Classifying – separating – and assorting solids – Sorting special items – and certain methods and apparatus for... – Sorting cigarettes – cigars – or packages thereof
Patent
1984-11-02
1986-06-03
Reeves, Robert B.
Classifying, separating, and assorting solids
Sorting special items, and certain methods and apparatus for...
Sorting cigarettes, cigars, or packages thereof
53 54, 131907, 209629, 209643, 209688, B07C 5344, A24C 532
Patent
active
045924708
ABSTRACT:
Disclosed herein is a device for infeeding cigarettes to the wrapping line of a packer, provided with: a hopper, the lower part of which contains the cigarettes in the form of stacks that are movable in steps along corresponding channels outgoing from the hopper; a sensor for checking, in succession, the cigarettes in the channels with each step forward of the stacks; and at least one cigarette expelling device, interlocked to the sensor, placed along the channels downstream of the sensor, in the direction in which the stacks move forward. Provision is also made for a device with which to engage and restrain the faulty cigarettes, able to brake the cigarettes during expulsion and to complete the extraction thereof from the hopper.
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Dall'Osso Gastone
Mattei Riccardo
G. D. Societa per Azioni
Reeves Robert B.
Wacyra Edward M.
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