A New or Improved Machine for Producing Cigarette Paper Tubing in Rolls.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 18th May, 1895--Accepted, 6th July, 1895
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Machine for Producing Cigarette Paper Tubing
in Rolls.
I, ANTONY BRUANDET of 1 Rue Auber, Paris, France, Merchant, 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:-
All machines for making paper tubes for cigarettes as hitherto used produce
tubes cut up into given and uniform lengths, the cutting being effected, from time
to time, by means of scissors or knives as the manufacture proceeds. This
modus operandi puts a limit to the working capacity of the machine as there must
necessarily occur pauses or interruptions in its operations during which the scissor-
fulfil their function. However short these pauses may be they become noticeable
when repeated a few thousand times, so that machines which are known to perform
the most work can barely produce from 80 to 100,000 tubes per day. In other
machines where there is no pause during the cutting operation, the speed of the
machine is bound to be very slow and the production comparatively small. To
obtain a greater production I have under this invention arranged to perform
the two principal operations, viz., tube formation and severance by means of
two distinct machines, one machine, which I am about to describe, making a
tube of undetermined length while the other, which forms the subject matter of
another application, opens the tube and severs it into suitable lengths.
The machine hereinafter described operates, either by hand or by power,
without interruption and produces in one day a length of tubing corresponding to
at least 500,000 cigarette tubes. The machines, which cut the tubing, being
intermittent in their action owing to the cutting operations it will be necessary to
have 5 or 6 machines for cutting off the tubes produced by a single tube making
machine.
To obtain a tube of undetermined length I flatten it, after it is closed by some
adhesive substance, and I wind it around a bobbin in the same inanner as continuous
cigarette paper, so, that, as a matter of fact, I convert an ordinary cigarette paper
roll into a roll of cigarette paper tubing and I thus prepare a new product for
commercial purposes which can be readily packed for transmission
exportation.
or for
And in order that my said invention may be properly understood I have
hereunto appended an explanatory sheet of drawings, whereon,
Fig. 1 is a side elevation of the machine and Fig. 2 is a plan view.
Figs. 3 and 4 are detail views.
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Referring to the drawings it will be seen the paper roll or bobbin A is mounted
on a fork B and from this roll the paper passes over the guide roller C to the
snail D (see also Fig. 4) which folds it into the shape of an oval tube and brings
the two edges together in such a manner that one slightly overlaps the other.
this place, the paper comes in contact with the paster E the nozzle e¹ of which
spreads a thin streak of paste along the upper edge of the tube (see Fig. 3). The
paper now passes under a piece F where it is slightly flattened between the
spring H and the upper part of F. Alterwards it is fed forward by two india
rubber feed rollers K which at the same time thoroughly flatten and dry it and it
is then wound upon a roll L in a continuous manner.
The machine is set in motion by turning the shaft M, either by hand or by

page_text: power, (p are power pulleys), which, in turn, operates the rollers K by means
of the driving band N and the bobbin or roll L by means of the band R. The fly
wheel V facilitates and regulates the motion of the shaft M.
All the parts are mounted on a base or stand P.
The snail D, shown more particularly at Fig. 4, is fixed upon a pillar d and is
provided with a tail piece o which serves as a guide to the paper until the
latter reaches a position beyond the piece F.
The spring H aforesaid presses the tube against this tail piece.
The pasting device E consists of a saucer provided at its lower side with a
peculiar form of stop cock e having the long thin tapering nozzle e' which
latter at the upper part of its extremity is provided with a very small, almost
capillary hole through which the paste issues. The paster is adjustably attached
by means of the screw f and thumb nut G to the horizontal slotted guide plate g
mounted on the pillar n in such manner that it can be easily moved more or
less into contact with the edge of the paper tube being pasted.
The paper roll A is held by means of pinching screws upon a carrier wheel a
mounted on the screw centres a' at the top of the pillar B. The wheel a is
provided with a flange Q. By means of the screws the spring carried brake
blocks can be pressed against the flange Q so as to regulate the tension of the
paper as desired.
The centres a' allow the wheel a to run freely.
The arrangement and method of fitting the various parts can be varied at
will.
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
consider novel and desire to claim is :-
1. A machine for the production of paper tubing for cigarettes in rolls, reels,
or bobbins of any desired length having in combination a reel or roll from
which the paper is unwound, a snail for forming the tubing, a paster for
pasting the edges of the tubing, and a second reel or roller on which the
finished tubing is wound, substantially as herein before described with reference to
the drawings annexed.
2. The manufacture as a new commercial product of flattened cigarette paper
tubing in long lengths wound up in the form of a roll so as to be economically and
quickly transported, substantially as hereinbefore set forth.
3. The general arrangement and combination of parts of the machine sub-
stantially as hereinbefore described and shown on the drawings annexed.
Dated this 17th day of May 1895.
H. D. FITZPATRICK,
70 Wellington Street, Glasgow, Agent.