US1952559A

US1952559A - Cigarette machine

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Publication number: US1952559A
Application number: US641782A
Authority: US
Inventors: Samuel C Miller
Original assignee: JONES MILLER VEENEMAN CORP
Current assignee: JONES MILLER VEENEMAN CORP; JONES-MILLER-VEENEMAN Corp
Priority date: 1932-11-08
Filing date: 1932-11-08
Publication date: 1934-03-27
Anticipated expiration: 1951-03-27

Description

March 27, 1934. s. c. MILLER CIGARETTE MACHINE Filed Nov. 8, 1932 n R LE? attorneys.

Patented Mar. 27, 1934 CIGARETTE MACHINE 7 Samuel C. Miller, Louisville, Ky., assignor to Jones-Miller-Veeneman Corporation,

Louisville,.Ky., a corporation of Kentucky Application November 8, 1932, Serial No. 641,782 7 3 Claims.

The present invention relates to improvements in cigarettes and method and means for making same, and has for an object to provide an improved protected cigarette in which the same is wrapped in Cellophane or some other equivalent moisture-proof external wrapper, whereby the condition of the tobacco may be preserved for long periods of time and prevented from drying out and deteriorating.

Another object of the invention is to provide an improved method whereby cigarettes may, in their manufacture, be wrapped in Cellophane or the like in addition to the usual rice paper wrapper.

A further object of the invention is to provide an improved machine whereby the articles above described may be made, and it is a feature of the invention that the present practice and apparatus is not departed from materially, but the adjuncts, by which the improved article according to the invention is made possible, are in the nature of accessories which are easily and inexpensively added to the present type of equipment.

With the foregoing and other objects in View, the invention will be more fully described'hereinafter, and will be more particularly pointed out in the claims appended hereto.

In the drawing, wherein like symbols refer to like or corresponding parts throughout the several views,

Figure 1 is a top plan view of an apparatus constructed in accordance with the present invention.

Figure 2 is a side elevation of p the same with parts broken away and parts shown in section.

Figure 3 is a perspective view of the article produced, and V Figure 4 is a section taken on the line 14 in Figure 3.

Referring more particularly to the drawing one embodiment of a machine is shown in which the usual rice paper or cigarete paper is represented as originally occupying a roll 5, the paper being drawn off from this roll and fed into a shaping thimble 6. The shaping thimble tapers longitudinally and is formed with convergent upper walls '7 for the purpose of rolling the paper 5 into tubular form.

Tobacco occupying a hopper 8 is fed through a spout 9 to the paper 5, within the former or thimble 6. The adhesive roll is indicated at 10, such roll being preferably driven at the same speed as. the movement of the paper 5. The roll 10 receives adhesive and supplies it to the paper 5, the paper being overlapped and the pressure rolls or other means 11 being employed to gether whereby to afiix same.

The tube 12 througli'which the filled paper is" drawn after passing the rolls 11 will apply pressure also to fasten the seam in the paper joint. A roll of Cellophane or like paper is indicated at 13 and the same is brought down through a slot 14 near the end of the tube 12 and at the upper portion of said tube. The Cellophane paper passes beneath an ip-turned lip 15 on a former or thimble 16 similar to the thimble 6, except that the same is turned on its axis through 180, so that the tapering or flaring walls 17 are disposed beneath and not uppermost as in the case of the walls 7. The thimble 16 will also be of tapering form in order to shape the Cellophane in a tube or cylinder about the filled paper coming from the tube 12.

The Cellophane is sealed by an adhesive applying roller or other device 18 and. by the use of pressure rolls 19 and a pressure tube or trough 20.

In this way Cellophane is caused to encase the cigarette during the process of manufacture. The cigarettes are cut off in lengths as required by the knife 21. The parts may all be actuated by means of a line shaft 22 having appropriate gearing as indicated.

The above apparatus is similar in form and operates similarly to that shown in the prior patent to Simon No. 1,117,527, granted November 17, 1914.

In Figures 3 and 4, I have shown the improved cigarette consisting of the inner filler 23 of tobacco, the outer customary rice paper wrapper 24 sealed, as indicated at 25, and the external Cellophane wrapper 26 sealed or joined, as indicated at 2'7. 7

In Figure 3 this cigarette article is also shown as having Cellophane or the like capsules 28 encasing the ends thereof, whereby to further protect the tobacco against contamination and drying. These capsules 28 are similar to the capsules used for containing medicines.

Of course, the invention is applicable to various other types of cigarette making machines and only one embodiment of the invention is shown herein.

In use, the capsules 28 are removed and discarded and the Cellophane tube will be sufliciently large to permit pushing the cigarette out of the tube or allowing it to slip out by gravity when the article is turned endwise.

'It is obvious that various changes and modifications may be made in the details of construction and design of the above specifically described embodiment of this invention without departing from the spirit thereof, such changes and modifications being restricted only by the scope of the following claims.

What is claimed is:

1. In an apparatus for forming moisture-proof cigarettes, a former for forming cigarette paper into tubular form about a filler of tobacco, and

a second former for receiving Cellophane or phane paper about the cigarette paper, said former and said sealing means for the Cellophane paper forming an extension of the former and sealing means for the cigarette paper.

3. In an apparatus for the manufacture of moisture-proof cigarettes, a former for shaping cigarette paper into tubular form about a filler of tobacco, means 'for sealing the edges of the cigarette paper, a second former for receiving Cellophane or the like paper and fashioning the same in tubular form about the cigarette paper, and means for sealing the edges of the Cellophane paper about the cigarette paper, said former and said sealing means for the Cellophane paper forming an extension of the former and sealing means for the cigarette paper, the seam formed by the former and sealing means for the Cellophane paper being in a line not coincident with the seam formed by the former and sealing means for the cigarette paper.

SAMUEL C. MILLER.