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

US6158194A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• HAUNI MASCHINENBAU GMBH · DE

Inventors

• Matthias Horn · Tettnang, DE
• Carsten Becker · Weingarten, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 17, 1998
• Grant date: Dec 12, 2000
• Expiry date: Dec 17, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A24C5/352
• WIPO field: Other consumer goods
• WIPO sector: Other fields

Abstract

A battery of rod making machines of the tobacco processing industry (such as plain or filter cigarette makers or filter rod makers) is separated from a battery of processing machines (such as cigarette packing or filter tipping machines) by a magazine which is provided with compartments for discrete containers. Articles which are turned out by the making machines are introduced into so-called trays, and groups of filled trays are introduced into containers which are delivered into the compartments of the magazine for temporary storage, or directly to the processing machines, A container which is to furnish articles to a processing machine is relieved of filled trays, and the contents of the filled trays are conveyed to one or more selected processing machines. The thus emptied trays are returned into containers, and such containers are thereupon delivered into the magazine or directly to one or more selected rod making machines.