EP1138214B1 - Appareil de confection personnelle de cigarettes - Google Patents

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EP1138214B1
EP1138214B1 EP01116697A EP01116697A EP1138214B1 EP 1138214 B1 EP1138214 B1 EP 1138214B1 EP 01116697 A EP01116697 A EP 01116697A EP 01116697 A EP01116697 A EP 01116697A EP 1138214 B1 EP1138214 B1 EP 1138214B1
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sleeve
cigarette
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Wolfgang Trinkies
Kurt Burghart
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British American Tobacco Germany GmbH
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A24—TOBACCO; CIGARS; CIGARETTES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES; SMOKERS' REQUISITES
    • A24C—MACHINES FOR MAKING CIGARS OR CIGARETTES
    • A24C5/00—Making cigarettes; Making tipping materials for, or attaching filters or mouthpieces to, cigars or cigarettes
    • A24C5/02—Cigarette-filling machines
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A24—TOBACCO; CIGARS; CIGARETTES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES; SMOKERS' REQUISITES
    • A24C—MACHINES FOR MAKING CIGARS OR CIGARETTES
    • A24C5/00—Making cigarettes; Making tipping materials for, or attaching filters or mouthpieces to, cigars or cigarettes
    • A24C5/40—Hand-driven apparatus for making cigarettes
    • A24C5/42—Pocket cigarette-fillers

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  • the present invention relates to a cigarette maker and its components, e.g. a sleeve or cigarette conveyor with one Lifting device, a tobacco rod shaping device with a plucking roller, a tobacco rod conveyor with a spring tappet and a sleeve aligner with a narrow insertion gap for the sleeve.
  • a sleeve or cigarette conveyor with one Lifting device e.g. a tobacco rod shaping device with a plucking roller, a tobacco rod conveyor with a spring tappet and a sleeve aligner with a narrow insertion gap for the sleeve.
  • a sleeve or cigarette conveyor for a cigarette-making device to provide the pods reliably sporadically and if possible, feeds the tamping process without deformation.
  • Another object of the present invention is a tobacco rod shaping device to provide a gentle treatment of the long-fiber stuffed tobacco.
  • the invention is also intended to provide a sleeve aligner with which deformed Cigarette tubes in a simple and reliable way back in one processable state can be brought.
  • the present invention is intended to be a self-made cigarette maker provide the mentioned disadvantages of the state technology overcomes.
  • the discharge device is a lifting device, which lifts a sleeve from below out of the sleeve magazine, the Lifting device has a slide, the upper edge of which is a longitudinal trough (sub-format) Has.
  • This sleeve or cigarette conveyor is in particular that by lifting the sleeve out of a magazine in which the sleeves normally lie loosely next to each other, no stresses occur that prevent production Can cause deformations.
  • the ones located above the sleeve to be lifted out other sleeves in the sleeve magazine simply slide on the sleeve to be lifted out and due to their low weight, they cannot remain Generate deformations.
  • the slide in the sleeve magazine is preferably arranged so that the longitudinal trough in the lowered state part of the ground at the lowest point of the Sleeve magazine forms. This is the only point of the sleeve magazine a cigarette tube which, when lowered, into the longitudinal recess "fall in”.
  • the longitudinal trough engages around the sleeve from below without deforming Powers are exercised. This can ensure when moving the slider up that the sleeve comes up without damage, and in particular, that only a sleeve is arranged in the longitudinal trough.
  • the slide can preferably be arranged on a straight wall of the sleeve magazine on which he drives up, with bumpers on the upper part of the wall are arranged, all of the pods except for the one in the trough of the slide is able to convey back into the sleeve magazine.
  • the deflectors can be at least one and preferably two pivotably arranged Have clips that run transversely to the longitudinal recess of the slide and at The slider first comes to rest on the lifted sleeve, while continuing to boot up past the sleeve into slots in the Slide the slider so that they are below the sleeve and when descending the filled cigarette into the cigarette magazine.
  • the deflectors are also used as forwarding devices for the filled cigarette can be used, which this when moving the slide out Lift out the longitudinal recess so that the cigarette automatically enters the cigarette magazine falls.
  • the clips are preferably on one common pivot axis arranged and by means of a lever weight in the direction of rotation so biased that when lifting the sleeve with its middle Sections first press lightly on these while their front sections reject further sleeves.
  • One of the clasps advantageously comes on the filter a filter sleeve where the force generated by the lever weight is none Deformation of the cigarette allowed. Because of the connection of both clips In this state, the other clasp becomes the empty cigarette paper do not deform the sleeve.
  • the holding device for holding the sleeve during the filling process trough-like wrap (top format) on the sleeve or the cigarette from above her at least partially includes.
  • the longitudinal recess of the slide (sub-format) in raised state together with the trough-like encirclement of the Holding device substantially completely enclose the sleeve during the filling process.
  • the cigarette tube is opened after the slide is opened held in place by a wrap from the outside during the tamping process. It is no longer necessary, the sleeve axially by means of a displacement device to drive onto a conical nozzle, as is done in the prior art.
  • the encirclement in the holding device can possibly open pre-deformed sleeves gently brought back into a circular shape.
  • the holding device has sensors in particular a light barrier that detects the presence of a sleeve or cigarette or detect the empty state of the holding device. This creates a control mechanism made available, which ensures that only then another sleeve is inserted into the holding device when the cigarette that was previously manufactured has been ejected.
  • the sleeve magazine and / or the cigarette magazine are designed as drawers, wherein in particular the bottom is designed like a grid. Since not always to be excluded is that tobacco remains in the pod magazine or the cigarette magazine can best be kept free of such tobacco residues, if these remnants just fall through the floor. This is possible if this floor is designed like a grid, for example as a wire grid. If a removable one below the sleeve magazine and / or the cigarette magazine Falling container is provided, the fallen tobacco can without problems be eliminated.
  • the separating device is partially surrounded by a housing Roller with plucking devices arranged on the circumference of the roller, in particular one Plucking roller with plucking pins, by means of which the tobacco material is pressed into the tobacco rod is promoted.
  • This is between the housing and the roller a gap is formed through which the portion formed from the funnel-like plucked tobacco is placed in the press.
  • the funnel-like insertion section has at least one radial to the roll axis directed wall section, in particular a Wall section is pivotally mounted so that it from a fixed Working position can be tilted away from the roller. Radially to the roller attached wall section can the tobacco in the funnel-shaped introduction section be plucked well. If a wall section can be tilted away, can for example after making a number of cigarettes from excess tobacco can be easily removed below the roller, preferably in a removable catcher can fall.
  • the tobacco rod press device has a tobacco chamber that opens and closes from at least one side can be, the movable side part of the chamber preferably by means of an eccentric against spring preload from the open to the closed Position is shifted and the opening width of the chamber preferably by means of a Actuator can be adjusted.
  • the wall sections encompassing the tobacco rod to be formed are according to the invention advantageously provided with an anti-stick coating, whereby pushing the tobacco out of the tobacco chamber can be facilitated.
  • the roller can be used removable. It is also preferably made of a corrosion-resistant material, for example aluminum, with an AlO 2 surface layer.
  • the tobacco rod conveyor for a cigarette maker has a pestle in a tobacco rod containing chamber can extend and retract, the plunger is an outer tube has, in turn, a guide rod that can run on its Front end has an insertion aid for the tobacco material.
  • This training has the advantage that the insertion aid on the guide rod in the tubular pestle can be withdrawn while the tobacco is already located in the cigarette tube, while the outer tube is still attached to the Cigarette holder is in contact.
  • the tobacco that is in the Tobacco press chamber to a slightly smaller diameter than that Inner diameter of the cigarette tube is pressed after insertion into the Cigarette sleeve perform an expansion process that is not by the Insertion aid is hindered.
  • the open tip of the cigarette is from End of the outer tube completed, so that a homogeneous tobacco distribution is made possible in the cigarette and thus essentially at all points is immediately pressure-resistant.
  • the guide rod can Tobacco rod conveyor have at their rear end an approach with which against the pressure of a spring on the outer tube can be pulled out.
  • the insertion aid for the tobacco material runs here into the outer tube. If the guide rod in such a configuration after the cigarette tube has been filled, this remains Outer tube, if it is suitably blocked, initially in contact with the front end of the cigarette. In order to pull the outer tube away from the cigarette, the blocking only has to be released so that the outer tube snaps back. The cigarette tube or the filled cigarette must therefore Filling process and are not moved until after its completion.
  • An insertion aid that can be used according to the invention has essentially the length of the tobacco rod and has a shape that pushes the tobacco rod only supported in the direction of conveyance.
  • it can be considered in one direction toothed leaf or be formed as a scoop.
  • the case aligner according to the invention in particular on a cigarette-making device can be provided, has a recording for the Sleeve on, which consists of a circular gap between a housing and an Housing attached mandrel is made.
  • the circular gap essentially shows that axial length of a cigarette tube on and at the introducer is a device provided with which the circular gap can be narrowed.
  • the cigarette tube becomes a smoothing effect when this tube is pulled out effects, so that the cigarette tubes so treated again without further ado Cigarette manufacturing can be used.
  • one such alignment of the sleeves can be carried out with a few hand movements.
  • the narrowing device has a screw that can be screwed onto the introducer and arranged between mandrel and housing jaws, the gap between the jaws and the mandrel by turning the Clamping screw is narrowed.
  • an O-ring can be provided around the mandrel are, on which an adapter ring is preferably arranged for fixation is.
  • the centering of the O-ring can be used facilitate the insertion of the sleeves into the sleeve aligner using the adapter ring.
  • a cigarette self-manufacturing device has one or several of the assemblies described above, namely a sleeve or Cigarette conveyor, a tobacco rod shaping device, one Tobacco rod conveyor or a case aligner. It shows the advantages associated with these assemblies as described above.
  • the cigarette self-manufacturing device can also be used for motors, in particular electric motors, have for the components to be driven and preferably one electronic sequence control, which uses sensors to determine the respective operating status of the device monitors, regulates and in particular by means of displays makes it recognizable to the outside.
  • a through hole simplifies the Cleaning the device in the area of the tobacco chamber; this can be done in simpler Wise an elongated brush or a device like a pipe cleaner be pushed through.
  • FIG. 1 In the external perspective view of FIG. 1 is a self-made cigarette maker according to the invention can be seen as a whole, each with the housing or cladding sections 10, 20 and 30.
  • the tobacco rod conveyor In the housing section 10 is the tobacco rod conveyor, from which a lens two components can be seen, namely the wheel 120 and the lever 110 of the eccentric drive. Furthermore, a button 60 is on the housing Commissioning of the device is provided as well as display devices 50, which the indicate the respective operating state, namely the plucking of the tobacco, the Pressing the tobacco rod and inserting the tobacco rod into the sleeve.
  • the housing 20 for the tobacco rod shaping device In the middle is the housing 20 for the tobacco rod shaping device, which will be explained in more detail below.
  • Collection container for tobacco residues is provided, which on its aperture 22 after can be pushed out at the front.
  • the lever 62 can be the front Fold away wall section 214 to the front, and close it later Descriptive plucking roller 220 sits to empty the tobacco magazine 210 in rotation.
  • the bayonet lock 61 With the help of the bayonet lock 61, the plucking roller be taken out, which will also be described later.
  • the case or cigarette conveyor section is located on the side of the housing 20 30, a sleeve magazine 310, a slide 340, an upper format 320 as well has a cigarette magazine 330.
  • the sleeve or cigarette conveyor has a lower one Collection container for tobacco material, which with the help of the panel 32 after can be pulled out at the front.
  • the sleeve magazine 310 is a drawer executed and can be removed on the side wall 34. It is the same Cigarette magazine 330 designed as a drawer, which in turn on the Side wall 36 can be removed.
  • Fig. 2 shown in perspective in an exploded view.
  • the tobacco rod conveyor 100 shown as an axially displaceable ram is trained.
  • the outer tube 130 and the serrated sheet 150 visible, which serves as an insertion aid for the tobacco rod.
  • axial the plunger is moved back and forth by means of an eccentric drive which emerges from the Eccentric disc 120 and the lever 110 is made.
  • a retaining lever 160 with a front locking projection 162 and a rear lever extension 164 is provided, which can run over an edge 112.
  • the tobacco rod shaping device 200 is shown in the middle of FIG. 2. She consists of a tobacco hopper 210 with the opposite upper funnel wall parts 212 and the radially arranged lower Funnel wall parts 214 and 216. The side wall part 214 is shown individually and can be tilted in the direction of the arrows to look down on tobacco the funnel 210 to clean.
  • the housing 240 is arranged, in which one Plucking roller 220 is rotatably mounted, which has plucking pins 222. Between the There is a gap 230 in the peripheral wall of the roller 220 and the housing 240, through which the tobacco plucked from the hopper 210 is conveyed downward becomes. Below the roller is a tobacco chamber 270 into which the like subsidized tobacco previously described falls.
  • the in the drawing of FIG. 2nd front side wall of the tobacco chamber is operated by a press slide 250 formed in the lower housing part towards the central axis of the tobacco chamber 270 and can be moved away from it, by means of an eccentric 260.
  • the tobacco chamber 270 is made from the tobacco that is in through the plucking roller 220 the tobacco chamber 270 is inserted, a tobacco rod is pressed.
  • 3 is such a pressed tobacco rod 70 in the cross-sectional view of FIG
  • the tobacco rod shaping device is shown after being pressed by means of the press slide 250 was formed. 3 is only used here to illustrate the Shape and location of the pressed tobacco rod 70 used.
  • the eccentric 260 is only shown schematically and rotated by 90 ° for better illustration. In the event of a real tamping process taking place, the slide valve 250 would in its position on tobacco rod 70 remain until it is pushed out.
  • Sleeve or cigarette conveyor 300 shown. Its main components are Sleeve magazine 310, the sleeve pusher 340 with the sub-format 342, the is formed as a longitudinal trough on the top of the slide 340, the Oversize 320 and the cigarette magazine 330.
  • the top format has 320 at its rear end a light barrier, which determines whether a Cigarette tube or a filled cigarette is available in the format.
  • the electronic control then ensures that a new tamping sequence only then begins when the top format 320 is empty again.
  • the plucking roller 220 rotated, about a turn in the conveying direction and then to Clearing tobacco jams at the gap opening of the lower hopper wall 216 back a quarter turn.
  • Tobacco is made from the Funnels 210 are plucked and placed in tobacco chamber 270.
  • the tobacco will treated with care; it remains long-fibred. This funding process is like this often performed as required to adequately fill the tobacco chamber 270 necessary is.
  • the Press slide 250 over the eccentric 260 in the direction of the axial line pushed together so that a pressed tobacco blank is formed.
  • the diameter of this tobacco blank is slightly smaller than the inner one Sleeve diameter.
  • the tobacco is extracted using the Tobacco rod conveyor 100 pushed axially forward into the cigarette tube; this process will be explained in detail later.
  • the slide 340 moves down again and by means of The deflector devices, which will also be described in detail later, will be the finished cigarette transported into the cigarette magazine 330.
  • the making of a Cigarette is finished and the next cigarette is made can start.
  • the individual processes mentioned above advantageously take place one after the other, i.e. it is always either the sleeve or Cigarette conveyor, the tobacco rod conveyor or the tobacco rod shaping device in operation, so the processes do not overlap.
  • FIGS. 4A to 4D and 5 are the Tobacco strand conveyor 100 shown in detail. It consists of an outer tube 130 and a guide rod axially displaceable in this outer tube 130 140. On the front face of the guide rod 140 is the toothed sheet 150 attached, the teeth are inclined forward so that they a Pushing a tobacco rod forward allows a relatively simple one Allowed to slide out of a stuffed tobacco compact.
  • the guide rod 140 is in the outer tube 130 by means of a spring 132 biased, so that the guide rod and outer tube in the powerless Condition.
  • the guide rod 140 can against the spring force 5 to the left in FIG. 5 are pulled out of the outer tube 130.
  • Fig. 5 Also shown in Fig. 5 is the tobacco chamber 270 in which the toothed Sheet 150 and the subsequent sleeve format 320 (Upper format) and 342 (lower format).
  • a sleeve 40 is in sleeve format arranged.
  • An eccentric drive ensures the to-and-fro movement of the tobacco rod conveyor 100 with an eccentric disc 120 and a lever 110, which at its lower End is fixed and a at its upper end by means of a bracket engages rear paragraph 142 of the guide rod 140.
  • the tobacco rod conveyor (ram) 100 moves over eccentric disc 120 Back and forth guided tours.
  • the retaining lever 160 is shown in FIG Latching extension 162 ensures that the outer tube 130 after retracting the Tobacco compact in the sleeve in the format 320, 342 during the backward movement of the Guide rod 140 initially remains in position.
  • the Latching extension 142 the left end of the outer tube 130.
  • the guide rod on the attachment 142 thus initially moves the toothed blade 150 in the outer tube until the lever 110 with an inner edge 112 over again the lever extension 164 slides, which locks the retaining lever 160 with the pipe 130 releases, so that this due to the spring force again in the in Fig. 5 shown location can snap back.
  • the feather indicated 166 ensures that the locked state of the lever 160 is maintained remains until it by means of the lever extension 164 passing the edge 112 is solved.
  • FIGS. 4A to 4D show again.
  • 4A to 4D are only schematic representations; the component shapes are not exactly the same as the real ones Refinements. So the cavity 270 is closed Comparable tobacco chamber, if you imagine that part 250 can be moved to.
  • the trough 342 is comparable to the sub-format of the slide 340.
  • FIG. 4A shows the state in which tobacco in tobacco chamber 270 was pressed, whereby, as also shown in FIG. 5, the toothed sheet 150 is already in the tobacco chamber 270.
  • the outer tube 130 is from the tappet and the rear extension 142 of the guide rod 140 (not visible here) see.
  • Fig. 4B the condition after this process is shown in Fig. 4B.
  • the outer tube 130 is moved together with the toothed sheet 150 for this until the front end of the outer tube 130 at the transition between the tobacco chamber and sleeve format comes to rest.
  • the plunger now remains in this position for some time so that the tobacco can expand in the pod and one exerts sufficient friction on the inner sleeve part.
  • the guide rod 140 is now from the Pulled the outer tube 130 backwards until the toothed blade 150 is complete disappears in the outer tube 130. Because the front face of the outer tube still pressing against the tip of the cigarette, no tobacco can come out of it Cigarette fail. When pulling out the guide rod 140 it will Outer tube 130 locked in position by means of the retaining lever 160, such as was previously described with reference to FIG. 5.
  • FIG. 6A to 6E show in detail the operational sequence for the sleeve or Cigarette conveyor.
  • Fig. 6A the state is shown before a sleeve 40 the Darning process is supplied.
  • the slide 340 has one on its upper side Longitudinal trough on, which serves as sub-format 342 when the slide is complete has come down, it is located at the lowest point of the sleeve magazine 310 and takes up an empty tube in sub-format 342.
  • 6B now shows the State in which this sleeve 40 is started up, via the state 6C to the state in FIG. 6D where subformat 342 and Oversize 320 hold the cigarette tube in place so that the tobacco compact can be introduced into this.
  • Fig. 6C there is already a clip 334 of a separator on the sleeve 40 attached to see, the later in function and design in more detail is described.
  • the slide 340 moves back down and the cigarette is in the state of Fig. 6E in the cigarette magazine 330 promoted.
  • FIG. 6E The state shown in FIG. 6E is enlarged again in FIG. 7 played.
  • the rejection device It consists of the other Top edge of wall 332 has clips 334 attached to the joint Longitudinal axis 336 sit and by means of a lever weight in the direction of rotation are biased.
  • the clips can be countersunk in slots 344 in the slide 340 become. They are rotatably mounted and can therefore be raised when the sleeve is raised 40, in which they are initially above these sleeves 40, on this past and slide into slots 344. They are now in the position shown in Fig. 7 shown state, namely when the slide 340 is lowered underneath the sleeve 40, so that it slants into the top of it Cigarette magazine 330 can fall down.
  • the front ends of the deflectors 334 serve when the sleeve is raised (see Fig. 6B) also as a deflector for any other raised Cigarette tubes, so that it is ensured that only a single tube for Upper format 320 is driven up.
  • a clasp lies in the middle Section preferably on the filter of the sleeve so that deformations be avoided.
  • the sleeve aligner consists of a receiving sleeve 410, one Mandrel 420, jaws 430, one at the front end of the Receiving sleeve attached external thread 460 and a clamping screw 440, which by means of a clamping lever 470 and a ball 480 can be screwed. There is an O-ring at the inner end of the clamping jaws intended.
  • An adapter ring can also be provided around the O-ring 450 centered this O-ring 450 and thus for easier insertion of the Sleeves can provide.
  • a sleeve is in the open state of the clamping screw 440 and thus also the jaws 430 from the right over the mandrel in the circular gap between Insert sleeve 410 and mandrel 420 inserted. After that the Clamping screw slightly tightened on thread 460 using clamping lever 470, so that the gap between the jaws 430 and the mandrel 420 narrows becomes.
  • the sleeve aligner is relative in this form small and can be used as an independent assembly in a previously described Cigarette-making device can be installed, so that also strong deformed sleeves are prepared for the self-production of cigarettes can.
  • the sleeve aligner is very easy and quick to use.

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  1. Appareil de confection personnelle de cigarettes avec un dispositif de formage de boudin de tabac, avec
    une section d'introduction de tabac en forme d'entonnoir (210),
    un dispositif de séparation (220, 222, 230, 24) pour le tabac, et
    un dispositif de pressage de boudin de tabac (250, 260, 270),
       le dispositif de séparation étant un cylindre (220) partiellement entouré d'un boítier (240) avec des dispositifs d'arrachage (222) disposés à la périphérie du cylindre, en particulier un cylindre à picots avec des picots d'arrachage, à l'aide desquels le tabac est transporté dans le dispositif de pressage du boudin de tabac, caractérisé en ce qu'une section de paroi (216) est fixée de manière orientable de telle façon qu'elle peut être éloignée du cylindre (220) par basculement à partir d'une position de travail fixée afin d'éloigner du tabac excédentaire vers le bas, où il peut de préférence tomber dans un dispositif de collecte extractible.
  2. Appareil de confection personnelle de cigarettes suivant la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que la section d'introduction en forme d'entonnoir présente au moins une section de paroi (216) orientée radialement par rapport à l'axe du cylindre.
  3. Appareil de confection personnelle de cigarettes suivant la revendication 1 ou 2, caractérisé en ce que le dispositif de pressage boudin de tabac présente une chambre à tabac (270) qui peut être ouverte et fermée depuis au moins un côté, la partie latérale mobile (280) de la chambre (270) étant de préférence poussée à l'aide d'un excentrique (260) contre la tension d'un ressort de la position ouverte dans la position fermée et la largeur d'ouverture de la chambre pouvant de préférence être réglée à l'aide d'un dispositif de réglage.
  4. Appareil de confection personnelle de cigarettes suivant l'une des revendications 1 à 3, caractérisé en ce que les sections de paroi entourant le boudin de tabac à former sont pourvues d'un revêtement anti-adhésif.
  5. Appareil de confection personnelle de cigarettes suivant l'une des revendications 1 à 4, caractérisé en ce que le cylindre (220) est monté de manière extractible.
  6. Appareil de confection personnelle de cigarettes suivant l'une des revendications 1 à 5, caractérisé en ce que le cylindre à picots (220) est fabriqué dans un matériau résistant à la corrosion, par exemple de l'aluminium, de préférence avec une couche de surface en AlO2.
  7. Appareil de confection personnelle de cigarettes suivant l'une des revendications 1 à 6, avec un convoyeur de boudin de tabac avec un poussoir qui peut coulisser dans et hors d'une chambre (270) contenant un boudin de tabac (70), caractérisé en ce que le poussoir possède un tube extérieur (130), dans lequel une tige de guidage (140) coulisse, laquelle présente à son extrémité avant un dispositif d'introduction (150) pour le boudin de tabac (70).
  8. Appareil de confection personnelle de cigarettes suivant la revendication 7, caractérisé en ce que la tige de guidage (140) présente à son extrémité arrière un épaulement (142), avec lequel elle peut être extraite du tube extérieur (130) contre la pression d'un ressort (132) se trouvant dans celui-ci, le dispositif d'introduction (150) pour le tabac pénétrant dans le tube extérieur (130).
  9. Appareil de confection personnelle de cigarettes suivant l'une des revendications 7 ou 8, caractérisé en ce que le dispositif d'introduction (150) a essentiellement la longueur du boudin de tabac (70) et présente une forme qui facilite le coulissement du boudin de tabac (70) uniquement dans la direction de transport et est par exemple conçu comme une lame dentée, une cuillère à écailles ou un guidage spiralé.
  10. Appareil de confection personnelle de cigarettes suivant l'une des revendications 7 à 9, caractérisé en ce que le poussoir est déplacé d'avant en arrière par un excentrique (110, 120) à son extrémité arrière, un support en prise avec l'excentrique (110, 120), en particulier un levier de retenue (160), maintenant de préférence le tube extérieur en position lors de l'extraction de la tige de guidage après le transport du boudin de tabac.
  11. Appareil de confection personnelle de cigarettes suivant l'une des revendications 1 à 10, caractérisé en ce qu'il présente, en outre, des moteurs, en particulier des moteurs électriques pour les composants à entraíner, ainsi qu'une gestion de déroulement de préférence électronique, qui, à l'aide de capteurs, surveille, règle et en particulier indique à l'aide d'affichage (50) l'état de fonctionnement respectif de l'appareil.
  12. Appareil de confection personnelle de cigarettes suivant l'une des revendications 7 à 11, caractérisé en ce que le poussoir du convoyeur de tabac, la chambre de pressage de tabac du dispositif de formage de boudin et le dispositif d'arrêt des tubes pour arrêter les tubes lors du processus de remplissage, sont disposés selon une ligne, ces éléments étant conçus de telle façon qu'un trou continu soit présent dans la ligne lors de l'extraction du poussoir.
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