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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 20, 2010
Filed:
Feb. 08, 2008
Piotr Budny, Hamburg, DE;
Thomas Müller, Hamburg, DE;
Matthias Horn, Ahrensburg, DE;
Michael Knabe, Geesthacht, DE;
Arnd Meier, Beckdorf, DE;
Piotr Budny, Hamburg, DE;
Thomas Müller, Hamburg, DE;
Matthias Horn, Ahrensburg, DE;
Michael Knabe, Geesthacht, DE;
Arnd Meier, Beckdorf, DE;
Hauni Maschinenbau AG, Hamburg, DE;
Abstract
An apparatus is provided for filling an empty shaft tray with rod-shaped products. The shaft tray has shaft walls which form a plurality of shafts. The apparatus includes a filling hopper having a receiving region for a mass flow composed of the products, and a storage region for products comprising a front wall, a rear wall, side walls and a bottom wall. The storage region includes partitions that form a plurality of shafts adjacent to each other, wherein the partitions substantially extend over a full height of the storage region, and wherein the rear wall of the storage region includes openings for passage of the shaft walls of the shaft tray. A delivery element delivers the empty shaft tray into the receiving region of the filling hopper to be filled with the products. A removal element removes a filled shaft tray from the filling hopper.