Hand Operated Cigar-bunch Rolling Machines.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Mar., 1894-Accepted, 12th May, 1894
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Hand Operated Cigar-bunch Rolling Machines.
I, NAPOLEON DU BRUL of 165 to 169 East Pearl Street in the City of
Cincinnati, State of Ohio; United States of America, Manufacturer of Cigar
Making Machinery, do hereby declare the nature of the invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement:-
My invention relates to a cigar-bunch rolling machine which may be operated by
hand and which is made of convenient form and dimensions for such operation and
for ready application to a cigar maker's table, and consists in certain novel features
in the construction of such a machine, whereby it is of cheap and durable structure,
and is adapted for convenient operation by hand without losing any of its effectiveness
in operation.
In the accompanying drawings:
Figure I is a perspective view of my improved machine applied to a table.
Figures and III are vertical longitudinal sections through the table, on
opposite sides of the machine, showing such opposite sides in side elevation.
Figure IV is a detail perspective view of the front apron holder.
Figure V is a sectional view of the charger.
As will be seen the construction of this machine is such that by simply cutting
the proper size hole in the front of a cigar maker's table A the machine is readily
applicable to the table and when properly applied, the front bar or rail B beneath
the table top, affords the main, or it may be entire support for the machine.
The machine frame has a main vertical plate 1 to which are fulcrumed at 2 and 3,
the front and rear apron holders 4, 5 and 6, the bunch roller levers 7, and said
vertical plate 1 is surmounted by the rolling platen 8. The apron holders are
formed as usual with two arms for supporting the apron rods, and the bunch levers
carry at their ends the usual stretching roller 9 and guide roller 10, around which
the apron passes as shown.
The front apron holder, however, is provided with an improved adjustment con-
sisting of the milled screw 11, which has flanges 12 bearing above and below the
said holder and threaded into the stationary frame at 13. adjust the apron to the
size cigar to be made and depend on its elasticity to compensate for unevenness in
the bunch.
The rear apron holder which stretches the apron, to prevent wrinkling in the belt,
instead of being operated as heretofore by cams on a power shaft, carries on its
extension 14, an anti-friction roller 15, which plays in a properly formed cam-
slot 16 in one of the bunching levers, so that when the levers are at their forward
limit, the rear apron holder is rocked backward through its cam connection with
the bunching lever and the apron is sufficiently relaxed to form the bunch pocket
at 17. The actuating cam connection 14. 15, 16 is on the right hand side of the
machine though obviously it may be on either, and on this side the bunch rolling
lever has a handle 18, projecting from the upper end of the rolling lever and curving
outwardly and downwardly to the lever again, preferably on the right hand side of
the machine. In Figure II, the lower end of the left-hand bunch-rolling lever is
broken away to disclose the inside of the cam connection, and in Figure III the
upper end of the right hand lever, and its handle are broken away to disclose
the parts behind. The rolling levers are such that they always remain behind
the rail B, and avoid interference with the cutting bag C, at the front of the
table.

page_text: The main support plate 1, has a transverse supporting flange 1°, which rests upon
the rail B. Cast integrally with or otherwise attached to the frame, is the front
shelf 19 upon which may be kept the pieces of leaf for use as the binder or upon
which the bunch may be brought together before it is put into the shaping mold
and then into the pocket, to be rolled. This shelf may be formed with a
depression 20 to permit ample adjustment of the front apron holder and between
this shelf and the platen 8, is the bunch pocket 21, also cast integral with the frame.
The frame is also cast with or has otherwise attached, a rear shelf 22, made to fill
in the space formed in the table in the rear of the machine, and is preferably low
enough to admit beneath the platen 8, the operator's hand to catch the cigar as
it is dropped and also to leave a space in which the rear apron holder may
move back and forth.
In connection with the machine 1 employ a shaping and charging gauge 24,
which consists of a cup 25 for gauging the fillers, and so mounted that it may
be inverted over the apron pocket to deliver the filler thereinto for rolling.
The cup has an ejecting plunger 26, forming its bottom and held normally
therein by a spring 27 on the stem 28, which carries a pressure knob 29, through
which the plunger is manipulated. The gauge 24 may be pivoted at any con-
venient point with relation to the machine, as for instance to one side and swing
in the same vertical plane as the pocket, but I prefer to pivot it upon the front
of the machine and have it swing laterally over into the pocket, and as a
convenient means for carrying out this, I provide standards 30 on the front
shelf 19, and in them journal at 31 the charging frame 32, upon which is detachably
secured the charging and gauging cup 25. It is intended that there shall be a
number of these cups 25 graduated in size to correspond with the cigar to be
made, and made interchangeable in attachment to the frame 32. 33 is a handle
which projects from the charging frame 32 on that side of the machine opposite
to the roller-controlling handle 18.
From the form of the device it will be seen that the whole machine might be
supported upon the rail B by means of the main plate 1 by simply attaching
said plate to said rail; but the machine as applied to the table is partially
supported by the rear shelf 22 at 23 leaving the main support however upon
the rail B.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
:-
1. A cigar-bunch rolling machine, having a frame constructed with the main
support plate I and the transverse supporting flange 18, and having the operating
parts secured to said frame whereby the machine is adapted for application to a
table as explained.
2. In a cigar-bunch rolling machine, the combination of a main supporting
plate 1, the platen 8, surmounting said plate and the front table 19; said main
plate having mounted thereon the operating mechanism, substantially as and for
the purpose set forth.
3. In a cigar-bunch machine, the frame constructed with the front table 19, the
rolling platen 8, and the intervening bunch pocket 21 in combination with
the working parts mounted upon said frame, substantially in the manner and for
the purpose set forth.
4. In a cigar-bunch machine, the combination of the operating parts and the
frame upon which said parts are mounted constructed with the rolling platen and
the rearwardly extending shelf 22 beneath said platen; substantially as and for
the purposes set forth.
5. In a cigar-bunch machine, the combination of the frame having the working
parts secured thereon and adapted for attachment to a bar B and with the rear-
wardly extending shelf 22 having its rear end adapted for connection with a table,
substantially as described.

page_text: 6. In a cigar-bunch machine, the combination of the frame having the operating
parts mounted therein, a platen surmounting said frame, and the front and rear
shelves projecting from said frame, all substantially as and for the purposes set
forth.
7. In a cigar-bunch machine the combination of a frame formed with a main
support plate 1, and the bunch rolling levers 7 curved rearwardly upward and
fulcrumed on said frame substantially as described and for the purpose set forth.
8. In a cigar-bunch machine, the combination of a suitable frame, the bunch
rolling levers, an apron operated by said levers, and an adjustable apron holder 4,
fulcrumed on the frame and having the adjusting screw 11 for regulating the
tension on said belt as set forth.
9. In a cigar-bunch machine, the combination of a suitable frame, the bunch
rolling levers, and apron operated by said levers and an apron holder 4, fulcrumed
on the frame, attached to the outer end of the apron and having the adjusting
screw 11 with flanges 12, bearing above and below the holder and threaded in
the stationary part of the frame at 13, substantially as and for the purpose set
forth.
10. In a cigar-bunch machine, the combination of a suitable frame, the bunch
rolling levers fulcrumed to the frame, a rolling apron in connection with said
levers and the apron holder 5 having cam-connection with one of the bunch rolling
levers whereby the apron is slacked when the levers are at their forward limit, to
form a pocket for the reception of the bunch as explained.
11. In a cigar-bunch rolling machine, the combination of a rolling apron, a
tension apron holder in rear of the machine and a positively adjustable fixed apron
holder in front of the machine, as and for the purposes set forth.
12. In a cigar-bunch roller, the combination of the rolling apron, an apron
holder at one end moving to take up slack in the apron as the bunch is rolled, and
the fixed apron holder at the other end, having means for adjusting it to adapt the
apron to roll different sizes of cigars.
13. In a cigar-bunch rolling machine, the combination of the bunch roller, the
lever in which said roller is mounted and the controlling handle 18, projecting
from the upper end of said lever, curved outward and downward and secured to
the side of the lever, substantially as shown.
14. In a cigar-bunch machine, the combination of a table having an opening and
a support B across said opening, and the bunch rolling machine mounted upon said
support; said machine having the movable apron holder and rolling levers
fulcrumed and operating in rear of said support, substantially as and for the
purpose set forth.
15. In a cigar-bunch machine, the combination of a table having a main
transverse support B, an opening for the machine in rear of said support and a
cutting bag in front of said support, and a bunch rolling machine fitting in the
table opening, having roller levers, and an apron holder fulcrumed and operating
in rear of the support B and having the bunch pocket 21. projecting in front of
said support and over the cutting bag, substantially as and for the purpose set
forth.
16. In a cigar-bunch machine, the combination of a table having an opening
and a support B across the front of said opening, and a bunch rolling machine
fitting in said opening and resting upon and projecting in front of said support, as
shown and described.
17. In a cigar rolling machine a charger formed with a cup to receive the bunch
and mounted to swing over into the bunch pocket as explained.
18. In a cigar-bunch roller, the combination of the rolling apron, the bunching
roller and a charger pivoted in front of the roller and adapted to swing over said
roller into the pocket as explained.
19. In combination with a cigar bunch rolling machine a charger mounted to
swing over into the apron pocket and having an ejecting plunger, substantially as
and for the purpose set forth.

page_text: 20. In a cigar bunch machine a charger mounted to swing over and empty into
the apron pocket, and having a cup, an ejecting pluuger in said cup, a stem
for controlling said plunger and a hand knob on said stem, as and for the purpose
:set forth.
21. In combination with a cigar-bunch rolling machine, a number of inter-
changeable and variously sized chargers detachably mounted to swing on said
machine, as and for the purpose explained.
22. In combination with a cigar-bunch rolling machine, a swinging charger
frame mounted in proper relation to said machine, and a number of interchangeable
and graduated charging cups adapted to be detachably mounted on said swinging
.frame, as and for the purpose set forth.
23. In combination with a cigar-bunch rolling machine, a charger mounted in
proper relation thereto, and a handle for moving said charger projecting laterally
from the charger and at one side of the machine, substantially as and for the
purpose set forth.
24. In a cigar-bunch rolling machine, the combination of the bunch roller
ihaving a controlling handle at one side of the machine and a pivoted charger
mounted adjacent to said roller and having a controlling handle at the opposite
side of the machine as and for the purposes set forth.
Dated th both of Moh 1904
NAPOLEON DU BRUL,
By Harris & Mills,
23, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents.