Improvements in Cigar Bunching Machines.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Oct., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 16:h Mar., 1895-Accepted, 4th May, 1895
[Communicated from abroad by HERBERT A. STREETER, of 39, Indiana Street,
Manufacturer, and JOHN P. BACON, of 665, Rookery, Gentleman, both in
Chicago, United States of America.]
Improvements in Cigar Bunching Machines.
I, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake & Co., Patent
Agents, 45 Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in cigar bunch machines.
The object of my invention is to provide a cigar bunch machine of an efficient,
simple and durable construction, which will operate upon long or short fillers, and
by means of which the cigar bunch may be automatically given the proper tapering
form toward each end of the cigar without increasing the density of the filler or
material at the end of the cigar, the machine operating to put a greater quantity of
material at the middle or belly portion of the cigar where it should be larger in
diameter, and a less quantity toward the two ends, so that when the wrapper is
afterwards applied the cigar will have the proper tapering form.
The machine I have devised comprises in combination and co-operative arrange-
mert the following principal parts or elements: A revolving feed hopper into which
the filler may be placed automatically or by hand, there being preferably a number
or series of such hoppers revolving intermittently; a movable charger; a movable
sectional bottom for such charger; a plunger to force the tobacco from the hopper
into the charger; a knife to sever the charge of tobacco from the surplus tobacco
in the hopper, the surface of the movable sectional bottom of the charger being
curved or bellied at the time the knife operates in order to give the cigar bunch
the proper tapering or bellied shape; a table or shelf over which the movable
charge swings; a guide to guide the filler charge from the charger into the apron ;
a discharger to force the filler charge from the charger through the guide
into the apron; the rolling table; the rolling apron; the bunching roller; the
cavity for the sag or pocket of the apron; and a rest or device for receiving
the finished bunch as it is discharged from the rolling apron; in connection
with suitable mechanism for imparting the necessary movement in proper time
to these various parts or elements. And my invention consists in the novel
construction of parts or elements and novel combinations of parts or elements
herein described.
The machine consists of a frame an intermittently revolving hopper, there being
preferably seven of these hoppers arranged in the form of a regular polygon. The
hoppers have no bottom, but revolve upon a stationary plate which constitutes the
bottom of the hoppers except at the discharge position where this plate has a notch. A
shaft is provided to which the seven revolving hoppers are secured and by which they
are revolved. A cone or dome is secured to the shaft and to the inner walls of each
of the hoppers. This cone, in connection with a reservoir constitutes an automatic
feed to the individual hoppers when short fillers are being used. The reservoir is
adjustably supported by a bracket and set screws, so that by raising or lowering
the lower edge of the reservoir above the surface of the cone or pyramid the feed of

page_text: the short fillers in the reservoir may be adjusted or regulated as desired. As
the cone revolves under the stationary reservoir and the mass of short fillers
therein the same will feed slowly into the hoppers. When long fillers are being
used they are to be fed by hand into the individual hoppers as the same revolve
intermittently.
A movable charger is provided the same having preferably a swinging or pivotal
movement, and secured to a vertical rock shaft. This charger is furnished with
adjustable end pieces which may he slipped in or out and fixed by the set screw to
vary the length of the charger as may be required in the manufacture of cigars of
different lengths. This movable or swinging charger serves, in connection with its
movable, adjustable or sectional bottom to measure or regulate the amount of
material for each bunch. It may be, and is preferably, also used to convey the
fillings for the bunch from the hopper to the funnel.
The movable bottom is made in a series of separately movable sections; and
they are mounted in a suitable guide or case in which they slide up and down as
required. They are normally held in their even, flat or level position, by a spring
actuated bar which passes through slots formed in the sections. The springs which
actuates this bar are attached to the frame. A stop bar secured to the frame and
passing through the slotted opening in the sectional bottom pieces serves to limit the
downward movement of the said bottom pieces and of the spring actuated bar. This
stop bar holds the movable bottom pieces normally on the level of the table or shelf
so as to permit the charger to move or swing laterally over this shelf at the proper
time.
Separately or individually adjustable levers are provided one for each of the
sections for operating said sections, and causing them to assume a curved or bellied
form at the time the cigar fillings is being compressed or held by the plunger and
severed from the surplus material in the hopper. The adjustable levers may be
adjusted as desired for long or short cigars, or to give a greater or less curvature or
belly to the bunch or cigar.
The plunger serves to push the fillings from the hopper into the charger, and to
compress the same against the bellied bottom of the charger and hold the same
compressed against such bellied bottom while the knife severs the bunch, in measured
and properly compressed and properly distributed quantity, from the surplus filling
material in the hopper.
The knife is secured to a vertical rock shaft so that it may swing in a horizontal
plane or at right angles to the plunger and it serves to sever the measured fillings
from the surplus material, as before stated, and also to form a temporary or
removable bottom for each of the hoppers in turn at the notch in the plate while
the charger is swinging over the table to convey the severed fillings from one of
the hoppers to the guide and while the charger returns or swings back under the
hopper. To enable the knife to perform this function, it is made of a broad thin
blade, and is adapted to shut or fit under the plate and just over the upper surface
of the charger. The shelf over which the charger swings is preferably made in
two separate parts or sections, the one being preferably fixed to the stationary
frame, and the other being preferably movable and fixed to the movable guide.
This guide is furnished with adjustable end sections which may be set in or
out to accommodate long or short cigars by the set screws. The guide serves
to guide the fillings into the cavity between the bunching roller and the inner
end of the rolling table, or rather into the sag or pocket of the apron which
is shoved into the cavity by the lower edge of the guide. The cavity is the
open space between the bunching roller and the inner end of the table and
which receives the slack of the apron. The guide has an up and down move-
ment to force the surplus fold of the apron into the cavity and also in order to
get out of the way of the forward movement of the bunching roller, when it moves
forward over the table to roll the binder around the filler, and thus complete the
bunch.
I provide a discharger which serves to push the filler material out of the

page_text: charger through the guide into the sag or pocket of the apron in the cavity. It
has an up and down movement independent of the guide. A movable spring held
rest or device for receiving and holding temporarily the finished bunch as it is
discharged from the apron at the outer end of the table is also provided.
The cavity preferably has a simply curved bottom plate without any side other
than the inner end edge of the table.
I also provide a driving shaft furnished with the driving pulley and a cam
shaft.
The requisite movements may be imparted to the several movable parts or devices
by any suitable means or mechanism. Though this connecting or motion imparting
mechanism may be greatly varied without altering the principle or mode of operation
of my invention.
The requisite intermittently revolving movement is given to the series of
hoppers to move them step by step into the position under the plunger by
means of a ratchet on the shaft which is engaged by a pawl on the horizontally
vibrating lever pivoted to the frame and which is actuated by a cam on the cam
shaft.
The horizontally vibrating or swinging charger is moved at intervals from the
receiving position under the hopper to the discharging position over the guide by
means of a gear on the rock shaft of said charger which engages a segment rack on
the vibrating lever. To insure the throwing and holding of the charger in proper
registry with the hopper and guide I secure to the lower end of the rock shaft a
notched disk in the notch of which fits the end of a spring carried by a lever pivoted
at one end to another lever, and having its fulcrum pivot on a bracket secured to the
frame. This spring lever thus serves to take up all slack in the gear and rack as
the tension of the spring tends to hold or throw the charger toward both limits of
its movement.
The intermittently adjustable levers which operate the individually movable
sections constituting the movable sectional bottom of the charger are adjusted to
give a greater or less curvature or belly to the bottom by means of adjusting pins
or slides which fit in a clasp case the same being held firmly in any position to
which they may be adjusted by the clamp screw. By employing this series of
flat pins and clamp case I avoid the expense and trouble incident to the use of a
large number of adjusting screws, and the inconvenience due to the screws working
loose. The levers are pivoted by a cross pin to the frame of the machine, and they
are vibrated up and down by contact with the adjusting pins or bars. The inner
ends of the levers bear against the removable bottom sections and thus operate the
same. The said levers are operated or vibrated up and down by means of a
slide to which the clamp case is secured, this slide being moved up and down by
a lever pivoted to the frame and actuated by a cam on the cam shaft. The latter
lever is pivotally connected to the slide by a pin passing through a slot in said
lever.
When
The bar by means of the springs draws the sections downward to their seat upon
the stop bar when said sections are not engaged by the adjustable levers.
the said levers are operated by engagement with the adjusting pins in the clamp
case carried by the slide which is operated by the pivoted levers the sections assume
another position. It will of course be understood that the levers simply impinge
against the pin and are free to be actuated by the springs when not in engagement
with said pins.
The plunger is operated by a cross head sliding on the upright guides and
connected by a screw threaded adjusting stem with the vibrating lever pivoted to
the standard and connected by a pivoted link with a pivoted lever which is operated
by a cam on the cam shaft.
The horizontal vibrating knife is operated by an arm on the rock shaft and which
is engaged by the cam on the cam shaft.
The guide and the section of the shelf secured thereto, are moved up and down
as required by means of a lever pivoted to an arm secured to the frame, the lever

page_text: being furuished with a pin or roller that rests upon and is actuated by a cam on the
cam shaft.
The bunching roller and with it the apron passing over the roller are operated
by a slide upon which the roller is journalled and which is moved back and forth
on suitable guides on the frame by means of a pivoted link connected to the
vibrating lever on the rock shaft which carries a gear engaged by a segment rack
on a lever pivoted to the frame and actuated by the cam on the cam shaft. The
lever has a spring at its lower end, which serves to retract the roller carrying
slide.
The discharger which pushes the filler from the charger through the guide into
the pocket of the apron in the cavity is operated by a slide pivoted to an arm on
the frame, and furnished with a pin or roller resting upon and actuated by the cam
on the cam shaft.
The rest or receiving device consists preferably of two pivoted arms connected
together by a spring secured to the bracket to which the arms are pivoted.
The roller apron passes over the rolling table and the bunching roller and one
end of it is secured to the stationary frame of the machine by a suitable pin or bar
located beneath the bunching roller when the same is in its retracted position, and the
other end of the apron is secured in a similar, or any suitable way, to the frame of
the machine at the outer end of the table and beneath the same. The slack, sag or
pocket in the apron when the bunching roller is retracted rests in the cavity.
When the bunching roller moves forward over the table, the sag or pocket in the
apron envelopes and rolls the bunch.
The operation is as follows: By the revolving movement of the cone in
connection with the stationary reservoir the filling material is automatically fed
into the series of intermittenly revolving hoppers. Each of the hoppers is brought
in turn over the notch or opening in the plate and into registry with the charger.
The compressing plunger descends and pushes the fillings through the hopper into
the charger and compresses the same against the sectional bottom. The com-
pressing plunger then begins to rise and the sectional bottom is raised more rapidly
than the plunger and caused to assume the curved or bellied form. While the
fillings are thus compressed between the curved or bellied bottom of the charger
and the compressing plunger, the knife swings horizontally and severs the fillings
from the surplus material in the hopper, the knife also then serving to support the
surplus material in the hopper. The plunger is then withdrawn and all the sections
of the sectional bottom of the charger again assume a level form and then the
charger swings over the shelf and conveys the charge of fillings over the movable
guide or device which guides the charge of fillings from the charger into the apron.
The discharger then operates to push the charge of fillings from the charger
through the guide into the slack or pocket portion of the apron which occupies the
cavity. The discharger and guide are then withdrawn and the bunching roller
moves forward and causes the apron to roll the bunch over the table. Though the
bunching roller is cylindrical and the table flat, the bunch produced will be of the
bellied or double tapered form, because the major portion of the fillings is in
the middle or central portion owing to the curved or bellied form of the sectional
bottom at the time the knife operates. And the subsequent operation of the
machine is not such as to change the position of this denser portion of the bunch
or to redistribute the material throughout the length of the bunch. At the time
the charger moves into position under the hopper or compressing plunger, and also
at the time when the charger swings from such position into registry with the
funnel or guide and cavity, the sectional bottom of the charger which has no
swinging movement is caused to assume its level position to properly permit these
movements of the charger.
The middle sections of the bottom are bellied or depressed below the level of the
outer or end sections of the bottom, that is to say that the middle portion is
depressed in respect to the outer portion.
The several hoppers of the series are separated from each other by cross bars

page_text: extending between and connecting the sides of the several bottomless hoppers at
the ends thereof.
Dated this 30th day of October 1894.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.
Improvements in Cigar Bunching Machines.
1, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake & Co., Patent
Agents, 45 Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, 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 relates to improvements in cigar bunch machines.
The object of my invention is to provide a cigar bunch machine of an efficient,
simple and durable construction, which will operate upon long or short fillers, and
by means of which the cigar bunch may be automatically given the proper tapering
form toward each end of the cigar without increasing the density of the filler or
material at the end of the cigar, the machine operating to put a greater quantity
of material at the middle or belly portion of the cigar where it should be larger in
diameter, and a less quantity toward the two ends, so that when the wrapper is
afterwards applied the cigar will have the proper tapering form.
The machine I have devised comprises in combination and co-operative
arrangement the following principal parts or elements; A revolving feed hopper
into which the filler may be placed automatically or by hand, there being
preferably a number or series of such hoppers revolving intermittently; a movable
charger; a movable sectional bottom for such charger; a plunger to force the
tobacco from the hopper into the charger; a knife to sever the charge of tobacco
from the surplus tobacco in the hopper, the surface of the movable sectional bottom
of the charger being curved or bellied at the time the knife operates in order to
give the cigar bunch the proper tapering or bellied shape; a table or shelf over
which the movable charge swings; a guide to guide the filler charge from the
charger into the apron; a discharger to force the filler charge from the charger
through the guide into the apron; the rolling table; the rolling apron; the
bunching roller; the cavity for the sag or pocket of the apron; and a rest or
device for receiving the finished bunch as it is discharged from the rolling apron ;
in connection with suitable mechanism for imparting the necessary movement in
proper time to these various parts or elements. And my invention consists in the
novel construction of parts or elements and novel combinations of parts or elements
herein shown and described.
In the accompanying drawings in which similar letters of reference indicate like
parts throughout all the figures
Figure 1 is a front elevation, partly in section, of a machine embodying my
invention;
Figure 2 is a side elevation ;
Figure 3 a plan ;
Figure 4 a horizontal section on the line 4-4 of Figure 1;
Figure 5 is a vertical section on line 5-5 of Figure 3;
Figures 6, 7 and 8 are detail views similar to Figure 5 illustrating a portion of
the operation, and showing the parts in different positions ;
Figure 9 is a detail sectional view of the guide, showing its adjustable end pieces
to accommodate bunches of different lengths;
Figure 10 is a section on line 10-10 of Figure 9;

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Figure 12 is a section on the line 12-12 of Figure 11;
Figure 13 is a section on the line 13--13 of Figure 11, showing the movable
sectional bottom of the charger in the normal position;
Figure 14 is a view similar to Figure 13, showing the sectional bottom in the
curved or bellied form while the knife severs the bunch from the surplus
material;
Figure 15 is a detail plan view of the charger and the knife, the view looking
down from line 15-15 of Figure 13;
Figure 16 is a detail bottom view of certain parts hereinafter described;
Figure 17 is a detail plan view of the bottom plate upon which the series of
intermittently moving hoppers revolve, showing also the knife;
Figure 18 is a vertical sectional view across the hoppers and through the
shaft B3 of Figure 3; and
Figure 19 is a detached view in plan of the hoppers B with the reservoir B° and
cone B removed.
In the accompanying drawings I have shown one good form, and that which
I believe to be the best form now known to me of carrying my invention into
practice.
In the drawings A represents the frame of the machine. B is an intermittently
revolving hopper, there being preferably seven of these hoppers arranged in the
form of a regular polygon. The hoppers B have no bottom, but revolve upon a
stationary plate B₁ which constitutes the bottom of the hoppers except at the
discharge position where this plate bas a notch B2 Figure 17. B³ is a shaft to
which the seven revolving hoppers E are secured and by which they are revolved.
B is a cone or dome secured to the shaft B3 and to the inner walls of each of the
hoppers B. This cone, in connection with the reservoir B, constitutes an
automatic feed to the individual hoppers B when short fillers are being used.
The reservoir B' is adjustably supported by the bracket B and set screws B', so
that by raising or lowering the lower edge of the reservoir above the surface of
the cone or pyramid B the feed of the short fillers in the reservoir may be
adjusted or regulated as desired. As the cone B revolves under the stationary
reservoir B and the mass of short fillers therein the same will feed slowly into the
hoppers B. When long fillers are being used they are to be fed by hand into the
individual hoppers B, B, as the same revolve intermittenly.
C is the movable charger, the same having preferably a swinging or pivotal
movement, and secured to the vertical rock shaft C. This charger is furnished
with adjustable end pieces CC, Figures 13, 14 and 15 which may be slipped in
or out and fixed by the set screw C³ to vary the length of the charger as may be
required in the manufacture of cigars of different lengths. This movable or
swinging charger serves, in connection with its movable, adjustable or sectional
bottom to measure or regulate the amount of material for each bunch. It may be,
and is preferably, also used to convey the fillings for the bunch from the hopper to
the funnel.
The movable bottom is made in a series of separately movable sections D, D, D;
and they are mounted in a suitable guide or case D₁ in which they slide up and
down as required. They are normally held in their even, flat or level position, as
shown in Figure 13, by a spring actuated bar D' which passes through slots D³
Figure 11 formed in the sections D. The springs D 30 D30 which actuate this bar
are attached to the frame. A stop bar D secured to the frame and passing
through the slotted opening in the sectional bottom pieces D serves to limit the
downward movement of the said bottom pieces D and of the spring actuated
bar D. This stop bar holds the movable bottom pieces D normally on the level
of the table or shelf F, so as to permit the charger C to move or swing laterally
over this shelf at the proper time.
FF are the separately or individually adjustable levers, one for each of the
sections D, for operating said sections, and causing them to assume the curved or

page_text: bellied form indicated in Figure 14, at the time the cigar filling is being compresse
or held by the plunger G and severed from the surplus material in the hopper B.
The levers F may be adjusted as desired for long or short cigars, or to give a
greater or less curvature or belly to the bunch or cigar.
The plunger G serves to push the fillings from the hopper B into the charger C,
and to compress the same against the bellied bottom of the charger and hold the
same compressed against such bellied bottom while the knife H severs the bunch,
in measured and properly compressed and properly distributed quantity, from the
surplus filling material in the hopper.
The knife H is secured to a vertical rock shaft U₁ so that it may swing in a
horizontal plane or at right angles to the plunger G, and it serves to sever the
measured fillings from the surplus material, as before stated, and also to form a
temporary or removable bottom for each of the hoppers B in turn at the notch B2
Figure 17 in the plate B' while the charger C is swinging over the table E to
convey the severed fillings from one of the hoppers B to the guide M Figures
and 3 and while the charger returns or swings back under the hopper B. To
enable the knife to perform this function, it is made of a broad thin blade, and is
adapted to shut or fit under the plate B¹ and just over the upper surface of the
charger C. The shelf over which the charger swings is preferably made in two
separate parts or sections E and E¹, the part E being preferably fixed to the
stationary frame, and the part E being preferably movable and fixed to the
movable guide M. The guide M is furnished with adjustable end sections M' M¹
Figure 9 which may be set in or out to accommodate long or short cigars by the
set screws M2. The guide serves to guide the fillings into the cavity N
Figures 5 to 8 between the bunching roller O and the inner end of the rolling
table P, or rather into the sag or pocket of the apron R which is shoved into the
cavity by the lower edge of the guide. The cavity N is the open space between
the bunching roller O and the inner end of the table P and which received the
slack of the apron R. The guide M has an up and down movement to force
the surplus fold of the apron R into the cavity N and also in order to get out of the
way of the forward movement of the bunching roller O, when it moves forward
over the table to roll the binder around the filler, and thus complete the bunch.
S is the discharger which serves to push the filling material out of the charger C
through the guide M into the sag or pocket of the apron in the cavity N. It has
an up and down movement independent of the guide M. T is a movable spring
held rest or device for receiving and holding temporarily the finished bunch as it
is discharged from the apron at the outer end of the table P.
The cavity N preferably has a simply curved bottom plate N¹ without any side
other than the inner end edge of the table.
U is the driving shaft furnished with the driving pulley U₁ Figure 1 and V is
the cam shaft.
The requisite movements may be imparted to the several movable parts or
devices by any suitable means or mechanism. Though this connecting or motion
imparting mechanism may be greatly varied without altering the principle or mode
of operation of my invention, that shown in the drawing is what I have specially
devised and consider the best and simplest for the purpose.
The requisite intermittently revolving movement is given to the series of
hoppers B to move them step by step into the position under the plunger G by
means of a ratchet Figure 4 on the shaft B3 which is engaged by a pawl b' on
the horizontally vibrating lever 62 pivoted at 6 to the frame and which is actuated
by a cam V on the cam shaft V.
The horizontally vibrating or swinging charger C is moved at intervals from
the receiving position under the hopper B to the discharging position over the
guide M by means of a gear c on the rock shaft C' of said charger which engages
a segment rack c on the vibrating lever 62. To insure the throwing and holding
of the charger C in proper registry with the hopper B and guide M, I secure to
the lower end of the rock shaft C₁ a notched disk C2 in the notch of which fits the

page_text: end of a spring c³ carried by a lever c¹ pivoted at one end to the lever 62 and having
its fulcrum pivot c on a bracket ce secured to the frame. This spring lever thus
serves to take up all slack in the gear and rack cc as the tension of the spring
tends to hold or throw the charger C toward both limits of its movement, as
clearly illustrated in Figure 16.
The intermittently adjustable levers F which operate the individually movable
sections D, constituting the movable sectional bottom of the charger C, are
adjusted to give a greater or less curvature or belly to the bottom by means of
adjusting pins or slides Figures 11 and 12 which fit in a clasp case f¹, the same
being held firmly in any position to which they may be adjusted by the clamp
screw f. By employing this series of flat pins and clamp case 1 avoid the
expense and trouble incident to the use of a large number of adjusting screws, and
the inconvenience due to the screws working loose. The levers F are pivoted by
a cross pin f³ to the frame of the machine, and they are vibrated up and down by
contact with the adjusting pins or bars f. The inner ends of the levers F bear
The said
against the removable bottom sections D, and thus operate the same.
levers F are operated or vibrated up and down by means of a slide f* to which the
clamp case is secured, this slide being moved up and down by a lever f
Figure 2 pivoted to the frame at 6 and actuated by a cam V2 on the cam
shaft V. The lever is pivotally connected to the slide 4 by a pin passing
through a slot in said lever, as is clearly indicated in Figure 11 in connection
with Figures 2, 3 and 4.
The bar by means of the springs D0 draws the sections D downward to their
seat upon the stop bar D4 when said sections D are not engaged by the levers E.
When the levers F are operated by engagement with the adjusting pins f in the
clamp case f¹, carried by the slide which is operated by the levers the
sections DD assume the position shown in Figure 14. It will of course be
understood that the levers F simply impinge against the pin fand are free to be
actuated by the springs D30 when not in engagement with said pins f.
The plunger G is operated by a cross head g, Figures 2 and 5 sliding on the
upright guides gl and connected by the screw threaded adjusting stem with the
vibrating lever g³ Figure 1 pivoted at g' to the standard 95, and connected by a
pivoted link Figure 2 with the lever g' pivoted at which is operated by a
cam V on the cam shaft V.
6
The borizontal vibrating knife H is operated by an arm h on the rock shaft H',
and which is engaged by the cam V4 on the cam shaft V Figures 3 and 4.
The guide M and the section E' of the shelf E secured thereto, are moved up
and down as required by means of a lever m, Figures 5 and 6 pivoted at m
Figure 3 to an arm m² secured to the frame, the lever being furnished with a pin or
roller m³ that rests upon and is actuated by a cam N³ on the cam shaft V.
The bunching roller O and with it the apron R Figures 5 to 8 passing over the
roller, are operated by a slide upon which the roller is journalled, and which is
moved back and forth on suitable guides O2 Figure 3 on the frame by means of a
pivoted link O³ connected to the vibrating lever 0 on the rock shaft O³, which
carries a gear 06 engaged by a segment rack O' on the lever 08 pivoted to the
frame at O and actuated by the cam V on the cam shaft V. The lever O has a
spring O at its lower end, which serves to retract the roller carrying slide O¹.
The discharger S Figures 5, 6, 7 and 8 which pushes the filling from the
charger C through the guide M into the pocket of the apron in the cavity N is
operated by a rod S¹ pivoted S2 to an arm S³ on the frame, and furnished with a
pin or roller S resting upon and actuated by the cam V7 on the cam shaft V.
The rest or receiving device T consists preferably of two pivotal arms
connected together by a spring T¹ Figure 3 secured to the bracket T to which the
arms are pivoted.
The roller apron R passes over the rolling table P and the bunching roller O
and one end of it is secured to the stationary frame of the machine by a suitable
pin or bar located beneath the bunching roller O when the same is in its retracted

page_text: position, as shown in Figure 5, and the other end of the apron R is secured in a
similar, or any suitable way, to the frame of the machine at the outer end of the
table P and beneath the same, as is clearly indicated in the drawings at Figures 5
and 6. The slack, sag or pocket in the apron when the bunching roller is
retracted rests in the cavity N, as is clearly shown in Figures 3, 6 and 7.
When
the bunching roller O moves forward over the table O, the sag or pocket in the
apron envelops and rolls the bunch, as is clearly indicated in Figure 8.
The operation is as follows; By the revolving movement of the cone E* in
connection with the stationary reservoir B5, the filling material is automatically
fed into the series of intermittently revolving hoppers B B. Each of the
hoppers B is brought in turn over the notch or opening B2 in the plate B' and into
registry with the charger C. The compressing plunger G descends and pushes
the fillings through the hopper B into the charger C and compresses the same
against the sectional bottom. The compressing plunger G then begins to rise and
the sectional bottom is raised more rapidly than the plunger and caused to assume
the curved or bellied form shown in Figure 14. While the fillings are thus
compressed between the curved or bellied bottom of the charger and the
compressing plunger G, the knife H swings horizontally and severs the fillings
from the surplus material in the hopper B, the knife also then serving to support
the surplus material in the hopper B, as indicated in Figure 14. The plunger G is
then withdrawn and all the sections D of the sectional bottom of the charger
again assume a level form, and then the charger C swings over the shelf E E'
and conveys the charge of fillings over the movable guide or device M
which guides the charge of fillings from the charger into the apron. The
discharger S then operates to push the charge of fillings from the charger C
through the guide M into the slack or pocket portion of the apron which
occupies the cavity N. The discharger S and guide M are then withdrawn
and the bunching roller O moves forward and causes the apron R to roll the
bunch over table P. Though the bunching roller O is cylindrical and the
table P flat, the bunch produced will be of the bellied or double tapered form,
because the major portion of the fillings is in the middle or central portion owing
to the curved or bellied form of the sectional bottom at the time the knife
operates. And the subsequent operation of the machine is not such as to change
the position of this denser portion of the bunch or to redistribute the material
throughout the length of the bunch. At the time the charger C moves into
position under the hopper B or compressing plunger, and also at the time when
the charger C swings from such position into registry with the funnel or guide M
and cavity N, the sectional bottom of the charger which has no swinging
movement is caused to assume its level position to properly permit these movements
of the charger.
It will be noticed in Figure 14 that the middle sections D D of the bottom are
bellied or depressed below the level of the outer or end sections of the bottom,
that is to say that the middle portion is depressed in respect to the outer portion.
The several hoppers B of the series are separated from each other by cross
bars extending between and connecting the sides of the several bottomless hoppers
at the ends thereof, as indicated in Figure 19.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated
to me by my foreign correspondents, I declare that what I claim is :-
1. In a cigar bunching machine, the combination of the following parts or
elements; a series of intermittently movable hoppers; a movable charger; a
movable adjustable sectional bottom for such charger; a compressing plunger to
force the filler from each of said hoppers in turn into the charger; a knife, a
movable guide; a plate or shelf extending from the hopper to the guide; a rolling
table, bunching roller and rolling apron, a cavity for the pocket of the apron, and
B

page_text: a movable discharger to force the filler from the charger through the guide into
the pocket of the apron in the pocket cavity, substantially as specified.
2. In a cigar bunch machine, the combination of a charger with a compressing
plunger to compress the tobacco into the charger, and a movable sectional bottom
for the charger, the several sections of said bottom having parallel faces so that
they may be brought into the same plane, means for operating said compressing
plunger and the movable sectional bottom of the charger, substantially as
specified.
3. In a cigar bunch machine, the combination of the charger and compressing
plunger of a bottom for the charger made in two or more sections, one or more of
said sections being individually movable in respect to the other, the several sections
of said bottom having parallel faces so that they may be brought into the same
plane, means for operating said compressing plunger and the movable sectional
bottom of the charger, substantially as specified.
4. In a cigar bunch machine, the combination of the charger and compressing
plunger, with a bottom for the charger made in two or more sections, one or more
of said sections being independently adjustable in respect to the other, and means
for operating said compressing plunger and the movable sectional bottom of the
charger, substantially as specified.
5. In a cigar bunch machine, the combination with a movable charger, of a shelf
over which the charger is moved, a compressing plunger for compressing the
tobacco in the charger, a knife, a movable sectional bottom for the charger, whereby
the middle portion of the bottom may be depressed at the time the filler is being
depressed by the plunger and separated by the knife and again moved flush with
the remainder of the bottom when the charger swings over said plate or shelf,
and means for depressing and elevating the bottom of the charger, substantially as
specified.
6. In a cigar bunching machine, the combination of a hopper with a movable
charger, of a shelf over which the charger is moved, a compressing plunger for
compressing the tobacco in the charger, a knife, a movable sectional bottom for the
charger, whereby the middle portion of the bottom may be depressed at the time
the filler is being compressed by the plunger and separated by the knife and again
mcved flush with the remainder of the bottom when the charger swings over said
plate or shelf, and means for depressing and elevating the bottom of the charger,
substantially as specified.
7. In a cigar bunching machine, the combination with a movable charger, of a
plate or shelf over which the charger is moved, a compressing plunger for com-
pressing the tobacco in the charger, a knife, a movable and adjustable sectional
bottom for the charger, whereby the middle portion of the bottom may be depressed
at the time the filler is being compressed by the plunger and separated by the
knife and again moved flush with the remainder of the bottom when the charger
swings over said plate or shelf, and means for depressing and elevating the bottom
of the charger, substantially as specified.
8. In a cigar bunching machine, the combination of hopper with a movable
charger, of a plate or shelf over which the charger is moved, a compressing plunger
for compressing the tobacco in the charger, a knife, a movable sectional bottom for
the charger, whereby the middle portion of the bottom may be depressed at the
time the filler is being compressed by the plunger and separated by the knife and
again moved flush with the remainder of the bottom when the charger swings over
said plate or shelf, a movable funnel, said table having a movable section E'
secured to said funnel, and means for depressing and elevating the bottom of the
charger, substantially as specified.
9. In a cigar bunch machine, the combination of a hopper, with a movable
charger furnished with adjustable end sections, a movable sectional bottom for said
charger, a compressing plunger, a shelf over which the charger swings, a movable
guide provided with adjustable end sections, and a discharger for forcing

page_text: the filler from the charger through the guides, and means for depressing and
elevating the bottom of the charger, substantially as specified.
10. In a cigar bunch machine, the combination of a hopper, with a movable
charger furnished with adjustable end sections, a movable sectional bottom for said
charger, a compressing plunger, a shelf over which the charger swings, a movable
guide provided with adjustable end sections, a discharger for forcing the filler from
the charger through the guide, a rolling table, a rolling apron, a bunching roller
and a cavity for pocket or sag of the apron, and means for depressing and elevating
the bottom of the charger, substantially as specified.
11. In a cigar bunch machine, the combination of the movable charger, with a
rack and gear for moving the same into position, a spring for taking up the lost
motion and ensuring the throwing and holding of the charger in position, a com-
pressing plunger, a bottom for said charger, a hopper, a guide M, rolling apron
and a bunching roller, a discharger to force the filler from the charger through
the guide into the pocket of the apron, said spring operating to throw and hold
said movable charger in position both in respect to said hopper and in respect to
said guide, and means for depressing and elevating the bottom of said charger,
substantially as specified.
12. The combination of charger C, rock shaft C', a rack and gear for operating
said rock shaft, the vibrating lever carrying the rack, the notched disk on the rock
shaft, and the vibrating lever c¹ furnished with a spring c³ engaging said notched
disk for taking up the lost motion and throwing and holding said charger in position,
substantially as specified.
13. The combination of the charger C, with the movable and adjustable sectional
bottom for said charger, means for compressing the fillings in the charger while
the sectional bottom is in a curved or bellied form and a knife or means for
severing the charge from the surplus material while said sectional bottom is in a
curved or bellied form, substantially as specified..
14. The combination of the charger C, with the movable and adjustable sectional
bottom for said charger, and a series of levers F each connected to a section of
the bottom, and means for adjusting and operating said levers, substantially as
specified.
15. The combination of the charger C, with the movable and adjustable sectional
bottom D for said charger, a series of levers F, and a series of adjustable devices f
for said levers, substantially as specified.
16. The combination with the charger C, of the movable and adjustable sectional
bottom D for said charger, a series of levers F and a series of adjusting devices f
for said levers, said adjusting devices comprising a series of independently movable
pins, and a clamp case and clamp screw, substantially as specified.
17. The combination of the charger C, with the movable and adjustable sectional
bottom for said charger, the sections D of said bottom having slots D³, a guide
case D for said sections, and a spring actuated bar D2 for holding said sections
normally in a level position, and means for limiting the movement of said sections,
substantially as specified.
18. The combination with the charger C, of the movable and adjustable sectional
bottom for said charger, the sections D of said bottom having slots D³, a guide
case D₁ for said sections, a spring actuated bar D2 for holding said sections
normally in a level position, and a stop bar D' to limit the movement of said
sections D, substantially as specified.
19. The combination with the charger C, of the movable and adjustable sectional
bottom for said charger, the sections D of said bottom having slots D³, a guide
case D' for said sections, a spring actuated bar D' for holding said sections
normally in a level position, means for limiting the movement of said sections and
a series of independently movable levers F for operating said sections D, substantially
as specified.
20. In a cigar bunch machine, the combination of a hopper, with a movable

page_text: charger, a bottom for said charger composed of independently movable sections, a
compressing plunger over the hopper, a movable knife, a movable guide, a shelf
over which the charger swings, a rolling table, a cavity for the pocket of the apron,
a bunching roller, a rolling apron, and a discharger to force the filler from the
charger through the guide into the pocket substantially as specified.
21. In a cigar bunch machine, the combination of a hopper, with a movable
charger, a bottom for said charger composed of independently movable sections, a
compressing plunger over the hopper, a movable knife, a movable guide, a shelf
over which the charger swings, a rolling table, a cavity for the pocket of the apron,
a bunching roller, a rolling apron, and a discharger to force the filler from the
charger through the guide into the pocket, said shelf having a movable part secured
to said guide, and means for depressing and elevating the bottom of said charger,
substantially as specified.
22. In a cigar bunch machine, the combination of a movable charger, a bottom
for said charger composed on independently movable sections, a compressing pìunger,
a movable knife, a movable guide, a shelf over which the charger swings, a rolling
table, a cavity for the pocket of the apron, a bunching roller, a rolling apron, and
a discharger to force the filler from the charger through the guide into the pocket,
and means for depressing and elevating the bottom of the charger, substantially as
specified.
23. In a cigar bunch machine, the combination of a horizontally swinging
charger, with a vertically movable guide into register with which the charger is
brought, the rolling apron, and bunching roller, a discharger to force the filler
from the charger through the guide into the pocket of the apron, substantially as
specified.
24. In a cigar bunch machine, the combination of the following parts or
elements : a series of intermittently movable hoppers; a movable charger; a
movable adjustable sectional bottom for said charger; a compressing plunger to
force the filler from the hopper into the charger; a knife; a movable guide; a
shelf extending from the hopper to the guide, a rolling table, a cavity for the
pocket of the apron, a bunching roller and rolling apron, a movable discharger to
force the filler from the charger through the guide into the pocket, and a
reservoir B³ and cone or pyramid B forming the bottom of the reservoir, and
means for depressing and elevating the bottom of the charger substantially as
specified.
25. In a cigar bunch machine, the combination of the following parts or
elements: a series of intermittently movable hoppers; a movable charger; a
movable adjustable sectional bottom for such charger; a compressing plunger to
force the filler from the hopper into the charger; a knife; a movable guide; a
shelf extending from the hopper to the guide, a rolling table, a cavity for the
pocket of the apron, a bunching roller and rolling apron, a movable discharger
to force the filler from the charger through the guide into the pocket, mechanism
for operating said parts, and means for depressing and elevating the bottom of
the charger, substantially as specified.
26. In a cigar bunch machine, the combination of the stationary plate B¹
furnished with notch B2, with a series of intermittently revolving bottomless
hoppers B, a charger C, a bottom for said charger, and a compressing plunger G,
substantially as specified.
27. In a cigar bunch machine, the combination of the stationary plate B¹
furnished with a notch B2, with a series of intermittently revolving bottomless
hoppers B, a movable charger C, a movable sectional bottom for said charger, a
compressing plunger G, and a knife H serving to sever the bunch from the surplus
material in the hopper and also as a removable temporary bottom for the hopper
at said notch, and means for depressing and elevating the bottom of the charger,
substantially as specified.
28. In a cigar bunch machine, the combination of the stationary plate B¹

page_text: furnished with a notch B², with a series of intermittently revolving bottomless
hoppers B, a movable charger C, a movable sectional bottom for said charger, a
compressing plunger G, a knife H serving to sever the bunch from the surplus
material in the hopper and also as a removable temporary hottom for the hopper
at said notch, a guide M and shelf E, substantially as specified.
Dated this 14th day of March 1895.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.