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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7325382 | Method and apparatus for loading finished cigarettes into package A device and method for loading cigarettes from a cartridge into a package. The device provides for transferring cigarettes from a cartridge supporting them to a package. ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7258224 | Arrangement for conveying a plate-like product from one position to another An arrangement for conveying an anode plate from one location to another, whereby said arrangement comprises gripping elements attached to a conveyor for gripping a plate-like piece. Elements are attached to the gripping element connection for the correction, at lea... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7021492 | Pill and capsule counter and dispenser A device for rapidly counting and dispensing pills and capsules in blister packs or cards is provided. A movable plate with apertures, a sizing guide and a template fit inside a housing. The sizing guide has apertures corresponding to a particular size of pill or ca... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6832677 | Cigarette channeling device with non-rectangular channel exit A channeling device is provided for transferring and compressing a bundle of cigarettes formed into a rectangular configuration by a hopper into a preformed container. The channeling device includes a base having a longitudinal axis and a longitudinal channel throug... | 12/21/2004 |
| 6484867 | Device for forming groups of cigarettes Cigarettes are formed into groups by a device comprising a hopper through which to direct a flow of cigarettes, a conveyor with pockets moving intermittently past a discharge outlet of the hopper, and a reciprocating pusher located on the side of the hopp... | 11/26/2002 |
| 6357201 | Packaging machine, in particular for cigarettes Packaging machine, in particular for cigarettes, having subassemblies and elements for handling packaging material and cigarettes. In order to reduce the outlay on servicing for the packaging machine, the practice, in the region where dust and material pa... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6257802 | Packaging arrangements for rock stabilizer sets A package of rock stabilizer sets and a method for arranging the sets where six sets are provided and each set includes an elongated tube and a bearing plate. Each tube has a tapered end, an end with a flange, and a slit running the length of the tube. Ea... | 07/10/2001 |
| 6125854 | Method for packaging tubular articles A method for packing unfilled cigarette tubes into a receptacle consists of the steps of feeding tubes to a conveyor, moving the tubes along the conveyor to a holding position, and laterally moving a predetermined number of tubes to a container. The conta... | 10/03/2000 |
| 6116245 | Apparatus for packaging tubular articles In an apparatus for the packaging of unfilled cigarette tubes into boxes, a counter counts a predetermined number of tubes and these are subsequently advanced to a holding position and then pushed laterally into a containment member having substantially t... | 09/12/2000 |
| 5979458 | Apparatus for transferring layers of rod-shaped articles of the tobacco processing industry Discrete cigarettes or layers of parallel cigarettes which are being propelled by a reciprocable pusher from the magazine into successive receptacles of an indexible conveyor in a cigarette packing machine are prevented from moving away from a stationary ... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5836475 | Device for the orderly supply of elongated articles, in particular tobacco products A device for the orderly supply of cigarettes; the device presenting at least one channel defined by two lateral walls and for feeding a respective column of cigarettes at a given dropdown speed and in a given traveling direction to the bottom opening of ... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5822952 | Method and unit for forming and wrapping groups of cigarettes A method and unit for forming and wrapping groups of cigarettes, whereby cigarettes are fed, crosswise to their respective axes, onto a supporting surface to form, on the supporting surface, a multilayer group located between two opposite retaining heads ... | 10/20/1998 |
| 5775054 | Unit for forming groups of cigarettes The unit for forming groups of cigarettes has at least one substantially U-shaped pocket designed to receive in succession at least two layers of cigarettes, in which the cigarettes are parallel with a longitudinal axis of the pocket, the two layers being... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5730159 | Unit for supplying layers of cigarettes A unit for supplying layers of cigarettes, wherein a supply outlet, presenting an open bottom end and a number of channels converging towards the bottom end, feeds a succession of layers of cigarettes along the channels to the bottom end; and an extractin... | 03/24/1998 |
| 5617943 | Group forming device for cigarette packing machines A group-forming device for use with cigarette packing machines, wherein each group consists of a number of cigarettes arranged in at least two adjacent and offset layers, with each group being formed in a single motion on the end wall of an outlet of a fe... | 04/08/1997 |
| 5590513 | Device for wrapping groups of cigarettes On a cigarette packing machine, groups of cigarettes forming the content of respective packets are inserted inside a folding spindle and wrapped in a sheet of wrapping material which is folded on to the outer surface of the spindle before being unloaded o... | 01/07/1997 |
| 5494148 | Method of feeding tobacco items, particularly cigarettes, to a continuous packing machine A method of feeding tobacco items, particularly cigarettes, to a continuous packing machine, whereby a continuously-moving conveyor, presenting pockets for respective groups composed of a number of superimposed layers of items, is supplied successively wi... | 02/27/1996 |
| 5467576 | Machine for making a package of food casing strands A machine for making a package of food casing strands, wherein the package has a hexagonal-like cross section, comprising a product holder for initially holding a plurality of the strands in a configuration having a hexagonal-like cross section, wherein t... | 11/21/1995 |
| 5375392 | Formation of cigarette blocks Cigarette blocks comprising an even number of individual cigarettes arranged in an odd number of rows are formed through the use of a hopper having a linear array of parallel shafts with one of the shafts being permanently occupied by a blocking member at... | 12/27/1994 |
| 5299679 | Apparatus for piling and transferring cigarettes A plurality of cigarette piling heads are provided on a cigarette piling drum. The same number of cigarettes as the number of cigarettes in a cigarette package are piled on each cigarette piling head. An intermediate drum includes the same number of cigar... | 04/05/1994 |
| 5282527 | Apparatus for arranging and piling cigarettes An apparatus for arranging, side by side, cigarettes to form three cigarette layers, seven, six and seven cigarettes in the corresponding layers, the total number being twenty cigarettes and piling the cigarette layers on one after another in a staggered ... | 02/01/1994 |
| 5244075 | Cigarette ejecting apparatus of a cigarette packaging apparatus A piling machine of a cigarette packaging apparatus comprises a number of transferring drums disposed between the respective aligning drums of the apparatus for aligning a given number of cigarettes in rows and the piling drum for piling rows of cigarette... | 09/14/1993 |
| 5212929 | Unit to feed and stack layers of sections Unit (10) to feed and stack layer of sections, which is located downstream of a layer-forming platform (11) and upstream of a packaging assembly (32), the layer-forming platform (11) comprising a plurality of conveyors (29), the unit (10) consisting of a ... | 05/25/1993 |
| 5201162 | Apparatus for packaging cigarettes A cigarette magazine serves for receiving a small supply of cigarettes (10) and for forming cigarette groups which correspond to the contents of a cigarette pack. For this purpose, the cigarettes (10) are guided into upright magazine shafts (14) in which ... | 04/13/1993 |
| 5174089 | Method to package sections and rotary packaging machine that employs the method Method to package sections either in normal layers or in alternate right-side-up/overturned layers, the layers being fed from determined layers, whereby two already butted layers, one having a number N of sections and the other having a number N-1 of sect... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5081818 | Method to package sections and rotary packaging machine that employs the method Method to package sections either in normal layers or in alternate right-side-up/overturned layers, the layers being fed from determined layers, whereby two already butted layers, one having a number N of sections and the other having a number N-1 of sect... | 01/21/1992 |
| 5070991 | Apparatus for forming groups of rod-like articles Successive rows of cigarettes delivered axially from a packing machine hopper outlet (12) are engaged by a cyclically-movable transfer member (24, 32, 425) which accelerates each row sideways and closes up spaces between cigarettes (C) before transferring... | 12/10/1991 |
| 4964501 | Apparatus for transferring layers of rod-shaped articles in packing machines The lower ends of several ducts which dispense layers of parallel cigarettes are located at different levels adjacent the path of movement of a stepwise advancing chain with receptacles for multi-layer arrays of cigarettes which are to be draped into blan... | 10/23/1990 |
| 4742668 | Cigarette checking device and packaging apparatus Three rows of feelers sliding in openings in support plates each bear either a blocking element with a single sight for the outside rows of feelers or a blocking element with two sights for the middle row. When all the feelers are in operative position, t... | 05/10/1988 |
| 4735032 | Apparatus for conveying cigarette groups For transporting cigarette groups (20) within or in conjunction with a packaging machine, a pocket conveyor (21) is used, and in this pockets (24), each receiving one cigarette group (20), are connected to one another so as to be free of play and free of ... | 04/05/1988 |
| 4700825 | Method for forming incomplete groups of cigarettes in a cigarette packeting machine In a cigarette packeting machine, the formation of groups of cigarettes to be packeted disposed in superposed layers of which at least one is incomplete in that it lacks at least one intermediate cigarette. The cigarettes of the incomplete layer being kep... | 10/20/1987 |
| 4631904 | Apparatus for compressing cigarettes An apparatus for compressing cigarettes comprises a compression pocket having opposite open ends which comprises a pair of L-shaped compression members which are disposed in an opposite manner. Each member includes short and long segments which extend in ... | 12/30/1986 |
| 4586314 | Filling method and apparatus A process for filling seven rod-shaped objects into a cylindrical container wherein a group of seven parallel rod-shaped objects supported in two adjacent rows of four and three respectively and having a substantially trapeziform configuration in cross-se... | 05/06/1986 |
| 4571918 | Apparatus for forming cigarette groups Cigarettes are grouped into multi-layer blocks for packaging by the serial delivery of the plural cigarettes comprising the individual layers into cells of a conveying system from a magazine having an outlet for each layer. The magazine outlets are offset... | 02/25/1986 |
| 4507903 | Packing cigarettes There is provided a method of and apparatus for packing rod-shaped articles, especially cigarettes. A rotatable turret is used, into which blanks are introduced into pockets of the turret, with partial folding of the blanks, whereafter groups of articles ... | 04/02/1985 |
| 4498573 | Pail palletizer with rotatable clamps A method and apparatus for transferring articles, such as pails, from a first station to a second station so that the articles may be loaded at the second station in a preselected spaced-saving array includes a transfer carriage operable for selective shi... | 02/12/1985 |
| 4488632 | Cigarette grouping apparatus with yieldable stop member A reciprocable pusher 18 ejects cigarette pack groups 17 from magazine shafts 12 in three stacked layers, with one cigarette 11a in the middle layer being retained in the magazine by a stop 24 having an end 25 extending across and blocking the ejection pa... | 12/18/1984 |
| 4362235 | Apparatus for assembling arrays of cigarettes or the like Apparatus for assembling multi-layer arrays of cigarettes in a packing machine has a magazine with a reciprocable support having platforms at different levels and a group of cigarette-delivering downwardly extending ducts above each platform so that each ... | 12/07/1982 |
| 4342321 | Device for the formation of groups of cigarettes A device for the formation of groups of cigarettes of at least one row of cigarettes arranged parallel side-by-side which comprises a feeding hopper subdivided by partition walls into a plurality of adjacent passageways which open into a collecting chambe... | 08/03/1982 |
| 4306648 | Apparatus for the formation of cigarette groups The receiving pocket of a cigarette group forming apparatus consists of an open-ended tubular member provided at its interior with two partitions defining three pocket sections, one for each row of cigarettes forming the cigarette group. The partitions ex... | 12/22/1981 |
