US58686A - Improvement in the manufacture of cigarettes - Google Patents

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S. SHUCK.

Manufacture of Cigarettes.

No. 58,686. Patented Oct. 9, 1866.

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SAMUEL SHUCK, OF BEDFORD, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CIGARETTES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 58,686, dated October 9, 1866.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL SnUcK, of Bedford, in the county of Bedford and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in the h'lanufacture of Cigars or Cigarettes, and in the implements used in the manufacture thereof; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference beinghad to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

My invention relates to the manufacture of that class of cigars or cigarettes made of finecut or ground tobacco inclosed in a paper wrapper, or wrapper of other suitable material, in the form of a cylindrical or conical tube. WVhile I do not limit myself to a paper wrapper, I consider a proper quality of tissuepaper more suitable than any other material, the same being colored in imitation of tobacco by extract of coffee or other suitable coloringmatter.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a pattern, of pasteboard or other suitable material, by which the wrappers are cut. Fig. 2 represents a plate of pasteboard, wood, or other suitable material, around which the wrapper is folded and pasted. Fig. 3 is a hinged plate, which may be made of wood, metal, or pasteboard, used for folding and pasting the wrapper over the forming-plate represented in Fig. 2. A A is the hinge of said plate, which may be con venientl y made by pasting to the surface of the two parts B and B a sheet of muslin, canvas, or other flexible material. Fig. 4 is a sectional View of a thin metal tube, in which the. core of the cigar is formed, with the piston used in forming the same and in pushing it outof the tube and into the wrapper, as will be hereinafter more fully described.

O is the tube; D, the piston, and E is the fine-cut tobacco in the tube, which forms the core of the cigar. F F show a cylindrical wrapper drawn over the tube 0, and folded over and pasted at the upper end,f, ready to receive the core as the same is pushed out of the tube by the piston, carrying the wrapper with it.

The process of making cigars or cigarettes by means of the above-described implements is as follows: A suitable number of wrappers are first cut out by means of the pattern rep resented by Fig. 1. A wrapper is then laid on the hinged plate, Fig. 3, the same being open, so that the upper edge of the wrapper will be flush with the upperedge of the partB. The forming-plate, Fig. 2, is then laid on the center (longitudinally) of the wrapper. The lower edge of the wrapper is then folded up over the forming-plate, and held by the finger while a little gum-arabic or other suitable mucilage is applied by means of a small camelhair brush along the upper edge of the wrapper. The forming-plate, with the wrapper, is then moved down till the upper edge of said plate is on a line with the hinge. Then the part B of the hinged plate is folded over onto the part B, and slightly pressed with the fingers, which unites the edges of the wrapper over the forming-plate by means of the paste. The forming-plate is then withdrawn and the wrapper laid aside to dry.

The wrapper is filled with the fine-cut or core as follows: A wrapper is drawn over the tube, and the end folded and pasted, as shown at f. The tube is then set vertically on the table, the end f being down, and a sufficient quantity of fine-cut tobacco to form the coreis inserted at the other end and rammed sufficiently by the piston. One end of the piston should be provided with a gumelastio plug or washer, 6, so that it will readily conform to any inequalities in the inner surface of the tube. The tube being thus filled and rammed, the core is pushed out by means of the piston, carrying with it the wrapper, in which the core becomes inclosed as it passes out of the tube. The open end of the wrapperis then closed by twisting and pasting, or inserting a moutln piece of wood or other suitable material. The cigar is then rolled on the table until the core becomes sufficiently loose for smoking. If no mouth-piece is attached in makingthe cigar, an ordinary month-piece should be used in smok ing.

The following modification of the mode of filling the wrapper with the fine-cut tobacco or core, but not differing essentially in principle, may also be practiced in carrying my invention into effect: Take a thin metal tube about seven inches long, the size of the cigar, and a little larger at one end than the other, and then take a tin box about the size and form of a shoe-blacking box, with the bottom a little concave, and cut a round hole in the center of said bottom the size of the smaller end of said tube, and solder said end of the tube in said hole. Then fill the box with finecut tobacco and put on the lid; then put the paper wrapper on the tube, as hereinbefore described. Hold the tube and wrapper with the left hand and the upper part of the tube with the right hand, and move the tube up and down in the wrapper. The tobacco will fall gently into the wrapper through the tube, and the cigar should be gently pressed by the left hand as it is formed. The tube serves to pack the tobacco sutficiently tight in the wrapper, without the use of a piston, by moving up and down in the wrapper, as described.

Having thus described my invention and the mode of carrying it into effect, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The method herein described of filling a wrapper withfine-cut tobacco by means of a tube and piston, the wrapper being drawn over the tube and receiving the core as the sameis pushed out of the tube by the piston, substantially as shown and described.

2. The method herein described of forming the wrapper preparatory to filling, by means of the forming-plate, Fig. 2, and the hinged plate, Fig. 3, substantially as described.

3. The within-described method of filling and packing the wrapper, by inserting the fine-cut tobacco through a tube inclosed in the wrapper and moving the said tube up and down in the wrapper during the process of filling, as described.

SAML; SHUGK.

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