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Conveyor device having containers for storing and assembling overlying layered sets of side by side arranged cigarettes for packing up thereof as packets in cigarette packaging machines
Abstract A conveyor device having cigarette storing containers wherein cigarettes are arranged side by side at a plurality of supply stations for assembling overlying layered sets and packet packing up in cigarette packaging machines, characterized by comprising a belt element having one of its faces provided with transverse teeth longitudinally arranged throughout the belt length, said toothed belt element having an elongated looped configuration with horizontal runs about idle gears, wherein said transverse toothing is internally of said loop so as to mesh in a drive belt fashion with the toothing of said idle gears and having attached to the face opposite the transverse toothing and externally of the loop said cigarette set storing and assembling containers, said toothed belt element also being of a substantially inextensible material having a resiliently yieldable structure; protective fairing means being provided for a boxlike protection of the zone within the loop as defined by said toothed belt element and respective idle gears; and guide means being also provided for guiding said toothed belt element along said horizontal runs.
A conveyor device for transferring orderly groups of cigarettes arranged to be packed as individual packets of cigarettes, comprising an endless elongated belt element of a molded length of a resiliently yieldable material providing functional rigidity, said elongated belt element having face portions thereon and being mounted for horizontal runs; a plurality of spaced tubular container means for holding said groups of cigarettes and being mounted on one of the face portions of said elongated belt element, said containers having notch means; gear means rotatably supported at the ends of said elongated belt element; on the other face portion, transverse teeth means formed integrally with said molded length; said teeth means longitudinally arranged and spaced along the length of said elongated belt element and movable into cooperative engagement with said gear means; vertically arranged fairing means including oppositely opposed and complementary mounted plate members positioned to protectively cover said horizontal run portions and said ends of said elongated belt element; and guide means including upstanding rail elements arranged parallel to and located adjacent the bottom horizontal run of said elongated belt member, said upstanding rail elements operatively engaging said notches of said containers for slidably supporting said containers thereon.
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A conveyor device for transferring orderly groups of cigarettes arranged to be packed as individual packets of cigarettes, comprising an endless elongated belt element of a molded length of a resiliently yieldable material providing functional rigidity, said elongated belt element having face portions thereon and being mounted for horizontal runs; a plurality of spaced tubular container means for holding said groups of cigarettes and being mounted on one of the face portions of said elongated belt element, said containers having notch means; gear means rotatably supported at the ends of said elongated belt element; on the other face portion, transverse teeth means formed integrally with said molded length; said teeth means longitudinally arranged and spaced along the length of said elongated belt element and movable into cooperative engagement with said gear means; vertically arranged fairing means including oppositely opposed and complementary mounted plate members positioned to protectively cover said horizontal run portions and said ends of said elongated belt element; and guide means including upstanding rail elements arranged parallel to and located adjacent the bottom horizontal run of said elongated belt member, said upstanding rail elements operatively engaging said notches of said containers for slidably supporting said containers thereon.