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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 1996
Filed:
Feb. 14, 1995
Tadao Etani, Tokyo, JP;
Japan Tobacco Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A cigarette supplying apparatus is provided with supplying passages each having a lower end, and holding members each having a jaw portion directed upward from a horizontal plane. Each holding member is provided on the lower portion of each supplying passage and engageably holds a cigarette. Receiving depressions are formed in a receiving member of each receiving drum. The cigarette is disengaged from the jaw portion by the receiving member and then received in the receiving depression. Secure mechanical holding of the cigarette on the jaw portion obviates a negative pressure mechanism such as suction holes and simplifies the structure of the apparatus. Since the cigarette is disengaged from the jaw portion and then received in the receiving depression, secure operation of the apparatus is ensured.