TAPE GUIDE DEVICE FOR ADVANCING AT LEAST ONE TAPE OF PAPER ALONG A PATH, ESPECIALLY FOR CIGARETTE PACKAGING MACHINES.

摘要

A strip guiding device particularly suitable for being used with cigarette manufacturing machines for the automatic forward movement of at least a strip along a substantially U-shaped path, the said device comprising a hollow pulley around which a central curved section of the said path extends, at least a chamber disposed along the said path downstream with respect to the said pulley and suction means communicating with the said chamber and with the interior of the said hollow pulley, the walls of this latter which extend along the said path being perforated, and an air-permeable belt conveyor extending at least along the perforated wall of the said chamber.