Feeding particulate material, especially tobacco
AssigneeMolins Limited
InventorsEdward G. Preston, David B. Stewart
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Abstract
A cigarette making machine or feed apparatus for fibrous material other than tobacco includes a pinned conveyor (20) arranged to feed material from a supply and past refusing means (22) whereby the feed conveyor will carry a metered stream of the material, characterized in that the feed conveyor has relatively high pins (36) which are substantially evenly distributed among relatively low pins (38) or lie in obliquely extending rows (34, 40, 42, 44) between rows of relatively low pins.
Claims11
Apparatus for feeding a metered stream of tobacco or other particulate or fibrous material, including a pinned feed roller having forwardly inclined pins and arranged to feed material from a supply and past a pinned refuser roller whereby the feed roller will convey a metered stream of the material, the pins of the feed roller comprising relatively high pins which are substantially evenly distributed among relatively low pins.
Apparatus for feeding a metered stream of tobacco or other particulate or fibrous material, including a pinned feed roller having forwardly inclined pins and arranged to feed material from a supply and past a pinned refuser roller whereby the feed roller will convey a metered stream of the material, the pins of the feed roller comprising relatively high pins which lie in obliquely extending rows between rows of relatively low pins.
Apparatus for feeding a metered stream of particulate material, including a pinned feed roller having forwardly inclined pins and arranged to feed material from a supply and past a pinned refuser roller whereby the feed roller will convey a metered stream of the material, the pins of the feed roller comprising relatively high pins which lie in obliquely extending rows between rows of relatively low pins.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.