US2245107A

US2245107A - Cigarette making device

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Publication number: US2245107A
Application number: US275244A
Authority: US
Inventors: Clarence E Karst
Original assignee: BRUNHOFF Manufacturing Co
Current assignee: BRUNHOFF MANUFACTURING Co
Priority date: 1939-05-23
Filing date: 1939-05-23
Publication date: 1941-06-10
Anticipated expiration: 1958-06-10

Description

June 10, 1941. c. KARST H 2,245,107

CIGARETTE MAKING DEVICE Filed May 23, 1939 tau-41::

IN VENT OR.

wLZ fM ATTORNEY.

iatented June 10, 1941 CIGARETTE MAKING DEVICE Clarence E. Karst, Cincinnati, Ohio, assignor to The Brunhofi Manufacturing Company, Cincinnati, Ohio, a corporation of Ohio Application May 23, 1939, Serial No. 275,244

1 Claim.

This invention relates to improvements in cigarette rolling or making machines of a portable hand operated pocket carrying size and type for user to make his own supply.

An object of the invention is to provide a cigarette rolling or making machine of simple construction and assembly for production at an exceedingly low cost; a device of extreme stability and ease of operation to enable a user without skill to conveniently make his own supply of cigarettes equally comparable in form to a commercially made product.

The invention is primarily directed to the details of construction of a hand operated cigarette rolling and making machine, and therefore other advantages and objects will be more readily apparent from the description of the accompanying drawing forming a part of the specification, in which:

Figure 1 is a top plan view of my improved domestic cigarette making device.

Figure 2 is a side elevation, partly in section, showing the operative parts at a loading stage.

Figure 3 is a central vertical section illustrating the parts after the completion of the making and discharge of a cigarette.

Figure 4 is a central vertical section of the rear end of the device with the operative parts in advanced stage from that shown in Figure 1.

Figure 5 is a section on line 5-5, Figure 4.

Figure 6 is a perspective view of the roller carrying slide.

Referring to the drawing, the body or frame of the device is formed of sheet metal bent into a rectangular channel form, providing a pair of oppositely disposed

perpendicular side walls

2, 2, joined by cross webs I, I, as end portions of a base wall. The upper longitudinal end of each side wall is reversely turned or folded inwardly to provide a downwardly extending flange 3 slightly spaced from the inner side of its wall, and therewith forming a longitudinal guideway for the full length of the wall.

The guideways each slidably receive an upper edge portion 4 of an end wall 5 of a slide or carriage for guidingly sustaining and laterally confining the slide within the body or frame. The bottom or base wall of the body has a medial portion thereof pressed upwardly therefrom in the form of a longitudinally extending tongue 6, medially within the body, providing a plain table surface or platform having a free forward end and its rear end curved and integrally joining with the cross web I at one or rear end of the body.

(Cl. ISL-51) The opposite side edges of the tongue or table are spaced slightly from the relative adjoining side walls to furnish suflicient clearance for the end walls 5 of the slide. This also provides a laterally inturned flange 1 at the base of each side wall in continuity with the cross webs I, I, remaining at the opposite end of the base of the body upon pressing the medial portion inwardly to form the platform or table 6to confine and slidably track the slide, or lower edges of the end walls thereof, for the full length of slide shuttling traverse within the body.

The slide or carriage, also of sheet metal, is composed of a pair of oppositely disposed

perpendicular sides

5, 5, joined integrally with a cross or connecting bar or web 8. The bar has its opposite longitudinal edges bent or flanged upwardly to reinforce and stiffen the structure, and to provide a more apt finger-hold upon the slide for manually moving the same back and forth within the body.

As shown, the upper ends 4 of the side walls 5 have cut-outs from the cross bar and project beyond the plane of the cross bar for engagement into the slideways of the body. A roller 9 is journalled in the end walls of the slide beneath the cross bar, and preferably toward the forward edges of the end walls.

An apron [0, of fabric material, is engaged over the roller 9, and has its opposite ends fixed to and within the body at or toward the opposite extremities thereof. One end of the apron is engaged over a cross rod H projecting through and sustained by the side walls of the body at an elevation above the plane of the table 6. The

opposite end of the apron is sustained similarly by a rod l2 projecting through and fixed to the side walls of the body and located immediately beneath the forward end of the table.

The rods II and [2 each respectively extend through a hem formed in the ends of the apron, and each rod has one end thereof bent at an angle thereto to form a lateral stem [3 as a head adapted to be clipped into a crotch formed by a tang l4 punched and protruding from a side wall of the body. By this method the rods are securely locked in place yet readily removable for inserting the apron.

Each end wall of the slide is provided with a pair of relatively oppositely directioned notches l5, l6, for engagement respectively with the cross rods ll, l2, to stop the reciprocating traverse of the slide, and also to confine the slide within the body. Upon moving the slide to its rearward limit within the body, the apron will be disposed in a loading position with its forward end lying or spread upon the table and thence extending downwardly from the rear end of the table capable of being formed into a loop to allow the roller 9 carried by the slide furnishing a pocket I! for the reception of the necessary quantity of tobacco for the making of a cigarette.

The sidewalls of the body provide end closures for the pocket. A sheet of cigarette wrapping paper is appropriately placed upon the apron over the table in advance of the tobacco holding pocket, whereupon upon moving the slide forward the supply of tobacco within the pocket is compactly rolled into a cylindrical stem and ad-. vanced over the wrapper sheet which therewith is rolled about the tobacco to completely enclose the same.

The forward margin of the wrapper sheet is longitudinally moistened or rendered with an adhesive to seal itself upon a convolution and hold the same compact when the completed cigarette is discharged upon moving the slide to its forward limit of travel. a

The machine utilizes an apron having its opposite longitudinal ends fixed, and its intermedite P rt o e a d o a l e a ied y a slide, When the sl de i sta ioned at one d of a stroke, the apron forms a tobacco receivin pocket adapted to roll the tobacco upon, and cover it with a paper sheet or wrapper to be discharged as a finished product at the end of the forward stroke f the slide. I am fully aware that this method of forming a cigarette has long been previously practiced.

Having described my invention, 1 claim: A cigarette making machine of the class described, comprising: a frame of a single sheet of metal in the form of a rectangular open top channel, providing a pair of side walls and a bottom panel connecting the side walls, the upper edges of the side walls being inverted to form longi tudinal guideways, the bottom panel having a medial portion formed to provide an elevated platform centrally between the side walls and spaced therefrom and joining with the bottom panel at one end thereof, a slide reciprocable and encased within the frame composed of a pair of opposite end walls joined by a cross web, the cross web providing a hand-hold accessible from the open top of the frame for manually reciprocating the slide, the end walls being respectively in parallelism with the side walls of the frame and in sliding intermesh with the upper edges of the respective side walls of the frame, and slidably sustained on the bottom panel, a roller journaled in the end walls of the slide beneath the cross Web thereof and at a platform traversing plane, and a fabric apron within and extending longitudinally of the frame engaged about the roller of the slide and having its opposite ends anchored to the frame respectively at relative opposite ends thereof, the apron when the slide is stationed at one end of the frame being adapted to lieu-pen the platform with a portion thereof at the rear end of the platform depressed into a loop to form a pocket for holding a quantity of tobacco for envelopment in the apron by a forward stroke of the slide.

7 CLARENCE E. KARST;