Apparatus for changing the orientation of filter cigarettes or t

Details Apparatus for changing the orientation of filter cigarettes or t Apparatus for changing the orientation of filter cigarettes or t

1974-12-30

1976-08-10

Blunk, Evon C.

Conveyors: power-driven

Conveyor system for arranging or rearranging stream of items

By laterally or vertically moving successive items in...

198 20C, 198 32, 198237, 198210, B65G 4724

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039736717

ABSTRACT:
A turn-around device for filter cigarettes has a fluted conveyor which transports a row of filter cigarettes to be turned end-for-end to a first transfer station where the cigarettes are picked up by successive suction heads of a first set and are transpoted to a second transfer station while being simultaneously reoriented by 90.degree.. At the second transfer station, the partially reoriented cigarettes are transferred into successive suction heads of a second set which complete the reorientation and insert the inverted cigarettes into empty flutes of the conveyor at the first station. The suction heads of the first set are mounted on first links each of which is articulately connected to two disk-shaped supports rotating about parallel axes. The suction heads of the second set are mounted on second links each of which is articulately connected to two disk-shaped supports rotating about parallel axes. One support for the first links is coaxial with one support for the second links. The other support for the first links is coaxial with or eccentric with respect to the other support for the second links, depending upon whether the flutes for cigarettes to be turned are aligned with or staggered with respect to the flutes for the reoriented cigarettes.

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patent: 3625103 (1971-12-01), Giatti
patent: 3771639 (1973-11-01), Giatti

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