Unit for transferring cigarette portions from a dual rod cigarette manufacturing machine to a filter assembly machine

摘要

A unit (13; 89) for transferring cigarette portions (8, 9) from a dual rod cigarette manufacturing machine (1) to a filter assembly machine (11); the transfer unit (13; 89) presenting a launching device (14; 90) for successively receiving pairs of cigarette portions (8, 9) arranged side by side and traveling in an axial direction (16), and for simultaneously feeding the portions (8, 9) in each pair - still substantially axially, but imparting to them a transverse component - into respective adjacent seats (29, 30; 72, 76; 81, 82) of a conveyor device (22, 23; 66, 67; 78) wherein the seats (29, 30; 72, 76; 81, 82) for receiving the cigarette portions (8, 9) are parallel to the cigarette portions (8, 9), and travel crosswise to the traveling direction (16) of the cigarette portions (8, 9).