Machine for filling cigarette tubes of different lengths

Details Machine for filling cigarette tubes of different lengths Machine for filling cigarette tubes of different lengths

2006-06-27

2006-06-27

Mayes, Dionne W. (Department: 1731)

Tobacco

Cigar or cigarette making

Wrapping devices

Reexamination Certificate

active

07066183

ABSTRACT:
The invention provides a machine for filling cigarette tubes, the machine comprising a spoon (120) receiving a load of tobacco and shaping it into a cylinder, an endpiece (210) on which a cigarette tube is placed, a clamping device (330) suitable for clamping such a tube onto the endpiece, and a slide (200) which carries said endpiece and which is movable in translation along the spoon (120), the machine further comprising an end abutment arrangement (130) for the tobacco, the arrangement being directed in such a manner as to hold the tobacco in the direction of the tube to be filled, the machine being characterized in that said abutment arrangement (130) comprises a contact piece (131) making contact with the tobacco, which contact piece is movable between at least two positions, one position in which said contact piece (131) occupies a portion of the tobacco-receiving zone in the spoon (120), and another position in which it leaves said portion empty, such that the extent of the fill of tobacco introduced into a tube differs depending on the position of said piece (131).

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patent: 5398701 (1995-03-01), Neumann
patent: 6206006 (2001-03-01), Schutze et al.
patent: 2004/0200485 (2004-10-01), Garbarino
patent: 902458 (1945-08-01), None
patent: 1381852 (1964-12-01), None

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