US 11,129,407 B2 · Cigarette rolling machine

Abstract

A cigarette rolling machine deposits uniformly metered charges of smoking material into a trough formed in a belt as dispensed from a bulk supply. A length of smoking paper sufficient for the combined length of two cigarettes is deposited nearby on the belt on a movable platen. As the platen moves, the belt glides over a fixed arbor and at least one other movable arbor, and the belt forms into a bight, rolling the material into a cylindrical volume. Filters are delivered and abutted to the ends of the volume and the smoking paper is entrained into the bight to encircle the smoking material and filters. A pre-moistened adhesive along a leading edge of the paper adheres to its trailing edge as a circular ouroboros and forming a tube. The twinned pair of cigarettes is then drawn across a cutting plane knife and parted into two individual cigarettes.

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Dependent claims

A cigarette rolling machine, comprising:

a stationary frame supporting a horizontal first arbor,
a movable frame adapted for lateral translation perpendicular to said first arbor,
a platen affixed to said movable frame beneath said first arbor, said platen comprising a surface having a first edge opposite from a second edge, an internal cavity, and at least one perforation communicating from said surface to said internal cavity,
a forming belt having a thickness and first end secured to said first edge of said platen,
said forming belt passing over said first arbor and having a second end secured to a second arbor mounted to said movable frame and laterally spaced apart from said first arbor.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Cigarette rolling machine

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Cigarette rolling machine

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Abstract

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