US45575A

US45575A - Peters

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Publication number: US45575A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1864-12-27
Anticipated expiration: 1881-12-27

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w E. BERG.

Apparatus for Fifimg Cigarettes.

Patented Dec 27, 1864.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EZECHEL BERG, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

APPARATUS FOR FILLING CIGARETTES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N 45.575, dated December-27, 1864.

To (alt whmft it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EZECHEL BERG, of the city, county, and State of New York, haveinvented a new and Improved Apparatus for Filling (.ligarettes; and I do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact dcseription of the same, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, making part of this specification.

The object of my invention is to provide an easy and quick means for filling the paper tubes or wrappers of cigarettes, especially those of the cigarettos upon which I obtained a patcut on 2d of August, 1864.

My invention consists, first, in the employment or use of a sieve and a frame or moldcarrier, which I term, respectively, a hopper and a packer, so arranged that the one feeds the tobacco into the paper tubes or wrappers, and the other, by means of its oscillating motion, settles it down and packs it sufficiently, so that the paper tubes, having been subjected to their action, are ready to be withdrawn and have their ends folded in,whieh completes the process of the manufacture of the cigaretto.

My invention consists, secondly, in the construction of a mold or receptacle for holding the paper tubes while being filled, and also providing for their ready withdrawal after they ha re been filled.

Toenable others to make and use my invention, T will proceed to describe its construction ai .d operation, reference being had to the aocom; anying drawings, in which- Figure l is a side elevation of my invention, a piece being broken out of the side of the cigarelteholder to show the arrangement of the tubes and the position of the cigarettes while being filled. Fig. 2 is a top view of the mold or paper-tube holder. Fig. 8 is a bot tom view of the same.

A represents the table upon which it is de signed to arrange the apparatus. I have represented a table, though in practice I arrange a series of the apparatus on a counter.

13 represents the mold carrier or packer, as I term it. It is arranged to swing upon journals a, which have their bearings in the standards 0, and its distance from the table is just sufficient to allow its ends to strike upon the same at every downward oscillation. The

effect of this is to settle the tobacco in the paper tubes or wrappers, and it accomplishes it perfectly. as the jar can be regulated as desired by simply pressing harder or lighter on the handles a. is made with an open bottom, so that any surplus tobaeeo falling from the hopper I) may pass through it and deposit itself in asuitable receptacle, from which it can be removed with out. waste. A drawer. E, is shown in the drawings for this purpose. and a hole or opening corresponding with it in size is made in the table.

D is the hopper. suitably mounted on an arm, I), proceeding from the table, and it is arranged to swing directly over the packer B. It has a perforated or sieve-like bottom.

0 c are cords connecting thehopper with the packer, so that when motion is given to the packer it is communicated to the hopper, thus giving to it an oscillating motion correspond ing to that of the packer.

F is the mold or receptacle for holding the paper tubes during the operation of filling. It is made of a depth corresponding to the length of the cigarettes or cigarettes it is desired to make. It is formed by connecting together by solder or otherwise a number ofmctal tubes,d (I. Fig. 2, ofsufiicient size to receive the paper tubes to beiilled. These metal tubes extend about half the depth of the receptacle F, as shown in Fig. 1, that being suflicient stay or support for the paper tubes while being filled. Making them of this length facilitates the removal of the cigarette, which are shown by the letters g 9, Fig. 1. To the bottom of this mold or receptacle F is fitted a door, 3-. (See Fig. 3.) lhis door is made of wire-netting or perforated metal, and is arranged so that it will drop down on the removal of the boltf, and thus expose the closed ends of the cigarettes, or those having the mouth-piece. Thus an easy access to the cigarettes is provided, so that they can be withdrawn for the purpose of folding in the end intended for lighting. Waking the metal tubes but half the length of the mold leaves a space between each ciga rctte,as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, and insures a more ready-withdrawal of the cigarettes either singly or several at a time. Having the door G perforated allows any waste tobacco passing through an unfilled metal This mold carrier or packer B tube, for instance, to pass into the packer, from whence it descends to the drawer E, and is thus preserved in a clean state.

The operation of filling the cigar'ettos is as follows: The paper tubes or wrappers having the mouth-pieces fitted in one end are dropped (that end downward) into the tubes of the receptacle F, andthey immediately sink down until the said end rests upon the bottom or.

door G of the receptacle F. The several tubes (1 having been thus filled, the mold or receptacle F is placed in the sieve or packer B in the position shown in Fig. 1. A quantity of better and more evenly filling the cigarette wrappers or tubes. The packing is accomplished by forcibly striking the ends of the packer B upon the table A as it is being oscillated. Allsurplus tobacco thrown over the sides of the mold or receptacle passes through the packer B down into the drawer, and it is but very little that falls upon the table.

I have constructed several of the machines according to my invention,as'herein described, and have them in use in my manufactory, and I find that they do the work forwhich they are intended ina most perfect and satisfactory manner, and by their useone man is enabled to do the work which would otherwise have to be performed by several hands in order to make the; cigarettos as rapidly as demanded.

I do not confine myself to the particular arrangement herein shown and described; nor do I confine myself to a metal 'mold or receptacle,for wood or any other material could be made to answer the purpose; and so, indeed,

could the tubes be made of any length.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The employment or use of the packer B and hopper D, constructed and arranged so as to operate substantially in the manner and forthe purpose herein specified.

2. The mold or receptacle F, constructed substantiallyin the manner herein shown and described.

EZEOHEL BERG.

Witnesses:

M. M. LIVINGSTON, P. B. LIEBMANY.