Tobacco feed for automatic cigarette maker

Claim 1

A TOBACCO FEED FOR AUTOMATIC CIGARETTE MARKERS, SAID FEED HAVING A BLOWER DEVICE HAVING TWO MAIN BLOWER OUTLETS TO SEPARATE THE SHREDDED TOBACCO FIBERS FROM THE STEMS AND OTHER HEAVY IMPURITIES, TO FORM A STREAM OF SELECTED TOBACCO, SAID BLOWER OUTLETS CONSTRUCTED AND ARRANGED TO DIRECT A FIRST AND A SECOND CONVERGENT AIR CURRENT TO EFFECT SAID SEPARATION, A FIRST TOBACCO SELECTING DUCT, FORMED BETWEEN AN INTERCEPTOR SCREEN INCLINDED SLIGHTLY FORWARDLY FROM THE VERTICAL AND AN UPPER SCREEN INCLINED SLIGHTLY UPWARDLY FROM THE HORIZONTAL, BOTH SAID INCLINATIONS IN THE DIRECTION OF THE TOBACCO FLOW, MEANS FOR DIRECTING SAID FIRST AIR CURRENT SO THAT IT GRAZED THE UPPER SCREEN SO AS TO TEND TO PROJECT THE SELECTED TOBACCO IN A DIRECTION WHICH IS SLANTED SLIGHTLY UPWARDLY WITH RESPECT TO THE HORIZONTAL AND SUBSTANTIALLY PERPENDICUALR WITH RESPECT TO THE INTERCEPTOR SCREEN, MEANS FOR DIRECTING SAID SECOND AIR CURRENT SO THAT ITS AIR STREAM IS DIRECTED UPWARDLY AND GRAZES THE INTERCEPTOR SCREEN BEFORE PASSING THROUGH SAID FIRST DUCT, A SUBSTANTIALLY VERTICAL WALL OPPOSING SAID INTERCEPTOR SCREEN TO DEFINE, WITH SAID INTERCEPTOR SCREEN, FRONT AND REAR WALLS OF A SECOND DUCT FOR SELECTING THE HEAVIER STEMS AND IMPURITIES, SAID SECOND CURRENT TRAVERSING ACROSS THE ENTRANCE TO SAID SECOND DUCT IN ITS PATH TO SAID FIRST DUCT, MEANS FOR ADJUSTING THE HEIGHT OF THE INTERCEPTOR SCREEN AND MEANS FOR ADJUSTING THE INCLINATION OF THE UPPER SCREEN.