Improvements in the Manufacture of Cigarettes and in Machinery therefor.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Apr., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 25th July, 1894-Accepted, 11th Aug., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Cigarettes and in Machinery
therefor.
I, BENJAMIN JOSEPH BARNARD MILLS, of 23 Southampton Buildings in the
County of London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
(a communication to me from Leverett L. Maxfield of Brooklyn, in the County of
Kings and State of New York, in the United States of America, Machinist), to
be as follows:-
The invention relates to machines for the manufacture of cigarettes consisting of
a filler of tobacco and a wrapper of paper; and the invention comprises means for
feeding the tobacco in a properly disintegrated condition into a conveyer arranged
and operating so as to take up the tobacco and carry it along towards the former
tube in such manner that during the progress of the tobacco to said former-tube
the mass thereof is automatically fashioned into such shape that it is easily entered
into the former-tube when brought in contact with the endless travelling belt
co-operating with said former-tube.
The invention also comprises novel means whereby the ribbon of paper is
combined with the filler of tobacco and whereby the edge of the ribbon of paper is
supplied with paste for maintaining the integrity of the completed cigarette. The
invention further comprises. novel mechanism whereby the paper enwrapped filler
of tobacco is cut off in suitable lengths automatically as it is fed from the machine
in its perfected condition.
By this invention the paper wrapper is applied to the filler of tobacco spirally so
that the pasted seam instead of extending longitudinally of the cigarette extends
spirally around the same.
To enable those acquainted with the art to manufacture and make use of the
improved cigarette machine I have illustrated its construction and mode of operation
in the accompanying drawings and hereinafter describe the same and I have set
forth the novel features and combinations for which I desire protection.
Referring to the accompanying drawings, wherein like parts are indicated by
like numerals of reference in the several views,
Figure 1 represents a plan view of the machine cut through the feeding and
disintegrating devices on the line 1. 1 of Figure 2.
Figure 2 is a side elevation of the machine.
Figure 3 shows a central vertical section of the tobacco feeding and disintegrating
mechanism and a detail showing the endless conveying apron and endless
belt and pressure rollers for preparing the tobacco filler for entrance into the
former-tube.
Figure 4 is a plan view of a part of Figure 3.
Figure 5 is a detail showing a plan of the pasting mechanism, paper wrapper
mechanism and devices for severing the continuous cylinder of paper enwrapped
tobacco into lengths.
Figure 6 is a vertical sectional view on the line 6. 6 of Figure 5, looking in the
direction of the arrow.
Figure 7 is a sectional view on the line 7. 7 of Figure 5, looking in the direction
of the arrow, and
Figure 8 is a cross section on the line 8. 8 of Figure 1, omitting some of the parts.
Referring to the drawings, 9 represents the frame upon which the operating
mechanism of the machine is mounted and which may be of any suitable construction.
At one end of this frame there is bolted the tobacco feeding and disintegrating

page_text: mechanism which is enclosed in a suitable frame 10, and 11 are the bolts which
secure the frame 10 to the table.. The tobacco feeding and disintegrating
mechanism comprises, first, an endless apron 12 arranged upon horizontally
journalled rollers 13, 13' in an offset at the top of the frame 10, and which is
adapted to receive the tobacco to form the cigarettes, and below apron 12 is
arranged a belt supporting plate 14 which supports the apron and over which the
apron travels. The roller 15 which is supported in proper relative position to
the roller 13 serves in connection with the apron 12 to feed the tobacco to
the disintegrating mechanism arranged within the vertical case 10, which. mechanism
consists of a series of rollers having adjusted thereon belts, the belts located at the
top and bottom, of the casing 10 being provided with pins or other suitable
projections adapted to take hold of the strands or bunches of tobacco and separate
the same in the progress of the tobacco onto the conveying apron presently
described.
More specifically the feeding and disintegrating mechanism may be described, as
follows:
At the top of case 10 there are journalled two rollers 16 the upper one of which
being in close proximity to the feeding rollers 15, 131, and arranged to travel over
these rollers 16 is a a belt 17 which is provided with pins or other projections as
shown: The tobacco as it passes between the feeding rollers 15, 13 is taken hold
of by the pins of the belt 17 and carried in the direction of the arrow and passes
between the pronged belt and the curved surface a, in the top of the case 10
provided with pins similar to those on the belt, with the effect of disintegrating or
separating the bunches of tobacco. Below the belt 17, there is arranged a series
of small rollers 18 supporting endless belts 19, in such relation to each other as to
provide a passage-way or conduit for the tobacco as it leaves the pronged bolt 17.
The sinall rollers 20 serve as guides for maintaining the belt with which they are
in contact in proper relation to the other belt so that the tobacco will be directed
between the belts. Passing between the moving belts 19 the tobacco falls onto the
rollers 21 whose surfaces, are corrugated or channeled longitudinally and which
feed the tobacco onto the pronged apron 19' arranged upon the rollers 16' at the
bottom of the case 10. 22 is a small guide roller located in contact with one of
the corrugated rollers 21 and in close proximity to the pronged apron 19' and
which serves as an obstruction to the tobacco as it is carried around by the
pronged apron in the direction of the arrow and thus facilitates the disintegrating
process:
The various rollers of this tobacco feeding and disintegrating mechanism are
driven by any suitable gearing, such for example as is shown in Figure 2 of the
drawings wherein a belt 23 from a pulley on the main shaft 24 passes around a
pulley on the shaft of the upper roller 16' which is also provided with a suitable.
gear wheel meshing with a pinion on the small roller 22 which in turn meshes with
a gear on the shaft of one of the rollers 21. The shafts of the lowermost rollers 18
are likewise provided with intermeshing gears and said rollers are also provided
with pulleys.
Belts 25, 26 communicate the motion of the upper roller 16' to the lowermost
roller 18 at the left, and from the lowermost roller 18 at the right to the
lowermost roller 16 within the top of the case 10, the shaft of which latter
roller being provided with a pulley which receives a belt 27 which travels around
pulley 28 fixed to the shaft of feed roller 13' and which shaft is also provided with
a gear wheel meshing with a similar wheel on the shaft of the feed roller 15. The
belt 23 passing from the pulley on the main shaft 24 to the uppermost roller 16' is
crossed or twisted as shown in order to give the proper direction of revolution to
the said roller 16', the motion of the main shaft being also communicated to the
rollers of the tobacco conveying mechanism, presently described, by a belt, on a
pulley of said shaft.
Within the bottom of the case 10 there is arranged a curved surface 29 provided
with prongs similar to those on the belt 16' and which assists in preparing the

page_text: LODACCO for delivery onto the endless conveying. apron 30 which is arranged in a
horizontal plane over the table or supporting frame 9 as shown.
The endless apron 30 is supported and travels on the rollers 31 suitably
journalled in the frame of the table 9, -and-motion is communicated to said apron
from the main shaft as indicated in Figure 1. This apron 30 and the series of
rollers 32 supported immediately, above the apron and arranged diagonally as
indicated in Figure 1, constitute the mechanism that conveys the tobacco to the
endless belt which co-operates with the former-tube and fashions the mass of
tobacco in its passage thereto into proper condition for entering said former tube.
Only one of the rollers 32 may be employed if made sufficiently long, but two or
more shorter rollers are to be preferred when it is important to economize space.
In the machine illustrated in the drawings I have shown three of these rollers
which number gives very satisfactory results. The rollers 32 are supported above
and in proximity to the apron in brackets 33 bolted to the top of the table, the
inner ends of said rollers being supported by brackets 34 fixed also to the top of
the table outside of the apron and projecting over the apron, the said brackets 34,
being of requisite length to maintain the inner ends of the rollers 32 in proper
position to direct the tobacco in its passage to the endless belt which co-operates
with the pressure rollers and former-tube.
The outer ends of rollers 32 are provided with bevel gears 321 which mesh' with
corresponding gears 322 on the upper ends of spiudles mounted in vertical
bearings 33' fixed to the sides of frames 9 and on the lower ends of said spindles
are fixed pulleys 35 which carry the belts 36.
The driving belt 37 passes around a pulley on the main shaft 24 and extends
under the guide roller 38 which is journalled to the frame of the table. It is
then passed around a supplemental pulley 351 on the lower end of one of the
spindles carried in the vertical bearings 33', and in this way the requisite
motion is communicated from. the main driving shaft-to the series of rollers: 32.
The tobacco conveying apron is propelled by the main driving shaft in the direction
indicated by the arrow, and the several rollers 32 by which the tobacco is formed
into a proper condition during its travel with the apron, are geared to revolve in
the direction indicated by the arrows, and being arranged diagonally to the width
of the apron they serve, while obstructing the movement of the mass of tobacco
upon the apron, to gather up the tobacco in opposition to the movement of the
apron and arrange it in proper condition along the length of the rollers and direct
it in this form to the endless belt beneath the compressing rollers in advance of the
former tube.
'
The endless belt 39 travels over pulleys 40, 40, the former fixed upon the shaft 41
and the latter in brackets 42. This belt is driven from the main shaft 24 by a
chain belt 43, for example, which travels over pulleys on the main shaft and on
shaft 41 as indicated.
Journalled in brackets to the top of the table is a series of rollers 44, 44¹.
There may be any desirable number of these rollers, three of them being shown
in this example of the machine, and they are arranged over the endless apron 39
in contact therewith. The roller 44 of this series is preferably flangeless while
rollers 44 are provided with flanges forming grooves on their peripheries as
indicated.
Beneath the rollers 44¹ there are arranged correspondingly grooved rollers 44'
with comparatively deep grooves and in which grooves the endless belt 39 travels
with the effect of forming a trough of the moving belt into which the tobacco is
compressed by the superimposed grooved rollers 44. The guide roller 443 for the
endless belt is journalled to the table beneath the rollers 44' as indicated in Figure 3.
As the tobacco leaves the conveying apron 30 it passes onto the endless belt 39,
beneath the first roller 44 which is flangeless and which compresses the tobacco
onto the belt, and forces it forward with the travel of the belt beneath the flanged
rollers 44' successively, and which compress the mass of travelling tobacco between
the flanges of said rollers and the flanges of the lower rollers 44' thus serving to

page_text: increase the density of the travelling mass of tobacco and prepare it for entrance
into the former-tube. The compressing rollers 44 and 44' are revolved indirectly
from the main shaft as indicated in Figure 1, the chain belt 43 giving motion to
shaft 41, and the belts 45 which travel around pulleys on the shaft 41 and on the
respective journals of the compressing rollers serving to drive the said rollers in an
obvious manner. The requisite direction of motion is given to the first of the
compressing rollers 44 by crossing or twisting the belt 45, the said roller revolving,
of course in a direction opposite to the revolution of the shaft 41 by which the
endless belt 39 is caused to travel.
Immediately in advance of the rollers 44¹ which are arranged vertically, there
is arranged horizontally a pair of rollers 46 supported on spindles and between
which the endless belt 39 travels. Said rollers 46 are grooved as indicated in
Figure 3 and being arranged in close proximity to each other the roll of tobacco
is thereby finally compressed after leaving the rollers 44', 44, and immediately
before entering the former-tube. Motion is communicated to the rollers 46 by
means of the sprocket chain 47 passing from a pulley on shaft 41 to a sprocket
wheel on the laterally extended shaft 47', the inner end of said shaft being provided
with a bevel gear 48 which meshes with a similar gear 49 on the end of the shaft 50
which carries the gear wheel 51 and serves also as a journal for one of the grooved
wheels 46. The journal of the other grooved guide wheel 46 also carries a gear
wheel 51 which meshes with the first mentioned gear wheel 51. It is thus the
motion is communicated to the said wheels 46. On the opposite end of shaft 47¹
there is fixed a bevelled gear 47' which meshes with a corresponding gear on the
lower end of a vertically arranged shaft 52 at the upper end of which shaft there
are secured pulleys for the belts which give motion to the paper feeding and pasting
mechanism. The said shaft 47¹ is also provided with pulley 53 around which
belt 54 extends to a pulley 55 on the end of the shaft 56 which carries the cam 57
which co-operates with the cutting mechanism as hereinafter explained.
The former-tube is indicated by 58 and it is provided with a bell-shaped mouth
as shown and rests upon the support 59 as best shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings.
The inner bell-mouthed end of this tube is in contact with the endless belt 39
and in close proximity to the rollers 46 and receives the roll of compressed tobacco
as it emerges from between said rollers 46. The outer end of this former-tube 58
enters the tube 60 for a short distance as shown in Figure 5, which tube 60 is
supported in bracket 61 by which it is held stationary; and is sufficiently long to
permit it to enter for a considerable distance of its length a short tube 62 which is
provided with the side lugs 62' through which pass the guide pins 62' secured in
the top surface of the plate 623 which plate having a dovetail connection with the
support of the cutting mechanism is adapted to slide outward when acted upon by
the eccentric 76 as hereinafter explained.
The pins 62 being fixed in plate 62' serve, by means of the lugs 62¹ provided on
the short tube 62, to connect said short tube to the plate 623, and thus the short
tube 62 will be carried forward against the cutting band or knife as the plate 62³ is
acted upon by the eccentric 76. As the cutting mechanism is raised by cam 88,
and lowered, the pins 62 play vertically through the lugs 62. If the short tube 62
were not present when the plate 62 is moved forward by the eccentric 76 the
cigarette would be broken down when the knife came into operation since the
cigarette would have no support.
As the short tube 62 is forced forward with the movement of the plate 62³, over
and in advance of the travelling tobacco-filled paper tube, the end of said tube 62
holds the cigarette rigidly while the cutting operation takes place and serves also as
a shearing surface for the cutting knife.
The reel carrying the paper for forming the wrapper of the cigarette is secured
to the table in suitable relation to the former-tube 58 and is indicated in the
drawings by 63.
In suitable proximity to the forming-tube 58 and the paper reel there is located
the pasting mechanism 64.

page_text: The pasting mechanism consists of the trough 65 for containing the paste and a
roll 66 revolving in the paste and the narrower roll 67 revolving outside of the
paste trough but in contact with the roll within the trough, whereby the paste roll
supplies paste to roll 67 beneath which the ribbon of paper from the reel travels
and the edge of which is supplied with paste by said roll 67 in an obvious manner.
Bolted to the table in the rear of the pasting trough is a bracket 66¹ provided with
an overhanging arm to which is pivotted a device for adjusting the ribbon of paper
with regard to the pasting wheel 67.
This device comprises a pivotted arm 66 beneath which the paper travels and
by which it is so adjusted as to bring more or less of its edge in contact with the
pasting wheel 67.
One end of the arm 66' is connected with a spring 66' which is also connected to
the bracket and which spring serves in conjunction with the thumb screw 661 to
hold the arm 66' in the position to which it is adjusted.
The shaft of the rolls of the pasting mechanism are provided with gear wheels
which intermesh and one of the said shafts is provided with a pulley 68 over
which extends a belt 69 which passes also to a pulley 70 on the end of the vertical
shaft 52 (see Figures 1 and 8). Guide roll 71 for belt 69 is fixed to the table in
the position shown. The ribbon of paper indicated by 72, after leaving the pasting
mechanism is wrapped spirally around the former-tube 58 and is fed into tube 60
by the endless belt 58' which is also wrapped spirally around the former tube 58
over the spirally wrapped paper, the belt 58' is driven by a pulley 73 on shaft 52
and extends around pulley 74 on the vertical shaft 75. The said shaft 75 likewise
carries the pulley for the belt 77 which operates eccentric 76 by which a sliding
movement is given to carrier-plate 62 when in the operation of the machine it
becomes necessary to advance the carrier of the tube 62, which is fixed to said
carrier, to permit the cutter to sever the cigarette without retarding its passage.
The cutter is indicated by 78 and is mounted upon pulleys or wheels 79 and it
consists of an endless steel band sharpened on both edges as indicated in Figure 5.
Movement is communicated to this cutter by a belt 80 passing around a pulley 80¹ on
shaft 75 and around pulley 81 on the spindle or support for one of the wheels 79.
The support 82 of the cutting mechanism is hinged to post 83 as shown in
Figure 6 and upon this support is mounted the journals 82¹ of the wheels 79 around
which the cutter 78 travels. Depending below support 82 centrally is a a stud 84
which carries the pulley 85 around which the belt 77 passes and by which the
requisite motion is communicated to the eccentric 76 which operates at proper
intervals, as stated, the carrier of the tube 62.
The support 82 is lifted by the cam 88 fixed to the shaft 56, against the tension
of the coiled spring 89 connected at one end to the table and at its other end to
the under side of said support 82, the spring depressing the support after the
cam 88 ceases to act on it. A cigarette is cut with both upward and downward
movements of the knife support. When the knife support 82 is in either of its
extreme positions, it does not obstruct the passage of the travelling cigarette.
The necessary tension is furnished to the cutter by means of the spiral spring 90
secured at one end to the standard for the shaft of cam 88 and at its other end to
the movable base piece 90¹ of the stud of one of the pulleys 79. The support 82
is slotted immediately below said base piece 90' through which slot pins 91 project
from the underside of base piece 90, the slots being of sufficient size to permit
the spring to keep the knife normally taut and to permit the flexing of the knife
when it is acted upon by the carrier of tube 62. To the top of the carrier 623 and
near its front end there are fixed two short studs 86, which are provided with
rolls 87 which bear against the knife 78 when the eccentric 76 forces the carrier 62³
forward, the rolls serving as guides for the knife to ensure its accurate cutting.
In the operation of this machine the tobacco is placed upon the apron 12 in the
offset at the top of the vertical case 10, and is fed between the rollers 15, 13' onto
the revolving pronged belt 17.
The prongs of the belt seize the tobacco and carry it around in the direction of

page_text: In
the arrow and in its passage through the channel between the pronged belt 17
and the curved inner surface of the case 10, which is also provided with pins or
prongs as shown, there is a separation of the particles of tobacco as it falls into
the passage-way between the belts 19 and onto the rollers 21 at the bottom of said
passage-way, from which it is delivered onto the pronged belt 19' which revolving
in the direction of the arrows conveys the tobacco to the conveying apron 30.
its passage from the rollers 21 to the conveying apron 30 the tobacco is further
comminuted by the pins or prongs on apron 19' and on the guide piece 29. The
tobacco falling onto the conveying apron 30 is carried along by the movement of
the apron in contact with the first preparing rollers 32 which revolving in the
direction of the arrows obstruct the passage of the tobacco and causes it to form
itself along the length of the roller and by the revolution of the roller is given a
revolving motion while being forced along toward the inner end of the roller from
which it is conveyed to the next succeeding roller and so on to the inner end of the
last roller of the series or where one long roller only is employed to the inner end
of said roller where it is delivered onto the endless belt 39 beneath the pressure
roller 44. When the mass of tobacco reaches this point it has been rolled up into
a comparatively compact mass and in this form is carried along by the endless
belt 39 beneath the pressure rollers 44' and between the pressure rollers 46 into
the former-tube 58. The pressure rollers are adapted to compress the tobacco into
sufficiently small dimensions to permit it to pass through the former-tube easily but
- when the travelling mass of tobacco leaves the former-tube and is combined with
-the paper wrapper within the tube 60, the diameter of which is larger than that
of the former-tube, the tobacco will expand and snugly fill the spirally formed
paper wrapper as it is fed out from the former-tube.
The ribbon of paper is conducted from the reel 63 beneath the trough of the
pasting devices, one of its edges being supplied with paste by the pasting wheel 67,
and the end of the paper ribbon is wound spirally upon the stationary former-
tube 58. The paper is fed forward over this former tube by means of the belt 58¹
which is wrapped around the former-tube spirally on top of the paper. The
movement of the belt when thus connected with the former-tube propels the
spirally wrapped paper along the tube and feeds the spirally wrapped paper
tube from the former-tube 58 into the stationary tube 60, the mass of tobacco
emerging from the former-tube 58 is therein combined within the tube 60 with
the paper tube, the passage of the mass of tobacco into said paper tube
offering no difficulty since the diameter of the paper tube is greater than that
of the mass of tobacco, which latter however expands within the paper tube and is
thus snugly combined therewith. The tube of paper encased tobacco is fed
continuously from the stationary tube 60 and is cut off in suitable lengths by the
cutting mechanism illustrated in Figures 5 and 6. This mechanism comprises a
knife which is a continuous band sharpened on both edges and adapted to revolve
upon the wheels or pulleys mounted upon the support for the cutting mechanism
and it is operated so as to sever a length of the continuously fed cigarette tube at
each upward and downward movement, the knife support being pivoted at one end
and adapted to be operated upon by the lifting cam 88 at the other end so as to
give to the knife the necessary up and down movement which is effected at proper
intervals of time. There is a tension device for the knife whereby it is held
.sufficiently taut to operate as desired and whereby it may be flexed slightly when
the carrier 623 is moved forward through the medium of the cam 76. The operation
of the machine is automatic in all respects and the product is in every respect a
.satisfactorily, male cigarette.
Dated this 17th dow of Anvil 1004

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATON.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Cigarettes and in Machinery
therefor.
I, BENJAMIN JOSEPH BARNARD MILLS, of 23 Southampton Buildings in the
County of London,, Patent. Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention,
a communication to me from Leverett L. Maxfield, of Brooklyn, in the County of
Kings, and State of New York, in the United States of America, Machinist,.
and in what manner the. same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in. and by the following statement :-
The invention relates to machines for the manufacture of cigarettes consisting of
a filler of tobacco and a wrapper of paper; and the invention comprises means for
feeding the tobacco in a properly disintegrated condition into a conveyor arranged
and operating so as to take up the tobacco and carry it along toward the former-
tube in such manner that during the progress of the tobacco to said former-tube
the mass thereof is automatically fashioned into such shape that it is easily entered.
into the former-tube when brought in contact with the endless travelling belt co-
operating with said former-tube.
The invention also comprises novel means whereby the ribbon of paper is
combined with the filler of tobacco and whereby the edge of the ribbon of paper
is supplied with paste for maintaining the integrity of the completed cigarette. The
invention further comprises novel mechanism whereby the paper enwrapped filler
of tobacco is cut off in suitable lengths automatically as it is fed from the machine
in its perfected condition.
By this invention the paper wrapper is applied to the filler of tobacco spirally so
that the pasted seam instead of extending longitudinally of the cigarette extends
spirally around the same.
To enable those acquainted with the art to manufacture and make use of the
improved cigarette machine I have illustrated its construction and mode of
operation in the drawings accompanying my Provisional Specification and herein-
after describe the same, and in claims at the end hereof 1 have set forth the novel
features and combinations for which I desire protection.
Referring to the drawings, wherein like parts are indicated by like numerals of
reference in the several views,
Figure 1. represents a plan view of the machine cut through the feeding and
disintegrating devices on the line 1. 1 of Figure 2.
Figure 2 is a side elevation of the machine.
Figure 3 shows a central vertical section of the tobacco feeding and disintegrating
mechanism and a detail showing the endless conveying apron and endless belt
and pressure rollers for preparing the tobacco filler for entrance into the former-
tube.
Figure 4 is a plan view of a part of Figure 3.
Figure 5 is a detail showing a plan of the pasting mechanism, paper wrapper
mechanism and devices for severing the continuous cylinder of paper enwrapped
tobacco into lengths.
Figure 6, is a vertical sectional view on the line 6. 6 of Figure 5, looking in the
direction of the arrow.
Figure 7 is a sectional view on the line 7. 7 of Figure 5, looking in the direction
of the arrow, and
Figure 8 is a cross-section on the line 8. 8 of Figure 1, omitting some of the parts.
Referring to the drawings, 9 represents the frame upon which the operating
mechanism of the machine is mounted and which may be of any suitable construction.
At one end of this frame there is bolted the tobacco feeding and disintegrating
mechanism which is enclosed in a suitable frame 10, and 11 are the bolts which
secure the frame 10 to the table.

page_text: The tobacco feeding and disintegrating mechanism comprises, first, an endless
apron 12 arranged upon horizontally journalled rollers 13, 13' in an offset at the
top of the frame 10, and which is adapted to receive the tobacco to form the
cigarettes, and below apron 12 is arranged a belt supporting plate 14 which
supports the apron and over which the apron travels. The roller 15 which is
supported in proper relative position to the roller 13' serves in connection with the
apron 12 to feed the tobacco to the disintegrating mechanism arranged within
the vertical case 10, which mechanism consists of a series of rollers having adjusted
thereon belts, the belts located at the top and bottom of the casing 10 being
provided with pins or other suitable projections adapted to take hold of the strands
or bunches of tobacco and separate the same in the progress of the tobacco onto
the conveying apron presently described. More specifically the feeding and
disintegrating mechanism may be described as follows:
At the top of case 10 there are journalled two rollers 16 the upper one of which
being in close proximity to the feeding rollers 15, 13', and arranged to travel over
these rollers 16 is a belt 17 which is provided with pins or other projections as
shown. The tobacco as it passes between the feeding rollers 15, 13' is taken hold
of by the pins of the belt 17 and carried in the direction of the arrow and passes
between the pronged belt and the curved surface a, in the top of the case 10
provided with pins similar to those on the belt, with the effect of disintegrating or
separating the bunches of tobacco. Below the belt 17, there is arranged a series
of small rollers 18, supporting endless belts 19, in such relation to each other as to
provide a passage way or conduit for the tobacco as it leaves the pronged
belt 17.
The small rollers 20 serve as guides for maintaining the belt with which they are
in contact in proper relation to the other belt so that the tobacco will be directed
between the belts. Passing between the moving belts 19 the tobacco falls onto the
rollers 21 whose surfaces are corrugated or channeled longitudinally and which
feed the tobacco onto the pronged apron 19¹ arranged upon the rollers 16' at the
bottom of the case 10. 22 is a small guide roller located in contact with one of
the corrugated rollers 21 and in close proximity to the pronged apron 19' and
which serves as an obstruction to the tobacco as it is carried around by the
pronged apron in the direction of the arrow and thus facilitates the disintegrating
process. The various rollers of this tobacco feeding and disintegrating mechanism
are driven by any suitable gearing, such for example as is shown in Figure 2 of
the drawings wherein a belt 23 from a pulley on the main shaft 24 passes around a
pulley on the shaft of the upper roller 16¹ which is also provided with a suitable gear
wheel meshing with a pinion on the small roller 22 which in turn meshes with a
gear on the shaft of one of the rollers 21. The shafts of the lowermost rollers 18
are likewise provided with intermeshing gears and said rollers are also provided
with pulleys. Belts 25, 26 communicate the motion of the upper roller 16 to the
lowermost roller 18 at the left, and from the lowermost roller 18 at the right to
the lowermost roller 16 within the top of the case 10, the shaft of which latter
roller being provided with a pulley which receives a belt 27 which travels around
pulley 28 fixed to the shaft of feed roller 131 and which shaft is also provided with
a gear wheel meshing with a similar wheel on the shaft of the feed roller 15.
The belt 23 passing from the pulley on the main shaft 24 to the uppermost roller 16¹
is crossed or twisted as shown in order to give the proper direction of revolution
to the said roller 16', the motion of the main shaft being also communicated to the
rollers of the tobacco conveying mechanism presently described, by a belt on a pulley
of said shaft.
Within the bottom of the case 10 there is arranged a curved surface 29 provided
with prongs similar to those on the belt 16 and which assists in preparing the
tobacco for delivery on to the endless conveying apron 30, which is arranged in a
horizontal plane over the table or supporting frame 9 as shown.
The endless apron 30 is supported and travels on the rollers 31 suitably journalled
in the frame of the table 9, and motion is communicated to said apron from the

page_text: main shaft as indicated in Figure
This Apron 30 and the series of rollers 32
supported immediately above the apron and arranged diagonally as indicated in
Figure 1, constitute the mechanism that conveys the tobacco to the endless belt
which co-operates with the former tube and fashions the mass of tobacco in its
passage thereto into proper condition for entering said foriner-tube. Only one of
the rollers 32 may be employed if made sufficiently long, but two or more shorter
rollers are to be preferred when it is important to economize space. In the machine
illustrated in the drawings I have shown three of these rollers which number gives
very satisfactory results. The rollers 32 are supported above and in proximity to
the apron in brackets 33 bolted to the top of the table, the inner, ends of, said
rollers being supported by brackets 34 fixed also to the top of the table outside of
the apron and projecting over the apron, the said brackets 34 being of requisite
length to maintain the inner ends of the rollers 32 in proper position to direct the
tobacco in its passage to the endless belt which co-operates with the pressure
rollers and former-tube. The outer ends of rollers 32 are provided with bevel
gears 32' which mesh with corresponding gears 32' on the upper ends of spindles
mounted in vertical bearings 33¹ fixed to the sides of frames and on the lower
ends of said spindles are fixed pulleys 35 which carry the belts 36. The driving
belt 37 passes around a pulley on the main shaft 24 and extends under the guide
roller 38 which is journalled to the frame of the table. It is then passed around a
supplemental pulley 35' on the lower end of one of the spindles carried in the
vertical bearings 33', and in this way the requisite motion is communicated from
the main driving shaft to the series of rollers 32. The tobacco conveying apron is
propelled by the main driving shaft in the direction indicated by the arrow, and
the several rollers 32 by which the tobacco is formed into a proper condition during
its travel with the apron, are geared to revolve in the direction indicated by the
arrows, and being arranged diagonally to the width of the apron they serve, while
obstructing the movement of the mass of tobacco upon the apron, to gather up the
tobacco in opposition to the movement of the apron and arrange it in proper condition
along the length of the rollers and direct it in this form to the endless belt beneath
the compressing rollers in advance of the former-tube.
The endless belt 39 travels over pulleys 40, 40', the former fixed upon the
shaft 41 and the latter in brackets 42. This belt is driven from the main shaft 24
by a chain belt 43 for example, which travels over pulleys on the main shaft and
on shaft 41 as indicated. Journalled in brackets to the top of the table is a series
of rollers 44, 44. There may be any desirable number of these rollers, three of
them being shown in this example of the machine, and they are arranged over the
endless apron 39 in contact therewith. The roller 44 of this series is preferably
Alangeless while rollers 44¹ are provided with flanges forming grooves on their
peripheries as indicated. Beneath the rollers 44' there are arranged correspondingly
grooved rollers 44 with comparatively deep grooves and in which grooves the
endless belt 39 travels with the effect of forming a trough of the moving belt into
which the tobacco is compressed by the superimposed grooved rollers 44'. The
guide roller 44 for the endless belt is journalled to the table beneath the rollers 44*
as indicated in Figure 3.
As the tobacco leaves the conveying apron 30 it passes on to the endless belt 39,
beneath the first roller 44 which is Hangeless and which compresses the tobacco
on to the belt, and forces it forward with the travel of the belt beneath the flanged
rollers 44' successively, and which compress the mass of travelling tobacco beneath
the flanges of said rollers and the flanges of the lower rollers 44' thus serving to
increase the density of the travelling mass of tobacco and prepare it for entrance
into the former-tube. The compressing rollers 44 and 441 are revolved indirectly
from the main shaft as indicated in Figure 1, the chain belt 43 giving motion to
shaft 41, and the belts 45 which travel around pulleys on the shaft 41 and on the
respective journals of the compressing rollers serving to drive the said rollers in an
obvious manner.
The requisite direction of motion is given to the first of the
compressing rollers 44 by crossing or twisting the belt 45, the said roller revolving,
B

page_text: of course, in a direction opposite to the revolution of the shaft 41 by which the
endless belt 39 is caused to travel.
Immediately in advance of the rollers 44' which are arranged vertically, there is
arranged horizontally a pair of rollers 46 supported on spindles and between which
the endless belt 39 travels.. Said rollers 46 are grooved as indicated in Figure 3
and being arranged in close proximity to each other the roll of tobacco is thereby
finally compressed after leaving the rollers 441, 44, and immediately before entering
the former-tube. Motion is communicated to the rollers 46 by means of the sprocket
chain 47, passing from a pulley on shaft 41 to a sprocket wheel on the laterally
extended shaft 47', the inner end of said shaft being provided with a bevel gear 48
which meshes with a similar gear 49 on the end of the shaft 50, which carries the
gear wheel 51 and serves also as a journal for one of the grooved wheels 46. The
journal of the other grooved guide wheel 46 also carries a gear wheel 51 which
meshes with the first mentioned gear wheel 51. It is thus the motion is communi-
Icated to the said wheels 46. On the opposite end of shaft 471 there is fixed a
bevelled gear 47' which meshes with a corresponding gear on the lower end of
vertically arranged shaft 52 at the upper end of which. shaft there are secured
pulleys for the belts which give motion to the paper feeding and pasting
mechanism. The said shaft 47¹ is also provided with pulley 53 around which
belt 54 extends to a pulley 55 on the end of the shaft 56 which carries the cam 57
which co-operates with the cutting mechanism as hereinafter explained.
The former-tube is indicated by 58 and it is provided with a bell shaped mouth
as shown and rests upon. the support 59 as best shown in Figure 2 of the drawings.
The inner bell-mouthed end of this tube is in contact with the endless belt 39 and
in close proximity to the rollers 46 and receives the roll of compressed tobacco
as it emerges from between said rollers 46. The outer end of this former-tube 58
enters the tube 60 for a short distance as shown in Figure 5, which tube 60 is
supported in bracket 61 by which it is held stationary; and is sufficiently long to
permit it to enter for a considerable distance of its length a short tube 62 which is
provided with the side lugs 62' through which pass the guide pins 62 secured in
the top surface of the plate 623 which plate having a dovetail connection with the
support of the cutting mechanism is adapted to slide outward when acted upon by
the eccentric 76 as hereinafter explained.
The pins 62 being fixed in plate 62' serve, by means of the lugs 62' provided on
the short tube 62, to connect said short tube to the plate 62, and thus the short
tube 62 will be carried forward against the cutting band or knife as the plate 62*
is acted upon by the eccentric 76. As the cutting mechanism is raised by cam 88,
and lowered, the pins 62 play vertically through the lugs 621. If the short tube 62
were not present when the plate 623 is moved forward by the eccentric 76 the
cigarette would be broken down when the knife came into operation since the
cigarette would have no support.
As the short tube 62 is forced forward with the movement of the plate 62³, over
and in advance of the travelling tobacco-filled paper tube, the end of said tube 62
holds the cigarette rigidly while the cutting operation takes place and serves also
as a shearing surface for the cutting knife.
The reel carrying the paper for forming the wrapper of the cigarette is secured
to the table in suitable relation to the former-tube 58 and is indicated in the
drawings by 63.
In suitable proximity to the forming-tube 58 and the paper reel, there is located
the pasting mechanism 64.
The pasting mechanism consists of the trough 65 for containing the paste and a
roll 66 revolving in the paste and the narrower roll 67 revolving outside of the
paste trough but in contact with the roll within the trough, whereby the paste roll
supplies paste to roll 67 beneath which the ribbon of paper from the reel travels
and the edge of which is supplied with paste by said roll 67 in an obvious manner.
Bolted to the table in the rear of the pasting trough is a bracket 66' provided with
an overhanging arm to which is pivoted a device for adjusting the ribbon of paper

page_text: with regard to the pasting wheel 67. This device comprises a pivoted arm 66'
beneath which the paper travels and by which it is so adjusted as to bring more or
less of its edge in contact with the pasting wheel 67. One end of the arm 66' is
connected with a spring 663 which is also connected to the bracket and which spring
serves in conjunction with the thumb screw 66' to hold the arm 663 in the position
to which it is adjusted. The shafts of the rolls of the pasting mechanism are
provided with gear wheels which intermesh and one of the said shafts is provided
with a pulley 68 over which extends a belt 69 which passes also to a pulley 70 on
the end of the vertical shaft 52 (see Figures 1 and 8). Guide roll 71 for belt 69
is fixed to the table in the position shown. The ribbon of paper indicated by 72,
after leaving the pasting mechanism is wrapped spirally around the former-tube 58
and is fed into tube 60 by the endless belt 581 which is also wrapped spirally around
the former-tube 58 over the spirally wrapped paper. The belt 58¹ is driven by a
pulley 73 on shaft 52 and extends around pulley 74 on the vertical shaft 75. The
said shaft 75 likewise carries the pulley for the belt 77 which operates eccentric 76
by which a sliding movement is given to carrier-plate 62 when in the operation of
the machine it becomes necessary to advance the carrier of the tube 62, which is
fixed to said carrier, to permit the cutter to sever the cigarette without retarding
its passage.
The cutter is indicated by 78 and is mounted upon pulleys or wheels 79 and it
consists of an endless steel band sharpened on both edges as indicated in Figure 5.
Movement is communicated to this cutter by a belt 80 passing around a pulley 80'
on shaft 75 and around pulley 81 on the spindle or support for one of the wheels 79.
The support 82 of the cutting mechanism is hinged to post 83 as shown in Figure 6
and upon this support is mounted the journals 82' of the wheels 79 around which
the cutter 78 travels. Depending below support 82 centrally is a stud 84 which
carries the pulley 85 around which the belt 77 passes and by which the requisite
motion is communicated to the eccentric 76 which operates at proper intervals, as
stated, the carrier of the tube 62. The support 82 is lifted by the cam 88 fixed to
the shaft 56, against the tension of the coiled spring 89 connected at one end to
the table and at its other end to the under side of said support 82,, the spring
depressing the support after the cam 88 ceases to act on it. A cigarette is cut
with both upward and downward movements of the knife support. When the knife
support 82 is in either of its extreme positions, it does not obstruct the passage of
the travelling cigarette. The necessary tension is furnished to the cutter by means
of the spiral spring 90 secured at one end to the standard for the shaft of cam 88
and at its other end to the movable base piece 90' of the stud of one of the
pulleys 79. The support 82 is slotted immediately below said base piece 90¹
through which slot pins 91 project from the underside of base piece 90', the slots
being of sufficient size to permit the spring to keep the knife normally taut and to
permit the flexing of the knife when it is acted upon by the carrier of tube 62.
To the top of the carrier 62° and near its front end there are fixed two short
studs 86, which are provided with rolls 87 which bear against the knife 78 when
the eccentric 76 forces the carrier 62³ forward, the rolls serving as guides for the
knife to ensure its accurate cutting.
In the operation of this machine the tobacco is placed upon the apron 12 in the
offset at the top of the vertical case 10, and is fed between the rollers 15, 13' onto
the revolving pronged belt 17. The prongs of the belt seize the tobacco and carry
it around in the direction of the arrow and in its passage through the channel
between the pronged belt 17 and the curved inner surface of the case 10, which is
also provided with pins or prongs as shown, there is a separation of the particles.
of tobacco as it falls into the passage-way between the belts 19 and onto the
rollers 21 at the bottom of said passage-way, from which it is delivered onto the
pronged belt 19' which revolving in the direction of the arrows conveys the tobacco
to the conveying apron 30. In its passage from the rollers 21 to the conveying
apron 30 the tobacco is further comminuted by the pins or prongs on apron 19 and
on the guide piece 29. The tobacco falling outo the conveying apron 30 is carried

page_text: along by the movement of the apron in, contact with the first preparing rollers 32
which revolving in the direction of the arrows obstruct the passage of the tobacco
and causes it to form itself along the length of the roller and by the revolution of
the roller is given a revolving motion while being forced along toward the inner
end of the roller from which it is conveyed to the next succeeding roller and so on
to the inner end of the last roller of the series or where one long roller only is
employed to the inner end of said roller where it is delivered onto the endless
belt 39 beneath the pressure roller 44. When the mass of tobacco reaches this
point it has been rolled up into a comparatively compact mass and in this form is
carried along by the endless belt 39 beneath the pressure rollers 44' and between
, the pressure rollers, 46 into the former-tube 58. The pressure rollers are adapted
to compress the tobacco into sufficiently small dimensions to permit it to pass
through the former-tube easily but when the travelling mass of tobacco leaves the
former-tube and is combined with the paper wrapper within the tube 60, the
diameter of which is larger than that of the former-tube, the tobacco will expand
and snugly fill the spirally formed paper wrapper as it is fed out from the former-
tube.
The ribbon of paper is conducted from the reel 63, beneath the trough of the
pasting devices, one of its edges being supplied with paste by the pasting wheel 67,
and the end of the paper ribbon is wound spirally upon the stationary former-
tube 58.
The paper is fed forward over this former tube by means of the belt 58¹ which is
wrapped around the former-tube spirally on top of the paper. The movement of
the belt when thus connected with the former-tube propels the spirally wrapped
paper along the tube and feeds the spirally wrapped paper tube from the former-
tube 58 into the stationary tube 60, the mass of tobacco emerging from the
former-tube 58 is therein combined within the tube 60 with the paper tube, the
passage of the mass of tobacco into said paper tube offering no difficulty since
the diameter of the paper tube is greater than that of the mass of tobacco, which
latter however expands within the paper tube and is thus snugly combined there-
with. The tube of paper encased tobacco is fed continuously from the stationary
tube 60 and is cut off in suitable lengths by the cutting mechanism illustrated in
Figures 5 and 6. This mechanism comprises a knife which is a continuous band
sharpened on both edges and adapted to revolve upon the wheels or pulleys mounted
upon the support for the cutting mechanism, and it is operated so as to sever a
length of the continuously fed cigarette tube at each upward and downward move-
ment, the knife support being pivotted at one end and adapted to be operated upon
by the lifting cam 88 at the other end so as to give to the knife the necessary up and
down movement which is effected at proper intervals of time. There is a tension
device for the knife whereby it is held sufficiently taut to operate as desired and
whereby it may be flexed slightly when the carrier 623 is moved forward through
the medium of the cam 76. The operation of the machine is automatic in all
respects and the product is in every respect a satisfactory made cigarette.
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
1 claim is
1. In a cigarette machine, the combination with a former-tube and means for
conveying thereto à continuous charge of tobacco, of a belt wrapped spirally
around said tube, whereby the paper is formed into a spiral tube on the former-tube,
substantially as set forth.
2. In a cigarette machine, the combination with a former-tube supported
stationary over a table, means for conveying thereto a continuous charge of tobacco,
and a second tube of sufficient diameter to permit the end of said former-tube to
be entered therein, of a driven belt wrapped spirally around said former-tube,
whereby the paper is formed into a spiral tube on the former-tube and is propelled

page_text: over the former-tube and into the tube into which the end of the former-tube
extends, substantially as set forth.
3. In a cigarette machine, the combination with a former-tube supported
stationary over a table, means for conveying thereto a continuous charge of tobacco,
and a second tube of such diameter as to permit the end of the former-tube to be
entered therein, of a driven belt wrapped spirally around the former-tube and a
short tube supported upon a movable part of the cutting mechanism and adapted.
to be forced forward at proper intervals over the travelling tobacco-filled paper
tube, substantially as set forth.
4. In a cigarette machine, the combination with the tobacco feeding and
compressing mechanism and a former-tube supported stationary over a table and
adapted to receive the tobacco filler from the pressure mechanism, of another tube.
of diameter sufficient to permit the former-tube to enter the same and a driven.
belt wrapped spirally around the former-tube and adapted to propel the paper over,
Baid tube, substantially as set forth.
5. In a cigarette machine the combination with the feeding roller as 15 and belt 12,
and a belt provided with nails or prongs and moving in a vertical plane in
proximity to said feeding roller, of a concaved surface also provided with prongs
and arranged in proximity to said pronged travelling belt and a pair of belts
arranged beneath said vertical travelling pronged belt and also travelling in a
substantially vertical plane and arranged a sufficient distance apart to provide a
passage or conduit for the disintegrated tobacco, substantially as set forth.
6. In a cigarette machine, the combination with a horizontally travelling belt.
upon which the tobacco is placed to be fed into the machine, feed rollers which take
up the tobacco from the belt, an endless belt provided with prongs which receives
the tobacco from the feed rollers, a concave surface in proximity to said pronged.
belt, and endless belts travelling in a substantially vertical plane and providing a.
passage-way into which the tobacco falls from the pronged belt, of a second pronged
belt arranged beneath said passage-way and operating to convey the tobacco in
proper condition onto the travelling apron, and a curved surface arranged in
proximity to said last mentioned pronged belt, substantially as set forth.
7. In a cigarette machine, the combination with the endless belt 12, feed rollers.
co-operating with said belt to convey the tobacco to the feeding and disintegrating.
mechanism, a pronged belt in proximity to said feed rollers, a pronged concaved.
surface in proximity to said belt, belts travelling in a vertical-plane beneath said
pronged belt and providing between them a passage-way for the tobacco, of guide.
rollers located at the bottom of said passage-way, a pronged belt travelling in a.
vertical plane beneath said guide rollers and a curved surface having prongs in
proximity to the latter belt, substantially as set forth.
8. In a cigarette machine, the combination with, an endless travelling apron
which receives the tobacco from the feeding and disintegrating mechanism and.
conveys it forward, of a tobacco shaping roller. supported diagonally upon the
apron and geared to revolve in a direction reverse to the travel of the apron,
whereby the tobacco as it is deposited upon the apron is obstructed and is formedi
in a mass along the length of the roller, while being propelled forward to the end.
of the said roller which is adapted to deliver it at the proper point of exit,.
substantially as set forth.
9. In a cigarette machine, an endless travelling apron and rollers supported upon
said apron and arranged diagonally of its width and in opposite directions, and.
-geared to revolve in a direction reverse to the travel of the apron, and serving to
obstruct the passage of the tobacco and arrange it in a continuous mass along the
lengths of the rollers, which in conjunction with the moving apron propel the:
tobacco forward to the point of exit from the apron, substantially as set forth.
10. In a cigarette machine, the combination with a suitable table and an endless:
travelling apron adjusted thereon, of a series of preparing, rollers arranged
diagonally over and upon the apron and in opposite directions, and revolving.
reversely to the travel of the apron,, and. provided.on their outer. ends with gears,.

page_text: brackets fixed to the table and supporting the inner ends of the rollers in proper
position over the apron, and vertical spindles or journals operating in bearings fixed
to the table and provided with gears on their upper ends co-operating with the
gears on the outer ends of said rollers and provided at their lower ends with means
to receive the gearing by which motion is communicated to said spindles or journals,
substantially as set forth.
11. In a cigarette machine, the combination with a table and an endless aprou
supported thereon and operated from the main shaft of the machine, of a series of
preparing rollers arranged diagonally and upon the apron in opposite directions and
geared to vertical spindles or journals operating in bearings fixed to the table,
which spindles or journals are provided at their lower ends with pulleys, a belt
-communicating the motion of the main shaft to one of said vertically arranged
spindles or journals and connecting belts between the pulleys on the several spindles
or journals, substantially as set forth.
12. In a cigarette machine, mechanism for compressing the mass of tobacco
received from the conveying apron and feeding it forward to the former-tube,
consisting of an endless belt mounted on pulleys and propelled indirectly from the
main shaft and a series of pressure rollers beneath which the endless belt travels,
the first of said rollers being flangeless and the others of the series arranged in
pairs one above the other and having flanges, the first pair of rollers supported on
vertical spindles and giving the final pressure to the filler of tobacco before entrance
thereof into the former-tube, substantially as set forth.
13. In a cigarette machine, the combination with the former-tube and its
operating belt wrapped spirally thereupon, of a pasting mechanism mounted on the
table in proximity to said former-tube and at an incline thereto, and a reel for the
paper ribbon likewise mounted in suitable proximity to the pasting mechanism,
the paper ribbon extending from the reel beneath the paste trough with its surface
in appropriate contact with the paste wheel and with its free end wrapped spirally
around the former-tube beneath the belt, substantially as set forth.
14. In a cigarette machine, the combination with a former-tube, of the pasting
mechanism-arranged in proximity thereto, a paper reel arranged in proper relation
to the pasting mechanism and at an incline to the former-tube, the paper ribbon
extending beneath the paste trough with its surface in proper contact with the
paste wheel, and an adjusting device, as 66¹, secured to the pasting mechanism and
comprising a pivotted arm, as 662, which is adjusted by a set screw to bear upon
the paper beneath which it travels to maintain the paper in proper relation to the
pasting wheel, substantially as set forth.
15. In a cigarette machine, the combination with the delivery mechanism, of
mechanism for cutting the continuous cigarette into suitable lengths, consisting of
-a continuous band-knife mounted upon wheels or pulleys and adapted to be
continuously propelled, and means for raising and lowering the cutter at suitable
intervals, substantially as set forth.
16. In a cigarette machine, a cutting mechanism mounted upon a hinged support
in front of the delivery mechanism and comprising an endless band-knife sharpened
on both edges and adapted to revolve on pulleys mounted on said support, and a
cam co-operating with the outer end of said cutter-support to raise and lower the
same at proper intervals, substantially as set forth.
17. In a cigarette machine, the combination with an endless band-knife and a
support for the pulleys around which said knife travels, of a tube mounted upon a
carrier, which is connected to the cutter-support to slide thereon, said tube encircling
-the delivery tube of the machine, and an eccentric adapted to move said tube-
-carrier forward toward the endless band-knife to advance the tube of the carrier
beyond the end of the delivery tube at proper intervals, substantially as set
forth.
18. In a cigarette machine, the. combination with the cutter-support 82 provided
with pulleys and an endless band-knife adapted to revolve around said pulleys, of a
tube 62 mounted on guide pins in carrier 62³, rollers, as 87 adapted to co-operate

page_text: with the endless band-knife when the carrier is moved forward and an eccentric
as 76, co-operating with said carrier, substantially as set forth.
Dated July 25th 1894.
B. J. B. MILLS,
By Harris & Mills,
23, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents.