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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2002
Filed:
May. 02, 2000
Alberto Polazzi, Rastignano, IT;
Mario Spatafora, Bologna, IT;
G.D Societa' per Azioni, Pomponia, IT;
Abstract
On a continuously operating cigarette packing machine, a group of cigarettes is transferred from a pocket—integral with an endless conveyor having at least one substantially straight portion—to a first seat—carried on an input wheel of a wrapping line and movable with respect to the input wheel—by transferring the group axially from the pocket to a second seat, which is fed by an intermediate wheel along a portion of the endless conveyor and is movable with respect to the intermediate wheel; and by then orienting the first and second seats with respect to the respective wheels so that one of the first and second seats penetrates the other for a given time.