ROBERT J BAIER
Engineers in West Chester, PA

4324233, Apr 13, 1982

May 12, 1980

6/148924

Robert J. Baier - West Chester PA
Edward W. Glatfelter - Newtown Square PA

Gulf & Western Corporation - New York NY

A24C 128

128 58

A respacer and/or reorienter feed arrangement is operative for continuously feeding cigar wrappers in proper spaced-apart relationship and/or orientation to a cigar wrapping station of a multi-station cigar wrapping machine which includes a cigar bunch supply station, a cigar wrapper supply station, and a conveyor for conveying the bunches to a cigar wrapping station at which the wrappers are spirally applied about the bunches. The method of respacing and/or reorienting the wrappers includes conveying the latter in a predetermined arranged relationship and/or orientation in which successive wrappers are located relative to one another at positions selected for optimum compact transport purposes, and continuously moving each successively leading wrapper, one after another, relative to its next successively trailing wrapper, from its respective optimum compact transport position to and through the cigar wrapping station. The wrappers are conveyed through the wrapping station in another different arranged relationship in which successive wrappers are located relative to each other at different positions selected for optimum wrapping purposes. Cigar wrapping is performed in an automatic, non-stop manner.

4103692, Aug 1, 1978

Jul 21, 1977

5/808919

Robert J. Baier - West Chester PA
Vern Anderson - Berwick PA
William S. Aseltine - Devon PA

Gulf & Western Corporation - New York NY

A24C 130

131 32

A machine and method for continuously applying wrappers to a stream of bound cigar bunches.