Drum elevator system

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1998-09-17

2000-09-26

Nguyen, Tuan N.

Classifying, separating, and assorting solids

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

Sorting cigarettes, cigars, or packages thereof

209643, 209905, 209919, 209925, 131282, 131907, B07C 500, A24C 114

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061232017

ABSTRACT:
A drum elevator and method of elevating cigarettes, the apparatus having a series of rotatable cigarette transferring drums including a first plurality of horizontally disposed drums at a first elevation and a second plurality of vertically disposed drums extending to a second elevation, the second plurality of vertically disposed drums receiving output from the first plurality of drums, the series of drums adapted to receive a procession of cigarettes at the first elevation and to elevate the cigarettes along a transfer path to the second elevation while maintaining the cigarettes arranged substantially in the procession; a rejection station at a location along the transfer path; a controller operative to selectively actuate the rejection station; and a stack former at the second elevation, the stack former receiving output of the second plurality of vertically disposed drums.

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patent: 5366096 (1994-11-01), Miller
patent: 5490527 (1996-02-01), Irikura et al.

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