Improvements in Machines for Manufacturing Cigarettes and Cigarette Tubes.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Oct., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 20th July, 1395-Accepted, 7th Sept., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machines for Manufacturing Cigarettes and
Cigarette Tubes.
I, ALFRED CHARLES MARCHAL, of Rue Roger, Paris, in the Republic of
France, Managing Director of La Société Anonyme des Usines A. E. Decouflé,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:—
This invention relates to machines known as Decouflé's and others for manufac-
turing cigarette tubes and cigarettes without adhesive material, that is to say for
manufacturing tubes and cigarettes which are closed by interlocking the edges
of the paper, or by any other means that do not require the use of adhesive
material.
These improvements consist firstly in a novel arrangement of mechanism, which
can be easily adapted to existing machines, for closing or twisting one end of the
paper tube before the latter is cut off to the required length, the object being to
prevent the escape of the tobacco from the tube, and especially of the picadura
tobacco employed in the manufacture of what are known as Havana cigarettes.
This arrangement of mechanism consists of two thin blades placed opposite to
one another, and perpendicularly to the longitudinal axis of the spindle, and which,
in turning, approach one another, when the tube is finished, in order to twist its
end. which extends six or eight millimètres beyond the end of the spindle, and
thereby to form, with this projecting part, a sort of bottom which retains the
tobacco in the tube. In non-pasted cigarette tubes, as at present constructed,
there is nothing to prevent the escape of the tobacco from the tubes, especially
when this tobacco is of a granular nature like that used in Havana cigarettes,
or when it is dry like that used in ordinary cigarettes such as Caporal, and so
forth.
In its application to known machines for manufacturing cigarettes without
adhesive material on what is known as the Decouflé system such as are described
for example in the Specification of Patent No. 9368 dated 19th July 1886, this
new mechanism requires to be supplemented by another piece of mechanism the
object of which is to take the finished tube, that is to say the tube cut to length
and twisted at one end, and to turn it round so as to present it with its open end
opposite the filling mechanisın. This turning mechanism forms the second part of
the improvements.
This supplementary mechanism is not required however when the filling
mechanism, instead of being placed at the other side of the driving gear as in the
aforesaid Decouflé machines, is placed at the side of the driving gear over the cam
actuating the filling spindle. In such an arrangement the twisted end is presented
in a favourable position relatively to the filling inechanism.
The third part of the improvements consists in certain details of construction of
the mechanism which regulates the manufacture of the tubes and cigarettes, and
assures a more satisfactory working of the machine. These details of construction
concern the means for assuring a regular tension and unwinding of the band of
paper intended to form the cigarette tubes, and also certain modifications in the
actuating apparatus of the stamp which impresses the official or other mark at
predetermined and equidistant points on the band of paper. They also comprise
improved means for quickly mounting and dismounting the spindle round which the
tubes are formed, the said tube being extended or prolonged beyond the organs for

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creasing, gauffering, or closing definitively the longitudinal folds of the tubes, in
order to assist in the operation of twisting or closing one end of the latter.
In the improved machine the ordinary supporting table is provided on which is
fixed an extension which carries four vertical supports. The first support is cast
in one with a fork, between the branches of which is arranged a roller which serves
as a guide for the band of paper which unwinds from a bobbin mounted on a wheel
or core fixed on an axis the ends of which rest in bearings on the two branches of
the second of the four supports. The said axis can turn freely in its bearings, but
is subjected to the action of two blade springs. the object of which is to increase
the friction developed during the rotation of the axis, and to act as a brake.
The tension of, the paper band is obtained by a guide roller which rests upon it,
and is, mounted between the ends, of, two parallel balance levers carried on the
second of the aforesaid supports by screws. on which they are free to oscillate.
These balance levers are also furnished with counter-weights, which can be adjusted
on them so as to balance the guide roller more or less and thereby to permit as
exact an adjustment as possible of the tension of the paper.band.
The first of the four supports contains the rod or stem which carries the printing
stamp and which is actuated by a lever arm fixed on the end of an axis operated
by, a lever the end of which is provided with a friction roller engaging in the
groove of a cam mounted on an intermediate shaft placed above the supporting
table in the ordinary Decouflé machines.
The second support is provided with an opening at its lower part to allow of the
passage, through it of the long boss of the third of the four supports. In the
interior of this long boss slides a rod carrying the inking pad which, at each
revolution of the machine, comes in contact with the printing stamp carried by
the first support.
As in the Decouhfé or other similar machine, after a tube has been made, the
printing stamp prints the required mark under the band of paper, after which
the said stamp is inked by coming in contact with the inking pad carried by the
aforesaid sliding rod.
The third support carries at its upper end an L shaped piece the vertical branch
of which allows the passage through it of the tube spindle, which latter is provided
at its heel with a upwardly-standing part which engages in a slot of the shaped
piece where this upwardly-standing part is suspended by a button or head.. This
slot opens into a wider opening in the horizontal branch of the shaped piece,
through which opening the head of the upwardly-standing part can pass. A screw,
furnished with a lock nut, and screwed through the horizontal part of the L shaped
piece, enters by its pendent end into a hole in the tube spindle and prevents auy
longitudinal displacement of the latter. To take out the tube spindle, the screw
is slacked back sufficiently, and the spindle is then slid back so as to bring. the
aforesaid head opposite the opening in the horizontal branch of the L piece; the
said head is then passed through this opening and the spindle can then be easily
removed.
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The tube spindle, beyond the milled roller for creasing or gauffering, the. longi-
tudinal joint of the paper tube, is prolonged two or three centimètres in order to
support the manufactured tube during the operation of folding, or, twisting
its end.
The construction of the scisiors for cutting off the paper tubes is different from
that heretofore employed. The branch of one of the blades instead of being
curved is provided with a kind of small column terminated by an appendage
standing at right angles to it and to which is hooked one end of a coiled spring
the other end of which is attached to the other branch of the scissors, and which
spring constantly tends to draw the two scissor blades together; the opening and
closing of the said blades depending on a cam in the usual well known manner.
This construction of the scissors allows of the employment of a long spring for
closing the blades together, which gives greater regularity and smoothness.in.the
cutting off of the paper tubes.

page_text: Toring or twisting mechanism is placed at the end of the prolongation of
the tube spindle; it is actuated by a grooved pulley on a shaft which communicates
motion by a cord or strap to another pulley cast with or connected to a toothed
wheel gearing with a pinion which is fixed on a socket on which is also secured a
5 sleeve having a circumferential groove. This sleeve is free to move longitudinally
on the socket while the latter is rotated by the aforesaid pinion. For that purpose
there are engaged in the groove of the 'sleeve the ends of the branches of a fork
formed at one end of a lérer oscillating on an axis fixed to the table of the machine.
The end of the said lever opposite to the forked end is provided. with a friction
roller which takes into the groove of a cam cast with or connected to the above
mentioned grooved pulley and which cam imparts to the forked lever the required
oscillatory movements. The sleeve can slide, as before explained, on the socket
and two grooves are formed in the socket diametrically opposite to each other, in
which are placed two pieces the free end of each of which is connected to a
5 metallic blade which moves in an opening made perpendicularly to the axis' of the
tube spindle in the thickness of the end of the socket. The acting parts of these
blades are cut out to a curvilinear shape in such manner that as these blades
approach one another they seize the paper tube to be closed, centrally by their
projecting parts.
The pieces which impart alternating, rectilinear, radial movements to the blades
are raised out of the grooves of the socket by the sleeve as each of these pieces is
provided with a projecting heel and is pivoted on a pin sunk in the socket so that,
as the sleeve is moved backwards on the socket, it turns the pieces on the said pin
until the upper edges of the said heel parts of such pieces come level with the
periphery of the socket.
The tube spindle above referred to enters the central opening of the socket and
stops about half a millimetre short of the blades. All this folding mechanism is
mounted on an intermediate support fixed on the fourth principal support.
When the paper tube is formed, that is to say when the edges are interlocked,
or simply placed one over the other and pressed down or creased by the well known
devices, it extends about seven millimètres beyond the spindle; the cam then acts
on the forked lever and the sleeve slides on the socket while it continues to turn
therewith, the said socket receiving its rotatory motion from the pinion which gears
with the toothed wheel driven by the aforesaid grooved pulley. During the
longitudinal movement of the sleeve the pieces which actuate the folding or
twisting blades approach each other and move the said blades which, in turning,
fold the paper forming the end of the tube and press it down when they have come
close together so as to form a twisted bottom normal to the longitudinal axis of
the tube.
As above stated the folding mechanism is applicable to existing machines for
manufacturing non-pasted cigarette tubes with their longitudinal edges interlocked
or not, as the case may be, the interlocking being either external or internal; but
when applied to existing machines for manufacturing non-pasted tubes on the
Decouhfé system, the twisted end is presented towards the mechanism for filling
the cigarette; it is therefore necessary to add other devices which impart a half
turn to the tube, in order that the open end of the latter may be presented to the
well known double filling funnel in front of the ramming spindle.
Various arrangements of mechanism may be employed for this purpose, but I
prefer that next hereinafter described without however limiting myself to the
employment of that particular arrangement.
The said arrangement comprises a cam mounted on the lower intermediate shaft
f the machine, and each side of which cam is provided with a groove. On the
ront of the table of the machine is a vertical cylindrical rod capable of being
oved up and down and furnished with two collars between which take the
ranches of a fork; this fork forms one end of a lever free to oscillate on a fixed
xis and the other end of which lever is furnished with a friction roller which
gages in one groove of the cam. In the other groove of the cam takes

page_text: friction roller mounted at the end of a horizontally sliding rod carrying a rack
which gears with a pinion on the aforesaid vertical cylindrical rod. This pinion is
of a height sufficient to allow the said vertical rod to move up and down vertically
to a certain extent without the pinion coming out of gear with the rack.
The vertical rod terminates at its upper end in a fork the two branches of which
form a shaped notch. The vertical rod is placed in the centre line of the tube
transporting mechanism used in the well known Decouflé machine, that is to say
between the sides of the movable carriage.
When a paper tube arrives over the fork the cam acts on the lever and raises
the vertical rod and the cigarette tube is taken by the fork, is raised thereby and is
disengaged from the carriage on which it has been resting, then the rack, actuated
by the cam, turns the pinion and thereby the vertical rod and the paper tube
resting on it half a revolution, which causes the tube to be presented with its open
end towards the ramming spindle. Finally the vertical rod descends and returns
the tube on to the transporting carriage whence it is conducted by the tube pusher
into the double funnel between the pincers which hold it, whilst being filled, in the
usual well known manner.
With this arrangement the tubes can only be raised from below, but if for any
reason it is found preferable to raise them from above I employ instead of the solid
vertical rod a hollow rod placed in the reverse position, that is to say above the
transporting carriage, and having its end hollowed out to a semi-cylindrical shape
corresponding to that of the paper tube. When this tube comes opposite the
hollowed out end of the rod, there is produced in the latter a sucking action which
raises the tube into the semi-cylindrical cavity where the vacuum holds it until the
hollow tube has made a half revolution when the suction ceases and the tube, thus
left to itself, falls back on to the transporting carriage, The suction in the hollow
rod may be produced by au india rubber ball, by bellows, or by a piston moving in
a cylinder, either device being operated by a cam fixed on one of the shafts of the
machine.
In order to avoid the use of devices for turning the paper tubes round end for
end, the cigarette machine may be constructed in such manner that the open end of
the tube is presented naturally towards the parts where the filling-in of the tobacco
takes place.
Dated this 20th dox of Ontolon 1801
A. C. MARCHAL,
Per W. H. Beck,
115 Cannon Street, London, Agent.
Improvements in Machines for Manufacturing Cigarettes and
Cigarette Tubes.
I, ALFRED CHARLES MARCHAL, of 8 Rue Roger, Paris in the Republic of
France, Managing Director of La Société Anonyme des Usines A. E. Decouflé, 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 to machines known as Decouflé's and others for manu-
facturing cigarette tubes and cigarettes without adhesive material, that is to say
for manufacturing tubes and cigarettes which are closed by interlocking the edges
of the paper, or by any other means that do not require the use of adhesive
material.
These improvements consist firstly in a novel arrangement of mechanism, which
can be easily adapted to existing machines, for closing or twisting one end of the

page_text: per tubo before the latter is cut off to the required length, the object being to
event the escape of the tobacco from the tube, and especially of the picadura
bacco employed in the manufacture of what are known as Havana cigarettes.
bis arrangement of mechanisin consists of two thin blades placed opposite to one
other, and perpendicularly to the longitudinal axis of the spindle, and which in
rning approach one another, when the tube is finished, in order to twist its end,
hich extends six or eight millimètres beyond the end of the spindle, and thereby
form, with this projecting part, a sort of bottom which retains the tobacco in
at present constructed, there is
e tube. In non-pasted cigarette tubes, as
othing to prevent the escape of the tobacco from the tubes, especially when it is
fa granular nature like that used in Havana cigarettes, or when it is dry like
hat used in ordinary cigarettes, such as Caporal and so forth.
In applying this mechanism to known machines for manufacturing cigarettes
ithout adhesive material on what is known as the Decouflé system such as are
escribed for example in the Specification of Patent No. 9368 dated 19th July 1886
t requires to be supplemented by another piece of mechanism the object of which
s to take the finished tube, that is to say the tube cut to length and twisted at
one end, and to turn it round so as to present it with its open end opposite the
illing mechanism. This turning mechanism forms the second part of the
mprovements.
This supplementary mechanism is not required however when the filling
mechanism, instead of being placed at the other side of the driving gear, as in the
aforesaid Decoufle machines, is placed at the side of the driving gear over the cam
actuating the filling spindle. In such an arrangement the twisted end is presented
in a favourable position relatively to the filling mechanism.
The third part of the improvements consists in certain details of construction of the
mechanism which regulates the manufacture of the tubes and cigarettes, and
assures a more satisfactory working of the machine. These details of construction
concern the means for assuring a regular tension and unwinding of the band of
paper intended to form the cigarette tubes, and also certain modifications in the
actuating apparatus of the stamp which impresses the official or other mark at
predetermined and equidistant points on the band of paper. They also comprise
improved means for quickly mounting and dismounting the spindle round which
the tubes are formed, the said tube being extended or prolonged beyond the organs
for creasing, gauffering or closing definitively the longitudinal folds of the tubes,
in order to assist in the operation of twisting or closing one end of the latter.
In the annexed drawings
Figure 1 is an elevation of part of an improved Decoufle machine for manu-
facturing non-pasted cigarettes ;
Figure 2 is a plan view, being a projection of Figure 1.
Figure 3 is a transverse sectional elevation taken on line 1-2 of Figure 1,
showing the arrangement employed for turning round, end for end, the non-pasted
tube, after one of its ends has been closed or twisted.
Figures 4 and 5 are respectively a vertical section and an elevation of the
mechanism for folding or twisting the end of the paper tube.
Figure 6 is a detail view, to a larger scale, of the blades of the folding
mechanism.
Figure 7 is an elevation of the scissors for cutting off the tubes.
Figures 8 and 9 are respectively a sectional elevation and a plan view of the
support for the spindle and of the spindle itself upon which the tubes are made
and closed.
In the improved machine a designates the ordinary supporting table on which
The first
is fixed an extension a' which carries four vertical supports bede.
support is cast in one with a fork 6 between the branches of which is arranged
5 a roller which serves as a guide for the band of paper which unwinds from a
bobbin e mounted on a wheel or core c¹ fixed on an axis c² the ends of which rest
The said axis c can
in bearings on the two branches of the second support c.

page_text: turn freely in its bearings, but is subjected to the action of two blade springs c³,
the object of which is to increase the friction developed during the rotation of the
axis e, and to act as a brake.
The tension of the paper band is obtained by a guide roller which rests upon
it, and is mounted between the ends of two parallel balance levers carried on
the support by screws con which they are free to oscillate. "These balance
levers are also furnished with counter weights c which can be adjusted on them
so as to balance the guide roller c* more or less and thereby to permit as exact an
adjustment as possible of the tension of the paper band.
The support b contains the rod or stem which carries the printing stamp and
which is actuated by a lever arm fixed on the end of an axis 64 operated by a
lever the end of which is provided with a friction rolier engaging in the groove
of a cam be mounted on an intermediate shaft placed above the supporting table a
in the ordinary Decoufle machines.
The second support c is provided with an opening at its lower part to allow of
the passage through it of a long boss d of the third support. In the interior of
this long boss slides a rod carrying the inking pad which at each revolution
of the machine comes in contact with the printing stamp carried by the first
support. b.
As in the 'Decoufle, or other similar machine, after a tube has been made the
printing stamp prints the required mark under the band of paper after which
the said stamp is inked by coming in contact with the inking pad d² carried by the
aforesaid sliding rod d³.
The third support d carries at its upper end an L shaped piece d' the vertical
branch of which allows the passage through it of the tube spindley which latter is
provided at its heel with an upwardly standing part gl which engages in a slot d
of the shaped piece where this upwardly standing part is suspended by
a button or head. This slot d' opens into a wider opening d in the horizontal
branch of the L shaped piece d' through which opening the head g² of the
upwardly standing part can pass. A screw furnished with a lock nut d³, and
screwed through the horizontal part of the shaped piece d' enters by its pendant
end into a hole in the tube spindle g and prevents any longitudinal displacement of
the latter. To take out the tube spindle y the screw is slackened back
sufficiently, and the spindle is then slid back so as to bring the aforesaid head g
opposite the opening d in the horizontal branch of the piece d*, the said
head is then passed through this opening and the spindle g can'then be easily
removed.
The tube spindley, beyond the milled roller G for creasing or gauffering the
longitudinal joint of the paper tube, is prolonged two or three centimètres as shown
in Figures 8 and 9 in order to support the manufactured tube during the operation
of folding or twisting its end. The dotted line in Figure 9 shows the end of the
tube before it has been twisted and after the scissors have cut off the preceding
tube.
The construction of the scissors for cutting off the paper tubes is different from
that heretofore employed. The branch of one of the blades instead of being
curved is provided with a kind of small column terminated by an appendage h¹
standing at right angles to it, and to which is hooked one end of a coiled spring h
the other end of which is attached to the other branch of the scissors, and "which
spring constantly tends to draw the two scissor blades together, the opening and
closing of the said blades depending on a cam h in the usual well known manner.
This construction of the scissors allows of the employment of a long spring for
closing the blades together, which gives greater regularity and smoothness in the
cutting off of the paper tubes.
The folding or twisting mechanism is placed at the end of the prolongation of
the tube spindle g; it is actuated by a grooved pulley i on a shaft f which com-
municates motion by a card or strap to another pulley cast with or connected
to a toothed wheel k gearing with a pinion which is fixed on a socket m on which

page_text: is also secured a sleeve having a circumferential groove. This sleeve is free
to move longitudinally on the socket m while the latter is rotated by the aforesaid
pinion. For that purpose there are engaged in the groove of the sleeve the
ends of the branches of a fork & formed at one end of a lever oscillating on an
axis fixed to the table a of the machine. The end of the said lever opposite to the
forked end is provided with a friction roller which takes into the groove of a
camcast with or connected to the abovementioned grooved pulley i, and which
cam imparts to the forked end of the lever the required oscillatory movements.
The sleeve can slide as before explained on the socket m and two grooves m
are formed in the socket diametrically opposite to each other, in which are placed
two pieces m' the free end of each of which is connected to a metallic blade m³
which moves in an opening m made perpendicularly to the axis of the tube
The acting parts of these
spindle g in the thickness of the end of the socket m.
blades m³ are cut out to a curvilinear shape as shown clearly in Figure 6 in such
manner that as these blades approach one another they seize the paper tube to be
closed, centrally by their projecting parts m³.
The pieces m which impart alternating, rectilinear, radial movements to the
blades m are raised out of the grooves of the socket by the sleeve k² as each of
these pieces is provided with a projecting heel (see Figure 6) and is pivoted on a
pin m sunk in the socket m so that as the sleeve is moved backwards on the
socket m it turns the pieces m² on the said pins m until the upper edges of the
said heel parts of such pieces come level with the periphery of the socket m, and
the blades m³ are moved radially outwards away from the centre of the socket m.
When the sleeve 2 is moved to the right in Figure 5 the pieces m² move the
blades m³ radially inwards towards the centre of the socket m.
The tube spindle g above referred to enters the central opening of the socket m
All this folding
and stops about half a millimètre short of the blades m³.
mechanism is mounted on an intermediate support n fixed on the fourth principal
support e.
When the paper tube is formed, that is to say when the edges are interlocked, or
simply placed one over the other and pressed down or creased by the well known
devices G G', it extends about seven millimètres beyond the spindle g (see Figures 4
and 9) the cam then acts on the forked lever and the sleeve k slides on the
socket m, while it continues turn therewith, the said socket receiving its rotatory
motion from the pinion which gears with the toothed wheel k driven by the
aforesaid grooved pulley i. During the longitudinal movement of the sleeve k³ the
pieces m which actuate the folding or twisting blades m³ approach each other and
move the said blades inwards and these blades in turning fold the paper forming
the end of the tube, and press it down when they have come close together so as to
form a twisted bottom normal to the longitudinal axis of the tube as shown in
Figure 10.
As above stated the folding mechanism is applicable to existing machines for
manufacturing non-pasted cigarette tubes with their longitudinal edges interlocked
or not as the case may be, the interlocking being either external or internal; but
5 when applied to existing machines for manufacturing non-pasted tubes on the
Decouflé system the twisted end is presented towards the mechanisın A for filling
the cigarette; it is therefore necessary to add other devices which impart a half
turn to the tube, in order that the open end of the latter may be presented to the
well known double filling funnel A' in front of the ramming spindle.
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Various arrangements of mechanism may be employed for this purpose, but I
prefer that shown in Figures 1, 2 and 3, without however limiting myself to the
employment of that particular arrangement.
The said arrangement comprises a cam p mounted on the lower intermediate
shaft o of the machine, and each side of which cam is provided with a groove. On
the front of the table of the machine is a vertical cylindrical rod capable of being
moved up and down and furnished with two collars between which take the
branches of a fork s, this fork & forms one end of a lever s¹ free to oscillate on a
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fixed axis s' and the other end of which lever is furnished with a friction roller
which engages in one groove of the cam p. In the other groove 2 of the cam p
takes a friction roller mounted at the end of a horizontally sliding roll t carrying
a rack t which gears with a pinion on the aforesaid vertical cylindrical rod r.
This pinion is of a height sufficient to allow said vertical rod to move up and
down vertically to a certain extent without the pinion coming out of gear with
the rack t'.
The vertical rod terminates at its upper end in a fork the two branches of
which form a V shaped notch. The vertical rod is placed in the centre line of
the tube transporting mechanism used in the well known Decouflé machine, that is
to say between the sides the movable carriage.
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When a paper tube arrives over the fork the camp acts on the lever and
raises the vertical red and the cigarette tube shown by dotted lines in Figure 3 is
taken by the fork, is raised thereby, and is disengaged from the carriage on
which it has been resting, then the rack t' actuated by the camp turns the pinion
and thereby the vertical rod r, and the paper tube resting on it, half a revolution,
which causes the tube to be presented with its open end towards the ramming
spindle v. Finally the vertical rod descends and returns the tube on to the
transporting carriage whence it is conducted by the ramming spindle v (Figures 2
and 3) into the double funnel A between the pincers which hold it whilst being
filled, in the usual well known manner.
With this arrangement the tubes can only be raised from below, but if for any
reason it is found preferable to raise them from above I employ instead of the solid
vertical rod a hollow rod placed in the reverse position, that is to say above the
transporting carriage and having its end hollowed out to a semi-cylindrical shape
corresponding to that of the paper tube. When this tube comes opposite the
hollowed out end of the rod there is produced in the latter a sucking action which
raises the tube into the semi-cylindrical cavity where the vacuum holds it until the
hollow tube has made a half revolution when the suction ceases and the tube thus
left to itself falls back on to the transporting carriage. The suction in the hollow
rod may be produced by an indiarubber ball, by bellows, or by a piston moving in
a cylinder, either device being operated by a cam fixed on one of the shafts of the
machine.
In order to avoid the use of devices for turning the paper tubes round end for
end the cigarette machine may be constructed in such inanner that the open end
of the tube is presented naturally towards the parts where the filling in of the
tobacco takes place.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, declare that what I
claim is :-
First. In a machine for making cigarettes and cigarette tubes without adhesive
material, mechanism for closing or twisting one end of the paper tube which consists
of a socket surrounding the end of the tube spindle, a sleeve adapted to slide
longitudinally on the said socket and to turn therewith, two pieces pivoted to the
said socket diametrically opposite to one another and operated by the said sleeve,
and two blades operated by the said pivoted pieces and adapted to slide radially to
and from one another across the said socket in order to flatten and twist the end of
the paper tube, substantially as described.
Second. In a machine for making cigarettes and cigarette tubes without adhesive
material in which one end of the paper tube is closed by folding or twisting, the
devices for turning the paper tube round end for end which consist of a solid or
hollow rod provided with a forked or hollowed out end in which the tube is lodged
and held either by its own weight, or by suction produced in the hollow rod while
the said rod and the paper tube supported thereby make a half revolution,
substantially as described.
Third. In a machine for making cigarette tubes, a support for the tube spindle

page_text: comprising an L shaped piece mounted on a fixed support the upper branch of the
said shaped piece having a slot to receive an upwardly standing part of the tube.
spindle furnished with a head which retains said upwardly standing part in the
slot; and a screw in the upper branch of the L shaped piece adapted to engage.
at one end in a hole in the tube spindle, substantially as and for the purpose set
forth.
Fourth. In scissors for cutting off the paper tubes in machines for making
cigarette tubes an appendage h applied to one of the branches of the scissors, and
a long coiled spring hooked at one end to the said appendage and at the other
end to the other branch of the scissors, the said spring tending constantly to closed
the blades of the scissors substantially as set forth.
Fifth. In a machine for making cigarette tubes the devices for imparting the
requisite tension to the band of paper from which the tubes are to be made, which
consist of a heavy guide roller held between two parallel levers pivoted on the
support of the roll of paper, the said levers being furnished with adjustable
counter-weights to balance more or less the weight of the said guide roller,.
substantially as described.
Sixth. In a machine for manufacturing cigarettes and cigarette tubes without
adhesive material the combination of the printing stamp, the lever arm on which
same is mounted, and the inking pad arranged and operating substantially as
described.
Seventh. In a machine for manufacturing cigarette tubes without adhesive-
material, or in a machine for manufacturing cigarettes with tubes made without
adhesive material, the combination of the whole or part of the improvements above
claimed with the known organs of Decouflé or other similar machines for obtaining
tubes and cigarettes without adhesive material closed at one end or open at both.
ends, substantially as described.
Dated this 20th day of July 1895
A. C. MARCHAL,
Per W. H. Beck,
115 Cannon Street, London, E.C., Agent.