Device for loading storage containers for elongated articles
AssigneeG.D Societa' Per Azioni
InventorCarlo Trimani
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Abstract
A device for loading storage containers for elongated articles, particularly tobacco products, wherein a feedbox for the articles presents an output window facing a horizontal plate for supporting an orderly mass of articles; the output window is defined by the side by side output openings of a number of side by side channels for respective columns of articles; the horizontal plate is movable vertically along a storage container positioned with its input opening facing the output window, and presents side by side seats on top for respective articles; each output opening faces a rib separating two respective adjacent seats on the horizontal plate; and the channels are all inclined to the same side in relation to the plate.
Claims12
A device (1;
- 35) for loading storage containers (4) for elongated articles (2), in particular tobacco products (2);
- the device comprising a feedbox (9a) for the articles (2), in turn comprising an outlet (9) defined by a number of side by side channels (12) for respective columns of said articles (2), each channel (12) presenting an output opening (12a), and said outlet (9) presenting a bottom output window (10) defined by said side by side output openings (12a);
- a horizontal plate (15) for receiving and supporting a mass of articles (2) issuing from said output window (10);
- and actuating means (16) for moving said plate (15) along a storage container (4) positioned, in use, with its input opening (5) beneath said output window (10);
- characterized in that the horizontal plate (15) presents, on top, side by side seats (24) for respective said articles (2);
- each seat (24) being separated by a rib (23) from each adjacent seat (24);
- each said output opening (12a) facing a rib (23) separating two respective adjacent seats (24) on the plate (15);
- and the channels (12) all being inclined to the same side in relation to the plate (15).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.