Improvements in Cigarette Machines.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 28th July, 1893-Accepted, 30th Sept., 1893
CODE DELE STUIFICATION.
Improvements in Cigarette Machines.
We, ANDREW PANTIA SCARAMANGA, and EUSTRATIO PANTIA SCARAMANGA,
both of The Levant Cigarette Manufacturing Company Limited of 56 St. Mary
Axe in the City of London, 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 :-
This invention relates more especially to improvements on the machine for the
manufacture of cigarettes for which a Patent was granted to Etienne Mavrogordato-
No. 10196 in the year 1884:
The improvements apply to the mechanism by which the proper quantity of
tobacco is detached from the mass and compressed in a receiver or mould; to the
construction of this receiver or mould; to the way in which the cigarette paper is.
applied to the receiver or mould to allow the tobacco to be delivered into it and to
the general arrangements of the machine.
In order that our invention may be fully understood and readily carried into.
effect we will proceed to describe the drawings annexed.
Figure 2 is a plan of the same.
Figure 3 is a section on the line 3. 3. in Figure 2.
Figure 4 shows a portion of the gearing of the machine.
The Figures 5 to 11 show separately some of the parts of the machine to a.
larger scale.
Figures 12 and 13 show modifications.
a is an axis on which is a crank handle a¹ and a spur wheel a² engaged with
another spur wheel on an axis b. On this axis is an arm b² carrying a crank pin
which projects into the vertical slot c' in the slide c. The slide c extends almost.
the whole length of the machine and it is suitably guided by the framing so that it
may travel truly to and fro in an horizontal direction. The axis b by bevilled gear
drives a longitudinal axis d and this by spur wheels d' and e' drives a cam shaft e.
Upon this shaft are two cams e and ethe duties of which are hereinafter described.
The cam shaft e is geared by toothed wheels e, e and f' with another cam shaft f
on which there is a cam f².
g is an endless apron on which the tobacco to fill the cigarettes is spread evenly
by the attendant; it passes around the rollers g' and . The roller at the inner
end of the apron is driven by being geared by toothed pinions with another
similar roller immediately over it. Figure 5 is a full size section of these parts
and others in immediate connection therewith. The roller h in conjunction with
another roller carries a short endless band ³ and between this and the apron g
the tobacco is carried; it is compressed strongly by the small rollers * * which
are in bearings at their ends but are not driven. The rollers gl and h are covered
with india rubber, they also forcibly compress the tobacco and eject it intermittently
through the mouth i. As is seen in Figure 4 the rollers and are both geared
with an intermediate wheel and on the saine axis with this there is a ratchet
wheel. A lever k loose on the same axis carries a pawl which engages with the
teeth of the ratchet and the lever is connected by a link k' with a
which by another link and a lever takes motion from the cam e³.
shown to a larger scale by Figure 6 in which figure also the bowl
bell crank k*
This cam is
on which the

page_text: cam acts and which is carried by the lever is represented in the position it
occupies in the cam groove when the machine is in the phase indicated in the
Figures 1, 2 and 3.
7 is a block it is represented full size in the sectional views Figures 5 and 7; it
has a cutting edge at and there is also a cutting edge upon the under side of the
mouth at i¹. When the tobacco has been protruded from the mouth, at the proper
time the block descends and it shears off the quantity of tobacco required for a
cigarette. The block descends sufficiently far to serve as a guide to control the
detached portion of tobacco whilst it is afterwards thrust on into a receiver or
mould.
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The movement of the block is caused by the slot c¹ in the bar 2 which forms a
part of the slide <. The block is attached at its ends to the two side frames 12
which slide vertically in guides and are connected at their lower ends by a cross
bar on which is the bowl 3 entering the groove c'. The block / after cutting the
tobacco descends to the position shown by Figure 7 to serve as a guide as already
mentioned and as it reaches this position the pusher m advances and thrusts the
tobacco into the metal receiver or mould n which is then open. The pusher m
takes its movement from a lever m' on which is a bowl engaged in the groove in
the cam which with the bowl is shown fully by Figure S. The receiver or
mould is in two parts hinged together at and upon the upper part is an arm n²
connected by a link n³ with the lever and this is moved to and fro at appropriate
times by the cam e². Figure 9.shows this cam separately and the bowl in its
proper position relatively to the Figures 1, 2 and 3. is a hopper into which
empty cigarette papers already made up into a cylindrical form are placed. P
skewer which is held in a guide, this guide is fixed upon the end of the slide cand
in its movement towards the receiver or mould it passes the skewer p through the
lowermost paper in the hopper; these arrangements for removing the paper from
the hopper are fully described in the Specification of a Patent granted to Etienne
Mavrogordato No. 10196 in the year 1884. The skewer pas is seen in Figures 10
and 10 has a conical head p¹ and a button r is able to slide upon it. The button
is attached by the coiled spring to the guide . The skewer has an arm at its
rear end and in the operation of the machine this arm comes into contact with
adjustable stops at sand s¹; these limit the movement of the skewer to something
less than that of the slide c. The skewer pis moveable with some friction through
the guide g. The slide e also carries a pin c* which when the slide advances passes
through the receiver or mould.
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The operation of the machine is as follows:-The tobacco having been duly
spread on the apron is protruded through the mouth is a quantity is then cut off'
by the block and it is thrust by the pusher m into the receiver or inould n; it is
at the same time strongly compressed. Then the pusher recedes, the receiver or
mould closes and the tobacco is again compressed. It is advisable so to form the
cam that after closing, the jaw opens again to a small extent to facilitate the
passage of the tobacco from the receiver or mould into the cigarette paper; this
reopening of the receiver or mould must not be such as would injure the cigarette
paper which as will be presently explained is now upon the nozzle of the mould.
Whilst these operations are in progress the skewer has advanced through a
paper cylinder t held in the hopper o and the button r has driven the paper forward
out of the hopper. The paper is then carried on the skewer in the manner shown
by Figure 10.
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Immediately afterwards the head of the skewer enters the nozzle n³ on the
end of the mould and the movement of the skewer is then arrested by the stop s.
The guide continues however to advance towards the mould and the button
then pushes the cigarette paper along the skewer until the nozzle 3 of the mould
is within the end of the paper cylinder; this position is shown by Figure 104.
A little latch shown separately by Figure 11 then comes into action it can
turn about the stationary pin ul and the spring u² now causes it to close against the
paper upon the nozzle n³ and to hold it so that the paper remains on the nozzle

page_text: whilst the skewer retires. With the parts in this position, the pusher c advances
and it thrusts the tobacco from the mould or receiver into the paper t. The
tobacco passes readily into the paper because of the severe nips which just
previously have been given to it, which have compressed it into a small compass,.
and it is only after a considerable time that the tobacco will be found to have
expanded again and the cigarette will appear to be properly filled.
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When the tobacco is already protruded through the paper tube an incline c* on
the slide c comes against the arm of the latch and the cigarette is liberated;
the propelling pin ex drives it off the nozzle n³ and it falls down an incline v into a.
suitable receiver. The cigarette is afterwards finished by trimming off the excess
of tobacco from its ends. Before the slide c comes to the end of its movement the
arm p² on the skewer comes against the adjustable stop s and the skewer returns
to its original position in the guide q. c is the incline which moves the latch u to
allow the nozzle n³ to receive the paper t. Sometimes we make the block / with a
passage through it as is shown by Figure 12 so that the tobacco may be retained
in the block until the pusher drives it into the receiver or mould. It is not
essential that the receiver or mould should be in two parts opening as described ;.
it may be in one piece but permanently open on one side as in Figure 13.
The pusher enters by this opening, compresses the tobacco and then retires until
its extremity completes the circle of the mould.
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 :-
1. Apparatus substantially as described in which the quantity of tobacco to make
a cigarette is caused to be protruded over a cutting edge; is shorn off by another
cutting edge; is then thrust by a pusher into a receiver or mould; is squeezed
whilst therein and is then discharged endwise from the receiver or mould into a.
cigarette paper which is presented at the end of the mould.
2. Apparatus substantially as described in which the quantity of tobacco to make
a cigarette is cut off and delivered into a receiver or mould and squeezed and in
which such receiver or mould has a short nozzle at its end on to which the end of
the cigarette paper is placed and is retained by a latch whilst the contents of the
mould are delivered into it.
3. Apparatus in accordance with the first claiming clause and in which the
tobacco whilst in the receiver or mould is squeezed first by the pusher which
thrusts it laterally into the receiver or mould and afterwards by the closing together
of the two parts of which the receiver or mould is composed.
4. Apparatus in accordance with the first claim and in which the moving cutter
is formed as indicated by Figure 12 with a cavity into which the tobacco is
received and retained until it is thrust by the pusher into the receiver or mould.
5. Apparatus in accordance with the first claim and in which the receiver or
mould is formed as indicated by Figure 13 as a cylinder complete in one piece but.
with a lateral opening by which the pusher advances into it.
6. A cigarette machine substantially as herein described.