An Improved Mechanical Feeding Appliance for Serving Leaf, Papers, and Labels to Machines for Rolling Cigars, Cigarettes, and Tobaccos.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 30th June, 1890
Complete Specification Left, 25th Mar., 1891-Accepted, 20th June, 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Mechanical Feeding Appliance for Serving Leaf,
Papers, and Labels to Machines for Rolling Cigars, Cigarettes,
and Tobaccos.
I, JOHN EDWARD RICKARDS of 106 New Street Birmingham in the County of
Warwick Tobacco & Cigarette Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of my
said invention to be as follows:-
My invention has for its object an improved mechanical feeding appliance for
serving leaf, papers & labels to machines for rolling cigars, cigarettes and
tobaccos and is a further improvement on my previous Patent No. 11443 of 1889
in which a spindle is brought over a circular table by means of a handle for the
purpose of rolling the article in a band my present improvement consisting of a
mechanical arrangement for depositing the cigar leaf, cigarette papers or labels
upon the table in the desired position which arrangement may be also applied to
many other machines of a similar character.
In carrying my invention into effect I pivot a lever at each side of the machine
below the table and preferably at the end at which the article is thrown out, one
end of each of these levers projects beyond the end of the machine the two being
connected together by a cross bar or plate across the end of the machine while the
other ends of the lever project beyond the pivot a short distance the reverse way
to form arms which are depressed by curved projections provided upon the
ordinary handle supports of the machine at each side so that when the handle is
brought over for rolling the article the ends of the levers forming the arms are
depressed and the other end of the lever and cross bar is thereby raised. The
cross bar is made to turn in the levers upon pivots at each end. & is provided
along one of its edges with a narrow pad for receiving the paste or other adhering
substance or liquid so that when the bar is down the adhesive part of the bar
falls upon the wrappers or labels a number of which are placed underneath in a
position for the top paper to adhere to the adhesive part of the bar and as the
handle of the machine is brought over the levers are raised by the arms as before
described, at the same time by reason of one side of the bar being weighted it
turns on its end pivots as the levers are raised and thus the wrapper or label is
placed horizontally or nearly horizontally on the table of the machine where as
the handle of the machine is brought over it is rolled around the material in the
band and the bar is thrown back by a second projection on the handle support
just as the one side of the wrapper or label is gripped by the spindle of the
machine the said bar dropping into the position first described for picking up
another paper. The bar may be provided hollow with a small reservoir for
supplying the adhesive substance or liquid to the pad and the width & size of such
pad may be varied in accordance with the amount of the wrapper or label which
it is desired should be prepared for sticking.
I may apply this mechanical feeding appliance to other machines of this class
as for instance in the case of the improvements described in my application
No. 4630 A.D. 1890.
Dated this 27th day of June 1890
GEORGE BARKER,
77, Colmore Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.

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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Mechanical Feeding Appliance for Serving Leaf,
Papers, and Labels to Machines for Rolling Cigars, Cigarettes,
and Tobaccos.
I, JOHN EDWARD RICKARDS of 106 New Street Birmingham in the County of
Warwick Tobacco & Cigarette Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of
my said invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
My invention has for its object an improved mechanical feeding appliance for
serving leaf, papers, and labels to machines for rolling cigars cigarettes &
tobacco, and is a further improvement on my previous Patent No. 11443 of 1889
in which a spindle is brought over a circular table by means of a handle for the
purpose of rolling the article in a band my present improvement consisting of a
mechanical arrangement for depositing the cigar leaf, cigarette papers, or labels
upon the table in the desired position which arrangement may be also applied to
many other machines of a similar character.
In carrying my invention into effect I pivot a lever at each side of the machine
below the table and preferably at the end at which the article is thrown out one
end of each of these levers projects beyond the edge of the machine the two being
connected together by a cross bar or plate across the end of the machine while
the other end of the lever projects beyond the pivot a short distance the reverse
way to form arms which are depressed by curved projections provided upon the
ordinary handle supports of the machine at each side so that when the handle is
brought over for rolling the article the ends of the levers forming the arms are
depressed and the other end of the lever & cross bar is thereby raised. The cross
bar is made to turn in the levers upon pivots at each end and is provided along
one of its edges with a narrow pad for receiving the paste or other adhering
substance or liquid so that when the bar is down the adhesive part of the bar falls
upon the wrapper or label a number of which are placed underneath in a position
for the top paper to adhere to the adhesive part of the bar & as the handle of the
machine is brought over the levers are raised by the arms as before described;
at the same time by reason of one side of the bar being weighted it turns on its
end pivots as the levers are raised & thus the wrapper or label is placed
horizontally or nearly horizontally on the table of the machine where as the handle
of the machine is brought over it is rolled around the material in the band and
the bar is thrown back by a second projection on the handle support just as the
one side of the wrapper or label is gripped by the spindle of the machine the said
bar dropping into the position first described for picking up another paper.
The bar may be provided hollow with a small reservoir for supplying the
adhesive substance or liquid to the pad and the width and size of such pad may
be varied in accordance with the amount of the wrapper or label which it is desired
should be prepared for sticking.
I may apply this mechanical feeding appliance to other machines of this class
as for instance in the case of the improvements described in my Specification
No. 4630 in which instead of the handle a revolving disc is provided for bringing
the spindles over the table in which case it would simply be necessary to provide
a projecting pin upon the disc which as the disc revolves would strike the arm of
the lever & raise the wrapper or label as hereinbefore described, a second pro-
jection being provided upon the outside of the disc to throw the lever back into
its old position for picking up another wrapper paper or label.
In order that my invention may be clearly understood & more easily carried
into practice have appended hereunto a double sized sheet of drawings upon
which have fully shewn my improvement applied to one of my present machines

page_text: with a modification which will enable anyone to understand the application of the
improvement to other kinds of machines.
Figure 1., is a side elevation of one of my cigarette machines having my
apparatus for feeding papers attached thereto.
Figure 2., is a vertical section through Figure 1.
Figure 3., is a plan of same.
Figure 4., is an elevation shewing the application of my feeding arrangement to
my revolving machine the lever T being shewn down.
Figure 5., is a sectional front elevation of same, the lever T being shewn up.
The machine to which my new feeding arrangement is shewn attached consists
of the moveable bed A pivotted at a' in the frame or stand B and having the
spindle E working under the band F one end of which is attached at 6' and the
other, at 62 the curve of the table struck from a² being eccentric to the course a*
of the spindle. The movement of the bed is effected by the handle support d' of
the handle D operating the pins a5 and a8 in their respective directions. The
tobacco is placed in at E and rolled in the apron F over the bed the spindle E
being adjustable in the slot d².
To apply my arrangement of feeding to this machine 1 pivot at t¹ the lever T
at each side of the machine the two being connected together at the one end by
the cross bar or plate X while the other ends t² of the lever project a short distance
beyond the pivot which is operated upon by the curved projections » formed upon
the handle supports d' at each side of the machine so that when the handle is
brought over for rolling the article the ends t² of the levers T are depressed & the
other end is thereby raised. The cross bar is made to turn in the levers T upon
pivots at each end and is provided along its edge by a narrow pad for receiving
the paste or other adhering substance or liquid so that when the bar is down the
adhesive part of the bar X falls upon the wrappers or labels S a number of
which are placed underneath on the table R in a position for the top paper to
adhere to the adhesive part of the bar, & as the handle of the machine is brought
over the levers T are raised by the arms v' as before described at the same time
by reason of one side of the bar X being weighted at 4 it turns on its end pivot
as the levers are raised and thus the wrapper or label is placed horizontally or
nearly horizontally on the table A. as shewn by dotted lines in Figure 1 where as
the handle D is brought over it is rolled around the material E in the band F
and the bar X is thrown back by the second projection 2 on the handle support d
just as the one end of the wrapper is gripped by the spindle of the machine the
bar X then dropping into the position first described for picking up another paper.
In place of the arms and 2 I may form a toothed segment on the bottom of
the handle support d' which would gear with a second toothed segment formed on
the end of the lever T so that as the handle was brought over the end of the
lever T would be raised.
I may apply this feeding appliance to other machines such for instance as shewn
by Figures 4 & 5, which was covered by my Patent No. 4630 A.D. 1890, in which
instead of the handle D revolving discs D and D are provided for bringing the
two spindles E, which are mounted in them, over the table in which case it is
simply necessary to provide the projecting pin v upon the disc which as the disc
revolves strikes the arm of the lever T and raises the wrapper as before described
the projection being provided to catch against the pin on the lever T and
knock the lever T over into the position shewn in Figure 4 ready for raising
another wrapper.
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 :-
An improved mechanical feeding appliance for serving leaf papers or labels to
mauhings for walling ice ainerotter and tobee by which the leaf naner or

page_text: labels are automatically fed on to the table or bed by the motion of rolling the
article substantially as herein set forth and shewn upon the accompanying
drawing.
Dated this 24th day of March 1891.
GEORGE BARKER,
77, Colmore Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.