An Improved Cigarette Making Machine.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Jan., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 8th Oct., 1889—Accepted, 30th Nov., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Cigarette Making Machine.
I HENRI FELIX MARIE LEMAIRE of 2 Boulevard de Strasbourg, Paris, France,
Manufacturer of Machines for Cigarettes do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
My Invention relates to an Improved Cigarette making Machine operated by hand
by means of which two hundred Cigarettes or more may be easily Manufactured and
glued ready for smoking purposes.
By means of my Improved Mechanism, the Sheets of paper previously cut and
stored are picked up one after the other and carried to to the parts designed to roll the
tobacco and to surround it with the said paper sheets.
In the travel accomplished by the paper carrier from the sheet pile to the Manu-
facturing pieces, each sheet is smeared over one of its edges with adhesive material in
such a manner that the Cigarettes are subsequently rolled and glued or pasted
Mechanically at one operation.
In carrying my Invention into practice I provide a frame consisting of two metal
plates suitably connected together by tie bars, and of an upper plate or table extending
as far as eight fluted rollers or thereabout arranged at one end thereof and designed
to form the tobacco roll and wrap it in a paper sheet. The eight fluted rollers care
grouped in two series, five are fixed in the sides of the frame above mentioned and
three are fitted in a hinged cover or lid. The journals of these fluted rollers are
provided outwardly with toothed pinions gearing with a toothed wheel mounted upon
the axis of a crank handle carried by the frame.
.
The above toothed pinions are likewise in two series and they are arranged in such
a manner as to allow of the use without inconvenience of a great number of very
small fluted rollers. The space surrounded or delineated by the eight rollers is almost
cylindrical the angular parts of its periphery not being large enough to produce
during a continued motion of the crank handle a pleat or fold in the paper after the
same has been pasted or glued.
The aforesaid hinged lid or cover is cut out on the top to allow of the working of
the machine being easily supervised, and it may be furnished with a knob for raising
the same.
The upper plate or table carries two guides between which are heaped up the paper
sheets used to cover the tobacco rolls.
This table is provided with a central opening whose edges support a suitable vessel
carrying a moistened sponge. A support is fixed at each end of the table and in these
supports rotate the axes of a bar or piece bent at each extremity and forming with
another bar screwed thereto the carrier for the adhesive material which is placed
between these two bars. This material is first moistened with water a sufficient
quantity thereof being then deposited upon the uppermost paper sheet so as to allow
the adhesive material carrier of taking the sheet of paper with it when turned over, in
order to feed the latter to the rollers upon which the tobacco has been previously
spread and formed into a roll to be enveloped in the said paper sheet.
This feeding motion of the paper which may be unwound from a paper roll and cut
into convenient lengths by suitable tools as well as the moistening of the adhesive
materials may be effected, automatically, and I may likewise twist the ends of the
cigarettes thus made by suitable mechanism.
Dated this 9th day of January 1889.
HUGHES, SUN & CO.,
38, Chancery Lane, W.C., Agents for the Applicants.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Cigarette Making Machine.
I HENRI FELIX MARIE LEMAIRE of 2 Boulevard de Strasbourg in the City of
Paris France, Manufacturer of Machines for Cigarettes, 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 :-
My invention relates to improvements in cigarette making machines by means of
which about two hundred cigarettes per hour may be easily made by hand, all gummed
and ready for smoking purposes the paper sheets previously cut up and stored being
picked up one by one and carried to the parts designed to roll the tobocco and wrap
the same in one of the paper sheets.
During the travel of the paper picker from the heap of paper sheets to the
manufacturing part of the mechanism, each sheet is provided with gum at one move so
that the cigarettes can be subsequently rolled and closed by mechanical means at a
single operation.
In the accompanying drawing, figs. 1, 2 and 3 illustrate a simplified specimen of my
improved cigarette making machine in which the paper used has been previously cut
up into sheets. Figs. 1 and 2 are respectively a side elevation and a plan of the
machine, Fig. 3 being a vertical section thereof, Figs. 4 and 5 show inside and end
elevation a similar machine in which an endless band of paper is used.
In the machine shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, the frame consists of two metal plates a a¹
joined together by means of tie rods, and of a horizontal table & extending as far as
eight fluted rollers e designed to form the tobacco cylinders and to wrap the same in a
sheet of paper. These eight rollers permit to produce faultlessly shaped cigarettes,
without folds or creases in the paper covers, whatever may be the number of revolutions
imparted to the handle and hence to the rollers.
The sides a a' of the frame may be articulated on line ææ of fig. 1. to allow of the
machine being folded for quickness and convenience of transit.
The eight fluted rollers c are grouped in two series; five being fixed to the sides a a¹
of the frame, while the other three are secured in a hinged cover. In front the axes
of these rollers are provided externally with toothed pinions meshing with the teeth of
a single gear wheel & mounted upon the axis of the crank handle d. This axis d
is carried by the frame a and the piece which is supported by the long screws f, fl
furnished with the sockets g, g².
The roller pinions are arranged evenly in two series viz. :-five pinions, c¹, c², c¹, c¹, c',
in close proximity to the frame and placed alternately two by two, and three other
rollers ccc in close proximity to the anterior face of the support and mounted
upon the axes of the intermediate rollers arranged between the rollers carrying the
pinions cc etc. This peculiar arrangement enables me to use a large number of
very small fluted rollers without having to overcome any difficulties in the fixing
thereof.
As shown in Fig. 3, the eight rollers form in the centre thereof a nearly cylinderical
section, the angular parts in the periphery of which are not sufficiently prominent to
produce a crease in the paper during the combination of the motion of the crank handle;
after the gumming operation has been performed.
The lide is provided with an opening through which the work performed by the
machine can be watched. It is raised by the fingers of the left hand and may be for
this purpose provided with a lever or with a suitable projection, this however is not
indispensable.
The table is furnished in front with two guides g",", between which are heaped
the paper sheets F used to wrap the tobacco for making a cigarette. A little further
on, the said table is furnished with an opening in which is inserted a cup shaped vessel h
containing a damp sponge.
Along the transverse axis of the vessel, or thereabout, the table is provided with
two supports, in which turn the axes of a rectangular piece k forming a glue
holder with the addition of a bar 7 fixed to the latter by the screws.

page_text: Between the bars and is placed a stick or bar of solid glue m of special
manufacture. In the position of the glue holder ki shown in Fig. 2, the glue bears
upon the posterior edge of the paper heap, and when its lower edge has been previously
moistened with water, a small quantity of the said glue will be deposited upon the
uppermost sheet which will adhere to the glue stick and enable the glue holder to
carry with it when raised the said paper sheet.
As bereinafter stated the glue holder carrying the paper sheet is inverted rear-
wardly and holds this sheet between the front rollers c of the frame and of the lid.
The axis is furnished with a knot by means of which the glue holder l is
operated.
The machine is operated as follows: the sponge is withdrawn from its vessel. 1,
immersed in water and put back again in its place. The lid e is now opened in order
to lay the tobacco between the fluted frame rollers and spread it as evenly as possible
over their whole length when the lid is closed with the left hand and a few turns are
imparted by the right hand to the crank handle d for the purpose of forming the
tobacco cylinder. A little water is now taken with the under finger of the right
hand and smeared over the under edge of the glue stick which is placed at m² (fig. 1),
and the knob having been grasped by the right hand the glue holder k, l, is raised
and turned over upon the paper heap F. This motion of the glue holder is sub-
sequently reversed from front to back, and as the lid e has been opened before such
reversal, the paper sheet is held upon the first lower roller c and the tobacco
cylinder.
The lid is now closed again and the crank handle d is turned round several times,
this final operation having provided the tobacco cylinder with a paper cover which
has likewise been glued. The cigarette is now completed and removed from the
machine by opening the lid e.
I may in some cases automatically moisten the glue during the motion imparted to
the glue holder for picking up the paper sheets one after another, by causing the
sponge to move simultaneously with the glue holder. This motion could be transmitted
to the sponge by intermediate mechanism connected with the glue holder h..
I may also provide the paper sheet picker k with pitch or other adhesive substance
for picking up the sheets one by one and causing them to pass above a smearing
device which would spread some paste upon the last edge of the sheets.
may further twist or shape one of the ends of the cigarettes by means of internal
parts or pieces in a similar manner as carried out by cigarette making machines
operated by power. Lastly I may use an endless paper band wound upon a reel and
moving a determined distance for each cigarette, such band being transversely
perforated at intervals so that sheets having a suitable length for a cigarette may be
torn off therefrom, or being cut in convenient lengths by suitable knives or scissors
and finally taken up by the sheet carrier, pasted and conveyed to the fluted rollers
which form the tobacco cylinder.
Figs. 4 and 5 illustrate a cigarette making machine fed with an endless paper
band. Similar letters of reference indicate parts corresponding with those of Figs. 1, 2
and 3.
In this case no modification is made in the arrangement and working of the fluted
rollers forming the tobacco cylinder and surrounding it with a paper envelope. The
arrangement and the double operation of the rectangular bark furnished with the glue
stick which picks the paper up and conveys it to the fluted rollers, and with a knob by
means of which it is manipulated, remains the same as before, but I have mounted
opposite the former and upon the axis a pinions which is designed to convert the
alternating rotary motion of the said axis 1 into an intermittent rotary motion of the
paper cylinders. These cylinders o and are parallel to the side of the frame a.
lower cylinder q is connected with the bevel pinion s by means of another bevel
pinion q' and the former pinion is provided with a friction gear having for its object
to impart a motion to the shaft of the cylinder only when the pinion g' turns in the
direction of the arrow z (fig. 5). The endless paper forms a reel n which is held
by the supports u common to the two feeding cylinders o and q. The latter are
The

page_text: provided with india rubber, and one exerts upon the other the pressure required to
obtain the motion of the paper without sliding.
Scissors whose blades are hell apart by the spring are closed by the reversal
of the rectangular bar & carrying the glue 7. They cut the paper before the glue
reaches the required sheet and are closed by the projection y (fig. 5).
When by grasping the knob of the glue holder a front to back motion is imparted
to the rectangular bar k to convey a sheet to the fluted rollers, the pinions s and q
cause the cylinders q and o to carry the paper p a length corresponding with that of
a cigarette, this paper passes between the guides of the paper pa length corresponding
with that of a cigarette, this paper passes between the guides of the table 6 whether
the latter be raised or not at 1. When the bar is brought back with a reverse
motion to that of the glue holder, the cylinders g and o remain motionless, and before
the glue touches the paper, the projection y has closed the scissors aa¹ which have
cut the paper and thus prepared the sheet to receive the paste. The feeding of the
paper could be carried out by two consecutive motions of the transverse bar k. In all
cases the motion of this sheet distributor k having an invariable amphitude would
cause a steady feeding of the
paper.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the natures of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is :-
1. The improved cigarette making machine consisting of a box stand or table
provided at its rear end with a set of rollers placed under cover and carrying toothed
pinions at one end which are actuated by a crank handle for the purpose of forming a
tabacco roll or cylinder, in combination with a moveable device carrying a stick of
solid glue and serving to pick a sheet from a heap of paper sheets placed at the top
of the table and in front thereof, and to feed the said sheet to the rollers, and with a
vessel containing a sponge impregnated with water in order to moisten the under
edge of the glue stick substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
2. In cigarette making machines the arrangement shewn in Figs. 4 and 5 according
to which the endless paper substituted for the paper sheets is distributed to the fluted
rollers by two feeding cylinders og suitably arranged and combined with the
distributing and glueing device k and the scissors x, a, substantially as and for
the purpose described.
Dated this 8th day of October 1889
HUGHES, SON & Co.,
38, Chancery Lane, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.