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US1559009A
US1559009A US541914A US54191422A US1559009A US 1559009 A US1559009 A US 1559009A US 541914 A US541914 A US 541914A US 54191422 A US54191422 A US 54191422A US 1559009 A US1559009 A US 1559009A
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Walter H Schussler
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SCHUSSLER TOBACCO MACHINE CO I
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A24—TOBACCO; CIGARS; CIGARETTES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES; SMOKERS' REQUISITES
    • A24C—MACHINES FOR MAKING CIGARS OR CIGARETTES
    • A24C1/00—Elements of cigar manufacture
    • A24C1/02—Tobacco-feeding devices with or without means for dividing the tobacco into measured quantities
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10S—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10S131/00—Tobacco
    • Y10S131/909—Sensing condition in feed hopper for cigar or cigarette making

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  • Figure 1 represents, inside elevation, an
  • Figure 2 represents a plan view of the organized machine.
  • Figure 3 represents a section on line 33 of Figure 4.
  • FIG. 5 represents a fragmentary detail view showing more particularly the plunger and certain of its adjuncts.
  • Figure 6 represents a fragmentary detail showing more particularly the apron controlling means.
  • Figure 7 represents a fragmentary detail showing more particularly the means for controlling the plunger which moves the predetermined weight of tobacco into the pocket of the bunching apron proper.
  • igure 9 represents a top plan view of the construction seen in Figure 8.
  • Figure 10 represents a plan view of a ortion of Figure 8 showing more particuarly the bucket and knock-off or levelling devices.
  • Figure 11 represents an end view of the construction seen in Figure 10.
  • Figure 12 represents, in front elevation, a
  • Figure 13 represents a section on line 13-13 of Figure 14.
  • Figure 14 represents a top plan view of the weighing device and certain of its adjuncts.
  • Figure 15 represents, in front elevation
  • Figure 16 represents, in side elevation
  • Figure 17 represents a fragmentary view of the belt feed knock out and ratchet.
  • Figure 18 represents a fragmentary view 2f Ctlhe driving pawl and arm for the belt
  • Figure 19 represents a fragmentary View of the driving ratchet and worm wheel.
  • Figure 20 represents a section on line 2020 of Figure 5.
  • T he frame. of the 1 and 2 designate. the side frame members which are connected by means of the lower tie rods 3 and 4:, the upper front tie memher 5 and the upperrear tie member 6. 7
  • 11 designates a scrap pan carried by the bar 10.
  • 12 designates the apron which is secured to the table 8 at its rear end by a clamping device 13, the front end of the apron being secured to the table by means of a clamping device 14.
  • 15 and 16 designate arms which control the apron and are rigidly mounted on a shaft 17 journalled in bearings 18 which are carried by the tie to a shaft 27 suitably journalled in the frame of the machine.
  • 28 designates slide bars rigidly connected with the rear tie rod 7 and with brackets 29 which are secured to the front side member 5, see Figure 3.
  • the rod 58 slides in a bearing 60 carried by the machine frame.
  • the rod; 58 carries the arm 61 to which is'connected a plunger frame 62 which carries a plunger 63.
  • 64 designates a tongue in which slides guides 65 and 66 which are connected together by a plate 67.
  • 68 designates'a bracket having rigidly mounted therein a pin 69 on which is free to rock one end of a hnk 70 in the form of a hook having a shoulder 71 which normally rests upon the arms 61.
  • a spring 72 is provided which normally tends to move the shoulder 71 into position to engage the arm 61.
  • 73 designates a bell crank lever which is provided with a cam shapedend 74 and is fulcrumed at 75 in a bracket 76 carried by a plate 77 connected with the machine frame.
  • 78 designates a rock pawl which is pivoted at 79 on the lever 16, see more particularly Figure 6,
  • Astop 80 carried by the lever 16 is provided for the pawl 78 and a spring 81 connected with said pawl and with said lever normally maintains said pawl against the stop 80.
  • the machine frame has rising from it the tobacco guides 82 and 83, respectively, which serve to confine the tobacco.
  • 84 designates a tobacco pusher which is connected by means of the link 85 to a bell crank lever 86 by means of the pins 87 and 88, respectively.
  • the bell crank lever 86 has extending laterally from it an arm or lug 89 which is in the path of a cam lug 90 extending from the periphery of the cam 26.
  • the machine frame has mounted thereon a worm 91 mounted inthe bearings 92 and 93 and having a worm shaft 94 on which is mounted a pulley 95 and also a drive pulley 96.
  • 97 designates a worm wheel loosely mounted on the shaft 27 and meshing with the worm 91.
  • the worm wheel is provided with the ratchet teeth 98.
  • 99 designates a lever arm one end of which is fixed to the shaft 27 and this lever arm actuates a pawl 100 and is pivotally connected to it at 101.
  • 102 designates a spring one end of which is connected to the pawl 100 and the other end of which is connected to the arm 99.
  • 103 designates a knock-out for the pawl 100 which is in the form of an arm fulcrumed at 104 to the machine frame and connected at its lower end with a link 105.
  • the lever 103. is adapted to contact with the step 106 and a spring 106 is employed to normally retain it against such stop,
  • the link sto is pivotally connected at 108 to a treadle 109 which is fulcrumed at 110 to themachine fralne.
  • 111 designates a link which is pivotally connected at 112 to the end 74 of the lever 73 and at 113 to a scale trip lever 114 which is suitably fulcrumed at 115.
  • 116 and 117 designate supports for bars 118 and 119, respectively, which contribute with the main machine 'frame to support the weighing mechanism.
  • 120 designates a supporting upright.
  • 121 designates the scale feed belt frame.
  • 122 designates a scale pan supported in a frame 123 which is carried by a scale beam'124 fulcrumed at 125 on the frame 121 and provided with an adjustable counterweight 126.
  • the fulcrum 125 is carried by an arm 127 depending from the frame 121.
  • 128 and 129 designate, respectively, an upper and a lower adjustable stop for the scale beam.
  • the scale pan hasconnected with it a scale opening arm 130 which is actuated by the member 114.
  • the scale pan is fulcrumed at 131 and the scale pan support 123 is fulcrumed at 132.
  • 133 designates a feed drive pulley.
  • 134 designates a roller around which passes a belt 135.
  • the feed roller 134 is carried by a shaft 136.
  • the belt 135 also passes around the roller 137 carried by a shaft 138 suitably journalled in the frame.
  • 139 designates a shaft mounted above the belt 135 and provided with radial blades 140 which serve as tobacco spreaders.
  • the shaft 139 is journalled in bearings 141.
  • 142 and 143' designate sprocket wheels around which passes a sprocket chain 144.
  • 145 designates a worm having a shaft 146 journalled in bearings 147 and 148 and this shaft 146 also carries the pulley 133.
  • 149 designates a worm wheel which has fixed to it a ratchet 150.
  • 151 designates a driving arm for the feed belt as best seen in Figure 18.
  • the arm 151 has pivoted to it a pawl 152 against which bears a spring 153.
  • 154 designates a ratchet which carries a knock-out cam 155 and is provided with a 156.
  • 157 designates a knock-out lever whlch is pivoted at 158 and is actuated by means of a pin 159 carried by the rock arm 160 which is fixedly mounted to one end on the shaft 125.
  • 161 designates a sprocket wheel around which passes a sprocket chain 162 which also passes around a sprocket wheel 163 mounted on a shaft 164.
  • 165 designates bucket chain sprocket wheels and 166 designates lower sprocket wheels around which pass the bucket chain 167.
  • the upper shaft is mounted in bearings 168 and 169, see Figure 9.
  • the feed hopper is carried by the standards 174 and 175 and is braced by the tie rods
  • 177 designates tobacco arch breakers or levelling devices for the sides of the buckets
  • 178 designates a tobacco leveler for the rear of the bucket.
  • the bucket chains pass over guide rolls 179 which are journalled at 180.
  • the feed hopper is provided with a division space 181 and with a tobacco shield 182 which latter is positioned in proximity to the upper sprocket wheels in proximity to the path of the buckets so that the tobacco cgrried thereby will all fall into the chute 1 1.
  • the operation of my novel automatic cigar bunching machine Wlll now be readily apparent to those skilled in this art and is as follows
  • the tobacco is placed in the supply hopper orjsource of supply 173, see more particularly F i ures 1, 2, 8 and 9.
  • the main driving sha t 27 of the organized machine is driven by means of any suitable source of power.
  • the main driving shaft 27 is driven by the worm 91, as illustrated, the shaft of said worm having the pulley 96 thereon which is driven by means of any desired source of ower.
  • the worm shaft also has mounted t ereon a pulley 95 around which passes a belt 182 which also pases around the pulley 133 on the shaft 146 to thereby drive it.
  • the worm 145 on the shaft 146 drives the shaft 138 carrying the sprocket wheel 161, see more particularly Figure 14, thereby driving the sprocket chain 162, see Figure 9, which passes around the sprocket wheel 163 on the shaft 164.
  • the bucket chains 167 are driven thereby causing the buckets 17 0 to travel within the hopper or source of tobacco supply 173 and carry the tobacco in measured quantities therefrom.
  • the surplus tobacco carried by the buckets is removed by the knock-off or levelling members 177 and 178, see Figures 8 and 10.
  • the excess tobacco carried thereby drops by gravity into the hopper 173.
  • the tobacco therein is delivered into the chutes 171 which discharges the tobacco onto the travelling belt 135 in a thin layer which is spread out by the spreading blades 140 of the spreader 139 so that a uniform layer of tobacco is carried by the conveyor, apron or belt 135.
  • the shaft 139 of the spreader is driven by means of sprocket chain 144 which is driven from the shaft, 136, see Figure 14. It will discharged into the scale pan 122, the
  • the arm 160 is fixedto the shaft 125 to rock with it when the lever 124 rocks so that when the scale pan 122 moves downwardly the lever 160 will rock downwardly thereby moving the pin 159 from the position seen in dotted lines in Figure 17 into that seen in full lines so that the pin 159 moves out of engagement with the shoulder on the pawl 157 thereby permitting the pawl 157 which is weighted at its lower end to rock on its fulcrum 158 and moves into engagement with the teeth of the ratchet 154 on the shaft 138 and thereby stop any movement of the ratchet 154 which is loosely mounted on the shaft
  • the scale pan 122 has received a predetermined weight of tobacco and the next step is to discharge it from the scale pan.
  • the shaft 27 is at this time revolving thereby revolving the cam 26 thereby actuating the rock arm 21 which in Figure 6 is in its normal or neutral position.
  • the revolution of the cam 26 in the direction of the arrow seen in Figure 6 causes the link 20 to move upwardly thereby rocking the lever 16 on its fulcrum and causing the pawl 78 to engage the cam end of the lever 74 thereby moving said lever upwardly moving upwardly with it the link 111 and rocking the lever 114 on its fulcrum so that its forward end, see Figure 16, will press downwardly on the arm 130 and rock the scale pan 132 on its fulcrum 131. Since thescale an 122 is open at its back the tobacco will drop from the scale pan in frontof the usher 84, see Figure 3.
  • the shaft 27 in the usual manner rocks the lever 42 thereby rocking the links 35 and 33 therebyv the pawl 100 into engagement with the teeth of the ratchet 98 so that the shaft 27 will have imparted to it one revolution and then automatically stops in the usual manner of standard types of bunching machines.
  • the tobacco is pushed into the pocket of the apron after being fed thereto by the pusher 84 by means of the plunger 62 which is positively raised and lowered in the manner which will now be described.
  • the plunger 62 is fixed to the rod 58, see Figure 1 and Figure 2.
  • the parts are S01 constructed that the weight of the lever 86 causes the pusher 84 to be returned to its initial position seen in Figure 3 ready for the next operation.
  • the pawl 78 see Figures 1 and 6 rides under the shoulder on the lever 74, the lower end of the lever is dropped thereby causing the free end of the lever 114 to move upwardly and the scale pan 122 returns to its normal or neutral position seen in full lines in Figure 13.
  • My present invention while particularly adapted for a short filler is not limited to such use but can be employed for a long filler.
  • the filler is raised from the bottom of the storage hopper so that the tobacco is retained at all times in a loose condition and the conveyor buckets will be uniformly filled in such a manner'that they will always carry a defini e quantit of tobacco as they carry a surplus which is levelled ofl' prior to the discharge of the tobacco from the bucket.
  • the parts are so timed and the buckets are of such dimension that the amount carried by a bucket is preferabl I less than the amount of filler required or a single cigar so that therecan be no crowding or contacting of the tobacco which would have a tendency to clog or obstruct the machine.
  • scrapped tobacco of any nature may be 'einplo ed and damped tobacco can be employed if esired.
  • a container for the tobacco a conveyor, a feed belt to which the tobacco is discharged from said conveyor, weighing mechanism to receive the discharge from said feed belt, a retainer to receive the tobacco from said weighing mechanism, means to discharge the tobacco from said retainer, and a bunching machine to receive the discharge from said discharging means.
  • a tobaccoretainer means to feed a determined weight of tobacco thereto, a reciprocatory pusher to eject tobacco from said retainer, an apron having a pocket to receive the tobacco from said retainer, means operated prior to the operative stroke of said pusher to limit the length of said pocket, and actuating means for said apron.
  • Atobacco retainer -means to feed a determined Weight of tobacco thereto, a reciprocatory pusher to eject tobacco from said retainer, an apron having a pocket to receive the tobagco from said retainer, means operated prior to the operative stroke of said 1 pusher to limit the len h of said-pocket, a plunger to pack the to acco in said pocket and actuating means for said apron.
  • an apron having a pocket, means to feed tobacco to said pocket, members to determine the length of said pocket, a plunger, a lock for said plunger and members, means to release said lock to permit said members to move into said pocket, and means to thereafter effect the operative stroke of said plunger.v

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US541914A US1559009A (en) 1922-03-08 1922-03-08 Automatic cigar-bunching machine
FR563348D FR563348A (fr) 1922-03-08 1923-03-06 Machine à rouler les cigares
GB6756/23A GB194711A (en) 1922-03-08 1923-03-08 Cigar bunching machine
AT101343D AT101343B (de) 1922-03-08 1923-03-08 Zigarrenwickelmaschine.
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US2482465A (en) * 1943-12-10 1949-09-20 Int Cigar Mach Co Control for cigar machine short filler tobacco feeds
US3703902A (en) * 1968-03-06 1972-11-28 Imp Tobacco Co Ltd The Apparatus for making cigar bunches

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US2482465A (en) * 1943-12-10 1949-09-20 Int Cigar Mach Co Control for cigar machine short filler tobacco feeds
US3703902A (en) * 1968-03-06 1972-11-28 Imp Tobacco Co Ltd The Apparatus for making cigar bunches

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