Improvements in Cigarette-making Machines.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Nov., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 1st Aug., 1890-Accepted, 20th Sept., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cigarette-making Machines.
HENRY BROGDEN Hale Lodge Altrincham, Engineer do hereby declaro the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention consists in the employment of a carriage travelling backwards and
forwards over a table, such carriage being actuated by hand or by power and forming
a platform, upon which the tobacco, to be made into cigarettes, is placed.
The axles of the carriage pass under a cloth, which is secured to the table at each
end and also in the centre and of sufficient length to allow of its being pushed into a
groove, a short distance from each end of the table, where it is alternately charged
with tobacco and rotated in readiness to receive the outer covering, which is placed
ready pasted on the cloth at each end of the table. A perfect cigarette being formed
and ejected at each end of the table.
Or, that part of the table which is represented by the carriage may be made
stationary and the corresponding part of the table, be moved backwards and forwards
to produce the same effect.
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cigarette-making Machines.
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I, HENRY BROGDEN, of Hale Lodge, Altrincham, in the County of Chester,
Engineer, 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 :-
My invention consists in the employment of a carriage travelling backwards and
forwards over a table such carriage being actuated by hand or by power and forming
a platform upon which the tobacco to be made into cigarettes is placed.
And in order that my invention may be fully understood and readily carried into
effect I will describe the accompanying sheet of drawings reference being had to the
figures and letters marked thereon.
Figure 1 is a side elevation and Fig. 2 a plan of a cigarette making machine
embodying my improvements.
In these views, a is the carriage which is supported upon four wheels or rollers b
fitted to move backwards and forwards upon the stationary table or bed c. To one
end of the table c is secured at X the cloth d which is led back along the top of the
table passing under one roller mounted in open bearings and over another roller fon
the carriage a, the end of the cloth being finally secured to a roller g which is mounted
on the table c and is provided with a ratchet wheel and pawl i whereby the length
or tension of the cloth d can be adjusted.
The cloth is left loose enough to allow of its being pushed into a groove k¹ formed
in a block which is fitted in a recess in the table c.
To make a cigarette a charge of tobacco is laid in the groove and a paper or other
covering with the edge ready pasted placed in its proper position on the cloth d at
the delivery end of the machine. The carriage is then caused to move forward over
the groove k¹ so that the cloth is drawn out of the groove and the tobacco is rotated
and formed into a roll in readiness to receive the outer covering in which it is
wrapped by the continued forward movement of the carriage until a perfect cigarette
is ejected at the delivery end of the machine. The table c is provided with two
nclines c upon which the roller e travels as the carriage a approaches the delivery
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page_text: end of the machine the roller e being thus raised in its open bearings clear of the
pasted edge of the covering material. The carriage is then moved back into the
position shown in the drawings when a fresh charge of tobacco may be placed in
the groove and another cigarette produced as above described.
By changing the block and replacing it with another block having a groove k¹ of
a different size the size of the cigarettes produced may be varied as required.
The carriage a may be operated by hand or by treadle mechanism, or by any other
suitable power and instead of moving the carriage backward and forward it, may be
held stationary and the table c arranged to slide to and fro.
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. In a cigarette. making machine the combination with a sliding carriage, a
stationary table and a cloth, of the groove all substantially as and for the purposes
herein set forth.
2. The combined arrangement of parts embodying my improvements in cigarette
making machines substantially as herein described with reference to the drawings
annexed.
1000
H. B. BARLOW,
17, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agent for Applicant.