US525060A - scaramanga - Google Patents

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No. 525,060. Patented Aug. 28, 1894.

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ANDREW PANTIA SOARAMANGA AND EUSTRATIO PANTIA SOARAMANGA, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

CIGARETTEAMACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters` Patent No. 525,060, dated August 28, 1894l i Application filed May '7] 1894. Serial No. 510,379. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ANDREW PANTIA SCARAMANGA, a naturalized British subject,

and EUsTRA'rIo PANTIA SoARAMANema subject of the King of Greece, both residing at 110 Cannon Street in the city of London, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cigarette-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in the machine described in Patent No.`522,620, dated July 10, 1894. In the present machine the tobacco is placed (by hand or mechanically) lengthwise of the fiber into a narrow trough having a roller at each end carrying an endless band which forms the bottom .of

which is turned intermittently driving the other two rollers and the endless band and by this means portions ofthe tobacco are inter` mittently fed from the trough between the rollers into a box open on three sides on the other side of the rollers. n

A pusher usually having a concave end forces the tobacco transversely out of the box into one of a series of slots formed in cylindrical block and there strongly compresses it. The pusher is then slightly withdrawn in order to form with the slot a complete cylindrical or other shaped mold. The paper tube is held at one end of the mold bya pair of lingers and a propelling pin pushes the tobacco into it as in our formery machine. Attached to and working with the propelling pin is a mold cleaner or cleaners which in form resemble the propelling pin with a washer preferably of leather fixed to it. The propelling pin may also have a cleaning ring attached to it. The cylindrical block is given an intermittent rotary movement so that each slot is used as a mold and each slotis cleaned in turn.

Figure 1 is a side elevation and Fig. 2 a plan of a machine constructed according to this invention. Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3-3 Figs. 1 and 2. Fig. 4 shows the cylinder h to a larger scale. Fig. 5 is a part side elevation showing the rollersb and d, band c and box m to a larger scale. Fig. 6 is a part end holding mechanism.

ais a trough, b Z1 two rollers in it,c an endless band on them and oZ another roller. The

rollers b and d are geared together by the pinions b d (Fig 3) fixed .to them. d2 is a bevel pinion on the roller d gearing with the bevel pinion c on the shaft e whose other end carries the spur pinion c2 gearing with the wheel f on the shaft f. Thisshaft also has xed to it the ratchet wheel f2 driven by a pawl g on the lever g pivoted on the shaft f. The lever g is connectedby the link g2 to the rocking lever g3 pivoted at g4 andthis in its turn is connected by the link g5 to the rocking lever g6 pivoted at gl. The lever g6 has a bowl gs upon it which works in the cam groove h in the cylinder h (shown to a larger 'scale at Fig. 4) whose axis h2 carries the bevel wheel h3 gearing with the bevel wheel j upon the shaft j which also carries the toothed wheel jg gearing with the pinion Z on the main shaft Z.

fm is a box, shown to a largerscale at Figs. 5 and 6, it has three sides namely a top, bot- .tom and one end (the right hand end in Fig. 5) but is open on tho other three sides. Each time the roller cZ is turned, as above described, this box is filled with tobacco.

n is a pusher shown to a larger scale at Fig. 6, it is connected by a link n to a rocking lever 'n2 (Fig. 3) pivoted at n3 and carrying a bowl n4 working in the cam groove 72.4 in the cylinder h (Fig. 4).

o -is a slotted cylinder, shown to a larger scale in Fig. 6, it is mounted on an axle o and has a ring o2 of ratchet teeth at one end. It has a step by step motion of rotation given to it by a pawl p on a lever p pivoted on the shaft o. The lever p is pulled in one direcrection by the spring p2 fixed to it whose other end is iixed to a projection on theunder side of the frame of the machine and is moved in the other direction by the incline q on the slide qshown separately at Fig. 7. This slide has on its under side arbowl q2 working in the cam groove Z2 in the cylinder ZB mounted on Fig. 7 is the main shaft Z. ris a pusher and s a cleaning rod. These are fixed to brackets r and s fixed to the slide t Working in the guide t fixed to the bed of the machine and the block QZX on the slide Q.

Q3 is a bolt working in the block Q2X and it carries at one end the bowl Q4 Working in the cam groove Q5 inthe bed of the machine. As the slide Q works to and fro the bowl Q4 alternately connects and disconnects the slides Q and t so that the pusherrand cleaning rod s travel with the slide Q during part only of its course.

Fig. 8 shows the paper holding mechanism which for clearness is omitted from Figs. l to 3. It consists of a short nozzle fu. which in Figs. l and 2 is just to the right of the slotted cylinder o and is a continuation of the mold formed by one of its slots and the pusher fn. The paper tubes are put on this nozzle and are held there by the jaws c c pivoted at v and drawn together by the elastic band v2. w is a block pivoted at w and situated between the jaws v. w2 is an arm fixed to the block w its end lying in the path of the projections Q6 Q7 (Fig. 6) on the slide Q. When the slide Q moves from left to right of Fig. 7 the end of the arm 102 first rides along the top (in that figure) of theprojection Q6 the jaws u being held open by reason of the turning of the blockw between them. When the arm L02 comes to the end of the projection Q the jaws c close to be again opened when the arm to2 passes along the bottom (in Fig. 7) of the projection Q7 for it is to be observed that whichever way the arm -w2 is deiiected the jaws 'u are opened. When the slide Q moves from right to left arm cu2 passes along the bottom (in Fig. 7) both of projections Qfand Q6.

The cylinder o, shown in Fig. 6, is turned intermittently to present the molds or slots in succession in front of the mouth of the box m, and the pusher n is so timed as to push a charge of tobacco from the box m into a slot at each step-by-step actuation of the cylinder. In place of turning the cylinder o one step for each cigarette, several cigarettes might be compressed in succession in the same slot and the cylinder o may be turned by hand when necessary instead of automatically.

1. The combination of a cylinder capable of revolving on its axis and having a number of longitudinal slots in its surface, `a. pusher for feeding tobacco radially into the slots and `means for pushing the tobacco longitudinally out of the slots.

2. The combination of a cylinder capable of lrevolving on its axis and having a number of longitudinal slots in its surface, a pusher for feeding tobacco radiallyinto the slots, and means for pushing the tobacco longitudinally out of the slots and for cleaning them.

3. The combination of the main frame, the cylinder o having a number of longitudinal vslots in its surface mounted to revolve in the main frame, means for actuating the cylinder, means for feeding tobacco to the cylinder, a pusher n, mechanism for actuating it to force tobacco radially into the slots of the cylinder, reciprocating rodsr and s, and means for actuating them to pass longitudinally into the slots of the cylinder to push tobacco from the slots and to clean them.

4. The combination of a box open on three sides, means for feeding tobacco into the box lengthwise of the fiber, a mold, a pusher working transversely to the box and carrying tobacco from it into the mold and means for actuating the pusher.

5. The combination of the trough 0., a band c, working therein, rollers on which the band is mounted, a feed roller d between which and the band the tobacco is fed, a boxm into which the tobacco is fed by the endless band and feed roller, a pusher n reciprocating in the box, means for actuating the band and rollers, mechanism for `actuating the pusher, a slotted cylinder o, means for actuating it, rods rand s reciprocating into the slots, and means for actuating the rods.

ANDREW PANTIA SCARAMANGA. EUSTRATIO PANTIA SCARAMANGA. Witnesses:

GEO. J. B. FRANKLIN, T. J. OsMAN.

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