Abstract:
An apparatus for compressing cigarettes comprises a compression pocket having opposite open ends which comprises a pair of L-shaped compression members which are disposed in an opposite manner. Each member includes short and long segments which extend in an axial direction of a continuously rotatable drum, one of the members being movable in a tangential direction of the outer circumference of the drum, the other member being movable in a direction at an desired angle relative to said tangential direction. The apparatus also includes a device for moving the pair of L-shaped compression members in opposite directions using a rack and pinion combination system.
Abstract:
A conveyor device having cigarette storing containers wherein cigarettes are arranged side by side at a plurality of supply stations for assembling overlying layered sets and packet packing up in cigarette packaging machines, characterized by comprising a belt element having one of its faces provided with transverse teeth longitudinally arranged throughout the belt length, said toothed belt element having an elongated looped configuration with horizontal runs about idle gears, wherein said transverse toothing is internally of said loop so as to mesh in a drive belt fashion with the toothing of said idle gears and having attached to the face opposite the transverse toothing and externally of the loop said cigarette set storing and assembling containers, said toothed belt element also being of a substantially inextensible material having a resiliently yieldable structure; protective fairing means being provided for a boxlike protection of the zone within the loop as defined by said toothed belt element and respective idle gears; and guide means being also provided for guiding said toothed belt element along said horizontal runs.