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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 25, 2018
International Tobacco Machinery Poland Sp. Z O. O., Radom, PL;
Piotr Cepiński, Radom, PL;
Radoslaw Owczarek, Radom, PL;
Abstract
The object of the invention is an apparatus for filling transport containers () with rod-like articles of the tobacco industry, provided with an area () receiving the rod-like articles in the form of a mass flow, a rod-like article storage area () comprising at least two sidewalls, a filling unit () constituting the bottom wall of the storage area for transferring the rod-like articles from the storage area to the transport container, a lowering conveyor () working together with the filling unit (), adapted to lower the transport container while filling with the rod-like articles. The apparatus is characterised by being further provided with a counting module () designed to count the rod-like articles in the transport containers, adapted so that the individual rod-like articles being in the transport container are counted.