Package making – Depositing articles and arranging material in preformed... – Long slender articles
Patent
1989-01-23
1990-07-10
Spruill, Robert L.
Package making
Depositing articles and arranging material in preformed...
Long slender articles
B65B 1910, B65B 3902
Patent
active
049398865
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for filling trays with cigarettes, or the like, comprises a cigarette-supplying hopper (1) at the outlet of which there is arranged a plurality of vertical or slightly inclined, generally parallel channels (2), or a plurality of passages defined by equispaced adjacent rollers, through which the cigarettes move down by gravity, the width of channels (2) and the distance between the rollers being slightly greater than the cigarette diameter, provision being made of means for facilitating the cigarette downward movement and of means for interrupting it. In order to facilitate the descent of the cigarettes, the channels (2) are so made as to be swingable to and fro, transversely to the direction of the cigarette downward movement. In order to interrupt the descent of the cigarettes, the two facing sidewalls (13) of each channel (2) are so made as to be at least in part elastically pliable and susceptible of converging under the action of contrary transversal forces, in such a manner than in proximity of its outlet each channel (2) for the cigarette transit comes to have a width which is smaller than the cigarette diameter, while when in rest condition, i.e., when the said forces are absent, the width of each channel is greater than the cigarette diameter.
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Bianca Beth
Sasib S.p.A.
Spruill Robert L.
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