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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 08, 2003
Filed:
Aug. 10, 2001
Mario Spatafora, Bologna, IT;
Loris Grepioni, Castel Maggiore, IT;
G.D Societa′ per Azioni, Bologna, IT;
Abstract
A unit for transferring groups of cigarettes has a conveyor having pockets for housing the groups and for feeding the groups in a first direction; a guide for guiding each group into a respective pocket along a path in a second direction crosswise to the first direction; and a safety device having a guide member adjacent to the conveyor and movable between a work position defining part of the path, and an emergency position remote from the path; the unit also having a spring for setting the guide member to the emergency position when a group of cigarettes transmits to the guide member a force over and above a given threshold value.