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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 1990
Filed:
Dec. 29, 1988
Applicant:
Inventors:
Jochim Myohl, Wentorf, DE;
Alfred Kasparek, Hamburg, DE;
Assignee:
Korber AG, Hamburg, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A24C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
131 91 ; 131 94 ; 131282 ; 493 45 ;
Abstract
Apparatus for manipulating plain cigarettes between the cutoff of a cigarette making machine and the next-following machine, such as a filter tipping machine, has an elongated guide with a prismatic channel for advancement of successive plain cigarettes along a path which is open from above. In order to prevent the cigarettes from rising in the guide, a stabilizing element in the form of an inverted channel-shaped member is placed in front of the guide at a level above the path of cigarettes and downstream of the last tube of the cutoff.