Cigarette packing machine
AssigneeG.D Societa' Per Azioni
InventorAntonio Gamberini
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Abstract
Machine for packing cigarettes in hard, flip-top packets on which the packets are made by folding die-cut pieces round preformed groups of cigarettes on a folding wheel turning round a horizontal axis; on which the packets are then sent to a final drying wheel turning round a horizontal axis essentially perpendicular to the axis of the said folding wheel; on which the packets are then shifted axially in relation to the drying wheel and unloaded off the latter on to an essentially horizontal output conveyor the axis of which is essentially parallel to the rotation axis of the drying wheel.
Claims8
A machine for packing cigarettes is hard fliptop packets, each including a die-cut piece folded to form a parallelepipedon case having larger front and back faces and smaller side faces;
- the machine comprising:
- a rotary folding wheel mounted for rotation about a horizontal axis and for folding in succession said diecut pieces about respective groups of cigarettes to form said packets;
- an output unit;
- transfer means to push in succession each said packet off said folding wheel in a radial outwards sense which is perpendicular to said larger front and back faces of said packet, and to transfer said packet to said output unit;
- said output unit comprising means for drying said packets, means for rejecting those of said packets which are faulty, and an output conveyor;
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- said drying and said rejecting means comprising at least one rotary conveyor wheel substantially tangent, in a radial direction, to the periphery of said folding wheel, and mounted for rotation about a substantially horizontal axis to convey each said packet towards said output conveyor in a direction substantially perpendicular to said smaller side faces of the packet itself.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.