US1563334A - Cigarette-machine automatic feed - Google Patents

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US1563334A
US1563334A US8727A US872725A US1563334A US 1563334 A US1563334 A US 1563334A US 8727 A US8727 A US 8727A US 872725 A US872725 A US 872725A US 1563334 A US1563334 A US 1563334A
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A24—TOBACCO; CIGARS; CIGARETTES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES; SMOKERS' REQUISITES
    • A24C—MACHINES FOR MAKING CIGARS OR CIGARETTES
    • A24C5/00—Making cigarettes; Making tipping materials for, or attaching filters or mouthpieces to, cigars or cigarettes
    • A24C5/39—Tobacco feeding devices
    • A24C5/395—Tobacco feeding devices with arrangements in the hopper, e.g. for spreading, tamping

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  • This invention relates to an improvement in automatic feed mechanisms for cigarette machines.
  • Two types of such mechanisms are known.
  • a mass of shredded tobacco is confined in a housing or hopper, and shreds are disentangled fro-m the mass and fed in a shower to a cigarette machine.
  • tobacco is added to the mass by an attendant who serves a large number of machines.
  • the disentangling and feeding of the shreds is effected automatically, but the ever-varying weight of the mass aects the action of the disentangling vand feeding mechanism and results in cigarettes which vary in density.
  • the second type of automaticfeed was produced.4
  • the shreds are also disentangled from a mass in a housing and fed in a shower to a ciga- A rette' machine, but the' quantity of Itobacco in the mass, and consequently its weight, is maintained substantially constant by a hand feed mechanism which adds tobacco .to the mass as shreds are taken therefrom.
  • - Mechanisms of this type will produce uniform ⁇ cigarettes, but at a higher cost than 'the earlier type, because they require an attendant for each'mechanism.
  • VThe main' object of the present -invention is the production of an automatic feed mechanism 1n which that part of the mass of tobacco which is within the range of action of the disentangling and feeding mechanism is automatically maintained substantially constant in quantity and weight, so that uniform cigarettes will be produced at the low cost of the variable cigarettes produced by the use of the earliest type of automatic feed mechanism.
  • FIG. 1 is a plan view, partly in section, of a device constructed in accordance with the invention.
  • Fig. 2 is a central side elevation of the structure shown yin Fig. l.
  • 3 indicates a housing or hopper for confining a mass of shredded cigarette tobacco to be fed to a cigarette machine and there made up into cigarettes.
  • This housing is supported by a bracket 4 resting on the bed 5 of a cigarette machine in connection with which the present invention is used.
  • the particular construction of the cigarette machine lies wholly outside the present invention, is well understood in the industry, and therefore needs no description herein.
  • this mechanism includes a carding belt 7 forming the bottom of the housing 3. It runs over pulleys 8 and 9, -respectivel secured to'shafts ⁇ 10 and 11, both of whic are suitably journaled in bearings in the side walls of the housing 3.
  • the shaft 10 is driven by means of a pulley 12 fast there- 110 on, and this pulley is driven by means of a belt 13 which derives its motion from one of the shafts of the cigarette machine in connection with which the present invention is used.
  • the shaft also carries a sprocket 14, and the shaft 11 carries a sprocket 15, and over these sprockets runs a chain 16 which serves to drive the pulley 9.
  • the upper or operating run of the carding belt 7 runs upwardly and forwardly, as clearly indicated in Fig. 2 Coacting with this carding belt is apacking-roll 17 fast on a shaft 18 journaled in bearings in the side walls of the housing 3.
  • This packing-roll nas a smooth surface, and is rotated by means of a chain 19 overrunning a sprocket 20 on the shaft 10 and deriving its motion therefrom.
  • This chain also overruns a sprocket 21 on the shaft 18, and a sprocket 22 on a shaft 23 the purpose of which will be presently explained.
  • An idle sprocket 24 keeps the chain 19 in engagement with the sprocket 21.
  • the packing-roll rotates in the direction of the arrow in Fig. 2, and the lowermost part of its perimeter just clears the forwardly inclined teeth of the carding belt 7.
  • the latter moves an entangled mass of tobacco shreds into the bight formed between its own surface and the perimeter of the packing-roll, some of the tobacco is pressed down on the teeth of the belt, and the excess is brushed back to be carried up over the roll with a part of the mass into the range of action of coacting parts of the disentangling and feeding mechanism.
  • a second carding belt 25 which overruns a pulley 26 carried by the shaft 23 before referred to, and a pulley 27 mounted on a shaft 28 jouinaled in bearings in the side walls of the housing 3.
  • the shaft 23 is driven by the chain 19.
  • the shaft 28 is driven by a chain 29 engaging the sprockets on the shafts 23 and 28.
  • the teeth of the carding belt 25 are inclined backwardly with respect to its direction of movement, and the operating run of the belt is vertically upward, or at an obtuse angle to the direction of travel of the operating run of the belt 7.
  • the maintaining means also includes a tumbling device for removing from the range of action of the disentangling and feeding mechanism all tobacco in excess of a substantially constant part of said mass, and for returning it to'the mass beyond said range of action.
  • This tumbling device includes a pair of circular heads 30 carried by a shaft 31, and connected by a series of slats 32.
  • the shaft 31 carries a sprocket 33 which is driven by a chain 34 deriving its motion from a similar sprocket on the shaft 18 before referred to.
  • the tumbling device limits the height to which the tobacco mass can Apile up along the belt 25, by constantly throwing back the tobacco brought up to it by said belt. tion, that part of the mass which is within the range of action of the disentangling and feeding mechanism is maintained substaiitially constant, although the mass as a whole dwindles. It will be understood of course that tobacco must be added to the mass from time to time.
  • a picker roll 35 of the usual type which is mounted on a shaft 36 journaled in bearings in the side walls of the housing 3.
  • AThis shaft carries a pulley 37 which is driven by means of a belt deriving its motion from one of the shafts of the cigarette machine.
  • a movable wall 39 in the housing for the purpose of regulatin the quantity of tobacco disentangled an fed to the cigarette machine, without disturbing the speed of the parts of the disentangling and feeding mechanism, there is provided a movable wall 39 in the housing, by means of which its width may be varied, and operating means therefor.
  • this movable Wall cari'ies two screws 40 which project through one of the fixed walls of the housing?) and carry nuts 41 over which rims a chain 42 engaged by a crank-actuated sprocket 43. By operating this sprocket, the movable wall may be moved toward or away from the fixed wall llO through which the screws project, and thus vary the weight of the tobacco mass to vary the quantity fed to the cigarette machine.
  • said mechanism including a forwarding carding belt, and ac'oacting,l smooth-surfaced packing-roll.

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US3036578A (en) * 1957-03-28 1962-05-29 Molins Machine Co Ltd Tobacco manipulating machines
US3253743A (en) * 1964-03-25 1966-05-31 Blaw Knox Co Bi-directional power feeding device

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US3036578A (en) * 1957-03-28 1962-05-29 Molins Machine Co Ltd Tobacco manipulating machines
US3253743A (en) * 1964-03-25 1966-05-31 Blaw Knox Co Bi-directional power feeding device

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