Tobacco/herb loading device and method therefor

A device for automated loading and forming smoking articles comprising:

• a conveyer unit holding and moving a plurality of conical paper wrappers;
• and
• a dispensing unit coupled to and positioned above the conveyer unit, the dispensing unit storing pre-grounded tobacco leaf/herbs, loading a predetermined amount of the pre-grounded tobacco leaf/herbs into a designated conical paper wrapper of the plurality of conical paper wrappers, and compacting the pre-grounded tobacco leaf/herbs loaded into the designated conical paper wrapper:
• wherein the conveyer unit moves the designated conical paper wrapper to a desired location under the dispensing unit to load and compact the predetermined amount of the pre-grounded tobacco leaf/herbs into the designated conical paper wrapper and moves a next conical paper wrapper to the desired location after the dispensing unit loads and compacts the predetermined amount of the pre-grounded tobacco leaf/herbs into the designated conical paper wrapper;
• wherein the dispensing unit comprises;
• a storage unit holding the pre-grounded tobacco leaf/herbs;
• a disbursing device coupled to the storage unit dispensing the pre-grounded tobacco leaf/herbs within the storage unit;
• a loading device directing the pre-grounded tobacco leaf/herbs dispensed from the storage unit to the designated conical paper wrapper;
• a moving device pushing the pre-grounded tobacco leaf/herbs dispensed from the storage unit into the loading device;
• a compacting device pushing and compacting the pre-grounded tobacco leaf/herbs in the designated conical paper wrapper;
• and
• a depth sensor coupled to the compacting device allowing the compacting device to monitor if the designated conical paper wrapper has a torn bottom area or missing bottom area.