Hauni Maschinenbau Ag

Arnd Meier

Matthias Horn

Thomas Müller

Hans-Herbert Schmidt

Piotr Budny

Michael Knabe

Thomas Mueller

Ralf Heikens

Peter Kägeler

Thomas Flügge

Thorsten Knepper

Andrea Oesterling

Thomas Peters

Günther Hamann

Günter Hamann

A discharge hopper for a tray discharge station for serially discharging shaft trays filled with rod-shaped products includes a conveying element for carrying away the products flowing from the shaft trays and a connecting device for coupling the shaft trays to be emptied to the conveying element. The connecting device is arranged substantially parallel to and spaced apart from the conveying element to form a channel for the product flow and includes an opening for passage of the products from the shaft tray into the channel. In the region of the connecting device there is provided a closure unit to open and close the opening. The closure device is coupled to a movable actuating element so that the closure device can be opened and closed shaft by shaft in relation to the shaft tray to be emptied.

Discharge hopper and method of discharging shaft trays filled with rod-shaped products

An apparatus is provided for filling an empty shaft tray with rod-shaped products. The shaft tray has shaft walls which form a plurality of shafts. The apparatus includes a filling hopper having a receiving region for a mass flow composed of the products, and a storage region for products comprising a front wall, a rear wall, side walls and a bottom wall. The storage region includes partitions that form a plurality of shafts adjacent to each other, wherein the partitions substantially extend over a full height of the storage region, and wherein the rear wall of the storage region includes openings for passage of the shaft walls of the shaft tray. A delivery element delivers the empty shaft tray into the receiving region of the filling hopper to be filled with the products. A removal element removes a filled shaft tray from the filling hopper.

Apparatus and method for filling containers with rod-shaped products

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Beckdorf, Germany

Arnd Meier