Improvements in Cigarette Making Machinery.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Dec., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 18th Sept., 1889-Accepted, 9th Nov., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cigarette Making Machinery.
I, HENRY BROGDEN of Hale Lodge Altrincham in the County of Cheshire Engineer
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The machine is fitted in a wood or metal frame, which can be placed upon a table
and be worked by hand or power.
The tobacco, previously combed or cut with its fibre in one direction, is placed
upon a travelling belt, which is drawn forward by an intermittent motion, actuated
by a pair of wheels worked from the main shaft, so that a quantity of tobacco sufficient
to make one, two, or more cigarettes is drawn forward at each revolution of the main
shaft & enters a brass case in a line with the tobacco trough.
This case, being in slides worked by levers or from an eccentric on the main
shaft, moves forward as soon as the required quantity of tobacco has entered and
been cut off by a knife placed between the tobacco trough and the sliding trough &
pushes the tobacco forward into rollers, which the sliding trough opens in readiness
to receive it and which closes upon its return for a fresh charge of tobacco.
These rollers six in number, five of which revolve in the same direction nearly in
contact with each other, are placed hexagonally round a centre wheel and prepare
the tobacco to receive the paper, which at the moment is entering the rollers ready
pasted and the cigarette thus formed is ejected from the machine through the bottom
rollers, two of which open for that purpose, by means of an eccentric driven from
the main shaft.
The paper which is of suitable width, comes from a continuous roll and is pulled
forward intermittently by two rollers worked from the main shaft.
As soon as the required quantity of paper has been drawn forward, it is held by a
tension roller, until such time as a finger bar can grip it, and allow it to be cut through
by a knife which at the same time forces the edge requiring to be pasted against a
paste roller. The finger bar is then released and a revolving roller coming down
upon the paper, carries it forward into the circular rollers before described-the
revolving roller being instantly withdrawn so as to avoid wiping the paste off the
paper.
The cigarette when completed drops into suitable apparatus for clipping the ends.
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cigarette Making Machinery.
I, HENRY BROGDEN, of Hale Lodge, Altrincham in the County of Chester,
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 :-
My invention relates to machinery for making cigarettes and has for its chief
object the improvement and simplification of such machines.
And in order that my invention may be fully understood and readily carried into
effect 1 will describe the accompanying two Sheets of Drawings reference being had
to the figures and letters marked thereon.
Figure 1 is a side elevation and Fig. 2 a plan of a cigarette machine constructed
according to my invention.
Figure 3 is a sectional elevation and Fig. 4 a plan of a similar machine but
having the ordinary arrangements for feeding and cutting off the tobacco instead
of my improved feed as shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

page_text: Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.
Referring first to Figures 1 and 2-a designates the frame of the machine and b
the main or driving shaft. The tobacco previously combed or prepared so that its
fibres lie in one direction i.e. parallel with their line of movement, is placed in the
tobacco trough e upon an endless travelling belt d which is supported upon pulleys d'
and is driven intermittently as required by spaced gearing (not shown) or equiva-
lent means from the shaft b so that a certain quantity of tobacco is carried forward
at each revolution of the said shaft and enters a brass or other metal case e¹ which
is formed with or attached to a horizontally sliding plate or piece e. This combined
sliding plate e and case e¹ is mounted in slideways on the frame a and is moved
forward when required by an arrangement of pivoted levers which are actuated by
a rotating cam g driven from the main shaft the levers f and the slide being
returned to their normal positions as shown in the Drawings by a spring / or equiva-
lent. Attached to and moving with the slide e is a knife or cutter e and fixed to the
stationary trough c is a second knife c¹ consequently when the slide e moves forward
the combined action of the moving knife e and the stationary knife c¹ cuts off the
length of tobacco previously fed into the case e by the travelling belt d as before
mentioned.
The front of the case e¹ in the forward motion of the slide e comes against and opens
the lid of a casing i within which are mounted a nest of six rollers ; five of which
are driven intermittently and at the exact moment necessary by a centre wheel k which
is driven by a train of spaced gearing from the main shaft a while the remaining
roller is driven in the opposite direction by means of a pinion secured on its axis
and driven by a pinion on the axis of one of the five other rollers ; or all the rollers
may be driven in the same direction. As soon as the case e¹ has raised the lid ¹ and
with it the two top rollers ; mounted in said lid and has come over the rollers; the
tobacco falls through the bottom of the case e¹ into the middle of the nest of rollers j
the spring then acts to draw back the slide e and case e¹ and the lid is closed by
a spring or equivalent. The nest of rollers ; then receive motion through the train
of gearing. and so roll and prepare the tobacco to receive the paper which at that
moment is entering the nest of rollers ready pasted. As soon as the cigarette has been
rolled a cam not shown driven from the main shaft opens the part of the casing i
thereby temporarily withdrawing the two bottoni rollers ; and allowing the rolled
cigarette to drop down the part being closed again by a spring or equivalent.
The paper which is of suitable width is fed into the machine from a continuous
roll and is pulled forward at the proper moment by two rollers m n which are driven
from the main shaft b the paper being held down on to the table by a tension roller 1.
The upper roller m on the main shaft b is provided with a rubber or other suitable
covering m¹ extending partly round its circumference and this covering determines
the length of paper to be fed forward ready to be cut off; the paper that has been
fed forward is held on to the table by one of the fingers o' on the finger bar o which
is caused to turn intermittently by suitable gearing and while the paper is thus held
the lower knife p rises and severs the paper against a stationary blade q; attached
to the knife p is a transverse plate p¹ which comes under and lifts the end of the paper
against a paste roller r pivoted at the bottom of a paste trough. The finger bar o
now turns so as to push forward the severed length of paper into the nest of rollers j
by which it is wrapped round the tobacco; the fingers o¹ are only in contact with the
paper long enough to guide it into the nip of the rollers j.
From the foregoing description it will be readily understood that a cigarette can
be rolled and completed at each revolution of the shaft b and by making the machine
sufficiently wide a cigarette can be produced long enough to be sub-divided into two
or more cigarettes.
In Figs. 3 and 4 my improvements are shown applied to a cigarette machine in
which the tobacco is fed forward in a stationary trough c the full width of the
machine between a pair of feed rollers s s¹ and is cut off by a vibrating knife t the
nest of rollers; for rolling the cigarette and the paper feeding and pasting mechanism
are made as in Figs. 1 and 2. The lid of the casing i is opened by mechanism

page_text: actuated from the main shaft 6 when the feed rollers are caused to turn the divided
portion of tobacco falling into the recess formed between the four lower rollers and as
soon as this has taken place the lid falls and the rolling of the cigarette takes place
in the manner already described.
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 :-
1. In a cigarette making machine an arrangement of mechanism for feeding the
tobacco into the machine and cutting off transversely therefrom a plug long enough
to make a cigarette or cigarettes substantially as herein described with reference to
Figs. 1 and 2.
2. The arrangement use and application of a nest of intermittently driven rollers
contained in a casing the lid of which is opened to receive a plug of tobacco and
the bottom is opened to allow the finished cigarette to fall through at the proper
moment substantially as herein specified.
3. The combined arrangement of parts constituting the improved cigarette machine
as described and as illustrated by Figs. 1 and 2.
4. The combined arrangement of parts constituting the improved cigarette
machine as described and as illustrated by Figs. 3 and 4.
Dated this 17th day of Santember 1889
H. B. BARLOW,
17, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agent for Applicant.
H. B. BARLOW,
17, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agent for Applicant.