Rotary Head Device for supplying cigarettes to the toves Power of cigarettes Packaging Machines Fast

摘要

Apparatus for supplying cigarettes to a high speed packeting machine in an automatic fashion by sequentially discharging containers filled with cigarettes into the supply hopper of the machine. A parallelepiped box shaped head is rotatable around a horizontal shaft above the hopper. The head comprises two end walls connected to each other by a wall and by battens so as to create two opposite cavities open at one end wall and along one side, where the opening provides a discharge mouth. Containers of cigarettes are inserted, one upside down with respect to the other, each with its open top positioned by the aforementioned discharge mouth. The head is placed so that while one cavity has its discharge mouth located for dropping the cigarettes into the supply hopper, the other cavity is laterally lined up with one of the containers, halted on a conveyor belt. A back square or angle stop member either closes or opens the discharge mouth. This member is operated by levers, guides, actuators and return springs. The full containers of cigarettes are carried from the conveyor belt to the rotatable head by a transverse transfer belt structure and once they have been emptied, the same structure attends to their return to the belt. A full container of cigarettes is placed in a first cavity in the rotatable head, at the time a second cavity has in it a container that is being emptied. Once the cigarettes have been discharged, the head is reversed while the discharge mouth of the first cavity is opened.