Japanese Patent JPH0223306

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There is provided a method of and apparatus for packing rod-shaped articles, especially cigarettes. A rotatable turret is used, into which blanks are introduced into pockets of the turret, with partial folding of the blanks, whereafter groups of articles are axially introduced into the blanks in pockets, the article groups being introduced alternately from opposite sides of the turret. There is also provided an apparatus whereby article groups can be ejected alternately on both sides of a magazine and also an apparatus wherein, to form article groups from three article rows or layers, the middle row containing fewer cigarettes than the top and bottom rows, a lateral chute wall of the magazine terminates above the region of the cigarette groups to be ejected, merely articles of the top and bottom rows being ejectable in this region via a recess in the entraining member associated with the lateral chute, such recess being at the height of the middle cigarette row.

JP4409389U

February 15, 1990

April 17, 1989

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B65B11/28; B65B11/30; B65B11/40; B65B5/10; B65B19/00; B65B19/02; B65B19/04; B65B19/10; B65B19/12; B65B19/22; B65B35/40; B65B35/44; B65B35/46; B65B43/54; B65G15/42; B65G29/00; B65G59/06; (IPC1-7): B65B19/22; B65B11/28; B65B19/04

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