CN101045363B

CN101045363B - Printing unit wrapping strips of tobacco and a printing method in tobacco processing industry

Info

Publication number: CN101045363B
Application number: CN2007101026244A
Authority: CN
Inventors: M·布劳; R·施蒂伯
Original assignee: Hauni Maschinenbau GmbH
Current assignee: Koerber Technologies GmbH
Priority date: 2001-06-22
Filing date: 2002-06-12
Publication date: 2013-07-10
Anticipated expiration: 2022-06-12
Also published as: US20040237981A1; EP2062485A8; WO2003000497A2; EP2062485A1; PL202035B1; PL364140A1; AU2002325830A1; DE10130225A1; DE50214006D1; ATE448942T1; EP2062485B9; JP2004530582A; CN1518500A; EP1397254B1; CN1328045C; EP1397254A2; CN101045363A; WO2003000497A3; EP2062485B1; PL204061B1

Abstract

The present invention describes a printing device used in the external packing strip of the tobacco manufacturing industry, especially the press equipment (23) which is used to press the sign to the tobacco paper slip (21) in a sort of tobacco winding machine. This kind of printing device ought to do quick interchanges when the stand of paper changes or the printing patter changes. This is carried out by a sort of fastening device (86), using this device we can fasten the preinstalled cylinder (45, 46, 47) together to the machine and can also separate them from it. Using the mentioned printing device (23) the new printing cylinder (45, 46) can separate from the opposite printing cylinder (47) quickly and substitute it with a new printing device containing a preinstalled cylinder.

Description

Stamp printing equipment and the printing process of mark at the external packing band of the tobacco industry

The application is that application number is that 02812522.3 denomination of invention is to divide an application for " the external packing band in tobacco industry stamps the printing equipment of mark ".

Technical field

The present invention relates on a kind of external packing band in tobacco industry, the printing equipment of typographic(al) mark on the cigarette paper band in a cigarette cordon machine especially, it has a printing cylinder at least, and this cylinder contacts pressure roller with one.

Background technology

On the external packing band in tobacco industry, for example want typographic(al) mark (printed image) at the cigarette paper band, they for example can be cigarette trade marks itself, but also can be producer's name or other explanation, it be to carry out in the so-called cordon machine by the continuous operation of rolling up bar manufactured bar-type article such as cigarette, cigarlet, cigar, filter tip or these class article.Cordon machine includes the printing equipment of corresponding construction, wherein has at least the printing cylinder of an active with one pressure roller to be contacted, wherein the paper material by remaining to be sent to press between these cylinders.At least the paper material synchronous operation of these printing cylinders and continuous motion when printing.

The printing equipment that is used for the two cordon machines of a kind of what is called known by BP 327206, and one of them cigarette paper band is by totally three marks of printing cylinder printing separately.These two printing cylinders then contact pressure roller with one, and wherein the cigarette paper band passes through at printing cylinder with between to pressure roller.

Summary of the invention

Task of the present invention be can make above-mentioned pattern printing equipment rapidly mutually around, thereby installation and the adjustment process that for example when mark is changed, needn't take a lot of trouble printed cylinder.The part task is to make the length of print zone can be adapted to altered cigarette length rapidly.

By the present invention, realize by a kind of fastener, can be fastened on the cylinder of pre-installing on the machine together and can disassemble from machine with this device.

A kind of particularly advantageous design of the present invention is: printing cylinder and pressure roller all is bearing in the bearing mounting that releasably is fixed on the machine, therewith mounting they just constituted one that can take off from machine and can be installed in unit on the machine.According to this bearing mounting of the present invention two shaft bearing plates are arranged, between shaft bearing plate, arranged printing cylinder, also have pressure roller at certain condition.Said structure of the present invention design allow to make whole printing unit in fact " quickly " just with the machine disengagement and load onto a new printing equipment.

In improvement project of the present invention to pressure roller can free rotary ground supporting on an axle and can be driven by a Vidacare corp.Fastener can and be fastened on the machine with an end with bearing mounting mechanical connection.This fastener can have a pin that is supported with the bearing mounting simultaneously, and it can at one end be fastened in the machine wall plate.On its other end, there is a handle to be used for dismounting or fastening this bearing mounting according to this pin of the present invention.Pin can pass the hole on the shaft bearing plate herein.

According to the variation of paper size or the variation of mark, a printing equipment after machine takes off and after being contained on the machine at the printing cylinder that will have prepackage with to a kind of new printing equipment of pressure roller printing cylinder must certain angle position be arranged with respect to machine.According to another design of the present invention the clutch that a position is determined can be set between drive unit and printing cylinder, result's this printing cylinder after the printing cylinder unit of a new prepackage/to the printing of pressure roller unit occupies a predetermined angle position in machine.

Printing cylinder and to pressure roller must relative fixed on some positions, in order to obtain best printing quality.Here can be provided with an adjusting device according to the present invention is used for adjusting the position of pressure roller with respect to printing cylinder minutely.Adjustment can be supported a kind of bearing element of elastic deflection, for example a rubber sleeve.

The present invention is particularly suited for two printing cylinders and with one pressure roller and the paper that transports is in a kind of printing equipment that contacts between them, because preassembled method in this case, it is particularly advantageous just making assembling and adjusting away from machine.When typographic(al) mark and/or the segment length of sending to press change, printing equipment is realized coupling by simple exchange with a printing equipment with new cylinder of prepackage.

The feature of innovative a kind of particularly advantageous improvement project of the present invention is the drive motors and the control device that is used for the control impuls of output drive motors that are used for printing cylinder, thereby the speed (print speed printing speed) of rotating speed when printing of printing cylinder is different between the printing process.Just can change length in the paper material section of sending to press of continuously not stopping transport moving rapidly and easily with a kind of like this printing equipment, and needn't intervene the speed reducing ratio of reduction box.Same this improvement project of the present invention is particularly suitable for having two or more and the printing equipment to the contacted printing cylinder of pressure roller.A kind of a kind of particularly suitable form of implementation of the printing equipment with nonuniform motion work is characterised in that the stepper motor and the control device that sends for the control impuls of stepper motor that are used for driving printing cylinder, its control impuls just in the scope of printing process printed element on printing cylinder and paper during with constant Frequency Synchronization motion and be fed to stepper motor when having the different motion of a different frequency when generation is a kind of between two printing process.

Be used for changing the different frequency of control impuls between two printing process a setting device can be set.This control device can have a memory, has wherein stored the predetermined change curve of frequency.

Can be provided with a partition in the intermediate cavity between the feeding device that printed liquid is delivered to each printing cylinder, it has stoped the printing-ink sprayer that is used for a printing cylinder to arrive at other printing cylinder.

The present invention not only is suitable for parts of monovolume bar cigarette machine, also is suitable for parts of so-called two volume bar cigarette machines, forms two cigarette bars and further is processed into cigarette in this two volume bar cigarette machines.

The present invention has multiple advantages:

For example must be with a new label print with new printed image to the cigarette paper band when the conversion typographic(al) mark, change printing equipment and just can realize easily this moment, with a handle pin is unclamped like this, take off the bearing mounting and substitute with the bearing mounting of another prepackage, this mounting can slide and easily by the pin fixed bit of a correspondence.The location that meets the position reaches by the clutch of being determined by the position.If necessary, this printing cylinder and also have in case of necessity and just can outside the machine that continues operation with new printing equipment, change and adjust pressure roller after taking out, and can not make the production interruption.Less correction can be carried out by means of adjusting device in the mutual alignment to pressure roller of printing cylinder.If it is inhomogeneous that printing cylinder drives, thereby peripheral speed is periodically changed, can promptly change the length of the section of sending to press on the paper material so, for example when cigarette length will change.

Description of drawings

It is following that the present invention is described in detail according to an embodiment.Be depicted as:

Fig. 1: a kind of three-dimensional schematic illustration of cigarette cordon machine;

Fig. 2: the three-dimensional view of a printing equipment in the machine shown in Figure 1 shows control system with magnification ratio;

Fig. 3: by the front view of printing equipment shown in Figure 2;

Figure 4 and 5: the control characteristic curve skeleton diagram of the inhomogeneous driving of printing cylinder.

The specific embodiment

Fig. 1 represented a kind of in tobacco industry well-known patentee's model be PROTOS cigarette cordon machine.From gate 1 baccy fiber a a ground feeding is given and to presort orchestration 2.Get the tobacco that feed roller 3 has controlledly replenished warehouse for one that presorts orchestration 2, have a high inclination-angle conveyer 5 in this warehouse, to take out tobacco and controlledly flow to a long-pending well 6 of putting.Shaft-like cylinder 7 takes out uniform flow of tobacco for 6 li by this long-pending well of putting, and tobacco is hit down from the bar of this shaft-like cylinder 7 by a vibrating roller 8 then and the branch with the constant speed rotation of tossing scatters on 9.Formed tobacco cilium is thrown into 11 li of finders in this branch distribution 9, this finder mainly is made up of an air curtain that bigger or heavier tobacco section is passed through, and all other tobacco section is then poured one into by 14 li in a shaft-like cylinder 12 and wallboard 13 formed funnel by air.Baccy fiber in 16 li in a tobacco passage is just thrown to a continuous transporter 17 by this shaft-like cylinder 12, and tobacco just remains on this transporter by means of the air in 18 li in negative suction chamber and the shake of baccy fiber bar is opened.A flattening device 19 removes unnecessary tobacco from the baccy fiber bar, this baccy fiber bar is put on the synchronization-moving cigarette paper roll bar 21 then.Cigarette paper band 21 is pulled out by a reel 22, is put on the driven specification band 24 through a printing equipment 23.This specification band 24 transports tobacco rods and cigarette paper slip 21 through a form 26, makes cigarette paper slip 21 around the tobacco rods folding in this form, thereby also gives prominence to a seamed edge, and this seamed edge just is coated with gluing with a glue spreading apparatus of not expressing in the mode of knowing.Make bond line seal up and be dried by a tandem seam plate 27 then.The cigarette bar 28 of Xing Chenging is through the closely knit measurement mechanism 29 of volume bar of this flattening device 19 of control like this, and formed the cigarette 32 of double-length by a cutter 31.Accept cylinder 36 for transfer to a filter tip spicing machine 37 but the cigarette 32 of this double-length just has the grass-hopper 34 of joystick 33 by one one, they are cut into single cigarette at cutting disc of cutting-cylinder 38 usefulness of this filter tip spicing machine.Travelling

belt

39,41 is transported to 42 li in a container that is arranged under the warehouse 4 with unnecessary tobacco, the tobacco that returns by high inclination-angle conveyer 5 again from 42 li taking-ups of this container.

Fig. 2 and Fig. 3 have represented to have

printing cylinder

45,46 and printing equipment 23 to pressure roller 47 of two rotations.These two

printing cylinders

45,46 with pressure roller 47 is contacted, wherein the paper material of cigarette coil paper bar 21 shapes continuously passes through between them.Printing cylinder receives the material that need stamp, and the printed liquid resemble the liquid ink for example, and makes it to be imprinted on the cigarette paper slip 21 with a kind of form of typographic(al) mark from a charging gear of not expressing on projection 98 or groove.Typographic(al) mark can be the printed image of cigarette trade mark, company's mark or other mark.By the machine drive unit or by from

motor

48,49 with cigarette paper slip 21 synchronously driven

printing cylinders

45 or 46 be bearing in 51 li of bearing mountings, this mounting mainly is made of two shaft bearing plates or

buck plate

52,53, and they keep certain distance by the pin 54 that spaces.Motor is by a control device 201 control, and this device and a memory 202 and host computer control device 200 actings in conjunction also will continue to describe below its mode.

Removed a preceding buck plate 52 among Fig. 3.The axle 56 of

printing cylinder

45,46 and motor 48 or 49 (not shown) interconnects by

clutches

58,59 that are connected by the definite form closure in position, thus make

printing cylinder

45,46 can be fastened on motor 48 on the machine or 49 axle axial separation and open.They have occupied it again with respect to cigarette cordon machine preposition when pushing to again.Be suitable as the clutch of the BK5/BK6 type that R+W drive disk assembly company (Alaxander-Wiegand str.8,63911 crin Gen Beierge, Germany) is arranged of the clutch of above-mentioned form.

Printing cylinder 46 and motor 49 have been removed among Fig. 2.

Printing cylinder

45,46 can move axially within the specific limits by means of adjusting the effect that screw 61,62 overcomes spring 64.But on an axle 79, thereby it can be driven together by material paper slip 21 to pressure roller 47 free rotary ground supportings.In the lining of the sightless caoutchouc elasticity that 79 on axle is bearing in 52,53 li of installing plates.The end of axle 79 is fixed on 76 li of bearings by globular lining 77, and these bearings can carry out small movement with respect to installing

plate

52,53 by adjusting bolt 71,72.Thereby since the distortion of caoutchouc elasticity lining and can making pressure roller 47 is adjusted with respect to

printing cylinder

45,46.

A fastener 86 that is used for that bearing mounting 51 is fastened on and disassembles on the machine wall plate 87 or from above usefulness has a pin 88, and it passes the hole 89 of 52,53 li of installing plates and supports bearing mounting 51.The end 88a of pin 88 can fasten with machine wall plate 87.At the other end 88b of pin 88 handle 92 is arranged, it is used for making this pin unclamped and fastening.

If will change a printing equipment 23, making pin 88 throw off and make this can be fixed on a printing equipment on the handle 66 with machine wall plate 87 by swing handle 92 so axially pulls out, wherein the axle of

printing cylinder

45,46 is separated with the axle of motor 48 or 49.A new printing equipment 23, its

printing cylinder

45,46 has advantageously carried out pre-assembled and pre-adjustment, just in opposite mode it is pushed to afterwards, wherein printing cylinder the axle with motor shaft clutch position place form closure couple together.

The material bands 21 (cigarette paper band) that successively moves in well-known machine is printed by one or more synchronously driven printing cylinders.This means, when the transform size specification, wherein changed the length of cigarette, that just must change printing equipment.Can carry out adaptive by the following method to the length of the section of sending to press according to the innovative a kind of special design of the present invention: changing at two must be the rotating speed of the printing equipment between the printing process of synchronous operation.If it is driven quickly that the printing between two synchronous operation is rolled, the segment length has just shortened so, and vice versa.Following example ground illustrates the approach that realizes this method according to the control device of motor 48: host computer control device 200 provides first kind of cadence signal with the continuation synchronized movement of paper tape 21 for control device 201.This signal for example can have a clock pulse in every millimeter band continuous motion, and only has change of frequency slowly, and this is because the inertia of the main drive system of it and machine is bound up.Control device sends second kind of cadence signal to the motor 48 that is designed to stepper motor, and this motor just rotates a step when each clock pulse of second kind of signal.Motor for example can change a whole circle when per 1000 clock pulses.Control device 201 has a frequency multiplier of itself knowing 204, and it exports the third cadence signal that is synchronized with first kind of cadence signal, for example is thousand frequencys multiplication.If but same known counter has been recorded to the clock pulse of the predetermined quantity that is called the factor of the third cadence signal, that just flows to a counter 203 with this third cadence signal.

The circumference of printing cylinder 45 is 130mm in a simple case, and will print out image with this printing equipment 23 spacing with 130mm on material paper tape 21.The clock pulse that this host computer control device 200 just sends 130 first kind of cadence signals during about paper tape transportation 130mm to control device 201, frequency multiplier 204 produces the clock pulse of 130000 the third cadence signals thus.Be predefined for 130 for counter 203 as the factor, thereby it just send 1000 clock pulses of second kind of cadence signal to motor and makes this motor change a whole circle when the third cadence signal is 130000 clock pulses.Always keeping synchronous this moment between printing cylinder 45 and paper slip band 21.

In the another one example, to printed image be printed on the paper slip band 21 with the spacing that is shorter than 130mm by printing equipment 23.Stored a kind of characteristic curve 300 of number 202 li of memories, as shown in Figure 4 for this reason.Mark the position of memory point at axis 301, marked the value that has the factor in this memory point at axis 302.Along with each clock pulse of first kind of cadence signal is just read the next one value of the factor and it is passed to counter 203 at memory.The value of distributor is corresponding to value 303 when the protuberance 98 on printing cylinder 45 and the effect of paper slip band, and synchronous operation for example is 130.When protuberance 98 just transfers to counter 203 with the lower value of the factor from paper slip band 21 leaves after, the result makes the frequency of second kind of cadence signal, thereby also just makes the rotating speed raising of motor 48 and printing cylinder 45.This moment, factor values reduced with a kind of mild inclined-plane, in order to make motor only bear a little moment of accelerating.After motor 48 roughly changes half-turn, improve factor values again at leisure, synchronously reach value 303 again until it again with before the effect of paper slip band at protuberance 98.

(line 304) motor 48 sends a signal and gives memory 202 after having changeed a circle, and goes up first memory and light and read this factor values.

For the typographic(al) mark of spacing distance greater than 130mm is printed onto on the paper slip band 21, stored the another kind of characteristic curve 310 of factor values 202 li of this memories, it has factor values higher when synchronous beyond paper slip band 21 is gone in protuberance 98 effects.Fig. 5 has represented a kind of like this characteristic curve.The part of Fig. 5 has improved 10 corresponding to part and the label of Fig. 4.Each printing cylinder can be provided with a control device with memory 202 in a kind of printing equipment with a plurality of printing cylinders.

Parts 200 to 204 among Fig. 2 are functional parts and can realize in software a kind of automaton or the control computer.

Claims

1. The printing equipment that is used for typographic(al) mark on the external packing band of the tobacco industry, this printing equipment has at least one printing cylinder and one to pressure roller, it is characterized in that, described printing equipment has the motor (48) and the control device (201) that are used for printing cylinder (45), this control device sends for the control impuls that drives described motor, thereby makes before the printing and/or the speed of rotating speed when printing of printing cylinder is different afterwards

2. By the described printing equipment of claim 1, it is characterized in that described external packing band is the cigarette paper band in a kind of cigarette cordon machine

3. By the described printing equipment of claim 1, it is characterized in that, described external packing band is successively the material bands (21) of motion, this material bands moves between at printing cylinder with to pressure roller, and when printing printing cylinder and material bands synchronous, and before this and/or after this described printing cylinder has different speed with material bands.

4. By each described printing equipment in the claim 1 to 3, it is characterized in that two or more printing cylinders are in pressure roller and contact with one.

5. By each described printing equipment in the claim 1 to 3, it is characterized in that, described motor is set to stepper motor (48), wherein so load for stepper motor in control impuls described in the printing process, make the motion of printing cylinder to carry out with the first kind of constant frequency that can be scheduled to external packing band (21) with being synchronized with the movement, in contrast, described control impuls loads for described printing cylinder with second frequency between two printing process, makes this printing cylinder be driven to the motion of carrying out friction speed with the external packing band.

6. By the described printing equipment of claim 5, it is characterized by a kind of storage device for control device (202), it is used for the frequency that storage can the expectant control pulse.

7. Method on the external packing band that periodically typographic(al) mark is printed to tobacco industry has following steps:

-the external packing band is sent in the sphere of action of a printing cylinder with first kind of speed;

-printing cylinder is rotated with second kind of speed;

-by printing cylinder typographic(al) mark is printed onto on the external packing band,

It is characterized in that:

-the first kind equal substantially with second kind of speed, and just printed to typographic(al) mark on the external packing band this moment;

When-the first kind and second kind of speed have at least and unequal, just do not print to mark on the external packing band this moment.

8. By the described method of claim 7, it is characterized in that the peripheral speed of printing cylinder is periodically changing.

9. By the described method of claim 8, it is characterized in that the peripheral speed of printing cylinder changes by the stepper motor of controlling an active with the control impuls of alternative frequency.

10. By the described method of claim 9, it is characterized in that described alternative frequency changes according to a characteristic curve that deposits in.

11. By the described method of claim 10, it is characterized in that described alternative frequency is also determined by the transporting velocity of external packing band in addition.