Method and device for forming groups of rodlike articles
OwnerRomano Venturiinventor
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Abstract
Apparatus for stacking rows of rodlike articles in a tray from a continuous orderly flow of such articles comprising a continuous infeed conveyor providing such articles, a plurality of receiving stations each including an elongated continuous belt type conveyor receiving a predetermined number of such articles and forming an orderly row therefrom, pivotal means positionable to direct articles from the infeed conveyor to each station, and means for transferring a row of said articles axially from each receiving station to the tray while the directing means is providing articles to another receiving station.
Claims2
Apparatus for stacking rows of rodlike articles in a tray from a continuous orderly flow of such articles, comprising:
- a continuously moving conveyor providing a continuous and orderly flow of rodlike articles aligned side by side and advancing laterally along a feed path;
- at least two collection stations each including a continuously moving conveying means for moving rodlike articles in a lateral direction and for collecting a row of such rodlike articles of a predetermined number;
- article directing means including a rectangular channel being of sufficient size for passing rodlike articles therethrough and having an open end adjacent said conveyor providing the continuous orderly flow of rodlike articles along a feed path and another open end adjacent said stations;
- said article directing means being pivotally mounted and movable between two positions whereby said other open end of said channel is disposed adjacent the conveying means of a different one of said collection stations in each of said positions for alternately directing a predetermined number of rodlike articles from said conveyor first to the conveying means of one of said collection stations and then to the conveying means of the other of said collection stations;
- each of said conveying means comprising an elongated endless belt type conveyor having one end adjacent said article directing means and a straight upper run receiving and collecting rodlike articles, and a stop means for each belt type conveyor adjacent its end opposite from said article directing means limiting lateral movement of the rodlike articles disposed on the upper run of the associated belt type conveyor;
- a tray having an open side adjacent said collection stations;
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- means for transferring a row of rodlike articles from each collection station while rodlike articles are being directed to the other of said collection stations, said transferring means axially moving the articles of the row being transferred.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.