GB1131812A - Improvements in and relating to methods and machines for the manufacture of cigar bunches or single-leaf cigars - Google Patents

Abstract

1,131,812. Cigar making machines. PATENT MACHINE BOUW N.V. 23 Feb., 1966 [19 May, 1965], No. 8004/66. Heading A2C. A cigar making machine includes means whereby individually formed plugs of tobacco of single or double cigar length are deposited end to end on a longitudinal moving band of reconstituted tobacco and wrapped therein to form a continuous rod, which is then cut off into single or double length cigars. Scrap tobacco is pushed down shoot 1 Fig. 2 into a shaft 2 and is periodically pushed by plunger 4 into vertical chamber 5 containing a reciprocating knife 6 and plunger 7. The tobacco plugs, which have less tobacco at their ends than in the remainder of their length, due to the shape of the shaft 2, are pushed into a channel 8, through which runs a length of reconstituted tobacco wrapper 35 carried on an endless belt 13. The plugs of tobacco are given a rounded cross-section by co-operating grooved rollers 14 and 15 and by a presser 17, Figs. 3 and 4. One edge of the wrapper is then folded over on to the scrap tobacco and the other edge is gummed by an adhesive applicator 19, Fig. 5. The gummed edge of the wrapper is folded on to the previously folded edge by a guide 20, Fig. 6, the seam is heat sealed by a device 21, Fig. 7 (not shown), and the wrapped continuous rod is cut into single or double cigar lengths by a reciprocating knife. The less dense ends of the cigar length cut from the rod facilitates their subsequent shaping to form rounded or conical ended cigars.