G.d Societa' Per Azioni

G.d S.p.a.

G.d. Societa Per Aziori

Enzo Seragnoli

Riccardo Mattei

Gastone Dall'osso

Antonio Gamberini

Armando Neri

A device converts the continuous rotary motion of a drive shaft into the intermittent rotary motion of a driven shaft, in particular with intermittent rotations of an amplitude of 180.degree.. The device comprises a plate keyed to the driven shaft, one side of which is provided with a plurality of movement elements spread over a given circumference, and a drum whose axis is perpendicular to the axis of the plate, keyed to the drive shaft and provided peripherally with a plurality of tracks. The tracks engage the movement elements, during the rotation of the drum, alternately, in pairs, on the opposite sides of one and the same movement element and, individually, on subsequent pairs of movement elements.

Device for converting the continuous rotary motion of a drive shaft into

Production machine for the simultaneous manufacture of continuous cigarette rods, the said machine comprising a shredded tobacco feed unit with up channels arranged side by side and crosswise in relation to the direction in which the tobacco is fed to the said feed unit. The channels communicate at the bottom with a shredded tobacco conveyor common to both and comprise essentially vertical bottom sections arranged side by side, each of which is separated from the bottom section of the adjacent channel by means of a movable partition.

Production machine for the simultaneous manufacture of continuous

A device for transferring cigarette pieces from a twin rod cigarette-making machine to a filter fitting machine, in which the cigarette pieces are transferred two at a time, one for each of the two rods from a horizontal output bed of the cigarette-making machine to the top of an input drum of the filter fitting machine the axis of which is parallel to the rods, by a plurality of take-up heads which move about an axis perpendicular to the plane of the rods, maintaining themselves parallel thereto and moving with a speed which is variable between a maximum at take-up from the bed and a minimum at release on the summit of the input drum.

Cigarette transfer device

A method for transferring cigarette pieces from a double rod cigarette manufacturing machine to a filter fitting machine, in which said pieces are transferred at least two at a time, one from each of the two rods, from the horizontal exit bench of the manufacturing machine to the outer surface of the inlet drum of the filter fitting machine of axis parallel to the rods, by means of a plurality of withdrawal elements which undergo a translatory movement along an annular path extending about a first axis parallel to the bench and perpendicular to the rods, while simultaneously undergoing a rocking movement about a second axis parallel to said rods.

Method for transferring cigarette pieces

Disclosed herein is an apparatus comprising at least one transportation line that connects the exit point of a first machine with the entry point of a second machine, and the exit point of the second machine with the entry point of the first machine, the drive being provided by the said machines either directly or through means connected thereto. The transportation line is so constructed that if the first machine should slow down or come temporarily to a halt, a gradual decrease occurs in the length of the section that runs, filled with products, from the first to the second machine and, contemporaneously, the length of the section of the said line that runs, devoid of products, from the second to the first machine, increases. Should, instead, the second machine slow down or come temporarily to a halt, a gradual decrease occurs in the length of the section that runs, devoid of products, from the second to the first machine and, contemporaneously, the length of the section that runs, filled with products, from the first to the second machine, increases.

Apparatus for transferring individual or batch formed products from a

A method and apparatus for forming perforations in bar-shape articles, in which each said article is clamped, during its advancement in a direction transverse its own axis on a conveyor, by a respective actuator device and turned by this about its axis in such a way as to receive, along at least one circumference, a succession of laser pulses each forming a respective perforation.

Method and apparatus for forming perforation in bar-shape articles

Machine for manufacturing continuous cigarette rods simultaneously, on which the tobacco for each rod is fed on a separate belt, in turn supplied by a separate feed channel the said feed channels being supplied with tobacco by a single conveyor belt designed to supply a continuous layer of tobacco which is divided into longitudinal strips, one for each channel, by jets of compressed fluid supplied by an air-powered dividing device set up facing the thickness of the said layer.

Machine for manufacturing continuous cigarette rods simultaneously

A device for monitoring the quality of cigarettes in a packing machine, which may be mounted on an input hopper of a packing machine of cyclic type in order to monitor the quality of the cigarettes of a stack moving in steps along each output channel of the hopper and to carry out the removal of defective cigarettes, comprising, with respect to each channel, a sensor element and an associate ejector element, whose respective operating cycles take place, with respect to each cigarette, within a same cycle of this machine.

Device monitoring the quality of cigarettes in a packaging machine

Method of automatically changing reels (17,20) of strip material (15-21) in packaging machines, especially packaging machines (1) for cigarettes, equipped, along a feed line (2), with an ejection device (9) adapted for ejecting from said line (2) those objects (5) to be packaged that are defective and for determining a corresponding arresting of said strip material (15-21), the method providing for the utilization of said ejection device (9), in response to an end of reel signal emitted by a sensor (26,27), for determining the arresting of the associated strip material (15,21) so as to permit the changing of the reels (17,20) with strip (15,21) stopped and the subsequent recommencing of the feed of the strip (15,21) in perfect synchronism with the packaging line (2).

Method of automatically changing reels of strip material in packaging

A device for feeding a continuous web, for cutting it into pieces and having automatic reel change for changing the reels from which the web is unwound is described. This device includes a cyclic cutting device positioned at the confluence of two tracks, along which two continuous webs are unwound from corresponding reels are fed, and controls for controlling the generation of a signal when an associated reel is exhausted; along each of the tracks there are provided a mechanism for feeding the webs from the reels to the cutting device, and such feeding mechanism include, for each track, a pair of feed rollers for feeding the associated web to the cutting device. The main characteristic of this device lies in the fact it includes a pulse generating unit for generating pulses having a phases related to the cutting device and a frequency which is a function of the cutting frequency of the cutting device, and drive means for the pair of rollers constituted by a stepping motor responsive to the pulse generating unit.

Feeding and cutting device for a continuous web

An axial translation device for partly finished cigarettes disposed alongside one another in such a way as to form two substantially parallel rows, the device being provided with an input conveyor, an output conveyor and a conveyor roller for each said row disposed between the said input conveyor and output conveyor and tangential thereto, the said two conveyor rollers having parallel, but non coincident axes and supporting the partly finished cigarettes of the associated said row in an axially movable manner under the thrust of actuator means.

Axial translation device for partly finished cigarettes

A device for forming groups of cigarettes in a cigarette packaging machine, in which an outlet hopper of a cigarette feed apparatus comprises a plurality of adjacent outlet mouths each arranged to deliver successive layers of cigarettes. Pusher means disposed below each outlet mouth insert said layers in superposed relationship into containers uniformly distributed along a conveyor which is mobile stepwise in proximity to the base of the hopper. Each pusher means is operable independently of the others, and can be deactivated on sensing determined irregular situations in the containers or during the starting or stopping stages of the packaging machine.

Device for forming groups of cigarettes in a cigarette packaging machine

A cigarette-making machine having a main tobacco supply unit; a descending chimney for shredded tobacco, said descending chimney extending downwards from the main tobacco supply unit; an intermediate lateral aperture in the chimney; an auxiliary tobacco supply unit communicating with the chimney and comprising a shredded tobacco output conveyor having an outlet end arranged at the aperture and movable transversely thereacross to sweep a transverse section of the chimney; and an actuator connected to the output conveyor to move it transversely.

Cigarette-making machine with an auxiliary tobacco supply unit

A device for forming perforations in bar-shape articles, in which the articles are pierced during their translation through a piercing station by means of bundles of focused laser rays emitted by laser diodes, disposed in fixed positions and distributed in such a way that the distance between each diode and the associated perforation on each said article is, at the instant of emission of the bundle of rays identical to the focal length thereof.

Device for forming perforations in bar-shape articles

A method and apparatus for forming perforations in articles in the form of bars, in which, during their movement through a piercing station, the articles are pierced by means of beams of laser rays emitted in a predetermined sequence by laser emitters, which can be laser generators or simple reflectors so positioned with respect to each said article to be pierced as to maintain the path length followed by the laser rays to form each perforation, once focused, constantly equal to the focal length thereof.

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Bologna, Italy

Enzo Seragnoli