Improvements in Cigarette Machines.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Jan., 1896-Accepted, 26th Sept, 1896
Improvements in Cigarette Machines.
I HUGO BILGRAM, of 440 North 12th Street, Philadelphia, State of Penn-
sylvania, U.S.A. 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 mechanisms described and claimed in the following specification may be
variously modified, and, therefore I do not desire to limit my invention to the
constructions specifically described and shown in this specification. Thus, I am
aware that, in lieu of seaming the conical wrapper by interlocking and crimping
the edges of the same, such edges may be otherwise secured together, as by paste
or other adhesive substances; also, that the mandrels upon which the wrappers are
shaped, together with the co-operating seaming mechanism, as well as the dies
which shape the filler, may be of different forms, thus producing cigarettes
which may be angular or oval in cross-section, or of other form than round or
cylindrical.
In the following description I shall explain a complete machine as the same is
adapted to manufacture conical cigarettes, but I shall limit myself in the claims
which follow the description of the machine, to the particular forms of mechanisms
and combinations of elements which I regard as novel and of my invention. In
this latter connection, attention is particularly directed to the mechanisms shown
and illustrated which receive the tobacco in bulk, distribute and assort it into
proper forms and quantities for the fillers of cigarettes, deliver separately the
amount of each filler to the filler-molding mechanism, and thereafter deliver the
shaped filler to the mechanism which forms the wrapper or shell and assist, in
conjunction with the latter mechanism, to insert the filler into the formed shell,
inasmuch as these constitute the essential features of my invention.
The present improvements relate to mechanism for forming individual cigarettes,
that is, the filler and the wrapper of a single cigarette are separately or individually
formed, and are then brought together to produce a completed cigarette. The
improvements relate particularly to the manufacture of cigarettes of other than
cylindrical form, particularly of conical form. By "conical" cigarette, is meant a
cigarette which is in form or the shape of the frustum of a slender cone, or is
conico-cylindrical in shape. The term "conical," as applied to these cigarettes,
having become established in the practical art, is herein employed to describe the
form or shape of the filler, its paper wrapper or shell, and various parts of
the machine. The essential groups of mechanism composing the hereinafter
described machine and which includes the present inventions hereby claimed, are
as follows:
First. Mechanism adapted to receive and at proper intervals intermittently feed
forward a strip or band of paper suitable in form to therefrom the wrapper blank
of a cigarette; and of paper-cutting mechanism adapted to from the wrapper strip
a cigarette wrapper blank of such shape in length and breadth as will adapt it when
it has been conically formed and its inclined edges sealed together; to constitute
the wrapper or shell of a conical cigarette; and also of mechanisin adapted
to feed said blank of wrapper paper to the wrapper-shaping and seam-forming
mechanism.
Second. The invention consists of wrapper-forming and seam-forming mechanisms,
which cemprise a series of mandrels and dies of conical form substantially the same

page_text: as that of the ultimate or finished cigarette, which mandrels and dies are successively
brought to position where the cut cigarette blank is delivered from the blank
cutting mechanism, each mandrel at this place being separated from its corresponding
die and the mandrel and the die being located so that the blank in the cutting
mechanism can be delivered into the die and beneath the mandrel, preparatory to
the blank being brought to partial conical form, or partially wrapped around the
conical mandrel; also, this group of mechanism includes devices for further
conically forming the blank, which devices are in the nature of pincers or die
blocks which are positioned at the place next following the position of the die and
mandrel and beyond the place where they receive the wrapper blauk, and which
operate to seize upon the two free edges of the blank, the blank then being held by
the mandrel and its die, and pinch such edges together, thus completing the conical
shaping of the blank, or completing the wrapping of the same entirely around the
mandrel; this group of mechanism further includes a curler or wrapper edges
interlocking or folding mechanism, which is located and operated so as to, upon
movement of the pincer mechanism longitudinally along the now juined edges of
the wrapper, engage such edges and bend, fold or curl said edges one upon the
other, and so that they engage each other; further, this mechanism consists of a
crimping wheel, which is adapted to follow the curler or wrapper edge interlocking
device described and to press upon the seamed parts, forcing them down upon the
mandrel and crimping or serrating or otherwise causing the curled or folded edges
to be brought into final and permanent engagement.
Third. The machine includes mechanism adapted and operating to successively
strip the formed and completed wrapper or shell from the conical mandrels and
hold such wrapper or shell in position where a previously formed conical filler
can be inserted in the same; in conjunction with this mechanism, there is also
provided means whereby, if a finished wrapper or shell is for any reason not
delivered to this mechanism, the machine will be stopped, and this latter mechanism
acts also to stop the machine in case a filler is wanting.
Fourth. The machine also includes a hopper mechanism adapted to receive
tobacco of suitable kind and in ordinary bulk form, and acting so that the tobacco
is regularly and uniformly taken from the bulk mass and brought into form of a
layer or stream thicker at one edge than at the other edge thereof by such amounts
that a cross-section of the layer. represents the angular outline form of the ultimate
cigarette; also, of mechanism for dividing such layer or stream of tobacco, as it
runs from the hopper mechanism, into separate or individual masses, buches or
piles, and for separately delivering such masses into a compressing compartment;
also, of mechanism adapted to act upon the filler masses in said compartment to
compress the sanie into approximately the ultimate form of the filler, and to then
deliver such partially shaped filler masses into die mechanism that finally shapes
and compresses the same.
Fifth. The machine includes a filler molding die-mechanism, which operates to
receive the partially formed fillers and mold the same into ultimate forin, that is,
into substantially the same conical shape as the bore of the cigarette wrapper or
shell, this die mechanism being composed of a series of dies which progress
intermittently or step by step from the position where they are charged with the
filler to the above described mechanism which operates to strip the formed wrappers
or shells from the mandrels and hold them in position to receive the fillers; and in
conjunction with this die mechanism is provided a mechanism for projecting the
formed filler into the formed shell as the sail die mechanism successively brings
the formed fillers to position opposite the shell-carrying mechanism.
Fig. 1 (Sheet 1) is a general plan view of the machine, the hopper mechanism
and the mechanism for feeding the tobacco from the hopper to the filler-compressing
and shaping mechanism being omitted, these mechanisms being shown on other
sheets of drawing. And Fig. 2 is a detail view of a part of the filler-shaping and
compressing mechanism.
Ou Shect 11, Fig. 3 is a front elevation of the machine, in partial vertical section.

page_text: Figs. 4, 5 and 6 are detail cross-sections of the head that carries the conical
mandrels around which the wrapper is formed, these views showing also the pincers
which assist in bringing the opposite edges of the wrapper together previously to
their being consolidated in a scam. Figs. 7 to 12 illustrate one of the conical
mandrels and parts of the folding and crimping mechanisms.
On Sheet III, Fig. 13 is a general plan view of the machine as shown in Figs. 1
and 3, but with various of the upper parts of the machine sectioned away on
horizontal planes; Fig. 1 being a detail section of the filler-compressing and
shaping mechanism; Fig. 15 being a detail view illustrating the mechanism which
removes the formed and seamed wrapper from its mandrel; Figs. 16 and 17 being
detail views of parts of the machine that automatically govern the action of the
machine; and Figs. 18 and 19 being detail views of parts of the stop mechanism
to be particularly hereinafter referred to.
On Sheet IV, Figs. 20 to 27 are various enlarged detail views of the wrapper-
cutting mechanism, and of the wrapper-forming and seaming mechanism.
On Sheet V, Figs. 28 to 34 are diagrammatic sections of the mechanism showing
how the formed conical shell or wrapper of a cigarette is received and variously
supported at the time of and for the purpose of charging the same with the
conically-formed filler, and also showing how said forined filler is discharged from
its mold and then forced into such shell or wrapper.
On Sheets VI and VII, Figs. 35 to 40 are various detail vertical sections
illustrating the filler-molding mechanism.
On Sheet VIII, Figs. 43 to 47 are respectively a vertical cross-section, an end
elevation, and various detail vertical sections of the hopper-mechanisin which
receives the tobacco and feeds it in proper quantity and forin to the filler-molding
mechanism.
On Sheet IX, Figs. 48 and 49 are respectively a front elevation, and an end
elevation opposite to Fig. 44 of the hopper mechanism.
On Sheet X, Fig. 50 is an enlarged horizontal sectional plan-view of the
countershaft mechanism, showing also the mechanism connected therewith and
acting for the purpose of adjustably driving the wrapper manipulating mechanism.
PAPER FEEDING AND BLANK CUTTING MECHANISM.
Referring now in detail to the machine illustrated by the accompanying drawings,
and first to Figs. 1, 3, 13, 20, 27, 36 and 37, it being understood that each of the
representing numerals invariably represents the same part throughout all the views
of drawing, the numeral 1 indicates the framework of the machine and the fixed
supports of the various movable parts. The paper from which the cigarette
wrapper or shell is formed consists of a continuous ribbon or strip 2 wound on a
reel 3 and extending from said reel into the machine through the guide 4 to the
feeding rolls 5 and 6 (Fig. 37), one of which rolls, preferably the upper one and
which is held to contact with the lower by springs bearing on its journals (Fig. 37),
has a yielding surface 7 such as would be afforded by the roll being covered with
a thin fabric. The lower roll 6 is driven through shaft 8 on one end of which
is a friction or notched retaining wheel 9 arting to hold the roll at any position
at which it may stop by engaging the spring pawl 10 or similar retaining device.
On the other end of this shaft 8 and fixed thereto is the ratch cam-wheel 11,
as also the loose gear wheel 12 carrying the spring actuated deg 13 adapted to
engage said ratch, and meshing with pinion 14 which in turn engages the longi-
tudinal moving rack 15. As this rack moves in the left-hand direction, the dog
is caused to engage the ratch wheel and thereby t rotate the feeling rolls a half
turn, which is in accordance with the length of one cigarette wrapper; when the
rack moves in the opposite direction the feeding rolls stand still and the gear wheel
which bears the dog is turned backwardly and the dog brought to position to
engage the other ratch of the ratch wheel when the rack shall be again moved
toward the left hand.

page_text: This rack is attached to the piston 16 of the pump barrel 17, which barrel is in open
communication with the hollow knife arm 21 (to be shortly described) and through
this arm with the nozzle 18 which is located directly above the position where the
wrapper is cut. The pump piston 16 is caused to force air out of said nozzle at
proper time for the purpose of blowing away from the machine the fragments
of paper cut from the wrapper ribbon.
As the ribbon of the paper advances beyond the feeding rolls 5 and 6 it.
between a guide or ledger plate 19 (Figs. 21-23) and a bed 20 of converging
form as reen particularly at 19 in Fig. 22, this bed and plate being of form like
lengthwise edges of the desired wrapper or blank of a single cigarette. The
knife carrying arm 21 is pivotally attached to the machine at 22 (Fig. 3) and
carries the two straight knives 23 and the curved knife 24, these knives being
mounted upon spring-actuated pivotal handle-supports 25 and 26. When, as for
the purpose of adjusting the wrapper strip, it may be desirable to swing this knife
arm away from the guide 19 and bed 20, the operator will seize the handles 25
and 26 and by pressing upon the same will cause the three knives to move away
from and therefore not drag upon their co-acting cutting parts, which parts are
the diagonal edges and the forward end of the bed 20, see Figs. 21 and 22.
One operation of the feeding rolls causes the paper strip to extend along the
bed a distance substantially equal to the length of the knives 23, see especially
Figs. 21 and 27. Before these rolls cause-the blank to be again pushed forward
the said knives are caused to desceud and shearing against the edges of bed produce
the incisions 25 (Fig. 27) which inlicate the side edges of the blauk or the edges
subsequently to be brought in contact and seamed together. A subsequent action
of the feeding rolls causes this incised part of the paper strip to be pushed forward
to the end of the bed 20, and a repeated descent of the knife arm causes the
lateral blade 24 to make the cut 26 across the strip. When the strip has
again been advanced by the feeding rolls this blade 24 makes another incision 27
and shears the now formed blank from the strip. At each descent of the knife-
carrying arm, a blast of air is forced from the nozzle 18 against the V-shaped
block 19 and thereby directed so that the fragments of paper sheared from the
strip are blown away so as not to clog or otherwise interfere with the working
parts of the machine. 28 represents the wrapper blank of a cigarette, which
blank in general outline is of segmental form. As the ribbon is moved forward
yet another step, the cigarette wrapper blank 28 is projected into a pocket 29
(Fig. 21), being carried to the bottan thereof and brought to flat unwrinkled
position by the timely action of the gravity flap 30, which is allowed to fall at
the proper time by motion in the right-hand direction of rod 31 pivotally connected
to the spring retracted cam arm 32, see Fig. 22.
BLANK SHAPING AND SEAMING MECHANISM.
The wrapper blank is next progressed out of the pocket 29 to mechanism which
conically shapes it and secures its edges together as will be described below.
33 is a longitudinally moving pusher bar adapted to enter the said pocket, engage
the broader edge of the blank and push the blauk out of the pocket. This bar is
frictionally secured by spring 34 to the longitudinally moving slide 35 running, in
a groove in the under side of the bed 20. This frictional engagement is provided
so that in case the wrapper shaping mechanism has not had proper motion and so
is not in position to receive the segmental blank, the false engagement of the
pusher bar with such mechanism will not effect any injury, because then the har
would be free to move in its carrying slide; in event of such displaceraent of the
bar, upon its retraction it will be brought to contact with stop 36 and thereby be
caused to replace itself in proper position in its carrying slide. The slide 35 is
operated ly the link 37 eccentrically pivoted to the shaft 38, one end of the link
being pivoted to said slide 35 and the other end being pivoted to the guide
block 39 running in a transverse guide 40 arranged at right angles to the

page_text: longitudinal guide of the slide 35.
This slide 35 also engages the spring arm 32
which in proper time actuates the flap 30.
The shaft 38 carries fixed thereto the horizontal cam wheel 41 the upper
horizontal edge of which is of the cam shape particularly shown in Fig. 36.
Resting upon the cam periphery of this wheel is a roller 42 carried at the lower
end of a vertical arm fixed to the knife-carrying arm 21. At such time as the
feeding rolls are advancing the paper strip, this cam wheel is operating up in the
knife arm to bold the knives of the same above the guide plate 19 and shearing
bed 20, so that the strip may be readily advanced under the same.
The shaft 38 also carries the gear wheel 43 (Figs. 3 and 13) which meshes with
the gear 44 on shaft 45, which shaft is driven through gears 46 and 47 from
shaft 48. On the lower end of shaft 45 is a crank arm 49 that operates through
link 50, the take-up roll 51 and friction arm 52 which control the paper ribbon
as it is drawn from the reel 3 on which it is woun 1. The shaft 48 is driven
through gear 53 and pinion 54 by shaft 55, which in turn is driven by belt 56,
running on belt wheels 57 and on wheel 58 of the countershaft 141.
60 (Figs. 4, 6, 21 and 22) indicates the circular head which carries the four
mandrels 61 around which the wrapper blanks 28 are successively conically formed,
their opposite slanting edges being brought together and securely seained. Each
pair of these mandrels is fixedly mounted upon a slide plate 62, the plates of the
separate pairs crossing each other as shown in Figs. 4, 21 and 22, the plates being
properly centrally slotted so as to have radial motion in the head and without
interference with the axle shaft 63 of the head, which shaft at its outer end carries
the gear wheel 64 meshing with the star cam wheel 65 which is driven step-by-step
by the crank arm 66 on the end of the shaft 48, see Figs. 1 and 42. The plates 62
that carry, the mandrels are frictionally held in place by a spring 67 surrounding
the shaft of the mandrel head and pressing the head plate 68 against said mandrel
plates. Beneath each mandrel is located a die 69 (Fig. 21) of form corresponding
to the conical shape of the mandrel, and in the head and with the dic as a central
line or part thereof is located oue for each mandrel and die the angular slots 70
(see particularly Figs. 4, 6 and 22), which slots are of the same shape on the plane
of the die as is the segmental shape of the wrapper blank 28, so that when one of
these slots is brought to position opposite the pocket 9 and the blank 28 is pushed
by the slide bar 33 into said slot, this alot nets to precisely centre and lengthwise
adjust the blank under one of the mandrels. Before the mandrel head is thus
brought opposite the said blank pocket the mandrel is raised above its dic as shown
in Fig. 6, and after the blank has been inserted in the slot the mandrel is pushed
down into the die as seen in Fig. 4, thus partially or half circularly shapang the blank
around the mandrel. When one of the mandrel carrying blades 62 is thus pushed
down and the upper mandrel brought to engagement with the blank, the mandrel
on the other end of this plate is pushed out of the die, so that whenever the head
is rotated to bring one of the slots 70 therein opposite the blank pocket the
mandrel of such slot will be in the desired open position, or out of its die. This
movement of the mandrel carrying slide 62 is at proper times effected by the
depression of the tappet elbow-lever 71 (Figs. 1, 3 and 4) which is attached to
rod 72 bearing arm 73, which at proper time is pushed to the left-hand by
mechanism to be hereinafter described, the said elbow lever and rod being
retracted at proper time by spring 74. In each of the wrapper shaping dies are
two spring actuated plungers 75 which compress delicately against the paper
blank and prevent it slipping out of center with the mandrel when the same is
forced into the dic.
After one mandrel has descended upon a blank, as seen in Fig. 4, the mandrel
carrying head rotates one-quarter turn, thus bringing the half shaped blank to
position directly opposite the final shaping jaws 76, (Fig. 4) which jaws are
eparately hinged on shaft 77 and are held during the rotation of the mandrel
head in open position as seen in Fig. 4 by the cams 78 acting upon rolls 79 on the
armis 80 ul said jaws, springs 81 being provided whereby the jaws are caused to

page_text: close and open in accordance with the movement of said cams. After the mandrel
head has been thus partially rotated and the free edges of the wrapper are brought
to between the jaws 76, the said cams are caused to move and close the jaws upon
the edges of the blank as seen in Fig. 6, thus finally shaping the blank around the
mandrel and bringing the edges thereof into contact, the two edges projecting
radially from the body of the blank. To ensure these edges being properly closedl
together and without deflection one on the other, a blade 82 is caused to move
between such edges just before the jaws close upon the same.
85 is a slide mounted in the main frame work of the machine, to which slide is
attached the rack 15 (Figs. 1 and 3), and on the slide is pivotally mounted at 86
(Figs. 1 and 42) the said blade 82 which carries the outwardly-projecting tail
piece 7 that at proper time engages with the fixed cam block 88 and causes the
blade to move to position between the edges of the blank as described, Figs. 6
and 11. The shaft 77 of the said jaws 76 is mounted upon this slide and carries
the gear wheel 89 (Figs. 1 and 42) which meshes with the extended gear 90
journaled in the frame of the machine and driven through chain belt 91 from the
shaft 48. This slide is reciprocated through the medium of the link 92, (Figs. 1
and 3) pivotally connected to the cam wheel 94 mounted on the upper end of
shaft 45 after the said jaw 76 has closed upon the edges of the filler, blade 82 is
immediately withdrawn from the edges, see Fig. 4, and then the slide 85 begins to
move along the mandrel toward the left-hand.
Upon the upper jaw 76 is mounted the wrapper edge curler ur folder block 95
(Figs. 7-12) which contains the open conical slot 96. As the said jaws more
along the edges of the wrapper, these edges enter this conical slot and are caused
to curl, bend or fold on each other so as to interlock one in the other. When the
slide has nearly reached its limit of left-hand travel, it strikes the arm 73 and by
pulling on rod 72 causes the tappet lever 71 to press down one of the mandrel-
carrying slides 62, as above explained. Rack 15 is also attached to (Fig. 3) and
derives its motion from this slide.
Pivotally supported on this slide 85 (see Figs. 1, 3, 22 and 41) is an arm 97
carrying the crimping-wheel 98, this wheel being positioned just behind the
curler 95, Figs. 11 and 12. This crimping wheel is serrated and its serrations or
teeth mesh with corresponding serrations on the face of each of the mandrels,
Fig. 25. This crimping-wheel engages the folded seam of the wrapper (Fig. 9)
and by rolling along the same pinches it together, indenting or serrating it so that
it becomes finally fixed or sealed. In order to properly press the crimper against
the paper of the seam, it is desirable to apply considerable pressure to the
crimping-wheel, but preferably only after it bas engaged the wrapper. 99 is an
arm in form like 97 and supported on the same pivot 100. The arm 97 carries a
screw 101 which passes into arm 99 so that the two arms can have slight motion
relatively to each other, a spring 102 heing provided and which tends to cause the
arms to separate as shown in Fig. 25 when not otherwise acted upon. The arm 97
is attached to the spring shackle 103 (Figs. 1 and 41), which in turn is pivotally
connected to the elbow lever 104 pivotally supported on the frame of the machine
and held to contact with the cam 105 by spring 106. At the time the crimping
wheel engages the seam of the wrapper, the said cam acts to compress the spring
on the shackle and thereby force the two arms 97 and 99 together (Fig. 22) and
throw the pressure of the shackle spring upon the crimping wheel, so that it will
properly compress and indent the folded seam of the wrapper. After the crimping
wheel has run the whole length of the wrapper, the said cam and its spring act to
lift the crimping wheel from off the mandrel and to hold it in such position while
the slide 85 is retracted. At the time that the erimping wheel starts forward and
engages the serrations on the mandrel it is pressed in contact with the latter only
by the tension of the small spring 102 (see Fig. 25), which insures that the
crimping wheel will certainly and accurately come to mesh with the serrations of
the mandrel before the crimping wheel engages the folded edges of the wrapper.
In Fig. 25 the serrations of the crimping wheel and of the mandrel are shown

page_text: enlarged to clearly illustrate this action. During the time that the slide returus,
the mandrel is rotated a quarter turn and another partially-shaped blank is
brought to position for being acted on by the seaming mechanism.
When a mandrel-carrying slide is depressed to force the then upper mandrel
upon a blank and the latter into a shaping die, the opposite mandrel, which is the
one then carrying a completed shell or formed wrapper, is pushed down (Fig. 4)
with the completed wrapper still adhering thereto, so that upon another quarter
turn the shell-carrying mandrel (Fig. 6) will be brought to position where the
shell can be stripped therefrom. The mechanism for effecting this stripping is
shown in Figs. 1, 15, 22, 29 and 41. It consists essentially of a stripping roll 107,
which roll is faced with rubber or some similar material. This roll is pivotally
carried on the cam-operated arm 108, which arm is pivotally supported on shaft 55.
109 represents a belt pulley carried on shaft 55, and 110 is a belt running from ~
this pulley to the stripper roll 107; 111 being an idle roll adapted to hold the belt
properly tightened. 112 is a cam carried on shaft 48 and adapted to engage the
cam roll 113 on said cam arm, and thereby lift the arm and bring the stripping
roll to contact with the shell or formed wrapper. As the shell is stripped or
drawn from the mandrel it is pushed into a receiving trough 114; the stripping
roll, however, serving to only start the shell from off the mandrel (Fig. 15) and
the pusher finger 115 serving to completely discharge the shell and push it into
the receiving trough. This pusher finger is pivotally mounted on the under side
of the frame of the machine, as seen in Figs. 29 and 41, and is operated at the
proper time by a depending finger 116 on the slide rod 117, said rod being operated
in due time by mechanism to be hereinafter described, the spring 118 serving to
retract the slide rod and pusher finger after a single operation. 61 (Fig. 1)
indicates a wiper, of textile or similar material capable of carrying a small quantity
of lubricant, and located so that, as a mandrel moves from position where it is
stripped of the shell formed thereon, this wiper will come in contact with the
serrated surface of the mandrel and lightly lubricate the same, which ensures the
easy stripping of the shell from the mandrel that may be next formed thereon.
SHELL STRIPPING, AND STOPPING, MECHANISMS.
119 represents what I term a carrier wheel (see particularly Figs. 1, 13, 28-34,
and 42). This wheel is composed of two thin blades or disks mounted upon
shaft 120 directly geared to the shaft 63. In the peripheral edge of the disks are
cut radial sockets 121 and 122, these sockets conforming in general shape to the
sizes of the ends of the cigarette. It is to be noted that the latter sockets are
extended nearer to the axis of the wheel than are the former sockets (see
particularly Figs. 29 and 31). These sockets are so arranged that as the wheel
rotates one step and comes to rest these sockets register with the ends of the
trough 114 (see Fig. 34) and the ends of the stripped shell project through the
same, so that these sockets upon next movement of the wheel engage the shell
lying in the receiving trough and pick it out from the same, preparatory to carrying
the shell to position where it is charged with the tobacco filler. The variation in
the depth of the said sockets causes the cigarette shell to lie in the wheel in an
angular position, that is, the axis of the cigarette is at a slight angle to the axis
of the wheel, Fig. 29. Just beneath the sockets 121 are holes 123 cut through
this face of the wheel and only a slight thread of metal 124 (Fig. 34) is left
between the sockets and such holes, for reasons to be explained hereafter.
HOPPER MECHANISM.
Referring to Figs. 43-49, 125 represents the casing of the hopper of the
machine, which hopper is of any suitable form adapting it to receive tobacco in
bulk. Located in the ton of this hopper is a filling roll 126, the surface of which

page_text: rotation. In the bottom of the hopper is a measuring or feeding roll 127, which
is likewise toothed but preferably more coarsely than is the upper roll, its teeth
being pointed in the direction of its rotation. These rolls turn in the same
direction as indicated by the arrows, but the upper roll preferably has a somewhat
greater speed than the lower roll and an intermittent motion relatively thereto.
As the lower or feeding roll turns against the mass of tobacco its teeth are filled
with the same, the upper or filling roll acting to compact the tobacco uniformly on
the feeding roll and also acting to brush off and back into the mass of tobacco any
surplus that might otherwise be carried along by the feeding roll. 128 indicates a
stripping roll which rotates at greater surface speed than has the feeding roll, and
its teeth pass between those of the latter roll. This roll 128 acts to strip the
tobacco from the teeth of the feeding roll and deposit it into a trough 129 and
upon an endless belt 130 lying therein and forming the bottom of the trough,
which belt is carried ou pulleys 131 and 132. Lying in this trough is a deflecting
bar 133 so arranged that the downward opening of the trough upon the belt is of
different cross sectional widths (see Figs. 43, 45 and 46) that is, this opening i a
long, regularly narrowing slot for a portion of its length. The purpose of this
deflecting piece, or the necessity for making this opening in the trough and to the
belt of such form, is that it is desired to distribute the tobacco upon the belt in
such form as will correspond to the conical shape of the cigarette to be formed;
in other words, it is desired that the tobacco be deposited more thickly at one edge
of the belt than at the other (see Fig. 46).
At the left-hand end of the trough (Figs. 39, 44 and 48) are located two
stripping rolls 134, which act to brush the tobacco off the belt and into the
pocket 135, Fig. 39. These two stripping rolls, the lower one working at a greater
speed than the upper one, act to regularly feed the tobacco into the pocket and at
the same time to maintain its arrangement as it is distributed on the belt, that is,
the mass of tobacco in the pocket is thicker at one end than at the other. At the
proper time the side of the pocket, consisting of a pivotally supported and spring-
held flap 136 is opened (see Fig. 38) and the tobacco then in the pocket falls
through the chute 137 into a receiving and compressing chamber 138, it being
understood that the above explained distribution of tobacco is still maintained and
that the amount of tobacco let out from the pocket at one time is the amount
which is required for the filler of a single cigarette. The chute 137 is gradually
contracted as shown in Figs. 44 and 47, for the purpose of ensuring the squaring of
the ends of the bunch of tobacco forming a filler. In other words, the narrowest
breadth of this chute indicates the final length of the cigarette filler. This
contraction is shown at 139, a hand actuated cut-off check 140 being provided for
the purposes of closing the chute, as in case of the machine not being in use, or it
being desired to separately actuate the filler-forming or the shell-forming
mechanisms.
The mechanism which effects these various operations is as follows: Referring
first to Fig. 50, 141 indicates a coned countershaft of the machine on which is the
fast pulley 142 and the loose or idle pulley 143, 144 being a belt shifter held to
driving position by the spring catch 145 which engages the fixed stop 146, and
which is released from such stop by the lengthwise movement of the rod 147, the
spring 148 acting through rod 251 to move the belt shifter over the idle pulley
when the said catch is free of the said stop. The shaft 141 bears the cone 149
which is belted to a reverse cone 150 which is journaled in the hanger arms 151
and is held to tight or belting position by the spring 152 attached to the frame,
as also to an arm 153 (Figs. 43 and 48) fixed to the shaft of the said cone 150.
The belt 154 runs from one cone to the other, and the belt shifter 155 running on
the worm 156 is provided, whereby the relative speed of the cones can be changed
at will, for the purpose of accurately and in proper time feeding the tobacco from
the hopper, that is, for the purpose of insuring that for each paper shell that is
made cue conical filler shall be prepared and such shell and such fillers fed to a
common point in the machine where they are inserted the one in the other.
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page_text: the shaft of cone 150 is a pinion 157 which meshes with gear wheel 158 and,
through pinion 159 and gear 160 drives the sprocket wheel 161 which is directly
belted to a sprocket wheel 162, the latter wheel carrying the eccentrically mounted
pawl 163 and meshes by a pinion on its axis with gear 164, which gear by a
pinion on its axis meshes with gear 165, which is on the shaft of the tobacco
feeding roll 127. The pawl 163 engages a toothed wheel 166 on the shaft of the
filling roll 126 in the hopper. The sprocket 162 also drives a belt 167 (Fig. 48)
running to a pulley on the shaft of roll 131 by which the tobacco feeding belt 130
is driven. The stripping roll 128 bears at one end the pulley 168 which is directly
belted to the countershaft wheel 142 by belt 169, and is also belted by belt 169" to
the main driving wheel 170, through which power is primarily delivered to the
machine, as by belt 171.
It will be noticed by this arrangement that when the belt 169 is shifted onto the
loose pulley the hopper mechanism will cease to act, but the stripping roll 128
will continue to run at regular speed. This is desirable because, when the
machine has been stopped and is again started, if the stripping roll 128 be also
started then the distribution of tobacco on the belt would be uneven for such time
as the machinery is getting under motion. I provide, therefore, that roll 128 shall
be running practically all the time. It will also be noted that the upper roll 126
is rotated with a step-by-step motion. The purpose of this is to break up the
tobacco as it lies in the hopper. If this roll were to rotate continuously, the
tendency would be to work the tobacco into a more or less compact roll or bundle
in the bopper and such roll or bundle would gradually increase and by its revolu-
tion tend to prevent the feeding roll 127 properly seizing and filling with tobacco
from the mass.
Giving an interrupted motion to the roll 126, effectually breaks up
the mass in the hopper and prevents the difficulty suggested.
The shaft of the main driving wheel 170 carries a brush roll 172 which acts to
prevent the upper roll 126 carrying tobacco over from one side to the other of the
hopper. The other end of this shaft is connected by belt 173 with the axis of the
lower of the two belt-stripping rolls 134, which two rolls are geared together as
seen in Fig. 48. On the axis of this lower roll is a sprocket wheel sleeve 174
(Fig. 47) carrying a cam 175 which acts upon arm 175" on the axis of the spring
held flap 136 of pocket 135, the sprocket wheel being belted by chain belt 176 to
the beveled gear 177 meshing with the gear 178 on shaft 179, a hanger 180 being
arranged between the shaft of said roll 134 and the shaft of the gear 177 to hold
the same in proper relation. 181 (Fig. 39) is a double cam wheel on shaft 179
which actuates the tobacco compressor 182 pivotally mounted on the parts of the
machine surrounding the compressing chainber 138, and also gives reciprocating
motion to the pocket discharger 183, running in ways 183. At the proper time
alter the tobacco has been received in the pocket 138 the compressor goes
forward, compresses the tobacco into a compact bulk (Fig. 40), and immediately
thereafter the clearing plunger rises and presses the tobacco in its compacted
form out of this pocket and into one of the dies of the final compressing die
mechanism.
FILLER MOLDING MECHANISM.
This filler shaping and compressing mechanism consists essentially (Figs. 1, 2,
14, 36, 38, 39, 41 and 42) of two horizontally arranged disks or plates 184 and 185,
which plates are fixed to the shaft 186, having reciprocating angular motion through
the crank 187 (Fig. 41) at the lower end thereof, pitman rod 188 and crank 189
on the wheel 46 on shaft 45. Between these two plates is an intermediate die
plate 190 having radial slots therein (Fig. 14) 191, each of which carries a die
head 192 bearing a friction roll 193 running against the periphery of the upper or
cam plate 184, the edge of which (Figs. 1 and Fig. 2) constitutes a cam surface
acting to give these die heads radial motion. The face of each of these heads is
a die cut to form like the longitudinal half of a couical cigarette (Figs. 14 and 35),
the other portion or non-movable part of the filler die consisting of blocks 194
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page_text: secured to the under face of the intermediate or die plate. This die plate is held
to frictional contact with the upper and lower plates by frictional blocks 195, so
that the relative arrangement of the plates will be maintained, a dog 196 (Figs. 13
and 41) which is pivotally hung on a fixed part of the frame, being provided for
and engaging a rack 197 on the under side of this die plate to prevent the same
being carried backward when the upper and lower disks are retracted by the
return movement of the main shaft 186.
The dog 198 (Figs. 13 and 42) is secured to the lower plate 185 and engages
the rack 197 on the die plate, so that as the crank shaft 186 is partially rotated all
three plates will be carried together, but upon the return mution of said shaft,
this dog rides backward on the rack and dog 196, engages such rack and prevents
the intermediate plate returning with the other two. By these means the dies are
successively brought to place where they are charged with the tobacco fillers in
partially shaped form and carried on step-by-step. As these disks are rotated
backwardly the roll wheel 193 of a die slide is caused to ride up the cam 199,
(Figs. 1, 2 and 14) on the edge of the upper plate, whereupon the die head 192, is
closed upon its co-acting die member 194, as in Fig. 38, to press the filler into
final form, and after the die parts are closed the shape of the upper die plate is
such as to hold the dies closed during about three-quarters of the revolutions of
the plate; that is, the middle plate is provided with twelve dies, and eight dies are
always being held closed, each filler being held in its die for sufficient time for it
to set or its final form become established, at least for so long as is necessary to
remove it from the die and put it into a formed wrapper or shell. When a closed
die carrying a filler has reached a position adjacent where the shell is brought by
wheel 119 (Figs. 1 and 42), it is then directly over the filler receiving trough 200
(see also Figs. 28, 29 and 30). While in this position and as the die disk is
returning from a forward motion (Figs. 1 and 2), and as cam 201 passes back of the
roll 193 on the movable part of the die, the elbow lever 203 is brought into action
by the operation of cam 204 (Fig. 41) and the dog 205 on said lever is forced
forward and against the cam roll of the die and thereby causes the die to be
opened; at the same time extractor fingers 206 carried on said lever 203 enter
through holes in the stationary die block 194 (Fig. 14) of the die and push the
filler from the die (Fig. 32), into the said trough 200. To insure the removal of
the filler from the die, vertical pusher fingers 207 are provided, these being carried
on the vertical slide arm 208, running in ways 208" (Figs. 13, 39 and 41) supported
on the frame of the machine, which arm is vertically operated by cam 209 on
shaft 179, this shaft being counected through sprocket wheel 210 and belt 211,
with the driving wheel 212 on shaft 5.
A gear 213 (Figs. 39 and 42) on this shaft 179 meshes with a gear 214 on which
is eccentrically supported, by pin 215, a morable rack 216 having up and down
motion relatively to the fixed rack 217, which rack is located directly beneath the
carrier wheel 119, to catch the finished cigarettes as they drop from this wheel.
The motion of this rack is such that it progresses the cigarette individually step-
by-step along the same, at the same time holding them in proper line, a cigarette
resting in each one of the notches of the rack.
After a die has once been opened, and by its next progressive step, a wiper 218
(Figs. 13, 14, 35 and 36) is caused to enter the die, whereupon the die is closed by
the action of cam 219 on the die plate, then the wiper is reciprocated, then the die
is opened and the wiper withdrawn and the open die brought to position to be again
charged with tobacco, cam 220 acting in conjunction with cam 219 to effect these
actions. 221 is a rigid finger carried on the pocket clearer 183. Just beneath this
finger is a spring 222. This finger and this spring extend to a position (see Fig. 13)
where they engage between them a projection 223 on the spring 224, which carries
the wiper 218, this spring being mounted on a slide running in ways 225 supported
on the arm 226 pivoted to the frame of the machine at 227 and having operative
engagement with cam 228 un shaft 38. When a die has been discharged of its
filler, its next movement is to position just over the wiper, then when the pocket

page_text: clearer 183 goes up to charge a new die with tobacco, the spring 222 lifts the wiper
into the then open die. Upon the further movement of the die carrying disks, the
die now holding the wiper is closed, the cam 228 will act to give a reciprocating
motion to the wiper, then the die is opened and the wiper permitted to leave
the same upon the descent of the pocket clearer 183, the wiper slide being pushed
down by the rigid finger 221. A flexible piece like the spring 222 is provided,
because in case of the die not being in position to receive the wiper injury
might be done to the machine, but with this spring to lift the wiper, if the die be
not open or not in position, the spring will yield and no injury can result.
Referring now to the mechanism for receiving the formed filler and causing the
same to be inserted in the previously formed shell or wrapper (referring particularly
to Figs. 29-33), 229 represents a plunger operated to push the formed filler into
the formed shell, it being understood that the shell is brought to position to receive
the wrapper or opposite the mouth of the trough 200 especially as seen in Fig. 31.
This plunger is carried on a slide 230, which slide is reciprocated in the guide-
ways 231 (Fig. 1) by the gears 232 and 233, the latter gear being on shaft 234,
which extends to and is geared with, by gear 235, the rack 15. This slide 230 when
it is driven forward for the purposes of causing the plunger 229 (Fig. 31) to insert a
filler into a formed shell, strikes against the end of the slide rod 117 for the purpose,
as already described, of completing the removal of a shell from one of the mandrels
and into the carrying wheel 119.
When the shell-carrying wheel 119 brings a shell to position opposite the
receiving trough 200, as seen in Fig. 29, the shell is to be centered in the opening
of the trough 200, and above the supports of shell in the disks 119, and obviously
it is desired that the opposite or smaller end of the same be also so supported. To
effect this support of the smaller end of the shell, a slide 236 is provided, which is
brought forward to engagement with the smaller end of the shell at the proper
time by the retraction of the slide 230, which carries rod 237, which in proper
This slide
time engages by pin 238 with a spring arm 239 on said slide 236.
also carries the cam block 240, over which rides another spring-supported cam
block 241.
When the rod 237 retreats or moves to the right-hand it pulls the
slide 236 to position as seen in Fig. 31, the shell being lifted up from its radial
notches in wheel 119, the cam 241 riding up over and onto the flat top face of
the cam block 240, and bearing on such face frictionally hold the slide 236 in
the position to which it has been drawn by the rod 237. When the slide 230
advances, the formed filler is driven into the shell, and as the filler becomes well
seated in the shell and just before its ends register with the ends of the shell,
the left hand end of the rod 237 strikes against the head 242 (Fig. 33) on the
slide 236 and causes this slide to retreat. For a small portion of the retreat
movement of this slide the now completed cigarette is pushed with the slide so
that its larger end clears or is removed from the conical opening in the receiver
trough 200. When this larger end is fully free of the receiver trough 200, the
slide 236 has moved to such a distance that the spring cam 241 comes in contact
with the beveled edge of the cam block 240, whereupon the spring block asserts
itself under the stress of its spring and snaps or quickly pulls or jerks back the
slide 236 to position practically as seen in Fig. 29, thus dropping the cigarette into
notches of wheel 119 and free to be carried by the same to the delivering
rack 216 (Figs. 39 and 42), along which it is moved until dropped off the end
of the same.
It is essential to provide that the machine shall be stopped in case a shell fail
to be brought into position to be charged with a filler; and also in case a filler be
not brought to a shell. In other words, it is desirable that in case of any improper
timing of the actions of the machine, or irregular service of the shell to the filler,
or filler to the shell, the machine will be stopped, so that the proper timing of the
various parts of the machine can be brought into harmony. To accomplish this
result, the essential element thereto is the presence in the disks of the wheel 119 of
the holes 123, and the location of that portion of this wheel 124 which supports the

page_text: small end of the cigarette at a higher level, or above the corresponding supporting
part of the opposite disk which holds the larger end of the cigarette. Assuming
that for some reason the wheel 119 does not present a shell to the opening of
the carrier 200, then when a filler is pushed from the carrier and there being no
shell for it to enter, the smaller end of the same will fall into one of the holes 123
as shown in outline dotted lines in Fig. 33, and this will stop the machine by the
action of the mechanism which will be now explained. And in similar manner if
a shell should be present and the filler he not presented, the machine will be
caused to stop.
213 is what I term a feeler or finger. It is a delicately supported lever
extending to the position of the shell when being charged (Figs. 13, 16, 29
and 42) and is pivotally supported on a fixed part of the machine, and bears a
dog 244, which dog normally is just out of the path of a projecting arm 245 secured
to the underneath plate 185 of the filler-forming mechanism. The axis rod 246.
(Fig. 13) of this finger abuts against the end of the rod 147 which bears at its other
end against the spring catch 145 of the belt shifter 144. Whenever a charged
shell is present in the wheel 119 and under this feeler, the latter is held elevated.
as shown in Figs. 16 and 19, and the backward motion of the filler die mechanism
can be effected without striking the dog 244 on the feeler. If, however, a filled
shell be absent when the filler mechanism makes one of its forward step movement,
then the finger will be free to drop and its lag 244 will fall into the path of the
notch 247 (Fig. 18) in the periphery of the arm 245 on the filler die mechanism,
whereupon the next forward movement of the latter mechanism will cause the
finger axis 246 to be pushed against the rod 147, and the spring catch 145 on the
belt shifter will he released from engagement with the block 146, and thereupon
the belt 169 will be shifted from the fixed wheel 142 upon the idle wheel 143 and
the machine will be stopped.
For the purpose of stopping the wrapper manipulating part of the machine, a
coupling 248 (Fig. 13) is mounted on shaft 55, to the actuating handle 249 of
wbich coupling is attached a slide bar 250 which extends to the same position as is
the inner end of the rod 251 of the belt shifter 144 of the driving wheel 142. This
bar 250 is Irictionally held to such position as it may be adjusted by the spring
plunger 252 (Fig. 44), the handle 253 being provided whereby the coupling 248
may be actuated by the operator when on the side of the machine opposite such
coupling. A handle 264 on rod 251 is also provided whereby to move the belt
shifter from over wheel 143 to over wheel 142 and thereby bring the spring
catch 145 into engaging contact with its block 146.
All these various elements of the whole machine are so proportioned and
adjusted and speeded relatively that the manufacture of cigarettes from beginning
to end is carried on by successive steps; the tobacco being fed in at one point of
the machine and gradually progressed until it is in the form of a compacted filler,
the paper constituting the wrapper being cut, shaped and seamed, and the finished
wrapper or shell being brought to position opposite the filler, the filler inserted in
the wrapper and the finished cigarette delivered from the machine.
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 :-
1. In a machine for making eigarettes, the combination of a hopper for receiving
the tobacco, two rotating proximate cylinders located in said hopper and having
their surfaces exposed to the tobneco and one of said cylinders being toothed,
whereby the toothed cylinder acts to engage and draw the tobacco from the mass
aud the other cylinder acts upon said toothed cylinder and upon the mass of tobacco
to limit the quantity drawn theretrom by the toothed cylinder.
2. In a machine for making cigarettes, the combination of a hopper for
receiving the tobacco, two rotating proximate cylinders located in said hopper and
having their surfaces exposed to the tobacco, une of said cylinders being toothed

page_text: and being driven at a slower rate of speed than the other cylinder, whereby the
toothed cylinder acts to engage and draw tobacco from the mass and the other
cylinder acts to regulate the quantity of tobacco so drawn.
3. In a machine for making cigarettes, the combination of a hopper for receiving
the tobacco, a toothed feeding cylinder and a filling cylinder located proximate
thereto and both cylinders being exposed to the tobacco, said cylinders being
rotated in the same direction and the teeth of the feeding cylinder being inclined
in the direction of its rotation.
4. In a machine for making cigarettes, the combination of a hopper for receiving
the tobacco, a feeding cylinder and a filling cylinder located in said hopper and
exposed to the tobacco and being similarly driven, the teeth of the feeding cylinder
being inclined in the direction of its motion and the teeth of the filling cylinder
being inclined in a direction opposite to that of its motion.
5. In a machine for making cigarettes, the combination of a hopper for receiving
the tobacco, two similarly rotating proximate cylinders located in said hopper and
having their surfaces exposed to the tobacco and one of said cylinders being
toothed, whereby the toothed cylinder acts to engage and draw tobacco from the
mass and the other cylinder acts to regulate the tobacco so drawn, and a brush
roll located to have action upon the toothed cylinder for the purpose of removing
the tobacco therefrom.
6. In a machine for making cigarettes, the combination of a hopper for receiving
the tobacco, two rotating proximate cylinders located in said hopper and having
their surfaces exposed to the tobacco and one of said cylinders being toothed,
wherely the toothed cylinder acts to engage and draw tobacco from the mass and
the other cylinder acts to regulate the quantity of tobacco so drawn, a stripping
roll located to have subsequent action upon the toothed cylinder for the purpose of
removing the tobacco therefrom, aud a traveling surface or belt located adjacent
said roll for receiving the tobacco therefrom, as it is stripped from the said toothed
cylinder.
7. In a machine for making cigarettes, the combination of a hopper containing a
feed cylinder, mechanism acting to strip the tobacco from the feed cylinder, a
traveling surface or belt located adjacent said stripping mechanism and for
receiving the tobacco as the same is stripped from the feed cylinder, and a guide
between said traveling surface and stripping mechanism for directing the tobacco
upon said surface and having a guide or delivery passage of varying size, whereby
the tobacco is more thickly delivered at one point of the said surface than at
another.
8. In a machine for making cigarettes, the combination of a feed cylinder
substantially as specified, a stripper roll rotating in contact therewith and acting
to sweep the tobacco therefrom, a traveling surface or belt located adjacent to
said brush, a deflecting plate located between said brush and said belt and positioned
to direct the tobacco in varying thickness along said hielt.
9. In a machine for making cigarettes, the combination of a toothed feeding
cylinder and a filling cylinder substantially as specified, a stripper roll whose teeth
nesh with the teeth of the feeding cylinder, a conveyor in position to receive the
tobacco swept off by the brush, a feed stripper roll whose teeth make proximate
contact with the conveyor, and a chute or hopper in position to receive tobacco
swept of the conveyor by the brush.
10. In a machine for making cigarettes, the combination of a hopper mechanism
acting to assort measured quantities or filler charges of tobacco from a mass of
tobacco, which quantities are arranged in form corresponding to the shape of a
filler for cigarettes, and to deliver the same to a series of molding dies, and means
for intermittently operating said dies to close upon and mold the filler charges,
and means for intermittently delivering said filler charges to the dies.
11. In a machine for making cigarettes, the combination of a hopper mechanism
operating to assort and form charges of tobacco corresponding to the shape of the
filler of a cigarette, mechanism acting to intermittently receive said charges from

page_text: the hopper mechanism and deliver the same to a series of dies adapted to finally
mold the filler, and means for intermittently opening and closing said dies.
12. In a machine for making cigarettes, the combination of a hopper mechanism
operating to separate filler charges of tobacco in form as described, a pocket for
receiving the said charges and mechanism acting to preliminarily compress the
tobacco in the said pocket, a series of dies acting to finally compress and mold
the filler, means for delivering the preliminarily compressed tobacco from the
pocket to the dies, and means for intermittently operating these mechanisms.
13. In a machine for making cigarettes, the combination with a series of two-
part filler dies and means for intermittently moving the same, of a pocket 138
arranged to register with the dies in turn, a compresser 182 arranged to compress
the tobacco in the pocket, a plunger or discharger 183 arranged to deliver the
preliminarily compressed tobacco into the dies, and means for closing the die parts
on the filler.
14. In a machine for making cigarettes, the combination of a series of two-
part filler-r.olding dies, means for intermittently moving the same, mechanism
arranged adjacent the dies and adapted to force the tobacco charge into each
mold in turn, mechanism for closing the molding dies on the charges and finally
compressing the same into form, and mechanism for opening the molds and
discharging the formed fillers therefrom.
15. In a machine for making cigarettes, the combination of an intermittently
moving die-carrying wheel, of a series of molding die blocks 194, secured to and
rotating with the wheel, and a series of die heads 192 radially movable in the
wheel, said dies being of form for the purpose of molding the filler of a cigarette
and being arranged to open downwardly to receive the filler charges and discharge
the formed fillers.
16. In a machine for making cigarettes, the combination with a substantially
horizontal mold-carrying wheel and means for intermittently rotating the same,
a series of opening and closing molding dies secured to and rotating with the
wheel, the matrices of the dies being of form as described and opening downwardly,
mechanism for delivering filler charges successively to the dies, and means for
closing the dies upon the charges and for opening the same, and means for
discharging the molded filler from the dies.
17. In a machine for making cigarettes, the combination with the herein
described series of filler-molding dies and the mechanism for opening and closing
the same, a wiper 218 operating to successively enter the dies when open, for the
purpose of wiping and lubricating the molding faces of the same.
18. In a machine for making cigarettes, the combination with the herein
described series of filler-molding dies and the mechanism for opening and closing
the same, a wiper 218 operating to successively enter the dies when open for the
purpose of wiping and lubricating the molding faces of the same, mechanism for
closing the die parts upon the wiper, and mechanism for causing the wiper to be
reciprocated between the die parts.
19. In a machine for making cigarettes, the following intermittently-acting
groups of mechanism which operate to mold the fillers: mechanism for receiving
separate charges of tobacco and preliminarily compressing the same; a series of
opening and closing dies and means for delivering the partially compressed fillers
successively thereto; mechanism for discharging the molded filler from the dies
when the latter are open; and mechanism for wiping and lubricating the molding
faces of the dies after the filler has been discharged.
20. In a machine for making cigarettes, the combination of a series of dies
acting to mold the fillers into couical form, a receiver for receiving the formed
filler when discharged from said dies, a movable support as disk wheel 119 arranged
to bring a finished cigarette wrapper or shell to register with the receiver and a
plunger acting to force the formed filler into the shell.
21. In a machine for making cigarettes, the combination of a receiver 200
adapted to successively receive and support the formed fillers, a movable support

page_text: operating to bring a cigarette wrapper or shell into registry with said receiver anl
to hold the shell at an angle thereto, supports for engaging the ends of the shell
while it is being charged with the filler, and a plunger for inserting the formed
filler into the shell..
22. In a machine for making cigarettes, the combination of a filler receiver 200,
a carrier as disk wheel 119 arranged to bring a cigarette shell into registry with
said receiver and to hold the shell at an angle thereto, said carrier being formed
as with holes 123 to give passage to a filler moving in line with the said receiver
as in case when no sell is presented to receive the filler.
23. In a machine for making cigarettes, the combination of a cigarette shell
carrier, means for filling the shells with a formed filler, mechanism controlling the
movement of the machine which is provided with a movable piece (as feeler 243)
and means for alternately holding said feeler away from a cigarette shell being
charged and for allowing the same to rest upon the shell after being charged,.
whereby if a completed cigarette be not present at the time said feeler rests upon
the same, the machine will be stopped.
24. In a machine for making cigarettes, the combination of a filler receiver 200,
a carrier (as disk 119) arranged to bring a cigarette shell into registry with said
receiver and to hold the shell at an angle thereto, said carrier being formed as with
holes 123 to give passage to a filler moving in line with the said receiver as in case
when no shell is presented to receive the filler, and a mechanism for stopping the
machine by the deflection of a part thereof (as feeler 243) normally inactive by
resting upon the charged shell at the time the same is charged.
25. In a machine for making cigarettes, the combination with the filler
receiver 200 and the shell carrier 119, a movable support (as slide 236) adapted
at the proper time to move to engagement with one end of the shell and cause the
other end to be engaged by the said receiver, for the purpose of lifting the shell
from the carrier and supporting it while the filler is being thrust therein.
26. In a machine for making cigarettes, the combination with the filler
receiver 200 and the shell carrier 119, a movable support (as slide 236) adapted
at the proper time to move to engagement with one end of the shell and cause the
other end to be engaged by the said receiver, for the purpose of wholly supporting
the shell while the filler is being thrust therein, and means whereby as the filler
is properly seated in the shell the said slide will retract from the cigarette and
leave it supported upon the wheel and free of engagement with the receiver.
27. In a machine for making cigarettes, the combination with the filler
receiver 200, a carrier operating to bring a cigarette shell to registry with the
receiver, means together with the receiver for supporting the shell independently
of its carrier, and a plunger 229 for inserting the filler in the shell when the latter
is thus supported.
28. In a machine for making cigarettes, the combination with the filler
receiver 200 and the filler charging plunger 229, the shell carrier wheel 119 for
bringing the shell opposite the said receiver, a slide 236 acting to engage one
end of the shell and cause the other end to be inserted in the said receiver, aud
mechanism for actuating said slide so that it moves backwardly a short distance
with the plunger after the filler is properly seated in the shell for disengaging the
cigarette from the receiver.
29. In a machine for making cigarettes, the combination of the side walls and
base of the pocket 29 corresponding to the shape of the wrapper blank 28, an
intermittently acting flap or plate 30 arranged to press the blank down in said
pocket, and means for feeding said blacks out of the pocket over the base to the
blank-forming mechanism.
30. In a machine for making cigarettes, the combination with one or more
mandrels mounted to have radial motion on a mandrel head 60 and provided with
serrated faces, mechanism for folding and crimping a wrapper blank upon said
mandrels, and a lubricating device arranged to apply a lubricant upon the serrated

page_text: portion of the mandrels after the blank has been shaped thereon and before
another blank is engaged.
31. In a machine for making cigarettes, the combination with an intermittently
rotating nandrel head 60 and the mandrels connected therewith and operated as
described, of an oiler or lubricant applying device arranged to come in contact
with each mandrel in turn for the purpose of lubricating the surface of the
same.
32. In a machine for making cigarettes, the combination with the intermittently
revolving mandrel head 60 and the mandrel-supporting slides 62, of a mechanism
such as tappet 71, for operating said slides.
33. In a machine for making cigarettes, the combination with a wrapper
forming mandrel, of a stripper finger 115 acting to strip the formed shell from the
mandrel.
34. In a machine for making cigarettes, the combination with a series of conical
mandrels and mechanism for forming blanks into finished cigarette wrappers or
shells around the same, of mechanism acting to engage the completed shell on a
mandrel and to draw said shell off or partially off the mandrel.
35. In a machine for making cigarettes, the combination with a series of
mandrels and mechanism for forming blanks into completed cigarette wrappers or
shells around the same, of a revolving stripper roll arranged to come in contact
with the completed shell on a maudrel and to draw said shell off or partially off
the mandrel, and mechanism for intermittently moving said roll against each
mandrel in turn.
36. In a machine for making cigarettes, the combination with a series of
mandrels 61, the stripper roll 107 intermittently acting to partially remove the
completed shells from the mandrels, and a pusher finger acting to finally remove
the shells from the mandrels.
37. In a machine for making cigarettes, the combination with a series of
intermittently moving mandrel and mechanism for forming blanks into completed
wrappers or shells thereon, of an intermittently moving carrier such as wheel 119,
having a series of shell-receiving recesses adapted to register in turn with one of
the mandrels to receive a formed shell therefrom, and mechanism adapted to strip
the formed shell from each mandrel in turn and carry the shell into the recesses of
said carrier.
38. In a machine for making cigarettes, the combination with a series of
intermittently moving mandrels and mechanism for forming cigarette shells
thereon, an intermittently moving carrier having a series of shell-receiving
recesses each adapted to register in turn with one of the mandrels and to receive a
shell therefrom, mechanism adapted to strip the shell from each mandrel in turn
and project the same into the carrier recesses, a filler receiver (such as trough 200)
with which said carrier recesses register in turn, and mechanism operating to push
the filler from said receiver into a shell registering therewith.
Dated this 9th December 1895.
CARPMAEL & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.