US866233A - Method and device for making cigar-fillers. - Google Patents

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I No. 866,233. PATENTED SEPT. 17, 1907.

J. STEPHAN.

METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MAKING CIGAR PILLERS.

APPLIGATION FILED SBPT.6,1908.

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METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MAKING CIGAR-FILLERS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 17, 1907.

Application filed September 6,1906. Serial No. 833,581.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JonANNEs STErnAN, a subject of Germany, residing at Witzenhausen, Germany, have invented new and useful Improvements in Methods and Devices for Making Jigar-Fillers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improvement in the method of forming cigar fillers by means of divided molds being submitted to pressure with the aid ofa common cover. If these individual molds, made according to a well known construction, of spring controlled halves adapted to be folded up on hinges, are inserted in a box with partitions so that said partitions keep the individual molds closed after the removal of the pressing cover, there results a disadvantage in so far as the wood of the molds and boxes expands, during moist weather, and swells, rendering thus a rapid manipulation of the utensils, difficult if not impossible. This method of preparing and of forming the fillers has the further disadvantage that sand and small tobacco particles may easily enter the single compartments of the boxes, and if such foreign bodies are not removed regularly and completely by the operator, they too, impede the use of the whole. In the present invention, said causes that are liable to impede the work, are prevented, by simple means, in such a manner that the box which receives the molds with sufiicient play, is turned upside down together with the pressing cover after the latter has been laid thereon, so that said pressing cover lies at the bottom, the box being then lifted off upwards whereby the molds remain on the cover. For this mode of operation it is necessary that the molds should have some play in the box in order to allow said box to be lifted off in the described manner and therefore the apparatus has been constructed so that the molds in the box, which box requires no partitions, are surrounded by movable borders so as to obtain a certain junction, while preserving, at the same time, the mobility desired for fitting up the pressing cover.

Thedrawing represents, by way of example, a form of execution of this invention.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a cross sectional view. Fig. 2 is a plan of the box. Fig. 3 is a plan of the cover with the molds therein. Fig. 4 is a detail.

Fig. 1 shows the moldsa placed in the box 0 one directly by the side of another and provided at the recess at the bottom, where the joints or hinges b unite the halves ofthe molds, with springs b so that each mold is kept closed without direct lateral support. In Fig. 1 the pressing cover F is laid on. Within the frame formed by box 0, are longitudinal and transversal borders G, H. The latter are loosely inserted and super-posed bars I prevent them from falling out. Said borders aid in causing the lower halves a of the molds to be easily and securely fitted together in the box and theupper halves a of the molds are carried on the pressing cover. After having laidon the cover F with the halves or engaging with the halves a, the invention is carried out in the following manner:

The fillers having been properly pressed-off in the molds, the entire apparatus is turned upside down and placed upon the cover so that the receiving box 0 lies on top. Under slight pressure exerted upon the cover f, the receiving box can now be lifted off from the molds a whereby the individual molds remain on cover f. The operator who rolls takes then the molds a, one after another, from the sections a which constitute the upper halves. The mold is then seized between the thumb and forefinger and pressed together against the action of the spring which action releases the filler. Immediately after having been emptied, each mold a can again be placed, in the same order, into the receiving box 0, according to the number which is preferably placed on it.

The advantages attained with this mode of working are the following: The operator can remove the filler from the spring controlled mold in an easier and more secure manner so that the amount of work performed by said operator is decreased. It is also evident that when the apparatus is regularly turned upsidedown, whereby the molds a remain on the sections a of the cover f, the receiving box 0 is freed from sand and from tobacco particles that have entered it during the work.

I claim:

Means for making cigar fillers comprising a box, molds each having a recess in its upper end and composed of two portions and a spring for holding the portions together, said molds being adapted to be placed in the box with their recesses uppermost, a cover for said box having projecting mold sections a thereon adapted to enter the two recesses in the molds to compress the tobacco.

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

JOHANNES STEPHAN. 4 Witnesses OSCAR HILLE, HEINRICH ORTH.

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