Patent ID: 8573386

Claim:
A system for transporting rod shaped elements in production arrangement of tobacco industry between machines making elements and machines processing elements in further operations, provided with a transitory store, to which rod shaped elements are delivered in compartment trays, comprising: a) a transitory store having an inlet zone that includes a plurality of fillers for compartment trays, to which rod shaped elements are mass-flow delivered by in-feed conveyors from making machines, wherein each making machine delivers to a separate one of said plurality of fillers, b) said transitory store further including an outlet zone having unloaders for unloading said compartment trays, c) said transitory store further including a stacking machine that places full compartment trays on a programmed station such as to deliver a full compartment tray to a respective one of said unloaders; d) out-feed conveyors leading from said unloaders that mass-flow deliver the unloaded rod shaped elements to processing machines, wherein each unloader delivers to a separate processing machine, e) each out-feed conveyor having situated there-along, an emptying hopper cooperating with a mobile filler for said compartment trays, f) wherein an end segment of said out-feed conveyor between said emptying hopper and a processing machine is adapted to deliver said rod shaped elements towards the emptying hopper when production assortment is changed, g) wherein said inlet zone of the transitory store further includes at least one filler for compartment trays for rod shaped elements mass-flow delivered by an in-feed conveyor from an unloader for one chamber trays, wherein each said at least one filler is connected to one unloader for one chamber trays, and h) wherein in the inlet zone of the transitory store there is situated at least one in-feed conveyor on which compartment trays are placed manually by an operator and in the outlet zone of the transitory store there is situated at least one out-feed conveyor from which compartment trays are collected manually by an operator.