Patent · US Expired

Apparatus for filling chargers with cigarettes or the like

US4487001A · kind A · utility

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Assignee

Hauni-Werke Korber & Co. K.G. · DE

Inventors

Gerhard Tolasch · Bargteheide, DE
Bernhard Schubert · Wittingen, DE
G/u/ nter Menge · Hamburg, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Oct 19, 1981
Grant date	Dec 11, 1984
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Oct 19, 2001

Classification

Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
CPC primaryA24C5/354
WIPO fieldOther consumer goods
WIPO sectorOther fields

Abstract

The lower end portion of a magazine for parallel cigarettes or like rod-shaped articles contains a horizontal grid of parallel rods which divide the outlet opening of the lower end portion into parallel passages wherein the cigarettes descend into an empty tray therebelow. When the tray is filled (such filling takes place while the tray descends, either continuously or stepwise), the passages are blocked by rod-like closing members which are parallel to the rods of the grid and are movable from inoperative positions behind the rods of the grid to intercepting positions in or above the passages. The closing members are oscillated and/or vibrated to prevent jamming of passages and/or bridging of cigarettes above the grid. The mechanism for moving the closing members between inoperative and intercepting positions employs a pneumatic motor or an electromagnet which can shift a common carrier for the closing members. The mechanism is actuated in automatic response to completed filling of a tray.

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