Year: 1888

page_text: We, HERBERT MONTAGUE LINNELL, Contractor, of 107 Sackem Street, Norwich,
Connecticut, and THOMAS JAMES SANSON, Gentleman, of 45 Broadway, in the City
and State of New York, both in the United States of America, 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 :-
This invention has particular reference to the class of Cigarette Machines in which
the tobacco filling is introduced in bulk, in granulated form, and a given quantity
of such filling is carried, at stated intervals of time, by suitable mechanism, to a
wrapper or cover previously cut to size.
The object of said invention is to expedite the operation of cigarette making,
with a view to both improving the quality and cheapening the manufacture of such
cigarettes.
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To this end the newly invented movements, and new combinations of movements,
hereinafter set forth, are provided; said inventions consisting ;-
First. Of a belt or wrapper carrier," of a peculiar construction, by means of
which the wrappers are advanced to meet the filling, and rolled about said filling.
Second. Mechanism for receiving, adjusting and feeding to the machine, the
granulated filling material.
Third. Mechanism for conveying a given quantity of such filling downward to the
wrapper that is to enclose it and complete the cigarette.
Fourth. Mechanism for pasting an edge of such wrappers and for insuring a
uniform distribution of said paste.
Fifth. Certain details of construction hereinafter fully specified.
For the purpose of a more ready understanding of said invention two sheets of
drawings are annexed hereto, in which figures 1 and 2 are perspective views of a
complete cigarette machine embodying the invention herein described.
Figure 3 is a plan view of one complete section of the wrapper-conveyer or belt
and of the chain that carries it.
Figure 4 is an enlarged edge view of one link of the chain that carries the wrapper
aprons.
Figure 5 is an enlarged detached view, in elevation, of one of the arms that
carries the plunger 17 up and down at stated times and of the cam that actuates
said arm.
Figure 6 is a detached view in elevation, of the apron or belt 47 on which the
filling material is carried forward to the plunger 17 and shows also the mechanism by
means of which said apron is moved intermittently.

page_text: Figure is a sectional elevation of the several mechanisms employed to move the
wrapper and filling, and to bring them together at the proper time and place, and to
form the cigarette.
Figure 8 is a cross section of the apron that carries the filling material and the
frames that support it.
Figure 9 is a detached view, in elevation, of the pasting devices and the mechanisms
that actuate the same.
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Figure 10 is an enlarged; detached, front side view of the pasting brush.
Said invention is best illustrated in the skeleton figure 7; the perspective views 1
and 2 being provided only to show the relative positions of the several elementary
parts and not to illustrate the same in detail.
Referring to these drawings the figure 2 indicates a bed plate on which are located
the various operative parts of the machine, said bed-plates being adapted to be
supported either on a table or on legs as herein shown.
Projecting upward from said bed-plate 2 are side frames 3-3 whose central portions
are formed as guides or ways in which may slide a carriage 17. At each end of the
frames 3-3 are journal bearings in which are rotatably located shafts carrying
sprocket-wheels 5-5 around which pass endless chains 6-6 that carry with them, as,
they move, a series of aprons 7 of peculiar construction. On these aprons the paper
or tobacco wrappers that are to form the covers of the cigarettes, are laid by an
attendant and are carried forward on said aprons 7 until they reach a position directly.
under the filling conveyer which is carried by the vertically movable carriage 17 above
referred to. 8 indicates the main shaft of the machine, rotating in bearings in side
frames 3-3 and carrying at one end a gear 9 that is engaged and rotated by a smaller
gear on an adjacent stud 10 said smaller gear receiving motion from a score pulley 11
attached to its outer side. This score pulley 11 is driven by a belt connecting with
any convenient form of counter shaft.
The main shaft 8 has at each side of frames 3-3 a cam 12 (see figure 5) which
cams as they rotate, force downward anti-frictional rolls 13 pivoted near the free end
of an arm 14 whose opposite end is hinged to plate 2.
Pivoted to the free end of said arm 14 near roll 13 is a vertical bar 15 whose
upper end is connected to a cross bar or yoke 16, and whose lower end is forked,
or bi-furcated, as shown in figure 5, so that the cam 12 as it rotates passes between
the limbs of said fork.
Secured to the cross-bar, or yoke 16 is a plate or plunger 17 that may slide
in vertical ways or guides 18. As the cams 12 rotate and carry the forked
arms 15 and yoke 16 downward, this plunger 17 is also forced downward in the
ways 18..
Referring now particularly to figures 1 and 3 of the drawings; certain of the links
of the chain 6, above described as carried by sprocket-wheels, are connected at
stated distances by cross-bars 19. Secured to the edge of each of these bars 19
is an apron 7 of flexible material (as leather or canvas); said aprons being of such
a width that considerable space is left between their longitudinal edges and the
adjacent chain links.
The opposite, or free end of each of the aprons has attached to it a narrow
cross-bar 21 whose ends project laterally beyond the edges of said aprons, as shown
in figure 3. In the cross-bar 19, adjacent to each end of the supplemental bar 21,
is linked a rod 22, having a knob at its free end. These rods 22 pass through
an opening in lugs 23 projecting upward from the ends of bars 21. With an
arrangement of aprons and supporting chains and cross-bars as described, it will be
obvious that the bar 21 may slide on rods 22, a limited distance and so allow the
apron to double or crimp upon itself.
In order to hold said aprons normally in line with the chains 6-6, elastic
bands 24 are provided, that encircle the cross-rod 19 and the adjacent bar 21 and
act constantly with a tendency to bring together the said adjacent bars and thus
straighten the aprons 7.

page_text: These several aprons are provided to receive and convey into the machine the
tobacco or paper wrapper 25 that is to serve as the cover to the finished cigarette.
Such wrappers are laid one on each apron section 7 as the chains 6 move forward,
and are slowly carried along to a point directly under the plunger 17 before
referred to. When the wrapper has reached this point the upper end of a lever
arm 26 is forced upward into the path of a cross-bar 21 and stops said bar.
As the chains 6 continue to move forward, the elastic bands 24 begin to yield and
thus allow the apron to crimp as the plunger comes down on it.
The lever arm 26 is hung on a fixed shaft 27, nearly over the main shaft 8, and
said arm has on its lower end a roll that is engaged by a cam 28 on the main
shaft. On the fixed shaft 27, adjacent to lever arm 26, is a similar lever-arm or
plate 29, whose lower end carries a roll to engage a cam 30, on shaft 8, and
whose upper end is grooved on its inner side, said groove forming approximately
a quarter of a circle whose diameter is equal to the diameter of the cigarettes to
be made.
Opposite this grooved arm or plate 29 is a correspondingly grooved plate 31
that is rigidly fastened between the side frames 3-3. The lower end or edge of
the plunger 17 is grooved as a semi-circle in cross section, so that when said
plunger and plates 29 and 31 are brought into co-incidence a circular or tubular
former or swaging die is provided.
In figures 1.7 and 9 are illustrated mechanisms for pasting an edge of each wrapper
or cover as it is carried forward by the apron.
Said pasting mechanism consists of a paste-pan 32 supported on a bar 33 extending:
from side to side of the machine.
In said pan rotates a distributing roller 34 that is kept in continuous rotary
motion by a belt 35 that connects a pulley 36 attached to the shaft of said roller,.
with a similar pulley 37 on a shaft 38 journalled in the lower side of the machine.
Said shaft 38 is rotated by a belt connecting with a pulley on the main shaft 8.
Secured to a rock-shaft 39 at the under side of pan 32 are angle arms 40 having
their free ends connected by a bar 42 whose edge carries a brush 43; said angle.
arms being so shaped and located relative to the paste roll, that when said arms.
and the bar 42 are in their elevated position, the brush 43 rests on said roll, as
shown in figure 9 of the drawings, and becomes saturated with paste. Arms 40.
and the attached brush 43 are moved down into engagement with each of the
cigarette wrappers (as said wrappers pass along beneath the paste pan), by an
arm 44 secured to rock-shaft 39; the free end of said arm being moved at stated
times by a connecting rod 45 that is actuated by an eccentric 46 moving with the
main shaft 8. At each revolution of said main shaft 8 the paste-brush 43 is caused
to move downward in the direction indicated by dotted line in figure 7 of the
drawings where it meets and gums the edge of a wrapper and then moves upward.
for a fresh supply of paste.
The mechanisin provided for receiving, distributing, and feeding forward the
granulated tobacco for filling the cigarettes, is located at the opposite side of the
machine from the pasting mechanism, and consists essentially of an endless belt or
apron 47 suitably supported by rollers 48 and 49 at its ends the inner end.of
said apron being in close engagement with the vertically moving plunger 17 above
described.
On each side of the apron 47 are raised ribs or sides between which the filling
material is placed and levelled off by the attendant in charge of the machine. The
apron 47 is moved intermittently to feed the filling inward toward the plunger 17 by
a pawl 50 engaging a ratchet wheel 51 on the shaft of roller 48 said pawl being
actuated in one direction by a spiral spring 52, whose other end is attached to the
machine frame, and is moved in the opposite direction by a pitman 53 which is
connected with the free end of an arm 54 hinged to the machine bed 2. This arm 54.
carries a roll 55 that is engaged by a cam 56 on the main shaft 8 as best illustrated in
figures 2 and 6.

page_text: When said main shaft is rotated, arm 54 is caused to, swing, forward and
backward, carrying with it the pitman 53 and thus moving the apron.47. along
with an intermittent motion.
Having described in detail the construction of said Cigarette Machine, its operation
may be briefly described as follows:-Assuming that the apron 47 has received a
supply of filling, and that a wrapper has been laid on one of the wrapper aprons
the machine is started and as the wrapper is carried inward under the paste-pan 32
the brush descends and pastes its edge. Meanwhile the plunger 17 has moved
downward cutting. off, and carrying before it a supply of filling material sufficient
to fill a cigarette.
As the said wrapper reaches a point directly underneath said plunger, the
stop-arm 26 above described is thrown upward by cam 28 into the path of cross-
bar 21 and stops said bar.
Plunger 17 continues its downward movement and forces the filling, the wrapper,
and the underlying apron 7 down into the sectional swaging or molding die.
The quadrantal section 29 of said die is then forced inward by its actuating
cam 30 to complete the circular mold. As the plunger 17 passes upward the ends
of the wrapper close inward and as the stop-arm 26 drops out of the way, the
apron section 7 is quickly drawn straight which action gives the cigarette a rolling
motion and throws it forward out of the machine. The quadrantal die section 29
then moves outward and the die is ready to receive the next wrapper as it advances to
place beneath the plunger 17.
Having now particularly, described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
1-A Cigarette Machine in which are combined the following elements:-a wrapper
conveyer consisting of endless chains bearing a series of aprons that are fixed at one
end but arranged to yield at the other end; an auxilliary apron for receiving and
feeding the filling material, located in the same plane as said wrapper conveyer but
above it; a plunger located at right angles to said aprons and adapted to carry a
given quantity of filling downward to the wrapper; and a sectional die or mold located
beneath said plunger and adapted to receive the filling and wrapper and mold them
into a cigarette, as set forth.
2-A wrapper. conveyer for Cigarette Machines, consisting of parallel endless
chains bearing a series of aprons fixed at one end but arranged to yield at the other
end, at stated times to receive and roll the cigarette, as set forth.
3-A wrapper conveyer consisting of two parallel chains hearing a series of aprons
that are fixed at one end but arranged to yield at the other end; in combination with
mechanisms for driving said chains; and a stop-arm as at 26 whose free end may be
thrown up into engagement with the yielding end of said aprons, at stated times, as
set forth and for the purpose specified.
4-In combination with a wrapper conveyer consisting of two parallel chains
bearing a series of aprons that are fixed at one end but arranged to yield at the
other end; pasting mechanism located over said aprons and consisting essentially
of a paste-pan or reservoir having a distributing roller revolving therein, a brush
carried by angle-arms as set forth, and mechanism for moving said angle-arms to
carry said brush downward into engagement with wrappers laid on and carried by
said aprons.
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HERBERT J. ALLISON,
Agent for the Applicants.