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US 4,061,148 AGranted
Perforating apparatus for articles
AssigneeImperial Group Limited
InventorsJohn Keith Goslin, Thomas Clifford Tomlinson
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Abstract
A cigar perforator comprises opposing sets of perforating needles which reciprocate at right angles to the cigar to perforate and withdraw from it. The cigar is held during perforation between apertured plates, each aperture having a stripper plate mounted therein which supports the cigar while the perforating needles are withdrawn.
Claims6
Apparatus for perforating a succession of cigars comprising:
- first and second opposing parallel plates which define a perforating position therebetween;
- conveyor means for conveying a succession of cigars to the perforating position;
- means for interrupting the travel of the cigars during perforation;
- means for causing the plates to hold each cigar during its perforation and to thereafter to release the perforated cigar, one of the plates including an aperture therein located opposite the perforating position;
- a stripper plate, extending across the aperture and provided with a guide passage therein, for separating each perforated cigar after perforation;
- a reciprocating perforator arranged to operate through the guide passage in the stripper plate;
- and means for causing the perforator to reciprocate along a line at right angles to a cigar in the perforating position so as to penetrate the side of the cigar and then withdraw therefrom with the stroke of the perforator being such that the perforator only partly penetrates the cigar;
- said stripper plate separating each perforated cigar from the perforator during the withdrawal stroke of the perforator.
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