MUMBAI, India, June 13 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517044342 A) filed by International Tobacco Machinery Poland Sp. Z O. O., Radom, Poland, on May 7, for 'feeding apparatus for feeding segments of tobacco industry material, feeding module for feeding segments of tobacco industry material and method of feeding tobacco industry rod-like articles.'
Inventor(s) include Deka, Michal; and Slowik, Jacek.
The application for the patent was published on June 13, under issue no. 24/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A feeding apparatus (30, 40) for feeding segments (A) of tobacco industry material, comprising a hopper (21, 41) for storing rods (MA) of tobacco industry material, a receiving drum (22) adapted to receive the rods (MA) from the hopper (21, 41), a conveying drum (23) for conveying the rods (MA) while cutting the rods (MA) into segments (A), a cutting head (24) for cutting the rods (MA) conveyed on the conveying drum (23). The apparatus according to the invention is characterized in that the feeding apparatus comprises a filling sensor (31) for checking the presence of the rod (MA) in a flute (28) of the receiving drum (22), the receiving drum (22) being adapted to make a rotational movement at an increased speed (?1) so that when an unfilled flute (28) is detected on the receiving drum (22) it moves with the increased speed (?1) so that at the point of transfer (X) of the rod (MA) into the flute (29) of the conveying drum (23) there is another filled flute (28) of the receiving drum (22) and another empty flute (29) of the conveying drum (23)."
The patent application was internationally filed on Nov. 22, 2023, under International application No.PCT/IB2023/061778.
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