Patent ID: 9179705
Filing Date: 2015-11-10
Classification: A24C

Abstract:
1. A cigarette-making machine comprising: a housing including a surface having an aperture; a compacting chamber in communication with the aperture for receiving loose tobacco; a compacting member mounted for reciprocal up and down motion from an initial position adjacent the top of the compacting chamber toward the bottom of the compacting chamber to compact loose tobacco in the compacting chamber into a rod-like shape and away from the rod-like compacted tobacco shape; a nipple for receiving a hollow cigarette tube disposed outside and adjacent an ejection side of the compacting chamber; an injection spoon mounted for reciprocal lateral movement from a rest position within the compacting chamber across the compacting chamber to transport the rod-like compacted tobacco shape past the delivery side of the compacting chamber, through the nipple and into a hollow cigarette tube; an electrically powered motor; a dual purpose control disk having an axle positioned along its central axis adapted to be rotated about its axis by the motor, the disk having opposed outer first and second faces; the compacting member being coupled to a first member associated with the first face of the control disk that moves the compacting member up and down in the compacting chamber as the control disk is rotated by the motor; and the injection spoon being coupled to a second member associated with the control disk axle that moves the injection spoon across the compacting chamber as the control disk is rotated by the motor; wherein the first and second members are positioned respectively on the front face of the control disk and on the control disk axle to first move the compacting member toward the bottom of the compacting chamber to compact loose tobacco in the compacting chamber into a rod-like shape and then to move the injection spoon across the compacting chamber to transport the rod-like compacted tobacco shape past the ejection side of the compacting chamber, through the nipple and into a hollow cigarette tube, and the first member on the first face of the control disk comprises a heart-shaped drive slot and a pin that moves within the drive slot as the control disk is rotated.