Abstract: Filter cigarettes are produced by uniting tobacco sections (12, 122) and filter portions (21, 120) with a wrapper (28, 124) which carries a relatively thick circumferential bead (126) of adhesive or other filler material to provide an effective seal around the cigarette. The cigarettes may be assembled on parallel assembly lines (16, 18) supplied with tobacco sections from a common maker line (10) by a carrier conveyor (14) arranged to supply alternate sections to different assembly lines disposed at 90.degree. to the maker line.

Abstract: A cobalt-base alloy having a high chromium, tantalum and zirconium content and a low silicon content has superior strength and improved resistance to corrosion by molten glass. The alloy is highly suited for use in spinners for spinning molten mineral material, such as glass, into fibers.

Abstract: A cobalt-base alloy having a high tantalum and zirconium content and a low silicon content has superior strength and improved resistance to corrosion by molten glass. The alloy is highly suited for use in spinners for spinning molten mineral material, such as glass, into fibers.

Abstract: When thinning scissors, in which the cutting edge of at least one scissor blade is serrated and the cutting edge of the other scissor blade is, for example, smooth, are used, visible steps detrimental to the appearance of the hair-style are obtained during thinning. To prevent the steps from being visible in the finished hair-style, one scissor blade of the thinning scissors has, on its outer side, a serration with stub teeth which overlies its cutting edge at a distance from the latter, the individual teeth projecting relative to the cutting edge of the scissor blade and having differing lengths.

Abstract: In order to constructionally simplify a cork screw having a bell-shaped housing with which a cork can be lifted out of the bottle neck without reversing the turning direction of the cork-screw blade, the cork-screw blade projects in a known manner with one of its ends out of the closed end of the bell-shaped housing and is firmly connected to a tommy handle. A telescopic tube is arranged between the bell-shaped housing and the tommy handle and encompasses a section of the cork-screw blade, said telescopic tube being firmly connected with one of its ends to the bell-shaped housing and with its other end to the tommy handle.

Abstract: In the production of filter cigarettes by a process in which the tobacco sections and filter portions are united while moving in an axial direction, the wrapper sections are resiliently pressed onto the abutting tobacco sections and filter portions, preferably by resilient pads. The pads are carried by a suction conveyor and their spacing may be adjusted by means for changing their timing or path length, to suit different lengths of tobacco sections and filter portions. The tobacco sections and filter portions may be assembled on a suction conveyor adapted to allow axial adjustment of the position of a conveyed article following slight lateral displacement of the article to reduce the suction grip of the conveyor.

Abstract: The invention concerns generally the production of a folding box which serves for the reception of a plurality of drinking straws which can be removed from the folding box without touching one or the other end portions of them with the fingers. To attain this end, the blank used for making the folding box is provided with correspondingly arranged perforations which serve when the folding box is to be used for the obtainment of a completely novel arrangement of a pickup opening for the removal of the drinking straws.

Abstract: A protective device for floor cleaning apparatus with a rotating driving source and with brush rollers driven thereby comprises a housing 2 with a bottom wall on its side facing towards the floor. The bottom wall is provided with working apertures 9 for the brush rollers and with tooth-shaped carpet deflectors which project on the side on which the bristles of the brush rollers enter the housing from the bottom wall into the working apertures.

Abstract: A system comprising a plurality of complementary numerically controlled machine tools in which different work-pieces are each subjected to appropriate selected machining operations on selected machine tools in a selected order by appropriate delivery of common form pallets loaded with the workpieces. Transporters deliver pallets between the machine tools, a storage rack, and work-setting stations where work-pieces, automatically delivered in bins from a bin store, are loaded on pallets. Tool magazines are delivered between a rack and the machine tools by a transporter. Transport and machining operations are computer controled, and monitors feed back signals indicative of location of pallets, tool magazines, and bins in the system.

Abstract: Apparatus for applying revenue stamps to cigarette packets known as soft packs, includes an oscillating transfer arm 12 and a continuously driven suction drum 6 formed with projections, e.g. pairs of pins 10. The projections engage the rear edges of successive stamps transferred from a stack 2 by the arm, and thereby accurately align the stamps on the drum. The two modified arrangements shown in FIGS. 3 and 4 are particularly adapted for applying banderoles to hinged lid cigarette packets.

Abstract: A conveyor system for sorting poultry carcasses comprises a plurality of poultry carcass carriers arranged successively to convey a plurality of carcasses along a closed path past a plurality of data input stations and then a plurality of carcass release stations. Sensors positioned along the conveyor path, one at each of the data input and release stations, are connected to a controller for receiving poultry grade and weight data from the data input stations, processing the data, and transmitting the resultant classifying data to the release stations for the selective release of carcasses from the carriers. The conveyor system maintains an individual identification of the poultry carcass carriers passing through each of the stations independent of the distance between the carriers and independent of the time lapse between a poultry carcass carrier passing one station and the next station.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for packing batches of cigarettes, in which batches B are transferred from a hopper 10 into compression boxes 16 of an intermittent conveyor 14, and are then packaged (e.g. in soft packs) while passing along continuous conveyors 22, 30 and 38. Compressed batches B are transferred into U-shaped foil wrappers F1 in compartments 28 of the conveyor 22, when folding flaps 88 fold over the two sides of the wrapper before the transfer is completed (FIG. 4). In a modification, the batches are formed from a continuous stream of cigarettes (FIGS. 8 and 9), and any voids V in the stream are filled by an intermittent acceleration rotor 350 (FIG. 11).

Abstract: In a passive infrared movement detector having a reflector which directs the radiation from a plurality of fields of vision to an infrared detector arrangement and for this purpose consists of a plurality of individual reflectors, the reflecting surface of the reflector is composed of a plurality of facets produced at the reflector. The disadvantages of such a reflector are in particular to be seen in the fact that for each required distance range of the passive infrared movement detector a reflector adapted thereto must be used. Furthermore, the production of such a reflector is relatively expensive. In order to avoid these disadvantages, the individual reflectors are proposed to be in the form of spherical reflectors which are arranged on a reflector carrier in a manner so as to be shiftable in different directions and lockable in adjusted positions.

Abstract: To enable wood screws provided with a suspension hook having a shank, and also magnetic holders having a shank, to be applied to and released from comparatively high structural parts by an operator standing on the floor or ground below, an apparatus is provided which comprises a carrier arm including two legs by means of one of which it is affixed in a direct or indirect manner to one end of a hollow cylindrical body enabling the apparatus to be inserted, for example, into a handle bar which can be extended and retracted telescopically and to be secured therein, the other leg of the carrier arm having a bifurcated portion provided for the reception therein of the shank of a wood screw or magnetic holder and fixing it in the proper position for applying or releasing the wood screw or magnetic holder.

Abstract: A machine for packing groups or bundles of cigarettes has a packing conveyor 15 on which each wrapped bundle 32 is laterally supported within an outer blank by corner tabs 12 of the blank being reverse folded at a station C before an inner frame 38 is inserted. The tabs 12 subsequently slide along a raised track 28, which extends up to a station G where the inner frame is applied, so that the inner wall 11 of the lid is kept upright. At a downstream station N is a rejector device for faulty packs, including a continuously reciprocating pusher 50 which is swung down into its operative position by a rib cam 76. One of the cam followers 80 is brought into contact with the cam during its dwell portion 77 by operating an actuator 88 to extend and align a pair of toggle links 84, 86.

Abstract: This application describes various possible modifications in the cigarette machine hopper described in G.B. specification No. 2,045,595. In particular, as shown in FIG. 2, a concave member 126 around a carded roller 23 from which tobacco is removed by a picker roller 24 has a straight land 126A along which the tobacco is propelled by the picker roller.

Abstract: With a cork screw having a bell-shaped housing with which a cork can be lifted out of the neck of a bottle without reversing the turning direction of the cork-screw blade and which is provided with a sleeve-like body with which the cork screw is firmly put on the neck of the bottle to be uncorked in order to lift out the cork, the lifting of the cork out of the bottle to be uncorked is often made difficult because the cork-screw blade is not centered. In order to avoid this disadvantage, there is guided in the sleeve-like body a spring-loaded piston which is located near the lower end of the sleeve-like body when the cork-screw blade is driven into the cork and through which the cork-screw blade passes centrally with a slight clearance.

Abstract: A gravure-type gummer comprises a hollow cylindrical member 18 partly immersed in an adhesive container 10 and adapted to transfer a pattern of adhesive to a blank B movable in contact with the top of the member. The adhesive is held in a pattern of round bores 24 extending through the member, whose inside and outside peripheral surfaces are scraped clean of adhesive by scrapers 26 and 28.

Abstract: A working device for dress patterns in the form of a template is provided. The template comprises exchangeable panels which are relatively displaceable on a master panel via slots and can be locked in their adjusted positions by means of retaining elements and is thus an individual reusable template for dress patterns, which makes it possible to achieve an accurate fit which can be changed from time to time according to requirements.

Abstract: In order to simplify and improve the fly-back suppressor in a roll tape measure having a box-shaped housing 1, serving as a handle and made up of two rigidly interconnected halves 2, 3 of elastic plastic, an approximately dish-shaped drum 5 subjected to the force of a tension spring and mounted on a shaft 4 or a bolt 15, a measuring tape 9 wound onto the drum and a manually operable fly-back suppressor for the said tension spring. The housing 1 contains a brake body 12, 17 which rests against the drum under the effect of spring pressure and which can be operated from the outside.