Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 7th July, 1897
Complete Specification Left, 6th May, 1898--Accepted, 25th June, 1898
Communicated from abroad by ALBERT LEROY MUNSON, Manufacturer, of New
York City, in the State of New York, United States of America.
We, THE EUREKA MACHINE COMPANY LIMITED (Incorporated the 14th day of
June, 1897), of No. 110, Fenchurch Street, City of London, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates generally to machines for making cigarettes; and par-
ticularly to that class of such machines wherein the tobacco in the form of a
continuous filler is enveloped by a continuous paper wrapper strip, to one edge
of which a sealing line of paste is applied so that when the two edges of the strip
meet and overlap they will unite and thereby completely envelope the tobacco
filler and form a continuous cigarette ready to be severed into short lengths, or
the well known paper cigarettes of commerce.
The present improvements are applicable to many forms of continuous cigarette
machines of the kind such as is described in Specification No. 12,077 of 1894.
Before entering into a detailed description of the construction and operation
of the various instrumtalities which go to form the complete organization to be
described, it may be stated that such organization embraces;
First, a means by which the loose tobacco is prepared and fed forward in
condition to be operated upon by one or more sets of pickers, and hereinafter called
the tobacco feeding devices;
Second, means by which the loose and picked tobacco fed to the machine is
prepared in the form of a round endless filler rod and fed forward, and hereinafter
called the filler former;
Third, means by which a paper wrapper strip is fed forward from a reel into a
position to meet the tobacco filler and envelope it, and hereinafter termed the
wrapper strip feeding devices;
Fourth, means by which the wrapper strip is curved and turned over the
continuous filler rod to envelope the same, and hereinafter termed the wrapper
former, which also includes the cigarette former;
Fifth, means by which a thin and minute line of paste is applied along one
edge of the paper wrapper strip, and hereinafter called the pasting device;
Sixth, means by which the continuous paper wrapper strip with its enclosed
tobacco filler is carried positively forward for delivery to a cutting or severing
device, and hereinafter called the cigarette carrier;
Seventh, means by which the continuous cigarette is severed into short, or
cigarette lengths, and hereinafter called the severing device;
Eighth, means by which the paper wrapper strip is printed prior to its enveloping
the filler rod, and hereinafter termed the printing device;
Ninth, means by which the severed cigarettes, as they fall from the cutter, are
collected in uniform order upon a travelling belt and systematically carried forward
in a compact mass and delivered to the packers, or direct into an automatic packing
machine.
As herein combined the above mentioned several devices co-operate in unison to
feed the loose tobacco to the machine, to pick and prepare such tobacco in the
form of a continuous tobacco filler rod, feed said filler rod forward to the paper

page_text: wrapper strip (previously printing the same) carrying the wrapper strip forward
to meet the nller, to partially envelope the filler rod with the wrapper strip, apply
a thin line of paste to one or the
upper edge of the paper strip,
complete the folding of the wrapper strip around the filler rod, carry the continuous
cigarette thus made forward and to cut it into short lengths, and finally delivering
them in systematic order ready for packing for the market.
THE TOBACCO FEEDING DEVICES.
The tobacco feeder is mounted in a suitable frame work at the left hand of the
machine and is arranged to prepare and feed the loose tobacco forward at right
angles to the ultimate direction the prepared filler, wrapper strip and completed
cigarette rod move.
This feeder consists of an endless travelling apron and a series of guiding
and pressing rolls, the apron being somewhat inclined to carry the tobacco forward
and deliver it regularily to the action of the picking devices. This apron is divided
crosswise by plain marking into a series of sections, each section or space receiving a
precise quantity by weight, of loose tobacco; the forward movement of the apron
carries the tobacco into the bite of a corrugated roll which overlays a roll provided
with a series of pins properly arranged, the tobacco passing between the two being
pressed down upon and retained upon the surface of the lower roll by the pins
thereon, this lower roll by its rotary movement carries the tobacco to the picking
action of another roll also provided with pins and arranged on the same horizontal
plane, the pins on this roll are arranged in a peculiar manner so as to exert a
combined drawing and picking action upon the tobacco carried by the delivering
roll. The two rollers move at different speeds to accomplish these results.
The tobacco thus picked is delivered to a second set of picking devices similar
in construction and action to the first described set, and are arranged directly
beneath them. The tobacco having been picked a second time is delivered in
a finely comminuted condition into a vertical shute or passage way whose lower
end directs the tobacco in between the travelling belts of the filler forming devices.
The apron and various rolls forming the picking devices are driven preferably from
a main driving shaft mounted in the main body of the machine. The apron
being in the form of a belt is naturally elastic and is therefore provided with a
device for taking up any slack that may accrue in its length by reason of
constant use.
THE FILLER FORMING DEVICES.
These are located immediately below the exit from the base of the vertical
conduit or shute so as to receive the picked tobacco as it falls therefrom.
These devices consist primarily of two upright travelling belts, the bases of
which are curved at their bottom to form together a half circle and in combination
with a grooved presser roll mounted in between them, to form a complete circle,
or round chamber, through which the tobacco passes and is thereby pressed into
a compact round filler rod, This is substantially the construction fairly described
and claimed in Specification No. 12,077 of 1894. These filler pressing devices are
therefore, broadly considered, of a known character in that they comprise a plurality
of belts curved at the base and between which the tobacco is received and carried,
in the form of a round filler rod, longitudinally forward to be enveloped in a
continuous paper wrapper strip.
According to the present improvements, however, the arrangement, construction
and means of operating the said belts and adjuncts posess many novel features.
First, while they form the walls of a longitudinal passage way or conduit, open
along the top and closed at thier base by any suitable means, they are arranged
and held with the edges of the belts along said closed base parallel with each
other, and with portions of the upper edges of the belts flared apart from each
other so that the open top of a portion of said conduit is wider than the closed base.
Notwithstanding the narrowness of the conduit it is thus rendered possible by
separating the upper edges of the belt to introduce the tobacco not only without

page_text: difficulty but very evenly so as to form a filler rod without lumps or inequalities of
thickness. Second, irrespective of whether or not the belts be flared as above
described, they are arranged with thier edges, at the closed base of the conduit,
paralell, and effect the said closure by the belts themselves, such closing action
being facilitated by the oppositely projecting flanges on the lower edges of the belts.
This arrangement obviates the complication and many disadvantages attending
the use of an intermediate third or base belt, with its actuating mechanism, to close.
the bottom of the conduit, and attending, that arrangement of the belts in which
they are not paralel but were heretofore converged towards each other from the
rear to the front end of the conduit.
These being the principal features of the improvements in the filler forming
devices, the following will fully describe the particular embodiment thereof as
adapted in the present invention.
The filler forming belts, two in number, are mounted each upon a pair of pullies
so that thier contiguous limbs are normally and longitudinally paralel. The
pullies are actuated from a shaft by gearing in a well known manner so that said
limbs of the belts travel in the same direction while the rear, or idler, pullies
are adapted to be adjusted in order to readily correct the tension of the belts.
A table attached to the bed of the machine is arranged below and level with the
lower edges of the belts so as to keep them in the same horizontal plane. These
belts are preferably formed from sheet steel having formed integrally therewith
outwardly projecting flanges which are cross cut at intervals to enable the belts to
bend freely as they pass around the pullies. The contiguous limbs of the belts
therefore form by themselves a conduit or trough which is closed at the base by the
meeting of the flanges, forming a half circle, and is open at the top. At that
portion of the trough where the tobacco is to be introduced, that is to say below
the base of the vertical shute; the edges of the belts at the open top of the
conduit are spread further apart than thier normal distance, which latter will
ordinarily be determined by the widths of the curved flanges.
Preferably the lower end of the vertical shute is sufficiently narrow to enter
between and slightly below the upper edges of the belts so as to insure the proper
delivery of the tobacco. While the edges of the belts at the open top of the
conduit are spread apart, those at the closed base are not affected to any practical
degree, but the flanges remain in contact and prevent any short tobacco from
escaping at the base of the conduit. It is evident that, various means may be
employed for spreading the belts at the top in the above described manner
Effective for this purpose has been found a pully or wheel having its edge
entering the open top of the conduit, and situated in the rear of the vertical shute,
which wheel is carried in a bearing bracket attached to the table. This device
serves to spread the belts just before they come to the shute and causes each belt
to pass on opposite sides of such shute without touching it. A wheel
or pully of a similar character, is also mounted on the table forward
of the shute, having its sides which engage the inner faces of the
belts in line with the. sides of the first named wheel, the two co-
acting to hold the spread portions of the belts paralel along both sides of the
feeding shute. The width of these two spreading pullies of course determines the
width to which the two belts are spread apart at the top.
While the upper edges of the two belts are thus spread open at the top it is
necessary to confine thier lower edges so as to keep the edges of
the flanges in close contact, and for this purpose there is employed
two or more grooved wheels mounted at the desired points on the
under side of the table and projecting upwardly through it to such
height as to engage the outer faces of the belts. The inner faces of the grooves in
these wheels are bevelled to correspond with the slant of the belts necessary to keep
the flanges touching. After the spread portions of the belts have passed the second
spreading wheel it is desirable that they resume thier normal verticle position,
and to accomplish this purpose there is provided external guide pullys mounted

page_text: on the table beyond the second spreading pully which serve to bring the belts back
into paralel lines with the faces of the pullies.
After the tobacco filler has reached this point and is confined in the narrow
space between the now upright belts, it is the most advantageously compressed to
bring it to a cylindrical form, and for this purpose a presser wheel having a
concave edge is employed and plays in between the belts so as to leave between
itself and the curved flanges a cylindrical space through which the tobacco is
compelled to pass and is thereby compressed into a round form. At the point
where the tobacco is so acted upon the flanged belts need a solid supporting
and for this purpose is employed a grooved wheel similar to those as previously
described for retaining the flanges together. This wheel is mounted beneath the
presser roll in bearings carried by the table and it is provided with a groove shaped
so as to engage the outer sides of the belts and maintain thier proper upright
position notwithstanding the severe outward pressure of the filler under the press-
ing action of the concaved pressing roll. From the delivery end of these two belts,
as they separate in passing around thier driving pullies, the pressed tobacco in
the form of a round filler rod passes directly to the wrapper folding and cigarette
forming devices.
THE WRAPPER STRIP FOLDING, AND CIGARETTE DRAWING AND FORMING DEVICES.
These comprise a small supporting table, attached to the main bed of the
machine, and to which the several forming and the various devices for guiding
and controlling the operation of the endless drawing belt and the paper wrapper
strip are attached. This table extends back to the point where the tobacco filler
rod issues from the filler forming belts and its surface is on the same horizontal
plane. At its rear end, underneath, is attached a small idler pully whose periphery
rises just above the surface of the table and immediately in front of such is a flat
guide. An endless drawing tape or belt passes through this guide and thence
around the pully and thence forward through a former and its various auxillary
devices, it continues forward to and around a large drawing pully and from
thence back underneath the table to the guide and small pully first named. The
large pully is the driving element for operating the endless tape belt which in its
turn grasps and draws the paper strip and tobacco filler through the formers.
This pully is driven from the main shaft of the machine in the usual manner in
such cases. An elastic take up device is applied to this wheel for the purpose of
automatically taking up any slack that may arise by reason of the tape belt
stretching under the strain of work. An elastic pressing wheel is also arranged
for pressing the tape to the bite of the periphery of the drawing wheel in order to
insure its proper action and preventing the tape from slipping thereon. The
surface of this drawing wheel may be covered with rubber, entirely or in sections,
for the purpose
of insuring its biting action upon the tape
The forming tube or channel through which the endless drawing belt travels is
preferably formed in several independent parts and each separately attached to
the table but coacting as a single device. The first section consists of a guiding
portion for leading in the paper strip and tobacco filler rod and delivering them
to the action of the drawing tape and folding devices. Its rear end is flat and
of the same width as the cigarette paper, but it gradually curves at its sides until
at the front end it nearly assumes a half circle, the paper of course conforming
thereto. The second section of the former consits of an open tube or channel
the rear end of which starts with the same curved circle as that of the end of the
guide just described. It should be mentioned that this guide has its edges on
both sides turned inwardly its entire length in order to hold the paper in its
true path as it is drawn through this guide. This second section also has a
corresponding turned lip at its edges for similar guiding purposes, its base
however is flaring or bell mouthed sufficiently to permit the free entry of the
drawing tape which approaches it from beneath the guiding part first described
This tape now passes through the balance of the forming devices and carrying with
it the paper strip. Proceeding forward the channel or tube becomes more and

page_text: more curved or concaved thereby causing the drawing tape and the paper strip
it is now carrying to gradually enfold the tobacco filler rod which is also travelling
in unison with the tape & paper. These objects are aided by the third part of
the device which is in effect a guide for pressing down the tobacco rod and holding
it in place as the paper and tape enfold and grasp it. In form it is a top plate
slightly curved and may be situated at or near the middle of the former arching
over the same and closing its top at this point, and it is secured on the outside to
the table. Beyond this top plate the former is decreased in diameter and brought
towards a perfect cylindrical form, the edges of the paper strip being caused to
approach each other. The turned lips or guiding flanges having now been dis-
pensed with, the edges of the paper pass freely over and past the small end of the
top plate which prevents the tobacco from rising and allows the edges of the paper
to run perfectly free. At or about this point one of the edges of the former is
upright or nearly so, this upright edge supports that portion of the paper strip
which is to be outermost on the completed cigarette and serves to hold it in position
while being operated upon by the pasting device. Just beyond this point the
former is provided with an inwardly curved flange which folds down the other or
inner edge of the paper strip and holds it until it reaches the end of this part of
the forming device, at this end is an analogous flange on the opposite side which
is in effect a bent down continuation of the upright side of the former tube and
which serves to fold down the paste charged edge of the paper strip over upon
and in position to be caused to adhere to that opposite edge of the paper strip
already folded down.
At this point the cigarette is practically completed the finished rod issuing from
this part of the forming devices in perfect condition as to size and shape. To
retain it in this condition the tape belt carrying the completed rod is caused to
enter and pass through a round tube of the diameter of the cigarette rod and the
tape encircling it, this irons down the pasted lap and prevents the rod from
giving way at the pasted point. This tube is short and beyond it a second and
longer tube is provided the tape and cigarette rod also passing through it. In
diameter this tube is slightly reduced in order to give the drawing tape a
sufficiently firm grasp upon the cigarette rod to insure its perfectly uniform
movement. This is absolutely essential as if the cigarette rod should slip in the
grasp of the drawing tape imperfect work would be made as well as causing the
tobacco filler to break clogging the machine and stopping its operation.
THE PASTING DEVICE.
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The paste applying apparatus consists of an upright supply fountain
supported upon a bracket rising from the bed of the machine. Near the lower
end of the fountain there is attached a projecting guard which is provided on its
interior with two washers made from soft metal, Between these washers plays
wide paste roll or wheel whose periphery also enters into the paste fountain,
one side of this paste wheel where it issues from between the washers is an
adjustable retaining plate, its end, which lies against the surface of the paste
wheel, is provided with a small opening through which the paste issues, the
quantity of the flow being governed by the size of the opening. This opening
is half round and allows a small rib of paste to attach itself to the centre of the
A second paste wheel the periphery
periphery of the paste wheel as it revolves.
of which is small and practically of the width of the line of paste that is to be
applied to the paper strip, plays in between the large paste wheel and the paper
strip as it is passing through the former. It runs upon the rib of paste deposited
upon the first paste wheel, crushes it flat with a grinding action and in so doing
takes upon its own surface the exact amount needed to properly paste the
cigarette.
A piston or plunger is provided in the interior of the paste fountain in order
to press the paste down and insure a constant and even pressure at the delivery
point. This piston can be operated continuously by means of gears and a pawl

page_text: and ratchet attached to some moving part of the machine. The paper wrapper
strip as it is drawn along with the drawing tape, also carrying the tobacco filler
which is fed along at the same surface speed as the paper strip, will be first partially
wrapped around the filler, whereupon one longitudinal edge of said paper strip
will be supplied with a line of paste from the paster roll and said pasted edge
of the strip in passing into the tubular portion of the forming devices will be
folded down over and upon the underlying edge of the strip and united thereto
completely enclosing the tobacco filler, and then issues from the tubular end of
the former in the shape of a continuous cigarette which is then fed to the action
of the cutting devices.
THE SEVERING DEVICES,
As the continuous cigarette issues from the forming and carrying devices it is
received and temporarily supported upon a semi-circular guide which acts as a
delivery guide to the action of the severing cutter. So far as other features of
the present invention are concerned the cutting devices and operating parts may be
of any of the several and well known forms.
But the present novel construction provides a very efficient means by which the
continuous cigarette is severed without misshaping or buckling the cigarette
lengths.
This new form of severing device is self contained and constructed so that it
can readily be detached from the main machine as a whole-
The various parts are mounted in and upon a frame which at its centre length-
wise has an operating shaft which imparts motion to its various adjuncts.
A main driving gear is also fixed upon this shaft which meshes into a driving
gear which projects slightly above the bed of the main machine and is operated by
connections with its main shaft.
In the top of the frame of the cutting apparatus there is mounted a long slide
which reciprocates in V shaped bearings. Centrally for its entire length it has
a groove or channel through which the cigarette rod passes, at its forward end it
carries a tubular steel guide or nose piece against the face of which the rotary
cutter moves when in action. Beyond this steel guide, and in line therewith,
is a tubular delivery guide which delivers the cigarettes as cut. The reciprocating
guide has, as an integral part, a cross slide mounted upon its under surface, this
slide at one end carries an arm projecting paralel to the main slide.
In this arm
is mounted a rotary shaft which at its forward end carries a rotary cutter which
receives its revolving motion by means of a light belt operated from a driving
pully on a shaft above. The reciprocating slide receives its motion by means of a
Iever linked to an arm depending from its forward end, the other end of the
lever being attached to an eccentric mounted upon a cross-shaft revolving in
bearings projecting from the frame and operated by a bevel gear actuated by
another gear on the main shaft. At the opposite end of the cross-slide an upright
lever is attached the base of the lever being mounted in a sliding piece moving in
ways in the base of the frame. At the centre of this lever is a small cross shaft
upon which is mounted a large cam roller. Upon the main actuating shaft is
mounted a cam which operates against the cam roller upon the upright lever,
this in revolving causes the cross-slide to move to and fro, its movement one way
being governed by means of a spring, and such movement of the cross-slide causes
the rotary cutter mounted upon its arm to cross the path of the cigarette rod as it
lies in the centre of the main reciprocating slide. The base of the upright lever
which moves the cross-slide, is movable and under the control of an adjusting
screw so that the throw of the cutting knife may be adjusted at will without
stopping the machine. In operation the cigarette rod is moving, by
the action of its delivering devices, through the groove in the top of
the reciprocating slide and is. issuing therefrom at its forward end. This
movement of the cigarette rod is, at a certain point during the travel of the slide
at the same rate of surface speed, and at this point the cutter is projected accross

page_text: the rod severing it cleanly and sharply. The time in which the cutter and slide
travels to and fro is so determined that the limit of thier movement allows the
cigarette rod to advance a certain distance which determines the exact lengths at
which the cigarette is to be cut.
The arrangement of parts just described is for a machine provided with a
single cutter only. In some cases an apparatus for operating two cutters is
desirable and this arrangement of parts may be modified to accomplish that
purpose.
THE PRINTING DEVICE.
This consists of a small printing apparatus which in effect is a rotary printing
press of the usual form but modified and otherwise adapted to the purpose.
It consists of the usual ink fountain transfer composition rollers, intermediate
distributing rollers and final composition impression roller' which applies the ink
to the die or printing form, an impression roller upon which the printing die acts
upon the paper, it also includes means for throwing the press in and out of use
while the cigarette is being made without interfering with its manufacture.
The various means of adjusting the various parts are in many respects unique
and not found in the ordinary printing press.
THE DELIVERING AND COLLECTING DEVICES.
The usual method of delivering the cigarettes from the machine and collecting
them for conveyance to the packers, has been by permitting them to slide from the
cutter down an inclined shute into a receiving box or basket. This, as the cigar-
ettes would pile upon each other in all sorts of shapes, was very objectionable and
resulted in the spoiling of many cigarettes.
To correct this there is provided an automatic delivering device by means of
which the cigarettes are collected and laid in regular order upon a travelling belt
from which they are readily removed and retained in perfect order and condition.
This device is in effect a trough of proper width and depth and carrying in its
bottom a travelling band upon which the cigarettes fall and are continuously
carried away from the delivery point by the movement of the belt. To insure
the proper delivery upon the belt which is at right angles to its line of travel
peculiar shutes and guides are employed which control the delivery and insure
the desired object.
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Improvements in Cigarette Machines.
We, THE EUREKA MACHINE COMPANY LIMITED, of No. 110, Fenchurch Street,
City of London, 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:
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This invention relates generally to machines for making cigarettes, and par-
ticularly to that class of such machines wherein the tobacco in the form of a
continuous filler is enveloped by a continuous paper wrapper strip, to one edge of
which a line of paste is applied so that when the two edges of the strip meet and
overlap they will unite and thereby completely envelope the tobacco filler to form

page_text: a continuous cigarette ready to be severed into short lengths and forming the well
known paper cigarettes of commerce.
The present improvements are applicable to many forms of continuous cigarette
machines, but more particularly to the special machine to be herein described.
The accompanying drawings illustrate a complete cigarette making machine
according to this invention, and
Fig. 1, is a front elevation of a complete machine,
Fig. 2, is a plan view of the same,
Fig. 3, is a side elevation of the tobacco feeding devices,
Fig. 4, is a right hand end view of the cutting and collecting devices,
Fig. 5, is a front view of same,
Fig. 6, is a side view of the tape drawing wheel and attachments,
Fig. 7, is a plan view thereof,
Figs. 8 and 9, are detached views showing details of the construction of the tape
drawing wheel,
Fig. 10, is an enlarged sectional view of the tobacco feeding devices,
Fig. 11, is a detached view of one set of the picker rolls showing detailed
arrangement of the picker pins,
Fig. 12, is a detached view of one of the tobacco-pressing rolls,
Fig. 13, is an enlarged detached view of the supporting table, the forming
tube, and guides for the tape and paper,
Fig. 14, is a detached view of the cigarette forming tube,
Fig. 15, is a view of the paper guide,
Fig. 16, is a view of the tobacco guiding and pressing tongue,
Fig. 17, is a cross section taken on the line in Figure 14,
Fig. 18, is a plan view showing details of the pasting apparatus,
Fig. 19, is an elevation of a part of same,
Fig. 20, is a detached elevation of the cutting-apparatus,
Fig. 21, is a plan of same,
Fig. 22, is an end view of same,
Fig. 23, is a sectional elevation thereof,
Fig. 24, is a front view of an apparatus for applying wax to the cigarette ends,
Fig. 25, is a side view of same,
Figs. 26 and 27, are detached views of the die or wheel which applies the wax
to the paper,
Fig. 2, is an enlarged view of a section of the filler forming belts, and
Fig. 2, is a front view of same.
Before entering into a detailed description of the construction and operation of
the various instrumentalities which go to form the complete organization to be
described, it may be stated that such embraces; First, a means by which the loose
tobacco is prepared and fed forward in condition to be operated upon by one or
more sets of pickers; second, means by which the loose and picked tobacco fed to
the machine is prepared in the form of a round endless filler rod and fed forward;
third, means by which the paper wrapper strip is drawn forward from a reel into
position to meet the tobacco filler and envelope it; fourth, means by which the
wrapper strip is curved and turned over the continuous filler rod to envelope the
same; fifth, means by which a thin and minute line or rib of paste is applied
along one edge of the paper wrapper strip, sixth, means by which the continuous
paper wrapper strip with its enclosed tobacco filler is carried positively forward for
delivery to the cutting device; seventh means by which the continuous cigarette
rod is severed into short cigarette lengths. Eighth, means by which the paper
wrapper strip is printed prior to its enveloping the filler rod. Ninth, means by
which the cigarettes as they fall from the cutter or severing device, are collected
upon a travelling belt in a uniform order and systematically carried forward in a
compact mass and delivered to the packers or to an automatic packing machine
and tenth, means by which a coating of wax is applied to the cigarette paper strip
at stated intervals which when made into severed cigarettes leaves such wax at one

page_text: end thereof forming a protection against the action of saliva when the cigarette
is placed between the lips.
As herein combined the above mentioned several devices cooperate to feed the
loose tobacco to the machine pick, distribute and prepare such tobacco in the form
of a continuous tobacco filler rod feed the said filler forward to the paper wrapper
strip feed the wrapper strip, (previously printing the same) forward to meet
a thin line of
the filler, partially envelope the filler with the paper strip, apply
paste to the upper edge of the paper strip, complete the wrapping of the paper
strip around the filler, carry the continuous cigarette rod thus made forward, and
to cut it into short cigarette lengths, and finally to deliver them in systematic order
ready for packing for the market.
THE TOBACCO FEEDING DEVICES.
The tobacco feeder is mounted in a suitable frame work at the left hand end of
the machine and is arranged to prepare and feed the loose tobacco forward at right
angles to the ultimate direction in which the prepared filler paper strip and
completed cigarette rod move.
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A is the main bed of the machine upon which all the various operating parts
are mounted or attached, it is supported upon suitable legs A10 at both ends.
the main driving shaft which imparts motion to an auxillary main shaft A' which
extends under the bed the entire length of the machine. Cis the frame of the
tobacco feeder its rear end being supported by the legs C¹, its front end being
bolted to a table C2 which is supported by standards attached to the bed A of the
machine.
The
A carrying apron D formed from cotton or leather belting, or from any approved
material is stretched lengthwise of the frames C. Its rear end passes around a
driving roller a journaled in an upright swinging frame b, its forward end passing
around a small idler shaft D journaled in the frames C as shown in Fig. 10.
swinging frame is arranged to take up any slack caused by the stretching of the
apron by reason of long use, its play for this purpose being governed by
means of a hand wheel c. E is a drawing and feeding presser roller, and is
provided lengthwise on its periphery with a series of channels or corruga-
tions E2 E3 is a small presser shaft or roll arranged to co-act with the roll E to
deliver the tobacco to and press it upon the surface of the slow feeding roll F where
it is subjected to the picking action of the pins on the high speed picker roll F.
G is a presser roll provided with a series of grooves G¹ around its periphery in
which the pins on the slow moving feeding roll G2 play G2 is also a picker feeding
roll and receives the tobacco in a partially picked condition from the upper set of
rolls F and F and delivers it to the action of the fast flying picker roll G³.
of the feeding rolls F and G2 are provided on their surface with parallel rows of
pins f, while the two flying picker rolls F and G³ are provided with picker
pins which are arranged in alternate rows so that every other row of pins will
This provides
pass on opposite sides of the opposing pins on the rolls and G².
a drawing action and effectually strips the tobacco from the feeding rolls and
These
their pins. This arrangement of pins is shown in detail in Fig. 11.
various sets of pressers, presser rolls and picker rolls are mounted upon a series
of shafts journaled in the frame C, and are enclosed in a casing H to prevent the
tobacco from escaping therefrom.
Both
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Motion is imparted to the feeding apron and various rolls above mentioned from
a counter shaft I, driven from the main shaft B by means of gears 2 and 3, bevel
gears 4 and 5 driving an upright shaft 6. From this shaft 6 a worm gear
imparts motion to the large wheel 8 which is mounted upon a cross shaft 9. A
bevel gear meshing with a bevel gear 11 on the shaft 12 operates a short cross
shaft 13 which in turn by means, of the sprocket chain 14 drives the roller a which
imparts its motion to the apron I).
An inclined shaft 15 journaled in bearings on the side of the frame C is operated
by means of a bevel gear. 17 at its lower end which acts by meshing with a bevél

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gear 16 mounted upon the end of the cross shaft 9. At its upper end the shaft 15
is provided with a bevel gear 18 which engages bevel gear 19 on the cross shaft
which carries the presser roller 1. This cross shaft is also provided with a
gear 20, meshing with a series of gears 21, 22, 23, 24 which in turn operate
presser roll feeding picker roll F, presser roll G and feeding picker roll G2.
On the opposite side of the frame C, a shaft J is arranged and is driven by means
of bevel gears 25 and 26, gear 25 being mounted upon a cross shaft K which in
turn is operated by gears on the upright shaft 6. At its upper end shaft Jis
provided with beyel gear 27 which engagés bevel gear 28 mounted upon the
cross shaft 29 upon which is secured the Hying picker roll F On the opposite
end of this cross shaft 29 is mounted a grooved pulley 30 which" by means of
crossed belt 31 operates pulley 32 on the end of the shaft carrying the lower flying
picker roll G. By this arrangement the speed of the upper picker roll F and the
lower picker roll G³ are maintained at the same rate.
The loose tobacco is spread evenly by hand in a determined quantity by weight,
upon a specified space marked upon the apron D, and between the side guides D².
It is fed forward by the movement of the apron into the bite of presser roller E
and feeding roller F, the pins f on the latter serving to retain the tobacco in place
thereon where it is further compressed by the action of roller F2. It is thus
delivered to the picking action of the pins g on the fast flying picker roll F
and is thereby torn and picked into a shredded condition and dropped into the
shute or passage way 15 from the base of which it falls upon the surface of slow
moving feed roller G2, the pins f thereon carrying it beneath the pressing action
of a grooved roller G which presses it upon the surface of roller G2 where it is
retained by pins f and presented to the picking action of pins on the picker 2
roll G. By this last picking action the tobacco is again divided into a thin
stream of fine shreds and delivered into the short shute 16 from the base of which
it falls into the grip. of the filler forming device.
THE FILLER FORMING DEVICES.
The filler forming devices are located immediately below the exit from the 3
vertical conduit or shute so as to gather the picked shreds of tobacco, as it falls
therefrom. These devices consist primarily of two upright travelling steel belts
the bases of which are curved at to form together half of a circle and in combination
with a presser roll mounted between them having its edge concavely grooved to
form a completed circle or bound chamber through which the tobacco passes and 3
is thus pressed into a round filler rod. These filler devices are when broadly
considered of a known character in that they comprise a plurality of belts between
which the tobacco is received from the base of a shute and carried in the form of
a filler rod longitudinally forward to be enveloped in a continuous paper wrapper
strip.
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According to the present arrangements however the construction of the belts
possesses several advantageous and novel features, First while they form the walls
of a longitudinal passage way or conduit open along the top and closed at their
base they are arranged and held with the edges of the belts along said closed base
paralel with each other and with portions of the upper edges of the belts flared 4
apart from each other so that the open top of a portion of said conduit is wider
than the closed base. Notwithstanding the narrowness of the conduit it is possible
by separating the upper edges of the belts to introduce the tobacco not only
without difficulty but very evenly. Second, irrespective of whether or not the
belts be flared as above described they are arranged with their edges at the closed 5
base of the shute, paralel and effect the said closure by the belts themselves such
closing action being facilitated by the oppositely projecting flanges on the lower
edges of the belts. Thus obviating the complication and many disadvantages
attending the use of an intermediate or bottom third belt with its actuating
mechanism necessary in the old system in order to close the bottom of the conduit: 55
These being the principal features of the improvements in the filler forming

page_text: devices, the following will fully describe the particular embodiment thereof as
adapted in the present invention. The steel filler forming belts M. and M¹ are
mounted each upon a pair of pullies M² and M³ so that their contiguous limbs
are normally and longitudinally paralel. The driving pullies M2 are actuated
from a shaft by means of gearing attached to upright shafts carrying pullies M²
and operated from the main shaft of the machine so that said limbs of the
belts travel in the same direction. The rear idler pullies M³ are adapted to be
adjusted forward and back in order to readily correct and adjust the tension of the
belts. A table M* is arranged below and level with the lower edges of the belts
so as to keep them in the same horizontal plane. This table is supported upon
stands m bolted to the main bed of the machine, and also forms the support for
the forward end of the tobacco picker frames and which are securely bolted
thereto. These belts M and M are preferably formed from a mild sheet steel
having formed integrally therewith at the base outwardly projecting flanges m¹ and
which are cross cut or slotted as at m², to enable the curves of the belts to bend
freely as they pass around the pullies Me and M³. At the apex of these cross cuts
or slots m² there is formed a small round hole m³ in which the slot terminates.
This form of construction prevents any tendency for the slot to extend beyond the
perforation, which it would do at once were the perforation omitted. This is an
important element in the insuring of the life of the belts. The contiguous links
of the belts therefore form by themselves a trough or conduit which is closed
at the base by the curved flanges m² forming a half circle, and is open at the top.
At that portion of the trough where the tobacco is to be introduced that is to say
at the base of the vertical shute D¹, the edges of the belts at the open top of
the trough-are-spread further apart than their normal distance which latter will
ordinarily be governed by the width of the curved flanges at the base. Preferably
the lower end of the shute D is sufficiently narrow to enter between and slightly
below the upper edges of the belts (see Fig. 10) so as to insure the proper delivery
of the shredded tobacco. While the edges of the belts at the open top are spread
apart those at the closed base are not affected but the flanges remain in contact
and thus prevent any tobacco from escaping therefrom.
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It is evident that various means may be employed for spreading the belts at the
top in the above described manner. Effective for this purpose has been found
a wheel m' having its edge wedge-shaped and entering in between the tops of the
two belts, and situated directly in the rear of the vertical shute D¹, the wheel
being mounted in a-bearing bracket attached to the table. This device serves to
spread the two belts just before they reach the shute 11 and causes each belt to
pass-on opposite sides of such shute without friction. A wheel m8 of a similar
character is also mounted in a small frame bolted to table C2 forward of the
shute D, having its sides, which engage the inner faces of the belts, in line with
the sides of the first named wheel m², the two co-acting to hold the spread portions
of the belts paralel along both sides of the feeding shute D. The width of these
two wheels m², m8, of course determines the width to which the belts are to be
spread apart.
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While the upper edges of the two belts are thus spread apart it is necessary,
confine, their lower flanged bases in close contact. For this purpose there is
employed two or more grooved wheels n, and mounted at suitable points in
brackets on the inner side of the table C they project upwardly through the table
to such a height. as to. engage the outer faces of the belts, the inner faces of the
grooves in the wheels are bevelled to correspond with the slant of the belts necessary
to keep the belt flanges in touch.
After the spread portion of the belts have passed the second spreading wheel, it
is desirable that they resume their normal vertical position. To accomplish this
there is provided external guide pullies mounted in frames, bolted to the table,
just beyond the spreading wheel ms and these serve to bring the belts back into
paralelism with the faces of the pullies. After the tobacco filler has reached this
point in its travel between the two belts and is confined in the narrow-space

page_text: between the now upright belts it is most advantageously compressed to bring it
substantially to a cylindrical form, and for this purpose a presser wheel n*, having
a concave edge is employed and plays in between the belts so as to leave between
itself and the curved flanges a cylindrical space through which the tobacco is
compelled to pass. At the point where the tobacco is so acted upon the flanged
belts need a solid supporting and for this purpose there is employed a grooved
wheel n similar to those previously described for retaining the flanges together.
This wheel n5 is mounted beneath the presser wheel in bearings carried by the
table, it is formed with a groove shaped so as to grasp the outer sides of the belts.
and cause them to maintain their upright position notwithstanding the severe
outward pressure of the tobacco under the forming and pressing action of the
presser wheel n*.
A means is provided for adjusting the pressure of wheel n
to any point that may be required, actuated by the handwheel 10. From the
delivery end of these two belts, as they separate in passing around the driving
pullies, the tobacco, pressed into the form of a round filler rod, issues and passes
directly to the wrapper folding and cigarette forming devices.
THE WRAPPER STRIP FOLDING AND CIGARETTE FORMING AND DRAWING DEVICES.
These comprise a table O attached to the main bed of the machine and to which
the several forming parts and the various parts for guiding and controlling the
operation of the endless drawing belt and the paper wrapped strip are attached.
This table O extends back to the point where the tobacco filled rod issues from the
filler forming belts, and its surface is on the same horizontal plane. At its
rear end underneath is attached a small idler pully O¹ whose periphery rises just
above the surface of the table. A second idler pully 02 of a larger diameter than
pully O¹ is also arranged underneath the rear end of the table 0. A drawing
endless tape or belt 04 passes around this pully 02 then on forward entering the
bell mouthed rear of the former, thence on through the same and the various
auxilliary attachments, thence forward to and around a large drawing pully and
from thence back underneath the table to the pully 02 first named and
thus completing its circular line of travel. The large pully P, is the driving
element for operating the endless drawing tape which in turn draws the paper
strip and the tobacco filler through the forming tube and its guides. As a plain or
smooth surfaced, drawing wheel is not adapted to give an absolutely perfect draft
to the drawing tape belt, an improved form of such wheel has been adopted, the
surface of which is provided with a means for insuring a perfect grip upon the
tape, and upon which it is impossible for the tape to slip. The construction of
this wheel is shown in detail in Figs. 6, 8 and 9. For convenience of manufacture
this wheel is usually formed in two sections or halves, one section of which
is shown in Fig. 9, the periphery of each half is provided with channels or slots P,
into which are inserted hard rubber squares 7. The two halves are then bolted
together so that the channels p, offset each other as in Fig. 8. This offsetting of
course extends to the rubber squares, and and results in giving a continuous rubber
surface at the centre line of the wheel, and with alternate breaks caused by the
metal sections 22 which rise nearly to the top surface of the rubber between each
rubber section. This arrangement insures a much firmer grip upon the tape than
if the surface of the drawing wheel were a solid rubber surface.
After the two sections of the wheel are brought together a narrow rim pof
sheet metal is secured to each side of the wheel in order to retain the rubber
sections in place.
The pully P is mounted upon a short cross shaft P₁ journaled in bearings P2
bolted to the bed A of the machine. It is operated by means of an upright
shaft P3 rising through the bed A, and receives its motion from gear P, on the
main shaft of the machine which engages gear P7 on the the lower end of shaft P
at the upper end of shaft P3 is a bevel gear P' which engages a bevel gear P5 on
the cross shaft P¹.
Ps is a swinging arm having its fulcrum upon the shaft P¹, at its upper end it

page_text: carries a roller P9 which is arranged to play near the surface of pully P. Its
function is to act as a take up for any slack that may accrue in the drawing tape
04, R is an idler roller mounted upon an upright arm R¹ which rises from the
longer arm R2 beneath the bed A, it is pivoted in a bracket R3, the rear end of long
arm R3 is provided with a sprial spring R which rises through the bed A to the
table where it is secured and provided with a screw take up R5 the action_of
which controls the pressure upon the roller R through the leverage of arm R³.
The sole function of this roller R is to press the tape belt 04 against the face of
wheel P in order to insure its biting action.
The forming tube and adjuncts through which the endless tape drawing belt
travels is preferably formed in several independent sections each being separately
attached to the table O but all cooperating in action as a single device. The first
part consists of a combined flat and curved guiding portion S for leading in the
paper strip and the tobacco filler and delivering them to the action of the enfolding
devices. The edges S1 and S2 are turned inwardly its entire length in order to
hold any guide the paper strip 100 in a true position as its travels through the
guide. The rear end $3 is flat and of the same width as the paper strip, but it
gradually curves until at the front end S it nearly assumes a half circle (see
Fig. 15) the paper in passing through it of course conforming thereto. This
guide S is secured in place on the table 0 by means of a lugs projecting from its
side, and screws 56.
The second part of the former consists of an open channel piece T, the rear
end T of which starts with the same curved circle as that of the front end S*
of the previously described guide S. It has also corresponding turned lips T2
and T for a short distance on its edges for guiding purposes. Its rear base how-
ever is flaring or bell mouthed as at T sufficiently so to permit the free entry of the
drawing tape 0 which approaches it from beneath the guide S as shewn. Pro-
ceeding forward the channel tube T becomes more and more curved as at Te
thereby causing the drawing tape 0%, and paper strip 100 carried thereby to
gradually enfold the tobacco rod which is also now travelling in unison with and
in the grip of the tape and paper strip. This tube T is secured upon the table
by means of projecting lug and screw T. The desired control of the paper
and tobacco are aided by the third part of the devices which is in effect a guiding
and pressing tongue T which acts upon the tobacco rod.
It is in the form of a
top plate slightly curved, and is inserted in the open top of the forming tube at or
near the middle thereof arching over and closing its top at this point as is indicated
in dotted lines in Fig. 14. This tongue is secured to the table O by means of
lugs and T10 and suitable screws. Beyond this top plate or tongue T8 the
forming channel or tube is decreased in diameter and brought towards a perfect
cylindrical form, the edges of the paper strip approaching each other and the
drawing tape doing the same.
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The turned lips or guiding flanges T2, T3, having now been dispensed with.
The edges of the paper pass freely over and past the small end T2 of the top plate
or tongue which keeps the tobacco from rising and allows the edges of the paper to
run perfectly free. At or about this point one of the edges T3 of the forming
tube is upright and 'this upright edge supports that portion of the paper strip
which is to be outermost on. the completed cigarette, and serves to hold it in
position while it is subjected to the action of the paste applying devices.
beyond this point the former is provided with an inwardly curved Hange T which
folds down the inner edge of the paper strip until it reaches the end of this part of
the forming devices. At this end is an analogous flange T5, on the opposite side,
which is in effect a bent down continuation of the upright side of the tube, and
which serves to fold down the paste charged edge of the paper strip over and in
position to be caused to. adhere to that opposite edge of the paper strip already
folded down by the flange T. At this point the shaping of the cigarette is
practically completed by the rod issuing from this part of the forming tube in
perfect condition as to size and shape. To retain it in this form the tape belt
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page_text: drawing the completed rod is caused, to enter and pass through a round tube T
of the diameter, of the rod and tape combined, this action irons down the pasted
lap. This tube T6 has no other function than the ironing action as stated, is short
in length and may be an integral part of the main channel tube; or detached there-
from and secured to the table as an independent part. A. second and longer
tube T is provided beyond this point, the tape and the pasted cigarette ród- also
passing through it. This tube is secured to the table O by lug T18 and suitable
screws. In diameter. this tube T7 may be slightly reduced from the diameter.<of
the ironing tube T in order to give the drawing, tape a sufficiently firm grasp
upon the cigarette rod to insure its perfectly uniform movement. This is essential,
as if the cigarette rod should, slip in the grasp of the drawing tape, imperfect work
and irregular lengths caused in cutting as well as causing the tobacco filler to
break, clogging up, the machine and stopping its operation. Fig. 17. is a cross
sectional view taken on line X-X in Figure 14, and shows the position of channel
tube,
paper; drawing tape, presser tongue and tobacco filler at that point when the
machine is in action, also the position of the paste appling, wheel and its assistant
wheel for holding the paper against the paste wheel when it is taking. its supply of
paste therefrom.
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Referring to Figs. 6 and 7-P20 is an upright, standard bolted to the table A, and
it is provided with an arm P21 which projects over the drawing wheel P. At its
top it carries idler roller P12 and at the end of arm P is mounted an idler
roller P. Near the top of the upright arm P120 is attached a small lug in which
plays a screw P4 provided with a nut P2. To the end of the screw 121 is attached
a spring P27, the extreme end of this spring being, attached to the upper end of the
take up arm 18. It will be seen that the driving tape 0 passes from the end of
the forming tube to idler roller P12, thence to and around drawing wheel P
between it and presser roller R, up to and around the take up roll P, and from
thence to and under guide roller 20 to, and around roller (³, the starting point as
first mentioned.
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THE PASTE APPLYING DEVICES.
The paste applying apparatus consists of an upright supply fountain V supported
upon a bracket Vi rising from the bed A of the machine. "Near the base of this
fountain on its front there is attached a projecting piece V2 which is provided
centrally with an opening into the fountain into this opening, there are placed two
washers which are made from a soft anti-friction metal. Between these washers
there plays a wide paste delivery wheel V3 whose periphery also enters slightly
into the interior of the paste fountain and projects the interior line of the washers
At one side of this paste wheel V where it issues from between the washers and
the flange piece V2 there is a retaining plate V4 which is secured to the face of the
flange piece V2 by means of a retaining screw 3, which plays in an elongated
slot. The rear end of this retaining plate V4 is turned at right angles and forked
to cross the adjusting screw 4 so that the action of this screw will either advance
or withdraw the front end of plate V+ from or into contact with the paste wheel V3.
A similar retaining plate is arranged on the opposite side and is secured, in
place by a single ordinary screw. The retaining plate V4 straddles the paste
wheel V (see Fig. 19 and at its end where it presses against the face of the paste
wheel, it is provided with a small half round hole through which the pressed
paste, is allowed to issue the quantity of the flow being, governed entirely by the
size of the hole vi. The paste issuing from the hole' attaches itself in, the shape
of a small rib upon the centre of the periphery of paste, wheel V, as is indicated
by the dotted lines 2 in Figure 19. A transferring paste wheel V, the periphery.
of which is small in width and practically the width of the line of paste to be
applied to the paper strip, 100, plays in between the paste wheel V3 and the paper,
strip 100 which is now in the grasp of the forming tube and in proper position to
take up the desired amount of paste. This transfer wheel V runs upon the rib 2.2
of paste, lying upon the first wheel,, crushes it flat with a grinding action and.in
so doing takes upon its own surface the exact amount of paste needed to paste the
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two edges of the paper strip together. In order to ensure the proper transfer of
paste from wheel V5 to the paper strip 100 a small presser wheel V8 is provided,
it is of same width as wheel V5 and made from hard rubber or other light material
it is mounted upon an arm V9 pivoted upon a stud V10 secured upon the table O,
and swings freely and lightly, upon its pivot, its pressure upon the paper strip 100
is governed by means of a light spring vo attached to the rear end of arm V⁹
and to an adjusting screw v. In action it presses the paper strip gently to the
face of the paste charged roll or wheel V holding it up squarely to its face and
insuring the transfer. of the paste to the paper. A follower is provided on the
interior of the paste fountain to force the paste down and maintain an even
pressure at the delivery point and such follower is operated intermitently by means
of gears and pawl and ratchet V8, acting upon screw lever V90 motion being
transmitted thereto from main shaft A of the machine.
THE SEVERING DEVICE.
As the continuous cigarette issues from the forming and carrying devices it is
received and temporarily supported upon a semi-circular guide 102 which acts as
a 'delivery guide to the action of the severing device. So far as other features of
the present invention are concerned the severing devices may be of any of the
several and well. known forms. But the present novel construction provides a
new and very efficient means by which the cigarette red is cut into short lengths.
The cutting device is self contained and so constructed that it can be readily
detached from the main machine as a whole. The various parts are mounted in a
frame and bed combined' consisting of base 103 and upright arms 104. It has
at the centre of arms 104 a shaft 105 which receives motion from a gear projecting
up through the bed A of the machine at point marked 106, and from this cross
shaft 105 all the various movements are imparted to the cutting mechanism.
The gear at 106 driven by geared connections with the main shaft A' imparts
motion to a gear 107 on shaft 105 a bevel gear 108 on same shaft meshing with a
level gear 109 on an outside cross shaft 110 which revolves in boxes 111 and 112
rising from the bed 103 at right angles to that of shaft 105.
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At the top of the arms 104 there is mounted a slide 113 which reciprocates
in V shaped bearings. Centrally in its length it has a semi circular groove
through which the cigarette rod passes and travels, at its forward end it carries
tubular steel guides 114 the faces of which are enlarged to act as guiding surfaces
for the cutters when action. Beyond these steel guides 114 are tubular delivering
guides 115 which deliver the severed cigarettes. These several tubes and guides
may be single, or double in number as shown in Figure 21, but as the present
construction contemplates the use' of double cutters the description will be in.
accordance therewith: Both of the guides 114 and 115 are made adjustable and
removable as shewn in Fig. 21, 116 is the frame carrying the two cutters 117, it is
provided at the top with a shaft 118 on which the cutters are mounted, one end of
the shaft being provided with a small grooved pully 119 by means of which the
cutters are rotated. These cutters are separated by flanged washers 120, and a
series of small washers 121 by the use of more or less of which the width of the two
cutters apart is gauged and maintained: The base of the cutter frame 116 is
secured upon and keyed to a rocker shaft 122, which is also given a reciprocating
motion. One end of this shaft is mounted in box 123 rising from the base 103
its other end in a sliding box 124, which reciprocates in a bearing also rising from
the base 103.
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A short arm 125 rises from the top of the slide 124 and is connected to a long
arm or lever 127 which extends to the rear and is forked over the cross shaft 110.
126 is a slotted side cam mounted upon the shaft 1.10, and a pin and roller project-
ing from the side of lever 127 enters its slot, and thereby the arm 127 receives a
reciprocating movement. This in turn causes slide 124 to reciprocate and to
transfer the same movement to the cutter. frame 116 and the cutters carried
thereby. In order to give the cutters 117 a cross movement to project them

page_text: across and through the cigarette rod at the same time as they are given the
reciprocating movement just described the following means are employed. To
the left hand upright arm of the cutter frame 116 is attached a rigid arm 128
which plays through a bearing or box 129 formed in the forward end of a lever 130.
This lever 130 extends to the rear underneath the slide 113 and above shaft 105,
its rear end being pivoted to the top end of an upright shaft 131. The lower
end of this shaft 131, is pivoted in a sliding piece 132 arranged to move to and
fro in suitable ways formed in the base of the frame 103. The movements of this
slide 132 are governed by means of a screw 133 and hand wheel 134. On the
shaft 105 is mounted an open faced cam 135 which acts upon a cam roller 136
mounted in the upright lever 131. Fig. 23 is referred to as clearly showing all
of these details. The action of the cam 135 upon the cam roller 136 is such as to
force the lever 131 back, and through the connecting lever 130 and the arm 128
pull the cutter frame 116 forward the desired distance. The extent of the move-
ment of the cutters is governed by the location at which the base of the lever 131 is
set by action of the slide 132. If the cutters are worn down to say half their
original diameter and are required to cut at the same point as when they were
of larger size, the base of the lever 131 must be thrown further to the rear and as
the cam roller always remains in same relative position to the cam 135 it is obvious
that the throw of the cutters can be altered in either direction by the simple
turning of the hand wheel 134 and this can be done while the machine is in
action.
The return movements of the cutters and levers after being acted upon by the
cam 135 is obtained by means of strong springs 138 which are arranged upon
each side of the frame 104 and connected to the upright lever 131.
The grooved slide 113 is arranged to reciprocate in unison with the reciproca-
tions of the cutters 117. For this purpose an arm 136d is attached to the moving
slide 125 and rises up to and is connected with the under base of the slide 113, as
shown in Fig. 20, and by the dotted lines 130 in Fig. 22.
In the operation of the severing devices the cigarette rod is moving, by action of
the delivery devices, through the central groove of the reciprocating slide 113, and
issues therefrom into and through the tubular guides 114 and 115, at its forward
end. This movement of the cigarette rod is, at a certain point during the travel of
the slide and cutters moving at the same rate of surface speed, and at this point the
cutters are projected across the cigarette rod severing it cleanly and sharply.
The time in which the cutters and slide travel to and fro is so determined that
the limit of such movement allows the cigarette rod to advance a certain distance
which determines the lengths at which the cigarettes are to be cut.
Movement is imparted to the cutting apparatus from a gear 150 on the main
shaft A¹ of the machine, which engages a train of gears, hung upon a short
shaft 160, the final gear of which projects above the bed A of the machine and
engages with gear 107 on the shaft 105, in the cutter frame as previously described.
This shaft 160 also projects through the leg A10 of the machine and by means of
a series of grooved pulleys 161, 162, 163, 164, and 165, and belts 166 and 167
and 168, transmits the motion necessary to rapidly rotate the cutters 117, this
arrangement is clearly shown in Figs. 4 and 5.
THE PRINTING DEVICES.
These consist of a small printing press W attached to the bed of the machine
as shown in Fig. 1, and in effect it is an ordinary form of rotary printing press
in a form modified to suit the present purpose. It consists of the usual ink-
fountain, transfer ink rollers, distributing rollers, final composition roller which
applies ink to the printing die, and an impression roller upon which the printing
die acts upon the paper. It also includes a means for throwing the press out of
use while the cigarette is being made without interfering therewith. The printing
die W¹ is indicated in dotted lines and the paper strip 100 is shown as passing

page_text: around it. As an invention is involved in this printing press a more complete
description is therefore omitted.
THE WRAPPER STRIP FEEDING DEVICE.
The reel of paper W is usually hung in a frame W5 bolted to the underside
of the frame A, and the paper strip 100 is led from this reel by suitable guides to
and through the printing press W and therefrom to the waxing apparatus (if such
is to used) and from thence up through the bed of the machine to any point desired.
These operations are however common to all forms of cigarette machines and are
fully understood, and further description is therefore omitted.
THE DELIVERY AND COLLECTING DEVICES.
The usual method of delivering the cigarettes from the machine, and collecting
them for transfer to the packers, has been by permitting them to slide down an
inclined shute into a receiving box or basket. This, as the cigarettes would fall
in all kinds of disorder, resulted in damaging quite a percentage of the goods
rendering them unfit for market. To correct this there has been provided an
automatic catcher by means of which the cigarettes are collected in regular and
uniform order and laid upon a travelling belt from which they are removed in
perfect condition.
To the cutter end of the bed A of the machine is attached two projecting
arms 200, their top faces being flush with the top of the bed A. Upon the outer
ends of these arms is bolted a flange box 201, such box being about 3 inches
deep, 34" inches wide and about 2 feet long, at each end it is provided with small
pullies or wheels 202, rotating on short shafts 203, the upper periphery of these
wheels projects just above the bottom of the box 201, and around these pullies is
stretched a belt 204. Motion is imparted to this belt by means of a pulley 205,
mounted on the end of one of the shafts 203, a belt 206, from the same passing
on to the driving pully 208, mounted upon the shaft 160 projecting from the end
of the bed A of the machine, An inclined shute 210 is bolted to one side of the
flange box and extends upwards to and beneath the cigarette discharging tube 118
and the cigarettes as they fall therefrom slide down the inclined shute 210 and
fall into the receiving hopper 211, which delivers them upon the surface of the
moving belt 204, and as this belt is moving slowly the cigarettes gather in a
mass as they pass along towards the rear end of the flange box.
THE WAX APPLYING DEVICE.
This consists of a frame 225, which is bolted to the underside of the bed A of the
machine. It is provided with a main shaft 226 which at its rear end carries a
sprocket wheel 227 to which power is applied by means of a sprocket chain con-
nected to a moving part of the main machine. A second shaft 228 is arranged
below the shaft 226 and is connected thereto by means of gears 229 and 230.
Upon the shaft 228 is mounted a wheel 229", made from gunmetal, this wheel is
normally partially immersed at its base in the melted paraffine wax contained in. a
copper pan 230. This pan is supported upon brackets 231 bolted to the frame 235,
and heat is applied thereto by means of a Bunsen burner 232 supplied with gas
from a pipe connection at 233.
A doctor or scraper 234 is attached to frame 225, and is forked on to the
wheel 229 for the purpose of regulating the flow or the amount of melted wax
taken up on the moving surface of the wheel. To the upper shaft 226 is attached
a small wheel or die 235. It is cut away upon its surface to the width of the paper
strip 100, and to such length as is required, thus forming a printing surface which
determines the area of the surface on the paper which is to be covered with the wax.
This specified surface of the die 235 is laterally grooved with minute channels 236,
see Fig. 26. In its revolutions this wheel 235, at its grooved surface 236, just
touches the melted wax carried upon the surface of the wheel 229 and absorbs in
the grooves 236 sufficient quantity of the wax for the desired purpose. A small
scraper 237 removes any surplus wax remaining on the surface outside of the

page_text: grooves 236, 238 is a guide through which the paper strip 100 is passed and
insures it being properly directed to the action of the wheel 235, 239 in another
guide with two arms 240 and 241 under which the paper passes, and from thence
to and around the pully or wheel 241 and upwards through the bed A of the
machine. It must be understood that the surface of wheel 235 is moving at the
same rate of surface speed as that of the paper strip 100, at the time it applies
melted wax thereto, it will also be understood that the paper strip absorbs the wax
from the grooves 236 and that it instantly spreads and covers the surface desired.
A flat surface alone on wheel 235 would deliver too much wax, which would not
cool quickly enough to pass through the operative parts of the machine and would
therefore interfere with its operations. The quantity of wax put upon the paper
must be very minute as the least amount that it is possible to apply is more than
ample for the purpose desired.
After the wax is once melted in the pan and the wheels 229 and 235 become
thoroughly heated, they will retain sufficient heat to keep the wax in proper
condition on three surfaces and no extra application of heat to the wheels is re-
quired. The cutters 117, when the waxed portion of the cigarette rod reaches
them, cut through the centre of the waxed portion thus dividing it upon the ends
of two cigarettes.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim, is:
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1st. The mechanism for feeding the tobacco to the tobacco picking devices,
substantially as described.
2nd. The mechanism for picking the tobacco, substantially as. described.
3rd. The mechanism for forming the picked tobacco into a round filler rod,
substantially as described.
4th. The mechanism for wrapping a continuous paper strip around a tobacco
filler rod, substantially as described.
5th. The mechanism for applying a thin line of paste to one edge of the paper
wrapper strip, substantially as described.
6th. The mechanism for sealing the pasted wrapper strip about the tobacco filler
rod, substantially as described.
7th. The mechanism for drawing the endless tape and its enfolded cigarette rod
through the forming tube substantially as described.
8th. The mechanism for cutting the continuous cigarette rod into short lengths,
substantially as described.
9th. The apparatus for automatically collecting the severed cigarettes as they
are delivered from the cutters, substantially as described.
10th. The complete machine comprising the several mechanisms as above
detailed, arranged and operating in combination, substantially as described.
11th. In combination with the machine. comprising the several mechanisms as
above detailed, the mechanisms for applying melted wax to the paper wrapper strip,
substantially as described.
Dated this 5th day of April A.D. 1898.