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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 15, 1996
Filed:
Feb. 14, 1995
Valter Spada, Marzabotto, IT;
Giuseppe Tosi, Modena, IT;
SABIB S.p.A., Bologna, IT;
Abstract
A belt conveyor device for groups of delicate rod-shaped objects, especially in cigarette packaging machines, which device includes a continuous conveyor belt (3) travelling around pulleys (4, 5), at least one of which is driven, and attached to whose outer face are a plurality of conveyor housings (6) each for one group of delicate rod-shaped objects (S, S', S'), housing (6) are equidistant form each other and carried stepwise in succession from a loading station to an unloading station, these stations being situated near two opposite ends of the conveyor belt (3). The conveyor housings (6) consist of two separate and mutually complementary parts (106, 206) divided at at least one plane transverse to the plane defined by the conveyor belt (3) and transverse to the direction of advance of the conveyor belt (3), each housing part (106) being attached firmly to the conveyor belt (3) independently of the other associated housing part (206).