Patent ID: 8011372
Filing Date: 2011-09-06
Classification: A24C

Abstract:
1. Device for filling cigarette tubes with tobacco, wherein the device comprises at least one separating means adapted to detach a tobacco portion from a tobacco block; at least one portioning means adapted to portion the tobacco block; at least one transport means adapted to transport the tobacco block towards the separating means; wherein the portioning means and the transport means are coupled such that the transport means transports the tobacco block in a number of transport steps, and wherein the at least one portioning means is coupled to the at least one transport means by a gear mechanism, wherein the gear mechanism comprises at least one toothed rack along the slide rod of the transport means and at least one contact element adapted to engage a tooth of the rack to urge the slide rod forward by one pitch of the toothed rack; and at least one filling means adapted to fill a cigarette tube with the detached tobacco portion, characterized in that