Tobacco – Cigar or cigarette making – Including arranging – collecting – or delivering
Patent
1987-03-02
1989-07-18
Millin, V.
Tobacco
Cigar or cigarette making
Including arranging, collecting, or delivering
131 94, 131283, 198405, A24C 535, B65G 1514
Patent
active
048483729
ABSTRACT:
Filter tipped cigarettes are turned end for end by a narrow flexible belt (10) which is twisted in a figure of eight about pulleys (13, 14). The belt (10) has flutes (8) which engage only the tipped ends (T). A tensioned thin flexible strip (22) covers the open sides of the flutes (8) to retain the cigarettes while being turned, and endwise movement of the cigarettes is prevented by a fixed guide (26).
In a modification, a belt (34) has flutes (32) formed in opposite sides and extends between pulleys (36,38), with a single 180 degree twist in the upper run. After being tip-turned, the cigarettes are removed from the inner side of the belt by suction in flutes 50 and moved endwise by a cam (60) away from belt (34) for transfer to a drum 62. Belt (34) may have flutes in only one side, in which case a second 180 degree twist is formed in the lower run.
REFERENCES:
patent: 2929489 (1960-03-01), Parrish
patent: 2965215 (1960-12-01), Molins
patent: 2988199 (1961-06-01), Pinkham
patent: 4479574 (1984-10-01), Julius et al.
Millin V.
Molins PLC
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