Camming a conveyor drum of the tobacco processing industry

The invention relates to a control flange (20), a conveyor drum (10) of the tobacco-processing industry for providing negative pressure on receiving troughs (14) of the control flange (20) surrounding the drum body (12) of the conveyor drum (10), wherein the control flange (20) a A control drum body (21). The control flange is characterized in that a plurality of separate Saugluftbereitstellungskanale (64.A, 74.A, 84.A, 64.B, 74.B, 84.B; 64.C, 74.C, 84.C) in the interior the control drum body (21) are formed, wherein the Saugluftbereitstellungskanale (64.A, 74.A, 84.A, 64.B, 74.B, 84.B; 64.C, 74.C, 84.C) in the longitudinal direction the control drum body are formed, each of said Saugluftbereitstellungskanale (64.A, 74.A, 84.A, 64.B, 74.B, 84.B; 64.C, 74.C, 84.C) with one or more Saugluftkanalen (68, 78, 88.1, 88.2) on the outside of the control drum body (21) are formed is connected. Further, the invention relates to a conveying drum (10) of the tobacco processing industry, with a rotatable drum body (21) and a method for transverse axial conveying rod-shaped articles of the tobacco-processing industry, in particular tobacco rods and / or filter rods, or their components. Furthermore, the invention relates to a machine (M) of the tobacco processing industry, in particular filter tipping machine (M).