International Tobacco Machinery Poland Sp. Z O.o.

Int'l Tobacco Machinery Poland Sp. Zo.o

Ryszard Siara

Adam Gielniewski

Leszek Sikora

Radoslaw Owczarek

Jacek Figarski

A transport device for transferring rod-like articles, the device comprising: a first conveyor configured to transfer the rod-like articles as a multilayer stream in a first transferring direction; a second conveyor configured to transfer the rod-like articles as the multilayer stream in a second transferring direction opposite to the first transferring direction; wherein the first conveyor is located at least partially above the second conveyor; a transferring channel for transferring the rod-like articles from the first conveyor to the second conveyor in a third transferring direction, the transferring channel being formed by a first wall located at the end of the first conveyor and a second wall distanced from the first wall by a distance equal to a width of the multilayer stream of the rod-like articles, wherein the second wall is located above the second conveyor; wherein at least the first conveyor and the transferring channel are movable in a first conveyor displacing direction corresponding to the first transferring direction or to the second transferring direction. The first wall forms a cover of the first conveyor; and the first wall is shaped such that there is a variable distance between the first wall and the second wall in a transverse direction that is transverse with respect to the third transferring direction of the rod-like articles in the transferring channel.

Transport device for transferring rod-like articles

Assembly having a plurality of conveyors () and a variable capacity store () with one inlet () and one outlet () formed on two neighboring levels, a lower one () and an upper one (), closed with a common back plate (), fixed to a slide () making reciprocating movements, the concave surface () of which, on the interior side of the store () constitutes a conveyor (), provided with a rotary arm, fixed to a slide (), the axis of rotation of which is coaxial with a center of curvature of the surface () of the back plate (), and at the inlet () there is a swing mounted valve element () and a swing limiter () for displacing rod shaped elements (), whereas at the outlet () there is swing mounted valve element (). Moreover the invention presents a method of controlling mass flow of rod shaped elements in the store () and self-filling and self-emptying of the store () constituting a part of the assembly disposed in a production line of products of tobacco industry.

Store-transport assembly for elongated rod shaped elements, as well as method of controlling mass flow and filling and emptying of store-transport assembly for elongated rod shaped elements

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Ryszard Siara