Improvements in or relating to Cigarette Making Machines.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 8th July, 1897-Accepted, 4th Sept., 1897
Improvements in or relating to Cigarette Making Machines.
A communication from GEORG A. JASMATZI, Manufacturer, of 17 Blasewitzer-
strasse, Dresden, in the Empire of Germany.
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 ascer-
tained in and by the following statement:-
The present invention has for its object a cigarette making machine provided
with a suitable system of levers which are operated by any desired means and
their movement utilized on one band for pressing down a movable cover or flap
over the tobacco-channel or holder and on the other hand for the forward and
backward movement of the plunger, as well as for pressing a finger which holds
fast the cigarette paper tube during the time that tobacco is being introduced into
it.
Hitherto two methods of manufacturing cigarettes have been employed, either
they have been manufactured by means of automatic machines in which tobacco
in the shape of a rope was guided in a groove on to a paper band of unlimited
length, which a little further on was closed and pressed and cut into pieces of
determined length by means of suitable cutting devices or the cigarettes were
made by hand by means of hinged jaws or plates receiving the tobacco, over which
plates after they had been closed, was pushed the empty paper-tube the tobacco
being pushed from the other end from the plates into the paper-tube by means
of a driver.
The first method has the advantage of a greater output but it is obvious that
only common tobacco can be treated in this way. The second method is used for
better kinds of tobacco and in making cigarettes with mouth-pieces but has the
drawback of a small out-put.
This invention endeavours to render possible the quick and neat manufacturing
of cigarettes from the better kinds of tobacco and of cigarettes with mouth-pieces,
hand work being avoided as much as possible. By means of this invention the
tobacco is introduced into a channel and simultaneously a finished paper-tube is
placed over a tube projecting from the end of the channel, and then by one
movement of the driving device the channel is closed so as to give the tobacco a
cylindrical form, the paper tube held fast and the tobacco is pushed from the
channel into the paper tube by means of a driver. The return of the latter enables
the channel to be opened and the completed cigarette released.
In the accompanying drawing,
Fig. 1 shows the device according to the present invention in elevation,
Fig. 2 in plan, and,
Fig. 3 in rear-elevation.
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an on the line $ Ri 1 showing the channel onen and

page_text: Fig. 6 is a cross section the operating device and guides for the driver, taken
on the line C-D, Fig. 3.
In this machine the tobacco is placed on a plate b arranged on the upper side
of the frame and from this plate is guided in sufficient quantity into the channel c
the paper tube which is to receive the filling of tobacco being placed over project-
ing tube d. By turning the spindle which may be effected by hand by means
of a lever f (as shown in the drawing by way of example) or by foot or
mechanically the hinged cover g is turned down so as to form the tobacco in
the channel into a cylindrical roll. The latter movement must take place at
certain definite intervals, for the channel must be closed before the interchangeable
driver h penetrates into it and must remain closed during the time that the driver
remains therein. For this purpose there is arranged on the spindle e, beside a
toothed segment by means of which the slide carrying the interchangeable
driver his caused to reciprocate, a cam on which rests a roller'n mounted at the
end of a lever m. This cam is secured on the spindle e; a key o (Fig. 6)
arranged on the hub of the cam 7 acts as a tappet for the toothed segment which
is loose on the spindle, the free end of said key engaging with a recess in the hub
of the toothed segment i.
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As soon as the spindle c is turned towards the left hand side as by the handle f
(as seen from Fig. 1), the slide k with the driver h also moves towards the left,
that is to say towards the channel c, and at the same time the end of the lever m
pivotted at m is raised by the cam 1, said movement being communicated from
the other end of the lever to the cam p whereby the flap g is caused to turn
downwards so as to completely close the channel c into the position (Fig. 5). -
Before the driver h penetrates into the channel e charged with tobacco and
closed in the above described manner, the paper tube placed over the tube'd must
be held fast. This is effected in a simple manner, by means of a double-armed
lever q pivotted at q³, on one end of which is arranged a finger r which holds the
paper-tube as long as the other end, provided with a finger s is pressed out by
the rear-side of the slide k.
In order to enable the finger r to hold the paper tube as long as desired, the
length of the rear-side of the slide k is made variable by means of an adjustable
bart; this arrangement is advisable to allow cigarettes of different lengths to
be manufactured.
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The working of the machine is as follows: during the movement of the spindle e
as the cam is secured to it, the lever m is caused to move and the flap gris closed,
then, as soon as the key o has passed the recess in the hub of the toothed segment i,
the latter is caused to participate in the movement, whereby the slide k with the
driver h are caused to move, the lever q with the finger r being also operated.
When the spindle turns in the opposite direction the channel c is opened and
the driver his withdrawn. The spring on the part g, the spring acting ion
the lever p or on the lever m and the spring we on the lever q serve to return said
parts into their positions of rest.
To avoid resistance to the entering driver owing to the tobacco becoming
clamped in the channel between the plate 6 and the cover g, the front edge of
the cover
and the opposite edge of the plate bare sharpened so that when the
cover g is closed, the projecting tobacco-threads are cut off.
9. 5.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion as communicated to me by my foreign correspondent and in what manner
the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is:
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1. A cigarette making machine comprising a driver as h and means to move it
forward, after a channel, provided with a hinged flap or cover operated by a cam
âs l, levers as m and p has been charged with tobacco, for the purpose of pushing
the tobacco from said channel into a cigarette paper-tube held at the end of the
channel by means of a finger operated by a lever, connected to the operating
mechanism, substantially as described.

page_text: 2. The combination and arrangement of parts constituting the complete cigarette
making machine, substantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawings.
BOULT & WADE,
Agents for the Applicant.