Cigarette making machine

Claim 1

A TOBACCO FEED MECHANISM HAVING AN INPUT STATION FOR FEEDING A TOBACCO STREAM TO A CIGARETTE ROD FORMER, SAID MECHANISM COMPRISING A FIRST AND SECOND TOBACCO CONVEYING WHEEL, A FIRST AND A SECOND RIM ON SAID FIRST AND SAID SECOND WHEEL, RESPECTIVELY, MEANS FOR DRIVING SAID FIRST RIM AT A FASTER RATE THAN AND IN A DIRECTION OPPOSITE FROM THAT OF SAID SECOND RIM, MEANS FOR SUPPLYING TOBACCO TO THE RIM OF SAID FIRST WHEEL, MEANS DEFINING A DISTORTED SHAPED PASSAGE FOR SAID STREAM, SAID MEANS COMPRISING A FIRST AND A SECOND CONCAVE EACH HAVING AN INNER WALL SPACED FORM SAID FIRST AND SAID SECOND RIMS, RESPECTIVELY, TO FORM A FIRST AND A SECOND ARCUATE PASSAGE PORTION, RESPECTIVELY, SAID WHEELS SO SPACED AS TO DEFINE A TRANSFER SPACE PORTION OF SAID PASSAGE THERE BETWEEN, SAID TRANSFER SPACE PORTION INTERCONNECTING SAID FIRST AND SAID SECOND PORTIONS TO FORM THEREBY SAID S SHAPED PASSAGE, A FIRST AND SECOND SET OF RETRACTABLE PIN ON SAID FIRST AND SAID SECOND WHEEL, RESPECTIVELY, MEANS RESPONSIVE TO EACH ROTATION OF SAID FIRST AND SAID SECOND WHEEL FOR CYCLICALLY ACTUATING SAID FIRST AND SAID SECOND PINS RADIALLY OUTWARDLY AND INWARDLY WITH RESPECT TO THEIR RESPECTIVE RIMS, SO THAT THEY ARE PROGRESSIVELY PROJECTED BOTH SUBSTANTIALLY BEYOND AND ARE WITHDRAWN WITHIN SAID RIMS, MEANS FOR CONTROLLING THE CYCLE OF OPERATION OF SAID FIRST