Claims
- 1. A cigarette making machine including means for conveying a layer of tobacco to be showered pneumatically to form a cigarette filler stream, shower means for showering two portions of the tobacco stream along separate paths towards a downstream end of the shower means at which two separate laterally-spaced sub-filler streams of tobacco collect, and means for combining the two sub-filler streams to form a cigarette filler stream of which the respective sub-filler streams form contiguous horizontally spaced components, said combining means including means for causing movement of the sub-filler streams from laterally spaced positions to positions in which the sub-filler streams contact one another.
- 2. A cigarette making machine according to claim 1 including a conveyor for conveying the completed cigarette filler stream and arranged to move along fixed side walls defining a trough having a progressively increasing depth in the region in which the sub-filler streams are formed, so that the depth at each position along the conveyor is just sufficiently substantially to accommodate the quantity of each sub-filler stream formed at that position.
- 3. A cigarette making machine including means for conveying a layer of tobacco to be showered pneumatically to form a cigarette filler stream, shower means for showering two portions of the tobacco stream along separate paths towards a downstream end of the shower means at which two separate laterally-spaced sub-filler streams of tobacco collect, and means for combining the two sub-filler streams to form a cigarette filler stream of which the respective sub-filler streams form contiguous horizontally spaced components, said combining means including means for causing movement of the sub-filler streams from laterally spaced positions to positions in which the sub-filler streams contact one another, in which the shower means comprises a channel divided longitudinally into two parts which extend around two different part-cylindrical surfaces offset from one another but having substantially parallel axes, whereby the portions of the channel downstream of the part-cylindrical surfaces lie side-by-side so as to convey portions of the tobacco shower to form the respective sub-filler streams in the vicinity of the conveyor.
Priority Claims (1)
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Parent Case Info
This is a continuation of application Ser. No. 885,142, filed July 14, 1986 U.S. Pat. No. 4,742,8340.
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