| 摘要 |
Cigarettes discharged from successive trays into a hopper, and lowered by a platform which is then withdrawn, are received on a conveyor at the bottom of the hopper which feeds them out of the hopper. To facilitate proper feeding, this conveyor is stopped while the platform is withdrawn, raised, and repositioned to receive further cigarettes. A further conveyor outside the hopper moves continuously, at relatively low speed; while cigarettes are being fed out of the hopper at a relatively high speed, some are stored in a reservoir which expands to receive excess, and when the feed from the hopper is stopped, the continuously moving conveyor is able to maintain a continuous flow of cigarettes by drawing from the reservoir.
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