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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 1987
Filed:
Feb. 13, 1985
Japan Tobacco, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A reel attaching and detaching device which is to be employed in a cigarette rolling machine is disclosed. It includes a travelling carrier adapted to travel on a pair of rails extending in parallel relation, a pair of revolvable threaded shafts mounted on the travelling carrier and extending in the normal direction with respect to the rails, a motor mounted on the travelling carrier and adapted to revolve the threaded shafts, a pair of clamps engaged with the threaded shafts and adapted to clamp a reel, the clamps being simultaneously moved outward or inward by the motor, two limit switches, one for setting a waiting position of the clamps in order to clamp the reel from inside and the other for setting a waiting position of the clamps in order to clamp the reel from outside, a box mounted on the travelling carrier in such manner as to move in the transversing direction with respect to the travelling direction of the carrier, and a pusher having a generally H configuration disposed at the front of the box in such a manner as to move transversing the clamps.