Apparatus for inverting cigarettes or the like

Details Apparatus for inverting cigarettes or the like Apparatus for inverting cigarettes or the like

1974-09-13

1976-05-18

Marbert, James B.

Conveyors: power-driven

Conveyor system for arranging or rearranging stream of items

By laterally or vertically moving successive items in...

198 34, B65G 4724

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039571564

ABSTRACT:
A turn-around device for filter cigarettes wherein alternate flutes of a rotary drum-shaped conveyor transport pairs of filter cigarettes in such a way that the filter tips of each pair of cigarettes are adjacent to each other. One cigarette of each of successive pairs of filter cigarettes is transferred into one of two flutes of one of an annulus of inverting elements which are rotatably mounted on a rotary turntable. The turntable completes one full revolution about its axis while an inverting element completes one-half of a revolution counter to the direction of rotation of the turntable and about a second axis which is parallel to the axis of the turntable whereby a cigarette on the inverting element is automatically turned end-for-end when the inverting element returns to the station where its one flute has received a cigarette from the conveyor. The inverted cigarette is inserted into an empty flute of the conveyor in front of a first and behind a second non-inverted cigarette. The other flute of the inverting element simultaneously receives a non-inverted cigarette, and such cigarette is inverted during the next revolution of the turntable.

REFERENCES:
patent: 2346421 (1944-04-01), Gantzer
patent: 2509725 (1950-05-01), Dalton
patent: 3319764 (1967-05-01), Gamberini
patent: 3405579 (1968-10-01), London
patent: 3417855 (1968-12-01), Liedtke

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