Improvements in Cigarette Machines.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Nov., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 25th Aug., 1896-Accepted, 10th Oct., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cigarette Machines.
We JOHN FRANCIS DAVIS Engineer of 10 Lord Nelson Street Liverpool and
COPE BROTHERS. AND COMPANY LIMITED of Lord Nelson Street Liverpool in
the County of Lancaster, Cigarette Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
The invention relates to cigarette machines in which a continuous wrapper is filled
with tobacco, pasted or closed, and cut off into lengths.
The object is to provide appliances for collecting and taking away the cigarettes
cut off, so that they may be more readily inspected, and--when pasted-completely
dried before being delivered to the collecting box, sorter or packer.
Apparatus under my invention consists essentially of a funnel hopper or gatherer
which receives the cigarettes as they leave the knife and delivers them side by side
to a travelling apron, conveyor, or band, such apron conveyor or band delivering
the cigarettes to a weighing or counting appliance or both of any usual construction
or direct to a collecting box sorter or packer.
Dated the 23rd day of November 1895.
We JOHN FRANCIS DAVIS of 10 Lord Nelson Street Liverpool, Engineer, and
COPE BROTHERS AND COMPANY LIMITED of Lord Nelson Street Liverpool in
the County of Lancaster, Cigarette Manufacturers, 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 invention relates to cigarette machines in which a continuous wrapper is filled
with tobacco, pasted or closed and cut off into lengths.
The object is to provide appliances for collecting and taking away the cigarettes
cut off so that they may be more readily inspected, and when pasted completely
dried before being delivered to the collecting box, sorter, or packer.
Apparatus under our invention consists essentially of a funnel, hopper, or gatherer
which receives the cigarettes as they leave the knife, and delivers them side by side
to a travelling apron, conveyor or band such apron, conveyor or band, delivering
the cigarettes to a weighing or counting appliance or both, of any usual construction,
or direct to a collecting-box, sorter, or packer.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 is a sectional view, and Fig. 2 a plan showing so much of a cigarette
machine as is necessary to illustrate our invention. a is a portion of the main
frame of the machine. b is the cutting knife carried in bearings and operated in
the usual manner. c, tube through which the cigarettes d are delivered. e hopper
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page_text: or gatherer supported on the frame, a for receiving the cigarettes as they are cut
off and delivering them to the travelling. baud or conveyor f. The travelling
band carried on rollers g delivers the cigarettes to the weighing machine,
preferably of the automatic tipping class, receiving motion from any convenient
part of the machine. i belt and pulley for driving the rollers g. If desired,
instead of the cigarettes being delivered to a weighing machine, they may be
delivered to a counting machine, or to a collecting box, sorting machine, or packing
apparatus in any usual or convenient manner. The travelling band f is of such a
length and travels at such a speed as to allow of careful inspection and complete
drying of the cigarettes before they are delivered to the weighing or other
apparatus.
By the above means, the cigarettes are not subjected to rough usage while, in a
damp and insecure state as has been the case hitherto and thus the great waste
which has been usual hitherto by the bursting open of the cigarettes is avoided.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
Apparatus for receiving cigarettes from a cigarette-making machine and
delivering such cigarettes, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.
Dated the 4th d
1900
W. B. JOHNSON,
Agent.