Device for Shaping Cigar-fillers.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Oct., 1895-Accepted, 9th Nov., 1895
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Device for Shaping Cigar-fillers.
We, JOSEPH DE LA MAR, of 217 West 115th Street, in the City of New
York, County and State of New York, U.S.A., Mechanical Engineer, and
BERNARD VAN LEER, of 136 Water Street, in the City of New York, County
and State of New York, U.S.A., Merchant, 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 :-—
The object of this invention is to provide a shaper for forming the filler-tobacco
of cigar-bunches into the required cigar-shape, preparatory to rolling and enclosing
such filling-tobacco in the binder-leaf t form the cigar-bunch.
To that end this invention corsists broadly of a suitable sli le-plate reciprocating
beneath a top-plate of such form that a cavity of cigar-shape will be formed at
the rear end of the slide-plate when the same is pushed back underneath the top-
plate, two walls of which will be formed by the bottom of the slide-plate and an
upwardly extending back-flange thereof, and another by the top-plate, while the
front of such mold-cavity will be open.
Referring to the drawings:
Fig. 1, is a top-plan view of said improved device for shaping cigar-filters, with
a shaped bunch of filler-tobacco in position to be removed therefrom;
Fig. 2, is a side view thereof in section on the line
direction of the arrow ;
of Fig. 1, looking in the
Fig. 3, is a like view in section on the same line showing the position assumed
by the slide-plate when the mold cavity is being filled with the filler tobacco to be
shaped;
Fig. 4, is a bottom and back view of the slide-plate;
Fig. 5, is a top and back-view of the top-plate; and
Fig. 6, is a top-plan view of the bottom or base-plate thereof.
In all of said figures A designates the base-plate, B the top-plate, C the slide-
plate, and D the mold-cavity in which the filler-tobacco is shaped.
The base-plate A, may be formed integral with a suitable supporting-table, but
consists usually of a table 1 having sides 2 and ends 3, the latter of which have
flanges 4 provided with holes 5, by which such plate A is secured to a support.
Upon the side of the plate A located nearest to the operator using the same is a
stud 5 adapted to receive a set-screw 6 having a binding-nut 7, by which the
rearward movement of the slide-plate is limited as desired. Extending across the
table 1 from front to back thereof are two rails 8 having on the inner side of each
a parallel slot 9, and outside of the rails 8 and extending outward at right angles
thereto are elongated slots 10 through which pass screw-bolts 1 having nuts 12 for
securing the top-plate B in place on the plate 1, when such plate B is separate
therefrom, but the plates A and B may if desired be formed integral, but the top-
plate usually consists of a top-piece 13, end portions 14 having flanges 15
provided with boles to receive the bolts 11.
The slide-plate C, consists of a table-portion 16 and back-flange 17 extending
upward therefrom, and is provided with under guide-rails 18 having studs 19, the
rails 18 sliding inside of the rails 8 on the plate A, and the studs 19 sliding in the
slots 9 preventing too great forward movement of the plate C. The back-flange 17
at the top and inner side and the top of the plate C are all curved into a contour
line of the shape of cigar-bunch desired to be formed of the filler tobacco to be

page_text: shaped, as is also the forward edge a of the top-plate B, which is curved to fit the
top of the back-flange, and the top-plate B is also preferably shaped at the rear as
shown, having a central wide portion & flanked on either side by narrower portions c,
which latter are to receive the thumbs of the operator when pushing forward the
slide-plate C, as shown in dotted lines in Figs. 1 and 2.
To operate the device, the operator places a quantity of filler-tobacco upon the
table 16 of the slide-plate C and forces the same back into the mold-cavity D with
the fingers, adding and arranging the tobacco until such cavity D is filled flush
with the rounded edge a of the top-plate B, as shown in Fig. 3, and then
dropping his thumbs down behind the top-plate at the narrow points c presses
forward against the back-flange 17 so as to force the slide-plate forward into the
position shown in Figs. 1 and 2 when the shaped bunch of filler-tobacco is slidden
sideways from the said plate C, thereafter to be bunched or wrapped in a suitable
leaf.
By adjustment of the set-screw 6 and its binder-nut the depth of the mold-
cavity D may be varied greatly, and by using the slots 10 a number of different
sized slide-plates C and top-plates B may be used with the same base, and many
different sized and shaped bunches thus be shaped on practically the same shaper,
or in some cases the top-plate B and base-plate A may be formed of one piece of
metal, brass or iron being usually used out of which to form all the parts thereof,
but we do not limit ourselves to any material nor to the exact construction
shown, but :-
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. In a device for shaping cigar-fillers, the combination with a base-plate or
support A, of a top-plate B, and a slide-plate C reciprocating beneath the top-plate
and on the base or support A, all so arranged as to form a cavity for shaping the
filter-tobacco, substantially as shown and described.
2. In a device for shaping cigar-fillers, the combination with a base-plate or
support A, of a top-plate B the front edge and curve of which is of substantially
cigar shape in outline, and a slide-plate C having a table 16 and back-flange 17,
substantially as shown and described and for the purposes set forth.
3. In a device for shaping cigar-fillers, the combination with a basc-plate or
support A, of a top-plate B, a slide-plate C mounted upon the base-plate or support
so as to reciprocate beneath the top-plate, and means for limiting the movement of
the slide-plate in both directions, sub-tantially as shown and described and for the
purposes set forth.
4. Indevice for shaping cigar-fillers, the combination with a base-plate or
support A having slots 9 and 10 and rails 8, of top-plate B secured to such base-
plate or support and having an enlarged central hack portion & flanked by e merrower
portion or portions, and a slide-plete Chaving a back-flange 17 and rails 18 having
Studs 19 mounted upon the base-plate or support so ps to reciprocate thereon,
substantially as shown and described.
Dated this 8th day of October 1895.
S. S. BROMHEAD,
97 Newgate Street, E.C., Agent for Applicants.