IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR REGULATING THE DRAWING AND DELIVERY OF PAPER IN CIGARETTE MACHINES
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Arthur Charles Henderson of 47 Museum Street Oxford
Street in the county of Middlesex for an Invention of IMPROVEMENTS IN
APPARATUS FOR REGULATING THE DRAWING AND DELIVERY OF PAPER IN
CIGARETTE MACHINES"-A communication to me from abroad by Eugene
Ferdinand Leblond, Mechanician and Manufacturer of 2, Boulevard
de Strasbourg in the city of Paris and Republic of France
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Arthur Charles Henderson
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 11th April 1883.
ARTHUR CHARLES HENDERSON of 47 Museum Street, Oxford Street in the
APPARATUS
"IMPROVEMENTS IN
county of Middlesex
FOR REGULATING THE
DRAWING AND DELIVERY OF PAPER IN CIGARETTE MACHINES."-A communication
to ine from abroad by Eugène Ferdinand Leblond Mechanician and Manufacturer
of 2 Boulevard de Strasbourg in the city of Paris and Republic of France
In all cigarette making machines in which a reel containing a strip of endless
paper is employed and where the paper is drawn by aid of two superposed rollers,
just the requisite length for a cigarette is drawn, and is then cut off by a knife to
be then passed to the paper tube making machinery
When the length of the cigarettes is increased it is necessary to vary the
amplitude of rotation of the drawing rollers, or if the same rotation is preserved
the rollers must be changed for others of larger dimensions, and if the cigarettes
are smaller, then smaller rollers are requisite.
The object of this invention is to draw variable lengths of paper to suit the
different sizes of cigarettes, by a modification of the rotary motion of the drawing
rollers without requiring any alteration in the mechanism for transmitting motion.
The paper on leaving the reel or bobbin on which it is wound passes under the
guide roller along a smooth or flat surface, and then passes between the drawing
rollers, and beyond this point a knife cuts the strip of paper in the length
required, and it is then delivered to the tube making machinery. The lower

page_text: roller turns with its axles; on one of which a pinion is fixed which is actuated by
a rack which turns it as much in one direction as another, or in an inverse sense.
This rack which is suitably guided in a part of the frame of the apparatus has
an alternate vertical displacement under the influence of a lever oscillating at a
certain point by the aid of a cam mounted on the driving shaft of the apparatus.
The rack is connected with the lever by means of a shaft whose lower end can
be fixed in varying positions on the lever, for increasing or reducing the rack's
course and so allowing of minutely varying the angular displacements of the
lower drawing roller. The upper roller has its axles so arranged in their supports
as to admit of its being raised or lowered and so produces or releases pressure on
the lower roller.
For this purpose the axles of the upper roller are grasped by the heads of two
levers connected one with the other by a cross bar, on which twin shafts are
articulated, these are also united by a cross bar and are connected with a slide
which an oscillating lever actuates by an intermittent shaft with an alternate up
and down motion at fixed intervals
The two levers are also connected by a cross bar which governs the lowering of
a presser whose shaft is surrounded by a spring the foot of which latter presses on
the strip of paper when the levers descend: these levers are also subjected to the
action of two other spiral springs fixed to the axles of the upper roller as well as
to a part of the frame,

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Arthur Charles Henderson in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 9th October 1883.
ARTHUR CHARLES HENDERSON of 47 Museum Street, Oxford Street in the
county of Middlesex IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR REGULATING THE
DRAWING AND DELIVERY OF PAPER IN CIGARETTE MACHINES A communication to
me from abroad by Eugène Ferdinand Leblond. Mechanician and Manufacturer of
2 Boulevard de Strasbourg in the city of Paris and Republic of France
In most cigarette machines the paper for encasing the tobacco is wound in an
endless strip upon a reel or bobbin, the length of paper required for a cigarette
being drawn by two superposed rollers, this length is then cut off by a knife and
is afterwards passed to the paper tube machinery.
When the length of the cigarette is increased, the extent of rotation of the
drawing rollers must be varied or if the amplitude of rotation is unchanged then
rollers of a larger diameter are required, and if smaller cigarettes are to be made
then smaller rollers are requisite.
The object of this invention is to draw variable lengths of paper to suit the
different sizes of cigarettes, which is effected by a modification of the rotary
motion of the drawing rollers without necessitating any change in the mechanism
for transmitting motion.
Fig 1 of the accompanying drawings is a side view of an apparatus embodying
my invention showing the mechanism from the side whence the drawing of the
paper is effected.
Fig 2 is a corresponding end view of the same mechanism. The paper p, on
leaving the bobbin on which it is wound passes under the guide roller & along a
smooth or flat surface and then passes between the drawing rollers a and b;
beyond this point a knife cuts the strip of paper the length required, whence it is
delivered to the tube making machinery.
The lower roller a, turns with its axles a', one of which has a pinion d, fixed to
it which is made to revolve by the rack c, as much in the direction of the arrow as
in a contrary sense.
This rack c, suitably guided in the part e, of the frame, has an alternate vertical
displacement under the influence of a lever f, Fig 2, oscillating at f¹, by a cam
mounted on the driving shaft of the apparatus. The rack c is connected with the
leverf, by means of a shaft c', whose lower end can be fixed in variable positions
on the lever f, so as to increase or reduce the course of the rack, and so allow of
minutely varying the angular displacements of the roller a.
The upper roller b, has its axles 6', so arranged in the supports b³ as to admit
of its being raised or lowered, and so produces pressure or not on the roller a.
With this view the axles 6' are grasped by the heads g', of two levers g, oscillating
at g², and are connected one with the other by a cross, bar g³, on which the twin
shafts h. h are articulated. These shafts which are also united by a cross bar h³,
are connected with a slide k, which an oscillating lever l, actuates by an
intermediate shaft m, with an alternate up and down motion at fixed intervals.
The levers g, are also connected at 8, by a cross bar which governs the lowering
of a presser q, whose shaft is surrounded by a spring r, and whose foot when the
levers descend presses or rests on the strip of paper p. The levers g are also
subjected to the action of two other spiral springs t, fixed to the axles b¹ of the
roller b, and to other parts of the frame.
g
Action of the Apparatus-With reference to Fig 1, it will be observed that the
rack c, is about to ascend, and to communicate to the pinion d, and also to the

page_text: roller a, the rotary motion which by aid of the pressure of the cylinder b, and
springs t, is about to effect the drawing of the paper.
When the rack is at the extent or height of its course it stops to allow the
roller b, time to rise and the presser q, to descend, to keep the paper in position.
The rack then descends causing the drawing roller a, to turn, which latter no
longer acts on the paper as the roller b, is raised, and the paper is firmly held by
the presser q.
As the extent or amplitude of rotation of the roller a, can be varied, different
lengths of paper may be drawn by changing the position of the axles which
connect the shaft c', with the lever f.
In place of the spiral springs t. t. producing the downward pressure of
the axles b', of the roller b, flat springs may be employed fixed above the
supports b, and which would press upon the axles b', by acting directly on them.
What is claimed as the invention, is the endless paper drawing and distributing
mechanism herein described for use in cigarette machines for the purpose of
delivering variable lengths of paper which invention is characterized.
1 By the mechanism for varying the amplitude of rotation of the drawing
roller a, which is regulated as much in the drawing direction when the upper
roller is pressing the paper, as in the inverse direction when this roller is
raised, and the presser q is lowered to keep the paper in position
2nd The combination with the preceding roller (having an alternate rotary
motion) of an upper pressing roller which is lowered by mechanism for
effecting the drawing of the paper, and is raised to allow the lower roller to
turn on its axis without any effect on the paper.
3rd The combination with the preceding mechanism, of the presser q, acting in
concert with the pressing roller by pressing the paper when the drawing roller
is returning to its point of departure.
Claim is also made to the application of the improvements in drawing the paper,
and distributing it in an endless strip, as well to machines of the construction
herein describod as to any other cigarette machines using an endless paper.
In witness whereof I the said Arthur Charles Henderson have hereunto set
my hand and seal this ninth day of October in the Year of Our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and eighty three
A CHENDERSON Gal