US530794A

US530794A - Cigar-mold

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Publication number: US530794A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1894-12-11
Anticipated expiration: 1911-12-11

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(N0 Model.) J. H. OGDEN.

. CIGAR MOLD-v No. 530,794. Patented'Dec. 11,1894.

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CIGAR-MOLD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 530,794, dated December 11, 1894.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, JAMES H. OGDEN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Camden, New Jersey, have invented certain Improvements in Cigar-Molds, of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists of a mold for the treatment of what is known as the cigar bunch, that is to say, the filler confined within the hinder, the object of my invention being to mold the bunch cheaply-and expeditiously and without drying the hinder or forming any fin or rib upon the same.

The present method of molding cigar bunches in longitudinally divided two-part molds is objectionable, first, because the mold when made of wood, as usual, rapidly absorbs the moisture from the binder of the bunch,

' and, secondly, because the joint between the two parts of the mold frequently, if not in variably forms a longitudinal rib or fin upon the opposite sides of the binder and thus betrays to the practiced eye the fact that the cigar is machine made. In order to overcome this objection the cigar bunch is sometimes rolled up in a strip of paper in order to retain it in shape until the wrapper is to be applied, but this plan is also objectionable because the paper absorbs the moisture from the binder and because, also, considerable labor is required in rolling the cigar in the paper, and the cigar, when completed, is of irregular form. When the moisture has been extracted from the binder the wrapper does not properly adhere thereto and is liable to unfold if loosened at the end. In order to overcome these objections, I take the cigar bunch which is in the condition shown in.

Figure 1, and confine said bunch in a mold which is preferably composed of metal, or other non-absorbent material, and has no longitudinal parting. Thus as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, the mold consists of a tapering tubular body A and a reversely tapering cap B having'a projectingflange a at the large end.

The bunch is first inserted in the body of the mold, as shown in Fig. 2, and the cap then applied to the upper end of said body,

Application filed May 28,1894- Serial No. 612,759. (No model.)

as shown in Fig. 3, so as to completely envelop the bunch and subject the same to such pressure as will insure the proper shaping of the same, the flange a serving to guide the cap into its proper position so as to cause the two parts of the mold to accurately register, and said flange also serving, by its frictional hold upon the body of the mold, to prevent separation of the cap therefrom by the pressure of the bunch or by the handling of the mold.

Owing to the non-absorbent character of the material of which the mold is composed, the bunch may be allowed to remain in the mold for any desired length of time without any risk of drying out the binder, and as the mold has no longitudinal parting, the forma tion of a rib or fin upon the binder as by the usual longitudinally-divided mold, is effectually prevented.

Owing to the tapering form of the body of the mold the same acts as a gage to' determine whether the cigar bunch is or is not of the proper size, for if it is too small the lower end of the cigar bunch, when the same is introduced into the mold, will project too far beyond the small end of said mold, while if the bunch is too large it cannot be introduced into the mold to the desired extent.

The shape of theend of the bunch may also be varied by the employment of differently shaped caps for the mold. For instance, in Fig. 4 I have shown a cap B which is shorter and of a sharper taper than the cap B shown in Fig. 3.

I am aware that transversely divided cigar molds have before been proposed and I therefore do not claim broadly a cigar mold composed of two tubular parts with transverse joint, but

I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. A cigar bunch mold consisting of a tapering tubular body and a reversely tapering tubular cap, both of non-absorbent material, one of said parts having at its large end a projecting flange serving to guide the other part into place and to retain the same by friction thereupon, substantiallyas specified.

2. A cigar bunch mold consisting of a tapering tubular body and a reverseiy tapering tubular cap, one of said parts having at its large end aprojecting flange serving to guide 5 the other part into place and to retain the same by friction thereupon, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JAMES II. OGDEN.

Witnesses:

CHAS. II. BANNARD, FRANK E. BECHTOLD.