Cutting guide, notably for cigarette making machines

Claim 1

Cutter guides adapted to movE while remaining constantly parallel to themselves and perpendicular to a cigarette rod in a cigarette making machine, said guides revolving about an axis at a uniform tangential speed equal to the feed rate of said rod, characterized in that said cutter guides are carried by a rigid connecting plate carrying three bearings receiving three crankpins of three identical crankpin-supporting disks, respectively, of which only one is rotatably driven, the other two revolving freely about their axes, said rigid connecting plate having substantially the shape of an isosceles triangle having a center line perpendicular to the cigarette rod, the bearings being disposed adjacent the vertices, the drive being applied to the driven crankpin positioned on said center line of the connecting plate and which is the bearing nearest to the cigarette rod, said cutter guides being secured to the lower part of the connecting plate, under said driven bearing, and having the same center line as said connecting plate.