Improvements in and relating to Cigarette-making Machines and the like.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 29th June, '1889
Complete Specification Left, 12th Mar., 1890-Accepted, 31st May, 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Cigarette-making Machines
and the like.
I, WILLIAM DAVIES of Gore House Rocquettes Guernsey Gentleman "do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to appliances for rolling tobacco to be shaped in the form
of cigarettes, & also for inclosing the same in paper or leaf wrappers when the
finished articles are of cylindrical or nearly cylindrical or tapering form; & it
consists, essentially, of a slack flexible apron or band secured at the ends, but
adjustable as regards its length, & of a roller or bar, with side handles, for operating
the same along an inclined or level platform. The flexible band has sufficient slack
to allow the formation of a double fold. The tobacco filler or bunch is made by
placing the tobacco in one turn of the fold, & the roller or bar in the other, & moving
the roller along the platform towards one end of the same so as to revolve the filler or
bunch on the band, & give it the required shape, the wrapper being rolled on by the
same movement & secured by gum or otherwise.
My invention may.also be applied to the rolling of cigars, cheroots.& the, like.
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Cigarette-making Machines'
and the like.
I WILLIAM DAVIES Gentleman of Gore House Rocquettes Guernsey English
Channel Islands 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 :-
The accompanying drawing represents a view of my improved apparatus for making
cigarettes & cheroots &c.
The invention relates to apparatus or appliances for giving form to the filling core
or bunch of tobacco to be shaped for cigarettes or cheroots and for enclosing the same
in paper or tobacco leaf wrappers and tucking or folding in the seam or overlap of
said wrapper and consists of a slack flexible band placed on a platform or surface and
secured at the ends but adjustable as regards its length and of a roller and a plate or
rod fixed to and across a pair of levers for moving the said roller and plate or rod
along the platform or surface.
The band has sufficient slack to allow of a double fold.
The tobacco filler or bunch is made by placing the tobacco in one of the folds, the
plate or rod being in the other and by moving the said roller and plate or rod along
the platform or surface toward one end of it to cause the filler or bunch to revolve in
the fold of the band so as to give it the required shape the wrapper being rolled on
by the same movement and tucked or folded in to the filler or bunch by the edge of
a plate or rod fixed to and across a second pair of levers and which plate or rod
having the paper or other wrapper upon it is met or encountered by the advancing
coil of tobacco. The said second pair of levers is topped by a pair of crutches or
rests to support a strip of metal or other material having the wrapper adhering to it
so as to rest it upon the surface of the band ready awaiting the advancing coil of
tobacco. In and across the end of the front pair of levers is placed a swivel rod
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page_text: which pressed against the band forms the fold or pocket for reception of the u
tobacco.
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By reference to the drawing the dotted lines A to B represent a fixed flexible
band adjustable as regards its length by the pair of levers C and a roller or screens
at B.
Under this band passes the roller E and plate or rod F fixed to and across the
levers G.
H, is a swivel rod which pressed against the band forms the fold D or pocket for
reception of the filler.
In this fold D the tobacco is placed to revolve by raising the levers G in the
direction of J as shewn in the drawing. The pair of levers I is fitted with a cross
plate or rod I, the edge of which is met or encountered by the advancing coil of
tobacco in the fold of levers G. causing the edge or border of the wrapper as it appears
around the advancing coil to fold in towards the said coil and so form a straight or
parallel or nearly parallel sean or overlap. The pair of levers I have crutches or
rests P upon which to rest a strip of metal or other material Q having adhering to it
the paper or other wrapper K in position on the band surface ready to receive the coil
of filler when advanced in the fold of levers G.
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.
The combination of the fixed adjustable band A to B with the two pairs of levers G
& I and the cross roller Ę and cross plates or rods F & L, the levers (), the
.swivel rod H and the crutches or rests P on top of levers I as and for the purposes
specified.
1 2000
Witness to the signature of William Davies,
TH. GORPEY CAREY,
Notary Public,
Guernsey.
WILLIAM DAVIES.