A tobacco discharger associated with a cigarette making machine and an automatic tobacco conveying system for pneumatically conveying tobacco from a storage area to the cigarette machine wherein the conveying system includes a main feed pipe coupled with the source of the stored tobacco and the discharger, air differential pressure means for forcing air through the pipe at a predetermined conveying velocity, a tobacco feeder at the source of stored tobacco for feeding the tobacco into the main f...

A pneumatic tobacco feed system to cigarette making machines operates on a call-dump-fill and thereafter hold cycle. The system includes a discharger over each hopper of a making machine. The discharger is designed to contain a charge of tobacco while awaiting a low tobacco level call signal from the associated maker to dump this tobacco into the hopper. A pneumatically actuated air cylinder assembly operates to maintain the discharger door in a closed position until this signal is received. The...