Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Feeder device of products with reduced longitudinal dimensions in machines for the tobacco industry
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Application No.: US14892008Application Date: 2014-05-20
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Publication No.: US09681683B2Publication Date: 2017-06-20
- Inventor: Marco Esposti , Ivan Eusepi , Nicola Baldanza , Massimo Sartoni
- Applicant: G.D S.p.A.
- Applicant Address: IT Bologna
- Assignee: G.D S.p.A.
- Current Assignee: G.D S.p.A.
- Current Assignee Address: IT Bologna
- Agency: Shuttleworth & Ingersoll, PLC
- Agent Timothy J. Klima
- Priority: ITBO2013A0262 20130524
- International Application: PCT/IB2014/061559 WO 20140520
- International Announcement: WO2014/188338 WO 20141127
- Main IPC: A24C5/47
- IPC: A24C5/47 ; A24C5/32 ; A24C5/356 ; B65B19/10 ; B65G47/84

Abstract:
A feeder device of products with reduced longitudinal dimensions in machines for the tobacco industry comprises a main feeder roller which rotates continuously and which has a plurality of active peripheral flutes acting to hold a respective product; the main roller is designed to pass the products on to respective flutes on corresponding handling rollers of a main line of feed of the products in the machine the device is associated with; the device comprises means for continuously filling the peripheral flutes of the main roller, the filling means comprising a plurality of feeding and passing-on means, in particular at least first means and second means for feeding and passing on corresponding groups of the products to corresponding groups of flutes located one after the other on the main roller.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160095349A1 FEEDER DEVICE OF PRODUCTS WITH REDUCED LONGITUDINAL DIMENSIONS IN MACHINES FOR THE TOBACCO INDUSTRY Public/Granted day:2016-04-07
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