Abstract: An anti-burglar bar (1) for rolling shutters (2) or rolling gates, which are defined by a plurality of horizontal slats (3) associated with a winding roller and are slidable in a first and a second vertical guides (4,5) opposite to one another, comprises electromechanical control means (7) of a first and a second blocking elements (8) and (9), arranged slidingly in a body (11), which engage respectively in a first and a second retention blocks (10) associated with said first and second guides respectively, a first and a second feelers (12) being provided which engage respectively with a first and a second position sensors (13) for transmitting an electric signal, said electric signal activating said electromechanical control means (7) only when said first and second feelers (12) are simultaneously aligned with said first and second position sensors (13) respectively.

Abstract: A spacer device for slats of rolling shutters or rolling gates that slide in a first vertical guide and a second vertical guide opposed to one another comprises a first and a second connecting rods (2), each having at least one first slot (3, 4) connected via first pins (5) inside first seats (7) present on the opposed faces (8, 9) of a first slat (10) and connected via second pins (6) inside second seats (4) present on the opposed faces (17, 18) of a second slat (19), said first and second pins having a stem (20), which has a first end (21) that engages in first and second housings (22), present, respectively, on first and second caps (23, 24) for closing said opposed faces of said first and second slats, and a second end (25), opposite to said first end, that engages in said first and second seats (7, 16).

Abstract: A filter assembly machine wherein one laser source emits a beam through a dividing device which divides the beam into two secondary beams directed respectively towards a cutting head for cutting a continuous strip into bands connecting double filters to cigarette portions, and towards a piercing device for forming ventilating holes in the bands.

Abstract: A device for cutting a strip fed continuously on a roller through a cutting station where a series of at least partial transverse cuts are made successively in the strip by a cutting unit. On the cutting unit, a hollow rotary drum receives a laser beam emitted by a laser source, and focuses the beam at at least one point which, as the drum rotates, moves along an annular trajectory, the plane of which intersects the route of the strip at the cutting station and forms a given angle with a line intersecting the route of the strip.

Abstract: A unit for sampling cigarettes on a filter assembly machine, which unit is designed to cooperate with a conveyor for feeding the cigarettes through the filter assembly machine, and features a sampling conveyor tangent to the feed conveyor and having an even number of peripheral seats for the cigarettes; the aforementioned seats being arranged along the sampling conveyor, and each having a respective suction device; and a selecting device being provided for selectively activating the suction devices and so withdrawing given cigarettes off the feed conveyor.