Abstract: An apparatus for making cigarettes has a plate on pegs holding paper rolls, a cover plate having second holes matching the holes in the holder plate, the cover plate engaging alignment pegs, a fill tray having third holes having a common diameter larger than the diameter of the second holes, the fill tray having keyhole corner openings engaging the alignment pegs allowing a range of lateral positions one of which is a closed position with no passage between the third holes in the fill tray and the second holes, and another being an open position with the third holes aligned with the second holes, such that moving the fill tray from the closed position to the open position allows the smoking material in the third holes to fall through the second holes in the cover plate into the paper rolls in the first holes of the holder plate.

Abstract: An apparatus can include a holder plate and a carriage assembly. The holder plate includes a plurality of through-holes configured to receive containers having an interior cavity. The carriage assembly comprises one or more carriage plates and tamper rods, the carriage plates having a plurality of through-holes. Each of the tamper rods can be slidably disposed in a respective one of the plurality of through-holes of the carriage plate. Each of the tamper rods can be independently weighted to provide a force independent of the other of the tamper rods and can be independently movable relative to the other of the tamper rods. The carriage assembly can be configured to be aligned with the holder plate such that the each of the tamper rods provides a compressive force to a filler material within the interior cavity of each of the containers.