US690272A

US690272A - Cigar-tuck crimper.

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Publication number: US690272A
Application number: US7274301A
Authority: US
Inventors: John Haines
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1901-08-21
Filing date: 1901-08-21
Publication date: 1901-12-31
Anticipated expiration: 1918-12-31

Description

No. 690,272. Patented Dec, 3|, l90l. J. HAINES.

CIGAR TUCK GRIMPER.

(Application filed Aug. 21, 1901.)

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CIGAR- TUCK CRIMPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 690,272, dated December 31, 1901.

Application filed August 21,1901. Serial No. '72 743. (N0 model.) i

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN HAINES, a subject of the King of Great Britain, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of. New York, have invented a new and Improved Cigar- Tuck Crimper,of which the following is a full,- clear, and exact description.

It has beenthe custom heretofore to manually crimp or tuck the lighting end of cigars of a certain class and workmanship to distinguish them from others and to more efiectually bind the parts at the end to be lighted.

The intent of thisinvention' is to provide a simple and regularly-operated machine which will more expeditiously, effectively, and uniformly crimp or tuck cigars than can be accomplished by hand-labor and which will also tend to straighten the tucked or crimped section of the cigar duringthe crimping or tucking process.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forminga part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both figures.

Figure 1. is a side elevation of the improved machine. Fig. 2 is a vertical central sect-ion through the same.

Arepresents the base of the inachine,which form, although it may be given other shape, and a series of legs 11, which extend downward from the body and are adapted for attachment to any suitable support, together with a collar 12, which is formed at the upper central portion-of the body. Within the said body a vertical chamber 13 is formed, which chamber is contracted at its lower end, as shown at 14 in Fig. 2. This chamber extends through the collar 12 and also through the body 10, as is also shown in Fig. 2.

In connection with the body or base a funnel 16 is employed, the shank 15 of which is loosely passed through the chamber 13 and enters the contracted portion 14,being adapted when drawn downward to pass down through the said contracted portion 14 of the chamber. The funnel 16 is practically a plunger and is held in the upper position (shown in Fig. 2) by a spring 17,which is coiled around the lower portion of the body of the funnel and around theupper portion of its shank, the bottom of the springhaving bearing upon a ring 18, the upper face whereof is more or less concaved, as is also shown in Fig. 2. A tucking-cloth 19 is made to surround the flaring portion of the funnel and the upper portion of its shank and-likewise the spring 17. The lower end of this tucking-cloth 19 is provided with a hem 20, in which a ring 21 of metal or other non-yielding material is placed, the said ring resting upon the upper face of the collar 12 of the base A, The tncking-clolh 19 is passed over the top of the funnel and into the flaring portion of the same down through its shank 15. That portion of the tucking-clothwhich is passed through the shank of the funnel-plunger 16 is carried below the lower end of the shank of the funnel and down to a position between the legs of the base A, as is also shown in Fig. 2.

In connection with the base A a two-membered lever-arm B is employed, which leverarm is pivoted at one end upon a pin 23, supported by lugs 24, located upon the legs 11 of the base, preferably the rear legs, and the said lever-arm B extends out beyond the front legs of the base and is provided with a knob 25 or its equivalent.

A box receptacle 26 is attached to the lower face of the lever-arm B adjacent .to its pivotpoint, and this box-receptacle is provided wit 11 an opening 27-, through which the lower end of the tucking-cloth 19 is passed. At the upper portion of the said aperture or opening 27 guide arms orshields 28 are located,extending one toward the rear of the base and the other in direction of the front, as is shown in Fig. 1, and the lower end of the tucking-cloth 19 is adjustably held in the aperture or opening 27 of the box-receptacle 26 through the medium of a set-screw 29 or its equivalent, as is particularly shown in Fig. 2.

A spring 30, secured to one or to both rear legs 11, has bearing at its free end against the under face of the box-receptacle 26, the spring 30 serving to hold the said box-receptaclein an upper position. The tucking-cloth 19 is preferably ribbed or is longitudinally roughened in any suitable or approved inanner, and when a cigar has been formed and while said cigar is still fresh the end of the cigar to be lighted is introduced into the funnel-plunger 16 in contact with the contracted portion of the tucking-cloth at the lower portion of the conical section of the said funnelplunger, whereupon the lever-arm B is depressed by pressing downward on the knob 25, and the funnel-plunger and tucking-cloth carried therebyare drawn downward, placing the spring 17 under tension and causing the tuck to be crlmped, straightened, and made uniform, thereby greatly improving the appearance of the cigar.

The machine is exceedingly simple, it is durable and effective in operation, and after the lever-arm B is released from pressure the crimping or tucking cloth and the funnelplunger are automatically restored to their normal position through the medium of the springs 17 and 30.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. In a cigar-tuck-crimping machine, a base, a hollow tapering plunger adapted to receive a cigar, and a tension-controlled crimpingcloth extending Within and movable through the said plunger, and means for drawing the cloth and plunger downward in the base, as set forth.

2. A device for crimping, straightening and making uniform the tucks of cigars, comprising a spring-controlled tapering plunger constructed to receive acigar, anda ribbed crimping material extending within and through the said plunger and having movement therewith, as and for the purpose setforth.

3. In a device for mechanically crimping cigars, a support, a lever-arm carried by the said support, a funnel-shaped plungerlocated above the said support and having movement therein, a spring placed under tension when the said plunger is depressed, and a ribbed crimping-cloth surrounding the upper portion 1 of the plungerand having hearing at its surrounding portion on the said support, the

tion, a spring-controlled lever-arm pivoted to the base below the said aperture therein, a compressible tubular guide carried by the lever-arm, and an adjusting device passed to an engagement with the said tubular guide, of a spring-controlled funnel-shaped plunger having movement in the apertured portion of the said base, a spring coiled around the said plunger and having bearing at its upper end against the plunger and at its lower end on a support upheld by the base, and a crimping or tucking cloth held to the said base by the said support for the spring, the tucking or crimping cloth surrounding the upper exterior portion of the funnel-shaped plunger, being passed around and through the said plunger and through the said tubular-guide of the lever-arm, as and for the purpose set forth.

5. In a machine for use in finishing the ends of cigars, thecombination with a suitable support of a tapering memberadapted to receive the cigar end and mounted for longitudinal movement,and a yielding material lining said member but free to be moved longitudinally therein, means for holding one end of the material outside of and below the top of said material, and means for exerting a pull on the opposite end of said material.

6. In a machine for finishing the ends of cigars, the combination of a spring-supported tapering member adapted to receive the end of a cigar, a yielding material lining said' member and movable longitudinally therein, and means for exerting a pull on the said material.

'7. In a machine for finishing the ends of cigars, the combination of a tapering member adapted to receive the end of a cigar, a yielding material lining said member and movable longitudinally therein, and means for exerting a pull on the said material.

8. In a machine for finishing the ends of cigars, the combination of a spring-supported tapering member adapted to receive the end of a cigar, and a yielding material lining said member and movable longitudinally therein.

9. The combination with a tapering mem ber adapted to receive the cigar end of a yielding material lining said member and movable longitudinally therein.

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

JOHN HAINES.

Witnesses:

J. FRED. ACKER, EVER-ARD B. MARsHALL.