Year: 1888

page_text: I, LOUIS LÉON TISSIER, of Rue Saint-Sabin, 56, Paris, in the Republic of France,
Manufacturer, 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 apparatus for making cigarettes, and in order to enable the
invention to be fully understood I will describe how it can be carried into practice by
reference to the accompanying drawing, in which
Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved apparatus for making cigarettes,
drawn full size, and
Figure 2 is a central transverse section of the same.
Similar letters in both the figures indicate similar parts.
The improved apparatus is constructed of two shells A and B adapted to be opened
to allow of the tobacco as well as the leaf of cigarette paper to be placed therein.
The hinges of these shells are formed of two rivets one of which is fixed in each end
of a moveable roller, one of the said rivets being shown at C and the other being
situated at C.-Two other moveable rollers are also provided having their pivots
at D D and E E' respectively. An opening is made through the face of each of the
shells at o and o; the two openings are parallel with each other and they serve to
allow of the passage of a riband which on being drawn in either direction will operate
the usual endless riband which rolls up the cigarettes.
The operation of the apparatus when making a cigarette will be clearly understood
by reference to figure 2. The endless riband represented by a continuous or full line
passes round or encloses the three moveable rollers D, E, C, and the tobacco is placed
evenly in the said riband at V.

page_text: The leaf of cigarette paper is shown at P in the position in which it is placed ready
to be rolled up. The other riband is narrower than the endless riband and is indicated
at T, T in dotted lines. It serves, as hereinbefore explained, to give the required
movement to the endless riband to which it is attached at m. If the end T of the
operating riband be pulled or drawn the point of attachment m will pass under the
roller C to the opening O¹ in figure 2, and the endless riband will be thereby moved
over the rollers and a rotating motion will be given to the tobacco in the direction
indicated by the arrow and the piece of paper P, the other edge of which must be
previously moistened will be rolled around the tobacco and secured. The cigarette is
then completed.
In order to facilitate the opening of the apparatus the under side of the shell A is
terminated at n whilst the under side of the shell B is slightly raised at n so that the
two parts shall not abut against one another when opening the apparatus and so that
when it has been opened and placed on a table or the like the position of the parts
will be such that the three axes of the rollers will form an inverted acute angled
triangle.
To prevent the two shells from passing one within the other when the apparatus is
closed two lugs are provided at each end, the lugs at one end being shown at f in
figure 1.
Instead of binging the two shells at C and C¹ they can be hinged at the middle
part but as the roller C could only then be mounted in one of the shells, the three
axes D, E, C, when the apparatus is opened would form an obtuse angled triangle
.which might interfere with the proper working of the apparatus.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
The novel arrangement of the endless riband in two shells, the two parallel openings
made in the shells for the passage of the operating riband, the method of connection
and also the peculiar arrangement of the part in which the cigarette is formed which
part, in order to ensure a proper working, should not touch the outer portion of the
endless riband.
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