Method for feeding bar-like materials
AssigneesTokyo Automatic Machinery Works, Ltd., Japan Tobacco Inc.
InventorsKatsuhiko Kumata, Isao Endo, Syozi Numa, Ichiro Hirose, Takayoshi Sagawa, Katsuyoshi Matono
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Abstract
A method for feeding cigarettes or filter plugs or the like to a working machine, such as a transporting machine, using a flat feeding passage with a bottom which can store and convey the cigarettes etc. in the horizontal direction, comprising introducing receiving boxes containing the cigarettes etc. into the feeding passage and moving them to a feeding station, and raising the receiving boxes at the feeding station so that the cigarettes etc. in the receiving boxes are discharged at one time. The invention discloses also an apparatus for carrying out the method.
Claims10
A method for feeding bar-like materials, comprising the steps of:
- introducing receiving boxes having open upper faces for containing the bar-like materials onto one end of a flat bottom feeding passage which is connected, at an opposite end thereof, to a storing device, so that the boxes are in an inverted state with the open side facing the flat bottom passage,
- conveying the receiving boxes, one by one, to a feeding station on the opposite end of said feeding passage in at least a closely adjacent relation to each other,
- collectively discharging the bar-like materials in each receiving box onto the feeding passage in a layered manner by raising each frontmost receiving box which comes to the feeding station up to an upper limit;
- containing the discharged bar-like materials in said layered manner by frame means and by an end wall of the next closely and rearwardly adjacent receiving box which forms a back wall for said discharged bar-like materials;
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- transferring said discharged bar-like materials to said storing device by movement of said next closely and rearwardly adjacent receiving box wall thereagainst in said feeding station.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.