Abstract:
A transfer unit for transferring elongated articles, wherein a uniform succession of articles is fed by an input drum to a first transfer station, where the articles are picked up successively by a number of pickup heads of a transfer drum for supply, through a second transfer station, to an output drum in a uniform succession of pairs of side by side articles; some of the pickup heads are fixed, and some oscillate with respect to the transfer drum; the fixed pickup heads alternate with the oscillating pickup heads; and each oscillating pickup head oscillates to and from a position contiguous to one of the two adjacent fixed pickup heads.
Abstract:
Groups containing a given number of products are produced using a transfer assembly, wherein a first, pocket-type output, conveyor of a production machine, and a second, pocket-type input, conveyor of a group-forming machine move continuously in a first and, respectively, second direction opposite each other, and are connected to each other by a pocket-type transfer member, which is interposed between the first and second conveyor, and is operated to selectively rotate about an axis of rotation crosswise to the first and second conveyor; or to translate, together with the second conveyor, crosswise to the axis of rotation to compensate for one or more voids on the first conveyor; or to translate, together with the first conveyor, crosswise to the axis of rotation to form, on the second conveyor, a succession of voids in time with the group-forming machine.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a device for separating objects from a quantity of objects located in a receptacle. In order to keep the constructional and technical effort of said device low while allowing for great tolerance regarding the dimensions or diameters of the objects, a pivotable flap is provided at the outlet of the receptacle for releasing an object that is to be separated while an element for retaining the remaining objects in the receptacle is provided above the flap in the direction of movement of the objects.
Abstract:
A device for processing packets of cigarettes has a transportation unit for conveying a line of packets from an input station to an output station in a direction perpendicular to the line; a conveyor unit for feeding the line to the input station in a direction parallel to the line; and a transfer unit for transferring the line from the conveyor unit to the transportation unit; the transfer unit has a first pusher for transferring the line from the conveyor unit to an intermediate conveyor which reduces the longitudinal speed of the line to zero, and a second pusher for transferring the line from the intermediate conveyor to the transportation unit.
Abstract:
A transfer unit for transferring elongated articles, wherein a uniform succession of articles is fed by an input drum to a first transfer station, where the articles are picked up successively by a number of pickup heads of a transfer drum for supply, through a second transfer station, to an output drum in a uniform succession of pairs of side by side articles; some of the pickup heads are fixed, and some oscillate with respect to the transfer drum; the fixed pickup heads alternate with the oscillating pickup heads; and each oscillating pickup head oscillates to and from a position contiguous to one of the two adjacent fixed pickup heads.
Abstract:
A variable-capacity FIFO store having a powered endless conveyor belt defining a conveying branch for transferring a mass of articles from an input station to an output station, and a return branch extending from the output station to the input station; and an adjusting assembly for adjusting the lengths of the conveying and return branches in complementary manner, so as to adjust the storage capacity of the store; an expulsion station is located along an output conveyor, downstream from the output station, to expel a given mass of articles from the output conveyor, and is controlled by a control unit for identifying the location of a mass of articles in the store, and for activating the expulsion station when the previously identified mass of articles travels through the expulsion station.
Abstract:
A device for processing packets of cigarettes has a transportation unit for conveying a line of packets from an input station to an output station in a direction perpendicular to the line; a conveyor unit for feeding the line to the input station in a direction parallel to the line; and a transfer unit for transferring the line from the conveyor unit to the transportation unit; the transfer unit has a first pusher for transferring the line from the conveyor unit to an intermediate conveyor which reduces the longitudinal speed of the line to zero, and a second pusher for transferring the line from the intermediate conveyor to the transportation unit.
Abstract:
On a continuously operating cigarette packing machine, a group of cigarettes is transferred from a pocket—integral with an endless conveyor having at least one substantially straight portion—to a first seat—carried on an input wheel of a wrapping line and movable with respect to the input wheel—by transferring the group axially from the pocket to a second seat, which is fed by an intermediate wheel along a portion of the endless conveyor and is movable with respect to the intermediate wheel; and by then orienting the first and second seats with respect to the respective wheels so that one of the first and second seats penetrates the other for a given time.
Abstract:
A belt conveyor device for groups of delicate rod-shaped objects, especially in cigarette packaging machines, which device includes a continuous conveyor belt (3) travelling around pulleys (4, 5), at least one of which is driven, and attached to whose outer face are a plurality of conveyor housings (6) each for one group of delicate rod-shaped objects (S, S', S"), housing (6) are equidistant form each other and carried stepwise in succession from a loading station to an unloading station, these stations being situated near two opposite ends of the conveyor belt (3). The conveyor housings (6) consist of two separate and mutually complementary parts (106, 206) divided at at least one plane transverse to the plane defined by the conveyor belt (3) and transverse to the direction of advance of the conveyor belt (3), each housing part (106) being attached firmly to the conveyor belt (3) independently of the other associated housing part (206).
Abstract:
A method of feeding a continuous packing machine with groups of tobacco items, in particular cigarettes, composed of at least one layer of items, whereby a continuously-moving conveyor with pockets for respective groups is supplied successively with the groups, each of which is expelled from a feedbox in a substantially transverse direction in relation to the items by arresting the items inside the feedbox and over the expelled items.