A Receiving Apparatus for Adaptation to Oigarette Making Machines.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Apr., 1897-Accepted, 5th June, 1897
A Receiving Apparatus for Adaptation to Oigarette Making
Machines.
1, GEORGE CROYDON MARKS, of 18 Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane,
London, W.C. Consulting Engineer (a communication from the " Compagnie
Continentale pour l'Exploitation des Machines a Fabriquer les Cigarettes," of
22 Place de Brouckere, Brussels, in the Kingdom of Belgium), do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to bo
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement :-
°
I
This invention relates to an apparatus for the reception of cigarettes, whereby
the cigarettes are arranged in parallel order within a suitable receptacle whence.
they can be easily removed for packing into packets or boxes. The invention is
applicable to cigarette making machines of every description whatever the position
of the issuing cigarette and whatever the speed of operation.
The accompanying drawings illustrate the invention as carried into effect.
Figure 1 is a front elevation.
Figure 2 is an end elevation partly in section and
Figure 3 is a plan corresponding to Figures 1 and 2.
-
In carrying the invention into effect as illustrated in the accompanying drawings
a wheel A is mounted upon a horizontal spindle C which wheel is provided with
radial vanes B. The rotation of the spindle C is effected by means of a gear
wheel D mounted at the extremity thereof, motion being communicated from an
endless screw E which is mounted upon a transversely disposed shaft F, motion
being derived by means of the gear or chain wheel G, mounted at the lower
extremity of the spindle F, from some part of the machine to which it may be
applied, the arrangement being euch that the vane wheel A shall turn a distance
corresponding to the distance of one vane from the next for each cigarette that
issues from the machine. A screen O which is made of sheet iron is arranged in
close proximity to the periphery of the wheel A and extends from a point which
may be a little above the axis of the spindlo C, whereby the receptacles formed in
the wheel A by means of the vanes B may be closed on passing down.
Immediately beneath the vane wheel A. a moving floor is formed by means of an
endless band H mounted upon rollers, of which one I is provided with a pulley J
receiving motion, from a similar pulley K mounted upon the extremity of the
shaft C, by the medium of a leather cord or belt L indicated by dotted lines in the
figures. The endless band H receives a movement corresponding to that of
the vane wheel A, and forms the bottom of a receptacle M where the cigarettes
are heaped up in perfect parallel order, the cigarettes issuing from the
receptacles formed by the vanes B, as such open out from the screen O to the
endless band H, the band II carrying the cigarettes towards the opposite end of
the receptacle.
The apparatus is placed before that part of the cigarette making machine
whence the cigarettes issue out finished, and in such a manner that each of them
falls or is placed between two of the vanes of the wheel A. Should the cigarette
issue longitudinally from the machine it will enter longitudinally between the
vanes which are provided at such a distance apart that it will find such a position in
the receptacle formed as not to be damaged on passing the screen O. The wheel A.

page_text: in turning carries away the cigarettes so that they roll against the screen O which
prevents their escape while effecting their arrangement in parallel order to the axis
of the wheel in the angle formed by the vane and the screen, and after having been
guided into this angle in passing the screen they fall on to the endless band where
they are automatically arranged one behind the other so as to be swept into the
receptacle where they are, heaped up orderly.
By the use of this apparatus it will be seen that cigarottes may be automatically
arranged in perfect order without being crumpled or broken.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
1. An apparatus for the reception and arrangement of cigarettes consisting of a
vane wheel mounted and turning upon a horizontal spindle against a peripheral
screen so arranged and operating that the vanes forin with the screen an angle into
which the cigarettes fall, so that they pass in parallel order one after another upon
an endless moving band which is provided beneath substantially as and for the
purpose hereinbefore described.
2. In an apparatus such us that specified in the first claim means for
communicating to the vane wheel a rotary motion corresponding to the movement
of that part of the cigarette making machine which causes the cigarettes to issue,
and means
of communicating to the endless band a continual movement
corresponding to that of the rotary motion of the vane wheel substantially as.
described.
3. An apparatus for the reception and arrangement of cigarettes substantially
as and for the purpose herein before described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawings.
0