Abstract: A device for handling packets of cigarettes has two drying beams, each for feeding a line of packets to an intermediate station; and two transfer units, each for transferring the incoming packets from a respective drying beam from the intermediate station to a single output conveyor; the transfer units and the output conveyor are powered by the same motor, and the speed of the drying beams is so regulated that the packets are fed to the intermediate station in phase with the movement of the transfer units.

Abstract: A device for handling packets of cigarettes has two drying beams, each for feeding a line of packets to an intermediate station; and two transfer units, each for transferring the incoming packets from a respective drying beam from the intermediate station to a single output conveyor; the transfer units and the output conveyor are powered by the same motor, and the speed of the drying beams is so regulated that the packets are fed to the intermediate station in phase with the movement of the transfer units.

Abstract: A wrapping wheel forming part of a cigarette packer is equipped with at least one conveying head that presents a pocket and is carried by the wheel along a feed path, passing through a first station at which a product is directed into the pocket, then through a second station at which a leaf of wrapping material is laid over the pocket and pinned in a predetermined position by pivoted grippers, and finally through an outfeed station where the product is ejected from the pocket, paired with the wrapping leaf and transferred together with the leaf to a further wrapping wheel; the grippers are operated by direct interaction with suitable transmission and shifter components positioned outside the peripheral compass of the wrapping wheel.