Micro-computer controlled fully automatic lighting unit

A microcomputer-controlled fully automatic lighting unit comprising

• a body having a top cover which has a flange at its front edge to facilitate the push and lifting of the top cover, and a front panel thereon on which a master switch, selector, counter, indicator, power indicator, and trouble indicator are provided and electrically connected to a circuit board constructed inside said body;
• a carrier plate inclinedly constructed inside said body in manner that the inner space of said body will be divided and separated into an upper part and a lower part;
• said upper part being able to accommodate a plurality of unpacked individual cigarettes;
• a first transmission line including a motor, a first turning wheel directly connected to said motor at the end of a turning axle of said motor, a second turning wheel being remotely connected to said first turning wheel with a first belt, a third turning wheel being co-axial with and smaller in diameter than said second turning wheel, and a fourth turning wheel being remotely connected to said third turning wheel with a second belt;
• two impellers being co-axially coupled in a manner that one end of the axle which couples said impellers will connect to said fourth turning wheel of said first transmission line;
• said impellers having a plurality of arched grooves formed on their outer surfaces and being located substantially at a position close to the lower end of said inclined carrier plate in a manner that cigarettes on said carrier plate will fall down into the arched grooves naturally;
• a cigarette containing portion generally located under said impellers, having a longitudinal axis parallel to the axis which couples said impellers and having an upward opened round groove longitudinally with a bottom and sidewalls formed in said containing portion, an electric eye installed at the midway of the sidewalls of said round groove, a guide plate provided outside one of said sidewalls to form an elongated passage between it and said sidewall permitting a rack to move forward and backward therein, an electric-heatable wire contained in a backboard attached to said rack at its rear end toward said first transmission line, and two contact switches provided one at each end of said elongated passage;
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• a second transmission line including a motor, a first turning wheel directly connected to said motor at the end of a turning axle of said motor, a second turning wheel being remotely connected to said first turning wheel with a first belt, a third turning wheel being co-axial with and smaller in diameter than said second turning wheel, a fourth turning wheel being remotely connected to said third turning wheel with a second belt, and a gear driven by said fourth turning wheel and being able to engage with said rack.