Improvements in Machinery for Manufacturing Mouth-pieces for Cigarettes and the like.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Nov., 1895-Accepted, 28th Dec.,
1895
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machinery for Manufacturing Mouth-pieces for
Cigarettes and the like.
I, JOSEPH SAMUEL BEEMAN of Station Street, Camberwell, in the Colony of
Victoria, Engineer, 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 has been devised to provide improvements in that class of
machinery which is employed for manufacturing mouth-pieces for cigarettes and
the like from blanks of paper and wherein such blanks of paper are shaped by
echanism and retained in such shape by being fastened by the application of a
suitable adhesive medium and where heat is required to facilitate and hasten the
fostening of such adhesive medium. The invention has special reference to the
mechanism or means used-
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(a) For keeping the heated presser or foot plate clean by means of a brush or
scraper acting synchronously with the general mechanism of the machine and in a
lesser degree.
5) To improvements used in combination with aforesaid cleansing means of an
improved heated presser in order to bring about a better fastening of the said
paper strip when formed into a coil or mouth-piece upon a mandrel.
In order that my invention may be the more easily explained and understood
reference may be made to the accompanying drawings in which
Figure 1 is an end elevation of a presser or foot plate in action and cleaning
brush out of action embodying one form of my improvements.
Figure 2 a similar view of same mechanism but altered in position the presser
plate being out of action and the brush in action.
Figure 3 is a front elevation of Figure 1.
Figure 4 an end view of a detail shewn in the three preceding figures.
Figure 5 represents an end elevation of another form of presser or foot plate and
cleaning appliances whilst
Figure 6 is an end elevation of an alternative construction of the said presser or
foot plate and form of cleaning appliance, whilst
Figure 7 is a front elevation of Figure 6.
In these drawings "A" is a levered arm centred at "A¹" and terminating at
one end in mechanism which will cause it to synchronously oscillate upon the
pivot "A" with and at the exact time required by the machinery of the
mandrel "B." On the other end of this lever "A" is centred or secured a stud
or bolted shaft "C" held in position preferably by a nut "C1" Upon this stud
shaft "C" is mounted or centred a presser or foot plate "D" (see Figs. 1, 2, 3
and 4). This presser "D" is formed of a hollow cross section and provided with
an extending sleeve or bush shewn in dotted lines "D" on Figure 3 and forming
a tubular bearing surrounding the stud shaft "C" and prevented from slipping or
leaving the said stud shaft "C" by a nut "C" (Figs. 3 and 4).
"D" (Fig. 3) are perforations to act as chimneys or escape ducts from the
chamber "D" of "D" (Fig. 4) and permit the exit of products of combustion
from a Bunsen burner "E" which latter projects and supplies heat into the said
revolving presser "D" preferably in manner shewn on Figs. 3, 4 and 1.
be noticed that the said presser "D" is supplied with lateral indentations or partly
conical grooves "F" upon its outside surface the plane of direction of said grooves
It will

page_text: being inversely co-equal or identical with the plane of direction of the bottom of
the mandrel "B" (see Figs. 1 and 3).
"G" (Figs. 1, 2 and 3) is a circular toothed plate or species of ratchet forming
part of or being rigidly connected with the revolving presser "D" and placed at
the end of the latter as shewn. This plate "G" is so constructed that its
teeth "G" will during certain predetermined movements of lever "A" engage
with a rod "H" for the purposes hereinafter to be explained. The engaging
end "H" of this rod "H" is cut away in manner shewn so as to offer no
obstruction to the face or edge of "G" when lever "A' is in upward motion.
This rod "H" is encircled by a spring "H2" the latter having an outward
tendency to force the rod "H" towards the presser "D" and is backed by a
screw nut "H3" the whole being set in a tubular casing "H" mounted upon a
pedestal "H"."
"1" (see Figs. 1 and 2) is a fiat spring exerting a downward pressure and is
secured in position as shewn by dotted lines "1." The end of this spring
terminates in the form of a pawl "12" which drops into one of the indentations in
the plate "G" when lever "A" is in downward movement and engages with a
tooth in manner shewn in Figures 1 and 2, the purpose of the spring and pawl
being to hold "G" and thereby the presser "D" from turning during the time
that "H" is being forced back and the spring "H2" compressed caused by the
upward movement of lever "A."
"J" (see Figs. 1, 2 and 3) is a rigid arm secured by bolts "J" to the
standard "
A" and terminating in a pointed end "J2" the latter being in such a
position that it will form a stop piece or key to prevent any return of the plate" G"
by the action of the brush "K" which revolves in the direction of the arrow
shewn on Figs. 1 and 2. "K" (Figs. 1, 2 and 3) is a rotary brush arranged to
revolve at a considerable speed and is mounted upon a spindle "K" (Fig. 3)
revolving in a bearing "K" upon a pedestal "K" the said spindle "K¹" being
revolved by a pulley "K" through the medium of a belt or cord "K." The
brush "K" is preferably constructed of metal, wire or analogous flexible inaterial
its function when revolving being to clean out any pasty matter or burnt material
which may have accumulated or become smeared upon or in the lateral indenta-
tions "F" that is to say when the arın "A" descends carrying with it the
presser "D" to the position shewn in Figure 2, the brush during its revolution will
fit or adapt itself into the particular groove "F," which super-imposes it, and clean
the said groove from any accumulation of paste or similar matter that may have
accumulated therein owing to smearing having occurred upon its surface from the
gumming or overgumming of the mouth-piece upon the mandrel.
"Elsa Bunsen burner from the point of which "E" the flame or heat
escapes under and on to the mandrel "B" in such a manner as to heat same to
the icquired temperature. A glance at Figures 3 and 4 will shew that the
burner E" enters the cylinder "D" in such a manner that the heat or flame
the efrom will heat the whole of "D" which in its turn communicates such heat
to the paper strip upon the mandrel " B as shewn in Fig. 1.
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It will be noticed from Figs. 1 and 2 that upon the arm "A" descending the
tooth "G" will be super-imposed and pressed upon "H" until it arrives at the
position shewn at Figure 2 when a fresh groove will be brought into contact with
the brush "K" and thereby cleaned, whilst synchronously a fresh groove at the
top is ready to be brought under "B" to act as a presser for the next piece of
paper being coiled into a mouth-piece upon and around the said mandrel "B."
In Figure 5 an alternative arrangement is shewn in which "A" "A" "B"
and "C are similar parts to those herein before referred to whilst "Q" is a spring
brake fastened to pedestal "Q" and arranged in such a manner that when the
arm "A" descends and brings down the circular dabber plate "D" the spring
brake "Q" will prevent the revolving mandrel "D3" when in action from rotating
owing to the motion of the brush "K," the latter meanwhile cleaning off from "D
any accumulation of paste or similar material.

page_text: Figures 6 and 7 illustrate another alternative arrangement of presser and brush
action in which the presser "M" will rise and fall as shewn by dotted lines and
contains only one groove to fulfil the functions of the various grooves "F" on
Fig. 3. "N" is the brush for cleaning out said groove at certain mechanically
arranged periods. It will be noticed that "M" is rigidly affixed to the lever "A"
by a pin bolt or similar fastening "M'."
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In Figure 7 it will be seen that the brush "N" is arranged to have a backward
and forward movement in the direction shewn by the arrow above same and
that it is set upon a rod "O" moving in a sleeve bearing "01" upon a stan-
dard "O" the said rod "O" being operated from a fork "03" by a pin "P1"
the latter being mounted upon a radially working lever "P," the other arm of
which "P" is operated by a mechanical connection as "D" with some synchronous
movement of the machinery working the mandrel "B." P4" is a pivotted bearing
or sole plate for forming a centre for the arms "P" and "P" the latter preferably
terminating in a balance weight " 1""."
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is-
1. In machinery for manufacturing mouth-pieces for cigarettes and the like-A
brush as "K" or "N" for the purpose of removing any adhesive matter from the
operating surface of a heated presser, said brush being operated by synchronous
movement of the mouth-piece making machinery substantially as and for the
purposes set forth.
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2. In machinery for manufacturing mouth-pieces for cigarettes and the like-
The combination with a brush as or "N" having a rotary or other suitable
movement of an intermittently progressing heated presser as D" substantially
as and for the purposes set forth.
3. In machinery for manufacturing mouth-pieces for cigarettes and the like-
The combination of a brush as "K" or a scraper as "L" with a heated presser
as "D" which continually revolves when in action and substantially as illustrated
on Fig. 5 of the accompanying drawings.
4. In machinery for manufacturing mouth-pieces for cigarettes and the like-
The combination of a non-rotating heated presser as "M" with a brush as "K"
or "N" substantially as and for the purposes set forth.
Dated this 19th day of November 1895.
S. S. BROMHEAD,
97 Newgate Street, E.C., Agent for Applicant.