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US 5,331,977 AGranted
Distributor for cigarette manufacturing machine
AssigneeG. D. Societa per Azioni
InventorFiorenzo Draghetti
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Abstract
A cigarette manufacturing machine having a distributor including a duct, along which shredded tobacco is fed, and a withdrawal roller for withdrawing tobacco from the duct. The duct has a plurality of agitating disks rotatably mounted therein, each being reciprocatingly rotated about an axis perpendicular to the feed direction of tobacco through the duct and perpendicular to the rotation axis of the withdrawal roller and having an end portion inside the duct.
Claims4
A shredded tobacco distributor for use in a cigarette manufacturing machine, comprising:
- a duct defined by walls and having an inlet portion and an output portion;
- means for feeding shredded tobacco to said inlet portion of said duct to flow through said duct in a tobacco feed direction;
- means for withdrawing the tobacco from said output portion of said duct, said withdrawal means comprising a rotating withdrawal roller having its axis of rotation perpendicular to the feed direction of the tobacco in said duct;
- agitating means comprising a plurality of agitating bodies, each of said bodies having an axis perpendicular to the axis of said withdrawal roller and to the feed direction of the tobacco in said duct and each of said bodies being mounted for rotation about its axis on one of the walls in said output portion of said duct;
- and activating means connected to said agitating means for oscillating said agitating bodies about their axes.
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