Tip turning apparatus for cigarettes or the like

Details Tip turning apparatus for cigarettes or the like Tip turning apparatus for cigarettes or the like

1977-06-07

1978-05-23

Stoner, Jr., Bruce H.

Conveyors: power-driven

Conveyor for changing attitude of item relative to conveyed...

By actuating item-holder relative to holder-carrying conveyor

198404, 198951, 131 25, B65G 4724

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040906027

ABSTRACT:
Successive filter cigarettes of two rows of parallel cigarettes are admitted into pairs of parallel aligned flutes on a rotating drum. The first flute of each pair is rotated through 180.degree. and is moved radially outwardly about an axis which is normal to and crosses in space with the drum axis. The second flute of each pair is thereupon moved radially outwardly between the neighboring inverted flutes by a pivot member which is parallel to the drum axis whereby the cigarettes in the first and second flutes form a single row and can be transferred seriatim directly into successive flutes of a rotary testing drum.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3215250 (1965-11-01), Schubert
patent: 3319764 (1967-05-01), Gamberini
patent: 3417855 (1968-12-01), Liedtke
patent: 3485337 (1969-12-01), Everhart
patent: 3583546 (1971-06-01), Koop
patent: 3696910 (1972-10-01), Schmermund et al.
patent: 3952865 (1976-04-01), Rudszinat et al.
patent: 3973671 (1976-08-01), Schwenke

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