Method of and apparatus for the formation of the cigarette block

Details Method of and apparatus for the formation of the cigarette block Method of and apparatus for the formation of the cigarette block

1994-12-19

1996-08-13

Sipos, John

Package making

Group forming of contents unit and subsequent or further...

Long slender articles

53151, B65B 1904

Patent

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055445152

ABSTRACT:
Relatively fragile articles, such as cigarettes, are formed into blocks consisting of three rows with a middle row containing one cigarette less than the outer rows. The cigarettes in the middle row are also laterally offset by approximately one-half the diameter of a cigarette from the cigarettes in the outer rows as a result of forming the blocks in a linear array of feed shafts which, from a lower support surface, extend upwardly at an angle other than perpendicular. A shaft disposed at one end of the array is closed at the level of the lower two rows and a multi-armed block slide is provided for pushing the cigarettes which define the block from an extraction zone, located at the bottom of the shafts, into a receiver.

REFERENCES:
patent: 688284 (1901-12-01), Bilgran et al.
patent: 1899898 (1931-05-01), Molins et al.
patent: 4096682 (1978-06-01), Sheahan
patent: 5201162 (1993-04-01), Focke
patent: 5375392 (1994-12-01), Oberdorf

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