Tabletop semi-automatic cigarette-making machine

摘要

A semi-automatic cigarette-making machine of the tobacco-injecting type including a housing with an aperture and a compacting chamber in communication with the aperture for receiving loose tobacco, a compacting member mounted for manual reciprocal up and down motion from an initial position adjacent the top of the compacting chamber toward the bottom of the compacting chamber in response to the rotation of a pair of opposed gears, and an injection spoon mounted for automatic powered reciprocal lateral movement from a rest position within the compacting chamber across the compacting chamber to transport rod-like compacted tobacco shapes past the ejection side of the compacting chamber and into a hollow cigarette tube.

主权项

1. A semi-automatic cigarette-making machine comprising:
a housing including a surface having an aperture for receiving loose tobacco, a delivery side with an exit port and a rotary handle for operating the cigarette-making machine; a compacting chamber in communication with the aperture for receiving loose tobacco; a compacting member mounted for manually operated 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 tobacco shape at the bottom of the compacting chamber, the handle being affixed to a laterally disposed rotatably mounted shaft for operating a pair of gears to move the compacting member reciprocally up and down from the initial position toward the bottom of the compacting chamber; an injection spoon for transporting the rod-like tobacco shape mounted for reciprocal lateral movement across the compacting chamber; an electrically powered motor coupled to the injection spoon to move the injection spoon across the compacting chamber to transport the rod-like compacted tobacco shape through the exit port in the delivery side of the compacting chamber into a hollow cigarette tube positioned opposite the port; and a first spur gear perpendicularly disposed on the rotary handle shaft with vertically disposed circumferential gear teeth for engaging a rack gear slidably mounted for reciprocal movement coincident with the direction of movement of the reciprocating compacting member, the rack gear having a series of gear teeth running along its bottom surface shaped, dimensioned and positioned to engage the gear teeth of the first spur gear and lateral gear teeth extending from opposite edges of the rack gear structured, dimensioned and disposed to engage the gear teeth of a pair of adjacent spur gears linked to the reciprocating compacting member to move the compacting member as the rack gear is moved by operation of the spur gears.