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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 1995
Filed:
Apr. 22, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Salvatore Rizzoli, Bologna, IT;
Bruno Belvederi, S. Martino di Monte S. Pietro, IT;
Assignee:
G.D Societa' per Azioni, Bologna, IT;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A24C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
131 94 ; 131 29 ;
Abstract
On a filter assembly machine, a succession of groups, each having two cigarette portions, a double filter between the two cigarette portions, and a gummed strip connected integral with, along a generating line of, and projecting forwards from the group, is fed by an input conveyor to a loading station where each group is transferred into a respective seat on a rolling device with multiple rolling channels; the groups being unloaded off the rolling device with a smaller pitch as compared with the input pitch.