Abstract:
A method and device for feeding elongated tobacco articles, whereby, on a wrapping machine, a mass of articles, oriented a given way, is fed along an annular path in a hopper connected to at least one channel for feeding the articles and in which the articles are fed in an orderly column.
Abstract:
A pickup device for stacks of blanks arranged in at least one layer on a substantially horizontal separating sheet, wherein a fork, movable in a given pickup direction to and from the separating sheet to successively pick up the stacks by sliding in contact with the separating sheet, has a skid hinged to a free end of the fork; the skid sliding in contact with the separating sheet, and oscillating, with respect to the fork, about a substantially horizontal axis crosswise to the pickup direction.