is fixed, which works the
lever e, which together with the two levers f, f, are fixed upon the same
axis ; the plate a is made to oscillate by the hinges of the lever f, and is
afterwards withdrawn under the tobacco by means of these hinges when the
flat plates d press upon the levers e; thus the tobacco becomes free as well as
the compresser c.
The tobacco and the compresser then fall together into the
pocket formed in the belt h, which is stretched upon the oscillating curved
plate or sector A. At the same time that the cutting of the tobacco takes
place the spring 9 presses upon the compresser c; this latter, as well as the
portion of tobacco cut off, receives a pressure, whereby it is prevented falling
in disorder upon the band h, and is made to descend in the same order as
when it was presented to the knife on issuing through the opening between
the plates E and M. The roller K and the plate E may be brought nearer
to or removed farther from the roller K' and the plate M, in order that the
space between those rollers and plates may be regulated according to the
thickness of the cigars to be manufactured. I have substituted the oscillating
sector or curved plate A, Figures 1, 2, 3, and 4, for the apparatus for rolling
the outer skin round the body employed in machines now in operation for
performing the fifth; sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth divisions of the work.
The cross section of this sector A must be determined by experience; it is a
convex plate or a segment of a circle flattened at the two ends. When the
portion of tobacco cut off has fallen with the compresser into the pocket
formed by the belt h, the compresser is raised by the knife, which rises to the
position Figure 2, and the two flat plates d press the flat plate a against the
plate M by means of the levers e and f. In rising the two flat plates & drive
the roller k, the bearings of which are in slots in the plates d, until the pocket
formed in the belt becomes closed consequent upon the oscillation of the
sector A beginning at the same time in the direction indicated, the portion of
tobacco becomes placed in the position seen at Figure 2. The bearings of the
róller k may be made to approach nearer to or recede further from the belt h
by screws.
The method of rolling the outer skin round the body of tobacco

page_text: is shewn at Figure 3. The belt is forced to press more and more the portion
of tobacco it is about to roll, and in order to prevent too great pressure, that
is, in order to prevent the thickness the cigar depending upon a greater or
less portion of tobacco, I make use of a roller m caused to rotate by two rails
or guides with roughened surfaces fixed on the two sides of the sector A, and
of the same thickness as the belt h, in order to impart from the band to the
cigar the exact speed. I attach the greatest importance to the roller m, as
without it cigars of regular thickness cannot be made. The envelope or skin
to be rolled round the body of tobacco is placed upon the endless belt 'n.
This skin united to the portion of tobacco to constitute the body of the cigar
in passing under the two rollers v, v, is rolled round the said portion of
tobacco by the rotation of this latter, and the inner body is thus covered by the
said skin. The band n is made to travel by the drum p, round which it is
stretched. Upon the axis of this drum movable toothed gear q is keyed; ris
a ratchet gearing into a ratchet wheels fixed upon the axis of the drum p.
This ratchet carries a curved area, which rests against a roller t, so formed
as to deliver the ratchet at the proper time for stopping the drum p, and with
it the belt h. The gear 9 gears into a pinion, which takes into the toothed
wheel u', which receives oscillating motion from the rod w fixed at one end to
the lever o, and at the other end to the sector A.
Working of the Apparatus.-The sector A in oscillating in the direction
indicated, the wheel u¹ is set in motion in the same direction, the gear q and
the ratchet r are also set in motion, the ratchet r takes into one tooth of the
ratchet wheels; the drum p is made to turn as well as the endless belt n,
upon which the skin or envelope has been placed. This movement takes place
until the curved arm comes in contact with the roller t, and disengages the
ratchet from the tooth of the wheel s, in which it was engaged. In order to
obtain a sudden stop of the drum p when the ratchet becomes disengaged, I
have added to the drum stops y, y, so placed that one of them at the moment
of the disengagement of the ratchet comes in contact with the curved block z
on the lever o. A larger or smaller wheel may be substituted for the wheel u',
in order to increase or diminish the speed of the belt n. The speed of this
belt is generally less than that of the rolling belt h, in order that the envelope
or skin after having passed over the rollers v,.v, may be drawn quicker by
the belt than by the belt n, which by its particular speed allows it to pass
over the rollers v, v; by this means it is easy to impart to the envelope a.
certain amount of tension, whereby it becomes rolled smoothly round the body.
According to the strength of the tobacco forming the envelope so can the
tension be adjusted. The envelopes are placed successively and continuously

page_text: upon the belt n, in order to obtain a continuous supply in the rolling. appa-
ratus. The sector A by its oscillation attaining the position shewn at Figure 4,
the cylinder k causes the cigars to enter the pincers B, of which there are
three. The cigar remains there until the sector attains the position Figure 3,
when it becomes deposited in a receiver or in the compartments of the endless
chain F, Figures 1 and 2. This endless chain then advances to the extent of
one compartment through the gear shewn at Figures 1 and 2, and thus I
cause the finished cigars to be delivered mechanically out of the apparatus;
From the chain the cigars may be allowed to fall, or they may be removed
by hand.
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And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim as the "Improve-
ments in Machinery for the Manufacture, of Cigars,"
First, the emplo, nert, of excentric discs one on each side of the machine
for causing the rise and fall of the knife in manner herein-before described
and illustrated in the accompanying Drawings.
Second, the employment of a curvilinear plate or sector for receiving the
body of the cigars, as well as the envelope for the same, the said plate being
free to oscillate about a shaft in connection by links with one of the excentric
dises, and by a connecting rod with the drum, round which the endless band
for supplying the envelopes passes, as herein-before described and illustrated
in the accompanying Drawings.
Third, the mechanism for regulating the thickness of the cigars herein-
before described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawings.
Fourth, the mechanism for maintaining the envelopes for the cigars in a
state of tension while the body is being covered, as herein-before described
and illustrated in the accompanying Drawings.
Fifth, the employment of pincers on the curvilinear plate or sector for
supporting and carrying the cigars until they become deposited in the com-
partments in the endless chain, as herein-before described and illustrated in
the accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert de Bary, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of September, One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-two.
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ROBERT DE BARY. (L.s.)