US44429A - Improvement in cutting and pressing tobacco - Google Patents

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W. W. HUSE.

Tobacco Cutter.

Patented Sept. 27, 1864.

- UNITED .STATES WV. W. HUSE, OF BROOKLYN, NEXV YORK.

IMBROVEMENT IN CUTTING AND PRESSING TOBACCO.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 44.429, dated September 27, 1864'.

To all whom, it. imty concern:

Be it known that I, WV. XV. HUsE, of Brooklyn, Kings county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machinery for Pressing and Cutting Tobacco; and Ido hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact descrip tion thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, in which-- Figure 1 is a top View of the machine as adapted for cutting tobacco; Fig. 2, a back elevation, and Fig. 8 a longitudinal vertical section. Fig. 4 is a vertical section of the machine arranged for pressing.

The same letters indicate like parts in all the figures.

The object of my invention is so to construct a machine that it can be .used for pressing the tobacco preparatory to and then to cut it, as it is necessary that it should be pressed into a compact state before it is cut. It has been the practice heretofore to use two independent machines, one to press and the other to out; but with my invention, by simply changing the position of some of the parts, both operations can be efficiently performed with one machine.

In the accompanying drawings, a represents a suitable frame, in the upper part of which is formed a horizontal bed, I), with parallel sides 0 c, to form a trough or way to receive the tobacco to be out after it has been pressed, and in whichit is moved toward the cutters. To this trough is fitted a cap-plate, d, which, after the tobacco has been placed, is held down by a wedge-key, 6. At the side of the trough is mounted a horizontal shaft, f, to the front end of which is secured a wheel, g, with arms and a crank-handle, and to the inner face of the hub and rim of this wheel are secured cutters h h, which stand off from the inner face of the arms sufficiently for the passage of the cut tobacco. I prefer to make the cutting-edge of the cutters convex in the form of asegment of a circle, and either smooth or serrated, according to the purpose for which the tobacco may be intended. The front edge of the trough should be of steel, with a sharp square edge, to facilitate the cutting operation.

The tobacco is fed or pushed forward by a follower, i, on the end of a screw, j, which passes through a rotating nut, is, mounted in the rear end of a bale, Z,whioh swings on trunnions in m from the sides of the frame, for a purpose to be presently described. WVhenthe machine is used for cutting, the bale Z is held in a horizontal position by a securing-pin, n, or other equivalent means. The nut 70 carries a ratchet-wheel, 0,which is actuated by a pawl, p, on an arm, g, which turns on the rear part of the nut k, and this arm receives a vibratory motion by a connecting-rod, r, from a crank, s, on the rear end of the shaft f. To regulate the extent of feed there is a cam-plate, 25, against the outer face of the ratchet-wheel, and mounted so that it can turn on the nut k. A portion of the periphery of this plate is of less diameter than the ratchet-wheel, and the rest of greater diameter, so that as the arm q vibrates the pawl 19 the cam form of the edge of the cam-plate will determine when the pawl shall act on the ratchet-teeth. The cam-plate is held by a screw passing through a segment slot, u, to admit of setting it, so that by turning and setting the plate the extent of feeding motion can be readily adjusted. The horizontal bed I) of the trough is movable and rests on an open part of the frame a.

Preparatory to cutting tobacco it is to be pressed, and for this purpose the connectingrod ris disconnected from the ratchetarm q,the securing-pin n is taken out and the bale Z turned up in a vertical position, as represented at Fig. 4-,and the nut secured in the baleZ by means of a set-screw, o, to prevent it from turning in the bale. The bed Z) is then removed. A portable trough, w, is then placedon the bed-plate x of the frame a, the tobacco piled into it, a movable top,y, put on top, and then, by turning the screw j by a crank-handle, 2, on its outer end, press me is made on the movable top 3 until it is pressed down to the required extent, and there it is fastened down by wedges or other suitable means, the screw turned up, and the movable trough taken out. After being so pressed and held, the tobacco can be taken out of this trough and put into the trough to be cut, as first described. By the same means tobacco can be pressed into other forms. I am thus enabled to use the same machine for pressing the tobacco and then for cutting it.

\Vhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

Mounting the nut of the feeding and pressbed of the cutting-trough, as set forth, the said ing screw in abale which can be changed from machine can be used for pressing or cutting toa vertical to a horizontal position, substanbacco, as set forth.

tially as described, in combination with the I \VILLIAM XV. HUSE. cutters and with the frame so constructed as XVitnesses: I

by the change of position of the bale which ANDREW DE LACY,

carries the nut of the screw, and moving the WM. H. BISHOP:

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