Apparatus for assembling multi-layer groups of cigarettes or the like

US4061234A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Hauni-Werke Korber & Co. K.G. · DE

Inventors

• Jurgen Bantien · Hamwarde, DE
• Dietrich Bardenhagen
• Johannes Mielke · Reinbek, DE
• Friedel Kruse

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 23, 1974
• Grant date: Dec 6, 1977
• Expiry date: Sep 23, 1994

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65B19/10
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Apparatus for assembling blocks of parallel cigarettes in formations ready for packing has a magazine for a supply of parallel cigarettes and three groups of downwardly extending ducts whose upper ends communicate with the magazine to admit parallel cigarettes and whose lower end portions are located at a block building station. The end portions of the two outer groups of ducts are located in horizontal planes, one above the other, and the end portion of each duct of one outer group registers with the end portion of a duct of the other outer group. The end portions of the median group of ducts are vertical or nearly vertical and are located between the end portions of the two outer groups of ducts. The rows of parallel cigarettes which accumulate in the end portions of the ducts are expelled simultaneously by a pusher whereby the expelled cigarettes pass through a mouthpiece which completes their conversion into a block. The cigarettes descend in the ducts by gravity and owing to the weight of cigarettes in the magazine. Since the block building station receives cigarettes from more than two discrete groups of ducts, the accumulation of rows which can be converted into a block take…