Apparatus for filling empty cigarette tubes
AssigneeEFKA-Werke Fritz Kiehn GmbH
InventorsRichard Heil, Klaus Gatschmann, Anton Wieshofer
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Abstract
An apparatus for filling empty cigarette blanks in which tobacco is placed in a tobacco magazine. When an operating lever is actuated, a pressure plate compresses the tobacco into a column. Upon further actuation of the lever, an elastic rack expels these columns so formed through a boss on which the cigarette blank is held by pincers. In order to adapt the apparatus to cigarette blanks of various lengths, in particular to cigarette blanks having single or dual filters, there is provided a movable slide which limits the amount of tobacco placed in the tobacco magazine to correspond to the amount required by a particular cigarette blank.
Claims5
In an apparatus for filling cigarette blanks with tobacco, which includes a housing, a tobacco magazine having an opening through which tobacco may be placed therein, a moveable pressure plate moved by an operating lever and capable of exerting compressive forces on tobacco contained in the tobacco magazine and an expeller rack, moved by gears actuated by the operating rod, an improvement comprising movable limiting means for selectively limiting amount of tobacco placed in said tobacco magazine, said movable limiting means including a slide which is positioned and arranged partially to cover said opening in said tobacco magazine.
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