US520881A

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Publication number: US520881A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1894-06-05
Anticipated expiration: 1911-06-05

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GIGAR BUNUHING MACHINE.

No. 520,881. Patented June 5, 1894.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FERDINAND J. HAGEN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR, BY- MESNE'ASSIGIN- MENTS, TO EDWARD I-I. MILLER, OF SAME PLACE.

.ClGAR-BUNCH|NG MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 520,881, dated June 5, 1894. Application filed October 2, 1890. Serialllo- 366,852- (No model.)

' a citizen of the United States, residing in the city county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Oigar-Bun'ching Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to cigar-bunching machines, and more particularly those in which the loose filler is fed, as from a supply hopper, through a throat intermittently into a mold more or less cigar-shaped, and, afterthe tobacco in'said mold is separated from the remainder, as by a knife, the bunch in the mold transferred to the rolling and binding mechanism, as instanced in a prior United States patent, No. 415,943, issued to me on November 26, 1889.

The main object of my improvement is to adapt machines of this character to making bunches of the long-filler; and to this end'the invention consists of novel means for feeding the long-filler and packing it evenly in the mold, and in order that the invention may be fully understood, I shall first describe in detail the mode in which the invention is carried into elfect and then point out its various features in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings,forming a part of this specification, in which-- Figure 1 is a sectional side elevation of a long-filler cigar-bunching machine embodying my invention on 'the line X X Fig. 3. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the said machine. Fig. 3 is a sectional plan view on the line y y, Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a cross-sectional elevation on the line 2 2, Fig. 1. Figs. 5 and 6 are detail face and rear views respectively of one of the feed-blocks of the said machine. Fig. 7 is a face view of the mold-shelland contained mold-section, constituting the mold of the machine. Fig. 8 is asectional plan view of part of the said mold-shell and mold-section, and

of the feed-chute registering therewith, on'

the line 8-8, Fig. 7.

Like letters of reference designate corresponding parts in the several figures.

The hopper A for the supply of the loose long-filler is provided with a throatB opening and extending downward from its bOlltOmdIltO a transversely extending chute G and wlth a rag-wheel C for keeping the filler in motion and the throat B from clogging. In both the front and rear walls of the depending throat B are for-med a number of longitudinal slotlike openingsD in which I arrange face to face the serrated engaging ribs E of two feedblocks E,the openings at the end of the feedblocks being constantly closed by springplates attached to the feed-blocks, substantially as in my prior patent, No. 415,943, referred to. I give the opposing feed-blocksE a simultaneous laterally vibrating and longitudinally reciprocating motion, by mechanism to be described, so that, the feed-blocks being raised, they will first be contracted so as to grip therebetween the filler in the throat B, then moved downward so as to feed apa of the filler into the chute G, then separated so as to release the filler, and then raised to seize the filler anew as before. To give this simultaneous motion to the feed-blocks E, they are fitted in the throat-openings D, as guides, to work both longitudinally and laterally and are extended downward on opposite sides of the chute G and thereat connected by pivotal links H. 3

To the backs of the opposing feed-blocks E, are pivoted two pairs of toggle-levers I J, arranged on opposite sides of said feed-blocks, the joints of which toggle -levers are connected by links K with the corresponding arms K of an angle lever pivoted at its angle to the framework of the machine and having an arm K which follows a cam K on a revolving cam shaft K so that the joints of the toggle-levers are reciprocated vertically. Each of the toggle levers I is formed with an upwardly extending arm I and a downwardly extending arm 1 and each of the toggle levers J with an upwardly extending arm J facing and corresponding to the said arm I, and a downwardly extending arm J 2 facing and corresponding to the arm 1 In each of the arms I and of thearms I is fixed adj ustably a screw L, which is arranged to engage as a stop a corresponding bearing on each of the arms J and of the arms J respectively. The arrangement and adj ust ment is such that as the joints of the pairs of toggle-levers I J, are raised by the links K as before described, the pairs of toggle-levers I J, will first be straightened, throwing the opposing feed-blocks E apart on their link connections H until the adjustable stops L on the lower arms 1 meet the corresponding bearings on the arms J on which the feed- -b1ocks E will cease to separate and will be raised, until the motion of the links K is reversed by the cam K then the joints of the pairs of togglelevers I J will be lowered, again bending the said pairs of toggle-levers and drawing the opposing feed -blocks together until the stops L on the upper arms I meet the corresponding bearings on the upper arms J, when the feed-blocks will cease to approach each other and will be forced bodily downward. By adjusting the stopsL on the arms I and 1 the play of the togglelevers and hence the motion of the feedblocks can be accurately regulated at will.

With the forward mouth of the chute G, into which the loose filler is fed intermittently by the feed-blocks E, as described, is adapted to coincide and register normally, as best shown in Figs. 7 and 8, the mouth of a movable mold-shell M in which is fitted to slide a mold section M the face of which approaches the mouth of the shell at either end, as shown, thereby forming, with the mold shell, a roughly cigar-shaped mold M.

As described in my prior Patent No.4l5,94:3, wherein however the corresponding mold-section is shown as sectional instead of solid as in the present instance, the mold M, after receiving and molding the loose filler from the chute Gas hereinafter described, is arranged to carry the said molded filler, after separation by the knife M, to the rolling and binding mechanism, where the molded filler is deposited in the rolling apron by the mold-section M plunging forward in the mold-shell M In the chute G, is fitted to slide longitudinally to and from the mold M, a plunger n, composed by preference of a plurality of laterally abutting yet separate longitudinal sections N, the several shanks N whereof project rearward from the rear open end of the chute, and are mounted to slide longitudinally in corresponding tubular guides O of a carrier 0, common to all. The shanks N of the plunger-sections N are formed with shoulders N and in the rear ends of the guidesO are screwed adjustable sleeves 0 through which the shanks N extend, and between the shoulders N and the heads of the threaded sleeves 0 are placed coiled? springs O to form an elastic connection between the carrierO' and the plunger-sections, while on the ends of the shanks N back of the sleeves O are screwed nuts 0 so that on screwing the sleeves O in the carrier 0' and correspondinglyadjusting the nuts O on the shanks N, the tension of the springs 0 and hence the position and elasticity of the plunger-sections N with respect to the carrier 0' may be adjusted at will. By means of a cam P, cam-following lever P, links P connecting the lever P to the plunger-carrier O, and a weight P acting on the lever P 0p positely to the cam, I cause the plunger-carrier O, and plunger, immediately after each feed of tobacco into the chute Gin front of the plunger as previously described, to drive before it the tobacco in the chute forward into the mold M, and to be again retracted before another feed of tobacco into the chute. The described compensating sectional charactor of the plunger will cause it to yield to unequal resistance from the packing of the tobacco in the mold, and hence form abunch of equal density throughout, which is separated by the knife M and then transferred for binding, as before stated. By adjusting the plunger-sections and the tension of their spring connections with the carrier, the plunger can be adapted to a bunch-mold of any shape, from a straight mold to molds having the shapes of diiferent cigars.

The described character of the feeding and plunging mechanism peculiarly adapts this machine for use with the long-filler, which is thereby fed and evenly bunched without previous preparation.

I claim as my invention 1. In a feed-mechanism for cigar-bunching machines, the combination, with a feed-throat having openings in its opposite sides, of a pair of feed-blocks Working face to face in said opposing openings, and means for imparting to the feed-blocks a simultaneous longitudinally reciprocating and laterally vibrating motion, substantially as described.

2. In a cigar-bunching machine, the combination, with a mold, a chute into which the loose filler is fed leading to said mold, a sectional plunger working in the chute, plunger-operating mechanism and elastic connections between the plunger-sections and the plunger-operating mechanism, substantially as described.

3. In a cigar-bunching machine, the combination, with a mold, a chute leading to said mold, a sectional plunger working in said chute, plunger operating mechanism, and means for adjusting the plunger-sections independently with respect to the plunger-operating mechanism, substantially as described.

4-. In a cigar-bunching machine, the combination, with a mold, a chute leading to said mold, a sectional plunger working in said chute, plunger-operating mechanism, elastic connections between the plunger-sections and their operating mechanism, and means for IEO adjusting the tension of the said" elastic 0011- slide; and elastic connections between said nections of the plunger-sections, substancarrier and the several plunger-sections,sub- 1o tiallyIas described. h stantially as described.

5. 11 a cigar-bunc ing machine, the comi 5 bination, with a mold and a chute leading FERDINAND HAGEN' thereto, of a sectional plunger Working in Witnesses: said chute, a reciprocating carrier in which J. CULBERT PALMER, the several plunger-sections are mounted to CLARENCE L. BURGER.