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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 12, 2018
Filed:
Feb. 21, 2013
International Tobacco Machinery Poland Sp. Z O.o., Radom, PL;
Tomasz Jan Kramek, Radom, PL;
Robert Chmielewski, Wrzosów, PL;
Abstract
Method and system for arranging rod-like elements, in particular cigarettes, on a longitudinal aligning conveyor () along the direction of movement of the conveyor, comprising a container () for unordered rod-like elements (), a feeding conveyor (), a chute () and the aligning conveyor (), wherein the rod-like elements () fed from the container () are transported by the feeding conveyor () to the chute (), the rod-like elements () being arranged on the feeding conveyor () transversally to the direction of movement, the bottom of the chute () being downwardly slanted at an angle (a) to the horizontal, the intake end of the longitudinally grooved aligning conveyor () being located downstream the outlet end (C) of the chute (), the aligning conveyor () being upwardly slanted at an angle (β) to the horizontal and being adapted to convey the rod-like elements () from the outlet end (C) of the chute () upward the aligning conveyor () with a speed enabling passing the rod-like elements () from the chute () into the grooves () of the aligning conveyor () along these grooves. System for recovering tobacco from waste cigarettes comprising the system for arranging rod-like elements according to the invention.