Apparatus, systems and methods for rotational drive modules for use with cigarette tobacco filling devices

Abstract

A cigarette tobacco filler device includes a cigarette tobacco loader for loading tobacco leaves into a tobacco receiving cavity, wherein the cigarette tobacco loader includes a loader body and a loader arrangement. The loader body has a loading cavity and a loading opening aligned with the tobacco receiving cavity. The loader arrangement includes a loading pusher movably supported by the loader body to move between first and second positions, and a loader handle pivotally coupled at the loader body with a rotational drive module to move the loading pusher between said first and second positions. At the first position, a loading gap is formed between the pusher end of the loading pusher and the loading opening for receiving the tobacco leaves within the loading gap. At the second position, the pusher end of the loading pusher is driven for pushing the tobacco leaves within the loading gap into the tobacco receiving cavity.

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]The present application claims priority to and is a Continuation-in-Part of U.S. Non-provisional application Ser. No. 13 / 374,219 filed Dec. 15, 2011, titled “CIGARETTE TOBACCO FILLER DEVICE” which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety. This application is also related to the subject matter disclosed in U.S. Provisional Application No. 61 / 209,953 filed Mar. 9, 2009, titled “CIGARETTE TUBE INJECTOR”; U.S. patent application Ser. No. 12 / 584,110 filed Aug. 31, 2009, titled “CRANK TYPE AUTOMATIC CIGARETTE TUBE INJECTOR”; U.S. patent application Ser. No. 13 / 507,774 filed Jul. 26, 2012, titled “CRANK TYPE AUTOMATIC CIGARETTE TUBE INJECTOR” and U.S. patent application Ser. No. 14 / 224,036 filed Mar. 24, 2014, titled “CIGARETTE TOBACCO FILLER DEVICE” which are hereby incorporated by reference in their entirety.FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0002]This invention is related to drive modules for use with a cigarette tobacco filling devices.BACKGR...

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Benefits of technology

[0013]Another advantage of the invention is to provide cigarette tobacco filler devices, wherein the pivotally downward movement of the operation handle will ensure the device is stable on a loading surface to prevent any unwanted movement of the device during operation.

[0014]Another advantage of the invention is to provide cigarette tobacco filler devices, wherein the pivotally downward movement of an operation handle will transmit a rotatable force to drive a power shaft and rotational drive shaft module to effectively actuate the enclosing window and the plunger. In other words, the enclosing window and the plunger are actuated by the power shaft to effectively transmit the rotatable force to the enclosing window and the plunger.

[0015]Another advantage of the invention is to provide cigarette tobacco filler devices, wherein an operation handle provides triple-action actuation of an enclosing window, a plunger, and release of a cigarette tube in one single downward movement.

[0016]Another advantage of the invention is to provide cigarette tobacco filler devices, wherein a power shaft is made of rigid material and is strong enough to transmit the rotatable force to actuate an enclosing window and a plunger.

[0017]Another advantage of the invention is to provide cigarette tobacco filler devices, wherein an operation handle can be unlocked to freely rotate with respect to a power shaft such that a plunger and an enclosing window will not be actuated by the operation handle when the devices are not intentionally used.

[0018]Another advantage of the invention is to provide cigarette tobacco filler devices, wherein a tobacco receiving cavity can be closed by an enclosing window when the devices are not in use so as to prevent dust or other particles being accumulated in a tobacco receiving cavity.

Problems solved by technology

Doing this by hand requires a lot of time and it is also difficult to stuff tobacco leaves with a uniform and proper compactness.

If the tobacco leaves are wrapped too compressed, the cigarettes can be difficult to smoke; if the tobacco leaves are wrapped too loose, it can be easy to drop the tobacco leaves and thereby extinguish the lit cigarette.

Currently there are machines can help people to make cigarettes with their own tobacco, but there are some problems that plague these machines.

However, one of the drawbacks of the manual crank-type machine is that the injection is not automatic.

Another drawback is that the tobacco leaves cannot be evenly loaded within the cigarette paper tube such that compactness of the resulting cigarette is not uniform.

But the problem is the size of this kind of machine is large.

However, when the spiral nozzle is rotated for delivering the tobacco leaves, the tobacco leaves can be shredded into small pieces within the cigarette paper tube.

Therefore, when the cigarette is lit, the cigarette ash cannot be held properly while smoking and will fall unexpectedly, causing a messy and potentially dangerous situation.

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