Improvements in Apparatus for Dealing with Damaged Cigarettes and Separating the Tobacco and Wrapper.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 4th June, 1897-Accepted, 17th July, 1897
Improvements in Apparatus for Dealing with Damaged Cigarettes
and Separating the Tobacco and Wrapper.
I, BERNHARD BARON, of 51 St. Mary Axe, in the City of London, Manufacturer, 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:-
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My invention relates to improvements in apparatus for dealing with broken
damaged or spoilt cigarettes and separating the tobacco from the damaged or useless
wrapper, the apparatus being particularly applicable for treating the spoilt cigarettes
produced by some imperfect working of a fast running cigarette making machine
where occasionally considerable quantities of the damaged cigarettes may be
produced.
In the accompanying drawings is illustrated an apparatus forming the subject
of my invention :
Fig. 1 being a side elevation of the apparatus partly in section;
Fig. 2 is an end elevation of saine with parts of the casing removed; and
Fig. 3 is a plan with a part of the casing removed.
The apparatus consists of a suitable frame a in which is supported by rolls b b¹ an
endless belt c. Below the frame a is supported a main shaft d on which is a fast pulley e
for a driving belt and a loose pulley f.
On this shaft are also pulleys g h from the former of which a belt passes to a
pulley i the shaft of which passes through and is secured to the roll b. A crossed belt
also passes from the pulley h to a pulley j the shaft of which carries a rubber or other
suitable roller k provided with a number of grooves k¹.
A further pulley is mounted on the main shaft d and a belt driven thereby passes
to a pulley m the shaft of which carries a number of cutters n which may be spaced
apart by distance rings n', nuts on a screwed portion of the shaft serving to hold
the cutters and washers together. The cutters are so spaced that each one enters a
groove in the roller k. The cutters may be protected by a casing and the shaft
carrying same is mounted in suitable bearing blocks n adjustable on the uprights n
by the screw n' or in other ways. Above the belt and at a slight distance from same
is a grating composed of bars o which are attached to cross bars o¹ above saine said
cross bars o o¹ being secured respectively to the uprights n at one end and the
blocks p p at the other end of the machine. The blocks p p are slotted to enable the
bearing blocks p₁p of roll b to be adjustable therein a screw 2 being provided in
each block for the purpose of adjusting such bearing. In this way the tension of
the belt c may be adjusted. On the shaft of this roll b is a grooved pulley q an
endless rope from which after passing round guide pulleys q¹ q2 engages with a
grooved pulley q³ the shaft of which suitably mounted in bearings carried by the
supports of the frame a supports a cylinder of wire mesh or other suitable perforated.
material.
Such cylinder slopes upward from the pulley end to the opposite end and is
provided with solid ends 71 71 having openings 22 therein. Into the opening at the
upper end projects a chute or casings such chute passing up to the side of the

page_text: roll opposite to the belt c and having at its mouth or upper end a slope or slanting
table u one end of which is near to the delivery side of the roll k.
The cylinder ends are arranged to run upon loose rolls t t Fig. 2 in order to support
same and allow it to travel easily.
The operation of the machine will be probably clearly understood from the
foregoing but it may be mentioned that the damaged cigarette or cigarettes which it
is desired to destroy are thrown onto the grating (and if necessary spread about
thereon by the hands) so that they fall lengthways into the spaces between the
grating and so on to the travelling belt which presents them end on to the groove k¹
of the roll through which as they pass they are brought under the action of the
cutter which travelling at a faster speed than the roll cuts the paper longitudinally
the destroyed cigarette falling off the table u down the chute 8 into the cylinder o
the revolution of which causes the tobacco to fall through the wire mesh while the
loose paper is delivered through the opening at the lower end.
The arrangement of the apparatus may be somewhat modified without departing
from my invention as it will be evident that the manner of driving the several
moving parts may be altered and the general arrangement of the machine varied
without altering the essential features of the apparatus.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
1. An apparatus for dealing with damaged cigarettes comprising a grooved
rotating roll, cutters rotating in the grooves of said roll, means for feeding the
cigarettes to the cutters and means for separating the loose wrapper from the
tobacco, substantially as described.
2. In combination, a grating, a travelling belt beneath same, a grooved rotatable
roll, cutters capable of rotation arranged to enter the grooves of said roll, the grating
and belt, being means for presenting cigarettes endwise to the grooves of the roll,
and means for separating the loose wrapper from the tobacco, substantially as
described.
3. In combination, a grating, a travelling belt beneath same, means for severing
longitudinally cigarettes presented end on to same by the agency of the belt and
grating, and a wire mesh or like cylinder into which the loose wrapper and tobacco
fall and which is arranged to deliver the wrappers and cigarettes at different points
all substantially as and for the purpose described.
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4. In an apparatus for dealing with damaged cigarettes the combination with a
series of cutters. suitably mounted and driven, of a roll of rubber or like material
having grooves into each of which a cutter enters substantially as and for the purpose
described.
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5. The combination and arrangement of parts forming the improved apparatus for
dealing with damaged cigarettes and separating the tobacco and wrapper substantially
as described.
a the ɔra day of June 1897.
PHILIP M. JUSTICE,
Chartered Patent Agent, 55 and 56 Chancery Lane, London,
For the Applicant.