System for rolling and filling cigarettes with smokable material

An apparatus for forming a manually rolled cigarette, comprising:

• a curvilinearly extending housing having an elongated slot that extends through a sidewall of the housing from a frusto-conically shaped outer surface of the housing to a central interior chamber, the chamber open at a larger first end and closed at an opposing, second end of the housing;
• a cone having an annular base and a tapered portion that extends from the annular base;
• a funnel body with a cylindrically shaped outer surface that surrounds an interior passageway, a tapered projection configured for insertion into the annular base of the cone, and a locking mechanism that mechanically secures the funnel body to the annular base;
• a first array of spaced apart magnets extending from the larger first end of the housing;
• a second array of spaced apart magnets extending from the funnel body surrounding the tapered projection, the respective first and second arrays of spaced apart magnets configured to facilitate rotation, by a user, of the funnel body relative to the housing responsive to locking engagement of the cone to the funnel body and insertion of the tapered portion of the cone into the interior chamber of the housing along a central cone insertion axis, the slot having an interior slot sidewall skewed with respect to the central cone axis to facilitate wrapping of a planar sheet of material about the tapered portion to form a tube for the cigarette;
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• a manual grind press configured for insertion into the interior passageway of the funnel body to crush smokable product for passage into the tube after removal of the cone from the interior chamber of the housing, the manual grind press comprising a retention magnet that retains the manual grind press within the interior passageway of the funnel body when not in use.

An apparatus, comprising:

• a housing having a frusto-conically shaped outer surface that tapers from a larger first end to a smaller second end, the housing further having an interior chamber that extends into an interior of the housing from the larger first end and which is closed off at the smaller second end, the housing further having an elongated slot that extends through the housing from the larger first end to the smaller second end to provide open communication from the frusto-conically outer surface of the housing to the interior chamber;
• a cone configured to be disposed within the interior chamber of the housing via insertion, by a user, of the cone through the larger first end of the housing, the cone having an annular base configured for placement adjacent the larger first end of the housing and a tapered portion configured to extend from the annular base into the interior chamber of the housing responsive to said insertion, the tapered portion having a frusto-conically shaped outer surface, the slot of the housing arranged with a sidewall that extends offset to and nominally parallel with a side of the frusto-conically shaped outer surface of the cone;
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• a body portion lockingly attachable to the annular base of the cone and rotatably coupled to the larger first end of the housing to induce rotation of the cone, via engagement by the user of a circumferentially extending outer surface of the body portion, with respect to and within the interior chamber of the housing to enable wrapping of a planar material about the cone to form a hollow tube having a frusto-conical shape responsive to insertion, by the user, of a leading edge of the planar material through the slot, wherein the body portion is lockingly attachable to the annular base of the cone using a locking feature that interlocks the body portion to the annular base of the cone so that rotation of the body portion relative to the housing induces corresponding rotation of the cone about a cone axis within the housing, the locking feature comprising a detent that extends into a corresponding channel to prevent rotational movement of the body portion relative to the cone about the cone axis, the locking feature further comprising and a pair of facing magnets with facing surfaces orthogonal to the cone axis that secure the body portion to the annular base to prevent movement of the body portion relative to the cone in a direction parallel to the cone axis.

An apparatus, comprising:

• a housing having a frusto-conically shaped outer surface that tapers from a larger first end to a smaller second end, the housing further having an interior chamber that extends into an interior of the housing from the larger first end and which is closed off at the smaller second end, the housing further having an elongated slot that extends through the housing from the larger first end to the smaller second end to provide open communication from the frusto-conically outer surface of the housing to the interior chamber;
• a cone configured to be disposed within the interior chamber of the housing via insertion, by a user, of the cone through the larger first end of the housing, the cone having an annular base configured for placement adjacent the larger first end of the housing and a tapered portion configured to extend from the annular base into the interior chamber of the housing responsive to said insertion, the tapered portion having a frusto-conically shaped outer surface, the slot of the housing arranged with a sidewall that extends offset to and nominally parallel with a side of the frusto-conically shaped outer surface of the cone;
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• a body portion lockingly attachable to the annular base of the cone and rotatably coupled to the larger first end of the housing to induce rotation of the cone, via engagement by the user of a circumferentially extending outer surface of the body portion, with respect to and within the interior chamber of the housing to enable wrapping of a planar material about the cone to form a hollow tube having a frusto-conical shape responsive to insertion, by the user, of a leading edge of the planar material through the slot, wherein the body portion is rotatably coupled to the larger first end of the housing using a pair of facing magnets with facing surfaces orthogonal to a cone axis along which the tapered portion extends into the interior chamber, the pair of facing magnets configured to resist albeit permit rotational movement of the body portion relative to the larger first end of the housing while intermittently establishing an attraction force that retains the body portion to the housing in a direction parallel to the cone axis.