Japan Tobacco Inc.

Tokyo Automatic Machinery Works, Ltd.

Katsuyoshi Matono

Takayoshi Sagawa

Ichiro Hirose

Isao Endo

Katsuhiko Kumata

Syozi Numa

A method for feeding cigarettes or filter plugs or the like to a working machine, such as a transporting machine, using a flat feeding passage with a bottom which can store and convey the cigarettes etc. in the horizontal direction, comprising introducing receiving boxes containing the cigarettes etc. into the feeding passage and moving them to a feeding station, and raising the receiving boxes at the feeding station so that the cigarettes etc. in the receiving boxes are discharged at one time. The invention discloses also an apparatus for carrying out the method.

Method for feeding bar-like materials

Apparatus for feeding bar-like materials

A method and apparatus for supplying bar-like members such as cigarettes and filter plugs, in which a bar-like member containing box is lifted at a supplying position which supports the containing box in an inverted condition; and a pusher is operated to feed the bar-like members instead of a conventional hopper construction which stores bar-like members and allows them to drop from same, whereby the speed of the supplying operation is increased and a smooth supplying operation is assured without causing disordered orientation of the bar-like members.

Bar-like member supplying method and device

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Fukuoka, Japan

Katsuyoshi Matono