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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 1986
Filed:
Aug. 20, 1984
Applicant:
Inventor:
Willi Filter, Hamburg, DE;
Assignee:
Hauni-Werke Korber & Co. KG, Hamburg, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
198432 ; 198450 ; 198441 ; 198426 ; 198457 ; 131282 ;
Abstract
Two cigarette making machines discharge discrete files of coaxial plain cigarettes which are moved axially in parallel guides, and successive foremost cigarettes in each guide are engaged and accelerated by a discrete rotating cam which propels the cigarettes into the oncoming axially parallel peripheral flutes of a rotating drum-shaped conveyor. Each flute receives a cigarette from each of the two guides and the distance between a pair of neighboring flutes on the conveyor exceeds the distance between the two files of cigarettes.