US7226A - Improved method of dressing cut tobacco - Google Patents

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G. WALES. METHOD OF DRESSING OUT TOBACCO.

No.7,226. Patented Mar.26,1850.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GIDEON WALES, or LIBERTY, NEW YORK.

IMPROVED METHOD. OF 'DIR'ESSINGCUT TOBACCO.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 7,226, dated March 26, 1850.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, GIDEQN Wines, of the town of Liberty, in the county of Sullivan and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Machine for Dressing Out Tobacco; and

. I do hereby declarethat the following is a full,

clear, andexact descriptionof the construc tion and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, in which Ais the tube. BBB B are rollers, on which the tube rests. O is a frame or platform sus taining the rollers. F is a cog-wheelaround the end of the tube. G is a smaller cog-wheel; H, shafts. I isa crank. J is a pulley. L is a slide-board.- V The nature of my invention consists-of a tube with teeth on the inside, having-an inclination below a horizontal line, and through which,

under a slow revolving motion, the tobacco is made to pass.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my machine, I will describe its construction and operation.

I make-a tube or barrel (without bulge) of staves sufficiently hooped, from eight to sixteenfeet long, and from sixteen to thirty inches in diameter. The inside is furnished with teeth asnear each other as one-on every two inches square. The teeth should be of metal from one to two inch es long, round, sharppointed, and a little hooking, in order to carrythe tobacco up to "the top, or nearly to the .top, of the tube before it falls. Its own gravity causesthe tobacco to be detached from the books or teeth, and in leaving them the flakes are pulled apart without breaking-the threads of the tobacco. The tube is perforated with holes from one-fourth to five-eighths of an inch in diameter for the escape of the short tobacco. These holes should be as near to-each other as the teeth a're, and from one-half to the whole length-of the tube.- The tube should be left open at both ends, except a small rim on the inside of the end where the tobacco enters. It is sustainedjon the rollers 13 BB B. These rollers should have aninde'ntation' on their outer surface, into which two of the hoops of the tube should be made. to fit, in order to keep- -it in its proper place. One end of the plat-- form, on which the rollers rest, is suspended or hung in the frame-work by bolts or a rod, as at D. The other-end rests on-a rod, as at E. The tube has an incliifiation below a horizontal line,which inclination may beincreased or diminished-by raising brlowering the rod at E, in order to expedite-or'retard the passage of the tobacco through the tube, as circumpulley JJ, The shaft maybe enlarged and rounded, as at K, and around and from thisan apron may run to and around another roller beneath the cutting-machine to convey the tobacco to the dressing-machine o'rtube; or the tobacco may be putin byhand. -A slide-board,

L, may be used to carry'the tobacco directly into the tube. The motion of the tube should be slow -s'ay from fifteen to thirty revolutions per minute. V l

Dressing cut tobacco or shaking the flakes apart (especially the-fin'e-cut orichewingfis anoperation of great tediousness, and to do it without breaking the threads of the tobacco is the most delicate part of its manufacture, Heretofore it has ever been done by manual -labor. a It is to save this manual labor and ex- 7 V pedite its performance that mymachine is intended.

What I claim as of my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

' The method of dressing cut-tobacco by pass ing it through a revolving cylinder having holes through it to sift, the. short from the longpieces, and with hooks or pegs projecting from its inner surface toward the center for lifting the threadsof tobacco, as described above. H

r In presence of- HENRY WALES, PETER LAMQREUX.

GIDEON W'ALES. v

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