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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 06, 2001
Filed:
Aug. 05, 1998
Salvatore Rizzoli, Bologna, IT;
Fiorenzo Draghetti, Medicina, IT;
G.D Societa' per Azioni, Bologna, IT;
Abstract
A cigarette portion is transferred from a bed of a manufacturing machine to a respective first seat of a supply unit for supplying an input conveyor of a filter-assembly machine by a pickup member having a second seat for receiving and retaining the cigarette portion and movable along an annular path tangent to the bed and to the supply unit; the orientation of the second seat being controlled, as the second seat travels along the annular path, by two guide members hinged to two portions of the pickup member separated by a given distance from each other to generate a control moment by which to keep the second seat parallel to itself along the annular path.