Quids, or Plugs, and in Boxes or Cases for the same.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Apr., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Jan., 1889
Complete Specification Accepted, 9th Mar.,
1889.
Quids, or Plugs, and in Boxes or Cases for the same.
We, DANIEL JOSEPH FLEETWOOD of 12 Plough & Harrow Road Birmingham in
the County of Warwick Gentleman and JESTON LEONARD HENWOOD of Castle
Bromwich in the aforesaid County Public Accountant do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
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We mould the tobacco into cakes of convenient size and thickness in a press
when separate cakes are to be produced. Or we compress it between rolls when
we want continuous strips. These cakes or strips we perforate by means of punches
working into corresponding beds and the pieces or blanks thus cut out may fall
into trays or other receptacles placed beneath the beds or they may be received on
a revolving endless band or on a turntable to be carried automatically to another
bench where if necessary they may be further pressed or moulded into any required
shape.
Or the tobacco may be moulded at one operation into charges loads quids or plugs.
by pressure or stamping.
When the charges loads quids or plugs require trimming a knife or knives may be
arranged to work automatically in connection with the press or stamp for the purpose
and the surface of the dies may be kept clean by an automatic scraper or brush.
In either of the foregoing operations the tobacco may be fed into the machines by
means of a reciprocating piston or by screw or in other convenient manner.
The charges loads quids or plugs may be punctured in the process of pressing
or stamping when necessary to ensure free combustion and they may be protected
from the air by suitable wrappers but ordinarily we prefer to pack them without
such protection in boxes or cases made of any convenient size and form and of
suitable material and constructed with cells into which the charges loads quids or
plugs may fit. These boxes or cases may be lined with tea lead or other suitable

page_text: material or enamel in order to keep the tobacco moist. And when the boxes or
cases are required for storing larger quantities than may be conveniently carried
about the person they may be provided with drawers or trays or they may be made
with flaps to fold on each other constructed with cells and lined as aforesaid.
Or the boxes may be made in the form of hollow cylinders the internal diameter
of which shall be adapted to receive the charges loads quids or plugs & provided
with springs & stops to render them capable of discharging a single charge load
quid or plug at a time. Space may be arranged in the boxes or cases to receive
the pipe.
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page_text: Improvements in Moulding Tobacco into Separate Charges, Loads,
Quids, or Plugs, and in Boxes or Cases for the same.
.
We, DANIEL JOSEPH FLEETWOOD of 12 Plough & Harrow Road Birmingham in
the County of Warwick Gentleman and JESTON LEONARD HENWOOD of Castle
Bromwich in the same County Accountant 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 :-
We mould the tobacco into cakes of convenient size and thickness in a press when
separate cakes are to be produced. Or we compress it between rolls when we want
continuous strips. The cakes or strips we perforate by means of punches working
into corresponding beds and the cut out blanks may fall into trays or other receptacles
placed beneath the beds or they may be received on a revolving endless band or on
a turntable to be carried automatically to another bench where if necessary they may
be further pressed or moulded into any required shape.
Or the tobacco may be moulded at one operation into charges loads quids or plugs
hereafter for brevity called plugs by pressure or by stamping.
And when the plugs require trimming a knife or knives or cutters may be arranged
to work automatically in connection with the press or stamp and the surface of the
dies may be kept clean by an automatic scraper or brush. In either of the foregoing
operations the tobacco may be fed into the machines by means of a reciprocating
piston or ram or by screw or in other convenient manner.
The plugs may be punctured in the process of pressing or stamping to ensure free
combustion.
We will here with the aid of the accompanying Diagrams & Drawings and without
confining ourselves to precise details describe a press made according to our inven-
tion using throughout the same letters & figures to indicate parts that are identical
or similar.
Other portions of our specification consisting merely of adaptations of well known
processes in other branches of manufacture require no illustration.
Fig. 1 shews a vertical section of a press which may be worked by treadle pulley or
hand and may be made double to throw out at each end and Fig. 2 is a cross section
of the same through the centre line of the shaft A and of the crank B & crank pin B¹
which give motion to the compound rain working into the die D this die D is
retained in position by the lever E & link E' and is capable of sliding upon an arm F
which is secured to the frame of the press G. The tobacco is fed from the hopper H
in which the reciprocating rams H1 H2 work actuated by a connecting rod or rods
attached to the crank B this action is not shewn in the diagram.
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The hopper H is supplied with tobacco from a tray secured around its upper edge.
And when the press is set in motion the reciprocating horizontal piston or ram H¹
advances to the position shewn in the diagrami pushing before it a charge of tobacco
which is carried down by the vertical reciprocating piston or ram H² and falls into the

page_text: hollow of the press in front of the compound rain CC which carries it forward into the
die D. The compound ram CU¹ consists of an outer ram Cinade hollow to admit a
short inner ram Csupported by a spring C and through the short ram C there passes
a stiletto C³ secured to the back of the outer ram C. There may be more than one
stiletto if desirable the resilience of the tobacco soon fills up the punctures but they
prevent or counteract the too dense compression of the plug. In some cases however
the stiletto puncture when it is made as shewn at J¹ Fig. 3 is to be kept open by the
insertion of a peg.-
The action of the compound ram CC is as follows Advancing as just described the
inner ram C¹ takes the tobacco forward pressing it into the die D & retiring upon
its spring so. far as may be necessary to enable the shaft A to perform its
revolution & the stiletto C3 advancing to the full-extent of the stroke pierces the
tobacco the compound ram CC₁ then retires for another charge & this is repeated
until the die D is filled.
The stroke of the outer ram C takes it through the vertical bed plate D¹ secured
in the frame of the press in front of the die D. The outer ram and the vertical
bed plate D thus act as bed & punch and their knife edges trim off any superfluous
tobacco. The lever E on being pulled back withdraws the die D & the stationary
arm F detains the plug & allows it to fall out. Instead of the lever E. & link E¹
the die D may be connected with the shaft or crank & worked automatically. The
die may be lined with paper for each charge.
Figs. 3 & 4 represent vertical presses to be worked by hand or by stirrup or treadle
or they may he modified to work by lever the working parts are similar to but
more simple than Fig. 1 but in this case the lever E elevates an extractor J working
through the Die D to lift out the moulded plug & the extractor J is supplied with
a stiletto J¹ but in either of the presses the stilettos may puncture the plug at either
end or both. The tobacco is fed into the die by hand from a tray the position of
which is indicated by the dotted. lines D³.. A loose thimble may be made to fit on
to the nose of the ram C Fig. 3 for the final squeeze & for trimming off superfluous
tobacco as already described under Fig. 1.
Fig.5 is a paper blank shewing the form of the wrapper we prefer it has attached
to it a thread strip or wire K.
When the ends shewn open at K₁ are folded over & cemented together they form
a flattened cell which when opened is ready to receive a plug the dotted lines shew
a modified shape of the blank. The long end or ends K being folded around &
secured the plug will be completely protected as shewn at Fig. 6. L fig. 6 is the
thread strip or wire which tears the wrapper & frees the plug.
In some cases instead of employing separate, wrappers for each plug we pack. them
without such protection in boxes or cases made of any convenient size & form & of
any suitable material & constructed with cells into which the plugs may fit. Fig. 7 is
a form of paper cells open at top & bottom in which the plugs may be packed for sale
or use. In the construction of these cells three strips of paper are used the ragged
ends of which (N. O. P) appear in the drawing.. Strip N is cemented to strip O with
alternate cemented & uncemented spaces & strip P is cemented to strip
manner care being taken so to reverse & arrange the cemented & uncemented spaces.
as that they shall open out in alternate conical cells as shewn in the drawing. Fig. S
is a wooden case for the pocket arranged to slide into a metal cover M or it may be
fitted with lids instead. In Figs. 7 & 8 the positions of the conical cells with relation
to each other are reversed for economy in space.
When boxes or cases are required for storing larger quantities they may be
provided with drawers or trays or with flaps to fold on each other may be made of
card board or wood or cast or moulded or made of sheet metal the cells being lined
with metal open at top & bottom & embedded in cement.
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When desirable boxes. may be made in the form of hollow cylinders Fig..9
of which two or more may be placed side by side provided with a piston or ram
for expelling the plugs or with springs & stops to render them capable of discharging.
a single plug at a time.

page_text: This form is more particularly adapted for what in our provisional specification we
term "pieces or blanks cut out" and in the present cut out blanks" the blanks may
be kept separate by the insertion between them of discs of paper. Both ends of the
box Fig. 9 are provided with lids but only the top is shewn open. Room is provided
for the piston or ram in the small central cylinder..
It will readily be seen that the frames of the presses Figs. 3 & 4 admit of being
carried higher so as with a few other modifications to convert the presses into stamps.
Space may be arranged in the boxes or cases to receive a pipe the bowl of which
may be provided with a spike or stiletto similar to the. stiletto J' described under
Fig. 3 on which the plug of tobacco may fit after the removal of the peg inserted as
previously described with the object of keeping open the stiletto puncture.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is:
1. Shaping & punching tobacco into cut out blanks substantially as herein set forth
& specified.
2. Constructing presses for moulding tobacco substantially as herein set forth and
specified.
3. The moulding of tobacco by stamping substantially as herein set forth and
specified.
4. The use of stilettos for puncturing tobacco plugs in presses stamps & bowls of
pipes substantially as herein set forth and specified.
5. Constructing wrappers for tobacco plugs substantially as shewn by Figs. 5 & 6
& as herein set forth and specified.
6. Constructing cellular & tubular boxes & cases for tobacco plugs having no other
cover or envelope substantially as herein set forth & specified.
7. The improvements in moulding tobacco into separate charges loads quids or
plugs and in boxes or cases for the same substantially as herein set forth & specified.
Dated this 21st day of January 1889.
DAN. J. FLEETWOOD.
JESTON LEONARD HENWOOD.