US2656840A - Tobacco spreader for cigarette making machines - Google Patents

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US2656840A
US2656840A US159446A US15944650A US2656840A US 2656840 A US2656840 A US 2656840A US 159446 A US159446 A US 159446A US 15944650 A US15944650 A US 15944650A US 2656840 A US2656840 A US 2656840A
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Fellmann Rudolf
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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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  • My invention relates to tobacco spreaders for cigarette making machines which include a tobacco feed drum and a tobacco scraper drum within a tobacco hopper or other container.
  • a tobacco layer or carpet is formed upon the feed drum and the scraper drum rotating in a direction opposite to that of the feed drum is arranged to brush over the surface of the tobacco carpet carried by the feed drum and to brush back any surplus tobacco which may be carried thereby.
  • My invention refers more particularly to means for tamping or compressing the said tobacco layer or carpet to a homogeneous density so that the same will be even and uniform.
  • the object of my invention is to avoid the said disadvantages and other disadvantages which will appear from the following description of an illustrative embodiment of my invention.
  • the essential feature of my invention consists therein that the tamping and raking operations are performed by the same operational member.
  • I use compactors, tampers or the like which are provided with raking projections and which in addition to the up and down movement for the tamping operation perform a timed swing movement away from and back towards the scraper drum.
  • I use tamping bodies or other compacting bodies which are provided with raking projections and are pivotally connected to a reciprocating supporting member, the pivotal connection permitting said tamping bodies to swing away from and back towards the scraper drum in the interval between two succeeding tamping operations so that during the first part of said swing movement the raking projections upon the tamping bodies disperse and trim accumulated surplus tobacco.
  • the pivotal connection between said supports and said tamping bodies will permit the latter to adjust their position during the tamping 2 operation to effectively conform to the surplus tobacco heaped up in front of the bite of the drums.
  • FIG. 1 shows a side view of my new tamping device
  • Fig. 2 a top view thereof.
  • Fig. 3 a side view of a tamping body in an intermediate position during its swing movement and of the adjoining parts of the driving mechanism
  • Fig. 4 a detail later more particularly referred to.
  • the tobacco spreader illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2 comprises a carded tobacco feed drum 2and a carded tobacco scraper drum l which are arranged within a hopper or other storage chamber not shown in the drawing.
  • the scraper drum 1 which rotates in a direction opposite to that of the feed drum 2 brushes over the surface of the tobacco layer or carpet carried by the feed drum 2 removing any surplus tobacco which may be carried thereby.
  • the said rollers may be driven in any convenient manner.
  • the tobacco in front of the bite of said rollers I and 2 is compressed against the carding of the feed drum 2 by a plurality of tapers or other compactors 8 which are raised and then permitted to fall upon the tobacco layer.
  • Each of these tampers 8 is supported at the end of the longer arm of one of a plurality of swing levers, two such levers 4 and 5 being shown. These levers are rotatably mounted upon the shaft 3 which is parallel to the axes of said drums l and 2.
  • Each swing lever is formed by two parallel fiat irons or the like.
  • the shorter arms thereof are connected by a cross plate 6 and the longer arms thereof by a pin 7 which pivotally supports one of said tampers or compactors 8.
  • the said swing levers 4, 5 perform a reciprocating movement about the shaft 3 so that the tampers 8 move up and down and perform the required tamping operation upon the tobacco layer carried by the feed drum 2. Neighboring swing levers 4, 5 perform said reciprocating movement alternately that is one lever swings upward while the other lever swings downward and vice versa.
  • tamper 8 attached to the swing lever 5 is shown in its lifted position and the tamper 8 attached to the swing lever 4 in its position at or near the end of the downward tamping with one end eccentrically connected to said 1 sprocket wheel 24 and. with its other end to a crank web 22 which is fixed to said shaft 3 im parting to the same the said rotational swing movement;
  • a toothed segment is; is also fixed on said shaft 3 and this segment 1c opei s as shown in Fig; 4 over a pinion 2; with angthe'ij toothed segment 29 fixed upon another shaft 1] which is parallel to shaft 3.
  • each tamper 'or other compactor 8 is pivotally connected to its suppottine wing lever i and s, respectively 'so the n?
  • each tamper 8 is effected in the interval between two succeeding tamping operations by a driving mechanism operating as renews;
  • Each tamperfi is piovide'd'on its iront fa'c'e with an upwardly extended cover plate l2 the upper parser which. c prates with an arm 2"; x-+ vided with a pulley 28;.
  • the arms 21 are fixed upon said it 26 a 'd neighboring arms 27 are angqiariy shittecl by 180.
  • a spring at arranged on the pin 1, or es.
  • T etainpers '8' aier'eleased by sai'd'arms 21 for a turnsw'ing movement towards the scraper drum 1 ulhderthe influence of said springs i0 assoo'n as the tamper '8, for example; the one attached torswing lelver as illustrated in Fig 1, hesitshighestposition.
  • the position-lofeach b swung amper 8 may be controlled by an ad sting screw ll.
  • a tobacco spreader for cigarette making machines including 'a tobacco feed drum 'anda tobacco scrap-er drum cooperating therewith, the improvement comprising in combination a plurality of fiat-faced tamping bodies to compress the tobacco upon said feed drum, said bodies mounted in front of the bite of said drums, an
  • cooperating ad v g means upon each Swing lever and each, tamp ng b'ody piv'otally 'cb' ir'lcted thereto "tof'cointrol the degree or arm motion of each ta'r'in'aing body relative to the supporting Swing lever.
  • driving mean? to effect the saidfswin movement or said levers in alternating order comprising a first shaft. arra iged in parallel to the of "said, “(1' ins, said first Shaft/supporting said levers for free pivotal movement thereupon, driving mean to impart a rotational swing movement to said first haft, a second shaft arallel to, a t haft driving meansto pat to, "said second shaft a rotational swing movement ino file-direction tofthat of the first shaft, and a pluralityof arms fix'ed alternately to the first shaft and to the second shait respectively, each "arm adaptedfto impart tQ.
  • one swin lever the saidfsjwing movement inamanie l i e'f dicular to. theaxis Of the scraper "drum,

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DE281437C (es) *
US415943A (en) * 1889-11-26 hagen
GB284402A (en) * 1926-10-27 1928-01-27 Ewald Koerner A tobacco spreader for cigarette machines
DE478437C (de) * 1927-02-08 1929-06-26 Ewald Koerner Tabakausbreiter fuer Zigarettenmaschinen
US1859272A (en) * 1928-12-29 1932-05-17 Feik Harrison Hay baler
US1859965A (en) * 1931-05-27 1932-05-24 American Mach & Foundry Tamper for cigarette machine feeds
US2149925A (en) * 1934-07-20 1939-03-07 Molins Machine Co Ltd Method of and apparatus for feeding tobacco to cigarette-making or tobacco-packaging machines
US2153982A (en) * 1935-08-03 1939-04-11 Muller J C & Co Tobacco spreader for cigarettemaking machines

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* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
DE281437C (es) *
US415943A (en) * 1889-11-26 hagen
GB284402A (en) * 1926-10-27 1928-01-27 Ewald Koerner A tobacco spreader for cigarette machines
DE478437C (de) * 1927-02-08 1929-06-26 Ewald Koerner Tabakausbreiter fuer Zigarettenmaschinen
US1859272A (en) * 1928-12-29 1932-05-17 Feik Harrison Hay baler
US1859965A (en) * 1931-05-27 1932-05-24 American Mach & Foundry Tamper for cigarette machine feeds
US2149925A (en) * 1934-07-20 1939-03-07 Molins Machine Co Ltd Method of and apparatus for feeding tobacco to cigarette-making or tobacco-packaging machines
US2153982A (en) * 1935-08-03 1939-04-11 Muller J C & Co Tobacco spreader for cigarettemaking machines

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