Pocket Cigarette Making Machine.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Dec., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 5th Apr.. 1895-Accepted, 11th May, 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Pocket Cigarette Making Machine.
1, JAMES Moss, of 28 Howden Street, East Dulwich, in the County of Surrey,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of the present invention is to provide a small and light pocket
cigarette making machine, simple and economical of construction and efficient in
action.
According to my invention, I employ a metal trough of semicircular section,
parallel to one edge of which is secured at each end a light metal rod or bar, a
narrow space being left between the said rod and the edge of the trough. At
each end of the opposite edge of the trough there is hinged a curved arm, the said
arms carrying at their extremities a second light rod or bar, which, when the arms
are closed down upon the trough, lies close to the fixed rod. A strip of ribbon or
other suitable material is passed through the narrow space between the fixed rod
and the trough.
In making the cigarette the moveable rod is turned back and the ribbon laid
across the trough and over the said moveable rod, the paper and tobacco are then
placed within the trough upon the ribbon, the moveable rod is then closed down
upon the trough and one end of the ribbon is pulled, which rolls the cigarette.
In practice I prefer to form the said trough from a tube, by cutting out and
bending back a portion thereof, said portion forming a socket or bearing for the
hinge pin of the curved arms, the curve of which should correspond with that of
the tube.
If desired, in lieu of the curved arms and rod carried thereby, I may employ a
solid hinged lid of semicircular section hinged to the trough, but I prefer the first
described arrangement as permitting greater variation in the size of the cigarette
produced.
Denombor & D
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I, JAMES Moss, of 28 Howden Street, East Dulwich, in the County of Surrey,
Engineer, 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 :-
The object of the present invention is to provide a small and light pocket
cigarette making machine, simple and economical of construction and efficient in
nation

page_text: In order that the invention and the manner in which it is to be performed may
be fully understood, I will now proceed to particularly describe the same, having
reference to the accompanying drawings in which similar letters refer to corre-
sponding parts in all the figures, and in which :-
Fig. 1 is a plan of the cigarette making machine, open. Fig. 2 is a transverse
section of Fig. 1.
Fig. 3 is an end view of the machine, closed.
Figs. 4 and 5 are detached plan views of the bottom part or 'trough, and top
part or hinged frame of the machine, respectively.
a is the bottom part or trough, which is of semicircular section and is preferably
produced, as here represented, from a circular tube, by cutting out a flap there-
from, part of which flap when bent back serves as the socket a¹ for the hinge
pin b. The circular ends a² left, at each end of the trough a are closed by the
heads c (Fig. 4) which prevent the tobacco from protruding or working out of
the machine during the process of rolling the cigarette. d is a light rod or bar
secured at each end parallel to the edge a³ of the trough a, between which edge
and the said rod da narrow space is left. The top part or hinged frame consists
of a pair of curved arms e pivotted on the before mentioned hinge pin b, to the
free ends of which arms are secured the pair of light rods ff. 9 is a strip of ribbon,
or other suitable flexible material, which is passed between the said pair of rods f
and between the rod d and the edge a³ of the trough a, as clearly shewn in
Figs. 1 and 2.
The machine being opened, as represented in Figs. 1 and 2, the cigarette paper
and tobacco are placed within the trough a upon the ribbon g, the hinged frame
is then closed down upon a, as represented in Fig. 3, one of the ends of the
ribbou is pulled, and the cigarette will be rolled.
I prefer to thicken the edges of the ribbon g, as shewn at g', in order to prevent
the same from slipping out of place and becoming detached.
If desired, in lieu of a pair of rods f, one only may be employed, over which
the ribbon g is laid when the machine is opened, but I prefer to employ a pair of
rods, as illustrated.
A lid of semicircular section, having a light rod secured parallel to and at a
little distance from its edge, may be substituted for the hinged frame above
described, if preferred, the ribbon 9 being passed between the said light rod and
the edge of the lid, but the arrangement illustrated is better, as permitting greater
variation in the diameter of the cigarette produced.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and the manner in which the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is :-
1. A pocket cigarette making machine constructed and arranged substantially
as described and illustrated.
2. A pocket cigarette making machine, consisting of a bottom part or trough a
of semicircular section having a light rod d secured parallel to and at a little
distance from one edge thereof, arms e pivotted at each end of the opposite edge
of said trough, a pair of light rods or bars f secured to the extremities of said
arms, and a strip of ribbon or other suitable flexible material passed between the rods
and between the edge of the trough and the rod d, the whole combined and
arranged substantially as described and illustrated.
3. A pocket cigarette making machine as set forth in the last preceding claim,
but having a lid of semicircular section provided with a light rod secured parallel
to and at a little distance from its edge substituted for the arms e and rods f,
substantially as described.
4. A pocket cigarette making machine constructed as hereinbefore described,
wherein the trough a is produced from a circular tube by cutting out a flap
therefrom, which tap when bent back serves as the hinge pin bearing or socket,

page_text: the circular ends of the said trough being closed by heads c, substantially as
described and illustrated.
Dated this 5th day of April 1895.
E. P. ALEXANDER & SON,
Chartered Patent Agents,
19, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.