An Improved Cigarette Machine.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Jan., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 22nd May, 1889-Accepted, 22nd June, 1889
An Improved Cigarette Machine.
I, HENRY ATKINS, of 17, Bedford Row, Streatham, in the county of Surrey, Cigar
Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This my invention relates to an improved hand machine for making cigarettes, and
may be described as follows :―
I employ two half cylinders of metal or other suitable material, which said half
cylinders when placed together form a complete cylinder of sufficient diameter to
contain tobacco for an ordinary sized cigarette, and of ample length for the same.
One of the half cylinders is so adapted at one end that it may be conveniently
adjusted or hinged upon one end of the other half cylinder, suitably prepared to
receive it. It will be seen that when adjusted or hinged as described the opposite
free ends of the two half cylinders may be extended apart for the purpose of receiving
a sufficient quantity of tobacco; and that the said half cylinders, being pressed
together again, will form a solid roll of the tobacco within the cylindrical space
provided.
Some shreds of tobacco may protrude outside the half cylinder edges, and to
remove these shreds I pass a suitable close fitting ring over the complete cylinder,
when the tobacco will be ready to be encased in paper. "The paper employed is that
ready formed into tubes as commonly used in the trade, and one of these paper tubes
or receptacles is passed over the cylinder containing the tobacco. The transfer
of the tobacco from the metal or other cylinder into the paper tube is then
accomplished by first withdrawing one of the half cylinders before described, when
the tobacco by swelling out slightly will pross against the inside of the paper
tube with which it is brought, into contact, and the other half cylinder can then be
safely removed.
Dated this Twenty-fourth day of January 1889
REGINALD W. BARKER,
Agent on behalf of Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Cigarette Machine.
1, HENRY ATKINS, of 117, Bedford Row, Streatham, Surrey, Cigar Merchant do
hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
This my invention relates to an improved hand-machine by means of which cigarettes
may be made in a neat, simple, and expeditious manner as will be hereinafter pointed
out, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which like letters indicate
similar parts throughout.
Fig. 1 is a perspective elevation of the lower half of the machine; Fig. 2 is a side
elevation with end view of the upper half of the machine; Fig. 3 is a sectional
elevation showing the manner in which the upper half is applied to the lower half of
the machine; and Fig. 4 shows the upper and lower halves of the machine closed
together and a cigarette paper in place thereon.
In this my invention I employ two halves A, A¹ of a cylinder; the lower one of
which is formed at one end with flanges B in which is secured a pin C. A small
circular piece of metal or other material D is secured in the lower half of the
cylinder as shown in Figs. 1 and 3 and serves to retain the tobacco in place. The

page_text: upper half of the cylinder A¹ is fitted at one end with a piece of metal E,
by means of which the upper half cylinder A' is manipulated, and the under
part of which serves as a hook E' adapted to engage the pin C as shown in
Fig. 3. By means of this said hook and pin a suitable hinge is formed as
will be understood by reference to Figs. 3 and 4. The lower half cylinder A
is formed at one end with a loop F to which is secured a suitable chain & carrying
a ring H.
The manner in which my invention is operated is as follows:-
A sufficient quantity of tobacco is placed between the halves of the cylinder (see
Fig. 3) and distributed along the lower half; (the picce of metal D preventing the
tobacco coming in contact with the hinge); and the two halves are closed as shown
in Fig. 4. The ring H is then passed along the machine to the position shown and
the shreds of tobacco at the edges are thereby removed. An ordinary gummed-edged
cigarette paper J is rolled around the machine and fastened down. If desired,
however, cigaretto paper already formed into a tube may be passed over the cylinder
as shown in figure 4. The machine is then hold in one hand and the upper
half cylinder is drawn out by incans of the hooked piece of metal E. The lower
half of the cylinder is then also withdrawn, and the cigarette is ready for use.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I 1
claim is :-
A cigarette machine consisting of two halvos of a cylinder having the lower half
fitted with a pioco of metal D, and a pin C, and formed with a loop F, and the upper
half fitted with a hooked piece of metal E adapted to engage the pin C, and
having the ring H depending from a chain secured to the loop F, all substantially
as and for the purposes hereinbefore set forth and illustrated in the drawings hereunto
annexed.
11
1000
REGINALD W. BARKER,
Applicant's Agent.