Plant for producing and packaging cigarettes

摘要

In a plant for producing and packaging cigarettes, each production unit, comprising cigarette machine and packaging machines, is assigned a preparation area to which the consumable materials, comprising wrapping paper, cigarette paper, carton wrapping paper, box material, cardboard blanks, packaging blanks, metallised paper and cellophane or polypropylene are delivered on pallets, one article per pallet. The preparation area is spanned by a portal on which a robot can be moved in the horizontal direction. The robot passes the despatch carton blanks and the pack blanks to a corresponding feed device, while the other consumable materials, especially bobbins, are passed by the robot to a handling appliance of a trolley on an overhead electric rail, which trolley can move along a running rail to the individual consumption points. The handling appliance passes the consumable material to the respective consumption point, especially to a bobbin changer.