Improvements in the Manufacture of Cigarettes and Apparatus therefor.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Aug., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 14th June, 1898-Accepted, 16th July, 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Cigarettes and Apparatus
therefor.
I, GEORGE FREDERICK REDFERN, of the Firm of G. F. Redfern & Co., The General
Patent Office, No. 4, South Street, Finsbury, in the County of London, Patent
Agents, do hereby declare the nature of this invention (a communication from
THE LORENTZ CIGARETTE MACHINE COMPANY, of Jersey City, in the State of New
Jersey, United States of America) to be as follows:-
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This invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of cigarettes and
apparatus therefor and consists in the novel features of construction and combina-
tion of parts hereinafter described.
The main frame of the machine consists of two parallel side pieces, adapted to
be supported upon a suitable table or support and held at a short distance apart,
to allow portions of the machine to be placed between them. Upon the upper
faces of these side pieces are suitable guides adapted to engage and support a
dovetailed slide on the bottom of a longitudinally movable carriage which may
extend the entire length of the main frame although this is not essential.
The side pieces of the sliding carriaga are secured together by suitable braces,
which may be brackets or hangers which also serve to support the stem forming
tube which is held thereby, the said hangers being removably secured to the said
side pieces so as to be removable from the sliding carriage when desired.
The forming tube is cut open at its rear end and is flattened and is provided
adjacent to the flattened portion with gradually inclined sides leading up to the
cylindrical portion of the tube. Adjacent to the said cylindrical portion, one side
or edge of the tube is provided with a folding lip and a curved slot adjacent
thereto, by means of which one edge of the paper wrapper will be folded over
the other in a well known way.
I employ an endless stem forming belt, the upper portion of which extends
through a portion of the forming tube leaving it by means of a suitable aperture
adjacent to its forward end, the said tube being provided with a flaring guiding
flange adjacent to the said aperture to guide the belt as it leaves the tube. This
belt is supported upon an idle roller preferably grooved, the shaft of which is mounted
in the main frame adjacent to the rear end of the machine and a driving roller
(also preferably grooved) on the driving shaft of the machine, (also mounted in
bearings in the main frame) by means of which the belt is driven continuously
at the desired speed. The shaft of the idle roller is provided preferably with a
suitable belt tightening device of any usual or desired construction. I also provide
a device for preventing the slipping of the belt on the driving roller. This may con-
sist of a friction roller supported in the end of a pivoted lever, the lower end of
which is provided with a screw threaded adjusting device for regulating the pres-
sure of the roller upon said belt.
Forward of the point at which the belt leaves the forming tube, the carriage
is provided with a vertical knife supporting standard provided with suitable verticai

page_text: guides in which a vertically sliding knife carrying frame is mounted. In the
lower part of this frame is journalled the knife shaft carrying the rotary knife
and a pinion which is engaged by a suitable train of gears supported in the knife
carrying frame, the gear meshing with a stationary rack on the vertical standard
and thereby transmitting rapid rotary motion to the knife or cutter, as the knife
carrying frame is moved up and down.
In this arrangement I use a knife operating shaft mounted in the main frame
forward of the driving shaft and provided with pinions which engage gears on
the said driving shaft. The pinions are also provided with crank pins connected
by links with a cross bar secured to the upper end of the knife carrying frame
thus raising and lowering the frame and operating the knife or cutter.
The tube is separated slightly just beneath the knife to allow the knife to pass
through the stem and tube in severing the stem into individual cigarettes.
Forward of the knife or cutter the movable carriage is provided with the tucking
devices for tucking the ends of the individual cigarettes. These devices consist
of upper tucking fingers mounted on transversely extending shafts respectively
and lower tucking fingers mounted on shafts supported in the carriage below the
first named shafts respectively. The upper tucker shafts are provided with inter-
meshing gears which insure the simultaneous operation of the upper tucking
fingers, in opposite directions. The lower tucker shafts are provided with similar
intermeshing gears which are conveniently located on the side of the machine
opposite the other gears and which cause said shafts to rotate in opposite directions.
An operating lever is mounted pivotally upon the shaft of one of the upper
tucking fingers and is connected by a link with an arm rigidly connected with
the other shaft for moving the upper tucking fingers, and the said operating lever
is also provided with a downwardly extending arm adapted to be engaged by the
operating means hereinafter described. A spring connected to the link and to
a part of the knife supporting standard serves to return the tucking fingers to
their normal positions, after operating by drawing the arm against a suitable
buffer on the standard. But other means can be substituted to accomplish the
same result. One of the lower tucking shafts is provided with an operating arm.
In this arrangement I may employ a lever pivoted to the main frame and having
a part in position to be engaged by the tucker operating devices, the said lever
having one end connected with the operating arm by a link and its other end
connected with a retracting spring secured to the main frame. The knife operating
shaft is provided with a cam which in revolving first strikes the lever pivoted to
the main frame thereby operating the lower tucking fingers forcing them into the
opposite ends of a severed cigarette after which the spring restores them to their
normal position. The cam in its further movement then strikes the lower arm
of the operating lever and thus operates the upper tucking fingers which complete
the tucking of the cigarette. The relation of the cam and the levers is such that
the movement of the carriage carrying with it the tucking devices does not
affect the proper operation of the parts. When the tucking fingers tuck the ends
of the cigarette the tobacco in the wrapper is pushed back from the ends and
slightly compressed, thereby offering a compact body against which the paper is
pressed by the tucking fingers and assisting in the crimping operation.
It will be seen from the foregoing description, that while the belt is supported
by the main frame and is given a continuous movement by the driving shaft,
the sliding carriage carrying the stem forming tube and the cutter and the tucking
devices are capable of movement independently thereof. This carriage is given
a forward movement with the belt at the same rate of speed, and a rearward
movement at the same speed, the distance it moves in each direction being sub-
stantially equal to one half the length of a cigarette before it is tucked."
movement may be effected in any desired way for example one of the pinions on
the knife operating shaft may be provided with a crank pin connected by a pitman
rod the forward end of which is connected pivotally with a bracket connected with
This

page_text: the carriage. By this means (the parts being properly timed) the carriage will
move forward with the cigarette stem and at the same rate of speed during the
operation of the cutter, and of the tucking devices, after which it moves rearwardly.
In moving rearwardly half the length of a cigarette, the belt moving continuously
all the time, will have carried the stem forward the full length of a cigarette,
so that the operation of cutting and tucking will be repeated on the next forward
movement of the carriage. In this manner the cutting and tucking operations
will not interrupt the progress of the cigarette stem and will not bruise or buckle
the cigarettes or the wrappers thereof.
The paper will preferably be drawn from a roll supported by brackets at the
rear end of the machine and provided with a suitable tension device.
In feeding granulated tobacco I use a hopper of any usual or preferred form
secured to the main frame of the machine and having a narrowed vertical dis-
charge passage located above the paper and belt, and forward of the rear belt roller,
and I prefer to provide the said hopper with a mechanism for feeding a measured
quantity of tobacco. In one form of measuring device which I contemplate using,
horizontal slides are mounted in grooved guides secured to the exterior of the
hopper, the said slides being adapted to be forced alternately into the interior of
the delivery passage through slots in the opposite sides. These slides are arranged
in different horizontal planes, the space within the said passage between the slides
containing the quantity of tobacco which it is desired to feed.
In the lower part of the main frame below the roller is a transversely sliding
bar which moves in guiding slots in the frame, and has a yoke which is engaged
by a cam on a longitudinally extending shaft driven by a belt from the shaft of
the belt roller. The ends of the transverse slide bar are connected by levers with
slides, the said levers being fulcrummed in brackets secured to the main frame
of the machine. When the slide bar is in the position shewn in that figure, the
tobacco is permitted to fall down upon the lower slide. When the slide bar is
shifted by the cam to its opposite position the upper slide will be pushed in to
cut off the supply of tobacco and the lower slide will be withdrawn to permit the
amount of tobacco between the two slides to fall upon the paper. In order to
prevent clogging of the hopper I prefer to employ a stirrer which is driven by
a belt from the shaft of the belt roller.
In some instances I may desire to paste the paper wrapper as it passes through
the stem forming tube. In such case the stem forming tube is slotted for a short
distance as shown to allow the paste wheel to engage one edge of the continuous
wrapper.
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The paste receptacle has a tapered spout, the end of which is closed by a hori-
zontal roll on a vertical shaft. The paste roller is vertical and is supported on
a horizontal shaft in position to properly engage the paper through the slot.
second shaft is driven by means of a pulley in any desired way and the vertical
shaft is driven by a belt or cord from the second shaft. The small roller will
take the paste from the spout of the receptacle and will distribute it upon the
surface of the paste roller, adjacent to the periphery of the same, thereby securing
an even feed of the paste and also grinding it and smoothing it so as to remove
lumps and put it into the best condition to be transferred to the paper.
In a slight modification of my invention in which the elements are the same
as in the machine just described the carrying belt extends entirely through the
tube past the tucking mechanism to the front of the machine, where it passes
over a driving roller on a shaft which is driven from the driving shaft of the
machine by means of sprocket gearing. Just beneath the cutter the belt makes
a dip leaving the tube passing beneath a guide rod or roller and entering the tube
again beyond the knife. This construction prevents the knife from cutting the
belt when it severs the continuous cigarette stem. The belt is provided at suitable
intervals with longitudinal slots or apertures which are provided for the purpose
of allowing the lower tucking fingers to pass up through the belt to tuck the cigar-
ettes. These apertures are formed in any desired way and are arranged at the

page_text: required intervals throughout the length of the belt. This construction is found
to be very advantageous as the belt positively carries the cigarette through the
entire length of the tube instead of having the severed cigarettes pushed out by
the moving continuous stem as in the construction first described.
In another slightly modified form of machine I dispense with the cutting mech-
anism and use a continuous paper wrapper which is weakened transversely at
intervals by a line of perforations, or slits, or by acid or in any other preferred
way.
The weakened paper is fed into the machine from a roll so that the lines of
perforations will come over the centres of the apertures in the perforated belt,
and the continuous cigarette is formed as previously described. No cutter is
used in this form of the machine, and as the tucking fingers are brought into
operation the rear tucking fingers will tear the paper wrapper along one of the
lines of perforations and thus sever the cigarette, the ends of which are being
tucked, from the continuous cigarette.
In some instances I prefer to stop the motion of the tucking fingers by throwing
them out of operation and to use a pasting device of any convenient form to paste
the edges of the wrapper, the paste applying wheel extending through a slot in
the tube. The result will be a continuous cigarette, the wrapper of which is per-
forated at intervals. This long cigarette can be broken at lines of perforations
into suitable lengths and packed and sold, and the user can separate a single
cigarette by breaking the stem and wrapper at a line of perforations, when desired.
In this way the loss of tobacco from the ends of the cigarettes which is experienced
when they are packed and shipped, will be largely, if not entirely, avoided.
A perforating device can be adapted to be placed on the machine itself for per-
forating the paper as it is drawn into the machine. This device consists of a roller
provided with a series of perforators on its periphery separated a distance equal
to the length desired for the cigarettes and a roller having notches which co-
operate with the perforator roller. These rollers are driven by chains or otherwise
from some shaft of the machine.
Dated this 10th of $1007
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London Agents for the Applicant.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Cigarettes and Apparatus
therefor.
I, GEORGE FREDERICK REDFERN, of the Firm of G. F. Redfern & Co., The General
Patent Office, No. 4, South Street, Finsbury, in the County of London, Patent
Agents, do hereby declare the nature of this invention (a communication to me by
THE LORENTZ CIGARETTE MACHLINE COMPANY, of Jersey City, in the State of New
Jersey, United States of America), and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
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My invention consists in the novel features of construction and combination
of parts hereinafter described, reference being had to the accompanying drawings
which illustrate one form in which I have contemplated embodying my invention
and several slight modifications of parts hereof, and said invention is fully dis-
closed in the following description and claims.
Referring to the said drawings,

page_text: Fig. 1 represents a left side elevation of a cigarette machine embodying my
invention, a portion of the machine being broken away.
Fig. 2 represents a right side elevation of the same.
Fig. 3 represents a top plan view of the machine, portions being broken away
and the hopper being removed but its position indicated by dotted lines.
Fig. 4 represents a central longitudinal vertical section of the machine.
Fig. 5 represents a transverse sectional view on line 5-5 of Fig. 4.
Fig. 6 represents a front end view of a portion of the machine showing the
tucking tube and the upper and lower tucking fingers.
Figs. 7 and S are detail sectional views showing the tucker tube and illustrating
the action of the lower and upper tucking fingers respectively in tucking a cigar-
ette.
Fig. 9 is a detail view of a form of pasting mechanism adapted for use in my
improved machine.
Fig. 10 represents a vertical transverse section of the machine through the
tobacco hopper, showing one form of mechanism for feeding the desired quantity
of tobacco.
Fig. 11 represents a longitudinal vertical section of a machine showing a modi-
fied form of forming and carrying belt and its adjuncts, the other parts of the
machine being the same as in the preceding figures.
Fig. 12 is a detail perspective view of the slotted belt.
Fig. 13 is a longitudinal sectional view of a slightly modified form of my
machine in which paper perforated transversely is used and the cutter is dispensed
with.
Fig. 14 is a top plan view of the forming and tucking tube showing the per-
forated belt and perforated paper.
Fig. 15 is a plan view of a portion of the belt and paper.
Fig. 16 is a longitudinal sectional view of a paper perforating device attached
to the machine.
Fig. 17 is a top plan view of the same.
Fig. 18 is a view of the continuous cigarette formed with perforated wrapper
so that it can afterwards be separated by hand into individual cigarettes.
In the drawings A represents the main frame of the machine which consists in
this instance of two parallel side pieces, adapted to be supported upon a suitable
table or support and held at a short distance apart, to allow portions of the machine
to be placed between them. Upon the upper faces of these side pieces I have
shown suitable guides a adapted to engage and support a dovetailed slide on the
bottom of a longitudinally movable carriage B which extends in this instance
the entire length of the main frame although this is not essential.
The side pieces b b of the sliding carriage B are secured together by suitable
braces, in this instance brackets or hangers 64 b which also serve to support the
stem forming tube C, which is held thereby, said hangers being removably secured
to said side pieces b b so as to be removable from the sliding carriage when desired.
This forming tube C is cut open at its rear end and is flattened as shown at c
and is provided adjacent to the flattened portion with gradually inclined sides
leading up to the cylindrical portion of the tube. Adjacent to the said cylindrical
portion, one side or edge of the tube is provided with a folding lip c¹ and a curved
slot adjacent thereto, by means of which one edge of the paper wrapper will
be folded over the other in a well known way.
D represents the endless stem forming belt, the upper portion of which extends
through a portion of the forming tube C, leaving it by means of a suitable aper-
ture adjacent to its forward end, the said tube being provided with a flaring
guiding flange adjacent to said aperture to guide the belt as it leaves the tube.
This belt is supported upon an idle roller E preferably grooved, the shaft of
which is mounted in the main frame adjacent to the rear end of the machine and
a driving roller E' (also preferably grooved) on the driving shaft F of the machine,
(also mounted in bearings in the main frame) by means of which the belt is

page_text: driven continuously at the desired speed. The shaft of the idle roller E is pro-
vided preferably with a suitable belt tightening device E³, see Figs. 1, 2 and 3,
of any usual or desired construction. I also provide a device shown in Fig. 4
for preventing the slipping of the belt on the driving roller E. This consists
in this instance of a friction roller g supported in the end of a pivoted lever G,
the lower end of which is provided with a screw threaded adjusting device y¹ for
regulating the pressure of the roller upon said belt.
Forward of the point at which the belt leaves the forming tube C, the carriage B
is provided with a vertical knife supporting standard H provided with suitable
vertical guides in which the vertically sliding knife carrying frame H¹ is
mounted, see Figs. 4 and 5. In the lower part of this frame journalled the
knife shaft carrying the rotary knife H2 and a pinion which is engaged by
a suitable train of gears h³, h, h³ supported in the knife carrying trame, the gear h
meshing with a stationary rack on the vertical standard II and thereby trans-
mitting rapid rotary motion to the knife or cutter, as the knife carrying frame
is moved up and down.
In this instance I have shown a knife operating shaft I mounted in the main
frame forward of the driving shaft and provided with pinions which engage
gears ff on said driving shaft. The pinions ii are also provided with crank
pins connected by links with a cross bar secured to the upper end of
the knife carrying frame thus raising and lowering the frame and operating the
knife or cutter.
The tube Cis separated slightly just beneath the knife to allow the knife to
pass through the stem and tube in severing the stem into individual cigarettes,
as is clearly shown in Fig. 4.
Forward of the knife or cutter the movable carriage is provided with the tucking
devices for tucking the ends of the individual cigarettes. These devices consist
of the upper tucking fingers J J2 mounted on transversely extending shafts K' K³
respectively and the lower tucking fingers J J mounted on the shafts K³ K
supported in the carriage below the shafts K¹ K² respectively. The upper tucker
shafts K K are provided with intermeshing gears (see Fig. 2) which insure
the simultaneous operation of the upper tucking fingers, in opposite directions.
The lower tucker shafts K³ K are provided with similar intermeshing gears s
which are conveniently located on the side of the machine opposite the gears a
(see Fig. 1) and which cause said shafts to rotate in opposite directions.
An operating lever L is mounted pivotally upon the shaft K and is connected
by a link with an arm L' rigidly connected with the shaft K2 for moving the upper
tucking fingers, and the said operating lever is also provided with a downwardly
extending armadapted to be engaged by the operating means hereinafter
described. A spring connected to the link and to a part of the knife sup-
porting standard serves to return the tucking fingers to their normal positions.
after operating by drawing the arm L against a suitable buffer on the standard.
But other means can be substituted to accomplish the same result. The shaft K
is provided with an operating arm L³. In this instance I have shown a lever L2
pivoted to the main frame and having a part in position to be engaged by the
tucker operating devices, said lever having one end connected with the arm L
by a link and its other end connected with a retracting spring secured to the
main frame. The knife operating shaft I is provided with a cam I' (see Fig. 2)
which revolves in the direction indicated by the arrow in Fig. 2 and first strikes
the lever L thereby operating the lower tucking fingers forcing them into the
opposite ends of a severed cigarette as indicated in Fig. 7, after which the spring 2
restores them to their normal position. The cam in its further movement then
strikes the lower arm of the lever L and thus operates the upper tucking fingers
which complete the tucking of the cigarette as indicated in Fig. 8. The relation
of the cam I' and the levers L³ and L is such that the movement of the carriage B
carrying with it the tucking devices does not affect the proper operation of the
parts. When the tucking fingers tuck the ends of the cigarette the tobacco in

page_text: the wrapper is pushed back from the ends and slightly compressed, thereby
offering a compact body against which the paper is pressed by the tucking fingers
and assisting in the crimping operation.
It will be seen from the drawings and the foregoing description, that while
the belt is supported by the main frame and is given a continuous movement
by the driving shaft, the sliding carriage carrying the stem forming tube and
the cutter and the tucking devices are capable of movement independently thereof.
This carriage is given a forward movement with the belt at the same rate of
speed, and a rearward movement at the same speed, the distance it moves in
each direction being substantially equal to one half the length of a cigarette
before it is tucked. This movement may be affected in any desired way. In
this instance 1 have shown one of the pinions on the knife operating shaft (see
Figs. 1 and 3) provided with a crank pin connected by a pitman rod 12 the
forward end of which is connected pivotally with a bracket 13 connected with
the carriage. By this means (the parts being properly timed) the carriage will
move forward with the cigarette stem and at the same rate of speed during the
operation of the cutter, and of the tucking devices, after which it moves rear-
wardly. In moving rearwardly half the length of a cigarette, the belt moving
continuously all the time, will have carried the stem forward the full length of
a cigarette, so that the operation of cutting and tucking will be repeated on the
next forward movement of the carriage. In this manner the cutting and tucking
operations will not interrupt the progress of the cigarette stem and will not bruise
or buckle the cigarettes or the wrappers thereof.
The paper will preferably be drawn from a roll N, supported by brackets at
the rear end of the machine and provided with a suitable tension device as indi-
cated at n.
In feeding granulated tobacco I use a hopper of any usual or preferred form
secured to the main frame of the machine and having a narrowed vertical dis-
charge passage o located above the paper and belt, and forward of the rear belt
roller E, and I prefer to provide the said hopper with a mechanism for feeding
a measured quantity of tobacco. In Figs. 1, 2, 4 and 10 I have shown one form
of measuring device which I contemplate using. In these figures o¹ of represent
horizontal slides, mounted in grooved guides o secured to the exterior of the
hopper, said slides being adapted to be forced alternately into the interior of the
delivery passage o, through slots in the opposite sides. These slides are arranged
in different horizontal planes, the space within said passage o between the slides
containing the quantity of tobacco which it is desired to feed.
In the lower part of the main frame below the roller E is a transversely sliding
bar which moves in guiding slots in the frame, and has a yoke 02 which is
engaged by a cam l'on a longitudinally extending shaft P' driven in this instance
by a belt from the shaft of belt roller E. The ends of the transverse slide bar O
are connected by levers 030 with the slides o 2 said levers being fulcrumed
in brackets secured to the main frame of the machine. The operation of the
slides will be understood from Fig. 10. When the slide bar 01 is in the position
shown in that figure, the tobacco is permitted to fall down upon the lower slide.
When the slide bar is shifted by the cam to its opposite position the upper
slide will be pushed in to cut off the supply of tobacco and the lower slide will
be withdrawn to permit the amount of tobacco between the two slides to fall
upon the paper. In order to prevent clogging of the hopper I prefer to employ
a stirrer 0 (see Figs. 10 and 4) which is driven by a belt from the shaft of belt
roller E as shown.
In some instances I may desire to paste the paper wrapper as it passes through
the stem forming tube, and in Fig. 9 I have shown a form of pasting mechan-
ism which is advantageously employed in this connection. In such case the
stem forming tube is slotted for a short distance as shown at Q in dotted lines
Fig. 3, to allow the paste wheel to engage one edge of the continuous wrapper.
As shown in Fig. 9, Q¹ represents a paste receptacle having a tapered spout,

page_text: the end of which is closed by a horizontal roll q on a vertical shaft g'. The paste
roller Q2 is vertical and is supported on a horizontal shaft q2 in position to properly
engage the paper through the slot Q. The shaft is driven by means of the
pulley in any desired way and the vertical shaft q' is driven by a belt or cord
from the shaft q as shown. The small roller q will take the paste from the
spout of the receptacle Q and will distribute it upon the surface of the paste
roller, adjacent to the periphery of the same, thereby securing an even feed of
the paste and also grinding it and smoothing it so as to remove lumps and put
it into the best condition to be transferred to the paper.
In Fig. 11 I have shown a slight modification of my invention in which the
elements are the same as in the machine just described except that the carrying
belt is of peculiar construction and extends entirely through the tube past the
tucking mechanism to the front of the machine, where it passes over a driving
roller R on a shaft R which is driven from the driving shaft of the machine
by means of sprocket gearing as indicated in dotted lines. Just beneath the
cutter the belt makes a dip leaving the tube passing beneath a guide rod or
roller and entering the tube again beyond the knife. This construction pre-
vents the knife from cutting the belt when it severs the continuous cigarette stem.
The belt S is provided at suitable intervals with longitudinal slots or apertures &
which are provided for the purpose of allowing the lower tucking fingers to
pass up through the belt to tuck the cigarettes as clearly appears in Fig. 11.
These apertures are formed in any desired way and are arranged at the required
intervals throughout the length of the belt. This construction is found to be
very advantageous as the belt positively carries the cigarette through the entire
length of the tube instead of having the severed cigarettes pushed out by the
moving continuous stem as in the construction first described.
In Figs. 13, 14 and 15 I have shown another slightly modified form of machine
in which I dispense with the cutting mechanism and use a continuous paper
wrapper which is weakened transversely at intervals by a line of perforations, or
slits, or by acid or in any other preferred way.
In the figures T represents the continuous paper wrapper, which is weakened
transversely at intervals, in this instance by rows of perforations or slitst as
shown. The paper T is fed into the machine in this instance, from a roll T so
that the lines of perforations will come over the centers of the apertures s in the
perforated belt, and the continuous cigarette is formed as previously described
with reference to Fig. 11. No cutter is used in this form of the machine, and
as the tucking fingers are brought into operation the rear tucking fingers will
tear the paper wrapper along one of the lines of perforations and thus sever the
cigarette, the ends of which are being tucked, from the continuous cigarette.
In some instances I prefer to stop the motion of the tucking fingers by throwing
them out of operation and to use a pasting device U of any convenient form, such
as the one shown in Fig. 9, to paste the edges of the wrapper T, the paste applying
wheel extending through a slot u in the tube as shown in Figs. 13 and 14.
The result will be a continuous cigarette as shown in Fig. 18, the wrapper of
which is perforated at intervals. This long cigarette can be broken at lines of
perforations into suitable lengths and packed and sold, and the user can separate
single cigarette by breaking the stem and wrapper at a line of perforation, when
desired. In this way the loss of tobacco from the ends of the cigarettes which
is experienced when they are packed and shipped, will be largely, if not entirely,
avoided.
In Figs. 17 and 18 I have shown a perforating device adapted to be placed on
the machine itself for perforating the paper as it is drawn into the machine. In
these figures V represents the roll of paper: W is a roller provided with a series
of perforators we on its periphery separated a distance equal to the length desired
for the cigarettes and W is a roller having notches which cooperate with the
roller W. These rollers are driven by chains or otherwise from some shaft of
the machine, in this instance one of the belt shafts as shown.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is:-
1. The herein described process of making cigarettes which consists in wrapping
a continuous wrapper around a continuous tobacco filler forming a continuous
stem, then forming separate cigarettes from said stem with the paper crimped at
each end of the stem, substantially as described.
2. The herein described process of making cigarettes, which consists in forming
a continuous wrapped stem, then severing and crimping to form cigarettes with
the paper crimped at both ends, substantially as described.
3. The process of making cigarettes, which consists in folding a continuous paper
wrapper perforated transversely at intervals, around a tobacco filler, then tearing
the paper apart in a line of perforation and then tucking the ends of the severed
cigarette, substantially as described.
4. The process of making cigarettes which consists in folding a continuous
paper wrapper, perforated transversely at intervals, around a tobacco filler, then
pasting the wrapper, then tearing the paper apart on a line of perforations, and
then tucking the ends of the severed cigarette, substantially as described.
5. The process of continuously making cigarettes which consists in wrapping
a continuous paper wrapper, perforated transversely at intervals around a tobacco
filler to form a continuous stem, then continuously separating said continuous
stem into individual cigarettes by breaking the wrapper apart along the line of
perforations, substantially as described.
6. The combination with mechanism for forming a continuous rod or stem of
tobacco and wrapping it with paper, of a cutter for severing the said wrapped rod
into separate cigarettes and operatively connected mechanism for crimping the
paper at the ends of the cigarettes, substantially as described.
7. The combination with mechanism for forming a continuous tobacco rod
and folding a wrapper about the same, of a cutter for severing said wrapped rod
into individual cigarettes and tucking devices operatively connected with the con-
tinuous cigarette forming devices for crimping the wrapper at each end of said
severed cigarettes, and operating means substantially as described.
S. The combination with mechanism for forming a continuous tobacco rod and
folding a wrapper about the same, of a cutter for severing said wrapped rod into
individual cigarettes, tucking devices operatively connected with the continuous
cigarette forming devices adapted to engage the wrapper at opposite ends of the
severed cigarette and means for moving the wrapper engaging portions of said
tuckers toward each other to crimp the paper at both ends of the severed cigarette
simultaneously, substantially as described.
9. The combination with devices for forming a tobacco rod, and folding a
wrapper about the same including the longitudinally reciprocating forming tube,
the traveling belt having a portion extending through said tube, the cutter and
tucking devices operatively connected with the continuous cigarette forming
devices, substantially as described.
10. The combination with the longitudinally reciprocating forming tube, and
tobacco carrying belt having a part extending through said tube, means for
moving said belt continuously in one direction, a cutter and tucking devices, sub-
stantially as described.
11. The combination with the longitudinally reciprocating forming tube, and
the tobacco carrying belt having a part passing through said tube, the cutter and
the tucking devices, of means for moving said belt continuously and devices for
reciprocating said tube, cutter and tucking devices simultaneously substantially
as described.
12. The combination with the main frame and the tobacco feeding belt sup-
ported therein, of the longitudinally movable carriage, a forming tube carried
thereby and engaging a portion of said belt, a cutter mounted on said carriage,
tucking devices also mounted on said carriage, means for moving said belt con-
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and tucking devices, substantially as described.
13. The combination with means for forming a continuous cigarette including
the forming tube, of a perforated belt having a part passing longitudinally there-
through, a cutter and tucking devices operatively connected with the continuous
cigarette forming devices and having parts adapted to pass through the perforations
of said belt, substantially as described.
14. The combination with the forming tube, of a forming belt provided with
perforations located at intervals throughout its length and having a part passing
through said tube, of a cutter and the tucking devices, the latter having parts
adapted to engage said perforations, substantially as described.
15. The combination with the longitudinally reciprocating forming tube, of
the belt provided with perforations located at intervals throughout the length
thereof, the cutter, tucking devices for tucking the ends of severed cigarettes,
said tucking devices having parts adapted to pass through the said perforations
of said belt, means for moving said belt continuously and means for reciprocating
said tube, substantially as described.
16. The combination with means for forming a tobacco rod and folding a
wrapper about the same, of a pasting mechanism for pasting the wrapper, a cutter
for severing said wrapped and pasted rod into individual cigarettes and tucking
devices operatively connected with the continuous cigarette forming devices for
erimping the wrapper at the ends of said severed cigarettes, substantially as
described.
17. The combination with means for forming a tobacco rod and folding a
wrapper about the same, of a paste receptacle, a paste supplying wheel closing
the delivery mouth of said receptacle, a pasting wheel engaging said supplying
wheel having its axis of rotation perpendicular to the axis of said supplying wheel, a
cutter and tucking devices operatively connected with the continuous cigarette
forming devices, substantially as described.
18. The combination with the main frame, of the longitudinally reciprocating
carriage thereon, the tobacco carrying belt, the forming tube carried by said
carriage and engaging a portion of said belt the cutter carried by said carriage,
the tucker tube movable longitudinally in said carriage, the tucking devices adapted
to crimp the ends of a cigarette in said tucking tube, devices for reciprocating
said carriage and devices for moving said tucking tube independently of said
carriage, substantially as described.
19. The combination with the mechanism for forming a tobacco rod and folding
a wrapper about the same, the cutter and tucking devices operatively connected
with the continuous cigarette forming devices, of a tobacco hopper and devices
for feeding determined quantities at intervals to said forming devices, substantially
as described.
. 20. In a cigarette machine the combination with a forming tube, mechanism
to carry a continuous cigarette therethrough, and a reciprocating frame, and a
cutting mechanism to sever the continuous cigarette, comprising a vertical stan-
dard formed with a central groove, a sliding bar in the groove, a rotatable knife
on the bar, gearing on the bar to rotate the knife, a rack bar on the standard
to rotate the gearing, and means to reciprocate the sliding bar, substantially as
and for the purpose specified.
21. In a cigarette machine the combination with the forming tube, of the per-
forated belt, and the devices for tucking the ends of the cigarettes, substantially
as described.
22. In a cigarette machine the combination with the stem forming and carrying
belt, provided with perforations located at intervals, the centers of adjacent per-
forations being a distance apart equal to the length of a cigarette before tucking,
substantially as described.
23. In a cigarette machine the combination with devices for forming a con-
tinuous tobacco filler devices for feeding a continuous paper rapper and folding

page_text: it around said filler, and the tucking devices, of a perforated mechanism located
in the path of the continuous paper wrapper, substantially as described.
24. The process of continuously making cigarettes which consists in wrapping
a continuous paper wrapper, weakened transversely at intervals, around a tobacco
filler to form a continuous stem, then continuously separating said continuous
stem into individual cigarettes by breaking the wrapper apart along one of said
weakened portions, substantially as described.
25. The process of continuously making cigarettes which consists in weakening
the continuous paper wrapper transversely at intervals, forming a tobacco filler
and wrapping the paper wrapper around the same, then continuously separating
said continuous stem into individual cigarettes by breaking the wrapper apart
along one of said weakened portions, substantially as described.
26. A continuous cigarette composed of a rod of tobacco wrapped with a paper
perforated at intervals, the portions of said paper between adjacent perforations
being of the length of a single cigarette, whereby the wrapper and rod can be
separated at the perforations into separate cigarettes, substantially as described.
27. A continuous cigarette composed of a rod of tobacco wrapped with a paper
weakened transversely at intervals, the portions of said paper between adjacent
weakened portions being of the length of a single cigarette, whereby the wrapper
and rod can be separated at the weakened portions of said paper into separate
cigarettes, substantially as described.
Dated this 14th day of June 1898.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.