GB677257A - Improvements in or relating to collecting mechanism for cigarettes, filter wads and other rod shaped articles - Google Patents

Abstract

677,257. Packing cigarettes. MORRIS, J. E., RUAU, F. F., and MOLINS MACHINE CO., Ltd. Oct. 6, 1950 [Oct. 6, 1949], No. 25703/49. Class 94(i) Collecting mechanism of the kind in which rod-shaped articles, e.g. cigarettes, are, during movement in a direction transverse to their longitudinal axes, delivered, by means 1, into a receptacle 5, which latter is movable in a manner such that articles are delivered first into one end of the receptacle and thereafter to successive positions along the length of the receptacle as the leading edge of the latter becomes filled approximately to the desired extent, comprises a levelling roller 6 rotatably mounted and so positioned that its lower surface engages cigarettes and so rotated as to sweep surplus cigarettes backwards and direct them to the unfilled part of the receptacle, and a further roller 7 mounted so that its operative surface is below the operative surface of the first said roller 6 and rotatable to urge cigarettes forward in the direction of receptacle movement. The roller 7, which may be fluted, is journalled in a bracket 8 pivotally mounted on the spindle of the roller 6, which may also be fluted, and carrying a levelling plate 12 slotted for the roller 7 to pass through. When the ends of the receptacles or trays 5 pass the filling position the roller 7 and plate 12 are raised to clear the tray ends by a link 13 connected to a lever 14 pivoted to the machine frame and moved by a cam lever 17 also pivoted to the frame and in turn moved by a roller 55 running in a track 54 as described in Specification 649,467, [Group XXX]. Specification 634,840, [Group XXX], also is referred to.