Improvements in Cigarette Making Machines.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Jan., 1897-Accepted, 17th Apr., 1897
Improvements in Cigarette Making Machines.
I, ALFRED GORDON VALE, of 352 East 86th Street, in the City and County
and State of New York, United States of America, Mechanical 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:-
The present invention relates to cigarette machines, and is primarily intended for
making individual "all tobacco" cigarettes.
In the drawings I have illustrated a machine embodying the features of invention
of this application.
Figure 1 is a plan view. Figure 2 is a side elevation. Figure 3 is a longi-
tudinal vertical section along line x, x of Figure 1. Figure 4 is a view similar to
Figure 3, but showing the rolling devices and wrapper feeding devices in a different
position.
In the several views of the drawing, like letters of reference refer to like
parts.
Referring to these drawings in detail, 1 represents the frame of the machine,
which. has journaled in it the main shaft 2. The rolling devices comprise a
carriage 3, provided with rollers 4 running on tracks 5, one on each side of the
machine. Journaled on this carriage by shaft 6 is a rolling frame, consisting of
side plates 7, journaled on shaft 6, which side plates carry the rollers 8 and 9.
Keyed to the shaft 6 is an arm 10, provided with a friction roll bearing on the
track 11. By means of this arm and roller bearing on track 11, the rollers 8 and 9
are maintained during a part of the movement of the rolling devices in an
approximately horizontal position. Upon the opposite sides of the machine, on the
shaft 6, is secured an arm provided with a friction roll 12 which, while the roller 10
bears on the track 11, is inert, but comes into operation immediately the roller 10
leaves track 11, by bearing upon track 13, thus tilting the frame carrying the
rollers 8 and 9 in a position at right angles to that formerly occupied by said
rollers, which position is shown in Figure 4.
The rolling apron 15 is secured at one end to a clamp 16, and at the other end
to the under side of the rolling table 17. This rolling apron is of sufficient
amplitude to permit of a pocket or loop being formed in it for the reception of
the tobacco filler used in making a cigarette. When the machine is in its first
position, that is, in position ready to receive a filler and commence the operation
of rolling the same into a cigarette, as shown in Figure 3, the rolling apron passes
over a roller 18, then over the roller 8 from which it hangs to form the loop or
pocket between said roller and the rolling table 17. The roller 18 is journaled on
arms 19, keyed to shaft 20, which shaft is provided at one end with an arm 21,
connected to arm 22. At its lower portion, this arm 22 is provided with a yoke 23
passing around shaft 2, which yoke permits of the vertical reciprocation of this.
arm 22. Upon this arm is secured a pawl 24, provided with a friction roller at its
lower end and pivoted at 25, said pawl impinging against stop 26 on the arm 22.
Vertical reciprocation is given to this arm 22, and hence an up and down movement
to the roller 18 by means of wiper 27, keyed to shaft 2,

page_text: 28 represents arms keyed to shaft 2, which arms are connected with the side
plates of the rolling carriage 3 by links 29, and operate to horizontally reciprocate
the rolling carriage.
30 represents a wrapper plate, which is suitably supported on a frame 31
provided with side pieces 32, having slots 33, through which slots project the ends
of the shaft 6 on each side of the machine. The wrapper plate 30 consists of an
inclined portion and a skeleton frame 34, the inclined portion being for the purpose
of supporting the wrapper and the frame for securing a wrapper in position upon
the plate.
35 represents a bifurcated trip, being secured upon the same shaft to which the
skeleton frame 34 is hinged, and is operated by a rod secured to the rolling frame
striking against one of its arms to throw over the skeleton frame upon the wrapper.
A pawl 37 is suitably placed in the path of movement of the trip 35, this pawl
permitting of the passage of the trip in its movement in one direction, and operating
to return the trip to its position shown in Figure 2 upon the return movement of
the wrapper plate.
38 represents knives, one on each side of the machine, ea h having a concave
edge. Acting in conjunction with these knives are knives 39, which are secured to
shaft 40, one on each side of the machine, and are operated by an arm 41 keyed
to said shaft, which arm is connected to a link 42 whose other end is secured to an
arm 43, keyed to shaft 2.
Any desired connection to a source of power may operate the shaft 2 and hence
the various parts of the machine, in the present instance, a treadle connection being
shown.
The operation of the machine is as follows: Assuming the parts to be in the
position shown in Figure 3, the rolling apron having formed in it a loop or
filler receptacle, the operator places on a suitable quantity of tobacco to form
a filler, and a wrapper is placed in position on the wrapper plate 30. The
operator then depresses the treadle causing a partial rotation of shaft 2 which,
having secured to it the arms 28, moves forward the rolling devices, the rollers 8
and being maintained in the positions shown in Figures 2 and 3 by the cam 10
bearing on track 11, and being tilted over to the position shown in Figure 4 by
the simultaneous termination of the contact of roller 10 with cam 11 and the
commencement of the operation of the roller 12, which is caused by its coming in
contact with the track 13, whereby the rollers 8 and 9 are tilted so that the line
joining their axes is at right angles to the position assumed when said rollers were
under the control of the cam or track 11. In thus tilting over, the rolling devices
gradually tighten or make smaller the filler receptacle until it is of approximately
the size of the cigarette, and the further travel of the rolling devices is along the
rolling table 17. When the rolling devices are at the position shown in Figure 4,
the ends of the shaft 6 arrive at the end of the slots 33 formed in the side pieces 32,
and thereafter move forward the wrapper carrying devices, and in moving forward
continue to roll up the cigarette and draw in the wrapper from off the wrapper
plate 30 until the rolling devices and the wrapper carrying device arrive at the
end of their paths of movement, when the cigarette is delivered upon the knives,
which cut off the end portions and permit the finished cigarette to fall down a
suitable chute to a receptacle properly disposed below. In this forward move-
ment of the rolling devices the arm 36 strikes the bifurcated trip 35 so as to
throw the same over into position shown in dotted lines in Figure 2, which operates
to cause the skeleton 34 to bear upon the wrapper which has been placed on the
wrapper plate.
.
The wiper 27 on the shaft 2, during this forward movement of the rolling devices
has passed the pawl 24 so as to be in position on the return movement to operate
the roller 18.
On the reverse movement of the devices, the first action is to withdraw the
rolling devices until they arrive at the end of the slots 33, whereupon the wrapper
carrying device moves along with the rolling devices, and in this movement, an arm

page_text: of the vifurcated trip strikes the paw or waren returns to to the position su
full lines in Figure 2.
The wiper 27 then comes in contact with the roller carried on the pawl 24, thus
elevating the arm 22 and giving a slight oscillating or rocking motion to the
roller 18 for the purpose of throwing out any creases which may have been formed
in the rolling apron, and also to cause said rolling apron to hang over the rollers 8
and 9 to form the filler receptacle.
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 a cigarette machine, the combination with a rolling table and a rolling
apron, of a reciprocating rolling device, comprising two rollers secured in a rocking
frame, over which the apron passes, and means for causing the rollers to assume a
position, during the rolling of the cigarette, in which the line joining the axes of
the rollers is changed from a substantially horizontal to a substantially vertical
position relatively to the table during their movement across the table, substantially
as specified.
2. In a cigarette machine, the combination with a rolling table and a rolling
apron, of a reciprocating rolling device comprising two rollers secured in a rocking
frame over which rollers the apron passes, and means for causing the rollers to
automatically assume a position, during the rolling of the cigarette, in which the
line joining the axes of the rollers is changed from a substantially horizontal to a
substantially vertical position relatively to the table during the movement of the
rollers across the table, substantially as specified.
3. In a cigarette machine, the combination with a rolling table and a rolling
apron, of a reciprocating rolling device comprising a rock shaft, arms affixed
thereto, and rollers mounted in the arms over which rollers the apron passes,
substantially as specified.
4. In a cigarette machine, the combination with a rolling table and a rolling
apron, of a reciprocating rolling device comprising a rock shaft, arms secured
thereto, and a roller mounted in the arms, tracks provided with cam surfaces and
arms secured to said rock shaft and provided with parts adapted to coact with said
cam surfaces, substantially as specified.
5. In a cigarette machine, the combination with a rolling table and a rolling
apron, of brackets and ways in which said brackets move lengthwise of the
machine, a rock shaft journalled in said brackets and provided with arms, cam
surfaces arranged adjacent to the arms with which said arms are adapted to
coact, rollers journalled in fixtures carried by the rock shaft, over which rollers the
apron passes, and means for taking up the slack in the apron, substantially as
specified.
6. In a cigarette machine, the combination with a rolling table and a rolling
apron, a reciprocating rolling device comprising a rock shaft and rollers mounted
in fixtures carried by the rock shaft, means for automatically rocking said shaft
during the movement of a cigarette, and a take-up roller for the apron, substantially
as specified.
7. In a cigarette machine, the combination of a rolling table, a rolling apron,
a reciprocating rolling device comprising a rock shaft, arms secured thereto, and
supported rollers and means for automatically rocking said shaft, substantially as
specified.
8. In a cigarette machine, the combination of a rolling apron, reciprocating
rollers over which said apron hangs to form a filler receptacle, means for tilting
said rollers during their path of movement so that the line joining their axes is
changed from a substantially horizontal to a substantially vertical position, and a
wrapper plate, substantially as specified.
9. In a cigarette machine, the combination of a rolling apron, reciprocating
rollers over which said apron hangs to form a filler receptacle, means for tilting

page_text: said rollers during their path of movement so that the line joining their axes is
changed from a substantially horizontal to a substantially vertical position, and, a
wrapper plate reciprocating in conjunction with the rolling devices, substantially,as
specified.
10. In a cigarette machine, the combination of reciprocating rolling.devices,
a rolling apron, and a reciprocating wrapper plate provided with a wrapper gripping
device, substantially as specified.
11. In a cigarette machine, the combination of reciprocating rolling devices,
a rolling apron, and a reciprocating wrapper plate provided with a wrapper
gripping device, and means for operating said gripping device, substantially as
specified.
12. In a cigarette machine, the combination of a rolling apron, reciprocating
rollers over which said apron hangs to form a filler receptacle, means for tilting
said rollers during their path of movement so that the line joining their axes
is changed from a substantially horizontal to a substantially vertical position,
and a wrapper plate provided with an inclined portion and means for reciprocating
said wrapper plate in conjunction with the rolling devices, substantially, as
specified.
13. In a cigarette machine, the combination of a rolling apron, réciprocating
rollers over which said apron hangs to form a filler receptacle, means for tilting
said rollers during their path of movement so that the line joining their axes is
changed from a substantially horizontal to a substantially vertical position,
a wrapper plate, provided with an inclined portion, means for reciprocating said
wrapper plate in conjunction with the rolling devices, a wrapper gripping
mechanism, and means for operating the same, substantially as specified.
Dated this 5th day of January 1897.
:
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45 Southampton Buildings, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.