Ci-gar′--ma-chine′.
For making fillers of cigars and wrapping them. The operations are generally conducted in a series of machines: one cuts wads of cigar length and quantity from a stream of cigarleaves packed and traversing in a chute whose width is equal to the length of a cigar; the wad thus cut off is driven into a mold which gives it the cigar-shape, and in this it is left to dry, so that when removed it only requires the wrapper to complete it. This is put on in another machine in which the filler is laid bias upon the strip of leaf, and rolled thereon, a pad or apron simulating the action of the human palm. The tip is finished separately, and then the stub-end cut off squarely.Another mode of procedure is to lay a suitable bunch of leaves in an apron which is lapped around them so as to form them into a sufficiently tight roll; or the rolling device consists of a set of cylinders in a circular series, which opens to admit the bunch of leaves, and when closed forms a cylindrical space in which the bunch of leaves is rolled and pressed into a shape for the molds in which it is eventually pressed to the required shape for a filler. The latter is covered by hand or by a machine.