Conveying system used for oval cross-section cigarettes has conveyor designed to turn cigarettes from major axis horizontal to major axis vertical

摘要

The cigarettes (1) slide along a grooved conveyor beam (2) towards a machine (4). The groove initially is shaped as a shallow half ellipse allowing the cigarettes to lie with their major axes horizontal. The groove twists to turn the cigarettes through 90 degrees, so that they end up in deep half-ellipse grooves with their major axes vertical.