Device for transferring filter segments in the process of manufacturing multi-segment filter rods

• Main Authors: FIGARSKI JACEK, FIGARSKI RADOSLAW, MAKOSA KAZIMIERZ, DOMINIAK RYSZARD, CIESLIKOWSKI BARTOSZ
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 29.12.2015
• Subjects: CIGARETTES; CIGARS; CONVEYING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL; HUMAN NECESSITIES; MACHINES FOR MAKING CIGARS OR CIGARETTES; MANUFACTURE OF TOBACCO SMOKE FILTERS OR MOUTHPIECES; MOUTHPIECES FOR CIGARS OR CIGARETTES; PACKING; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS; SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS; SMOKERS' REQUISITES; STORING; TOBACCO; TOBACCO SMOKE FILTERS; TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING ORTIPPING; TRANSPORTING

Device for transferring cylindrical segments from a hopper onto a grouping belt is provided with a guiding drum, having flutes on its periphery and a circumferentially closed conveyor which delivers segments to a rotary element with pushers. Conveyor with seats with a catching element for catching segments, and transferring the segments from the conveyor to the element is effected by means of a spiral drum. The device has a push-down element constituted by a cam with a groove of a height corresponding to the diameter of the segment. The catching element has the form of a depression in the body of the seat shaped as a half of a cylinder, corresponding to the diameter of the segment, with locks on edges, whereas the axis of the depression is perpendicular to the direction of motion of the conveyor.