Apparatus for forming groups of cigarettes

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1982-09-28

1985-01-29

Millin, V.

Classifying, separating, and assorting solids

Sorting special items, and certain methods and apparatus for...

Sorting cigarettes, cigars, or packages thereof

131282, 131905, 131907, 209535, A24C 548, B07C 500, B07C 5342

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044960557

ABSTRACT:
A cigarette packing machine with a plurality of passageways leading from a hopper, includes an ends testing device (16, 16a) for individual cigarettes, so that faulty cigarettes can be rejected from the hopper before the cigarettes are ejected in groups at the bottom of the passageways (2).
Leading from the hopper are two channels (6, 8) feeding each of the passageways. In one embodiment of the invention cigarettes are held up for ends testing in alternate channels by suction ports (14) formed in inclined surfaces leading to each passageway. In a second embodiment a set of horizontal reciprocating wires (30, 32) acts as an escapement mechanism.

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patent: 3729636 (1973-04-01), Merker
patent: 3789744 (1974-02-01), Wahle

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