US3136320A - Manufacture of mouthpiece cigarettes - Google Patents

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US3136320A
US3136320A US671607A US67160757A US3136320A US 3136320 A US3136320 A US 3136320A US 671607 A US671607 A US 671607A US 67160757 A US67160757 A US 67160757A US 3136320 A US3136320 A US 3136320A
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A24—TOBACCO; CIGARS; CIGARETTES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES; SMOKERS' REQUISITES
    • A24C—MACHINES FOR MAKING CIGARS OR CIGARETTES
    • A24C5/00—Making cigarettes; Making tipping materials for, or attaching filters or mouthpieces to, cigars or cigarettes
    • A24C5/32—Separating, ordering, counting or examining cigarettes; Regulating the feeding of tobacco according to rod or cigarette condition
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    • A24C5/326—Transporting cigarettes during manufacturing with lateral transferring means
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A24—TOBACCO; CIGARS; CIGARETTES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES; SMOKERS' REQUISITES
    • A24C—MACHINES FOR MAKING CIGARS OR CIGARETTES
    • A24C5/00—Making cigarettes; Making tipping materials for, or attaching filters or mouthpieces to, cigars or cigarettes
    • A24C5/47—Attaching filters or mouthpieces to cigars or cigarettes, e.g. inserting filters into cigarettes or their mouthpieces
    • A24C5/471—Attaching filters or mouthpieces to cigars or cigarettes, e.g. inserting filters into cigarettes or their mouthpieces by means of a connecting band
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A24—TOBACCO; CIGARS; CIGARETTES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES; SMOKERS' REQUISITES
    • A24C—MACHINES FOR MAKING CIGARS OR CIGARETTES
    • A24C5/00—Making cigarettes; Making tipping materials for, or attaching filters or mouthpieces to, cigars or cigarettes
    • A24C5/56—Making tipping materials, e.g. sheet cork for mouthpieces of cigars or cigarettes, by mechanical means
    • A24C5/58—Applying the tipping materials

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  • a mouthpiece portion may consist of a length of filtering material, or a hollow tube, or a length of any other material suitable for forming the mouthpiece portion of a cigarette, or any combination of the foregoing.
  • stubs For convenience such mouthpiece portions will be referred to as stubs.
  • the expression double-length stu shall be understood as meaning a stub which is double the length required in an individual mouthpiece cigarette.
  • mouthpiece cigarette where used herein shall be understood as meaning a cigarette consisting of a cigarette length, or in other words a length of wrapped cigarette rod, with a stub at one end in endwise abutment, the cigarette length and stub being united and held together by an encircling uniting band.
  • the present invention is concerned with apparatus for making mouthpiece cigarettes, in which groups, each consisting of at least one cigarette length and a stub arranged end to end, are united by uniting bands while rolling sideways through a passage which comprises opposed surfaces which grip the groups between them and move relatively to one another so as to cause the groups to roll, and the invention provides means'for controlling the axial alignment of the component parts of a group while the latter is being moved sideways into the passage.
  • the invention is also concerned with the provision of ticles, are fed endwise and are deflected and pushed sideways, for example into such a passage, and provides im-' proved means for so deflecting them.
  • the invention also provides improved means for subdividing cylindrical articles, such for example as the stub portions of united groups each consisting of two cigarette
  • the invention is also concerned with apparatus in which such groups, or other rod-like articles or groups of arlengths and an intermediate double-length stub arranged end to end.
  • the invention is also concerned with the combination of any two or more of the foregoing five general features outlined above as well as with the combination of the details more fully described later herein and claimed in the appended claims.
  • accomveyor band 1 is arranged to receive cigarette lengths as they issue from the cut-0E mechanism (not shown) of a 7 of the group by the pusher.
  • a fixed plate 3 is arranged to support cigarette lengths as they leave the band 1.
  • a wheel 4, which is best seen in FIGURE 2, comprises two spaced rubber discs 5, is mounted above the plate 3 and arranged to rotate in the direction shown by the arrow, FIGURE 1, and is positioned to engage and feed forward cigarette lengths on the plate.
  • a further wheel 6 whose rim is provided with a suitable friction surface, and immediately above the wheel 6 is a roller 7 about which passes an endless band 8 which also passes over another roller 9.
  • the rollers 7 and 9 rotate as shown by the arrows in FIGURE 1 and the lower run of the band 8 therefore travels in the direction of endwise feed of the cigarette lengths.
  • a fixed plate 10 positioned to support cigarette lengths as they leave theplate 3 and wheel 6.
  • the lower run of the band 8 is spaced a suitable distance above the plate 10 to engage cigarette lengths on the plate and exert a gentle frictional forward drive on the cigarette lengths.
  • Guide members are positioned above the lower run of the band to maintain its spacing from the plate.
  • the band 8 is made of, or faced with, a suitably soft and yielding material to enable it to effect a gentle brushing action on the cigarette lengths.
  • a suitably soft and yielding material to enable it to effect a gentle brushing action on the cigarette lengths.
  • it may be made of soft sponge rubber or other similar spongy material.
  • a rotatable disc 11 which acts to feed double-length stubs into spaces between the cigarette lengths.
  • the disc which rotates in the direction shown by the arrow, has two pushers 12, each of which in turn pushes a stub along a curved guide-way 13, FIGURE 2, on to the band 1.
  • the disposition and timing of the pushers is such that a stub is inserted into the space behind every second cigarette length. Any suitable means may be' used to supply the stubs and feed them into the range of action of the pushers. wise towards the guideway 13 and about to be engaged from behind by a pusher 12.
  • crank discs 16 which carry'a recipro eating pusher 17.
  • the pusher has a straight flat operative face which engages cigarette lengths and stubs to push them sideways and then to withdraw.
  • the crank discs rotate in the direction shown by the arrows, FIG- URE 2, thus carrying the pusher in a rotary path.
  • the pusher on a forward, pushing stroke, extends between the plate 10 and the lower run of the band 8.
  • the pusher 17 has an extension 18 on which is mounted a movable stop member 19 arranged to intercept the leading component of a group consisting of two cigarette lengths and an intermediate stub, to arrest its forward movement either during or prior to the sideways transfer
  • the stop member 19 is mounted on one end of a bell-crank lever 20 pivoted at 21 on the extension 18.
  • a spring 22 urges 'the lever 20 in a counter-clockwise direction as viewed in FIGURE 2, and 2.
  • lug 23 on the extension 18 limits the movement of I the lever in that direction.
  • the lever 20 carries a roller 24 which is arranged to engage a fixed cam 25 at certain times.
  • FIGURE 2 a stub 14 is shown moving endthe same motion as the pusher. Engagement of the cam by the roller 24, however, causes the stop member 19'to move in an arcuate path relatively to the pusher lengthwise of the latter, to an extent such that its forward component of movement is eliminated or substantially so.
  • This is illustrated in FIGURE 2 where the stop member 19, lever 20, androller 24 are shown in dot and dash lines in the position they occupy as the roller nears the end of its engagement with the cam 25, as well as in full lines in their position at the beginning of such engagement. Further movement of the pusher carries the roller 24 past the cam and the lever 20 is then pulled by the spring 22 back to its original position against the lug 23.
  • the stop member 19 stops the forward movement of a cigarette length which it engages while that cigarette length is being pushed sideways.
  • the pusher 17 extends beneath the band 8, which is arranged to drive cigarette lengths and stubs forwardly over the plate 10.
  • a suction drum 26, FIGURE 3 is located beneath and alongside the plate 10, and rotates in the direction shown I by the arrow in FIGURE 3.
  • Feed rollers 27 feed forwardly a continuous web 28 of material, such as cork tipping material, which passes over an adhesive-applying roller 29 and on to the surface of the drum 26.
  • the rollers 27 feed the web at a controlled speed a little slower than the surface speed of the drum 26, which therefore slips beneath the web.
  • a rotary cutting device having knives 30 cuts the web at intervals, and the portions cut off are carried away by the drum at the faster speed and are thus spaced apart. These portions are to form uniting bands.
  • the member 31 is arranged at such a distance from the drum that cigarette lengths and stubs inserted between them will be gripped, the opposed surfaces of the drum 26 and member 31 thus forming a passageinto which groups of cigarette lengths and stubs are to be pushed by the reciprocating pusher 17.
  • a further drum 32 arranged to rotate as shown by the arrow, FIGURE 3, and provided with peripheral flutes 33.
  • the drum 32 is slotted to accommodate a rotary disc knife 34.
  • the drum 32 may comprise a number of fluted-discs spaced apart side by side.
  • a conveyor 35 is provided beyond the drum 32 and a,
  • guide member 36 extends from within the drum 32 to a position above the conveyor.
  • Cigarette lengths cut from the continuous rod produced rette are cut from the continuous rod produced rette.
  • the component parts Before the component parts are thus united and subdivided, they must be brought into and held in close endwise abutment and axial alignment.
  • the wheel 4 is arranged to rotate at varying speeds so that its peripheral speed is alternately a little above and a little below the steady speed of the bands 1 and 2 and the other parts just mentioned.
  • the means for varying the speed of the wheel may comprise a driving wormand a driven wormwheel, the worm being axially movable to and fro by a cam so as to cause alternate increases and decreases in the angular velocity of the wormwheel, by which the wheel 4 is driven.
  • An example of such a device is disclosed in British patent specification No. 703,991.
  • a cigarette length is between the wheel 4 and the fixed plate 3 at the moment when a stub is inserted behind it.
  • the stub continues to be driven forward by the pusher 12 at the steady speed, but the wheel 4 then slows and so retards the cigarette length, and the stub is accordingly pushed against its end.
  • the cigarette length then passes from the wheel 4 to be gripped between the wheel 6 and the band 8.
  • the wheel 4 is accelerated so that the next cigarette length which it engages is accelerated and pushed up against the stub.
  • the wheel 4 may slip over the rear cigarette length until the latter passes from beneath the wheel 4 and is gripped between the wheel 6 and the band 8.
  • FIGURE 1 shows an abutted group in which the rear length is beneath the wheel 4.
  • the abutted group is then fed forwardly over the plate It) by the combined action of the wheel 6 and band 8 until it is supported wholly on the plate 10. At this moment it is engaged by thereciprocating pusher 17, which pushes it sideways across the plate and into the passage formed by the opposed surfaces of the drum 26 and member 31.
  • the timing of the apparatus may be such that the leading cigarette length of the group strikes the stop member 19 before the group as a whole is engaged by the pusher; or the two things may occur simultaneously, oralternatively the pusher mayengage the group sideways before the leading length has reached the stop member 19.
  • the stop member may be arranged (by suitable shaping'and location of the cam 25) to move as one with the pusher at the instant when it is first engaged by the leading cigarette length, and to continue'so to move for a short while thereafter, so as to cushion the shock of this first impact by moving with a forward component (considered in the direction of endwise feed of the group). Thereafter, however, the stop member 19 is constrained by the cam 25 to swing relatively to the pusher soas to move with the pusher but with a smaller forward component than the pusher, and reduce or prevent-further forward movement of the leading cigarette length while the group is being pushed sideways by the pusher 17.
  • the band 8 continues its gentle forward driving action on the cigarette lengths and stubs in the direction of the axis of the group so that V the component parts of the group are yieldingly urged forwardly towards the stop member 19 and abutment is maintained or completed during the sideways movement of the group.
  • the gripping action of the band 8 and plate Til both of which offer frictional resistance to sideways movement of the group, together with the sideways pushing action of the straight-surface pusher, axially aligns and maintains the axial alignment of the group during the Whole of its sideways movement towards the passage formed by the opposed surfaces of the drum 26 and member 31.
  • the pusher moves far enough sideways to push the group clear of the plate and band 8 and into the passage or space between the conveyor surface of the suction drum 26 and the arcuate member 31, between which the group is gripped.
  • the band 8 extends as near as practicable to the member 31, while the plate 10, which supports the group, extends substantially to the moving surface of the drum 26 in the region of the entrance to the passage formed by the opposed surfaces of the drum 26 and member 31.
  • a group is continuously gripped and controlled first by the band 8 and plate 10, and then by the drum 26 and member 31 (both of which are stationary in the direction of endwise movement of the group), so that it has no opportunity of losing its alignment or the close abutment of its component parts.
  • the action of the reciprocating pusher is so timed in relation to the operation of the cutters 30 that each group is delivered on to the drum just ahead of an adhesive uniting band B.
  • the stationary member 31 and the drum 26 move relatively to one another and thereby cause the groups to roll along the passage between the drum and member 31, and they therefore roll over the uniting bands which are thus wrapped about them.
  • the member 31 is heated so as to accelerate the drying of the adhesive on the uniting bands. It is movable so that it can be lifted away from the drum when required.
  • the united groups are transferred into successive flutes 33 in the drum 32, and are carried past the knife 34 which cuts midway throughthe double-length stubs, thus subdividing the groups into individual mouthpiece cigarettes. These are transferred, by the aid of the guide 36, on to the conveyor 35, which is the equivalent of the catcher band of an ordinary cigarette-making machine.
  • the arrangement described has the further advantage that it is possible to arrange the uniting means (i.e. the rlrum 26 and member 31) so as to be easily accessible, which is of considerable importance during the operation of the machine. This is made possible by the fact that the stubs are inserted between cigarette lengths while the latter are still being fed forwardly, which eliminates the need for stub-feeding apparatus directly above the uniting means.
  • the uniting means i.e. the rlrum 26 and member 31
  • FIGURE 4 illustrates an alternative construction in which the united groups are subdivided while they are still rolling on the drum 26.
  • An arcuate member 131 somewhat longer than the member 31 (FIGURE 3) which it replaces, is centrally slotted to allow a rotating disc knife 134 to pass through it at right angles to a group rolling through the passage. The edge of the knife 134 is close to the surface of the drum 26 but not in contact with it.
  • a conveyor band 135, corresponding to'the band in FIGURE 3, is arranged to receive subdivided cigarettes from a ramp 136 which guides them from the drum 26 on to the band.
  • the disc knife 134 is rotated in the direction shown by the arrow, and it will be seen that its direction of rotation is opposite to the direction of rotation of the rolling moves past the knife, the knife enters the stub at con tinuously changing positions about the circumference of the stub, and since the knife extends into the path of a stub by a distance which, although less than the diameter, is more than half the diameter of the stub, or in other words extends beyond axis of rotation of the stub, the latter will be severed.
  • FIGURES 5 and 6 show a modified construction of reciprocating pusher mechanism and also a modified arrangement of a presser member which corresponds to the stop member 19 shown in FIGURE 2.
  • FIGURES 5 and 6 show a further presser member arranged to engage the rear end face of the rearmost cigarette length of a group (considered in the direction of endwise movement of the groups).
  • the groups are conveyed into the range of action of the pusher by a conveyor band which may be the band 1 shown in FIGURES l to 3 and which may be supported by the plate 10 shown in those figures. As illustrated in FIGURES 5 and 6, the groups are carried near one edge of the band 1, so as to reduce the distance they have to be pushed across the band.
  • a straight pusher bar 58 is mounted on arms 73 and 74.
  • An extension 75 of the arm 73 is pivoted on a crank disc 76 which is formed as a cam.
  • the arm 74 is connected by a link 77 to a further crank disc 78 which is also formed as a cam.
  • the link 77 is pivoted on the disc 78 at a greater distance, namely 3.5 mm., further, from the centre of rotation of the disc than is the extension 75 from the centre of rotation of the disc 76, so that the crank disc 78 has a greater throw than has the crank disc 76.
  • pivot centre of the link 77 on the disc 78 is 6 in advance of that of the extension 75 on the disc 76, considered in the direction in which the discs rotate, as indicated by the arrows in FIGURE 5.
  • a stop member or presser-member 65 is mounted on an arm 81 which is pivoted at 82 to one end of a lever 83 which in turn is pivoted about a fixed pivot at 84.
  • the other end of the lever 83 carries a roller 85 which rides on the edge of the cam 76, being urged against the cam by a spring 86.
  • the arm 81 is also connected by a link 81a to a fixed pivot 81b.
  • the cam disc 76 is so shaped as to cause the presser member 65 to move with the pusher (although not to the same extent) in a direction transverse tothe direction of endwise movement of a group G, and also, during a pushing stroke of the pusher, to have a relatively small component of movement in the said direction of endwise movement. Its movements are so related to those of the pusher, and to the feeding of the groups by the tape 1, that it is engaged by the leading end face of the leading cigarette portion of each group which is being moved sideways by the pusher.
  • a further presser member 66 is carried by and extends upwardly from an arm 66a which is pivoted at 87 and has an extension 88 carrying a roller 89 which is urged against the edge of thecam 78 by a spring 90.
  • crank disc '78 has a greater throw than has the crank disc '76, and that the pivot centre of the link 77 on the disc 78 is 6 in advance of that of the extension 75 on the disc 76.
  • FIGURE 6 shows, in full line and in dot and dash line respectively, 'two positions occupied by the pusher bar 58 during a return stroke, and it will be seen that at the later of these two positions (i.e. that shown in dot and dash line) the rear end has moved further than the front end from the full line position.
  • This arrangement makes it possible to reduce the speed. of movement of the pusher bar (by reducing the throw of the cranks) and at the same time to use a pusher bar which is long enough to engage at least a substantial part of the whole length of a group, while avoiding the risk that the rear end of the pusher bar might foul an approaching endwise-moving group during a return stroke.
  • the rear end of the pusher bar 58 which has reached the dot and dash position, is well clear of the leading end of an approaching group G, which by that time has reached the position shown in dot and dash lines. Had the return movement of the bar been parallel there would have been considerable risk that the rear end of the bar would have intercepted this approaching group G.
  • the withdrawing pusher could be caused to
  • the pusher bar is parallel to the band 1 at the very end of its pushing stroke (as shown in FIGURE 5) and also at the moment when it first engages a group.
  • the angular positions of the crank discs 76 and 78 at the moment when the pusher first engages a group is diagrammatically indicated by the dot and dash line circles marked I.
  • the further circles, marked II and III, shown on the discs represent successive angular positions while a group is being pushed sideways.
  • pusher bar is not quite parallel, but its inclination from the parallel is very slight, and the angle of deviation of the pusher bar from parallelism with the band 1 during engagement of a group does not exceed 1, which is so small as to be negligible, and the pusher can for all practical purposes be considered to have a parallel move ment while pushing a group sideways.
  • FIGURES 5 and 6 can be used in conjunction with the band 8 shown in FIGURES Ito 3, in which case the presser member 66 supplements the action of the band 8 in causing endwise abutment of the groups.
  • the band 8 may be omitted or replaced by any other suitable element to engage the groups frictionally during their At these latter positions the sideways movement.
  • the presser member 66 operates to press against and urge forwardly the rear end face of the rear cigarette length of a group, just before the group is pushed into the passage defined by the drum 26 and arcuate member 31.
  • each group is gripped at its opposite ends by the two opposed presser members 65 and 66 which exert endwise pressure on the group so as to bring its component parts into close end- Wise abutment just before the group enters between the opposed surfaces of the drum 26 and member 31 which grip the group securely between them.
  • the presser member 66 moves away to the full line position shown inFIGURE 5.
  • the member 65 remains in its full line position, FIGURE 5,- until after the group has moved into the passage.
  • presser member 66 is yieldingly mounted and is resiliently urged by the spring 96 into 7 engagement with the end face of a cigarette length. Thus if any particular group should for any reason be a little longer than it should be, the presser member 66 can yield and thus avoid damaging the group.
  • Apparatus for making mouthpiece cigarettes wherein a stub and at least one cigarette length arranged end to end and forming component parts of a group are united by an'encircling uniting band, said apparatus comprising a pair of opposed members having opposed surfaces defining between them a passage, pusher means to push a group sideways into said passage, the said opposed members being so spaced apart that the said opposed surfaces grip the group between them, and being arranged for movement relatively'to one another so as to cause the group to roll through the passage, means to feed a uniting band for application to the group so that the band is wrapped around the group while the latter is rolling, and a pair of opposed elements arranged to engage opposite cylindrical surfacesof the group while the latter is being pushed sideways by the said pusher means, so as to offer frictional resistance to sideways movement of the group, whereby'the group is maintained in axial alignment during said sideways movement.
  • Apparatus as claimed in claim 4 comprising mean to move one ofthe said opposed elements.
  • one of the said opposed elements comprises an endless band mov-' able in the direction of the axes of the groups.
  • Apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the pusher means to push a group into the passage comprises a reciprocating pusher arranged to engage successive groups and push them sideways into the passage and then withdraw.
  • Apparatus for making mouthpiece cigarettes wherein a stub and at least one cigarette length arranged end to end and forming component parts of a group are united by an encircling uniting band, said apparatus comprising a pair of opposed members having opposed surfaces defining between them a passage, delivery means to deliver successive groups sideways into said passage, the said opposed members being so spaced apart that the said surfaces grip the groups between them, and being arranged for movement relatively to one another so as to cause the groups to roll through the passage, and means to feed successive uniting bands into the passage for application to successive groups so that each band is wrapped around a group while the latter is rolling, wherein the said delivery means comprises a reciprocating pusher arranged to engage a group and to move toward the passage while pushing the group sideways until the group has entered passage and is gripped between said opposed-sur faces, and then to withdraw.
  • Apparatus as claimed in claim 17, comprising means to convey successive groups each having a leading and a rearmost component endwise into the range ponent at least of the groupduring the said transfer,
  • Apparatus as claimed in claim 20, wherein the sa d means to move the said one presser element comprises means to impart to the element a component of movement in the direction of endwise movement of the groups.
  • Apparatus for making mouthpiece cigarettes comprising means to move endwise successive groups each consisting of a stub and at least one cigarette length'arranged end to end and having a leading part and rear part, a pusher to deflect successive groups sideways, uniting meahs for uniting the component parts of a group, toward which uniting means the groups are moved bysaid pusher, a stop member to engage the leading part of a group and a presser-member movable to engage the rear 'part of the said group during sideways movement of the group, one of said members being arranged to move towards the other so as to exert endwise pressure on the group and thereby cause close endwise abutment of its component parts.
  • Apparatus as claimed in claim 22, comprising means to impart to the pusher during a pushing stroke a component of movement in the direction of endwise movement of the groups, and means to move the said stop member with the pusher but to impart thereto a smaller component in the said direction so as to check the endwise movement of the group in a gradual manner.
  • Apparatus as claimed in claim 22 comprising opposed members having opposed surfaces forming part of the said means for uniting the component parts of the group, and wherein each group is pushed sideways into the grip of said surfaces, and wherein the said stop member and presser member continue to exert endwise pressure on a group until the latter is gripped by said opposed surfaces.
  • Apparatus for making mouthpiece cigarettes wherein a stub and at least one cigarette length arranged end to end and forming component parts of a group are united by an encircling band, said apparatus comprising a fixed member and a moving member having surfaces opposed to each other and defining between them a passage having an entrance, pusher means to push a group sideways into'said passage, the said opposed surfaces being so spaced apart that they grip the group'between them and cause it to roll through the passage, means to feed a uniting band for-application to the group so that the band is wrapped around the group while the latter is rolling, and means including a fixed element extending substantially to the said moving member in the region of the said entrance to the passage, arranged to engage opposite cylindrical sides of the group while the latter is being pushedsideways by said pusher means, and thereby to offer frictional resistance to such sideways movement, whereby thegroup is maintained in axial alignment up to the entrance to the passage.
  • Apparatus for making mouthpiece cigarettes wherein a stub and at least one cigarette length arranged end to end and forming component parts of a group are united by an encircling band, said apparatuszcomprising a fixed member and a moving member having surfaces opposed to each other and defining between them a passage having an entrance, pusher means to push a group sideways into said passage, the said opposed surfaces being so spaced apart that they grip the group between them and cause it to roll through the passage, means to feed a uniting band for application to the group so that the band is wrapped around the group while the latter is rolling, a fixed element extending substantially to the said moving member in the region of the said entrance to the passage, and a further element opposed to the said fixed element, the two said elements being arranged to engage opposite cylindrical sides of a groupwhile the latter is being pushed sideways by said pusher means, so as to offer frictional resistance to such sideways move ment, whereby the group is maintained'in axial alignment up to the entrance to the passage.
  • said apparatus comprising a pair of opposed members having opposed surfaces defining between them a passage, delivery means to deliver successive groups sideways into said passage, the said opposed members being so spaced apart that the said surfaces grip the groups between them, and being arranged for movement relatively to one another so as to cause the groups to roll through the passage, means to apply a uniting band to a group while the latter is in the passage, a pair of presser members located outside the passage and arranged to engage opposite ends of a group which is movingsideways toward the passage,

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