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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 1986
Filed:
Sep. 06, 1984
Tomizou Nagata, Tokyo, JP;
Kazutaka Kobayashi, Tokyo, JP;
Japan Tobacco, Inc., , JP;
Abstract
A cigarette arranging apparatus is disclosed. It has an arranging drum including a plurality of arcuate grooves arranged in its periphery, the grooves being extended in the axial direction and intimately contacted each other in the circumferential direction, and a plurality of cigarette receiving rollers near to the upper outer periphery of the arranging drum. The number of the cigarette receiving rollers corresponds to that of the arcuate grooves. The cigarette receiving rollers are arranged each to receive one piece of cigarette out of the plurality of cigarette pieces. The arranging drum and the cigarette receiving rollers are rotated in the opposite directions each other. The rollers are arranged to send cigarette pieces into the grooves successively from the forward grooves till the backward grooves without changing the motion speed to arrange cigarette groups intimately contacted each other. There is also disclosed a cigarette arranging apparatus including three arranging drums with respect to a stacking drum.