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To-bac′co-pack′ing ma-chine′.

One for making up tobacco into packages, or into shape for packing.

In patent No. 143,545, the material is fed into an endless band-carrying trough, passing under two rollers, which leave the tobacco of a uniform depth. Two knives or combs are pressed down into the tobacco. One holds back the layer of tobacco, the other divides and drives forward a charge, forces it beneath a plate, and leaves it there. A plunger now descends and pushes forward the charge of measured tobacco into a receiver, which has already been automatically provided with a sheet of printed foil and a wrapper from a printing-press arranged at one side. One set of folding-knives then tolds one end of the package, which is repressed and completed in another receiver by an additional plunger and another set of folding-knives.

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