US4314A - Improvement in pressing and cutting tobacco - Google Patents

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H. MOORE.'

Preparing Tobacco.

Patented' Dec. 16, 1845.l

UNTTED STATES PATENT Ormea HERVEY MOORE, OF REEDSVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA.

IMPROVEMENT INV PRESSING AND CUTTING TOBACCO.-

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 4,314, dated December 16, 1845.

specication, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective representation ot` the apparatus preparatory to being submitted to the action of the press; Fig. 2, a vertical transverse section of the same, and Figs. 3 and 4 a plan and transverse vertical section of a different modeofapplying the same principle.

The same letters are used to indicate like parts.

Instead of making the lumps of tobacco into rolls and pressing them into the dat shape in a former, in the usual way as generally practiced, I lay the leaves evenly over a bed, A, within a movable frame of a size sutlcient for any given numberof lumps to a thickness suitable for said lumps when pressed. A section ofthe bed A and movable frame C is shown in Fig. 5. 'Ihe frame serves to con tine the leaves to a proper size, which their ends are doubled in to suit. A layer ot' ne covering-leaves is irst placed on the bed, then the ordinary tilling, and lastly a layer of the tine coveringleaves. The frame O is then removed from the bed, and a frame, D,Figs. 1 and 2, hereinafter deseribed,is put on top ot' the layer ot' tobacco and the whole submitted to the action ot' a powerful press, by which the whole mass of tobacco is pressed and divided into any required number of lumps and the covering -leaves drawn tight and smooth over the surface. rIhe frame D is provided with two series of blades, a and b, made ot' iron, steel, or other suitable metal, one series parallel with the sides of the frame and crossing the other at right angles, leaving quadrangular spaces between them ot the length, width, and depth ot' the lumps to be formed. Ihe lower edges of these blades should be thin and rounded smooth, so as to sever the tobacco under the operation of the press, but not so sharp as to cut with facility.

| The covering-leaves are drawn down by these edges to smooth the surface before they are secured. The lower surface ofthe frame D projects below the lower edges ot' the blades a and b sufficiently to take the pla-ce ofthe formingframe e and embrace the bed A when the edges of the blades are brought down on the tobacco, and thereby prevent the ends ol' the tobacco from being pressed out, the edges ot' the bed A being rabbeted, as represented at c c, to admit the frame to move down until the lower edges of the blades reach the bed. When this apparatus is placed under the press a board should be placed on the top of the frame D, so that the tobacco is pressed between the bed A and this board; but the board may be dispensed with and the follower of the' press used for that purpose. The frame D is guided in its movements by means of dowel-pins d d, projecting from the bed and passing in holes in the frame, or by any other known mode ot' effecting such an end. After the lumps have been thus formed the apparatusl is removed from the press, and they are pushed ou't ot' the spaces between the blades by the hand ot' an attendant or in any other desired manner, the blades being thicker at top than bottom to facilitate this operation.

For the ner kinds ot' tobacco I modify this apparatus in the manner represented in Figs. A

4 and 3. The outenframe, D, in this moditication, instead of being made to embrace and pass over the rabbeted edges of the bed A, is ot' the samesizeas the bedA, and when pressed down the projecting edges of the leaves are gripped between the frame and bed, and may then be trimmed oit' with a knife, the bed beyond the frame D being cut out, as at E, to receive the ends of the leaves without being pressed, so that when cut ot' the cuttings may be used for an inferior quality ot tobacco. In this modication the guide-pins d are attached to the frame and slide in holesin the bed, and project so far from the edges ot' the frame as as not to interfere with the ends ofthe leaves ot' tobacco. i

It will be evident that the frame D may have any desired number ot' blades and spaces Within the capacity ofthe press to be used, and that the operation may be reversed by piling the leaves onto the blades, the frame D being reversed for that purpose, which in the arrangement first described will dispense with the firmer C; but I lnention this simply for the scribed, in combination with the bed, whereby purpose of showing what alterations may be made without changingthe principle of my invention, although I give the preference to the first and second modes described.

Having thus fully described my invention and the inode of proceeding in carrying into practice my said invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The method of forming tobacco-lumps by means ofthe frame C and series of blades, arranged and formed substantially as herein de- I save much labor in arranging the tobaccoleaves, Src., and I am enabled to form and press a large number of lumps at one operation, to lay the covering smooth and even, give a more perfect form, and discharge them from the molds in which they have been formed with greater facility than by the old method.

` HERVEY MOORE.. Witnesses:

SAML. F. ADAMS, DANIEL MALLEROY.

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