Improvements in Knives for Cutting Tobacco.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application. 18th Sept., 1859
Complet: Specification Left, 15th June, 1890-Accepted, 26th July, 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Knives for Cutting Tobacco.
I JOHN FRASER, Secretary of Cope Brothers and Company Limited of Lord Nelson
Street Liverpool in the County of Lancaster, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
The invention relates to reciprocating knives for cutting tobacco into flakes and the
object is to so make such knives that they will cut the said tobacco both transversely and
longitudinally at the same time so that the cut tobacco may be readily packed into
suitable boxes or receptacles.
Under my invention I make a knife for cutting tobacco with a blade having formed
therewith or fitted iheroto wings or cutters at right angles to the said blade in such
manner that at each reciprocation a flake is cut off and the tobacco is nicked or divided
into the required widths."
The said wings or cutters are rigid or adjustable as desired.
Dat this 16th day of September 1889.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Knives for Cutting Tobacco.
I JOHN FRASER Secretary of Cope Brothers and Company Limited of Lord Nelson
Street Liverpool in the County of Lancaster do hereby declare the nature of this
invention and in what manner the same is to be perforined, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
The invention relates to reciprocating knives for cutting tobacco into flakes and the
object is to so make such knives that they will cut the said tobacco both transversely
and longitudinally at the same time: the object being to enable the tobacco to be
more readily packed into suitable boxes or receptacles.
Under my invention I make a knife for cutting tobacco with a blade having formed
therewith or fitted thereto one or more wings or cutters at right angles to the said blade,
in such manner that at each reciprocation a flake is cut off and the tobacco is nicked
or divided into the required widths.
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Authors are ioid or adiustable as desired
Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a knife in its simplest form under my invention, a is
the blade with cutting edge divided into three portions by means of two wings or
cutters c at right angles to the cutting edge of the blade a, d is the tobacco being cut.
It will be obvious that the said tobacco will be cut into flakes e divided longitudinally
by nicks finto three widths.
Fig. 2 is a horizontal section and fig. 3 a face view of a knife or blade a with wings
or cutters c adjustable in a groove g in the said blade and held in position by nuts and
set screws h so as to be readily removable for sharpening and renewal. It will be
obvious that the number of widths into which the tobacco is cut will vary with the
number of wings or blades.

page_text: 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 :-
First. Knives for cutting tobacco having one or more wings or cutters substantially
in the manner and for the purpose set forth.
Second. Knives for cutting tobacco having one or more adjustable wings or cutters,
substantially in the manner and for the purpose set forth.
Dated the 17th June 1890
Per pro JT. KING,
J. Johnson,
Agent.