One at a Time from Receptacles Containing them.
Year: 1886

page_text: One at a Time from Receptacles Containing them.
I JOSEPH BREEDen of New Mill Works Fazeley Street Birmingham in the
County of Warwick Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "NEW OR IMPROVED MECHANISM FOR DELIVERING CIGARETTES OR
CIGARS ONE AT A TIME FROM RECEPTACLES CONTAINING THEM" to be as follows:-
My invention consists of the improvements hereinafter described in an invention
of which a provisional specification was filed by me in the Patent Office on the
13th of the present month No. 558.
In the invention described in the said provisional specification the delivery of a
single cigarette or cigar is effected by the semi rotation of a trough like receiver
into which cigarettes or cigars passed one at a time..
According to my present invention which I will describe in connection with the
delivery of cigarettes I effect the delivery of the cigarettes singly by means of a
slide working under the opening in the bottom of the receptacle containing the
cigarettes. This slide has a cross slot of a size and shape suitable for the reception
of a single cigarette. When this slide is in its normal position its slot is under-
neath the opening in the bottom of the receptacle and a cigarette falls into it. By
pressing inwards a rod connected by a lever with the slide the said slide is moved
outwards and the slot containing the cigarette is brought over a passage or channel
into which the cigarette falls and is delivered from the apparatus. On removing
pressure from the rod the slide returns its slot is again brought under the opening
in the bottom of the receptacle and another cigarette falls into it ready to be
delivered on the next pushing inwards of the rod. Or the said lever may be dis-
pensed with and the delivery of the cigarette be effected by simply pushing the
slide inwards. On removing the hand from the slide it returns by the action of a
spring and delivers the cigarette. Or the cigarette may be delivered on pushing
in the slide by placing the passage down which it falls at the back of the slot in
the slide.
In order to prevent the wedging of the cigarettes the outward motion of the
slide is made to lift that portion of the bottom of the receptacle near the opening.
The cigarettes near the said opening are thereby lifted and their wedging or
'bridging" is prevented. This is effected either by a lever operated by the slide.
or by a roller carried by the slide coming under and raising the inclined bottom.
"

page_text: Instead of making the slot for the reception of the single cigarette in a slide
having a rectilinear motion it may be made in the cylindrical surface of a broad
roller or drum and by the rotatory motion of the said drum through an angle of
about forty five degrees the cigarette which has fallen into the slot is carried from
under the hopper and delivered into a passage down which it falls and passes from
the apparatus. The "bridging" of the cigarettes is prevented by a cam in the drum
lifting the moveable portion of the bottom of the receptacle.
The passages down which the cigarette falls is provided with a series of pro-
jections or steps which prevent the apparatus being tampered with by the
introduction of a wire or flexible rod or like instrument.
In order to prevent injury to the rod or pusher by pushing which a cigarette
is delivered I make the protruding end of the said rod slide in a tubular case or
socket fixed on the receptacle and to the extreme end of the rod I fix a cap
which fits on the said tubular case and slides thereon in the motion of the said rod.
The said rod is thereby so protected that it is scarcely possible for it to become
disabled except by injury deliberately inflicted on it.
By means of a train of wheels arranged with reference to the number of
cigarettes the receptacle will hold the passage in which the coin is introduced is
closed when the last cigarette has passed out of the receptacle.
The arrangement of the other parts of the apparatus. differs in no essential
respects from that of the parts of the invention described in the provisional
specification herein before referred to.

page_text: One at a Time from Receptacles Containing them.
I JOSEPH BREEDEN of New Mill Works, Fazeley Street, Birmingham in the
County of Warwick, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
My invention consists of the improvements hereinafter described in an invention
for which application for a patent has been made by me bearing date the 13th day
of January 1886 No. 558.
In the invention described in the specification of the said patent the delivery of
a single cigarette or cigar is effected by the partial rotation of a trough like receiver
into which cigarettes or cigars passed one at a time.
According to my present invention which I will describe in connection with the
delivery of cigarettes, I effect the delivery of the cigarettes singly by means of a
slide working under the opening in the bottom of the receptacle containing the
cigarettes. This slide has a cross slot of a size and shape suitable for the reception
of a single cigarette. When this slide is in its normal position its slot is under-
neath the opening in the bottom of the receptacle and a cigarette falls into it. By
pressing inwards a rod connected by a lever with the slide the said slide is moved
outwards and the slot containing the cigarette is brought over a passage or channel
into which the cigarette falls and is delivered from the apparatua. On removing
pressure from the rod the slide returns, its slot is again brought under the opening
in the bottom of the receptacle and another cigarette falls into it ready to be
delivered on the next pushing inwards of the rod.
Or the said lever may be dispensed with and the delivery of the cigarette be
effected by simply pushing the slide inwards. On removing the hand from the
slide it returns by the action of a spring and delivers the cigarette. Or the
cigarette may be delivered on pushing in the slide by placing the passage down
which it falls at the back of the slot in the slide.
"
:
In order to prevent the wedging of the cigarettes the outward motion of the
slide is made to lift that portion of the bottom of the receptacle near the opening..
The cigarettes near the said opening are thereby lifted and their wedging or
bridging" is prevented. This is effected either by a lever operated by the slide
or by a roller carried by the slide coming under and raising the inclined bottom.
The passages down which the cigarette falls is provided with a series of pro- .
jections or steps which prevent the apparatus being tampered with by the
introduction of a wire or flexible rod or like instrument
In order to prevent injury to the rod or pusher by pushing which a cigarette is
delivered I make the protruding end of the said rod slide in a tubular case or socket

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fixed on the receptacle and to the extreme end of the rod I fix a cap which fits in
the said tubular case and slides therein on the motion of the said rod. The said
rod is thereby so protected that it is scarcely possible for it to become disabled
except by injury deliberately inflicted on it.
Figures 1 and 2 represent in side elevation, partly in section, one arrangement of
my invention for delivering cigarettes (or cigars) singly by means of a horizontal
slide working under the passage in the hopper or receptacle.
a is the cross passage into which the cigarettes (or cigars) from the hopper bare
delivered; his the slide working under the said cross passage a the said slide
having a cross slot i in it of size and shape suitable for the reception of a single
cigarette (or cigar). When the slide h is in the position Figure 2, the slot i in it is
underneath the passage a containing the column of cigarettes from the hopper b
and a cigarette falls into the said slot i as represented. The slide h is put into the
position Figure 2 by the pushing inwards of the slide by the direct action of the
pusher or otherwise. When the pressure on the pusher k is relaxed, it and the
slide h take the back position represented in Figure 1 by the action of a spring
and the cigarette in the slot i is brought over the delivery passage into which
the said cigarette falls and is thus delivered from the apparatus.
When the slide h is in the position Figure 1 a solid part of it is situated under
and supports the column of cigarettes in the passage a of the hopper..
The slide h may be arranged to receive a cigarette from the passage a when it
is in its back or normal position instead of when it is in its forward or pushed in
position.
Or the cigarette may be delivered either at the back of the receiving passage a
in the hopper as illustrated in Figure 3, or at the front of the said passage a as
illustrated in Figure 4. In the arrangement Figure 3, the cigarette in the slide is
delivered from it on pressing it inwards and in the arrangement Figure 4 by the
outward motion of the slide.
The slides h of the several arrangements may either be operated upon directly
by the external pusher k or through a lever connected with the said pusher.
The wedging or bridging of the cigarettes (or cigars) in the hopper is prevented
in the arrangements represented by providing the inner end of the delivery slide h
with an arm h' which operates upon the jointed arm m under the jointed bottom c
of the hopper as represented in Figures 3 and 4, or upon the wedge piece n on the
lower end of the jointed bottom c as represented in Figures 1 and 2 for the purpose
of lifting the said jointed bottom c as herein before particularly described in the
specification of the patent before referred to. The end of the arm h³ on the
delivery slide h may carry a roller as represented in Figures 3 and 4.
The rod or pusher k which is used to operate the slide works in a tubular case
or socket P fixed to or forming part of the receptacle f as best seen in Figure 3.
The extreme end of the rod or pusher k which works in the socket p may be
covered and protected by a cap. The motion of the rod or pusher k and the slide
to which it is connected is limited by a screw pin q passed through the socket p
and taking into a covered slot r in the pusher (see Figure 1). This arrangement
of the pusher and its socket may be applied to the slides or sliding bars of cigarette
or cigar delivering machines generally.
The delivering passage 7 down which the cigarettes or cigars fall is provided with
projections or steps las represented in Figures 8 and 4.
By the use of these projections or steps the apparatus is prevented from being
tampered with by the introduction of a wire or flexible rod or like instrument into
the passage 1, the motion of the wire, flexible rod or instrument up the said passage
being arrested by coming against one or other of the said projections or steps,
which act as stops, as will be understood by an examination of the drawing.
The arrangement of the other parts of the apparatus which I have not described
or represented differs in no essential respects from that of the parts of the invention
described in the specification herein before referred to.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention
and the manner in which the same is to be performed I declare that I claim as my
invention of "New or improved mechanism for delivering cigarettes or cigars one
at a time from receptacles containing them" ;-
First Delivering cigarettes or cigars singly from the receptacle by means of a
horizontal slide working under the cross opening or passage in the bottom of the
hopper in which passage the cigarettes or cigars are received, the motion of the
slide in one direction causing a cigarette or cigar to fall into a cross slot in it and
the motion of the slide in the opposite, direction bringing the slot containing the
cigarette or cigar over the delivery passage into which it falls substantially as
herein before described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawing.
Secondly The combination with the delivery slide of the apparatus of an arm
for lifting the jointed bottom of the hopper for preventing the wedging or bridging
of the cigarettes or cigars in the said hopper as herein before described and illustrated
in the accompanying Drawing.
Thirdly Preventing the introduction of a wire, flexible rod or other like instru-
ment into the apparatus through the delivery passage by providing the said passage
with one or a series of projections or steps of the kind hereinbefore described and
illustrated in the accompanying Drawing.
Lastly Constructing the pushers of the delivery slides, or other slides or
sliding bars, of cigarette or cigar delivering machines as described and illustrated
and causing the said pushers to work in tubular cases or sockets as hereinbefore
described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawing.