Paper buckling assembly for cigarette manufacturing machine

A machine for manufacturing a cigarette, the machine comprising:

• a housing;
• a support frame disposed within the housing, the support frame comprising a tobacco cavity aligned with an opening in the housing for receiving tobacco into the tobacco cavity;
• a filling pipe at least partially disposed outside of the housing, wherein the filling pipe is in communication with the tobacco cavity and configured to support an empty cigarette tube;
• a paper buckling assembly comprising:
• a buckling frame coupled to the support frame, such that a first end of the buckling frame aligns with the filling pipe;
• a rear buckling element carried by the buckling frame, distal to the first end of the buckling frame;
• and
• a front buckling element carried by the buckling frame, proximal to the first end of the buckling frame;
• wherein the rear buckling element and the front buckling element are slidably disposed within the buckling frame and are connected through an elastic member, and
• an actuation assembly assembled with the housing and operatively connected to the rear buckling element, wherein actuation of the actuation assembly causes the rear buckling element to slide toward the front buckling element, such that the elastic member supplies a buckling force to the front buckling element for movement of the front buckling element against a cigarette tube installed on the filling pipe.