Device for filling cigarette tubes

Abstract

A device for filling prefabricated cigarette tubes, having a housing (1), a tobacco chamber (17), a trough-shaped tobacco holder (7), a compression bar (23), a stop (31) for one end of the plug of tobacco, a finger or bushing (14) on which one end of a cigarette tube can be placed and a sliding cover (11). The length of the plug of tobacco formed can be adjusted to fit cigarette tubes of different lengths by adjusting the length of the tobacco chamber (17) and the length of the compression bar (23). The invention does this by virtue of the fact that the stop (31) defining one end of the tobacco chamber is adjustable in a direction parallel to the longitudinal axis of the tobacco holder (7) and that at least two movable sections (41, 42, 43) of the compression bar, each of different length and each capable of acting as an extension to a stationary part (30) of the bar, are mounted on a rotatable component (40) whose axis of rotation (45) is parallel to the surface (44) of the compression bar.

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