Manual filling device for cigarette tubes, particularly for cigarette filter tubes

摘要

A manual filling device for cigarette tubes, comprising a tobacco compression chamber extending in longitudinal direction of said device and being defined by a housing (12) disposed in a bottom part (14). A pressing bar (16) is provided on a lid (18) which is hinged to the housing (12) and covers said housing (12). A spoon (20) and an ejector slide (22) is provided for ejecting a compressed tobacco bar from the tobacco compression chamber through an opening (24) formed in said housing (12) into a cigarette (filter) tube. A clamping member (59) clampingly retains the cigarette tube on a socket piece disposed at the exit from the tobacco compression chamber. A locking or snap-in unit (60) releasably connects said housing (12) and said lid (18), and includes a substantially hook-shaped detent (62) provided on an elastic web (78) joined to the free end (64) of the lid (18) opposite the hinged connection (34) between lid (18) and housing (12). The detent is adapted to be engaged with a locking protrusion (66) formed on the housing (12). The detent (62) is provided on an elastic web (78) which in its turn is joined through a second elastic web (75) to the free end (64) of the lid (18). The second web includes a free end (77) with an actuating lever (76) for lifting the detent (62) off the locking protrusion (66) to thereby facilitate disengagement and/or engagement of the locking or snap-in unit (60).