US816150A

US816150A - Cigarette-making device.

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Publication number: US816150A
Application number: US25884405A
Authority: US
Inventors: Albert E Buckingham
Original assignee: Buckingham Manufacturing Co Inc
Current assignee: Buckingham Manufacturing Co Inc
Priority date: 1905-05-04
Filing date: 1905-05-04
Publication date: 1906-03-27
Anticipated expiration: 1923-03-27

Description

P'ATENTED MAR. 27', 1906.

- A. B. ,BUGKINGHA'M.

CIGARETTE MAKINGVDEVIGB; 4 APPLICATION FILED MAY4;'1905.

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ALBERT E. BUOKINGHAM, or OAKLANDf (JALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR TO THE BUOKINGHAM MANUFACTURING COMPANY, or :SAN FRANCISCO, CALI- 'FORNIA, A CORPORATION OF-CALIFORNIA.

CIGARETTE-MAKING DEVICE."

I I: I Specification of Letters lPatent l A nm mmea Ms 4, 1905. Serial Nb. 258,844.

Patented March 27, 1906.

receiver and a plunger by which the tobacco is expelled from the receiver through the tube and into the cigarette which is formed upon its exterior.

It also comprises details of construction which will be more fully explained by reference to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 shows the application of a tobaccobag to my device. Fig. 2 is a sectional view of my device. 7

It is the obj ect'of my invention to rovide a device for the rapid and economica manufacture of cigarettes as they are desired for use and Without wasting loose tobacco from which such articles are made.

As shown inv the drawings, A is a receiver,

which may be made of any suitable or desired shape. I have here shown it in the form of a short cylinder, and at one end it has a flaring-nozzle 2, which is fixed centrally to the end of the receiver, so that its smaller end opens directly thereinto. The opposite end of the receiver is closed. Through the opposite sides of the periphery of the receiver openings are made. To one of these openings is fixed a tube 3 of such length and diameter as may be required for the manufacture of the cigarette. Through the hole which is in the opposite side which is in line with this tube a plunger 4 is adapted to slide. The tube serves as a mandrel upon which the cigarette-paper may be rolled, as at 5.

The operation then will be as follows: The divergent or funnel-shape part 2 is first introduced into the end of the bag containing the tobacco. Such bags are usually made with a draw-string around the mouth, and after the drawn tightly around the funnel and the string may be fastened. In this position there is an open communication between the bag through the funnel into the interior of the receiver. A cigarette-paper is then taken and rolled about the tube 3. By simply holding the edge of the paper and turning the tube 3, the paper may be smoothly rolled upon the tube with the out end projecting a little beyond the end of the tube. This out end of the paper is then folded so as to close the end of the cigarette. The device is then held so that tobacco will easily fall from the bag through the funnel into the receiver, and by withdrawing the plunger from the tube a portion of the tobacco passes into the tube. The plunger being moved forward will press the tobacco down into the folded end of the paper. On withdrawing the lunger another small quantity of tobacco wi 1 enter the tube and can be forced against that already located in the bottom of the cigarette. As this-reciprocation proceeds the cigarette will be radually forced off the tube and when full it is only necessaryto fold the end which is last removed from the tube and the cigarette will be complete. There will be no waste of tobacco, since the tube remains constantly attached to the bag until the contents have been used, and the plunger fills the tube when the device is not in use. The tube 3 preferably has its inner end channeled to turnably engage with a correspondin lip or flange on the receiver A, as at 5, so t at the tube may be easily revolved, and the paper rolled upon it. The plunger may also have a collar or stop to prevent its being pulled out and lost.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A cigarette-making device consisting of areceiver open at one end, a funnel-shape prolongation of the receiver having an open end said prolongation adapted to enter the mouth of a flexibletobacco-containing package and be secured thereon, a tubular mandrel or former extending from one side ofthe receiver upon which mandrel the paper envelop may be rolled, a hole in the opposite side of the receiver in line with the tube and a plunger reciprocable through the receiver and into the tube.

. whereby the tobacco passes from the package into the receiver and is transferred therefrom into the cigarette-envelop, and the latter is gradually expelled from the tube until filled.

3. In a cigarette-making device, a receiver, means for detachably connecting it with a tobacco-container, a flanged opening on one side of the receiver, a tubular mandrel having one end revolubly engaged with the flan e, a plunger movable through the opposite si e of the receiver in line with the tube, said plunger having a stop or collar to prevent its removal from the receiver In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses:

ALBERT E. BUOKINGHAM. Witnesses:

S. H. NOURSE,

HENRY P. TRICOU.