Focke & Co.

Michael Wegmann

Alfred Drenguis

Heinz H Focke

Jürgen Focke, Legal Representative

Reinhard Hoppe

Doris Focke, Legal Representative

Ralf Barkmann

Tobias Jacobi

Christina Ott

Frauke Illigner

Remo Schulz

Andreas Storcks

A distributor or hopper is part of a cigarette production machine and serves for dressing the tobacco in the provision of a continuous tobacco strand. An integral part of a distributor is a metering system which prepares the tobacco for the production of the tobacco strand. To separate out undesirable constituents, such as foreign bodies, stalks or ribs, from the tobacco, at least one sifter () is provided. The latter precedes the metering system of the distributor in the working direction, in particular is arranged outside the distributor, so that sifted tobacco is introduced into the distributor.

Device for processing tobacco during the production of cigarettes

For the purpose of wrapping articles, in particular groups () of packs, in a blank (), use is made of a folding turret () having a single pocket () passing through its diameter. Lateral boundaries of the pocket () comprise belts () which, upon introduction of a group () of packs with blank (), can be moved in the pushing-in direction and which butt in a friction-free manner against legs () of the blank (), which is folded in a U-shaped manner. A block-form stop component () can be moved within the pocket () from one end position to the other.

Device for covering packaging groups

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Hamburg, Germany

Michael Wegmann