US129599A - Improvement in the manufacture of cigar-bunches - Google Patents

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S. SCHOLFIELD.

improvement inthe Manufacture of Cigar-Bunches.

`N0. 129,599.- Patentedluly 16,1872.

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SOCRATES SOHOLFIELD, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 129,599, dated July 16, 1872.

I, SooRAfrEs ScHoLFrELD, of Providence, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented an Improvement in the Manufacture of Cigar-Ranches, of which the following is a specification:

In the manufacture of cigars the primary bunches are always bound up singly or in single lengths, the proper tapering form being derived from overlapping the fag-ends of the tobacco at each end of the bunch, both ends being very nearly alike. This method is defective, for the reason that the point and tuck ends of the cigarare so dissimilar, whereas in the primary bunch they are formed by the -same arrangement of material, rendering it necessary to-break off one of the ends in order to form a desirable head. To do this properly the operative is required to feel alon g until the fag-ends and vacant spots are passed, which requires a considerable degree of judgment and consumes time. The iinish, and consequently the price, of the cigar, being in a great measure dependent on the perfect symmetry of the head, renders the use of an automatic machine for cutting off these ends unavailable, from the manifest uncertainty of its taking the cut at a portion of the filler where it is perfectly rounded out, unless the bunch is made so very long as to cause a great waste of tobacco.

When it is understood that in feeling for the proper point, and breaking or cutting off the fag-ends of the bunch, nearly as much time is consumed as would suffice to run on the final wrapper, the defects of the present mode of operatin g will be rendered fully apparent; whereas, on the other hand, if the end is cut off at a fixed length without regard to the condition of the ller, a decided lack of uniformity in the filling of the points will be the result. In order to overcome this dificulty some inventors have proceeded to stamp out the filler by means of dies made in the proper cigar shape 5 but even by this process difficulties and objections :are encountered, seriously detracting from the rapidity with which the work should be accomplished, since the stamped-out fibers are liabletoliecome disarranged by rolling in the binding-machine, and as the overlapping end of the binder still remains to be trimmed before the wrapper can be rolled on properly so as to form a finished point.

In making cigars by machinery it is highly essential that every movement requiring dis criminating skill, and not absolutely necessary, should be dispensed with, in order that automatic working machinery may be rendered available to perform the various operations required; therefore, in order to avail myself of the beneits to be derived from the use of such machinery, instead of operating upon a single length of cigar-lling, as heretofore, I make my primary bunches in double or treble lengths, the point-end of the cigar being then taken toward the center, where there is sure to be a surplus and uniformity of material.

In the drawing, Figure 1 is a longitudinal section of a cigar-filler bunch as ordinarily made, A being the filling, and B B the binder. The line c c shows the proper point to cut in preparing the filler to form the hea'd. This pointwill varygin different bunches; therefore it is usually felt out by the fingers of the oper ator, because, if done by machinery, operating uniformly, the quality of the cigars when finished would prove somewhat inferior. Fig. 2 represents a sectional view of the ordinary cigar-ller after being broken off in the line c c and ready to receive the final wrapper. Fig. 3 represents a double cigar-bunch, such as I prefer to use-in carrying out my improvement, for 'the reason that a length of two cigars is better adapted to a leaf of tobacco for a binder than where three are used, and because a single cut is suicient to divide the long bunch into two properly-tapered cigar-bunches, ready for use in the wrapping-machine. Fig. 4 represents this bunch out in two and the ends tapered by removing the cylindrical ungulas d d. Fig. 5 represents the same first cut in two, and then tapered, by removing a section of its interior ber, either in a wedgeor conical shape. Fig. 6 represents the same separated by eans of an angular cut, leavin@ the point-ends of the resulting bunches dis milar. Fig. 7 represents the same divided by being broken and then drawn apart, the short fag-ends left being easily closed down to the proper point in the wrapping-machine.

I prefer in all cases to use the original ends a a for the tuck of the cigar, and the tapered ends ff for the point; but when three lengths are used both ends of the middle bunch will require tapering in order to preserve the proper uniformity.

It is an important fact that by the use of my improved method of making cigar-bunches the capacity or amount of Work performed by the ordinary filler-machines may be doubleda result entirely due to the method of Working lherein described.

What I claim as my invention is= The improved mode of manufacturing cigarbunches by first forming 11p-the filler in lengths sufcient to make a number of bunches, and then, after rolling on suitable binders, dividing and 'tapering them, substantially as described.

SOCRATES SGHOLFIELD. Witnesses:

D. B. POTTER, A. R. ABBOTT.

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