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B. A. BRIGHT.

METHOD OF PREPARING FILLER MATERIAL FOR THE MANUFACTURE 0 CIGARS. N0. 398,876.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RICHARD A. BRIGHT, OE PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, ASSIGNOR TO VALTER A. PECK, TRUSTEE, OE SAME PLACE.

METHOD OF PREPARING FILLER MATERIAL FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF CIGARS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 398,876, dated March 5, 1889.

Application filed June 2, 1888. Serial No. 275,847. N0 spcchncnza T0 aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that LRICHARD A, BRIGHT, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Providence, in the State of Rhode Island, have or less at the point end, the amount and character of such taper varying according to the style of the cigar. In some cigars the taper of the point is short and abrupt; in others such taper is gradual and extends back acorn siderable distance from the point end of the cigar.

Theiuck ends of cigars, though sometimes made practically straight and of the same diameter as the body, are now very generally, and especially in the better class of cigars, made more or less tapering, and the amountof this taper at the tuck end also varies to inserting into the machine by building up the middle of each bunch the same as when in different styles of cigars. Thus the cigar is of the largest diameter at themiddle or body section and of less diameter along the point and tuck sections, the diameters of these portions gradually lessening according to the predetermined taper or form to be given to the point and tuck of the cigar, respectively. Consequently a greater quantity of tobacco, measuring transversely, is required to properly form the body-section of the cigar, and a less quantity to form the tapered ends.

Heretofore in the manufacture of long-filler cigars the method employed for furnishing the required amounts of tobacco and for producing the different diameters at the several 3 sections of the bunch to secure the formation of the proper taper at the pointand tuck ends of the cigar has been to build up the bunch I at the body-section with short pieces, the u niformpractice being to arrange the filler leaves or cuttings in the hand in about the quantity required for a single cigar, and then to break off the projecting ends of the leaves I made.

By this method the proper formation of the bunch of fillers and the quantity of tobacco to be obtained in the several sections thereof depended solely upon the feel or touch of the maker, and to properly gage the required amounts of tobacco at the different port-ions of the bunch to enable a cigar having the desired tapering point and tuck to be made therefrom, and especially to secure uniformity in the formation of successive bunches, so that the cigars made therefrom would correspond in shape and style, great skill and long practice were required. l urthermore, by this method each bunch of fillers requires to be separatelyprepared and gaged, not only at its middle, but at its ends, and it has been impossible to prepare the fillers in quantity. Even when it has been attempted to make long-filler cigars by machinery it has been necessary to practically gage the fillers bunch by bunch preparatory the bunches were to be made into cigars by hand, and the time required for the operator to thus prepare and gage the bunches has heretofore prevented the manufacture of lon gfiller cigars with profit by machinery.

The object of my invention is to enable long fillers for cigars to be so prepared that in the formation of bunches therefrom for the manufacture of cigars said bunches can be made to contain the required amount of tobacco at the several sections of the bunch with the exercise of much less skill on the part of the maker and in much less time than heretofore, and, further, to enable such long fillers to be prepared in quantity, so that they can be fed in mass to machinery, to be made into bunches of the proper form and shape; and my invention consists in a new method of preparing said long tillers, whereby such ol'ljccts are accomplished, said method consisting, essentially, in first arranging aquanand place them in the middle of the bunch, I

and thusfurnish that part of thebunch which is to form the bodyof the cigar with a greater quantity of tobacco than there is at the ends, the amount and character of this buildingup depending upon the style of the cigar to be iity of fillers or cuttings, either enough for a single cigar or for any number of cigars, in substantially parallel position, and then cutting out or removing a portion of the tobacco at the end of the same, so that, as the result,

there will be a less quantity of tobacco at those portions of the fillers which are to form the tapering ends of the cigar than at that portion which is to form the body of the cigar,

so that by properly varying and proportioning the amount of tobacco cut out or removed the fillers may be prepared so as to be adapted to form cigars of any desired shape or contour.

Referring to the drawings, Figure l repre- 1o sents a loose mass of cuttings or filler-leaves suitable for use in making long-filler cigars.

Fig. 2 represents the primary parallel arrangement of the cuttings or filler-leaves, the cut to be taken for removing the tobacco from the ends of the fillers being shown by the zigzag lines. Fig. 3 represents the prepared fillers in similar parallel arrangement and with the tobacco removed from the ends of the fillers.

In the accompanying drawings, A, Fig. 1,

represents a loose confused mass of cuttings or fillers making long-filler cigars-and in carrying out my improved method the cuttings or fillers are first to be arranged approximately parallel with each other, as shown in Fig. 2, in any convenient quantity. To prepare the fillers for the formation of the tapering point of the cigar therefrom, acut, as shown by the zigzag line b, is then made at or near the edge of the mass B, the purpose of such out being to remove a quantity of the tobacco at that portion of the cigar-iillers which are to form the point end of the cigar. This cut is preferably made of tapering or zigzag form, as shown, so

3 5 that a greater quantity of tobacco will be'removed at the extreme ends of the finished fillers than farther in toward the center of the mass, so that, as the result of the cut,

there will be the least tobacco left at the ex- 40 treme end of the fillers, the amount of tobacco left gradually increasing toward the center of the mass, whereby the fillers will be better adapted for forming the tapering point of the cigars, as will be readily understood from the drawings. This cut may be made by hand or by means of a suitable machine.

it will thus be seen that by properly regulating the amount and depth of the cut made the fillers maybe prepared so as to provide for the formation therefrom of cigars with any desired form or amountof taper at the point.

If it be desired to prepare the fillers for cigars which are to have tapering tucks as well as tapering points, a similar cut as shown by the zigzag line a may be made to remove the required amount of tobacco at the opposite ends of the fillers.

both cuts have been made and the surplus-tobacco removed, is shown in Fig. 3, which rep- 3 6o resents the fillers prepared for the formation 1 such as are usually employed for The mass of fillers, after of cigars with both tapering points and-tapering tucks, the fillers as represented being of substantially the length of a cigar.

To make cigars by hand from these prepared fillers, the workman has only to take from the mass a quantity of fillers sufficient to form a bunch of the proper size at the bodysection or place of greatest diameter, and to properly gage the size of the bunch at the said body-section, by reason of the fact that the proper proportions of tobacco have been previously removed at the ends of the fillers, and a cigarof the proper form and taper can be immediately made from such fillers without the necessity of building up the middle or of gaging the form or diameter of the point and tuck ends of the cigar. It isevident that by the use of such prepared fillers much less skill will be requiredto properly form a cigar therefrom, and consequently a cheaper grade of help can be'employed to advantage.

The primary arrangement of thefillers in parallel position is a very simple -matter,,and as by the employment of a properly-formed cutter the required cuts can be speedily made the cost of manufacturing long-filler cigars by hand can be very much reduced andjat the same time much greater uniformity can be secured.

Fillers prepared as above described are also adapted to be fed automatically in mass to a cigar-bunching machine, and inasmuch as the fillers can be prepared by the method herein described at a small fraction of the cost of arranging fillers to be fed into a machine by the methods heretofore employed, the use of such prepared fillers makes possible the profitable manufacture of long-filler cigars by machinery.

I do not in this application claim the improved filler material for cigars as herein described, the same having been described and claimed by me in my pending application, Serial No. 283,134.

I claim as my invention- The method of preparing a mass of cigar- .fillers, which consists in first arranging a quantion of tobacco in its different parts to form cigars of the required shape or taper. v

RICHARD A. BRIGHT.

Vitnesses:

S. SCHOLFIELD, H. S. BABCOCK.

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