Machine for sorting, filling and closing hollow containers

US4782644A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Robert Bosch GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Rolf Haarer · Bad Sobernheim, DE
• Theo Moser · Steinenberg, DE
• Klaus Reum · Stuttgart, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 17, 1987
• Grant date: Nov 8, 1988
• Expiry date: Jun 17, 2007

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S53/90
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A machine for making fuel elements/aerosol generating cartridges useful for smoking articles, the machine providing for receiving a random supply of tubular, open-end containers, orienting the containers to position them for filling, filling the containers with a predetermined amount of aerosol generating material, and capping the open ends by inserting fuel elements therein.