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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 1998
Filed:
Oct. 10, 1995
Applicant:
Inventor:
Bruno Belvederi, Via Giovanni, IT;
Assignee:
G.D Societa Per Azioni, Bologna, IT;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
1984751 ; 1984741 ;
Abstract
A continuous cigarette manufacturing machine presenting at least two outputs for respective items; the outputs being located at a loading station, and successively feeding the respective items directly into respective pockets on a conveyor wheel presenting a drive shaft rotating continuously about its axis; the pockets are divided into groups, each presenting a number of pockets equal to the number of outputs; and each group of pockets defines a respective conveying unit movable with the drive shaft and oscillating in relation to the drive shaft by virtue of a single cam device common to all the conveying units.