EP 1626003 A1 20060215 - Method and apparatus for collating rod-shaped articles
Title (en)
Method and apparatus for collating rod-shaped articles
Title (de)
Verfahren und Vorrichtung zum Zusammentragen von stabförmigen Gegenständen
Title (fr)
Procédé et dispositif pour assembler des articles en forme de barre
Publication
Application
Priority
EP 04254824 A 20040811
Abstract (en)
Rod-shaped articles such as cigarettes are stored in a hopper (12) and transferred into a single cigarette column. The bottom cigarette in the column is pushed by an inserter rod (28) into an aperture (32) in a mandrel (30). The mandrel has a plurality of spaced apertures which can be filled with the desired collation. The mandrel is controlled by a Cartesian robot which moves the position of mandrel with respect to the inserter rod so that all the required apertures can be filled. The entire collation is then removed to a collation pocket (40) by a set of transfer rods spaced to match the apertures in the collation mandrel. In the pocket neighbouring cigarettes are brought into contact and the collation can then be packaged.
IPC 8 full level
B65B 19/04 (2006.01); B65B 59/00 (2006.01); B65B 59/04 (2006.01)
CPC (source: EP)
B65B 19/04 (2013.01); B65B 19/10 (2013.01)
Citation (search report)
[A] EP 0723913 A1 19960731 - GD SPA [IT]
Designated contracting state (EPC)
AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR HU IE IT LI LU MC NL PL PT RO SE SI SK TR
DOCDB simple family (publication)
DOCDB simple family (application)
EP 04254824 A 20040811; GB 2005003155 W 20050811