Patent ID: 9295283
Filing Date: 2016-03-29
CPC Classification: A24C

Claim Text:
1. A cigarette forming device comprising: a base with first and second support plates extending therefrom; a translatable cylinder and a fixed cylinder extending between the support plates and rotatably mounted thereto, the translatable cylinder being translatably moveable between a first position in which the translatable cylinder is spaced from the fixed cylinder, and a second position in which the translatable cylinder is substantially adjacent to the fixed cylinder; a looped belt trained around the translatable and fixed cylinders, wherein a portion of the belt between the translatable and fixed cylinders forms an open recess adapted to receive a quantity of loose tobacco when the translatable cylinder is in the first position, and wherein the portion forms a substantially cylindrical recess in which the tobacco may be shaped into a tobacco rod when the belt is moved about the translatable and fixed cylinders when the translatable cylinder is in the second position; a pushing device slidably and rotatably coupled to the fixed cylinder and configured for movement around and along the fixed cylinder, wherein the pushing device comprises an pushing element adapted to engage and slidably push one end of a shaped tobacco rod in the cylindrical recess toward the first support plate, and wherein rotation of the pushing device about the fixed cylinder causes the pushing element to move the translatable cylinder from the second position to the first position.