Apparatus for transporting groups of rod-shaped articles of the tobacco processing industry

US4804079A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Korber AG · DE

Inventors

• Gerhard Hensgen · Hamburg, DE
• Siegfried Schlisio · Geesthacht, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 20, 1987
• Grant date: Feb 14, 1989
• Expiry date: Oct 20, 2007

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A24C5/326
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Plain cigarettes which are obtained by subdividing two parallel cigarette rods issuing from a maker of twin cigarette rods are accepted by successive orbiting arms of a first rotary conveyor in such a way that each arm attracts a cigarette of one of the rows and a cigarette of the other row. The arms deliver the respective pairs of cigarettes to a transfer station where the cigarettes are accepted by the peripheral flutes of a second rotary conveyor for admission into or for transport in a filter tipping machine. Alternating flutes of the second conveyor are mounted on pivotable levers or on reciprocable pushers so that each such movable flute can receive a cigarette from the oncoming arm of the first conveyor while the other cigarette is being transferred directly from the arm into a non-movable flute of the second conveyor. The mutual spacing of cigarettes can be increased or reduced during transfer from the arms into the flutes of the second conveyor. The plane of rotation of the first conveyor and the plane of the two files of plain cigartettes make an acute angle.