Abstract: This device for causing elongated cylindrical objects such as cigarettes delivered in the form of a continuous line to penetrate successive recesses formed in a rotary drum is of the type wherein a transfer device is interposed for accelerating the velocity of translation of the cigarettes in order to separate them from one another while imparting thereto a transverse velocity equal to the peripheral velocity of the drum recesses; this transfer device comprises a single vertical cam of which the operative portion engages the cigarette moving past underneath, when the leading end of the cigarette penetrates into a corresponding recess of the drum. The combined action of the cam and drum cause the cigarette to move transversely and parallel to itself.

Abstract: This rotary plate is of the type comprising reversal heads capable of rotating through half a revolution during a complete revolution of the plate in the opposite direction, with a view to taking up an object such as a filter-tipped cigarette and placing such an object or cigarette after having caused it to rotate through half a revolution.Each of the reversal heads 13a effects, in relation to plate 13, no other movement but its rotation, axis Za of this rotation forming with rotational axis Z of plate 13 an angle .alpha. whose tangent is greater than the ratio d/.DELTA. of the diameter d of the objects or cigarettes to be reversed to the distance .DELTA. separating the rotational axes of two adjacent heads.