The invention relates to a feeding device for a wrapping machine for making fillers or cigars comprising at least two cutting beds interchangeable in place and adapted to cut a bunch leaf or wrapper, said beds being alternately displaced from a position for receiving a tobacco leaf to a leaf cutting position following the former in the direction of passage for delivering the bunch leaf or the wrapper to a wrapping mechanism and conversely. The invention has for its object to provide a machine of short dimension in the direction of passage, the operation of which is quieter than that of the existing machines.
A device for storing substantially similar tobacco leaf portions in a tape reel or bobbin comprising a cutting station for cutting substantially similar leaf portions from a whole or a half tobacco leaf, a reel for winding a tape, a table for guiding and supporting the tape to be wound and a transport mechanism for transferring tobacco leaf portions from the cutting station to the supporting surface of the table, said device is provided with more than one cutting member for cutting simultaneously more than one leaf portion of the same shape, while the transport mechanism comprises an orientating member for aligning the leaf portions, in order to materially raise the production capacity of said device.
