Palace Packaging Machines

Application Data Sheet

Product: Plastic Cigar Tubes

Speed: 200 per minute

Application: Customer operation involved manual placement of cigar tubes from a bulk bin into a receiving hopper of their cigar inserting machine. Their cigar inserting machine takes an individual tube, inserts a cigar and plugs the opening.

The Palace model CB-42VPS system takes the tubes from bulk and loads them by way of a centrifugal bowl onto a turret with pockets (veins). The horizontal tube orientation in each pocket or vein can be either with open or closed end of the tube towards the center of the centrifugal bowl. At a point in the turret rotation the tubes are oriented vertically into the same position and discharged into a rail twister. The Palace tube orienter will be integrated with the customers cigar inserting machine for an automatic operation. This eliminates the manual orientation and placement of tubes into the cigar inserting machine hopper resulting in labor cost savings and more efficient operation.

3/17/2008 PPADS # 1 CB42-VPS System with 15 cu. ft. bulk hopper/elevator.

Overhead view of centrifugal bowl and turret with pockets (veins).

Oriented tube and discharge rail twister.

3/17/2008 PPADS # 1