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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 02, 2003
Filed:
Oct. 04, 2000
Jürgen Grossmann, Wentorf, DE;
Hartmut Meis, Hamburg, DE;
Topack Verpackungstechnik GmbH, Schwarzenbek, DE;
Abstract
A cigarette packing machine has a first drive normally transmitting motion to packing units which are employed to advance a series of arrays of cigarettes or other rod-shaped articles of the tobacco processing industry and to confine each array in a discrete packet by providing each of successive arrays of the series with one or more envelopes, labels and the like. The first drive is decelerated and brought to a halt in the event of malfunctioning of one or more packing units of the machine and/or for other reasons, and this initiates or prevents an interruption of operation of at least one second drive which transmits motion to one or more packing units during deceleration and/or during a period following stoppage of the first drive. The second drive(s) causes or cause the respective packing unit(s) to complete operations which, if not carried out prior to restarting of the first drive, would entail the making of numerous defective packets.