Patent ID: 6557560
Filing Date: 2003-05-06
Classification: A24C

Abstract:
A cigarette making machine of the type wherein a portion of tobacco for one cigarette is compressed into a generally cylindrical form within a compressed tobacco chamber, said tobacco being thereafter axially moved and injected by an elongated spoon member into a preformed cigarette tube disposed on a hollow nipple exteriorly of said machine, said compressed tobacco chamber having a portion thereof defined by a moveable wall member, said moveable wall member being actuated by a handle exteriorly of said machine through at least two toggle joints linking said moveable wall member to framing of said machine, said moveable wall member being displaceable between a retracted position and a tobacco compacting position;wherein each said toggle joints has a first and a second link pivotally interconnected at a joint; said first link of each said toggle joints being in pivotal connection with said moveable wall member; said second link of each said toggle joints being in pivotal connection with said framing of said machine; and wherein each said first links has a substantially rounded head portion at said free end thereof, said rounded head portions being in operative contact with an abutment surface of said moveable wall member, for strengthening the pivotal connection therebetween, said second links having a substantially rounded head portion at said free end thereof, said rounded head portions being in operative contact with an abutment surface of said framing of said machine for strengthening the pivotal connection therebetween.