| 摘要 |
<p>The present invention provides a system for use in a plant for producing packets of cigarettes in which plant the cigarettes are directly supplied from at least one cigarette manufacturing machine to an assembling hopper arranged to feed the wrapping line of a packeting machine, the system having a compensation storage device for compensating for the output imbalances between said machines, the storage device comprising an axially rotatable cylindrical body having radial storage compartments for cigarettes which on rotation is arranged to carry successive radial store compartments past means for delivering and withdrawing transversely arranged cigarettes, a support carrying said cylindrical body with its axis of rotation extending vertically and said radial storage compartments vertically aligned with an upper cigarette supplying duct and a lower cigarette withdrawing duct, a movable device carrying a plurality of mutually spaced overhanging rods co-operating with a mechanism linked to said machines and controlling the rotation of said cylindrical body about its vertical axis, the movable device being arranged to locate at least one of said overhanging rods in a position perpendicular to said vertical axis within a radial storage compartment located between said upper supplying duct and said lower withdrawing duct so as to support the cigarettes while entering said radial storage compartment for storage therein and to assist the cigarettes while being withdrawn, movable locking means co-operating with said mechanism being controlled to cut off the cigarette flow between said upper and lower ducts and respective inlet and outlet ends of said radial storage compartment in synchronization with each passage of successive radial storage compartments between said upper and lower ducts.</p> |
