SE345792

• Main Authors: PIRAT C, VERSCHEURE D
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 12.06.1972
• Subjects: CIGARETTES; CIGARS; HUMAN NECESSITIES; MACHINES FOR MAKING CIGARS OR CIGARETTES; SMOKERS' REQUISITES; TOBACCO

1,224,498. Applying mouthpieces to cigars &c. SERVICE D'EXPLOITATION INDUSTRIELLE DES TABACS ET DES ALLUMETTES. 3 April, 1968 [3 April, 1967], No. 16111/68. Heading A2C. In a device for fixing hollow mouthpieces E to rod-shaped smokers' articles, such as cigars, of the type in which the articles are conveyed to and are axially aligned with the mouthpieces in turn at a fitting station where the articles are driven into the mouthpieces, the mouthpieces are inserted into movable sockets on a conveyer and each socket, on its reaching the fitting station, is rotated about its axis after an article has been driven into the mouthpiece it carries. The mouthpiece conveyer comprises a wheel 31, rotatably mounted on a drive shaft 32, and provided with cylindrical recesses 35 that carry sockets 37 held in place by pegs 39 that engage a peripheral groove 41 in each socket 37. Each socket 37 is formed with an indent 36 open at one side only for the insertion and extraction of the mouthpieces E, and also includes a mortise 44 for engaging with a tenon 45, 451 when it reaches the 90 degree or 270 degree position in Fig. 2 and as shown in Fig. 1. The tenons 45, 451 are formed at either end of a drive rod 43 that is rotated when required by a bevel wheel and pinion mechanism 49, 52 driven by a shaft 50 mounted coaxially within the separately rotatable drive shaft 32. Rotation of the sockets 37 about their axes at intermediate positions is prevented by the provision of elongated members 46 that engage the mortises 44. In use mouthpieces E are inserted into the sockets 37 at a dispensing station D, Fig. 2, and the wheel 31 is rotated stepwise in the direction of the arrow F. Each socket 37, on reaching the 90 degree position (as viewed in Fig. 2), is rotated axially through 180 degrees, and at the position F1 vertically below station D glue is applied to the mouthpieces E by a vertically reciprocable glue applying mechanism (Fig. 5, not shown). At the 270 degree position F11, cigars are axially aligned in turn with the mouthpieces and driven into them by conventional means (not described) and the sockets are then immediately axially rotated through 180 degrees. The completed mouthpiece cigars are then withdrawn through the open sides of the indents 36 of the sockets 37 which, in this position, register with the openings in recesses 35 of the wheel 31. The various parts of the device are driven by, and in synchronism with, the cigar-making machine drive via a sequence of cams.