Title: Transfer unit for transferring elongated articles
Application Number: 200510066689 Application Date: 2005.04.22
Publication Number: 1689466 Publication Date: 2005.11.02
Approval Pub. Date: Granted Pub. Date:
International Classifi-cation: A24C5/35
Applicant(s) Name: GD SPA Address:
Inventor(s) Name: Draghetti Fiorenzo;Rizzoli Salvatore
Attorney & Agent: gu gongxia lu yi
Abstract:
    A transfer unit (2) for transferring elongated articles (3), wherein a uniform succession of articles (3) is fed by an input drum (4) to a first transfer station (6), where the articles (3) are picked up successively by a number of pickup heads (29, 31) of a transfer drum (7) for supply, through a second transfer station (10), to an output drum (13) in a uniform succession of pairs (9) of side by side articles (3); some of the pickup heads (29, 31) are fixed, and some oscillate with respect to the transfer drum (7); the fixed pickup heads (29) alternate with the oscillating pickup heads (31); and each oscillating pickup head (31) oscillates to and from a position contiguous to one of the two adjacent fixed pickup heads (29).
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