IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS TO BE USED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CIGARS "
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Boot Oswin, of Campbell Street,
Leicester, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS TO BE
USED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CIGARS "
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION loft by the said Richard Boot Oswin
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 1st April 1875.
I, RICHARD BOOT OSWIN, of Campbell Street, Leicester, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS
TO BE USED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CIGARS," to be as follows :—
In the Specification of a former Patent granted to George Bear, on
the 7th April 1873 (No. 1729), it was proposed to employ heated metal
moulds in the manufacture of cigars to shape the bunch and finished
cigars and set them to the required shape.
According to my Invention 1 improve the construction of the moulds
used in such manufacture to enable a bunch to be more readily shaped

page_text: and rendered smooth, and even without any ribs or scams along its side.
For this purpose the bed of the mould has grooves or recesses formed in
it, the lower part of which grooves correspond with the form of one-half
of the cigar to be made, whilst the upper part of each of the grooves is
vertical or slightly bevilled outwards. The lid of the mould is made in
two parts, ono to cover over the tip ends of the grooves in the bed and
the other part to cover over the remainder of the groove. Each part of the
lid has projections upon it to fit accurately within the mouths of the
grooves in the bed, and along the under side of these projections grooves
are formed corresponding to the other half of the cigar to be formed. The :
grooves in the lid are thus bounded on each side by feather projections
which enter into the deeper grooves in the bed. The front part of the lid
is moveable and is carried by arms which are free to turn upon hinged
joints; the arms are prolonged backwards beyond the joints, and may if
desired be connected to a treadle, so that by depressing the treadle the :
front part of the lid may at any time be lifted up; the arms are also
counterbalanced, so that when the front part of the lid has been lifted it
from the bed of the mould, and when so held up may if
may rest away
desired be heated by gas flames caused to impinge upon it.
In manufacturing cigars the bunches are first formed in the ordinary
manner, and when the front part of the lid has been turned back the
bunches are inserted into the grooves in the bed; the lid is then
brought down into its place by which the bunches are at once gathered
into and compressed within the grooves, and after being enclosed for a
few moments become set and perfectly smooth without any rib or scam
along their sides; the outer wrapping is then wound around the bunch
and the tip end is held for a short, time into a heated metal mould of a
proper shape for setting it.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Richard Boot Oswin in the Great Seal Patent 30
Office on the 1st October 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
BOOT OSWIN, of Campbell Street, Leicester, send greeting
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the First day of April, in the year of our 35

page_text: Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the thirty-
eighth year of Ier reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Richard Boot Oswin, Her special
licence that I, the said Richard Boot Oswin, my executors, admi-
3 nistrators, and assigns, or such others, as I, the said Richard Boot
Oswin, 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, excrcise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS TO BE USED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
CIGARS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Richard
Boot Oswin, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and scals, should par-
ticularly 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 Scal Patent Office within six calendar months next
and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Richard Boot Oswin, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to bo performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement thereof, that is to say :-
In the Specification of a former Patent granted to George Bear, on
the 7th April 1878 (No. 1279), it was proposed to employ licated motal
5 moulds in the manufacture of cigars to shape the bunch and finished
cigars and set them to the required shape.
According to my Invention I improve the construction of the moulds
used in such manufacture to enable a bunch to be more readily shaped
and rendered smooth and even without any ribs or scams along its side.
For this purpose the bed of the mould has grooves or recesses formed in
it, the lower part of which grooves correspond with the form of one-half
of the cigar to be made, whilst the upper part of each of the grooves is
vertical or slightly bevilled outwards. The lid of the mould is made in
two parts, one to cover over the tip ends of the grooves in the bed and the
5 other part to cover over the remainder of the groove. Each part of the
hid has projections upon it to fit accurately within the mouths of
the grooves in the bed, and along the under side of these projections

page_text: grooves are formed corresponding to the other half of the cigar to be
formed. The grooves in the lid are thus bounded on each side by feather
projections which enter into the deeper grooves in the bed. The front
part of the lid is moveable and is carried by arms which are free to turn
upon hinge joints; the arms are prolonged backwards beyond the joints,
and may if desired be connected to a treadle, so that by depressing the
treadle the front part of the lid may at any time be lifted up, the arms
are also counterbalanced, so that when the front part of the lid has been
lifted it may rest away from the bed of the mould, and when so
held up may if desired be heated by gas flames caused to impinge
upon it.
In manufacturing cigars the bunches are first formed in the ordinary
manner, and when the front part of the lid has been turned back the
bunches are inserted into the grooves in the bed, the lid is then
brought down into its place, by which the bunches are at once gathered
into and compressed within the grooves, and after being enclosed for a
-few-moments-become-set-and-perfectly-smooth-without-any-rib-or-seam-
along their sides; the outer wrapping is then wound around the bunch
and the tip end is held for a short time into a heated metal mould of
a proper shape for setting it.
In order that my said Invention
man ha most full undruntand and