Method of and apparatus for manipulating rod-shaped articles of the tobacco processing industry
CA 1324053 C · Owner: Dahlgrun, Rolf · Inventors: Schmidt, Rolf; Dahlgrun, Rolf
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A method of and an apparatus for delivering successive filter rod sections of a series of such sections onto the upper reach of an endless belt conveyor whereon the sections form a single file of coaxial articles. A first rotary drum-shaped conveyor has axially parallel peripheral flutes which draw successive filter rod sections from a magazine and move them at right angles to their axes to a transfer station where each oncoming section is brought to a halt in the flute of a stationary ramp. A second rotary drum-shaped conveyor has peripheral pushers which engage the rear end faces of successive sections in the flute of the ramp and move the entrained sections axially toward and onto the …
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- Granted November 9, 1993. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended November 9, 2010.
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