Cigar head wrapping mechanism
AssigneeCulbro Corporation
InventorsMichael E. Chopko, Hans C. Dreher
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Abstract
When wrappers are applied to cigar bunches by rolling the bunches over the wrappers while laid on a supporting surface, the tail portion of each wrapper will not properly wrap itself around a shaped head of the bunch. A mechanism to overcome this problem involves a specially designed header block which presses the initial part of the wrapper tail against the shaped head of the rolling bunch, retracts from this pressing operation while the final part or extremity of the tail is being lifted from the supporting surface by the rolling bunch and then presses the lifted extremity of the wrapper tail against the shaped head of the rolling bunch.
Claims15
An apparatus adapted to wrap a wrapper strip around a cigar bunch with a shaped head by rolling said bunch over said strip while said strip is on a supporting surface, in combination with a mechanism for pressing the tail portion of said strip onto said head during said rolling of said bunch which comprises a conveyor having a portion movable along said supporting surface, and a header block carried by said conveyor into contact with said head while said tail portion is being wrapped around said head, said block having a shaped face to make conforming contact with said head.
An apparatus adapted to wrap a wrapper strip around a cigar bunch with a shaped head by rolling said bunch between an arcuate surface and a rotating drum with said strip laid on its cylindrical surface, in combination with a mechanism for pressing the tail portion of said strip onto said head during said rolling of said bunch which comprises an endless conveyor with its lower run maintained arcuately parallel to said cylindrical surface, a plurality of brackets mounted on said conveyor equally spaced from one another, a header block supported by each of said brackets so that said block will contact said head while its bracket is in said lower run, each said block having a shaped face to make conforming contact with said head, and drive means operative from said drum to said conveyor to drive said lower run in the direction of rotation of said drum.
In an apparatus adapted to wrap a wrapper strip around a cigar bunch with a shaped head by rolling said bunch over said strip while laid helically on the cylindrical surface of a rotating drum, said rolling of said bunch being effected between an arcuate surface and said drum by the rotation of said drum, the improvement of a device for pressing the tail portion of said strip onto said head during said rolling of said bunch which comprises a header block contoured in general conformance with said head, means for maintaining said block in contact with said head during said rolling of said bunch, and means for temporarily interrupting the contact of said block with said head while the extremity of said tail portion of said strip is being removed from said cylindrical surface and is being flipped over by said rolling of said bunch.
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