Method of emptying a container filled with rod-like articles manufactured in the tobacco industry
AssigneeInternational Tobacco Machinery Poland Sp. z o. o.
InventorRadoslaw Owczarek
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Abstract
Method of emptying a container filled with rod-like articles manufactured in the tobacco industry comprising the following stages: the container to be emptied is delivered to the entrance area of an intermediate store comprising adjacent channels separated from one another by walls; the rod-like articles are transferred by supporting plates from the container to the channels of the intermediate store; the channels of the intermediate store are filled with the rod-like articles; characterised in that during the transfer of the rod-like articles from the container to the channels of the intermediate store the intermediate store makes a reciprocating motion in the horizontal direction, transversely to the axis of the rod-like articles.
Claims9
Method of emptying a container filled with cylindrical articles manufactured in the tobacco industry comprising the following steps:
- a container to be emptied is delivered to the entrance area of an intermediate store comprising adjacent channels separated from one another by walls;
- by means of supporting plates cylindrical articles are transferred from the container to the channels of the intermediate store;
- the channels of the intermediate store are filled with the cylindrical articles;
- characterised in that
- during the transfer of the cylindrical articles (R) from the container (5) to the channels (7) of the intermediate store (2) the intermediate store (2) and the supporting plates (9) are put in a reciprocating motion in the horizontal direction, transversely to the axis of the cylindrical articles by a drive element (27) and wherein the reciprocating motion of the supporting plates (9) is synchronized with the reciprocating motion of the intermediate store (2), so that the supporting plates (9) and the intermediate store (2) are moving with the same frequency and size of travel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.