GB508904A - Improvements in or relating to tobacco feeding apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

508,904. Tobacco-feeding apparatus. MOLINS, D. W., and MOLINS MACHINE CO., Ltd. May 12, 1938, No. 14182. [Class 130] To form a uniform tobacco carpet, guides are provided between which multiple parallel and adjacent narrow streams of tobacco are fed, the tobacco in each stream being fed into and through a confining passage having opposed surfaces and removed from the opposite end of the passage by a conveyer at a slower speed than that at which the tobacco enters, so that the streams are compacted As shown, tobacco withdrawn from a hopper by a carded roller 3 is showered by a picker roller on to a smooth roller 9 and divided into narrow streams by guides or plates 20 carried by a bar 24. The streams pass through confining passages formed between a plate 11 and the roller 9 and sidewalls 10, and are removed from the passages by a roller 12, moving slower than the roller 9, and showered by a picker roller into the trough of a continuous-rod cigarette-making machine or of a tobacco-packaging machine. The tobacco-engaging surface of the plate 11 is recessed to accommodate the tops of the plates 20 and the plate 11 is mounted on eccentrics 18, 19 which move it towards, and in the same direction as, the roller 9 but at a lower speed. The plates 20 may diverge slightly towards the roller 12. To prevent the accumulation of tobacco against the ends of the plates 20, inclined discs 22 are mounted on a rotatable shaft 21 adjacent the forward ends of the plates. In a modified construction the discs 22 are omitted and the plates 20 carry projections which extend up to the picker roller that removes tobacco from the drum. Specification 441,402 is referred to.