US431907A

US431907A - Cigar-rolling apron

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Publication number: US431907A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1890-07-08
Anticipated expiration: 1907-07-08

Description

(No Model.)v

P. O. MILLER. GIGAR ROLLING APRON.

No. 431,'907. Patented July 8. 1890.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDRICK C. MILLER, OF NEVPORT, KENTUCKY.

cIeAR-RoLLl Ne APRoN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 431,907, dated July 8, 1890.

Application filed November Z3, 1889. Serial No. 331,369. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDRIGK C'. MILLER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newport, Campbell. county, Kentucky, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cigar-Rolling Aprons, of which the following is a specification.

It is now the case with cigar-rolling aprons that in the act of rolling the bunch of'tobacco over the rolling-table they become kinked or creased, and that in rolling other than a straight cigar-bunch the strain on the larger parts of the bunch is too great, While on the smaller parts of the bunch there is no strain at all; and, in fact, no mattei' under what condition or in what shape the iiller may be placed on 4the apron the tendency of the ordinary apron is to spread the lfiller and produce a straight cigar-bunch. By myimproved apron these defects are entirely overcome, and this is done by providing the apron intermediate of its edges with corrugations that are larger or Wider at the points Where the larger parts of the bunch are formed and narrower for the smaller parts.

In order that my invention may be fully understood, I will proceed to describe the saine with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure I is a plan view of my improved apron. Fig. Il is a sectional view thereof. Fig. III is a plan View showing the apron in use, a partof Which is broken away above the bunclrroller to disclose the manner in which the pocket thereof incloses the bunch.

A represents the apron, which is provided with one or more transverse corrugations Z). This apron is preferably made of elastic material; but any other suitablematerial may of course be used. The corrugations may be made of any desired shape best adapted for the peculiar shape of cigar-bunch to be rolled. The object in thus corrugating the apron is to supply inore length in the middle thereof, or at that part that forms the larger parts of cigar sought to be produced, and the strain on the bunch is no greater on the thickest part or that of greatest diameter of the bunch than on the smallest or of least diameter, the strain being equal from one end of the bunch to the other. The apron also has no tendency to spread nor compress the bunch tighter at one point than another and enables the rolling of any shaped bunch properly.

In Fig. III the apron is shown in use. C

represents the bunch-roller, that is preferably of the form described and claimed in my patent, No. 421,296,0f February 11,1890, having a number of rings that on the bunch side of the roller conform to the shape of' the bunch, they being in a straight line on the opposite side. D is the table upon which the bunch is rolled. e is a binder in dotted lines.

l-Iaving thus described my invention, what I claim as neT therein, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. A cigar-rolling apron corrugated transversely, substantially as4 and for the purpose explained.

2. An elastic cigar-rolling apron corrugated transversely, substantially as and for the purpose explained.

3. A cigar-rolling apron corrugated transversely along its middle, substantially as and for the purpose explained.

4. An elastic cigar rolling apron transversely corrugated between its edges for a portion of its Width, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

FREDRICK C. MILLER. lVitnesses:

A. F. WENZEL, NAPOLEON DUBRUL.