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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 17, 1986
Filed:
Jan. 04, 1983
Gunter Wahle, Reinbek, DE;
Alois Kasparek, Hamburg, DE;
Hauni-Werke Korber & Co. KG, Hamburg, DE;
Abstract
A combination of production lines for the manufacture of filter cigarettes wherein the filter tipping machines form several groups. The number of groups exceeds by one the number of machines in a group. Each machine receives filter rod sections from one of two different pneumatic senders by way of one of two discrete pneumatic conveyors. Each sender has a hopper for sections and several pneumatic propelling units which deliver sections from the respective hopper into the corresponding conveyors. The possibility of feeding sections to each machine from either one of two discrete senders ensures that the machines need not be shut down in the event of malfunction of a given sender, of one of the two propelling units for a machine or of one of two conveyors for a machine. Receiving units between the discharge ends of the pneumatic conveyors and the magazines of the respective machines convert files of sections which issue from the pneumatic conveyors into rows and effect forcible admission of sections into the magazines.