Improvements in Cigarette Making Machines.
Year: 1895

page_text: This Print is in accordance with the Original Specification as it stands after
Amendment (under Section 18 of the Patents, &c. Act, 1883) as allowed by the
decision of the Comptroller General of the 1st day of October 1897.
Date of Application, 23rd Aug., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Feb., 1896-Accepted, 27th June, 1896
TRUYDDIONAL DIEUITIVATION
Improvements in Cigarette Making Machines.
I REGINALD HADDAN, of the Firm of Herbert Haddan & Co., of
18 Buckingham Street, Strand W.C. London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention, a communication to me from abroad by Jules
Amédée Allagnon and Gaston Jules Allagnon, both of 155 Avenue Rouget de
l'Isle, Vitry sur Seine in the Republic of France, Manufacturers to be
follows;-
as
The principle characteristic of this invention resides in the new method of
operating without hand touch upon cut tobacco in the formation of cigarettes
without gum or the like.
It is in a mechanical and only in a mechanical manner that the tobacco is
taken in mass, shaken out, regularly distributed and drawn in the form of a
continuous roller, (in the paper tube which is in course of formation) without
meeting with a destructive or deteriorating compression, by means of a combination
of special forks variously arranged and operated according to the purpose they
serve.
This machine has to be supplied with:
1) Cut tobacco in mass, and in the natural state of manufacture.
2) With paper in rolls.
The machine will be described as having only one set of working parts, but
as it has been designed for the purpose of realizing the greatest possible economy
in the cost of manual labour, such as keeping in repair, superintendance, feeding,
and removal of the product, it may be so arranged that it may have several sets of
working parts without notably increasing its development.
The closure of the cigarette tube, or rather to express it more exactly, the
closures are made without gum or the like as they are obtained by a combination
of two pressures, the one being effected by the passage of the paper between two
engaging discs, while the other is the result of the pressure of one single toothed
dise on the paper sliding on the outer surface of a metal tube.
The tobacco is placed in a mass in a hopper; the advancing forks operated with
a rectilinear and alternative movement shake the said mass of tobacco thereby
loosening it and carrying it forward one part after the other into a tube after
having however at the entrance of the said tube been cleared of their surplus load
by means of a regulating fork, the tobacco thus leaving the tube, in a continuous
"roller."
The paper passes along under a table then over the a roller, and slides under
the middle of the hopper which causes it to gradually assume a V shape; it
finally passes to a guide. The latter is a cylinder which completely draws the

page_text: paper interiorly and exteriorly around the tobacco tube; the interior of said guide
is provided with a projection which forms the inner fold of the paper. The two
ends of the paper are united on the tube in front of the first discs. The paper
then passes between the horizontal discs aforesaid which press the two joints, but
only at the edge of the tube, so that the greater part of each joint on the side of
the border, will not be affected. The paper is then in tubular form, entirely closed
and having at its upper and lower side a straight bend, rib, or fold. It continues
to slide in the guide, at the end of which are arranged the folders adapted to turn
down the two opposite ribs or folds of the tube. On leaving the folders the paper
tube which still always encloses tlie tobacco tube, presents a completely cylindrical
forin, as the two folds have been turned down; it then passes between the two
dises which press the non-gumined border of the turned down folds onto the
tobacco tube flattened at the points of contact, thus prossing said fold into intimato
contact with the paper tube. The paper tube is thus finishest.
The paper outside and the tobacco inside leave the tobacco tube forming the
continuous cigarette which is divided into equal sections by shears..
The shears are actuated by means of an arm arranged underneath the table with
a to and fro movement, thus cutting the cigarette during its travel.
Dated the 23rd day of August 1895.
Improvements in Cigarette Making Machines.
I, REGINALD HADDAN of the Firm of Herbert Haddan and Co. of
18 Buckingham Street, Strand, W.C., London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention a communication to me from abroad by Jules
Amédée Allagnon and Gaston Jules Allagnon both of 155 Avenue Rouget de
l'Isle, Vitry sur Seine, France, Manufacturers, and in what manner the same
is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :—
The manner of performing the invention is illustrated in the annexed drawings
in which the machinery described has 5 sets; we shall generally describe one only
with the parts common to all the sets, explaining that they are all operated in the
same manner :-
In the drawings
Fig. 1 is a side view of the complete machine, the hopper, the forming tube, and
the regulating rollers being shown in section.
Fig. 2 part view in plan of the table, a set of needles and their operating
devices.
Fig. 3 front view of a part of regulating roller for regulating the passing of the
tobacco to the forming tube.
Fig. 4 front view of two horizontal milling wheels which give the first folding.
Fig. 5 front view of two vertical milling wheels for giving the second folding.
Fig. 6 front view of two pairs of scissors of which one is seen in section.
Fig. 7 view of the extremity of a sheath formed by the bottom of the hopper.
Fig. 8 view in elevation and in plan of a guide folder receiving the cigarette
paper in U form to make it a cylindrical tube.
Fig. 9 modification of the guide folder.
Fig. 10 needle fork serving to pass the tobacco into the forming tube and from
there into the paper tube.

page_text: Fig. 11 view of the slides made in the walls of the hopper for the regulation of
the axis of the rollers and the table cams.
The machine having five sets of similar working parts forms simultaneously five
cigarettes (this number is only given as example and may easily be varied).
The similar devices are joined side by side and are operated either by gearing or by
side levers actuated by eccentrics as will be explained hereinafter.
The essential parts of the machine are:
1. The devices serving for the distribution and passage of the tobacco for its
forination into a roll, comprising a hopper, two regulating rollers, two moving forks
for each set of working, and forming tubes.
2. The devices guiding the paper and forming it into tubes, comprising the paper
bobbins, sheaths formed on the bottom of the hopper, forming guides folders,
horizontal and vertical milling wheels, scissors.
3. The cigarette receiver.
The cigarette paper bobbin A is fixed on a shaft supported by two side
supports A¹ placed on the table A² there being as toany bobbins A as the machine
has sets. The paper in rolling from the bobbin, passes under a small cylinder b
working loose upon the shaft a¹, to engage itself under the hopper B, where it is
shaped to the form of U, by sheaths B¹, maintained under the inclined grooves B2
in the bottom of the hopper (Figs. 1, 2, and 7).
The paper having received the U form enters in the guide C which partly
surrounds the forming tube B³ of cylindrical form, slightly widened in the interior
of the hopper for the introduction of the tobacco, it is at this point that the paper
enters the guide folder C (Figs. 1 and 8) in which the edges of the band of paper
are united at the same time that a fold is formed on the opposite side in order to
form two vertical edges c, c¹ (Fig. 4). At the point C¹ of the folder C two
edges c, care formed by two grooves when the four horizontal milling
wheels D D (Fig. 4) make the first folding, determining the exact width of the
paper tubes and consequently of the cigarettes. In each working set the milling
wheels D are loose and operated by contact with the wheels D¹ which are fixed
upon their shaft in such a manner that the pinion D2 with helicoidal teeth engages
in a pinion operating the vertical wheels. By continuing their movement in the
direction of the arrow (Fig. 8) the vertical projections c, c', of the paper tubes are
turned down, the one to left, the other to the right by the oblique parts c² of the
folder C and seized and fixed at once by the two vertical milling wheels E, E,
(Figs. 1 and 5) which bend them into a tube. These latter milling wheels which
serve to draw the paper into the tube, are rotated by two pinions i fixed on each
end of the shafts i carrying the milling wheels, said pinions being operated by a
third pinion 2 actuated by three gearings d d d arranged on each side of the
machine and worked by the motor shaft O, provided with a set of fixed and loose
pulleys 01 by means of two side shafts 02 and gearing d³.
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The horizontal and vertical wheels can be regulated by being moved in either
direction by means of springs and pressure screws.
As shown in Fig. 9 the folder before described can be replaced by a folder S,
this device receives the paper having its two straight folds c, c¹, engaged in two
conical holes u, u', in which they arrange themselves so as to leave in form of two
small rows which are flattened at their leaving by two pieces which press them
against the forming tube B³ before their passage between the vertical milling
wheels E E¹.
The paper tube thus obtained is filled with tobacco in the following manner.
Into the hopper B which is made of unoxydisable material preferably of aluminium,
glass etc., is placed the tobacco to be used, this tobacco is moved in regular
quantity into the forming tube B3 by the plates with pins F, F. The plates F of
the several sets being fixed upon a cross piece f fixed to two oscillating side levers e
operated by two eccentrics G fixed upon the motor shaft O. The plates F¹ are
fixed upon a cross piece and operated in the same manner by the oscillating
levers and the eccentrics G¹ (Figs. 1, 2 and 10) being guided in their movement

page_text: by the support guides x. The pins of the plates F, F1 are inclined in order to
take along the tobacco. One or two pins g are raised in form of a hook to prevent
obstruction of the tobacco under the 2 rollers. The plates F F1 working side
by side are moved to and fro; F is pushed forwards when F1 goes back, that is to
say F and F move each in its turn the tobacco to the end of the forming tube.
In order to prevent too large a quantity of tobacco accompanying the tobacco
feeder F, in the hopper B are placed two regulating rollers H, H which will suffer
only the requisite quantity to pass.
These two rollers H, H¹, being similar, only H¹ is described (Figs. 1 and 3).
This roller is formed by a tube closed at its ends, furnished with eight slides / in
which circulate bars h¹ provided on their lengths with double series of pins ho (that
is one series for each set) traversing the casing of the roller. These pins project
and have a useful effect only when they are turned towards the bottom of the
hopper; these movements of the pins are obtained by means of rollers fixed on
each end of the rods and placed in an eccentric groove in a plate h².
The axis of the roller traverses the fixed cams h² and is seated at each extremity
in a bearing h³ resting upon a spring hand regulated by a screw at h³.
The position of the axis of the roller is determined by the centre of the cams
and the position of the cams by the two side screws. For this purpose 3 slides on
each side in the walls of the hopper allow the height of the cams to be varied and
consequently the roller (Fig. 11).
The roller H is rotated by a pulley fixed upon a shaft o by means of a band p
passing over a double pulley p¹ fixed upon the shaft of the roller and serving as a
guide pulley for a second band 222 which operates in the same manner the roller H¹
by the pulley p³.
After the action of the vertical milling wheels upon the paper tube, the roll of
tobacco surrounded by its paper tube is cut into pieces of the determined length,
by means of the scissors placed in the support fixed upon the cross piece ki
cominon to all similar supports. The cross piece slides upon two supports k
arranged on each side of the table.
At the moment of their action the scissors have the same velocity as the roll of
tobacco and nove to and fro to prevent tearing the paper, at the time of the
crossing of the two blades in the transverse movement (Figs. 1 and 6). The
blades m of the scissors are kept distanced one from the other by means of two
extension springs 1, (Fig. 6) which operate upon two vertical axes 11 in the
extremities of the blades, these axes carry at their centre pulleys 12 fitted partly in
the hollows of the blades m said pulleys are operated by cams and transmit
movement to the blades.
The movement of the scissors is obtained by means of the oscillating levers R
operated by two eccentrics R¹ fixed upon the shaft o which receives its movement
by a gearing o actuated by the shaft 02 already described.
In this machine with five sets of working which serves as an example there are
five scissors which are operated simultaneously by six cams P (Fig. 1) four of
these cams work upon two rollers of the neighbouring scissors and the two outer
cams work only upon the outer rollers.
The cams P which are rotated continuously are fixed upon a common shaft II of
which each end carries a mitred gearing n, receiving its movement from another
mitred gearing n¹ actuated by the shaft () by means of a toothed wheel n².
Therefore in a machine of x sets of working there will be x + 1 cams operating
the scissors.
The inachine thus described is completed by addition of a receiver having
certain movements adapted to stack the cigarettes parallel to one another in
superposed rows. For this purpose a transverse feed and a downward feed are
required. The transverse feed is given to the plate L which extends across the
whole machine. This feed is a step movement of an amount equal to the width
of a cigarette and is completed in each direction after ten successive steps. This
permits each working set of the machine to deposit on the plate L ten cigarettes

page_text: side by side; a machine with five working sets will produce a row of fifty cigarettes.
At this monent a striker 8 situated behind the cigarettes on the plate L will
move forward and push the row of cigarettes off the plate L into the box M
which will meanwhile have moved downwardly for an amount equal to the
thickness of one cigarette since the last row was pushed into the box, thus
receiving the present row above the last.
The box M is moved regularly downwards by the revolution of the screws M¹
with which part nuts attached by springs t¹ to the box M engage. The
screws M¹ are revolved by worm gear M² from the shaft 02. When the box is
full it can be removed by pressing back the part nuts t t and a similar box can be
inserted between the upper parts of the screws M in the same manner.
The first cigarettes cut by the scissors fall upon the channelled plate I and are
pushed upon the plate L by the following cigarettes and so forth. The movements
and return of the plate L are effected by appropriate geare.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that
what I claim is :-
In the improved machinery for making cigarettes without gum.
1. The combination of mechanical devices allowing tobacco to be taken from
the bulk and for forming it in a uniform and continuous roll; such devices
consisting of regulating rollers and needle forks for moving the tobacco and
forming it in a continuous roll in the forming tubes.
2. The combination for each set of a forming guide, four horizontal milling or
shaping wheels, a double folder, two vertical milling wheels for forming the paper
tube without gum with two folds with exterior pleatings.
3. The arrangement of the receiver for the made cigarettes in combination with
the cigarette machinery as described.
4. The arrangement of the machine substantially as described and illustrated in
the annexed drawings.
Dated this 3rd day of February 1896.