| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 5154278 |
Apparatus for transferring arrays of rod-shaped articles of the tobacco processing industry |
October 13, 1992 |
| Apparatus for transferring block-shaped arrays of plain or filter cigarettes in a packing machine has a rotary first conveyor which orbits a set of equidistant pockets for discrete arrays about a first vertical axis. The first conveyor is provided with drives which can pivot the pock |
| 4964501 |
Apparatus for transferring layers of rod-shaped articles in packing machines |
October 23, 1990 |
| The lower ends of several ducts which dispense layers of parallel cigarettes are located at different levels adjacent the path of movement of a stepwise advancing chain with receptacles for multi-layer arrays of cigarettes which are to be draped into blanks for conversion into cigare |
| 4889226 |
Apparatus for transferring block-shard groups of rod-shaped articles of the tobacco processing i |
December 26, 1989 |
| An apparatus for transferring arrays of cigarettes from the pockets of at least one intermittently driven first conveyor into the pockets of a continuously driven second conveyor wherein the transfer takes place by means of at least one pair of arms which have pockets for arrays of c |
| 4866912 |
Method of an apparatus for packing rod-shaped articles of the tobacco processing industry |
September 19, 1989 |
| Apparatus for draping blanks around blocks of parallel cigarettes has a continuously driven turret with radially inwardly extending pockets in its peripheral surface. Successive pockets of the turret receive blocks of cigarettes from successive pockets of a first endless belt or chain |
| 4729508 |
Hinged lid container and one-piece blank therefor |
March 8, 1988 |
| A hinged lid container for arrays of cigarettes is made of a one-piece blank and has a hollow body with an open end remote from its bottom wall, a collar which is integral with the front wall of the body at the open end and extends in part into the body, and a lid which is integral with |
| 4643027 |
Apparatus for testing cigarette packs and the like |
February 17, 1987 |
| Apparatus for testing cigarette packs for the presence or absence of several defects including the configuration of the packs, the orientation of their constituents and the quality of bonds between overlapping constituents has an intermittently driven turret with an annulus of recept |
| 4526268 |
Apparatus for assembling arrays of cigarettes or the like |
July 2, 1985 |
| Apparatus for assembling multi-layer blocks of parallel cigarettes has a magazine with several outlets having narrow elongated horizontal openings for the discharge of successive layers of cigarettes. An endless conveyor transports a succession of variable-volume receptacles stepwise alo |
| 4503967 |
Apparatus for accumulating arrays of cigarettes or the like |
March 12, 1985 |
| Apparatus for accumulating arrays of superimposed layers of parallel cigarettes has a magazine with three layer-accumulating sections having outlets at different levels and a set of pushers which expel layers of cigarettes from the sections during the intervals of dwell of an intermi |
| 4329898 |
Apparatus for subdividing a web of wrapping material into sections of predetermined length |
May 18, 1982 |
| Apparatus for subdividing a web of wrapping material into sections of predetermined length has a reciprocable carriage for a pair of grippers which are pivotable into engagement with the web to thereby clamp the web against the carriage while the latter moves forwardly. This advances the |
| 4312699 |
Apparatus for attaching adhesive-coated sheets to cigarette packs or the like |
January 26, 1982 |
| Apparatus for applying labels to successive cigarette packs has a feeding unit which delivers a series of labels downwardly past an adhesive-applying device which coats one side of each label with a hotmelt and through a stationary mouthpiece which directs the oncoming label into one |
| 4132398 |
Apparatus for removing sheets from stacks |
January 2, 1979 |
| Apparatus for alternately withdrawing lowermost sheets from stacks of sheets in two magazines has a frame which is reciprocable below the magazines along a horizontal path between two end positions and carries a main support, two auxiliary supports which flank the main support, and a |
