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US 10,231,480 B1Granted
Handheld cigarette-making machine
AssigneeRepublic Tobacco L.P.
InventorPhilippe Parcevaux
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Abstract
A handheld cigarette making machine with a longitudinally sliding member that moves between a distal loading position for receiving loose tobacco and a proximal filling position having an adjustment member that enables the machine to fill cigarette tubes of two different tobacco-receiving portion lengths using a single length tobacco-receiving cavity and tamping member and a base for tabletop operation of the machine.
Claims11
A handheld cigarette-making machine comprising:
- a base;
- a member mounted in the base for sliding longitudinally a throw distance between a distal loading position in which loose tobacco may be placed in the machine and a proximal filling position in which the tobacco fills an empty cigarette tube,
- the sliding member mounted in the base for sliding longitudinally having an elongated cavity for receiving loose tobacco and a cigarette tube holding assembly for attaching an empty cigarette tube;
- a top member mounted to the sliding member for pivoting between an open position and a closed position,
- the top member having an elongated tamping member attached to its lower surface to compress loose tobacco in the sliding member cavity when the top member is pivoted to its closed position;
- and
- an adjustment member mounted in the sliding member for adjusting the length of the elongated cavity as necessary to fill empty cigarette tube tobacco-receiving portions of different lengths without varying the throw distance.
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A method of filling an empty cigarette tube comprising:
- providing a handheld cigarette-making machine for filling cigarette tubes with two different tobacco-receiving portion lengths where the machine has a base, a member mounted in the base for sliding longitudinally a throw distance between a distal loading position in which loose tobacco may be placed in the machine and a proximal filling position in which the tobacco fills an empty cigarette tube, the sliding member mounted in the base for sliding longitudinally having an elongated cavity for receiving loose tobacco and a cigarette tube holding assembly for attaching an empty cigarette tube, a top member mounted to the sliding member for pivoting between an open position and a closed position and having an elongated tamping member attached to its lower surface to compress loose tobacco in the sliding member cavity when the top member is pivoted to its closed position, and an adjustment member mounted in the sliding member for movement between a proximal fully open position and a distal retracted position for adjusting the length of the elongated cavity as necessary to fill empty cigarette tubes of the two different tobacco-receiving portion lengths without varying the throw distance;
- positioning the sliding member in its distal loading position with the top member open and the adjustment member in its proximal position;
- attaching an empty cigarette tube of a first tobacco-receiving portion length to the cigarette tube holding assembly;
- placing loose tobacco in the tobacco receiving cavity;
- closing the top member to compress the tobacco in the tobacco receiving cavity;
- grasping the sliding member and moving it proximally while in the closed position to draw the empty portion of the cigarette tube along the compressed tobacco in the tobacco receiving cavity;
- and
- moving the sliding member to its distal loading position and removing the now filled cigarette tube from the machine.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.