US1878328A - Apparatus for combing and feeding tobacco for making cigarettes and for other purposes - Google Patents

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US1878328A
US1878328A US56355A US5635525A US1878328A US 1878328 A US1878328 A US 1878328A US 56355 A US56355 A US 56355A US 5635525 A US5635525 A US 5635525A US 1878328 A US1878328 A US 1878328A
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Ruau Felix Frederic
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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 improved appart of the cigarette machine, and'a series of carded rollers, combsand brush rollers or their equivalents, so ,arranged-thatthe tobacco is subjected, preferably, to a double combing or regulatingtofsecure an uniform density, and is discharged without the employment of conveyor bands or the like; If desired, the'apparatus'may be arranged to 4 subject the tobacco to more than twocomb ings'before discharge;
  • Aside of the hopper may oscillation and suitable-means are provided for driving the various rollers.
  • Figure 3 is a d ia ammatic side elevation of the hopperpartly in section and without '85 the driving gear;
  • the roller 6 is preferably a plain metal or wooden. 5 roller and the cardinglon' roller. 8 is Tprefer ably finer than that onroller 7
  • a scraper 9 is provided engagingthe feed roller 6 to prevent tobacco from passing. out; betweenrollersfi and 7.
  • ,A. combf f 10 shown in ,deta iliin Figures t and ,5 holds the tobacco which has passed out on to the surface of roller 7.
  • the tobacco is removed from this roller by a picker roller 11, and drops-down vonto the surface of another roller-12 furnished with radial teeth or inclined teeth, orpreferably carded, which is mounted near'the discharge. orifice.
  • This roller 12 preferably rotatesat a'somewhat slower speedpthan the first carded roller 7, so that thetobaccois picked therefrom '1 in fringes" and the: successive fringes are spread over the distributor, roller 12in overlapping layers.
  • Y 5" f A small picking or brushing roller 15 re-fl
  • Figure 7 is a diagrammatic View showing moves'the tobacco from roller 12, and in the V method of operating the backof the hopper.
  • the hopper comprises end frames 2, held together by tie rods 3, side piecescase of a 'cigarette -making 'machine, ⁇ the tobacco drops into a trough 16 havinga nar row orifice'l7, beneath jwhich the cigarette 90,
  • the sides of the trough 16 maybe vibrated ifdesired,'as shown in Figure 2 for example. In this'arrangement,
  • .pins 81 are fitted on the face, of-a sprocket.
  • roller 8 a shaft 18 is mounted carrying two flaps l9 of leather. or similar material which brush-back any tobacco clinging to the carding and return it to the mass in the hopper.
  • a pulley 20 mounted on the end frameof the hopper is-driven by a belt 21 from a suitable source of power through a ratchetclutch 22.
  • This arrajngement enables the rest of the machine of which the-hopper forms a part to be turned backwards without moving the a which in turn drivesa wheel 29.
  • the wheels. 28, 2 9 are detachable, forming change wheels su to the cigarette machine.
  • the drive is transmitted from the pulley,
  • the belt 21 is kept taut by a jockey roller 23 and'a spring 24, Ithetension of'the latter being adjusted by ahandle 2 5, which may be 20' through a gear wheel 26 on the pulley. shaft, to a wheel 27 secured t a wheel 28 for varying the speedof the hopper relatively Secured to the spindle 53 of wheel'29 is a ⁇ small wheel 30- which transmits the motion to a gear wheel 31,,the spindle of the lattercarry'ing'a gear wheel'32 and a sprocket wheel 33'.
  • the spindleof drum 7 carries agear'wheel 32a which .is driven by 'tllflWllGGliidQ and a ch'ai'n34con'nects the sprocket wheel- 38 to a sprocket wheel on the spindle of the plain roller 13.
  • Tl ie f picker rollers and 15 are driven from the pulley 20 by a pulley 26 secured thereto, throughthe maximin of a belt3I 'jand' pulleys 38, 39' on the spindles of the rollers.
  • An adjustable jockeypulley 40 isinterposed' asshown. c On the pulley 38 is mounted a pulley 41, whichfdrives the top shaft 18 on whichthe. leatherflaps 19 are mounted by meansof'belt 43am pulley 44.
  • roller 11 is carried in bearingsin quadrants 45, whichare, pivoted.
  • a sprocket wheel 48 on drum 7, which is drivenby gears as already described, is .con-
  • the back plate 5 of the hopper may be moved to press the tobacco. continuously into arrangement:
  • the pawl 64 is hereshown-as pivoted about ⁇ mid-way of link 68,'but this positio-nmay'be; varied-to alter the rate of feeding. J
  • Apparatus for feeding tobacco to a filling trough of a continuous rod type cigarette machine comprising, in combination, a carded combing roller adapted to receive a supply.
  • Apparatus for feeding tobacco to a filling trough of a continuous rod type cigarette machine comprising, in combination, a card ed combing roller adapted to receive a supply of tobacco, a picker roller for removing the tobacco from said combing roller, a conveyor comprising a carded distributing roller interposed between the combing roller and the filling trough for receiving the removed tobacco directly from the combing roller, and

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