Automatic cigar wrapping device
AssigneeGulf & Western Industries, Inc.
InventorJack F. Hartman
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Abstract
A device for applying a chevron-shaped cigar wrapper blank onto a rotating double cigar body as the body is being rotated in a mechanically driven nest where certain driving rods of the nest are modified to provide clearance for a tuck lifter that initiates the wrapping procedure.
Claims10
In a device for applying a generally chevron-shaped cigar wrapper blank having an apex and diverging, elongated legs forming individual cigar wrappers in a spiral configuration around a double cigar body having a midsection, said device comprising nest means formed from a plurality of generally parallel driven, cylindrical rods with body contacting cylindrical surfaces for rotating a cigar body captured by said rods as said nest means moves said cigar body along a selected path;
- conveyor means for moving a cigar wrapper blank to said path with said apex of said blank converging with said midsection of said cigar body captured in said nest means;
- and, lifter means on said conveyor means for lifting said apex of said wrapper blank into contact with said midsection of said cigar body, said lifting means including a member movable toward said body to an operative position inward of at least a portion of one of said rods, the improvement comprising:
- means for providing an axially extending clearance gap for said member in the cylindrical contacting surface of said onerod at said midsection, said gap having an axial length greater than the axial length of said member whereby said member can move into said operative position without interferring with movement of said nest means along said path.
In a device for applying an elongated cigar wrapper having first end and a longitudinally spaced second end in a spiral configuration around a cigar body, said device comprising nest means formed from a plurality of generally parallel driven, cylindrical rods with body contacting cylindrical surfaces for rotating a cigar body captured by said rods as said nest means moves said cigar body along a selected path, the body contacting surfaces of two of said rods projecting from said nest means beyond said captured cigar body to a given position;
- conveyor means for moving a cigar wrapper to said path with said first end of said wrapper converging with said cigar body captured in said nest means;
- and, means for lifting said first end from said conveyor means into engagement with said moving cigar body, said lifting means including a member at a given axial position and having a known overall dimension in a direction axial of said rods and selectively shiftable toward said captured body to an operative position inwardly closer to said body than said given position of said projecting surfaces, the improved comprising:
- at least one of said two rods having its projected surface discontinued to a depth generally exceeding said operative position at said given axial position and for a distance matching and greater than said overall length.
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