AN IMPROVED MACHINE FOR MAKING CIGARS AND CIGARETTES
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Carl Kesseler, of 63, Mohrenstrasse, Berlin, W., in the
Empire of Germany, Civil Engineer and Patent Solicitor, for the Invention of
"AN IMPROVED MACHINE FOR MAKING CIGARS AND CIGARETTES." A com-
munication from Siegfried Block and Ernst Koch, of Berlin, Prussia, in the
Empire of Germany.
Sealed the 18th April 1879, and dated the 21st October 1878.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Carl Kesseler at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 21st October 1878.
CARL KESSELER, of 63, Mohrenstrasse, Berlin, W., in the Empire of Germany,
Civil Engineer and Patent Solicitor. "AN IMPROVED MACHINE FOR MAKING
CIGARS AND CIGARETTES." [A communication from Siegfried Block and Ernst
Koch, of Berlin, in the Empire of Germany.]
All machines till now invented for the manufacture of cigarettes having only
produced goods of an unequal thickness and inferior quality, they were not very much
used. The machine as described hereafter, and represented in the adjoining Drawings,
is well adapted for the trade and for private use, the tobacco being well worked
through and equally wrapped, even when different kinds of tobacco are used. The
cigarette is throughout of an equal thickness, of an equal cylindrical shape, and
perfectly even. In the adjoining Drawing represents a an ornamented frame; the
important part of its shape is the part from b to c forming part of the convex
surface of a cylinder with the centro d. The whole upper surface of this cylinder
is covered with a sheet of india-rubber 6, or of any other convenient material, which
is stationary at c, but moveable at e, fixed by means of the set screws f, f¹. This
sheet is kept long enough to form a folding between the roller g and the edge of the
upper part of the frame at b in which the tobacco required for rolling the cigarettes
is laid as equally as possible by hand. h is a lever of the second kind formed of
two parts, one of which is at each side of the frame. Both parts are connected at
the top by the handle i, at the centre by the bolt i upon which the roller g turns.
This lever oscillates upon a pivot by d. If the fold of the sheet be filled with
tobacco the cigarett paper is then laid on the cylinder surface b, c, and the lever h

page_text: is moved in the direction from e to b. Through this motion the tobacco is rolled
uniformly and quite cylindrically, and is at the same time rolled up in the cigarette
paper. If the edge of the cigarette paper in the direction of b has been wetted, or
has been covered with albumin (glaired), or with gum, the cigarette rests closed and
falls in a finished state in the groove k underneath b. The set screws ff, serve, as
already mentioned, to fix the sheet at the required length to the apparatus. The
depth of the folding which receives the tobacco depends from this length, means are
therefore herewith provided to regulate the thickness of the cigarette.
The improvements upon which the claims are principally based, consist
therefore,―
1. In the whole arrangement of the cigarette machine, being composed of the
frame a, the rolling sheet 1, the lever h, as herein-before described and as represented
in the adjoined Drawings.
2. In the framework a of the cigarette machine and its special adapted kind
of surface, as herein-before described and as represented in the adjoined
Drawings.
3. In the rolling sheet with its fastening arrangement f, f¹, as herein-before
described and as reprosented in the adjoined Drawings.
4. In the lever and the roller g of the cigarette machine, for the purpose as
above described.
5. In the groove & for the reception of the finished cigarette.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Carl Kesseler in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 19th April
1879.
CARL KESSELER, of 63, Mohrenstrasse, Berlin, W., in the Empire of Germany,
Civil Engineer and Patent Solicitor. AN IMPROVED MACHINE FOR MAKING
CIGARS AND CIGARETTES." A communication from Siegfried Block and Ernest
Koch, of Berlin, Prussia, in the Empire of Germany.
All machines till now invented for the manufacture of cigarettes having only pro-
duced goods of an unequal thickness and inferior quality, they were not very much used.
The machine as described hereafter, and represented in the adjoined Drawings, is well
adapted for the trade and for private use, the tobacco being well worked through
and equally wrapped, even when different kinds of tobacco are used. The cigarette
is throughout of an equal thickness, of an equal cylindrical shape, and perfectly
even. In the adjoined Drawing, a represents an ornamental frame; the important
part of its shape is the part from 6 to c, forming part of the convex surface of a
cylinder with the centre d. The whole upper surface of this cylinder is covered
with a sheet of india-rubber l, or of any other convenient material, which is
stationary at c but moveable at e, fixed by means of the set screws f; f'. This sheet
is kept long enough to form a folding between the roller g and the edge of the upper
part of the frame at b in which the tobacco required for rolling the cigarettes is
laid as equally as possible by hand. h is a lever of the second kind formed of two
parts, one of which is at each side of the frame; both parts are connected at the
top by the handle i, at the centre by the bolt i upon which the roller g turns. This
lever oscillates upon a pivot by d. If the fold of the sheet be filled with tobacco,
the cigarette paper is then laid on the cylinder surface b, c, and the lever h is
moved in the direction from e to b. Through this motion the tobacco is rolled
uniformly and quite cylindrically, and is at the same time rolled up in the cigarette
paper. If the edge of the cigarette paper in the direction of b has been wetted, or
has been covered with albumin (glaired), or with gum, the cigarette rests closed and
falls in a finished state in the groove & underneath b. The set screws f', f', serve,
as already mentioned, to fix the sheet at the required length to the apparatus. The
depth of the folding which receives the tobacco depends from this length, means are
therefore herewith provided to regulate the thickness of the cigarette.
The improvements upon which the claims are principally based, consist
therefore,-
1. In the whole arrangement of the cigarette machine, being composed of the
frame a, the rolling sheet 1, the lever h, as herein-before described and as represented
in the adjoined Drawings.
2. In the framework a of the cigarette machine and its special adapted kind
of surface, as herein-before described and as represented in the adjoined Drawings.
3.. In the rolling sheet with its fastening arrangement f. 1, as herein-before
described and as represented in the adjoined Drawings.
4. In the lever hand the roller g of the cigarette machine, for the purpose as
above described.
5. In the groove k for the reception of the finished cigarette.
In witness whereof, I, the said Carl Kesseler, have hereunto set my hand and
seal, this Niueteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord One thousand
sight hundred and...