Improvements in Apparatus for Manufacturing Tobacco Pipes and various other articles from Pulp or the like.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Jan., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 24th Oct., 1892-Accepted, 3rd Dec., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Manufacturing Tobacco Pipes and
various other articles from Pulp or the like.
1, HENRY RUDGE of 22 Sutton Road, Peasley Cross, St. Helens in the County
of Lancaster, Analytical Chemist, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object an apparatus for manufacturing tobacco pipes
and various other articles from pulp or other like soft uniform mass.
In carrying out the invention, I provide a die made in two halves and shaped to
form the required article. The two halves of the die are adapted to slide in a
holder or frame which guides the dies and forms a receptacle for the pulp when the
two dies are widely separated. Provision is made in this frame to support a core
or cores if the article to be manufactured, as in the case of a tobacco pipe, requires
the use of cores.
The mode of action is as follows:-.
Sufficient pulp is put into the apparatus either through a suitable orifice or by
removing one of the dies from the frame. When the apparatus is full of pulp the
die is replaced and the two dies are then pressed towards each other by pressure,
the liquid in the pulp being pressed out and passing off preferably through the
joint between the dies and the frame or through a special relief orifice. By this
invention the pulp is compressed into a compact or solid mass.
Dated this 14th day of January 1892.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Manufacturing Tobacco Pipes and
various other articles from Pulp or the like.
I, HENRY RUDGE of 22 Sutton Road, Peasley Cross, St. Helens in the County
of Lancaster, Analytical Chemist, 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 invention has for its object an apparatus for manufacturing tobacco pipes
and various other articles from pulp or other like soft uniform mass.
This invention is carried out in the following manner, reference being had to the
accompanying drawings, in which,
Figure 1 is an elevation partly in section of the apparatus for making pipes;
Figure 2 a plan of the same with the top die removed, and
Figure 3 a perspective view of one of the dies.
In these, A is a frame or holder, B the dies formed in two halves and shaped to
form the required article. They are adapted to slide in the holder or frame A, the
latter also, when the dies are separated, forms a receptacle for the pulp or the like.
C is a core for the head of the pipe and D the core for the stem thereof. Both
cores may be removable and made tubular with perforations as shown to allow for
the passage of the liquid pressed out of the pulp. If preferred they may be made
solid. The dies B may be forced together by screw, hydraulic or other pressure.
E is a bed plate having a projection F which presses against the bottom die.
Pri Q77

page_text: The mode of action is as follows-
Sufficient pulp is put in the holder or frame A by removing one of the dies Bor.
through a suitable orifice and the cores C and D inserted. The die being replaced
in the holder, pressure is applied, which forces the two dies together and presses
the pulp into a solid mass of the form required.
I do not confine myself to the making of tobacco pipes from paper pulp, the
principal idea being that of so confining the pulp or the like in place whilst
pressure is being applied that any article capable of being moulded from pulp can
be manufactured.
A hinged plate may, if required, be secured to the bed plate to prevent the
core C from being forced out when the pressure is applied.
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―
The improvements in apparatus for manufacturing tobacco pipes and various other
articles from pulp or other like soft uniform material substantially as described,
whereby the material can be arranged and compressed equally on all sides of the
core and the liquid or moisture eliminated, while at the same time the cores are
easily withdrawn for further use.
Dated this 22nd day of October 1892.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, Patent Agents for the Applicant.