Tobacco – Cigar or cigarette making – Wrapping devices
Patent
1993-04-08
1995-03-21
Bahr, Jennifer
Tobacco
Cigar or cigarette making
Wrapping devices
131 72, A24C 500, A24C 506, A24F 4700
Patent
active
053987012
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The invention pertains to a device for the filling of cigarette tubes of different lengths or partially filling a cigarette tube by an adjustable amount wherein the length of a tobacco chamber for forming a tobacco strand and the length of a cooperating compression bar are easily adjusted without the need for adding and/or removing parts and without the need for a tool.
STATE OF THE ART
Hand-operated devices of various designs for filling prefabricated cigarette tubes are known. In an advantageous design of a device of this type (West German Patent No. 1,945,498), a slide can be moved back and forth in a housing, which has a fixed stop for the tobacco strand and in which a tobacco holder in the form of a trough-like guide tongue is provided. The slide is provided with a bushing, onto which a cigarette tube can be placed, and with a clamping device for selectively clamping the tube. In the area between its ends, the slide has an elongated recess, completely open from top to bottom, which forms a tobacco chamber. When the slide is in its starting position, which allows the tobacco to be loaded, the chamber is located directly above the guide tongue. A pressure plate or a cover serving as a pressure plate is attached to the slide in such a way that it is able to pivot, as a result of which the part of the pressure plate which, together with the chamber, forms the tobacco strand can be moved into the tobacco chamber formed by the recess. A device such as this is simple in design and simple to operate. The pressure plate or cover can also be used to actuate the clamping device for the cigarette tube. When the device is actuated, the guide tongue does not leave the housing, so that there is no danger of injury.
In another known device for filling cigarette tubes (West German Offenlegungsschrift No. 3,706,504), a tobacco compression chamber is provided in a housing, to which a tubular socket is also attached, upon which the cigarette tube can be placed. A compression bar, which can be moved into the tobacco compression chamber, and a spoon forming a tobacco holder are located on an ejector slide. To enable use of this filling device to produce so-called "king-size" cigarettes as well as so-called "regular" cigarettes, it is proposed that the compression bar be designed in several parts, so that it can be adapted to various predetermined compression chamber lengths by the removal or addition of one or more extension pieces. The compression chamber must also be adjustable in its length by the installation of various filler pieces. To make the device ready for a different format, first a filler piece, which is screwed to the housing and is thus detachable, is removed. Then the compression bar is extended by attaching an extension piece, which is screwed on by means of a screw which passes longitudinally through the compression bar. In a device such as this, the changeover to a different format requires several assembly steps and the use of a tool.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
The object of the invention is to create a hand-operated device for the filling of cigarette tubes of different lengths or which can be adapted to various lengths of the space to be filled in the cigarette tubes without the need to remove certain parts and to attach other parts. The goal of the invention is also to arrive at an advantageous design of the overall device with respect to its details. Additional problems which the invention deals with in conjunction with the objective described above can be derived from the associated explanation of the solution presented herein.
In a device of the type generally indicated, the invention provides a stop which can be shifted in the longitudinal direction of the tobacco holder and in that at least two extension sections of a compression bar, which sections are of different lengths, are mounted on a rotatable component, the rotational axis of which is parallel to the compression surface of the compression bar, each of the two sections selectively serving as extensio
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Lier Josef
Neumann Manfred
Rosner Wolfgang
Bahr Jennifer
Gizeh-Werk GmbH
Weinstein Louis
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