Feeding particulate material, especially tobacco
US4510949A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Apr 25, 1983 |
| Grant date | Apr 16, 1985 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 25, 2003 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC D)Textiles; Paper
- CPC primaryD01G7/04
- WIPO fieldTextile and paper machines
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
A cigarette making machine or feed apparatus for fibrous material other than tobacco includes a pinned conveyor (20) arranged to feed material from a supply and past refusing means (22) whereby the feed conveyor will carry a metered stream of the material, characterized in that the feed conveyor has relatively high pins (36) which are substantially evenly distributed among relatively low pins (38) or lie in obliquely extending rows (34, 40, 42, 44) between rows of relatively low pins.
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