IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR CUTTING AND PACKING CIGARS
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Archibald Brooman, of 106, Fleet Street,
in the City of London, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN MACHINERY FOR CUTTING AND PACKING CIGARS."-A communication from
abroad by Julius de Bary, of Offenbach, Hesse Darmstadt.
Sealed the 9th April 1861, and dated the 12th October 1860.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Archibald
Brooman at, the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 12th October 1860.
I, RICHARD ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of
London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
*IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR CUTTING AND PACKING CIGARS," (communi-
cated to me from abroad by Julius de Bary, of Offenbach, Hesse Darmstadt,)
to be as follows:-
The object of this Invention is to cut cigars to a given length, and to lay
them in boxes, and the Invention consists of the following mechanical arrange-
ments: The Inventor employs an endless chain or chains divided into com-
partments into which the cigars are laid, and, in which they are held by bands
of india-rubber, or other suitable material, with their pointed. or closed ends
against a fixed frame. A circular saw revolving at a considerable speed cuts
the cigars to an equal length. as they successively approach the end of the
frame, where they are taken hold of by two endless bands and carried and laid'

page_text: into a box below, as hereafter described, while the part cut off escapes by a
pipe or shoot to a suitable receptacle.
The box to receive the cigars has a to-and-fro motion imparted to it corre-
sponding in speed to that at which the endless chain moves, so that as one
cigar leaves the endless bands and becomes deposited in the box, the latter
moves sufficiently to make room for another, and so on until the layer is
completed. The frame on which the box stands is lowered the depth of a
cigar by means of a weighted lever and other appliances, when another row. of
cigars is laid on the preceding row, and so on until the box is full; the frame
on which the box stands travels on wheels, and carries at its under side a rack,
into the teeth of which a pinion takes, mounted on a shaft, carrying a bevil
wheel in gear with two other wheels receiving motion from the main driving
shaft in such manner that the motion of the endless chains carrying the uncut
cigars shall be in proportion to the speed at which the box to receive the
cigars travels.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Richard Archibald Brooman in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 12th April 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of London, Patent
Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-fourth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Richard Archibald Brooman, Her special licence that I, the said
Richard Archibald Brooman, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time
to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should
and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR CUTTING AND PACKING CIGARS," (a
communication from abroad by Julius de Bary, of Offenbach, Hesse Darmstadt,)
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Richard Archibald
Brooman, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and

page_text: ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was
to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the
said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman; do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings
hereunto annexed, that is to say:-
The object of this Invention is to cut cigars to a given length and to lay
them in boxes, and the Invention consists of the following mechanical arrange-
ments The Inventor employs an endless chain or chains divided into com-
partments into which the cigars are laid, and in which they are held by bands
of india-rubber or other suitable material, with their pointed or closed ends
against a fixed frame. A circular saw revolving at a considerable speed' cuts
the cigars to an equal length as they successively approach the end of the
frame, where they are taken hold of by two endless bands, and carried and
laid into a box below, as hereafter described, while the part cut off escapes by
a pipe or shoot to a suitable receptacle.
The box to receive the cigars has a to-and-fro motion imparted to it
corresponding in speed to that at which the endless chain moves, so that as
one cigar leaves the endless bands and becomes deposited in the box, the
latter moves sufficiently to make room for another, and so on until the layer
is completed. The frame on which the box stands is lowered the depth of a
cigar by means of a weighted lever and other appliances, when another row of
cigars is laid on the preceding row, and so on until the box is full. The frame
on which the box stands travels on wheels and carries at its under side a rack,
into the teeth of which a pinion takes mounted on a shaft, carrying a bevel
wheel in gear with two other wheels receiving motion from the main driving
shaft in such manner that the motion of the endless chains carrying the uncut
cigars shall be in proportion to the speed at which the box to receive the
cigars travels.
The Drawing hereunto annexed shows in side elevation so much of a
machine as will be necessary to illustrate the manner in which this Invention
is carried into effect.
A is an endless chain formed with compartments for the reception of cigars
C, C, C, which are laid in them, as shown, with their closed or pointed ends
against the regulator B; E is a circular saw towards which the cigars are led'
in the compartments of the chain, the distance between it and the regulator B

page_text: being equal to the length of cigars. The chain A passes round a cylinder D,
at the side of which the circular saw E is placed, so that it touches the chain A,
but before the cigars come under or are touched by the saw, they are held by
the caoutchouc endless band EI in such manner as not to escape the saw,
which, making about 700 to 800 revolutions per minute; cuts the ends off
the cigars, which falling into the passage F, are led therefrom to the box G.
Two other endless caoutchouc bands are led through the chain and under the
cigars, in such manner that when the ends are cut off, the cigars themselves
are held between the bands H and F, which carry them along by degrees one
after the other to the bottom of the case K, as shown. On motion being
communicated to the machine the endless band A moves in a contrary direction
to that of the case K, the motion corresponding to the delivery of the cigars
between the two bands E and F, which is easily regulated by the friction
disc L; in this manner the cigars become arranged one alongside the other in
the bottom of the box; the first row having covered the bottom of the box K,
the latter is brought back by the aid of a balance lever M, and as the cigars
arrive without interruption the case K with its frame Q, on which it makes its
to-and-fro motion, descends at the same time the thickness of a cigar to make
room for another layer of cigars, and so on until the box is full. This descent
is effected by means of a throttle pulley driven by the shaft, communicating
motion to the roller D, which at the same time puts in motion the wheel N
by aid of an endless screw with which it is in gear, and with this wheel
the shaft on which it is fixed. W, W, are conical toothed wheels on
the shaft O gearing into the wheels X, X, which communicate motion to the
pinion P in gear with the teeth of the rack R, which is connected to the
frame Q on which the box for containing the cigars is laid. When the frame
has descended to its lowest point and the box is filled with cigars, the strap S
is removed from the pulley T on to a loose pulley, not shown in the Drawing,
and the machine is stopped. The filled box is then replaced by an empty one,
the endless screw thrown out of gear with the wheel N by means of the
lever V, and the frame is pushed up to its first position, the endless screw is
again put in gear with the wheel N by the lever V, and the operation is
repeated.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim as the improve-
ments in machinery for cutting and packing cigars,-
First, the employment of an endless chain divided into compartments for
carrying cigars, in combination with a saw made to revolve at a great speed.
for cutting the cigars of an equal length, and band for guiding the cigars,

page_text: substantially in manner herein-before described and illustrated in the accom-
panying Drawings.
Second, the means and appliances for communicating a to-and-fro and
descending motion to the box in which the cigars are laid, substantially as
herein-before described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twelfth day of April, One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-one.
R. A. BROOMAN. (L.S.)