Improved Device for Making Cigarettes.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Dec., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 19th Sept., 1895-Accepted, 26th Oct., 1895
I, THOMAS THOMPSON, Manager of the Novelty Patent Company, 5 St. James
Street, Burnley, in the County of Lancaster, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved device for readily, neatly and expeditiously
making cigarettes.
My improved cigarette maker consists of two grooved jaws, preferably about the
length of a cigarette, hinged or jointed together at one end with the two grooves
facing each other.
The jaws are first opened for the reception of the tobacco, and are then closed,
which process properly moulds it into a roll, or rather into the form of a cigarette.
The jaws are re-opened and the cigarette paper is now taken, and placed between
the upper jaw and the tobacco. Again closing the jaws, one end of the paper is
lapped over the lower jaw or that holding the tobacco, whilst the other end of the
paper is now wetted and also folded round the lower jaw, thereby being secured by
its gum to the other fold of the paper.
All that is necessary is now to slide the paper and tobacco off the lower jaw,
when the cigarette is complete, and ready for use.
I do not confine myself to the particular method of folding the paper as
described, as it will be evident other means may be adopted.
Dadh: 10th Demba 100
F. RICHMOND,
12 Standish Street, Burnley, and 1 and 3 New Water Street, Blackburn,
Agent for the Applicant.
Improved Device for Making Cigarettes.
I, THOMAS THOMPSON, Manager of the Patent Novelty Company, 5, St. James
Street, Burnley, in the County of Lancaster, 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 :-
This invention relates to an improved device for readily, neatly and expeditiously
making cigarettes.
My improved cigarette maker consists of two grooved jaws, preferably about the
length of a cigarette, hinged or jointed together at oue end with the two grooves
facing each other.
The jaws are first opened for the reception of the tobacco, and are then closed,
which process properly moulds it into a roll, or rather into the form of a cigarette.
The jaws are re-opened, and the cigarette paper is now taken, and placed between
the upper jaw and the tobacco. Again closing the jaws, one end of the
paper
lapped over the lower jaw or that holding the tobacco, whilst the other end of the
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page_text: paper is now wetted and also folded round the lower jaw, thereby being secured by
its gummed edge to the other fold of the paper.
All that is necessary is now to slide the paper and tobacco off the lower jaw,
when the cigarette is complete and ready for use.
I do not confine myself to the particular method of folding the paper as
described, as it will be evident other means may be adopted.
In order that my invention may be properly understood, and readily carried
into practical effect, reference is bad to the accompanying sheet of drawings, and to
the letters and figures marked thereon, the same letters referring to the same parts,
in the various views and figures.
Fig. 1 is a view of my improved cigarette maker, of which A and B are the
grooved jaws respectively, which are hinged or jointed at C, and open from
the other end. The cigarette maker is preferably provided with a wire or other
handle D bent as shewn, and fixed by the rivet of the joint. This handle is for
the ready manipulation of the cigarette maker as hereinafter described.
Tobacco may be placed loosely in the groove of the jaw B, as illustrated in
Fig. 1. The jaws are now closed, thereby properly moulding the tobacco
in cigarette form.
Thumb pressure exerted on the projecting lip E reverses the position of the
cigarette maker as shewn in Fig. 2, and whilst in this position, the sliding ring or
cutter F is slid forward and back again, cutting off the fringe or surplus tobacco
from the sides of the jaws.
The jaws are now opened with the tobacco thoroughly moulded and uniform.
The cigarette paper J having been placed over the moulded tobacco in the groove
of the jaw A as seen in Fig. 3, is lapped round this jaw (and the tobacco which
it contains), and its two ends brought together, and, secured by wetting.
The now completed cigarette is drawn from off the jaw A as seen in Fig. 4.
To free the jaw A completely from the sliding cutter ring F when required
during the making of a cigarette, jaw B is extended in a cylindrical form at its far
extremity G to serve as a seat for the sliding cutter F, which thus permits of the
jaws being opened while the cutter ring is in this position. When closed, jaw A
comes against ring flange H, giving firmness to the arrangement.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, 1 declare that what I
claim is :-
:-
1. The improved construction and arrangement of a cigarette maker substan-
tially as described and illustrated.
2. The combination and arrangement of the parts of a device for making
cigarettes, substantially as shewn and described.
Dated this 18th day of September 1895.
F. RICHMOND,
12, Standish Street, Burnley, Agent for the Applicant.