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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 11, 2003
Filed:
Sep. 15, 2000
Piotr Budny, Hamburg, DE;
Michael Knabe, Geesthacht, DE;
Hauni Maschinenbau AG, Hamburg, DE;
Abstract
Successive individual filled trays or successive groups of filled trays for stacks of parallel cigarettes are transported by a carriage from a source at a first level to a higher second level, and their contents are dumped into the magazine of a packing machine. The thus emptied tray(s) is or are returned to the first level and is or are expelled from the carriage, at least indirectly and/or at least in part, by the next following filled tray(s). The expelled emptied tray(s) is or are lowered into a storage facility at a level beneath the first level. The carriage has open front and rear sides for admission of filled trays through the front side and for expulsion of emptied trays through the rear side.