US98877A - Improvement in cigar-machines - Google Patents

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MEYER & SCHILD. Cigar Machie.

No. 98.877I Patented Jan. I8, 1870.

tanned States @wat )ptite FREDERIGK MEYER AND HENRY SCHILD, OF NEW YORK, N.`Y., ASSIGNORS TO GEORGE J. PREN'IIGE,l OE SAME'PLAOE; SAID PREN TICE ASSIGNS TO LEWIS PREN'IICE, OF

NEW YORK CITY.

Letters Patent No. 98,87 7, dated J arma/ry l18, 1870; antedatcdaanumy 10, 1870;

IMPRovEMnNT-nv OMAR-MACHINES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom 'it 'ma-y concern:

Be it known that we, FREDERICK MEYER and Hun- RY SCHILD, of the city and State of` New York, have titted to move in the opposite direction to that in which it moves, as shown in iig. 1.

Similar marks of reference denote the same parts.

Cigar-machines have before 4been made in which four rollers are employed to roll up the'bunch of tobacco, or to pnt on the wrapper in finishing the cigar, and these rollers have been titted to open, for placing the to'bactol between the rollers, and for removing the cigar; and to one of the rollers au eudwise movement has been given, in order/to` press the tip of the cigar into the die that gives shape to the end.

Our invention relates to a means for accomplishing the end-movement of the said roller, in' either one direction or the other, in a more simple manner than heretofore, and so that the act of opening the' rollers for delivering the cigar shall liberate the mechanism that causes the end-movement, so that the roller will be returned to a normal position.

In the drawing--- a represents a table, ou legs or a frame.

bpb, the frames of the machine, secured to a, and tied together by the rod c. i

d d are the lower standing rollers, rotated by gearing,T at e, and p. Y

i f is the iy-wheel, with a belt' to the wheelg, that drives the gearing, in any usual manner. The tlywheel f may be driven by the treadle h, or otherwise.

The roller 'i is set in boxes 2 2, that can beslid back in the frames b, by the links k, to cranks 3, on the rok-shaft l. This rock-shaft Z is operated by an arm, m, and rod n, `to Va. treadle, o.

Upon the table a is a socket, through which the rod n passes, and within the same isa-spring, 4, that hrings the parts to their normal position, and exerts the power that is required for causing the roller q (carried by the arms 1 r from to press with neces-v sary foree upon the cigar being made, and thereby cause said cigar torbe of proper density f'or smoking, instead' of too loose or too tightly pressed, when the Thot-treadleis employed to give said pressure, as heretofore.

The shaft s-of the roller i is fitted to slide endwise in its bearings 2 2, and the driving-pinion trot-ates the sameby av feather and slot, the pinion beingheld in position by a fork, 5, taking a neck in the pinion.

To give end-motion to the rolleril and shaft s, so as to force the tip of the cigar into the die tonr the. hed a, as the wrapper is rolled around the same, we employ the screw-pinion c, taking the stationary teeth or rack 6, that isv operative to givesaid end-movement bythe act of revolving the rollers in making the cigar, and when formed, the act of draw'inlgr back the roller i liberates the screw v from 6, and allows the spring,r 7 to give t-he roller the reverse endeinovemeut to, its noruxal position. Y 'i Then the shape of the half leaf, forming the wrapper, is such that the tip of the cigar has to he pressed toward the left into the tip-die w, the screw 'v is removed, and the left-handed screw-pinion 'v' fig. 3, is substituted, and the spring,r 7'- placed at the other e'ud of the shaft s, 'between the pinion t and a collar, 8; thereby the movement is reversed.

What we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Pat- The fixed rack 6, in combination with the worm# pinion rv, shaft s, roller i, and sliding boxes 2 2, substantially as set forth, so thatl the pinion c is disconnected from the rack by drawing back the roller i, as specih'ed.

In witness whereof, we have hereunto set our signaf tures, this 20th day of April, 1869.

FR.' MEYER. HENRY SCHILD. Vitnessesz CRAs. H. SMITH, Gmo. T. PINCKNEY.

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