Patent ID: 8607801

Claim:
A tool for leveling tobacco having dust as said tool pulls tobacco down a chute of a cigarette-packing device and into a chamber of the cigarette-packing device utilized to fill a paper tube with the tobacco so as to form a finished cigarette, for eliminating the dust of the tobacco from being pulled into the chamber of the cigarette-packing device by skipping over the dust of the tobacco being pulled down the chute of the cigarette-packing device, and for packing ends of the tobacco in the chamber of the cigarette-packing device more densely so as to form end plugs that prevent the tobacco from leaving the paper tube to thereby prevent collapsing of the finished cigarette, comprising: a) a handle; and b) a head; wherein said head has: a) a stationary shoe portion; and b) a pair of movable arm portions; wherein said head extends from said handle; wherein said stationary shoe portion of said head is for leveling the tobacco as said tool pulls the tobacco down the chute of the cigarette-packing device and into the chamber of the cigarette-packing device; wherein said pair of movable arm portions of said head extend from said stationary shoe portion of said head; wherein said pair of movable arm portions of said head are for eliminating the dust of the tobacco from being pulled into the chamber of the cigarette-packing device by skipping over the dust of the tobacco being pulled down the chute of the cigarette-packing device; and wherein said pair of movable arm portions of said head are for packing the ends of the tobacco in the chamber of the cigarette-packing device more densely so as to from the end plugs that prevent the tobacco from leaving the paper tube to thereby prevent collapsing of the finished cigarette; wherein said stationary shoe portion of said head has a front surface; and wherein said front surface stationary shoe portion of said head has a pair of recesses; wherein said stationary shoe portion of said head has a pair of ends; wherein said pair of recesses of said front surface of said stationary shoe portion of said head extend inwardly to inner terminators from said pair of ends of said stationary shoe portion of said head, respectively; wherein each movable arm portion of said head has a proximal end; and wherein said proximal end of each movable arm portion of said head is pivotally connected to said inner terminator of an associated recess of said front surface of said stationary shoe portion of said head by a living hinge.