Method and Device for Distributing Cut Tobacco for Feeding Cigarette-Making Machines

A method of distributing cut tobacco for feeding cigarette-making machines wherein the cut tobacco is fed to a distribution chamber via a feeding channel and received from the distribution chamber by at least two receiving channels which feed cigarette-making machines, and the efficiency of the feeding via the feeding channel and the total receiving throughput of the receiving channels are temporarily different resulting in a temporary excess of cut tobacco collected in the distribution chamber, wherein the cut tobacco is fed to the distribution chamber onto an eccentrically mounted rotary element for changing local bulk density and disturbing the flow of the cut tobacco, the element rotating about an axis essentially perpendicular to a bottom of the distribution chamber, and the local bulk density of the cut tobacco is changed directly before feeding it to the receiving channels.