Cigarette making machine hopper
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Sep 23, 1980
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Mar 7, 1979
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Mar 18, 1978
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A hopper for a cigarette making machine includes a tobacco feeding device which delivers tobacco into a downwardly extending channel in which a column of tobacco is formed, and means for feeding tobacco continuously from the lower end of the channel, characterised in that the tobacco feeding device includes means for feeding tobacco onto a conveyor which carries the tobacco to a position at which it drops off the conveyor and enters the upper end of the channel, a spiked conveyor which is spaced slightly from the first conveyor and is arranged to pick up any lumps of tobacco of significant size from the firt conveyor, and means for opening up the lumps of tobacco and for returning the opened up tobacco into the main stream of tobacco.
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