acture of mouth-piece Cigarettes.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Apr., 1898-Accepted, 8th Oct.,
1898
acture of mouth-piece Cigarettes.
A communication from EZRA TORRENCE GILLILAND, of Pelham Manor, West-
chester County, New York, United States of America, Gentleman.
I, ALFRED JULIUS BOULT, of 111, Hatton Garden, in the County of Middlesex,
Chartered Patent Agent, 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:-
Cigarettes without mouth-pieces are now made by forming, in a manner and by
mechanism well known in the art, a continuous rod of tobacco or filler, around
which is wrapped and secured a continuous wrapper-strip, and severing the con-
tinuous cigarette thus formed into short equal sections forming the individual
cigarettes. Cigarettes are made in this way much more cheaply and expeditiously
than by rolling and wrapping them individually by hand.
Cigarettes are also made singly with mouth-pieces on one end, of some water-
proofing, stiffening or other suitable material, such as cork, paraffine wax, pre-
pared paper, gold leaf or gold sizing, applied either exteriorly or interiorly to the
wrapper, to protect the end of the cigarette from the effects of the moisture of and
adhering to the lips, and from tearing or maceration. But such mouth-piece
cigarettes are expensive, uneven and imperfect owing to their present method of
manufacture, one by one.
The object of this invention is to provide a better, more expeditious and more
economical method of making such mouth-piece cigarettes, and this and other
ends are accomplished by incorporating with the wrapper of a continuous cigarette
during the process of manufacture short sections of mouth-piece material, such as
above mentioned, at regular intervals, and then severing the continuous mouth-
piece cigarette thus formed at regular intervals so as to form a continuous succes-
sion of individual mouth-piece cigarettes.
It is preferred to make the sections of mouth-piece material in the continuous
cigarette, each twice the length of the mouth-piece of a single cigarette, and
the intervals between said sections each twice the length of the plain portion of
a single mouth-piece cigarette, and to sever the continuous mouth-piece cigarette
at points midway of each section of mouth-piece material and of each interval,
so that any variation in the points of severance will not impair the individual
mouth-piece cigarettes, as will be hereinafter more fully explained.
It is also preferred to apply the sections of mouth-piece material to the exterior
of the continuous wrapper-strip, and to effect this before the wrapper-strip is
wrapped around the continuous filler rod.
To form the continuous filler rod, to wrap and secure the continuous wrapper-
strip around the same, and to finally sever the continuous wrapped rod into
individual cigarettes, it is preferred to employ a continuous cigarette machine;
but any other suitable means or machine may be used for this purpose.
To apply the succession of sections of mouth-piece material to the continuous

page_text: wrapper-strip, it is found more practicable to use mechanism operating indepen-
dently of the rod-forming, wrapping and severing mechanism, in order that the
rapid wrapping and severing operations may not be retarded by the slower process
of applying the sections of mouth-piece material to the wrapper-strip. For thus
applying the sections of mouth-piece material to the wrapper-strip, I have desig-
nated a mechanism consisting briefly of means for feeding the continuous wrapper-
strip along a bed a movable platen for applying the sections of mouth-piece
material at intervals to the wrapper-strip lying on the bed, and means for winding
or rolling up the wrapper-strip thus prepared until ready and required for use
in the rod-wrapping and severing operations. The platen is also utilized to carry
a stamp for printing or impressing a mark or symbol at intervals on the wrapper-
strip, thus marking the individual mouth-piece cigarettes afterward wrapped
therewith.
In order that this invention may be fully understood, I shall now describe more
in detail the mode in which this invention is practised.
I shall refer by numbers to the accompanying drawings forming part of this
specification in which the same parts are denoted by like numbers throughout.
Figure 1 illustrates the mode in which the continuous mouth-piece cigarette
is made & cut up in accordance with this invention.
Figure 2 illustrates the mode in which the sections of mouth-piece material are
applied to the continuous wrapper-strip before wrapping the continuous filler
rod therein,
Figure 3 illustrates the use of a different kind of mouth-piece material in the
continuous mouth-piece cigarette of this invention.
Figure 4 illustrates the application of sections of mouth-piece material in the
form of tubes, to the interior of the wrapper of the continuous mouth-piece
cigarette.
Figure 5 is a plan view of the mechanism designed for readily applying the
sections of mouth-piece material to and marking the continuous wrapper-strip for
use in the subsequent cigarette-forming operations.
Figure 6 is a side elevation of the said wrapper-strip treating mechanism.
Figure 7 is an end elevation of the same.
Figures 8, 9 and 10 are enlarged detail views of different parts of said mechanism
hereinafter described.
In making mouth-piece cigarettes according to my invention, by the specific
method illustrated in Figures 1 and 2, which method is a very desirable one,
there are applied at suitable intervals to the exterior of the continuous wrapper-
strip 1, which is like that commonly used in continuous cigarette machines, sections
of mouth-piece material in the form of thin sheets 2 of cork, or, it may be, pre-
pared or bronzed paper or tobacco leaf, or other suitable mouth-piece material,
which sheets are by preference pasted over the wrapper-strip, and thoroughly dried
before using in the cigarette forming machine.
In the method illustrated in Figure 3, there are applied at intervals, and by
suitable means sections 3 of liquid paraffine wax or other suitable mouth-piece
material in liquid or viscous form, to the exterior of the wrapper-strip 1, likewise
drying the same before using the wrapper-strip in the cigarette-forming machine.
In the methods illustrated in Figures 1, 2 and 3, it is usual, but not always,
preferable to leave a margin on one side of each section of mouth-piece material,
as shown, so that when the prepared wrapper-strip 1 is subsequently wrapped and
pasted or secured around the filler-rod 4, there will be no mouth-piece material
between the lapping edges of the wrapper strip, which would or might cause the
wrapper to leak at the seam or prevent the paste from properly securing the edges
of the wrapper.
The continuous wrapper strip 1 with which the sections of mouth-piece material
are thus incorporated, is, when ready for use, wrapped and secured around the
continuous filler-rod 4, by the continuous cigarette machine or other suitable means,
to form the continuous mouth-piece cigarette shown in Figures 1 and 3.

page_text: In Figure 4, is illustrated another but less desirable method of performing this
my invention, namely by applying the sections of mouth-piece material to the
interior of the wrapper-strip 1. This may be accomplished by wrapping the wrapper-
strip, prepared as shown in Figure 2, around the filler-rod 4 with the mouth-piece
sheets or material on the inside against the filler, or as illustrated in Figure 4,
forming the filler-rod 4, then severing the same into sections and separating the
sections endwise by suitable intervals, then interposing the sections of mouth-
piece material in the form of paper tubes 5, between the sections of filler, and then
wrapping and securing the wrapper-strip 1 around the line of alternating tubes 5
and filler sections 1, thus incorporating the mouth-piece tubes 5 with the
wrapper
of the continuous mouth-piece cigarette. thereby formed.
By whatever method this continuous mouth-piece cigarette, is made, it is prefer-
able to make the sections of mouth-piece material twice the length of the mouth-
piece of a single cigarette, and the intervals between the said sections of twice the
length of the plain portion of a single mouth-piece cigarette, and to sever the con-
tinuous cigarette into individual cigarettes at points midway of each section of
niouth-piece material and of each plain portion between the said sections as shown
in Figures 1, 3 and 4. Thus a single mouth-piece cigarette will be formed of
the half of each mouth-piece portion and the adjoining half of the plain portion
of the cigarette, and if the points of severance are inexact, as they are apt to be,
such irregularity will not affect the quality or character of the individual cigarettes.
It will be seen that if the sections of mouth-piece material were of single
mouth-piece length and the intervals of single length likewise, and severance effected
at the junction of said mouth-piece and plain portions, a variation in the point
of severance would cause the individual cigarettes to have either a bit of mouth-
piece material on the lighting end, or a bit of unprotected wrapper on the mouth
end of the cigarette, which would greatly impair the quality of the cigarettes.
The severance of the continuous mouth-piece cigarette into individual mouth-
piece cigarettes is effected in the continuous cigarette machine by a proper adjust-
ment of the cutting mechanism, or by other suitable means.
To apply and paste the sections of mouth-piece material in the form of sheets 2,
as of cork, as illustrated in Figure 2, to the wrapper-strip 1 at the proper intervals,
the mechanism illustrated in Figures 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10, is designated although
any other suitable method may be employed. This mechanism comprises a
frame 10, to which is fixed a table 11, on which the sheets 2 previously coated with
paste or other adhesive material are laid ready for application to the wrapper-
strip 1. On the frame 10 is mounted, to revolve in the horizontal plane, a reel 12
on which the continuous wrapper-strip is wound and from which it is fed between
rolls 13, along a vertical bed 14, to and between feed-rolls 15, 16, and thence again
wound on a receiving reel 17, having a pulley 18 connected by a slack belt 19
with a pulley 20 on the shaft of the feed-roll 15, so that by rotating the feed-
rolls 15, 16, the wrapper-strip 1 is fed from the supply reel 12, over the vertical
bed 14, and wound on the receiving reel 17. A spring-pulled brake band 21,
leading over a pulley 22 on the shaft of the supply reel 12, keeps the latter from
unwinding too fast, and the belt 19 slipping on the pulley 20 keeps the same from
winding up the strip too fast as the diameter of the roll increases.
For intermittently rotating the feed-rolls 15, 16, and thus intermittently feed-
ing the strip I along the bed 14, a treadle 23 is provided connected by a rod 24
with the arm 25 of a spring returned rock shaft 26, on which is fixed a bevel
gear 27 engaging a bevel gear 28 on the short shaft of a crank-wheel 29. The
crank-wheel 29 is connected by a pitman 30 with a longitudinally reciprocating
rock bar 31, whose teeth mesh with a spur wheel 32, on a short vertical shaft 33,
to which is fixed an arm 34 carrying a spring pressed pawl 35, engaging a ratchet
wheel 36, and said ratchet wheel is fixed to the shaft of the feed roll 16, which
through the spur gears 37, 38, simultaneously rotates the feed-roll 15 and the
receiving reel as before described.

page_text: By this mechanism, as the treadle 23 is operated by the foot of the operator,
the wrapper-strip is intermittently fed along the vertical bed 14, in steps each
equal to the desired distance between the sections of mouth-piece material on, the
strip:
To apply and press the paste-coated sheets 2 upon the strip after each advance
and while it is stationary, upon the rock-shaft 26 is fixed a vertically swinging
arm 39 carrying a platen 40, having a rest 41, on which platen when lowered
the operator accurately places one of the sheets 2 against the rest 41. On operat-
ing the treadle 23, the platen 40 which moves in guides 42, carries the sheet against
the strip 1 lying on the vertical bed 14 and causes the sheet 2 to adhere firmly
thereto, after which the platen again descends to receive the next sheet, and the
strip 1 is simultaneously fed forward into position to receive the next sheet at the
proper interval from the preceding sheet.
It is preferred to provide for marking the completed cigarettes with any desired
symbol. or lettering, by forming the platen with ears 43 on opposite sides, carry-
ing the desired stamps or type, and arranging inking reels 44 and ribbons 45 over
the strip 1, so that as the platen applies each mouth-piece sheet 2 to the strip 1,
the strip will be simultaneously marked with the desired symbol or lettering on
opposite sides of the sheet, and thus said mark or lettering will appear immediately
in advance of the mouth-piece of each of the cigarettes afterward made from said
wrapper-strip as indicated in Figures 6 and 7 and by B in Figures 1 and 2.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this said
invention as communicated to me by my foreign correspondent & in what manner
the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is :-
1. The method of making mouth-piece cigarettes which consists in incorporating
with the wrapper of a continuous cigarette sections of mouthpiece material at suit-
able intervals, and severing the continuous mouth-piece cigarette thus formed at
intervals so as to form individual mouth-piece cigarettes.
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2. The method of making mouth-piece cigarettes which consist in incorporating
with the wrapper of a continuous cigarette sections of mouth-piece material at
suitable intervals, said sections being each twice the length of the mouth piece of
single cigarette and said intervals being each twice the length of the plain portion
of a single mouth-piece cigarette, and severing the continuous mouth-piece
cigarette thus formed at points midway of each of said sections and of each of the
said intervals so as to form individual mouth-piece cigarettes.
3. A continuous cigarette having sections of mouth-piece material incorporated
with the wrapper at suitable intervals, and adapted to be cut into individual
mouth-piece cigarettes.
4. A continuous cigarette having sections of mouth-piece material incorporated
with the wrapper at intervals said sections being each twice the length of the
mouth-piece of a single cigarette, and said intervals being each twice the length
of the plain portion of a single mouth-piece cigarette; and adapted to be cut mid-
way of each section and of each interval to form individual mouth-piece cigarettes.
5. A continuous cigarette wrapper-strip having sections of mouth-piece material
applied to it at suitable intervals, for the purpose set forth.
6. A continuous cigarette wrapper-strip having sections of mouth-piece material
applied to it at intervals, said sections being each twice the length of the mouth-
piece of a single-cigarette and said intervals being each twice the length of the
plain portion of a single mouth-piece cigarette.
7. Mechanism for applying sections of mouth piece material at intervals to a
continuous cigarette wrapper-strip, consisting of means for feeding the continuous
cigarette wrapper-strip, a bed on which the wrapper-strip lies, a movable platen to
apply the mouth-piece material to the wrapper-strip on the bed, and means for
operating the platen.
8. Mechanism for applying sections of mouth-piece material at intervals to
and stamping at intervals a continuous cigarette wrapper-strip consisting of

page_text: means for feeding the continuous wrapper-strip, a bed on which the wrapper-
strip lies, a platen to apply the mouth-piece material to the wrapper-strip on the
bed and carrying a stamp to impress upon the wrapper-strip and means for operat-
ing the platen.