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A device and a method for storing and making available semi-manufactured tobacco products

A technology for semi-finished products and tobacco products, which is applied in the field of storage and supply of tobacco semi-finished products, and can solve the problems that tobacco equipment cannot adapt to the output or supply of multiple manufacturing machines, and cannot be adapted at the same time

Inactive Publication Date: 2007-02-14
GD SPA
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[0008] In conclusion, existing equipment for storing and supplying tobacco as described above cannot accommodate output from multiple manufacturing machines or supply to multiple packaging machines, or both

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[0024] Referring to the accompanying drawings, numeral 1 generally denotes an apparatus for storing and supplying semi-finished tobacco products according to the present invention.

[0025] The device 1 comprises a plurality of storage units 2 directly connected to a machine 3 for manufacturing tobacco products (indicated schematically in FIGS. 1 and 2 );

[0026] Within the scope of this specification, a tobacco semifinished product means any specified article of elongated appearance, such as a filter plug, a cigarette rod or a finished filtered cigarette. In this latter case, the finished tobacco product is a pack of cigarettes containing a plurality of cigarettes.

[0027] More specifically, as Figure 5 As shown, each storage unit 2 comprises a preferably flat helical track 5 containing a plurality of tobacco products 4 lying parallel to the plane occupied by the track 5 . The storage unit 2 also comprises means 6 by which the helical track 5 is loaded and unloaded with ...

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Semi-manufactured tobacco products are stored and made available by a device comprising a plurality of storage units (2) filled directly from a maker machine (3), at least one bin (11) containing the storage units (2) in ordered arrangement, and at least one mobile collection unit (12) by which a given number of storage units (2) can be taken up from the bin (11). Operating in conjunction with first, second and third guidance systems (29, 31, 35), the collection unit (12) can be moved from the bin (11) to at least one holding store (30), from the store (30) to at least one machine (32) by which the semi-manufactured tobacco products (4) are processed further, and from this machine back to the bin (11); accordingly, the device is able to link any given number of machines turning out semi-manufactured items to any given number of machines for subsequent processing of the semi-manufactured items.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for storing and making available tobacco semi-finished products. More specifically, the present invention finds application in the tobacco industry whenever there is a need for a machine, traditionally called a manufacturing machine, that produces a tobacco semi-finished product to be combined with a machine, traditionally called a packaging machine, from which the semi-finished product is further processed machine working connections. Background technique [0002] The working connection between the manufacturing machine and the packaging machine is usually embodied as a conveyor belt along which the semi-finished product is guided from the outlet of the manufacturing machine to the inlet of the packaging machine. [0003] In practice, however, this connection offers no operational flexibility at all, since any interruption of the production of the manufacturing or packaging machine would nece...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(China)
IPC IPC(8): B65B19/04B65B35/04
CPCA24C5/352A24C5/358
Inventor M·斯帕塔佛拉
Owner GD SPA