CIGARETTE PACKING APPARATUS WITH TANGENTIAL TRANSFER

摘要

An apparatus for packaging cigarettes includes a magazine for supplying cigarette groups to pockets of a first revolver, whereafter they are transferred into foil lined pockets of a second revolver and then into paper lined pockets of a third revolver. The revolvers are continuously driven, and the groups are always oriented with their wide front or rear faces outermost in the pockets to implement smooth tangential transfer between the revolvers. A curved stripper and guide bar enters through the sides of the first revolver pockets to transfer the groups to the second revolver. Transfer between the second and third revolvers is made by simultaneously decreasing the radial depth of the second revolver pockets and increasing the radial depth of the third revolver pockets at a transfer station.