Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Adjusting spaces between electronic cigarette tubes
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Application No.: US15309548Application Date: 2015-05-12
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Publication No.: US09738459B2Publication Date: 2017-08-22
- Inventor: Oscar Slurink
- Applicant: Sluis Cigar Machinery B.V.
- Applicant Address: NL Kampen
- Assignee: Sluis Cigar Machinery B.V.
- Current Assignee: Sluis Cigar Machinery B.V.
- Current Assignee Address: NL Kampen
- Agency: Hoffmann & Baron, LLP
- Priority: NL2012832 20140516
- International Application: PCT/NL2015/050337 WO 20150512
- International Announcement: WO2015/174836 WO 20151119
- Main IPC: A24F47/00
- IPC: A24F47/00 ; B65G47/08 ; B65G47/84 ; A61M15/06 ; A24C5/00 ; B65G29/00

Abstract:
An electronic cigarette tubes individualizer apparatus individualizes tubes received from a first track without spacing and provides the tubes to a second track with a spacing. The apparatus includes a rotary carrousel configured to rotate about a rotation axis and provided with a guide extending with the longitudinal axis partially along a line substantially intersecting the rotation axis; a stationary cam track extending around the rotation axis; a carriage mounted to the carrousel for traveling in a reciprocating movement along the guide driven by a cam follower following the cam track while the carousel is rotating; and a receiver connected to the carriage for receiving the tube from the first track close to the rotation axis and delivering the tube to the second track further away from the rotation axis with a pitch.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170158436A1 ADJUSTING SPACES BETWEEN ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE TUBES Public/Granted day:2017-06-08
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