Patent ID: 8322349

Claim:
A cigarette forming device comprising: a base with first and second support plates extending therefrom; first and second parallel cylinders extending between the support plates and rotatably mounted thereto, the first cylinder further being translatably moveable between a first position in which the first cylinder is spaced from the second cylinder, and a second position in which the first cylinder is substantially adjacent to the second cylinder; a looped belt trained around the cylinders, wherein the portion of the belt between the cylinders forms an open recess adapted to receive a quantity of loose tobacco when the first 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 first cylinder is rolled in the second position; a pushing device slidably coupled to the first or second cylinder and configured for movement along an axis parallel to the cylinders, the pushing device including a pushing surface adapted to engage and push one end of a shaped tobacco rod in the cylindrical recess toward the first support plate.