Apparatus for filling cigarette papers with tobacco

Apparatus for manufacturing cigarettes, comprising a tobacco hopper having a lower aperture, dispensing means receiving tobacco from said aperture and dispersing said tobacco, a tobacco supply chamber disposed below said hopper to receive tobacco from said dispensing means, conveyor means in said tobacco supply chamber for forming tobacco into a strand, an outlet on said tobacco supply chamber for the lateral discharge of the said strand of tobacco, a cigarette paper shell filling tube disposed adjacent to said outlet to receive therefrom said strand of tobacco to thereby form a cigarette, and a cigarette paper shell forming device containing a hollow slidably shaping and centering device provided with a feeder opening disposed at the end of said filling tube and in line therewith for the insertion of said tobacco strand into said cigarette paper shell, said slidable shaping and centering device consisting of a sleeve slidable over said filling tube and equipped with an annular arrangement of spring tongues pointing along the sleeve axis with the ends of said tongues converging to a location in front of the end of said filling tube when said shell forming device is not yet fully engaged with said filling tube.

Apparatus for manufacturing cigarettes, comprising a tobacco hopper having a lower aperture, dispensing means receiving tobacco from said aperture and dispersing said tobacco, a tobacco supply chamber disposed below said hopper to receive tobacco from said dispensing means, conveyor means in said tobacco supply chamber for forming tobacco into a strand, said conveyor means for forming a tobacco strand and said dispensing means being driven through a gear train by a single drive element, an outlet on said tobacco supply chamber for the lateral discharge of the said strand of tobacco, and a cigarette paper shell filling tube disposed adjacent to said outlet to receive therefrom said strand of tobacco to thereby form a cigarette.

Apparatus for manufacturing cigarettes, comprising a tobacco hopper having a lower aperture, dispensing means receiving tobacco from said aperture and dispersing said tobacco, a tobacco supply chamber disposed below said hopper to receive tobacco from said dispensing means, conveyor means in said tobacco supply chamber for forming tobacco into a strand, an outlet on said tobacco supply chamber for the lateral discharge of the said strand of tobacco, a cigarette paper shell filling tube disposed adjacent to said outlet to receive therefrom said strand of tobacco to thereby form a cigarette, and a cigarette paper shell forming device containing a hollow shaping and centering device provided with a feeder opening disposed at the end of said filling tube and in line therewith for the insertion of said tobacco strand into said cigarette paper shell, said cigarette shells being supplied and cigarettes removed from said filling tube by means of a sliding carriage.