Patent ID: 8522791
Filing Date: 2013-09-03
Classification: A24C

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for filling a prefabricated cigarette tube, the apparatus comprising: a housing; a tobacco chamber with a tobacco holder; a movable pressing bar configured so as to form tobacco introduced into the tobacco chamber into a tobacco strand; an abutment for an end of the tobacco strand, the abutment being assigned to the tobacco holder, wherein a first length of the to be formed tobacco strand can be adjusted to prefabricated cigarette tubes having different filling-cavity lengths by adjusting a second length of the pressing bar; and a slider configured to be moved relative to the housing so as to fill the prefabricated cigarette tube with the tobacco strand, wherein the tobacco holder is displacably arranged relative to the abutment in a movement direction of the slider by a distance which approximately corresponds to the different filling-cavity lengths.