Wedge shaped chute walls with bent ends for cigarette magazines

A mold apparatus for manufacturing chute wall partitions (10) for forming chambers within a cigarette magazine hopper, each partition comprising a pair of outer metal sheets (11, 12) disposed in an elongated V configuration and bonded (13) together at their converging ends, and a hardened spacer composition (14) filling the remaining wedge-shaped volume between the diverging, facing inner surfaces of the sheets, said apparatus comprising:

• (a) a holding jig including a planar base plate (29), a support plate (24) secured to and upstanding from said base plate, and a counter plate (25) secured to and upstanding from said base plate and spaced from said support plate,
• (b) a plurality of pattern plates (20, 21) each having a pair of opposite faces, and each face being differently configured to correspond to an outer shape of a chute wall partition to be formed thereby,
• (c) means for individually releasably mounting each of said pattern plates at opposite ends thereof to and between said support plate and counter plate and against said base plate in at least one diverging group such that a plurality of wedge-shaped spaces are defined between adjacent ones of said pattern plates each corresponding to the overall shape of a desired chute wall partition, and
• (d) means for individually temporarily securing the outer metal sheets to the faces of said pattern plates, whereby softened spacer composition and bonding material may be appropriately introduced between respective pairs of metal sheets to thereby form said chute wall partitions.