Abstract:
Disclosed herein is an apparatus for supplying cigarette containers to the loading mechanisms for hoppers of cigarette packaging-conditioning machines. The apparatus supplies containers filled with cigarettes through a storage device so that the operating continuity of the cigarette packagingconditioning machine is assured independently of the operating continuity for the cigarette manufacturing machine associated therewith. The storage device intervenes to ensure maximum operating efficiency for both the cigarette manufacturing machines and for the packaging-conditioning machine by storing the containers of cigarettes produced by the manufacturing machine when a failure occurs in the packaging machine; and, by supplying the stored containers to the packaging machine during proper operation of all of the apparatus and upon failure of the manufacturing machine.
Abstract:
A stabilizing device for cigarette packaging machines in which cigarettes to be packed are transferred in rows from a first stationary container to each of a plurality of containers movable by means of a conveyor system, each movable container having a base and an opening at an end opposite the base, wherein the movable containers are arranged in line for intermittent movement past the first container. The device comprises a stabilizing arm having a step in a surface adjacent the second container, which step defines two stabilizing surfaces. The step has a dimension which is equal to a whole number multiple of a diameter of the cigarette to be packaged. The stabilizing device is arranged to be intermittently movable with the movable containers, and also movable between a first operative position in which the surfaces define, with at least some of the bases of the movable containers, a space for occupation by a row or rows of cigarettes and a second inoperative position spaced from the second containers, the first operative position coinciding with movement of the containers.
Abstract:
A GENEVA WHEEL DEVICE COMPRISES AN EVENLY ROTATING DRIVING WHEEL AND A GENEVA OR DRIVEN WHEEL HAVING RADIAL SPACES AND BEING INTERMITTENTLY ROTATED BY ONE OR BY EACH OF A PLURALITY OF ASSOCIATED OPERATING ROLLERS, ECCENTRICALLY ANGULARLY SPACED APART WITH RESPECT TO SAID DRIVING WHEEL. ONE OR MORE CYLINDRICAL SURFACE PROJECTIONS CONCENTRIC (CENTERING ELEMENT) THEREWITH AND INTENDED TO CO-OPERATE WITH ONE OF THE CONCAVE SURFACES CONJUGATED THERETO ON THE GENEVA WHEEL PERIPHERY BETWEEN ONE SPACE AND THE OTHER ARE PROVIDED. SAID OPERATING ROLLER(S) ARE ASSOCIATED WITH THE DRIVING WHEEL SO AS TO ENTER THE CORRESPONDING RADIAL SPACE AT THE INTERSECTION BETWEEN THE PATHS AS DESCRIBED BY THE RESPECTIVE CIRCUMFERENTIAL TRAVEL AND THAT OF THE TERMINAL ENDS OF SAID GENEVA WHEEL, THE CORRESPONDING RADIAL FORMING WITH THE MEDIAN RADIAL OF SAID ENTERING SPACE AN ANGLE LESS THAN 90*. THERE IS PROVIDED A MOVING MEMBER HAVING AT LEAST ONE AUXILIARY CYLINDRICAL SURFACE (CENTERING ELEMENT) CONJUGABLE WITH THE PERIPHERAL CONCAVE SURFACES OF THE GENEVA OR DRIVEN WHEEL, THIS MOVING MEMBER BEING MOVED IN TIMED RELATIONSHIP WITH THE MOVEMENTS OF THE DRIVING WHEEL TO BRING SAID AUXILIARY CYLINDRICAL SURFACE TO CO-OPERATE WITH A CORRESPONDING CONJUGATE CONCAVE SURFACE OF SAID DRIVEN WHEEL SO AS TO LOCK OR STOP IT AT THE POSITION BEING REACHED AT THE TIME THE OPERATING ROLLER ASSOCIATED WITH SAID DRIVING WHEEL LEAVES ITS CORRESPONDING RADIAL SPACE.
Abstract:
Disclosed herein is a device for transferring batches of cigarettes or similar from a batch formation line to a line where the said batches are actually packeted. The device in question comprises: an inching rotating head, provided with (a) a pair of four radial surfaces, two by two, parallel and spaced proportionately to the thickness of the layers that form a packet of cigarettes and (b) a pair of grippers, each of which provided with fork shaped jaws which encompass the said radial surfaces; means for cyclically parting the jaws; a movable vertical wall which extends parallel to the cigarettes so as to retain them whilst they are being inserted in between the said four radial surfaces and when the jaws of the grippers are open. The batches of cigarettes are collected and transferred in succession to the processing units further along the line by a pusher, at the side of which there are two parallel vertical walls which move with it in order to keep the cigarettes properly positioned whilst they are being transferred. Thanks to the protection afforded by the retaining walls, no harmful pressure is applied to the cigarettes during the time they are being moved.
Abstract:
Disclosed herein is an apparatus for the exiting of products, particularly cigarettes, from a wrapping/packing line for the said products, able to check that the wrapping on all the products has been properly executed and to guarantee the succession continuity to the equipment located further along the line. The apparatus comprises means for moving the products intermittently along an exit channel in time with the inching motion of the wrapping/packing line; retainer means synchronized with the movement of the said transportation means, movable from a position in which the products are held, one next to the other, along the channel to a position in which one product at a time is allowed to enter the said channel; feeler means for detecting the presence or the absence of a product at the entry point to the channel; electro-mechanical coupling means fitted on the means for transmitting the intermittent motion to the aforementioned transportation means and to the said retainer means. The feeler means are electrically connected to the coupling means and to the feeler means for checking that the wrapping has been properly executed, in such a way as to cause the transportation means and the retainer means to be halted, as well as to cut off the said feeler checking means whenever they detect the absence of a product at the entry point to the aforementioned channel.
Abstract:
An intermittently rotating radial section wheel transfers articles along a guideway from a first stop station to a second stop station. Lengths of wrapping material are successively and intermittently fed transversely of said guideway. At the second stop station an intermittently rotating radial pliers of a wrapping wheel bends the wrapping material in U-shape about an article. During movement to an outlet station, the wrappings are folded over the article by wrapping members. Different types of wrapping can be carried out with different wrapping members.
Abstract:
Articles such as chocolates are randomly supplied in bulk to near the center of a rotating disc. Fixed guiding means are located above the disc so that articles thereon are guided outwardly in a generally spiral path so that at the periphery of the disc oriented articles are sequentially and separately delivered to a wrapping-up machine. The guide members have at least one abutment surface angularly inclined to the vertical from the plane of the disc to assist orientation of the articles. Means for turning over articles onto a desired face may be included on the guide members.