Imperial Tobacco Limited

Reemtsma Cigarettenfabriken Gmbh

Inga Gurke

Regine Wolfgramm

Tim Collins

Solvey Knorr

Steve Holloway

Neil Southey

Guillaume Devivier

Henning Seidel

Slavomir Novak

Udo Demmer

Jan Fuhrmann

Holger Fleischhauer

Heiner Burghart

Gabriele Hinsch-Obermann

Alistair Buckingham

Paul Jenkins

Sara Temple

An apparatus () for filling cigarette tubes with tobacco comprises a base (), a magazine chamber () adapted to receive a supply of tobacco (T), a lid () adapted to close a top of the magazine chamber (), a filling chamber () adapted to receive the tobacco to be filled into a cigarette tube, a stamp () adapted to shape the tobacco of the filling chamber (), and a slider arranged in the filling chamber () which transfers the tobacco of the filling chamber () into a cigarette tube supported in front of the filling chamber (). A press-down lever () is connected to the stamp () and to a coupling mechanism in order to move the slider after actuation of the stamp (). A pusher for forwarding the tobacco in the magazine chamber can also be coupled to the press-down lever.

Apparatus for filling cigarette tubes with tobacco

A package for tobacco-related articles comprises a shell including a front wall, a rear wall, two lateral walls, and a top side. A lid is adapted to close the top side of the shell when in a closed state. The lid is swivelably connected to the rear wall or one of the lateral walls at a hinge line and is swivelable about the hinge line for transfer between the closed state and an opened state. The lid comprises a top wall including a front edge, a rear edge, two lateral edges, and a bottom side and is adapted to close the top side of the shell when the lid is in its closed state. A beveled edge wall extends from at least the edge of the top wall of the lid opposite to the hinge line and fits into the shell when the lid is in its closed state.

Package for tobacco-related articles

A package () for tobacco-related articles comprises an outer shell (), a lid () which is adapted to close the top side of the outer shell () and can be swivelled about a hinge line, and an inner shell (). The inner shell () accommodates a plurality of tobacco-related articles and can be shifted in the outer shell () from a retracted position to an advanced position, which enables access to the tobacco-related articles. A cutout () in the outer shell () exposes part of the inner shell () and enables transmitting a force onto the inner shell () for moving the inner shell (). A connector () pushes the lid () into its opened state when the inner shell () is moved into its advanced position and pulls the lid () into its closed state when the inner shell () is moved into its retracted position.

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Hamburg, Germany

Inga Gurke