Machine for filling cigarette tubes of different lengths

A machine for filling cigarette tubes, the machine comprising a body (100), a spoon (120) receiving a load of tobacco and shaping it into a cylinder, an endpiece (210) on which a cigarette tube is placed, a clamping device (330) suitable for clamping such a tube onto the endpiece, and a slide (200) which carries said endpiece and which is movable in translation along the spoon (120), the machine further comprising an end abutment arrangement (130) for the tobacco, the arrangement being directed in such a manner as to hold the tobacco in the direction of the tube to be filled, said abutment arrangement (130) comprising a contact piece (131) making contact with the tobacco, which contact piece is movable between at least two positions, one position in which said contact piece (131) occupies a portion of the tobacco-receiving zone in the spoon (120), and another position in which it leaves said portion empty, such that the extent of the fill of tobacco introduced into a tube differs depending on the position of said piece (131), wherein the abutment arrangement (130) includes two pieces (131, 135), one of which pieces (135) is mounted stationary relative to the spoon (120) and body (100), and the other of which pieces (131), forming said contact piece, is movably mounted on said stationary piece (135).