Improvements in output device of a Packaging Machine for cigarette packages particularly Stiff with hinged Lid

摘要

A dispensing apparatus for machines for packeting cigarettes into hinged-lid rigid type cigarette packets is of the type comprising an intermittently rotating wheel having radially disposed compartments for housing individual cigarette packets. A dispensing channel is associated with the wheel and upper and lower heated plates cooperating with the compartments. A pushing member is provided at the end of the dispensing channel to push, during the normal operation of the apparatus, the individual packets into a first track coplanar to the dispensing channel. A control mechanism, should the wheel accidentally stop, acts on a pair of mechanical systems which cause the spacing apart of the plates from the compartments and further starts a timer. Should the stoppage of the wheel last longer than a preselected time, the timer actuates locking means which lock the pushing member to discard, along a second track disposed in line with the dispensing channel at the restoration of the normal operation of the apparatus, a number of packets corresponding to the total number of packets contained in the apparatus.