Apparatus for assembling arrays of cigarettes or the like

US4362235A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Hauni-Werke Korber & Co. K.G. · DE

Inventor

• Otto Erdmann · Hamburg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 19, 1980
• Grant date: Dec 7, 1982
• Expiry date: Sep 19, 2000

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65G57/32
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Apparatus for assembling multi-layer arrays of cigarettes in a packing machine has a magazine with a reciprocable support having platforms at different levels and a group of cigarette-delivering downwardly extending ducts above each platform so that each platform normally supports a layer of cigarettes. An intermittently driven conveyor has a series of receptacles which are adjacent to one side of the magazine and are open at least at those ends which face the platform. The magazine has elongated slot-shaped openings which are adjacent to the platforms and serve for evacuation of layers from the magazine into the neighboring receptacles during the periods of dwell of the conveyor and in response to penetration of reciprocable pushers into the magazine to move each layer along the respective platform, through the aligned opening and into the adjacent receptacle. Each next-following receptacle contains a larger number of layers than the preceding receptacle, and the articles of the layers are held against uncontrolled movement during transfer from the magazine as well as during movement with the receptacles by elongated plate-like guide members which overlie the layers issuing from t…