TRIMMING DEVICE

摘要

A trimming device (20) is disclosed for trimming a cigarette filler stream in a cigarette making machine. The trimming device (20) has two cooperating disc assemblies (40, 42) arranged to rotate at equal speeds in opposite directions about laterally spaced axes. The disc assemblies (40, 42) make contact at an overlapping zone to trim the filler stream in a scissor like action. The uppermost disc (40) has a plurality of circumferentially cut-outs in its periphery which register during rotation of the disc assemblies (40, 42) with cooperating pockets in one of the discs (66) of disc assembly (42) so as to allow additional quantities of tobacco to sequentially project through a respective aligned cut-out into a respective pocket to trap an additional quantity of tobacco in the pocket at predetermined positions alone the cigarette filler stream. Disc assembly (40) has a knife disc (54) and disc assembly (42) has a knife disc (72).