To-bac′co-booking ma-chine′.
（Tobacco.) A machine which arranges the smoothed leaves of tobacco into symmetrical piles. In patent No. 133,420, the leaf is fed in upon a pointed convex plate, and stemmed by two shear-cutting disks attached to the bases of two conical rollers, one of which is adjustable. The leaf is then carried by an endless apron down around and pressed upon the booking-roller, which is suspended by the said elastic apron and held up against an adjustable roller. The apron is strained properly by a weighted concave roller. A suspended guard-plate insures the passage of the leaf to the booking-roller, and a knife-cleaner removes the gum from the cutting-disks. See also tobacco sheeting-machine.
