A MACHINE FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF CIGARS
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Louis Beauché, of Offenbach, near Frankfort on the
Maine, for the Invention of "A MACHINE FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF
CIGARS."
Sealed the 7th November 1856, and dated the 9th May 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Louis Beauché at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 9th
May, 1856.
I, LOUIS BEAUCHE, of Offenbach, near Frankfort on the Maine, do hereby
declare, the nature of the said Invention of "A MACHINE FOR THE MANU-
FACTURE OF CIGARS," to be as follows:
This Invention consists of certain new niechanical arrangements and com-
binations constituting a machine or apparatus for the manufacture of cigars,
and by the use of which the entire process may be performed in a more simple,
efficient, and inexpensive manner than the means heretofore employed of manu-
facturing cigars by machinery.
The principal feature of novelty in my said Invention consists in the use
and employment of short endless bands of vulcanized india-rubber revolving
in contact with each other by suitable means. The casting containing the
rollers over which the bottom band passes is fixed to the top of the table of the

page_text: machine, and the castings containing the upper rollers and band are hinged
to the aforesaid lower casting, to admit of its being turned up for placing the
tobacco of which the cigar is to be made upon the lower band, for performing
the first part of the operation, termed filling. The aforesaid elastic bands are
somewhat longer than the desired length of the cigar. Supposing the tobacco
to be placed upon the lower band, the upper band is then turned close down
thereon, and held there by a catch. The effect of this is to press the tobacco
between the two bands, which, being elastic, form a kind of bed or cushion; the
two bands are then set in motion in opposite directions, thus imparting to the
tobacco a similar movement to that produced by rolling the tobacco between
the hands. The tobacco is then removed and placed between another similar
pair of bands, of which there may be several pairs on one table. These bands
are employed for rolling the outer leaf around the cigar and finishing it, the
tip thereof being completed by fixing a short hollow or recessed piece of bone
or metal underneath the contact surfaces of the aforesaid elastic bands, con-
stituting rigid moulds, between which the point of the cigar is squeezed and
rolled at the same time. This part of the operation is performed in the follow-
ing manner: The point of the strip of tobacco employed for the outside of
the cigar is first placed upon the lower endless band in a diagonal direction;
the filling or inside portion of the cigar is then placed thereon, and the top
endless band forced down and held thereon, as before stated. Motion is then
imparted to the bands, by which the outer strip will be coiled round the filling,
the operator holding the outer end of the strip during such time. When the
strip arrives near the tip of the cigar, a curved hinged knife is brought into
action and cuts the end of the strip as desired, and a second curved knife
cuts off the extreme point of the strip when rolled, as above stated. There
is a small surface between the two curved knives, upon which the operator
from time to time places paste for sticking together the tobacco at the tip
of the cigar. The cigar is now removed in a finished state, and the operation
repeated, as before. The mechanism may be worked by a foot trèddle,
and is provided with an arrangement for stopping the movement of one
or other pairs of 'revolving bands without stopping the other parts of the
machine.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Louis Beauché in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
8th November 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, LOUIS
BEAUCHE, of Offenbach, near Frankfort on the Maine, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the nineteenth year of Her reign,
did, for, Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Louis. Beauché, Her special licence that I, the said Louis Beauché, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Louis
Beauché, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "A MACHINE FOR THE MANUFACTURE
OF CIGARS," upon, the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Louis
Beauché, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the
said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Louis Beauché, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say:-
My Invention consists of certain new mechanical arrangements and com-
binations constituting a machine or apparatus for the manufacture of cigars,.
and by the use of which the entire process may be performed in a more simple,
efficient, and inexpensive manner than by the means heretofore employed of
manufacturing cigars.
The principal feature of novelty in my said Invention consists in the use and
employment of short endless bands of vulcanized india-rubber revolving in
contact with each other by suitable means.
In order to explain my said Invention as completely as possible, I now pro-
ceed to describe the best means I am acquainted with for carrying the same

page_text: DESCRIPTION, OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 is a top plan view of the principal parts of the mechanism or
machine which I employ in and for the manufacture of the core or middle
portion of cigars, according to my said Invention; Figure 2 is a front ele-
vation thereof; Figure 3 is a transverse and vertical section of certain parts
hereafter referred to; Figure 4 is a top plan view of the mechanism or machine
which I employ for rolling the outer leaf of tobacco around the aforesaid
"core" or middle; Figures 5, 6, 7, 8, are detached portions (drawn to an
enlarged scale) of that part of the mechanism which I employ for making the
tip of the cigar, being that part which is usually placed in the mouth during
the operation of smoking. At each of the foregoing Figures I employ similar
letters of reference to denote corresponding parts, in so far as such parts appear
or can be seen at each of such said Figures respectively. At Figures 1 and 2,
A is a portion of the table of the machine; B, a piece of metal securely fixed
thereto, and supporting the following parts; C, C, are standards carrying the
axes of the rollers D and E (shewn at Figure 3); G, G, are pieces of metal
hinged to the standards C, C, and supporting the axes of the rollers H and I;
K, L, are endless bands of gutta percha or other suitable clastic material
placed around the rollers D, E, and II, I; M is a curved plate or cover securely
fixed to the pieces G, G, free of the band L, said cover being employed more
particularly for protecting the said band from dust and dirt; N, O, P, are
toothed wheels taking into other wheels not shewn by the Drawing, respectively
fixed upon the axes of the rollers D and II, for imparting motion to the endless
bands K, L; Q is a handle fixed to or formed upon the plate M, said handle
being employed for lifting up the roller I and band L, as at Figure 3, and for
closing same down, as at Figures 1 and 2, a spring catch R being employed
for maintaining it in that position. In using the above machine the operator
proceeds as follows:-Supposing the parts to be in the position exhibited at
Figure 3, the operator takes as much leaf tobacco, of the quality commonly
used for forming the "core" or middle portion of the cigar, as is necessary for
that purpose; and having cut it to the proper length, he then places it upon the
endless band K, and brings the band L down thereon; the wheels N, O, P, &c.
are then set in inotion, by which the bands K and L will be moved in opposite
directions, thereby effecting the rolling up of the tobacco and forming of the core

page_text: or middle portion of the cigar, which occupies but a short time; the operator
then stops the machine, pulls back the spring catch R, and lifts up the upper
band L from the lower one; he then removes the core thus made and takes
it to the machine exhibited at Figure 4, where he operates upon it as follows:-
Having first selected a leaf of tobacco of the desired quality to form the out-
side of the cigar, he cuts such leaf into a parallel strip, which he places on
the band K, holding it at an angle of about 60 degrees, more or less, (with
the axes of the rollers D and E); he then places thereon the core, made as
before described, and presses and holds the upper band L forcibly down upon
the tobacco, as before stated with reference to Figures 1, 2, 3; having done
this, he throws the clutch S into gear with the clutch T, by means of the lever
and rod U; and supposing the axis of the clutch to be set in motion, such
rotatory motion will be transmitted to the pinions N, O, and P, and to the
endless bands K, L, and thus effect the rolling or winding of the outer leaf of
the cigar around the core thereof. The end or tip of the cigar is produced by
the outer leaf being rolled between solid pieces V, of metal, bone, or other suit-
able material (the construction of which is exhibited detached at Figures 5, 6,
7, and 8), respectively fixed to the upper and lower parts C and G of the
machine, as at Figure 4. He then lifts up the part G, and cuts off the super-
fluous portion of the outer leaf, either by hand or by attaching a curved knife
to the machine, and, finally, fastens the end of the outer leaf around the tip
of the cigar by paste, and in this manner, and by these means, I manufacture
cigars.
I would bere remark that the Drawing does not exhibit the framing of the
above machine or apparatus, nor the mode of imparting rotatory motion thereto
from the prime mover, as it forms no part of this Invention, and is a move-
ment well known and in common use in turning lathes and other rotating
machines or tools. And I would further remark that it is immaterial to the
working of the machine whether such motion be imparted through the mediumi
of a foot treaddle, a strap or band, or other known means.
Having now fully described and set forth the nature and object of my said
Invention of "A Machine for the Manufacture of Cigars," together with the
best means I am acquainted with for carrying the same into practical effect, I
would remark, in conclusion, that what I claim as my Invention is,-
Firstly, a machine of the construction exhibited at Figures 1, 2, 3, for form-
ing the "core" or middle portion of the cigar during the manufacture thereof.
Secondly, the machine exhibited at Figure 4, for rolling or winding the out-
side leaf around the aforesaid "core," and finishing the cigar, as above par-

page_text: ticularly described. And. more especially. I. claim the use of the endless bands
K and L, at Figures: 3. and 4, for effecting the rolling up of the tobacco of
which the core of the cigar is.made, and for rolling or winding the outside leaf
around the said core, as above stated.
In witness whereof, I, the said Louis Beauché, have hereunto set' my
hand and seal, this Fourth day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six:
Witness,
EMILE BARRAULT, Ingenieur,
34, Rue de Malté, à Paris.
LOUIS BEAUCHE. (L.S.)

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Louis Beauché, of Offenbach, near Frankfort on the
Maine, for the Invention of "A MACHINE FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF
CIGARS."
Sealed the 7th November 1856, and.dated the 9th May 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Louis Beauché at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 9th
May 1856.
I, LOUIS BEAUCHE, of Offenbach, near Frankfort on the Maine, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention of "A MACHINE FOR THE MANU-
FACTURE OF CIGARS," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists of certain new mechanical arrangements and com-
binations constituting a machine or apparatus for the manufacture of cigars,
and by the use of which the entire process may be performed in a more simple,
efficient, and inexpensive manner than the means heretofore employed of manu-.
facturing cigars by machinery.
The principal feature of novelty in my said Invention consists in the use
and employment of short endless bands of vulcanized india-rubber revolving
in contact with each other by suitable means. The casting containing the
rollers over which the bottom band passes is fixed to the top of the table of the

page_text: machine, and the castings containing the upper rollers and band are hinged
to the aforesaid lower casting, to admit of its being turned up for placing the
tobacco of which the cigar is to be made upon the lower band, for performing
the first part of the operation, termed filling. The aforesaid elastic bands are
somewhat longer than the desired length of the cigar. Supposing the tobacco
to be placed upon the lower band, the upper band is then turned close down
thereon, and held there by a catch. The effect of this is to press the tobacco
between the two bands, which, being elastic, form a kind of bed or cushion; the
two bands are then set in motion in opposite directions, thus imparting to the
tobacco a similar movement to that produced by rolling the tobacco between
the hands. The tobacco is then removed and placed between another similar
pair of bands, of which there may be several pairs on one table. These bands
are employed for rolling the outer leaf around the cigar and finishing it, the
tip thereof being.completed by fixing a short hollow or recessed piece of bone
or metal underneath the contact surfaces of the aforesaid elastic bands, con-
stituting rigid moulds, between which the point of the cigar is squeezed and
rolled at the same time. This part of the operation is performed in the follow-
ing inanner: The point of the strip of tobacco employed for the outside of
the cigar is first placed upon the lower endless band in a diagonal direction;
the filling or inside portion of the cigar is then placed thereon, and the top
endless band forced down and held thereon, as before stated. Motion is then
imparted to the bands, by which the outer strip will be coiled round the filling,
the operator holding the outer end of the strip during such time. When the
strip arrives near the tip of the cigar, a curved hinged knife is brought into
action and cuts the end of the strip as desired, and a second curved knife
cuts off the extreme point of the strip when rolled, as above stated. There
is a small surface between the two curved knives, upon which tho operator
from time to time places paste for sticking together the tobacco at the tip
of the cigar. The cigar is now removed in a finished state, and the operation
repeated; as before. The mechanism may be worked by a foot treddle,
and is provided with an arrangement for stopping the movement of one
or other pairs of revolving bands without stopping the other parts of the
machine.
B

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Louis Beauché in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
8th November 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, LOUIS
BEAUCHE, of Offenbach, near Frankfort on the Maine, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the nineteenth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Louis Beauché, Her special licence that I, the said Louis Beauché, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Louis
Beauché, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "A MACHINE FOR THE MANUFACTURE
OF CIGARS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Louis
Beauché, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent
Office within six calendar months; next and immediately after the date of the
said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Louis Beauché, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say:-
My Invention consists of certain new mechanical arrangements and com-
binations constituting a machine or apparatus for the manufacture of cigars,
and by the use of which the entire process may be performed in a more simple,
efficient, and inexpensive manner than by the means heretofore employed of
manufacturing cigars.
The principal feature of novelty in my said Invention consists in the use and
employment of short endless bands of vulcanized india-rubber revolving in
contact with each other by suitable means:
In order to explain my said Invention as completely as possible, I now pro-
ceed to describe the best means I am acquainted with for carrying the same

page_text: to these Presents, and to the numeral figures and letters of reference marked
thereon respectively, as follows:-
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 is a top plan view of the principal parts of the mechanism or
machine which I employ in and for the manufacture of the core or middle
portion of cigars, according to my said Invention; Figure 2 is a front ele-
vation thereof; Figure 3 is a transverse and vertical section of certain parts
hereafter referred to; Figure 4 is a top plan view of the mechanism or machine
which I employ for rolling the outer leaf of tobacco around the aforesaid
"core" or middle; Figures 5, 6, 7, 8, are detached portions (drawn to an
enlarged scale) of that part of the mechanism which I employ for making the
tip of the cigar, being that part which is usually placed in the mouth during
the operation of smoking. At each of the foregoing Figures I employ similar
letters of reference to denote corresponding parts, in so far as such parts appear
or can be seen at each of such said Figures respectively. At Figures 1 and 2,
A is a portion of the table of the machine; B, a piece of metal securely fixed
thereto, and supporting the following parts; C, C, are standards carrying the
axes of the rollers D and E (shewn at Figure 3); G, G, are pieces of metal
hinged to the standards C, C, and supporting the axes of the rollers H and I;
K, L, are endless bands of gutta percha or other suitable elastic material
placed around the rollers D, E, and II, I; M is a curved plate or cover securely
fixed to the pieces G, G, free of the band L, said cover being employed more
particularly for protecting the said band from dust and dirt; N, O, P, are
toothed wheels taking into other wheels not shewn by the Drawing, respectively
fixed upon the axes of the rollers D and H, for imparting motion to the endless
bands K, L; Q is a handle fixed to or formed upon the plate M, said handle
being employed for lifting up the roller I and band L, as at Figure 3, and for
closing same down, as at Figures 1 and 2, a spring catch R being employed
for maintaining it in that position. In using the above machine the operator
proceeds as follows:-Supposing the parts to be in the position exhibited at
Figure 3, the operator takes as much leaf tobacco, of the quality commonly
used for forming the "core" or middle portion of the cigar, as is necessary for
that purpose, and having cut it to the proper length, he then places it upon the
endless band K, and brings the band L down thereon; the wheels N, O, P, &c.
are then set in motion, by which the bands K and L will be moved in opposite
lirections, thereby effecting the rolling up of the tobacco and forming of the core

page_text: or middle portion of the cigar, which occupies but a short time; the operator
then stops the machine, pulls back the spring catch R, and lifts up the upper
band L from the lower one; he then removes the core thus made and takes
it to the machine exhibited at Figure 4, where he operates upon it as follows:-
Having first selected a leaf of tobacco of the desired quality to form the out-
side of the cigar, he cuts such leaf into a parallel strip, which he places on
the band K, holding it at an angle of about 60 degrees, more or less, (with
the axes of the rollers D and E); he then places thereon the core, made as
before described, and presses and holds the upper band L forcibly down upon
the tobacco, as before stated with reference to Figures 1, 2, 3; having done
this, he throws the clutch S into gear with the clutch T, by means of the lever
and rod U; and supposing the axis of the clutch to be set in motion, such
rotatory motion will be transmitted to the pinions N, O, and P, and to the
endless bands K, L, and thus effect the rolling or winding of the outer leaf of
the cigar around the core thereof. The end or tip of the cigar is produced by
the outer leaf being rolled between solid pieces V, of metal, bone, or other suit-
able material (the construction of which is exhibited detached at Figures 5, 6,
7, and 8), respectively fixed to the upper and lower parts C and G of the
machine, as at Figure 4. He then lifts up the part G, and cuts off the super-
fluous portion of the outer leaf, either by hand or by attaching a curved knife
to the machine, and, finally, fastens the end of the outer leaf around the tip
of the cigar by paste, and in this manner, and by these means, I manufacture
cigars.
I would here remark that the Drawing does not exhibit the framing of the
above machine or apparatus, nor the mode of imparting rotatory motion thereto
from the prime mover, as it forms no part of this Invention, and is a move-
ment well known and in common use in turning lathes and other rotating
machines or tools. And I would further remark that it is immaterial to the
working of the machine whether such motion be imparted through the medium
of a foot treaddle, a strap or band, or other known means.
Having now fully described and set forth the nature and object of my said
Invention of "A Machine for the Manufacture of Cigars," together with the
best means I am acquainted with for carrying the same into practical effect, I
would remark, in conclusion, that what I claim as my Invention is,―
Firstly, a machine of the construction exhibited at Figures 1, 2, 3, for form-
ing the "core" or middle portion of the cigar during the manufacture thereof.
Secondly, the machine exhibited at Figure 4, for rolling or winding the out-
side leaf around the aforesaid "core," and finishing the cigar, as above par-

page_text: ticularly described. And more especially I claim the use of the endless bands
Kand L, at Figures 3 and 4, for: effecting the rolling up of the tobacco of
which the core of the cigar is.made, and for rolling or winding the outside leaf
around.the.said.core, as above stated.
In witness whereof, I, the said Louis Beauché, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fourth day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
Witness,
EMILE BARRAULT, Ingenieur,
34, Rue de Malté, à Paris.
LOUIS BEAUCHE. (L.S.)