Apparatus for direct and circuitous transport of cigarettes or the like from manufacturing to processing machines

US3952854A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Hauni-Werke Korber & Co. K.G. · DE

Inventors

• Fritz Selonke · Hamburg, DE
• Ulrich Bornfleth

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 25, 1974
• Grant date: Apr 27, 1976
• Expiry date: Sep 25, 1994

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A24C5/35
• WIPO field: Other consumer goods
• WIPO sector: Other fields

Abstract

Apparatus for regulating the movement of cigarettes from a maker to a packing machine has a first multi-conveyor transporting unit which normally delivers cigarettes directly to a bin for the block forming device at the inlet of the packing machine, and a second multi-conveyor transporting unit which can deliver cigarettes to the last conveyor of the first unit in response to actuation of a switchover device. The latter normally transfers cigarettes from the maker to the first conveyor of the first unit but is caused to transfer cigarettes to the first conveyor of the second unit in response to detection of a pile-up of cigarettes on an intermediate conveyor of the first unit. The path which is defined by the second unit communicates with the interior of a variable-volume magazine which can accept cigarettes, whereby its volume automatically increases, when the packing machine is slowed down or arrested while the maker continues to supply cigarettes at a normal rate. The magazine discharges cigarettes into the path, and its volume thereby automatically decreases, when the packing machine operates normally but the maker is slowed down or arrested. The discharge end of the path is no…