An Improvement in the Manufacture of Mouth-pieces or Holders for Cigarettes and the like.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Apr., 1895-Accepted, 1st June, 1895
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in the Manufacture of Mouth-pieces or Holders
for Cigarettes and the like.
I, JOSEPH SAMUEL BEEMAN of Station Street, Camberwell, in the Colony of
Victoria, Engineer, 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 has been devised to provide an improvement in the manufacture
of mouth-pieces or holders for cigarettes and the like articles for smoking and has
reference to the portion or portions of any apparatus wherein paper or analogous
material is eucircled or coiled around a mandril or similar mechanism and gummed
with paste or adhesive matter so as to retain its desired conical or other shape.
My invention is based upon the fact that the application of heat immediately
before, during or immediately after the gumming process or the moistening of the
adhesive matter causes the adhesion of the gummed to the ungummed portion to be
more quickly and better effected and completed.
My invention consists in the application of direct or indirect heat to the mandril
upon which the paper blank is coiled to the presser or foot plate used to press the
paper blank against and around the mandril to the stand plate or guide on which
the cut papers are placed prior to their being coiled into form, or to the adhesive
matter or fluid during its employment, or the heat may be applied direct to the
papers themselves. In some cases apply the heat to water or similar liquid
for the purpose of moistening the adhesive matter when the strips of paper have
been previously dressed with said adhesive material.
For the purposes of heating any of the aforesaid I may employ one or more
lamps or jets of flame to impinge upon any convenient portion or portions of the
mechanism employed for turning the said pieces of paper into mouth-pieces or for
gumming the edges of same so as to permanently retain the desired form.
I may employ electricity or a current of heated air as a heating medium, or a
circulation of superheated steam may be utilized, to warm the required parts of the
coiling mechanism or paper strips. Alternatively may heat the papers which
are intended to be coiled into mouth-pieces before the same are fed to the paper
coiling mechanism.
In machines where the papers are supplied with edges already gummed I apply
heat by flame jet or otherwise to a box containing liquid and provided with a
dabber a plate or a brush so that hot liquid (preferably water) is applied to the
paper or to the gummed or adhesive strip on the paper prior to its being permanently
fastened before being thrown out from the coiling apparatus.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
1. In the manufacture of mouth-pieces or holders for cigarettes and the like-the
application of direct or indirect heat to any part of any apparatus for forming such
mouth-pieces or holders where the paper or analogous material is coiled or formed
into shape and gummed to retain said shape substantially as and for the purposes
set forth.
2. In the manufacture of mouth-pieces or holders for cigarettes and the like-the
application of heat to the strips of paper or like material prior to their being fed

page_text: into the apparatus which forms such strips into the desired shape substantially as
and for the purposes set forth.
3. In the manufacture of mouth-pieces or holders for cigarettes and the like--the
application of heat to the box or receptacle containing the adhesive medium so
that the said adhesive medium may be smeared or dabbed upon the strips of paper
or analogous material in a hot state prior to the completion of the formation of
the said mouth-piece or holder substantially as and for the purposes set forth.
4. In the manufacture of mouth-pieces or holders for cigarettes and the like
where the strips of paper or like material are supplied with their edges already
gummed the application of direct or indirect heat to water or similar liquid
contained in a vessel provided with a dabber or brush for moistening the adhesive
medium on the aforesaid strips of paper or analogous material substantially as and
for the purposes set forth.
5. In the manufacture of mouth-pieces or holders for cigarettes and the like-the
application or employment of a current or jet of heated air to play or impinge upon
that portion of the mechanism where the adhesion of the gummed strip on the
mouth-piece or holder takes place.
Dated this 22nd day of April 1895.
S. S. BROMHEAD,
97, Newgate Street, London, Patent Agent.