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takes a bag from the tong-table, and the article having 

 been weighed, is carried to the form by a shute, when it 

 drops into the bag, is packed by the plunger, and trans- 

 ferred to the tying-table. With 2 girls or boys, it is said 

 to weigh, pack, and tie 30 bags a minute. 



The New York Tobacco Machine Co. make two forms 

 of machines for granulating tobacco, chiefly for making 

 " Killickinick " and cigarettes, their working capacity 

 ranging from 200 to 2000 Ib. a day. The cutting-rollers 

 are covered with cross-millings at right angles to each 

 other, those running lengthwise being deep; the fixed 

 cutters are adjustable, so that the cutting may be either 

 coarse or fine. When working, the action is like that of 

 a pair of shears, except that the cross-millings reduce the 

 strips to a granular state. Both stems and leaves may 

 be worked up. The great advantage claimed for these 

 machines is that, though the tobacco should be dry, the 

 percentage of dust escaping is reduced to a nominal figure. 



A cutting-machine made by the same Co. is shown in 

 Fig. 31. It is adapted to cut leaf, stem, scrap, plug, or 

 any form of tobacco, to any required degree of fineness, 

 turning out 300-400 Ib. a day. The action is almost 

 precisely that of a chaff-cutter. The Co.'s sif ting-machine 

 consists of an adjustable cylindrical wire sieve, with a 

 rattan-broom screw-roller revolving inside. The stems 

 are stripped and worked out at one end, while the re- 

 mainder is broken up, and passed through the sieve, 

 falling upon a perforated tray, through which pass the 

 finest particles for snuff-making. A machine largely used 

 in America is the stem-roller, for crushing and flattening 

 the stems so that they may be used like leaves for making 



