US 4,079,575 A · Packing cigarettes

Abstract

There is provided a method of and apparatus for packing rod-shaped articles, especially cigarettes. A rotatable turret is used, into which blanks are introduced into pockets of the turret, with partial folding of the blanks, whereafter groups of articles are axially introduced into the blanks in pockets, the article groups being introduced alternately from opposite sides of the turret. There is also provided an apparatus whereby article groups can be ejected alternately on both sides of a magazine and also an apparatus wherein, to form article groups from three article rows or layers, the middle row containing fewer cigarettes than the top and bottom rows, a lateral chute wall of the magazine terminates above the region of the cigarette groups to be ejected, merely articles of the top and bottom rows being ejectable in this region via a recess in the entraining member associated with the lateral chute, such recess being at the height of the middle cigarette row.

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Dependent claims

In an apparatus for wrapping articles such as groups of cigarettes constituting a complete pack in at least one blank, the apparatus having a rotatable turret with a number of pockets along its periphery, said pockets open in a radially outward and axial directions, the blank being inserted first into said pockets to form a U-shaped fold, the improvement comprising:

a plurality of conveyors extending to said turret and terminating on opposite sides thereof, said conveyors delivering groups of cigarettes to the turret in a synchronous manner, pusher means disposed on opposite sides of said turret for removing groups of cigarettes from said conveyors and inserting them into an adjacent pocket of the turret, wherein said pusher means are operated in phase opposition, such that a group of cigarettes is removed from one of said plurality of conveyors and inserted into a pocket of said turret and following rotation of the turret a group of cigarettes is removed from the other of said plurality of conveyors and inserted into a succeeding pocket.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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