Cigarette manufacture

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1983-01-12

1985-01-01

Millin, V.

Tobacco

Cigar or cigarette making

Tobacco feeding

131110, 131 84B, 131909, 406 33, A24C 539

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active

044911386

ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for pneumatically feeding tobacco to a number of cigarette making machines having a plurality of conveyors. The conveyors feed tobacco onto a circular feed table where the tobacco is distributed to each of the cigarette machines. The table is arranged to convey the tobacco along a circular path around the vertical central axis of the table. The apparatus further includes a number of suction pipes which are circumferentially spaced with respect to the table and are arranged to pick up tobacco for delivery to respective cigarette making machines. Each cigarette making machine has a hopper for accumulating tobacco including detectors for detecting the quantity of accumulated tobacco. In addition, there is a drive mechanism associated with each pipe for moving each pipe substantially radially with respect to the table to control the rate at which tobacco is picked up from the table. Such control is responsive to the detectors.

REFERENCES:
patent: 2983275 (1961-05-01), Volckers
patent: 3544167 (1970-12-01), Fuchu et al.
patent: 3614166 (1971-10-01), Spitz
patent: 4050741 (1977-09-01), Dickinson
patent: 4118075 (1978-10-01), Lubbehusen
patent: 4278365 (1981-07-01), Sandberg

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