US716449A - Cigarette-making machine. - Google Patents

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JOHN MACDONALD, OF GLASGOW, SCOTLAND.

CIGARETTE-MAKING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 716,449, dated December 23, 1902.

Application filed May 8, 1901. Serial No. 59,286. (No modem To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, JOHN MACDONALD, engineer, a subject of the King of Great Britain and Ireland, and a resident of the city of Glasgow, Scotland, have invented new and useful Improvements in and Relating to Cigarette- Making Machines, (for which an application for a patent has been filed in Great Britain, No. 18,228, dated the 13th of October, 1900,) of which the following is a specification.

My invention has reference to and comprises improvements in the construction and arrangement and combination of the parts of cigarette-making machines wherein the tobacco in being fed into the machine is made into a continuous rod the thickness and crosssection of cigarette required,which is covered with a continuous paper wrapper cut into the length of cigarette desired and delivered from the machine ready for use.

The improvements essentially comprise improved feed arrangements and improved combinations of mechanism for effecting the formation of cigarettes.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my invention relates to understand how same may be carried into practice, I have hereunto appended the accompanying sheets of drawings, in which the same reference letters and numerals are used to indicate corresponding parts in the several figures Where shown,

Figures 1 and 2 are an elevation, partly in section, and plan view, respectively, of a cigarette-making machine as constructed in accordance with my improvements, these two views being on too small a scale to accurately show all parts, particularly at the right, more clearly shown in Figs. 10, 11, and 12. Fig. 3 is a plan view of part of the machine, illustrating the tobacco-forming rollers, scraper, and guide mechanism; and Figs. 4 and 5 are sections on lines 4. 4 and 5 5, respectively, Fig. 3. Figs. 6 and 7 are a transverse elevation and plan View, respectively, of the gumming mechanism of machine; and Fig. 8 is a side elevation, partly in'section, of the same.

Fig. 9 is an end elevation to the left of Figs. 1 and 2. Fig. 10 is an elevation of the tobacco-feed mechanism, and Fig. 11 is a similar view looking at part opposite side of the same. Fig. 12 is a sectional elevation of the tobacco-feeding device, showing picker and compressing rollers. Fig. 13 is a side and part end elevation of the adjusting-brackets and rollers for the second traveling belt. Fig. 14 is an end View of the roller 98 and bracket. Fig. 15 is a plan View, Fig. 16 is a side elevation, and Fig. 17 is an end elevation, of the overhead or upper endless band and adjusting devices. Fig. 18 is a perspective View of the covers at part of machine Where pasting of paper and finishing of cigarette-rod. is performed, while Fig. 19 is a perspective view of shape of cigarette-rod as it would appear in above View when machine is in action.

The mechanism for forming the cigarettes is carried on a longitudinal frame Ct, having a main shaft 1), carrying gearing adapted to operate the various parts of the machine.

A frame 0 at right angles to the frame a is fixed to the top and at one end of said longitudinal frame a and carries an endless belt d, (see Figs. 1, 10, 11, and 12,) on which the tobacco to be operated on is placed. The belt cl at its forward delivery end passes around a roller 6, journaled in cheek-plates f. The roller is rotated at a suitable speed by a worm g, secured on the end of a diagonal shaft 71, driven from main shaft 1) by bevel-Wheels 11 j. The worm gears with a Worm-wheel 7c, journaled on a stud l, fixed on cheek-plate f. To the stud l a quadrantlever 'm is fulcrumed having a stud 0 at its outer end and carrying a spur-pinion n, gearing with worm-Wheel k. The quadrant-lever m is raised and lowered as required to gear and ungear with a wheelp, adapted to be readily removed from its spindle, so that a Wheel of more or fewer teeth may be substituted to vary the speed. This wheel 19 is secured on the outer end of the spindle of the roller 6, around which the delivery end of traveling belt d passes. The quadrant-lever m is operated by a lever q, fulcrumed on a stud r to the longitudinal frame a. and attached to it by a connecting-rod 3 through a rod 8, secured to the stud by a set-screw The other roller 15, around which the endless belt 61 passes at its other end, has its journals to mounted in sliding blocks t, While another roller w of smaller diameter is also journaled in another set of sliding blocks o in front of the beltcarrying roller if, so that the belt 01 by passing over this small roller 10 secures a considerably greater peripheral surface grip on the roller 25. These sliding blocks 1) in order to take up the slack of the belt 01 are adjusted by screws 09. Rotation may be transmitted to this roller 25 from the other worm-wheel roller 6 by bevel-gearing y z and a shaft 1,

terminating in a bevel-wheel 7.

On the shaft 9 of the bevel-wheel 7 a spurwheel 2 is fastened, gearing into a spur-wheel 3 on stud 9, in turn gearing into spur-wheel 4 on stud 9, which gears with a spur-wheel 5 on the shaft 20 of the wheel t. A quadrant 8, journaled on the shaft 9, serves to carry the studs 9 9", while a connecting-rod 10, journaled on the stud 9" and shaft t, holds the gears all in mesh and permits the longitudinal shifting of the wheel 25 without disturbing the mesh when it is desired to tighten the belt d.

Above the delivery end of the feeding-band d a transverse frame 11 is placed, (see Figs. 10 and 12,) pivotally mounted in the face-plate f by a rod 12. In the front end of this transverse frame 11 and immediately over the roller 6 a compressing-roller 13 is journaled, and the frame 11 is held down on a slotted plate 11, secured by a set-screw 11 to the face-platef by a screw 14 in a bracket 15, and thus adjustment of the space between the two roller-surfaces can be secured. The roller 13 and frame 11 can be raised from a horizon- ,tal to a vertical or intermediate position to allow of access to the feeding-band d and roller 6. In order that these two rollers e and 13 may travel in the same direction and at the same speed, a train of suitable spur-gearing is provided, gear 16 on the shaft of the roller 6, back of the wheel p, meshing with the spurwheel 19, which in turn meshes with wheel 18, (the wheel 19 being mounted on a stud in the face-plate,) wheel 18 meshing with wheel 17 on the shaft of the roller 13, the wheel 18 being mounted on the rod 12 to permit the raising of the transverse frame. The tobacco filler as it leaves these rollers is lifted off the traveling band (1 bya plate 20 in front of and adjacent to the roller e, which causes the tobacco filler to leave the band and pass across its top surface to a picker-roller 21, which is driven at a suitable speed by the driving-shaft b, to which it is belted. (See Fig. 10.) This picker-roller 21 is placed in a position parallel to the roller 6, so that the points of the pickers on its periphery may pass sufficiently close to the delivery edge of the scraper-plate 20, and thus properly shred the tobacco as it is fed forward against it. The plate 20 is formed of a blade of suitable material and is preferably made adjustable, that it may be adjusted to the face of the roller e. The picker-points 21 are made ad- I justable to its opposite face by mounting the picker-roller 21 in slots 22 in cheek-plate f, through the means of brackets 23. The tobacco in passing over the scraper-plate 20 comes into contact With the picker-roller 21 when it may be pulled over too quickly in a mass. To prevent this, I fix over it at suitable intervals thin inclined pieces 24,attached to the transverse frame 11 and passing over the top of compressing-roller 13, so that they may gradually retard the tobacco to prevent the feed of too much at a time and produce a combing action to lay the fibers parallel to each other. The tobacco on being shredded falls on an endless belt 25, carried in the longitudinal frame a. The belt 25 (see Figs. 1, 2, 3,4, and 5) carries between the peripheries of two horizontal rollers 26 and 27, which lie on and meet over its top surface and which are fixed on the top ends of vertical spindles 28 29, journaled in the frame (it. These rollers 26 27 are driven by a train of bevel and spur gearing 30 to 39 from main shaft 1) of the machine, gearing into the wheels 40 41 on the lower ends of spindles 28 29, the spindle 28 being adjustable, so that the roller 26 may be moved apart from or closer to roller 27, as may be found necessary. This is effected by mounting the roller 26 on the spin dle 28 within the sleeve 42, which passes through the boss 43, carried on the bracket 44, pivotally secured by the bolt to the main frame a of machine, as shown in Figs. 3 and 5, and this bracket 44 may be swung on the pivot-bolt 45 to regulate the distance between the two rollers. A set-screw 54 and a lock-screw 55 in the bracket, one abutting against the frame aand the other taking into the inside faces of the cleaners forming the walls of a channel 48, along which the tobacco rod passes. The scrapers 46 47 (shown particularly in Fig.3) are mounted free to oscillate on the pins 71 and are held in their proper positions against the peripheries of the rollers 26 27 by being mounted on the plates 49, to which each of them is secured by stud-bolts 51, and the scraping ends are kept in suffi cient contact with the peripheries of the compressing-rollers by the pinching-screws 52. The plates 49 are mounted on plates 50, as shown in Fig. 5, and secured to them by studbolts 51 and are pinched forward by adjusting-screws 53, so as to adjust for any wear at their contact ends with the rollers 26 and 27. The tobacco in passing through the rollers 26 27 is pressed into a rod of the desired size and form and at the same time leaves the traveling belt 25, which about here passes down over a roller 56, journaled to a bracket 57, bolted to longitudinal frame CL, and passes over guide-pulley 58 and around a pulley 59. This pulley 59 is mounted on a shaft 60, which is driven by gearing 30 to 35, the wheel 35 driving shaft 61, and the wheel 62 on the latter transmits the motion, through the wheels 62 to 64 and shaft 65, (see Fig. 1,) to the bevelwheels 66 and 67, (see Fig. 2,) which in turn drive the shaft 68, that actuates the bevelwheels 69 70, the latter being mounted on shaft 60, on the opposite end of which the pulley 59 is secured. The belt 25 is nipped on the pulley 59 by a roller 72, journaled on a lever 73, which is pivoted on a stud 74 on longitudinal frame a, the roller 72 being held against the belt 25 and pulley 59 by a pinching-screw 75. The belt then passes up and around another adjusting-roller 76, journaled in an adjustable sliding bracket 77, fixed to longitudinal frame (It, and back underneath the picker-roller 21, where it receives the shredded tobacco as it falls and repeats the operation of carrying it forward, as above described. As the shredded tobacco on this traveling belt 25 approaches the horizontal rollers 26 27, where it is pressed into rod form, it is met by an overhead or upper endless belt 78, (see Figs. 15, 16, and 17,) whose under side travels in the same direction and at the same speed and passes close over the upper surface of the horizontal compressing-rollers 26 27, thus causing all the shredded tobacco to pass through between their peripheries. This belt 78 is carried on two pulleys 79 80a large and a small one. The big pulley 79 works immediately over center of compressing-rollers, so that its periphery is on the entering side of or nearly over where they meet each other, and it is fixed on a spindle 81, which is journaled on the outer end of a swinging arm 82, and on the outer end of spindle 81 a spurwheel 83 is fixed, which gives it motion by being geared to the spur-wheel 64 on the shaft 65. The swinging arm 82 is pivoted on a stud 84 in a bracket 85,1Eixed on longitudinal frame a,and can be swung up from the horizontal to the vertical or an intermediate position and be held there by a pawl 86 or equivalent fastening, so that the rollers and belt will be lifted clear of compressing-rollers. The belt 78 is kept taut by the small pulley 80, above referred to, which is journaled on a stud 87, fixed on lower end of a lever 88, fulcrumed on a pin 89 on swinging arm 82, and on its upper end is pressed against by a spiral spring 90, placed on the point of an adjusting-screw 91, also screwed into a projection 92 on swinging arm 82. The arm 82 is also adjusted on face of compressing-rollers 26 27 by a swinging arm 93 and adjustable screw 94 on a bracket 95.

On leaving the traveling belt 25 the rod of tobacco passes over a bridge-plate 96 and onto the top of a traveling belt 97. This belt 97, which also runs parallel to the longitudinal frame Ct, continues the forward carriage of the tobacco rod in thesame direction as the belt 25 it has just left. It is carried on two rollers 98 99, which are journaled to longitudinal framed in such a position that the top surface of the belt 97 is about level with bridge-plate surface, and they are level to each other, oneroller, 98, beingimmediately behind the bridge-plate 96 and the other roller, 99, being near delivery end of machine, and the roller 98 is mounted on a bracket 100, which can be adjustably swiveled and held in position by a pin 101 on the bracket 102. The belt 97 on passing over the roller 99 on its return passes down and around a driving change-pulley 103, which by being replaced by a larger or smaller pulley causes the cigarette to be made either longer or shorter. This pulley 103 is fixed on a horizontal shaft 104, journaled in longitudi nal frame a and driven by the spur-wheel 105 and compound wheel 106 107, which gears into the wheel 33, the compound Wheel 106 107 being free to rotate on a stud 108, carried on a bracket 109, which also carries the rear end of the shaft 104. The belt 97 is also nipped against the pulley 103 by a roller 110, carried on a lever 111, pivoted on horizontal shaft 104. If the belt is liable to stretch, it is made and kept taut by the lever 111 and nipping-roller 110, journaled to it,being traveled farther around the pulley, thus taking up the slack. This I effect by securing a wormwheel or segment of a worm-Wheel 112 to lever 111,through which the horizontal shaft passes. Through a bracket 113, projecting from longitudinal frame CL and conveniently, by preference, underneath the Worm-Wheel 112, a shaft 114 works, which at its one end carries a worm 115, gearing into worm wheel 112, while on the other end a suitable hand-wheel 116 is fixed, so that by turning the worm the worm-wheel 112 and its attached lever 111 and nipping-roller 110 are traveled farther around the pulley and take up any slack of traveling belt above referred to, the nipping roller 110 being adjustably pressed against the roller 103 by a pinching-screw 117.

The paper for the cigarette wrapper is mounted as a reel 118 on a spindle 119, which is carried in the framework. The wrapper118 on uncoiling is drawn from the rolland passes through theprintinginechanisrnXand around the adjusting-roller 120 and up behind the bridge-plate 96 and onto top of traveling belt 97, where the tobacco rod on passing over the bridge-plate rests on its surface. The roller 120 is mounted on a spindle 121, which is carried on a bracket 122. This bracket is fulcrumed on a pin 123, so as to be free to oscillate from side to side and be fixed at any desired angle by means of adjustable screws 124 125, actingagainstaprojection 126 on bracket 122 and passing through a bracket 127, secured to framework of machine, The traveling belt 97 and paper and tobacco now enter a channel 128 of a kind of U shape, the bottom being any suitable shape, but the sides vertical and as high or higher than the diameter of the tobacco rod, during the passage through which the folding of the paper around the rod is effected. They next enter and travel underneath a cover 129, fixed along the top of the U-shaped channel, but with the edge of the traveling band 97 and the paper wrapper standing up on eitherside, which, besides tending to keep them in position in relation to each other and also bedded down to bottom of channel, assist in givingby their combined cross-sectional shape the required form to the tobacco as it passes through; but in order to more surely cause the band and paper and tobacco rod to keep in contact with the bottom of channel as it enters it and to save the friction which would necessarily be caused by the top side of tobacco rod coming in contact with the cover 129 as it passes under it and into the mouth of channel and perhaps cause a jam and break in the continuity of the tobacco rod I may instead of arranging the cover to start from about the entrance of channel make it so much shorter that at the entrance I can place a roller 130 in a vertical position, with the periphery passing down into the channel 128 and running at the same speed as the traveling band 97 and tobacco rod and paper Wrapper, thus saving friction on the tobacco and the chance of a jam taking place at this part. This roller 130 is mounted on a spindle 131, carried on a swinging kneed arm 132, which oscillates in a bracket 133, the lever being adj ustably held by a pinching-screw 134, so it may be adjusted vertically that when necessary it will bed down the passing tobacco, paper wrapper, and traveling band in bottom of channel. A spur-wheel is mounted on opposite end of spindle 131 and gets motion from a corresponding spur-wheel 136, carried on the shaft 65. They now enter and travel underneath the cover to keep them in position and from rising and which while molding and compressing acts also as a fence to keep any particles of tobacco off the cementing-wheel, which being placed horizontally works across the top surface of cover and puts cement on the projecting edge of paper. The cover is arranged in three sectionsthe first, 129, to keep the tobacco in its place; the second, 137, to still keep the tobacco in position, but to allow of one side of Wrapper and belt 97 being folded around the tobacco-rod, and the other side of wrapper here receives the necessary amount of cement from the cement-wheel 138 and in coming to the third section of cover 139 passes under it and is folded over onto the uncemented side, thus forming the wrapper-tube in which the tobacco-rod is in this way permanently inclosed.

The cementing-wheel 138, which is fixed on the end of a stud 140, and the cement-containing box 141, into the end of which the peripheral edge of the cement-wheel works, are both fixed on the top surface of a horizontal plate 142, pivoted on a stud 143, secured to its under side and at one end, said stud passing down through a bracket 144. An adjustingscrew is screwed through the horizontal plate 142, and its point resting on the longitudinal frame a vertical adjustment of the cement-wheel 138 can be effected. A horn 146 projects down from the under side of horizontal plate 142, and up through this horn a tube 147 is fitted, a spur-wheel 148 being attached to its under end and which projects through the horn, a bush 149 being fitted at upper end of horn and held in position by a pinching-screw 150, while the tube 147 and spur-wheel 148 are held up by a plate 151, screwed to lower end of spindle 143 bya set-screw 152. The cementing-wheel 138 is secured to this tube 147 by its stud 140 being passed down through its central part and caught in a clutch 153 at the bottom. The cement-wheel 138 gets its supply of cement from the box 141, into the end of which about one third of its diameter may enter, the amount of cement adhering to its periphery being regulated as it leaves the box by a tongue-piece 154 and adjusting-screw 155, which is fitted into the box at this part, the cement being pressed against the wheel by a piston 156, which fits into the box. On the piston-rod 157, attached to back of piston 156, notches are cut,into which apawl158 engages. The pawl 158 is secured on the lower end of a lever 159, fulcrumed at 160 on a bracket 161, secured to main frame of machine. The upper end of the lever 159 is attached by a link 162 to a kneed lever 163, fulcrumed at 164 at top end of bracket 161, and adjust able weights 165 are mounted at the free end of lever 163, so that it can be adjusted along its length from the fulcrum 164 outward, thus causing the required force to be exerted on the piston in pressing the cement against the periphery of wheel 138. In order to remove the cement-wheel, the part 166 of the cementbox 141 over it is made detachable, so that by slacking a set-screw 167 it may be removed and the wheel lifted out. The cement-wheel 138 is turned by gearing consisting of the wheel 148, which receives motion through the intermediate wheel 168 from the wheel 38, hereinbefore referred to, and the cementing- Wheel can be drawn partially or altogether out of gear by a hand-operated lever 169, fulcrumed at 170 on a bracket 171, secured to plate 142. In order to give the upturned edge of the paper wrapper as it projects from the channel sufficient pressure against the cementing-wheel, so that it may receive the right amount of cement, it is pressed against the cementing-wheel by an antifriction-roller 172, mounted on the one limb 173 of an arm which swivels by its other limb 174 within a sleeve 175, a helical spring 176 being used to give the required tensions, and the sleeve is held in position by a pinching-screw 177. On passing the third section 139 of folding cover the tobacco rod, surrounded by the paper wrapper, after traveling forward a convenient distance enters the mouthpiece of the cutting-off mechanism, wherein passing it is separated into the desired length of cigarette; but before entering this mouthpiece the traveling belt 97, in which it has been carried, opens out flat and leaves it by passing down around the roller 99, before deley 103.

Immediately above the roller 99, around scribed, and around the driving change-pulwhich the endless belt 97 returns after leaving the finished cigarette-rod, a roller 178 is placed, said roller being journaled on a stud 179, fixed on end of a vibrating link 180, journaled on a stud 181, fixed on a bracket 182, secured to longitudinal frame a. The purpose of this roller 178 is to revolve on top of endless belt 97 and by its pressure draw the paper strip off the reel 118 and through the machine at the speed the endless belt travels at, when either the paper strip is being set or the printing mechanism is being adjusted, and when not required it is easily removed.

The cutting off of the cigarette is effected by a circular knife 183, carried on a horizontal spindle 184. The spindle 184 is rotated by a train of wheel-gearing consisting of a Wheel 186, mounted on same and meshing with a compound wheel 187, rotated on a stud 188, carried in a bracket 189, which is bolted to bracket 190. This wheel 187 in turn receives motion through the carrier-wheels 190 191, which are journaled in bracket 190, secured to end frame a, the wheel 192, that gives motion to 191, being fixed on shaft 193, carried on bracket 194. A bevel-wheel 195 is mounted on opposite end of shaft 193 and receives motion from the bevel-wheel 31, hereinbefore described.

The vibrating arm 185, on which the horizontal spindle 184 is carried, is formed with a sleeve 196, which fits over a stud 197, and a quadrant-lever 198 is adj ustably bolted, through the slot 199 and set-screw, to the arm 185. An antifriction-roller 200 is fitted loosely on the one end of quadrant-lever 198 and is acted on by another roller 201 at right angles, so as to give a vertical vibrating motion to the arm 185. This is effected by mounting the roller 201 on the end of the lever 202 on the shaft 203. A lever 204 is secured to opposite end of shaft 203, carried on brackets 203, and a slot 205 is formed through the opposite end of this lever for a stud 206 to slide back or forward and be secured in as required to regulate the vertical stroke of circular knife 183. A rod 207 connects the stud end of lever to a stud 208 on the lever 209, which is fnlcrumed at 210 to a bracket 211. An antifriction-roller 212 is fitted on opposite end of lever 209 and bears on a cam 213 on the main shaft 6. The sliding carriage 214, which carries the vibrating arm 185, is bolted at 215 to the stud 197, and the carriage reciprocates within a frame 216, thus carrying the circular knife back and forth as it cuts off each cigarette length. Motion is communicated to the sliding carriage 214 from a lever 217, which is connected to it by a link 218. This lever 217 is fulcrumed at 219 and receives a vibrating motion through a connecting-rod 220, attached to a quadrant 227, which is the upper arm of the bell-crank 222. An antifriction-roller 223 is fitted on the under end of this lever 222 and is acted on bya cam 224 on a shaft 225, on which the aforementioned bevel-wheel 31 is mounted.

The cigarette lengths are pushed forward and out of the mouthpiece 226 by the forward travel and pass through another tube 227 until they are directly above an endless belt, onto which they drop. This endless belt 228, which by preference travels across the end of longitudinal frame a, into which the pulleys 229 230, that carry and drive it, are journaled and which are revolved by being belted to the shaft 231, is kept tight by the pulley 229 being journaled in blocks 232, slidingin slots 233, along which they are pushed by adjust ing-screws 234, and from this belt 228 the cigarettes may be lifted by hand or otherwise disposed of.

X, Fig. 1, represents a printing mechanism, to which the paper may be fed before going to the channeling device.

I claim as my invention- 1. A cigarette machine, having a main frame, and a traveling belt, a second frame above the first and having a belt at right angles to the first belt, means for driving the upper belt, a compressing-roller at the delivery end of the belt, 24 and a picker, retarding-pieces between the com pressing-roller and picker, all substantially as described.

2. A tobacco-feeding device for cigarettemachines, comprising an endless belt, means for driving it, a plate at the delivery end of the belt, a compressing-roller above the belt near its delivery end, a picker-roller at the end of the plate, retarding-pieces over the plate between the compressing roller and picker, a hopper into which the picked tobacco falls and a second endless belt at the bottom of the hopper to convey the tobacco to the forming mechanism, substantially as described.

3. In combination with an endless tobaccofeeding belt for cigarettemachines, a pivoted transverse frame above the belt, a compressing-roller mounted in the frame, and retarding-pieces also mounted on the frame, and driving means for the roller and belt, substantially as described.

4. Forming-rollers for cigarette-machines, one adjustably mounted on the framing, an endless belt beneath them, adjustable scrapers to bear on the surface of the rollers, said scrapers having extended inner sides adapted to act as a channel for the formed tobacco as it comes from the rollers, substantially as described.

5. Forming means for cigarette-machines, comprising forming-rollers, an endless t0-v bacco-fecding belt beneath them, a roller over which it passes, a bridge-piece behind the roller, a second endless belt at the other side of the bridge-piece, scrapers adapted to bear on the forming-rollers having extending sides substantially of the width of the cigarette to be formed, and adapted to act as a channel for the formed tobacco as it passes from belt to belt, substantially as described.

6. Forming mechanism for cigarette-machines, comprising a frame forming-rollers,

a traveling belt beneath them, scrapers pivotally mounted on the frame, having sides extending from the rollers upon which they bear parallel with the belt, to form a channel of substantially the width of the cigarette to be formed and means for turning said scrapers horizontally on their pivots, substantially as described.

7. Forming mechanism for cigarette-machines, comprising forming-rollers, a traveling belt beneath them and an endless belt above them, rollers for the endless belt, a swinging arm carrying one roller, a lever pivoted on said swinging arm carrying the other roller, a bracket in which the arm is pivoted and means for moving the endless belt, substantially as described.

8. Forming mechanism for cigarette-machines, comprising forming-rollers, a traveling belt beneath them, and an endless belt above them, two rollers for the top belt, one carried on a swinging arm in fixed bearings, the other pivotally mounted on said arm, and a bracket on which the swinging arm is pivoted, and means for moving the endless belt, substantially as described.

9. Forming mechanism for cigarette machines, comprising forming-rollers, a traveling belt beneath them, an endless belt, rollers for said endless belt, a pivoted swinging arm, one roller in fixed bearings at the free end of the arm, and a lever carrying the other roller, pivoted to the swinging arm, substantially as described.

10. Horizontal forming rollers for cigarette-machines, in combination with an endless belt above said rollers, a bracket, a swinging arm, pivoted to the bracket and a roller on the arm, said roller being adapted to occupy a position approximately over the center line of the horizontal rollers, a second roller for the belt, a lever in which it is mounted, said lever being pivotally mounted on the swinging arm, means for adjusting the position of the lever and its roller and means for driving said belt, substantially as described.

ll. A pasting-roller for cigarette-machines in combination with a frame with a groove for the cigarette, said roller being located above said groove, its edge being arranged to roll against an upstanding wrapper edge, a roller on the other side of the wrapper mounted on a pivoted limb, a second pivoted limb and means for adjusting it, and a spring between the two limbs, substantially as described.

12. A pasting apparatus for cigarette-machines, comprising a reservoir, a pastingroller partly in said reservoir, and a removable part to the reservoir fitting over one face of the roller and adapted to be removed to permit the roller to be withdrawn from the reservoir, substantially as described.

13. A pasting apparatus for cigarette-machines, comprising a plate carrying a reser- Voir, and a depending horn, a roller mounted in the horn, and having part of its periphery within the reservoir, a gear-wheel shaft and clutch within the horn, and a removable upper part to the reservoir overlapping the face of the roller and adapted when in place to prevent the removal of the roller, as and for the purpose described. 1

14. A pasting apparatus for cigarette-machines, comprising a pivotally-mounted plate carrying a reservoir, a horn, a pasting-roller, shaft and gear-wheel therefor, gearing to engage said gear when in pasting position, and means for moving the plate on its pivot to disengage the gear-wheel from its gearing, substantially as described.

15. A cutter for cigarette-machines, comprising a rotary cutter, a shaft therefor on which it rotates and a gear on said shaft, a gear-wheel to engage with the first-named gear and a bracket pivoted centrally with the second gear-wheel, in combination with means to move said bracket and cutter laterally upon the downstroke of the cutter and in the same direction as the travel of the cigarette to be cut, substantially as described.

16. A cutter for cigarette-machines, comprising a rotary cutter, a bracket therefor pivotally mounted, an extending arm to the bracket carrying a roller, a second roller at right angles to the first and of greater length, adapted to act on the first to actuate it and means to actuate the first roller, in combination with a slide in which the bracket is pivotally mounted and means for reciprocating said slide, substantially as described.

17. A rotary cutter for cigarette-machines, comprising a pivotally-mounted bracket to carry the cutter and means to actuate the cutter and the carrier, in combination with a slide on which the carrier is mounted, a sys tem of levers secured to the slide and to the frame, a bell-crank lever having a slotted arm and means to operate it by its other arm, a connecting-link between the system of levers and the slotted arm, said link being adjustable in said arm, substantially as described.

18. In combination, a belt of a cigarettemachine, a tensioning device for the belt, a roller 99, a bracket, a roller 103, a wormwheel shaft, a worm-wheel and lever 111 secured thereto, a lever 11]. pivoted to lever 111 and carrying a roller at its outer end, a regulating-screw 117 and a hand-wheel, as described.

19. Forming means for cigarette-machines comprising a paper-supply, an endless belt, a U-shaped groove in which the belt travels, with the paper on the belt, a roller over the groove adapted to bear on the tobacco, paper and belt to keep them in the bottom of the 1 point where but one side of the paper has groove and means to drive the roller in the I been folded, substantially as described.

same direction and at thesarne speed as the In testimony whereof I have signed my paper travels, a cover beyond the roller in name to this specification in the presence of 5 three sections, one adapted to keep the totwo subscribing witnesses.

bacco in place, and form it into the required shape, the second adapted to fold one side of JOHN MACDONALD the paper around the tobacco and the third \Vitnesses:

to fold the other side of the paper, a pasting- 'IHOs. BENNIE BRO'WNLIE, IO roller revolving in a horizontal plane at a JOHN STEWART.

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