Cigarette cutting tray
AssigneeV-Master Limited
InventorsMiro O. Staroba, Alex Suchostawaski
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Abstract
An improved machine for rolling cigarettes of the type in which tobacco is compressed and rolled onto a piece of cigarette paper by a moving bight in an apron formed between a roller and a platform and is subsequently dropped onto a cutting surface of a cutting tray where blades sever the cigarette to the desired length, in which the cutting surface is made of plastic and the cutting blades are fixedly engaged in blade holders. A series of spaced, parallel slots at the rear of the cutting surface provide frictional engagement for the blade holders. Safe, uniform and accurate insertion and withdrawal of the blades is thereby achieved.
Claims8
In a manually operated machine for making cigarettes comprising (a) a frame;
- (b) a horizontal platform supported thereby, elongated in the transverse direction, abutment members depending and rearwardly curved from beneath the front portion of said platform;
- (c) a flexible apron covering the platform, and extending from the front of said platform to beyond the rear thereof, adapted to define a transverse cigarette-forming trough at the rear of said platform;
- (d) a roller slidable above said platform to form a bight therebetween adapted to compress and roll tobacco onto a piece of cigarette paper to form a long cigarette;
- and (e) a cutting tray spaced below the bottom surface of said platform and slidable in and relative to said frame between forward and rearward positions, said cutting tray having a forward receiving surface for collecting cut cigarettes and an adjacent rearward cutting surface, a series of transversely spaced, aligned, vertical, rearwardly slanted razor blades projecting from said cutting surface towards and cooperating with said abutment members to cut said long cigarette, an improved cutting tray wherein said blades are clamped in position in blade holders, and said cutting surface has a series of parallel slots transversely spaced a predetermined distance from each other, extending inwardly from the rear edge of said cutting surface in the direction of movement of said tray, said slots comprising engaging means which cooperate with said blade holders to frictionally and releasably engage said blade holders in said slots, whereby the blades and blade holders are maintained in proper orientation and alignment during operation of the machine.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.