Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Mar., 1888
Specification Accepted, 4th May, 1888
We, EMIL ARMAND KJÖLLERFELDT, Belgian Consul, and WLADISLAV KOLNOTSCH,
Lieutenant, both residing at Helsingfors, Grand-duchy of Finland, 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 :-
Our invention relates to the manufacture of cigarettes on an extensive scale, and it
consists in the construction of a machine operating to simultaneously provide a number
of previously-prepared paper tubes with mouth-pieces of stronger paper, to fill them
with tobacco, to introduce a plug of cotton between the mouth-piece and the tobacco,
o cut off projecting fibres of the latter, and to close the ends of the tubes.
More especially the different operations required for this purpose are the following:
A. Making the mouth-pieces:
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a, Feeding into the machine strips of paper,
b, Cutting off pieces of trapezium-like form,
c, Coiling these pieces up into scrolls.
B. Formation of the fillers:
a, Introducing the requisite quantity of tobacco into suitable molds;
b, Compressing the same.
C. Conveyance of the paper tubes into the position for being filled ;
a, Insertion of conducting-pins;
b, Pushing the tubes on filling-tubes.
D. Introduction of cotton between the mouth-pieces and the fillers and forming
lugs thereof;
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1. Introduction of the fillers, the cotton plugs and the mouth-pieces into the
aper tubes and simultaneous removal of the said tubes from the filling-tubes;
F. Trimming the cigarettes in case they are filled with fibrous or cut tobacco;
G. Closing the ends of the tubes if they are filled with comminuted tobacco.
On the annexed thirteen sheets of drawings is shown a little more than one half of
double machine adapted for carrying out these operations, the portion omitted
eing alike to the corresponding portion appearing in the drawings, and both halves
the machine being driven by means of one central shaft.

page_text: Fig. 1 is a longitudinal vertical section along the center-line of the machine for
making cigarettes filled with cut tobacco, the sliding carriage A being in its central
position and moving to the right.
Fig. 1ª is a perspective view illustrating the formation of the mouth-piece.
Fig. 1. Plan of a portion of a cutter, ².
Fig. 2. Side elevation and Fig. 3 plan, partly in section, corresponding to Fig. 1.
Fig. 4. Portion of sliding carriage A.
Fig. 5. Transverse sectional view on line 1, 1 Figs. 1 and 3, looking towards
the left.
Fig. 6. Portion of the longitudinal section with the movable parts in a position
differing from that shown in Fig. 1.
Fig. 7. Plan of slides connected with the driving-mechanism.
Fig. 8. Sectional view, partly on line 3, 3, and partly on line 4, 4, Figs. 1 and 3,
looking to the left.
Fig. 9. Sectional view on line 5, 5, Figs. 1 and 3, looking to the left.
Fig. 10. Outside view of the parts shown in section by Fig. 9.
Figs. 10 to 10. Detail views of parts shown in Figs. 9 and 10, drawn to a larger
scale. To be more fully described hereafter.
Fig. 11. Rear view of a portion of the mechanism whereby during the filling
operation the paper tubes are drawn off the filling tubes.
Fig. 12. Half end-view corresponding to Fig. 11.
Fig. 13. Transverse section on line 2, 2, Figs. 1 and 3.
Fig. 13. Cam-piece k and parts in relation therewith.
Fig. 14. Plan of the driving-mechanism.
Fig. 15. Portion of sectional plan on line 6, Figs. 5 and 13, the sliding carriage A
being shown in its extreme position to the right.
Fig. 16. Longitudinal section along the center-line of the machine provided with
the tube-closing device, required in making cigarettes filled with comminuted tobacco,
the trimming device being omitted. In this Figure the sliding carriage is in its
central position and moving to the right as in Fig. 1.
..Figs. 16 and 16". Main parts of tube-closing device in two different positions.
Fig. 17. Section alike to Fig. 16 but with the carriage in its extreme position to
the right.
Fig. 17. Sectional view of the tube closing device with position of parts while the
carriage is moving to the left.
Fig. 18. Side-view corresponding to Fig. 16, a portion of the frame being broken
away.
Fig. 19. Plan corresponding to Fig. 16, some parts being broken away and others
shown in section.
Fig. 20. Part of sliding carriage A.
Fig. 21. Transverse sectional view on lines 7 and 8, Figs. 16 and 19, looking to
the left.
Fig. 22. Half transverse section on line 9, Figs. 16 and 19.
Fig. 23. Sectional view along center line of machine, showing mainly the tube-
closing device, the carriage being at the end of its course to the left.
Fig. 24. Transverse sectional view on line 10 Fig. 19.
Fig. 25. Sectional view on line 11, Fig. 19, the movable parts being in their medium
position.
Fig. 26. Plan of parts appertaining to the mechanism shown by Fig. 25.
Referring to Figs. 1 to 15, B is the frame of the machine and A a sliding carriage
moving between guides B₁ and actuated by the shaft a through the medium of the
bevel-wheels a 6 and the crank-pin 2, Figs. 1, 13 and 14, the said pin being
provided with a roller and engaging in the transverse slot of the carriage.
Making the mouth-pieces. The mouth-pieces consist in scrolls made out of pieces
of strong paper of trapezium form. The principle upon which these scrolls are
produced is shown by Fig. 1, in which c is a strip of paper having a width equal
to the length of the mouth-pieces, F a block having the perforation or hole slitted
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page_text: at, and a bifurcated pin or fork. The strip c, cut slanting at its lower edge, is
pushed or fed downward through the slit into the hole f. At the same timic the
fork is introduced into the hole in such position as that it will pass with its prongs
on both sides of the strip c, and is thereupon rotated. The combined motion of the strip
and the fork thus cause the lower portion of the strip to be coiled up and to form thiề
scroll. The strip having gone down until a line thereof is flush with the top of
the block F, is cut off on this line and simultaneously on the slanting line c³, being
the lower edge of the portion for the next scroll, the piece c³ ³ is removed and the
fork withdrawn.
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The means for producing these operations upon a number of strips c at once is as
follows. Above the block F having a series of holes is placed the stationary
multiple cutting device é, Figs. 1, 3, 5, 6, and above this the strip-feeding apparatus,
both, the device e and the said apparatus, being movable in the direction of their
own length, but transversely to the machine. The strip feeding apparatus consists
in two vertical plates d d and in the intermediate pairs of cross-plates d d¹, pro-
jecting upward above the former, the plates of each pair being placed at such
distance apart as. to leave a passage for a strip c and to form the guides for the
same. The instrument by which the strips are pushed downward consists in the
vertically-movable plate g, or feeding plate, being a kind a grate, slipped from above
upon the plates d d¹, and faced at the bottom with pieces of india-rubber, forming
tongues, Fig. 5, which project through slots in the plates d¹ and bear with a
downward bend against the plates d. To the top of the plates d d' is fixed a plate g
having slits corresponding with the spaces between the said plates and provided
with india-rubber tongues, 95, alike to those of the plate g. When the plate g is
raised, the tongues thereof slide upward along the strips c, which are retained in
their position by the tongues g of the plate g; but when the plate g is lowered, it
will by means of its tongues g² move all the strips c downward, the tongues g
presenting no obstacle to this motion.
The motion of the feeding plate g relatively to the plates d d¹ is brought about by.
two elbow-levers *, having horizontal arms with which the plate g is in engagement
by means of the two pins g³, and upright arms operated upon by the pieces h³, the
latter being secured through the bar 3 (see also Fig. 13) to the two racks 42, which
gear with the spur-wheels h', actuated by the racks h, Figs. 2 and 13, fixed to the
sliding carriage A. The racks 2 thus moving in a direction opposed to that of the
carriage, the plate g will be raised when the carriage moves to the right (relatively to
the figures). For pushing the plate g down, the pieces are provided with the
inclined edges 7º, acting during the backward motion of the said pieces from above)
on rollers at the end of the horizontal arms of the levers h. The feeding of the
strips of paper thus takes place while the carriage A moves to the left.
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Simultaneously with this motion of the carriage and the feeding of the strips c, the
forks come into operation. These are fixed to both ends of spindles k, (see Fig. 15),
and they are guided during their longitudinal motion and rotate in holes drilled
through the two stationary bars K°. The spindles k are of such length that, when
being pushed against the right-hand bar Ko, the forks at the left-hand end of the
spindles will project into the holes of the left-hand bar. Ko only, but not into the.
holes of the adjoining block F, whereas when they are pushed to the left, the left-
hand forks will pass into the holes of the corresponding block F for forming the
scrolls.
The longitudinal and the rotative motions of the spindles k are brought about by.
the bar K Figs. 1, 3, 13, 15, fixed to the carriage A, the said bar having holes.
through which the spindles pass, and these being each provided with a helicoidal
groove of large pitch, into which projects a pin k2, screwed from above into the bar.
Morcover each spindle has near either end a notch k³, Fig. 3, adapted to be engaged.
by the bar k, Figs. 1 and 13, located in a groove of the bar K' and pressed upwards
against the spindles by springs 5. The notches k³ have such position that, when the.
bar k is engaged therein, the forks k' will be in the proper position to pass with their
branches on either side of the aforesaid strips c. Besides, when.being thus engaged.

page_text: and moved together with the bar K₁, the aid bar 4 will carry the spindles along
with it until they strike against the bar Kowards which the motion is directed. A
moment before this the bar is disengage from the notches by means of either of
the two cam edges of two fixed bars ko, 2, 13 and 13ª, acting on rollers at
the end of the bar ; the bar K', however, still moving on further, now, by means
of the pins k², produces the rotation of the spindles and the forks. If the bar K¹ is
at the right-hand end of its course, as in Fig. 15, the bar is in engagement with
the notches at the right-hand end of the spindles. On then moving to the left, the
bar carries along the spindles until the rollers at the ends of the bar strike against
the right-hand cam-edges of the bars 6, and the spindles touch against the left-
hand bar Ko, whereupon the rotation of the spindles commences. When the bar K¹
arrives at the left-hand end of its course, the bar drops into the notches at the
left-hand end of the spindles, and is then in the state to push them to the right.
Subsequent to their formation the scrolls have to be severed from the strips c, and
the latter have to be cut off on the line e³, Fig. 12, as described. For this purpose
the lower ends of the plates d d' are made oblique in conformity with the said line c³,
the inner edges of these ends (i.e. the edges facing each other) and also the top edges
of the slits in the block F are sharpened, so as to form cutters, and between the
ends of the plates d d¹ and the block F are arranged the cutters e, consisting in
triangular blocks united to form a trilateral, transversely slitted prism, the said prism
being in close contact with the plates d d and the block F, and secured to the frame
of the machine. It is evident that, when the series of plates à d¹ and the block F
are moved longitudinally to the said rrism (or transversely to the machine) the
required cutting operation will be performed in respect to all the strips c. This
motion is brought about as follows.
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The plate d³ to which the plates d d¹ are fixed, is rigidly connected by the piece i¹,
Figs. 1, 2, 5 and 7, to a slide, 0, and the block by the piece m³ to a slide; m², and
these slides, guided transversely to the machine, are operated respectively by the
eccentric and the pin (see also Fig. 14), integral with the shaft i, and engaging
by means of slide blocks in slots of the slides, so that each rotation of the said shaft
produces a to and fro motion of the two slides. The eccentric 23 and the pin
placed both on the same side of the center line of the shaft i; in consequence whereof
both slides are moved simultaneously. The throw of the eccentric is such that,
after every half revolution of the shaft i, each pair of plates d d will be shifted
from one slit between the cutters e to the other, so that each strip c will pass alter-
nately into one slit and its neighbouring one, the number of slits between the
cutters e exceeding by one the number of pairs of plates d d'. The throw of the
pin is but one half that of the eccentric ³, the block F requiring to be moved to
and fro by half the distance between the said slits only, as there are two holes to
each slit (or to each strip c), the scrolls being formed in the alternate holes according
as the block F is in one extreme position or the other.
The shaft i is rotated by half a revolution every time the sliding carriage is at the
right hand end of its course (the forks and also the driving-pins o, to be described.
hereafter, being at this period withdrawn from the holes in the block F), and these
rotations are carried out quickly, while in the intervals between the rotations the shaft
is kept locked in its position. For this purpose the said shaft i is provided with the
pinion, Figs. 1, 5, 14, and to the top of the wheel 6' is fixed opposite to the crank--
pin a toothed sector 66, Figs. 1, 13, 14, having half as many teeth as the pinion.
The top edge 6 of the wheel is cylindrical, and in it there is below the sector 66 a
recess b³. On the other hand, the pinion 2 has under its teeth a disk which is
cylindrical upon two portions opposite to each other, and recessed between these
portions according to lines corresponding with the cylindrical edge of the wheel.
During the greater part of its rotation the wheel passes with its edge along
either recess of the disk and thus prevents the pinion and the parts connected
thereto from accidentally changing their position; whereas, when the teeth of the
sector come into gear with those of the pinion, the cylindrical portion of the
disk, being below the operating teeth of the pinion, passes into the recess b³, and

page_text: the pinion is free to rotate until it is again stopped by the edge 6 of the wheel
engaging with the other recess of the disk i³.
At the time this operation goes on, the bar ³, forming a part of the described
mechanism for pushing downward the strips c, is at the left-hand end of its course, as
shown in Fig. 6. This bar carries, opposite to the slits between the cutters e, small
sharp hooks (see also Figs. 3 and 13) with resilient shafts, which, at the end of their
motion to the left, pass into the slits between the cutters e (these slits being made
wider at the back) and catch the triangular waste pieces of paper cut out of the
strips c. At the return motion of the bar ³ the said pieces are then withdrawn by
the hooks from between the cutters, and simultaneously the strips care moved down
and the forks caused to operate thereon as hereinbefore described.
Forming the fillers. The main parts of the devices serving for this purpose, are
shown by Figs. 10%,.10", 10°, 10° and 10°. In figures 10 and 10 L are three of a
series of stationary tobacco-cases, whose bottom is formed by semi-cylindrical pieces,
arranged under the partition-walls of the cases and having each a semi-circular cavity of
the diameter of the filler. Between the neighbouring pieces there are spaces having
a width equal to the said diameter, and upon each of the pieces is placed a slide 12
feeder" having transverse ribs and moving in an arc of a circle from one side to
the other. Below the cases and in contact therewith there is a slide M, provided, in
uniformity with the cavities of, and the spaces between the pieces 1, with slits, in which
are vertically movable the plates m and m° to be termed "compressers," the said
compressers being semi-circularly recessed at the top, so as to be adapted to form,
together with the cavities in the pieces 1, the molds for the fillers.
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In Fig. 10 the compresser m is at the bottom, leaving a space in the corre
sponding slit of the slide M, and into this space the contiguous slides ², or feeders,"
by repeated reciprocating motions introduce a quantity of tobacco from the case L
being above the said space. Thereupon the slide M moves to the left, so as to fetch
the space filled with tobacco, under the cavity of the neighbouring piece l, as in
Fig. 10, and the compressor m rises, thereby pressing the tobacco above it into the
required form, while the compresser mº descends. In this manner the alternate
operations of filling the molds and compressing the tobacco are carried on with all
the molds of the series.
For producing the reciprocating circular motion of the feeders 12, these are pro-
vided at both ends, which extend through the walls of the cases L, with teeth,
meshing with two racks, 13, Figs. 3 and 9, united so as to form a frame. The said
frame is connected by rods to levers 1, Figs. 2, 3 and 9, operated through the
medium of rods 17, Fig 9, by two cam-pieces 10, Figs. 4 and 9, fixed to either side of
the carriage A. The slide M is actuated by means of the aforesaid block F to which
it is rigidly secured by screws, as shown in Fig. 1, and it is fixed thereto in such
position that its slits are opposite to the holes f of the said block, and its top surface
even with the center lines of the holes. The vertical motion of the compressers m
and m° is derived from the horizontal motion of the slide M. by means of two pairs of
bars mand m³, Figs. 9, 10, 10, 10", 10°, and by cam-pieces mo, m², arranged at
either side of the machine, the bars of each pair being connected together at both
ends by the respective cross-pieces m³ and m³ so as to form therewith frames m² m²
and mm. The bars m' have lateral ribs or projections engaging with notches on
the outer sides of two legs extending downward from the compressers m, while the
bars m³ engage in like manner with notches on the inner side of legs of the com-
pressers mo. On the other hand the ribs of the bars m* and m' are provided opposite
to the legs of the compressers on which they are not to act in vertical direction, with
notches that allow these legs to pass through, but which engage them laterally. The
two frames m m and m³ mo are guided by their cross-pieces m² and m being
engaged between the aforesaid cam-pieces m and m³, forming two inclined ways.
When, with this arrangement, the slide M is shifted together with the compressers,
the latter will draw the frames m' m³ and m³ m10 along with them, and the frames,
being compelled to rise or descend, as the case may be, by the cam-pieces m² m², will
produce the required vertical motion of the compressers. By means of screws.in.the
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page_text: bar m' may be adjusted higher or lower. If it is raised, so as to leave some
play to
the cross-pieces m³ and m10, the compressers (which, besides, rest on the bar m when
being in their lowest position) will not descend as far as otherwise, and the fillers will
become less compact. (In Figs. 1 and 9 the slide M is shown composed of two parts,
but this is immaterial in respect to its operation.)
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Conveyance of the paper tubes into the position for being filled. For the recep-
tion of the paper cigarette-tubes, prepared beforehand, receptacles p, Figs. 1, 3
and 8, are provided, consisting each of two sheet-metal plates, having a space
between them corresponding to the diameter of the tubes and bent inward at the
bottom, but so as to leave a slit between their edges. These receptacles are so
mounted on the bed B that the lowest one of the tubes contained therein will be
in a line with the cavities of the half-cylindrical pieces constituting the upper
half of the filler-molds. Into the said receptacles the tubes are introduced by hand
or by an apparatus not forming any part of this invention.
At every motion of the carriage to the right, the paper tubes being at the bottom
of these receptacles, are pushed upon filling-tubes fixed to the stationary bar N.
For this purpose the machine is provided for each cigarette to be made at a time,
with two instruments, viz., a pointed guiding-pin, q, and a tube-conveyer p¹, the
latter being a small ring fitting on the pin q. These instruments are actuated in
such manner that the pin q first. passes through the paper tube opposite to it, and
advances up to the mouth of the corresponding filling-tube n, thus forming a guide
for the paper tube, and that thereupon the conveyer p' pushes the said tube along
on the ping and from the same upon the tube n, until it touches the movable
plate n', to be described hereafter, which is at the time close to the bar N.
The pins q are fixed to a transverse piece, the pin-carrier Q. Figs. 1, 3 and 8, which
slides in guiding-ways on the carriage A. The said carrier is connected by means of
links to two levers, crossing each other and pivoted by pins to the carriage. At
their crossing-point the levers are connected by means of a pin ³, passing through
elongated holes of the levers, to a bar R, projecting through slots in the carriage A
and guided at its ends in slots of plates RI fixed to the frame B. The result of
this arrangement is that, when the carriage A moves to the right, it will, by means of
the pins, levers and links ³, push the carrier Q and the bar R forward in the
same direction until the pins q touch against the tubes n. The carrier is thereby
stopped, but the pins moving onward with the carriage A, continue to act through
the levers and the pin on the bar R and to advance it, the speed of the latter
being, however, only about one half that of the carriage, owing to the transmission of
motion through the levers, which now turn about the pins 6. When the bar R
strikes with its ends against the inner end surfaces of its guiding slots in the
plates R¹, the bar is stopped; but as the carriage still goes on further, the two
levers will turn about the pin and draw the carrier Q to the left. In the position,
relatively to the carriage, into which the latter thereby finally comes, it remains during
the motion of the carriage to the left thereupon following, until the bar R reaches the
ends of its guiding-slots. The bar then stops again together with the pin ³, while
the pins, continuing to move with the carriage to the left, operate through the
levers to push the carrier Q a certain distance to the right. At the next motion of
the carriage to the right the described operation is repeated, the bar R remaining a
while at rest at the end of each stroke of the carriage.
The tube-conveyers p' are fixed by means of arms p², adapted to pass through the
slits at the bottom of the tube-receptacles p, to a plate 25, and through the same to a
carrier P, engaging with its ends in grooves of the carriage A and secured thereto by
screws, so that the conveyers partake of the motion of the carriage. The cigarette-
tubes are thus pushed on the filling-tubes during the motion of the carriage to the
right.
Introduction of cotton between the mouth-pieces and the fillers. For this operation
the machine is provided at the right-hand side of the series of tobacco-cases L with a
stationary carding-comb 1, Figs. 1 and 3, a movable one 1, projecting above the
former, and a drum c', upon which is wrapped a fleece of cotton, the said drum being

page_text: arranged opposite to the projecting part of the face of the comb 1º, and pivoted to
two movable arms c², inclined towards the comb 19, so that the drum bears with its
cotton envelope against the same. The comb is connected to two levers G (one at
either side of the machine), operated by projections at the upper ends of the
aforesaid bar h³, the said projections acting on adjustable cam-pieces 110, fixed to the
levers G. When the bar 3 moves to the left, the projections 7, passing under the left-
hand cam-pieces 110, raise the comb 1; whereas, when the bar 4 moves to the right,
the projections act in like manner on the right-hand cam-pieces 110 and depress the
said comb, which during its downward motion takes some cotton off the drum,
the latter being prevented from rotating meanwhile by a ratchet-wheel and pall.
By the repeated motions of the comb 10 and its co-operation with the comb 18, the
cotton is conveyed into the ends of the filler-molds extending under the said combs,
and, when the forks k¹ are introduced into the holes of the block F for coiling the
mouth-pieces, these forks, being long enough to project with their points under the
combs, twist the portions of the cotton opposite to them, into plugs, which, by the
receding motion of the forks, are drawn into the mouth-pieces, where they meet
with sufficient resistance to be stripped off the forks.
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Introduction of the fillers and the mouth-pieces into the paper tubes, and
simultaneous removal of the said tubes from the filling-tubes. This operation is
carried out by means of the driving-pins o, Figs. 3, 13 and 15, and the stripper n³,
Figs. 1, 3, 11, 12. The driving-pins o are fixed in the bar K, integral with the
carriage A, in such position that their centerlines coincide with those of the filling-
tubes n and the filler-mold parts l. In the same lines the bar K is provided with
holes by which the pins are guided, and from which they are not entirely withdrawn
when being in their extreme position to the right, as shown in Fig. 15. After the
block F has been shifted, subsequent to the formation of the mouth-pieces, as
hereinbefore described, and the holes containing the said mouth-pieces have thereby
been brought in a line with the completed fillers and the pins o, the latter are pushed
forward by the motion of the carriage A to the left. (In Fig. 15 the block F and
the slide M are shown in their centre position, which coincides with the extreme
position to the right of the bar K¹, the holes f being thus midway between the
centerlines of the forks and the pins o.) The pins by the said motion then press
against the mouth-pieces and through these on the fillers, and thus push both into
the filling-tubes n and out at the outer end thereof. As soon as the fillers begin to
emerge from the tubes n, they expand and press round about against the paper-
tubes, previously slipped on the tubes n, and which are somewhat longer than the
latter, this pressure causing an amount of friction between the tobacco and the paper
tubes, whereby the latter are drawn off the tubes n in the measure as the fillers
advance.
The removal of the paper tubes from the tubes n is promoted by the aforesaid
stripper n', consisting in a narrow plate having holes that correspond in diameter
exactly to the outer diameter of the tubes n. The said plate is movable on the
tubes n, and it is fixed at its ends to two rods n², passing through eyes n³ on the
carriage A, and having two shoulders, formed by rings, n', the said rings being so
adjusted that, when the carriage moves to the right, respectively to Figs. 1 and 3,
or to the left in Fig. 11, which is a view from the back of the carriage, the eyes n³
will push the rods n² and the plate n' backward against the bar N, so as to leave
the tubes n free for the paper tubes to be slipped upon the same; whereas, when
the carriage moves in the opposite direction, the eyes n will cause the plate n' to
be drawn forward on the tubes n at the time the paper tubes are becoming filled
and are pushed forward by the fillers, as described. After the fillers and the
mouth-pieces have been introduced into the paper tubes, the cigarettes, so far
finished, drop off the tubes 'n.
Trimining the cigarettes. This operation is required only in case the cigarettes
are filled with cut or fibrous tobacco, the fibres usually projecting more or less
from the paper tubes. The mechanisin by which the said operation is carried out

page_text: consists in a reciprocating cutter ², Figs. 1, 1, 5, a transverse bar fixed to
standards and having vertical holes corresponding to the diameter and length
of the cigarettes, and a plate w arranged below the said holes and adapted to pivot
on pins w¹. The cutter has recesses °, semicircular at their bottom and bevelled
so as to present cutting edges, the said recesses registering with the holes in the
bar v, and the cutter moving in close contact with the upper surface of the bar.
The cutter is fixed to a frame v³, Figs. 1, 2, 5, 14, operated by an eccentric vt,
keyed on the shaft b and engaged by means of a slide-block in a transverse slot v
of the frame. The cutter is thus moved to and fro longitudinally to the machine
and transversely to its own length. The plate w has an arm with a pin engaged
by one arm of a lever w³, the other arm whereof extends into the path of the cutter,
and is acted upon by a spring w² in the direction to keep the plate normally in
horizontal position.
The cigarettes on leaving the filling tubes n, fall with their mouth-pieces foremost
into funnels u, the tubular portions whereof, extending down to the cutter v³, are in a
line with the holes in the bar v. The cigarettes will thus drop into these holes and
strike with their mouth-pieces on the plate w, whereby the tobacco. is jolted thgether,
and the ends of the mouth-pieces are made even. The cutter then advances and cuts
off the projecting fibres of tobacco, which drop on the plate w. The said plate is
thereupon tilted by the cutter striking against the lever w³, in consequence whereof
the fibres having been cut off, fall to the right, while the cigarettes drop down by the
side of the left-hand edge of the plate, so that both may be collected in seperate
receptacles. Upon the return motion of the cutter the plate w is brought back to its
horizontal position by the spring w².
In order to render the operation of the machine still more clear; we shall in the
following give a description thereof in a more condensed form, and at the same time
introduce thereinto some observations not having found a place in the foregoing.
When the carriage A is moving from its central position to the right, as supposed
in the figures, the spindles & are rotated for forming the mouth-pieces in the right-
hand part of the machine not shown in the drawing, the forks k' at the left hand end
of the spindles being already completely withdrawn from the corresponding holes fin
the block F, while the driving pins o are receding. By the said motion of the
carriage the bar ³ is caused to move to the left through the medium of the spur-wheel /¹
and the racks gearing therewith, so that the pieces h and h7, fixed to the bar h³,
operate respectively on the levers 7 and G to raise the feeding-plate g and the
carding-comb 19. At the same time the hooks / secured to the bar h³ are pushed into
the slits between the cutters e; the feeders 12 of the filler-making contrivance are
being moved to and fro by means of the described mechanism, the paper cigarette-
tubes are slipped on the filling-tubes n by the tube conveyers pl in cooperation with
the guiding pins 9, and the stripper or plate n¹ is pushed back on the tubes n.
When the carriage A passes the turning point at the right hand end of its course,
the plates d² d³ with the system of strip-guiding plates d d', and the block F together
with the slide M of the filler-making device are shifted from their position shown in
the drawing into the opposite position, their motion being downward relatively to
Fig. 3, and to the left relatively to Fig. 5. The scrolls of paper previously formed in
the alternate holes of the block F and provided with cotton plugs, are thereby cut
off from the strips c and brought in register with the driving-pins o; the strips care
besides, cut off between the cutters e and the plates d d', the compressers operating at
the time to form fillers, are brought, with the tobacco above them, under the upper
parts of the filler-molds (so that the fillers are then also in a line with the pins o)
and the empty holes f, intermediate to the former, are placed opposite to the
forks k¹.
During the first part of the motion of the carriage to the left, the spindles kare
pushed forward by means of the bar engaged in the notches of the same, the
forks being thereby introduced into the empty holes f, which are now about to
receive the strips c; the piece 1° by its motion to the left depresses the feeding-

page_text: plate which thereby pushes the strips c' downward and the hooks withdraw the
waste pieces of papers from between the cutters e. After the spindles k, disengaged
from the bar 4, have come in contact with the bar Ko, they are rotated, in the manner
hereinbefore set forth, to form mouth-pieces and cotton-plugs. Meanwhile the.
driving-pins o advance to push the finished fillers and moath-pieces into the paper-
tubes being on the tubes n, the tube-conveyers p' recede from the latter, the guiding-
pins q first recede also until they are clear of the tube receptacles p, and then advance
again to pass into the paper tubes that have in the interval dropped to the bottom of
the receptacles p.
When the carriage is on the latter part of its course to the left, the
plate n is operated to assist in the removal of the paper tubes from the filling-tubes,.
and the carding-comb is pushed down.
The carriage thereupon changing its motion and going again to the right, retracts
the forks and the driving-pins (the spindles & having again been locked); the
guiding pins g advance farther until they reach the tubes n, the conveyers p¹ push
paper tubes on to the latter and the spindles k are again rotated for operating the forks
at the right-hand end thereof. At the change of motion of the carriage from left to
right, there occurs, however, no shifting of the plates d d', the block F and the slide M;
on account of the teeth 6 being arranged on the wheel opposite to the crank-pin b
operating the carriage. But, as the pinion is rotated every time by half a revolution.
only, the parts d d, F and M will be move alternately one way and the other at the
successive passages of the carriage through its right hand turning point.
The trimming of the cigarettes takes place immediately after they have dropped into
the device provided therefor, and the carriage has begun to move to the right.
Closing the ends of the paper tubes to be filled with comminuted tobacco. In case
the fillers are made of, comminuted tobacco, the paper tubes designed to receive the
same, have to be closed at their outer ends by folding the rim of the tubes inward.
and pinching the folds together. For this purpose the machine is provided for every
cigarette to be made at one operation, with a device shown in detail by Figs. 16*
and 16. The same consists in a socket s¹ bored out conically at its outer end, a
standards having a boring into which the socket is inserted, a springs placed between.
the bottom of the boring and a shoulder inside of the socket, and a pin s² projecting
from the said bottom into a hole in the centre of the fore part of the socket. The
said socket is normally in the position, relatively to the standards, as shown by
Fig. 16, so that the end of the pin forms the bottom of its conical boring, and!.
that it may slide backward a small distance within the standard until it touches
with an outer shoulder against the same. The standards are formed upon and
project upward from a bar S, Figs. 19 and 21, placed transversely to the machine,
and movable lengthwise thereto in grooves on the frame B. After the paper tubes.
have been slipped on the filling-tubes n, and these have been brought in register
with the sockets s¹, in the manner to be described hereafter, the bar S is pushed
forward. Each socket, in consequence, presses with the face of its conical cavity
against the rim of the paper tube opposite to it (the said rim projecting over the
end of the filling-tube n), and bends it inward in folds, as shown by Fig. 16.
When the socket meets with a resistance at the tuben, it stops; while the standard s
on advancing further, slides forward on the socket (the spring being compressed)
and pushes the pin against the folds of the paper tube, whereby these are pressed or
pinched together, as shown by Fig. 16. The filler and the mouth-piece is then pushed
into the tube in like manner as herein-before set forth, the standards and the
parts sand. s meanwhile receding in the measure as the filler advances, while they
are kept in the relative position to each other and to the paper tube shown in
Fig.. 16, in order that the latter remain closed while, being drawn off the filling-
tube n.
The standards are so arranged as that the sockets are in a line with the
driving-pins o and with the upper parts of the filler-molds, whereas the guiding-
pins q, the tube-conveyers p' and the tube-receptacles p. are in line with the forks k¹.
The bar N carrying the filling-tubes. is fixed to the aforesaid slide M, and consequently,.
B

page_text: moves together with the same, and it is provided with two sets of the said tubes, n
and no, having such position that, by the motion of the bar N they are brought
alternately opposite to the tube-conveyers pl for being supplied with paper tubes, and
to the sockets for being closed at the ends.
In order that the paper tubes be completely slipped on the filling-tubes before they
are moved sideward (the said motion taking place when the carriage A is at the
right-hand end of its course, as described), the bar carrying the conveyers p is
connected to the carriage by means of two arms p passing through holes of a
transverse rib of the carriage and prevented from slipping out of the same by cottars p³,
and on the arms are placed springs p, adapted to push the bar P forward, relatively
to the carriage. Moreover, a rod extends from the bar through an eye p² at the
lower end of the pin 3, connecting together the levers and the bar R, the said rod
being provided at its outer end with a ring p³ forming a shoulder. The ring p3
is so adjusted as that it will strike against the eye p a short time before the carriage
has arrived at the end of its course to the right, the eye being at the time at rest
on account of the bar R having previously been stopped by its contact with the end
surfaces of its guiding-slits, as hereinbefore described. When the ring p³ strikes
against the eye p', the bar P is stopped, while, during the remaining part of the
motion of the carriage to the right, the springs are compressed. When the
carriage goes to the left again, the springs first expand, and then the carriage
draws the bar back by means of the pins ps and the arms p.
The mechanism for operating the tube-closing device comprises two elbow-levers t¹,
Figs. 16, 17, 17, 18, 19, 21, 23, pivoted to the frame B, two cam-pieces t² fixed
to the carriage A, two rods 3 pivoted to the bar S and maintained by a supporting
surface in horizontal position, two pins po fixed to the bar P, two cam-pieces t
screwed to the edge of the carriage A, two levers to pivoted to the carriage and kept
in vertical position by the preponderence of weight of their lower arms, two tappets
fixed to the frame B, a bar s sunk into a groove at the bottom of the bar S and
having rollers by means whereof it is supported on the edges of the carriage, pins
passing from the bar 's' towards the sockets s', and resilient pieces s, Figs. 23, 16", 16°,
preferably of india-rubber, inserted between the pins s³ and the sockets.
When the carriage is in the middle of its course to the right, the bar S, the parts
cooperating there with and the mechanism for slipping the paper tubes on the filling-
tubes are in the position shown by Figs. 16, 18 and 19. The guiding-pins q and the
tube conveyers p are advancing to push paper tubes on the filling-tubes a opposite to
them. In Fig. 17 the carriage is at the right-hand end of its course; the tube-
conveyers are in their most advanced position; the pins q are receding; the pins po
on the bar P have pushed the bar S forward a certain distanco, and the tubes n
supplied with paper-tubes, are about to be shifted in register with the sockets s'.
After the latter operation has been completed in the manner described, and the
carriage moves to the left as in Fig. 17, the cam-pieces t², on passing with their
inclined surfaces t' under the rollers at the ends of the lower arms of the levers t¹,
cause the upper arms of these levers to press against the rods 3 and thereby to push
the bar S with the sockets s' against the paper tubes. At the same time the cam-
pieces pass under the rollers at the ends of the bar s, thereby raising the latter ;
and, when the cam-pieces allow the levers t¹ to release the rods 3 and, consequently,
the bar S, the shoulders on the cam-pieces bearing against the rollers of the bar s,
cause the bar S together with the sockets s¹ to be moved backward in the measure as
the paper tubes are being filled. During this backward motion, and until the
cigarettes have been finished, the sockets s¹ are maintained in their retracted position
within the standards s by the cam-pieces t pressing, through the medium of the bar t*
and the pins 3, the pieces s against the sockets, the purpose hereof being to prevent
the springs from prematurely pushing the sockets forward again and thereby
bending the cigarettes. When the filling is completed, the lower arms of the levers is
on coming in contact with the tappets 6, cause the upper arms of the said levers to
quickly push the bars s' and S off the cam-pieces t*, as shown in Fig. 23, the rods (³

page_text: passing away over the upper arms of the levers t. The finished cigarettes are then
free to drop off the tubes n, and the sockets s¹, released from the pressure of the
pieces, resume their normal position in the standards s.
Upon the carriage again moving to the right, the levers t¹ are first raised by the
cam-pieces 2, but without their acting on the bar S, because the rods 3, being at
the time projected past the levers, will only be lifted by the latter and then
allowed to drop again. The tubes n°, being now in register with the tube receptacles,
are then supplied with paper-tubes, the bar N and parts connected. therewith,
are shifted back to the position shown in Fig. 19, and the operation is repeated.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is :
1. The combination together of the sliding carriage A with bar K¹, spindles k
passing through holes in the bar K' and having helicoidal grooves and the notches k³,
pins projecting from the bar K¹ into the said grooves, the bar inserted into the
bar K and adapted to engage in the notches k³, the stationary cam-pieces and
springs acting on the bar k, forks fixed to the spindles k, block F having holes f
slitted at the top, guiding-plates d d', feeding-plate g with india-rubber tongues g²,
mechanism for moving the plate 9 up and down, and the plate g* fixed to the
plates d d and provided with india-rubber tongues g³, all cooperating substantially
as and for the purpose described.
2. The combination together of the guide-plates d d', the block F having holes f
slitted at the top, the stationary cutters e and mechanisms for moving the plates d d¹
and the block F to and fro, substantially as and for the purpose specified.
3. The combination together of the sliding carriage A provided with the racks h,
the cutters e having slits between them, the spur-wheels, the racks with bar h³,
and the hooks / fixed to the bar h³ and adapted to pass into the said slits, substantially
as and for the purpose set forth.
4. The combination together of the sliding carriage A, the tobacco-cases L, the
stationary filler-mold-parts, the feeders having teeth at their ends, the racks
engaging therewith, the slide M having slits containing the compressors m and mo,
the frames m m and m³ m³⁰ having projections engaging in notches of the alternate
compressors, the cam-pieces m³ m² engaging the parts m³ and m¹0 of the said frames
between them, and mechanism for transmitting reciprocating motion from the carriage
to the racks and the slide M, substantially as and for the purpose described.
5. The combination together of the sliding carriage A with bar K', spindles k
passing through holes in the bar K¹ and having helicoidal grooves and the notches k³,
pins projecting from the bar K¹ into the said grooves, the bar inserted into the
bar K and adapted to engage in the notches k³, the stationary cam-pieces and
springs acting on the bar k, forks k¹ fixed to the spindles k, block F having holes f
slitted at the top, the drum c¹ pivoted to swinging arms and provided with a
ratchet wheel engaged by a pall, the stationary carding-comb 18 and the vertically
reciprocating carding-comb 1, substantially as and for the purpose specified.
6. The combination together of the frame B with guiding-plates R', sliding
carriage A, the filling-tubes n, the tube-receptacles p, the guiding-pins q, the bar
carrying the guiding-pins and operated by the carriage A through the medium of the
levers and the bar R, the tube conveyers p' and the driving-pins o, both in rigid
connection with the carriage by means of the respective bars P and K¹, substantially
as and for the purpose set forth.
7. The combination, with the sliding carriage A having eyes n³ and with the tubes n,
of the stripping-plates n¹ having the rods n² passing through the said eyes and
provided with the collars n', substantially as and for the purpose described.
8. The combination together of the stationary bar having vertical holes, the
cutter having bevelled and sharpened recesses registering with the said holes, shaft b
with eccentric vt, frame v to which the cutter is fixed, plate w journalled on

page_text: pivots w, lever w³, spring w³, and funnels u, :substantially, as, and for the purpose.
specified.
9. The combination together of the filling tubes n nº, bar S with standards &
and rods 3, sockets s¹, pins s², springs s³, bar. st. pins s³, resilient pieces. so, sliding
carriage A with cam-pieces 2 and t*, levers and fixed tappet to and bar: P with
pins p, substantially as and for the purpose set forth..