Machine for conditioning cigars
AssigneeG.D S.p.A.
InventorsMario Spatafora, Bruno Tommasini
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Abstract
Cigars are released from a feed station onto first and second conveyor belts and directed along a predetermined feed path, part of which coinciding with a wheel interposed between the two belts and equipped with a set of needles serving to pierce the cigars by engaging at least one respective end portion; the wheel is also equipped with a set of clamp elements, each able to restrain a single cigar and caused to revolve in stable alignment with a relative needle. The single needle is fashioned from a resistive metal and connected to an electrical power source in such a way that it can be heated by applying a current and inducing the Joule effect.
Claims22
A machine for conditioning cigars, comprising:
- at least one distribution station from which cigars are taken up by conveyor means and directed along a predetermined feed path;
- piercing means operating along the feed path, designed to penetrate at least one respective end portion of each cigar and consisting in resistive elements such as can be heated directly by the Joule effect.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.