Classifying – separating – and assorting solids – Sorting special items – and certain methods and apparatus for... – Sorting cigarettes – cigars – or packages thereof
Patent
1987-05-20
1989-03-21
Cherry, Johnny D.
Classifying, separating, and assorting solids
Sorting special items, and certain methods and apparatus for...
Sorting cigarettes, cigars, or packages thereof
53 53, 198347, 209936, 414222, 4147884, 414934, B07C 500, B65G 4786
Patent
active
048140724
ABSTRACT:
A stream of neighboring stacks of superimposed cigarette packs wherein the stacks can consist of or contain defective packs is advanced intermittently along a horizontal path. Stacks which contain or consist of defective packs are removed by the pockets of an indexible turret which is located in a vertical plane extending at right angles to the path of the stream. The defective pack or packs of a removed stack are expelled from the respective pocket in a first angular position of the pocket in which the latter is remote from the path for the stream, and the partially or completely emptied pocket is then indexed to a second position to receive one or more satisfactory packs which were expelled from previously removed stacks of defective and satisfactory packs before the thus filled pocket is returned into the path for the stream to fill a gap which has developed as a result of removal of a stack. A suction cup is provided to temporarily hold a removed satisfactory pack preparatory to introduction into a pocket which is about to return into the path for the stream of stacks.
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Knabe Michael
Schwenke Dieter
von Wichert Nils
Cherry Johnny D.
Hajec Donald T.
Kontler Peter K.
Korber AG
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