Axial cigarette displacing device

A device for axially displacing cigarettes (2) aranged side by side in two substantially parallel rows advancing in a direction (3, 4) substantially perpendicular to the axes of the cigarettes (2);

• the device (1) comprising an input roller (5) and an output roller (6 or 44) mounted for rotation about the parallel axes of said input and output rollers and designed to feed the cigarettes (2) in the direction along the routes of advancing rows of cigarettes which are substantially perpendicular to the axis of said cigarettes, and transfer means (9 or 39 or 45) for transferring both rows of cigarettes (3, 4) from the input roller (5) to the output roller (6 or 44);
• said transfer means comprising a transfer roller (21 or 40 or 46) mounted for rotation about an axis (18) inclined with respect to the axes of the input (5) and output (6 or 44) rollers for separating at least one of said rows of cigarettes to a given distance (D) in a direction parallel with said axis of the cigarettes (2);
• each of said transfer roller, input roller and output roller having peripheral seats (23 or 47) for accommodating said cigarettes, and one of said transfer, input and output rollers being an adapter roller, said adapter roller comprising the respective peripheral seats (23 or 47) for accommodating said cigarettes (2) in said one of said rows of said cigarettes (4), and a plurality of swing supports (24;
• 48), each swing support having a peripheral cigarette seat, mounted for swinging in a radial plane of the adapter roller and about an axis perpendicular to the rotation axis (18 or 8) of the adapter roller.