DE1532232A1 - CIGARETTE FEEDING DEVICE - Google Patents

Description

Cigarette feeder

The invention relates to a device for feeding Cigarettes.

In the German patent specification (patent application M 5ö 306 Xl / 81e) describes a device! with the cigarettes from one or more cigarette machines more or less continuously to one or more cigarette machines

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packaging machines are conveyed and / has a container, in which cigarettes are collected and from which they are dispensed, facilities being provided with which the size of the container corresponds to the feed and discharge speed can be regulated.

The present invention relates to feeding the cigarettes into a container and regulating the feed speed.

A cigarette feeder according to. the invention for feeding cigarettes into a container is provided with test equipment arranged at the container entrance Determine the speed at which the cigarettes are fed into the container, the test equipment having a movable part, that touches the cigarettes and moves in the direction of movement of the cigarettes to bring them into the container support financially.

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The movable part can be placed on a stack of cigarettes that can be calibrated " that is conveyed into the container so that it is raised as the depth of the stack increases or decreases or is lowered and its surface resting on the cigarettes can move in such a sighting, that it conveys the cigarettes towards the container. The movable part can be swiveled on a Be mounted element whose pivoting movements are used to actuate control means through which the size of the container is enlarged or reduced. The test equipment can have at least one rotatable member. The movable part can move at least at the same speed know the cigarettes it touches.

Furthermore, the invention has a cigarette feeder, a container for cigarettes, as well as a

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other opposing elements / elements delimiting cigarettes within the container, conveying elements within the container which convey cigarettes through the container, opposing, self-moving members delimiting a tube into the container which convey cigarettes into the container and the conveying means for meeting and holding Conveying cigarettes in the form of a moving stack, and a test member mounted above the conveyor, freely movable up and down and having a surface that moves in the direction of the container and rests on the moving cigarette stack so that the lower limb is raised or lowered as the depth of the stack increases or decreases, and finally iüttel that

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actuated by the downward movement of the test element to change the speed of the conveyor elements inside the container.

The test member may have a rotatable part, the Device includes a drive shaft, further one on one end about this shaft freely pivotable arm, wherein that rotatable part is rotatably mounted on the other end of the arm is, a drive wheel mounted on the shaft, and one of the drive wheel driven belt that the rotatable part turns.

Embodiments of the invention will now be based on the attached drawings, namely show:

Figure 1 is a side view _P

Figure 2 is a section along the line I-I in Figure 1, Figure 3 is a side view of an angled execution

ungsform on a different scale and Figure 4 shows a section along the line IV-IV in Figure

The device shown in Lie can be part of a device as shown in the above-mentioned patent specification in Fig. which is a container with an upper one and lower iCammer, an endless belt conveyor, the upper strand of which the floor of the upper chamber and the lower one Trum forms the lid of the lower ICammer, and a concave, movable, one end of the container forming rear plate. Lie cigarettes get into the upper ICammer and run out of it between the back plate and the roller over which the

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endless belt runs through into the lower chamber, and the Blickplatte and the Holle can be moved back and forth, to increase the capacity of the container or decrease, depending on the fluctuations in intake and Delivery of the cigarettes.

The device in the two embodiments according to the accompanying drawings is best immt to be placed at the entrance of the upper chamber of the container and can be used as a replacement for the belt 78 and 62 and the feeler 85 shown in Figure 4 of the above-mentioned patent device shown.

As can be seen first from Figures 1 and 2, takes an endless conveyor belt 1 (corresponding to conveyor belt 77 in Figure 4 of the cited patent) cigarettes C, e.g. from a plurality of Zlgarettenmaschinen and conveys them as a moving stack, which can be several cigarettes deep, to the right in Figure 1. That Belt 1 runs around a roller 2, between a pair of opposing tilting elements 3 and between drive rollers ·. 4 and 5 · The upper run of the belt 1 is supported by plates 6 and 7.

To the right of the coil 2 is a drum 8, which revolves in the direction indicated by the arrow at a speed that is changed from time to time, as described later. A bridge 9 extends from the belt 1 to the surface of the drum 8.

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A concave plate 10 on supports 11 almost extends halfway around the drum 8 and forms a back support for an endless belt 12 »that over the inside curvature of the Plate runs and over rollers 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 »16, whose the latter is a drive roller, and 19 runs back. The plate 10 is arranged at such a distance from the drum 8 that a desired depth of cigarettes between the belt 12 and the drum 8 can be received. The belt 12 is driven at a speed that the circumferential speed of the drum 8 exceeds such that the cigarettes C without relative displacement around the Drum to be carried around.

Below the plate 11 and the belt 12 and also below

extensively calibrated half of the drum d and the belt l free endless, from the Rollers 21 and 22 driven belt 20. This corresponds to the belt 71 shown in Figure 4 of the cited patent and forms the bottom of the upper chamber of the cigarette container. As described in that patent, the rear plate forming the end of the container is moved into the one or the other direction, to the ¥ assungevermögen of the container to change if the speed of the belt

20 is changed. Here are such windy winds · » struggled by changing the speed of the drive roller

21 causes.

A short wedge-shaped bridge 23 extends from the belt 12, where it runs over the roller 13, to the belt 20

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As indicated above, the one shown below in Figure 1 forms Rope dee tape 20 the bottom of the upper chamber of the container. The top of the upper chamber is delimited by a plate 24.

Side plates 25 and 26 delimit the cigarettes laterally at the entrance to and in the upper chamber of the container.

Immediately above the conveyor belt 1 is a test link in the form a pair of relatively narrow rollers 125 arranged, which together with the conveyor 1 »the bridge 9 and the drum θ limit the entrance to the container. JeUe of Hollen 125 i8t constructed as a pair of i'l viewing discs, like Fig. 2 shows the tensioned apart and eccentric mounted on a sleeve 126 which is rotated on a spindle 27 by a toothed drive belt 28 ("Timex" belt) running over a toothed wheel 29. The strap

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is driven by toothed had 30 on a continuously rotating drive shaft 31. Lie spindle 27 is rotatably mounted by means of a bushing 32 (FIG. 2) »which of one arm 33 is carried? which is mounted on a HUIbe 34 let, which is freely rotatable about the drive shaft 31. The rollers 125 can therefore swing up and down around the shaft 31. A short arm 35 on the sleeve 34 is connected to one end of a rod 36 and moves the rod longitudinally back and forth Hera when you move the rollers 125 up and down. Dae the other end of the rod 36 engages in a Jfinde of a pivotably mounted element 36a, the movements thereof serve, means for changing the speed of the drives

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roll 21, the drum b and the drive roller 18 for the belt 12 to operate. The means correspond approximately to those disclosed in the patent mentioned; since their precise construction is not part of the present invention, they are not shown here.

The rollers 125 are driven at such a speed that Bich their circumferential surfaces attacking the cigarettes move faster than belt 1, i.e. at about 1.8 times the speed of belt 1.

JSine plate 37 extends over part of the drum 8 and between the rollers 125 »a short bridge 38 extends between the plate 37 and the roller 19, over the dae Belt 12 is running. A flexible strip 39 is below the Plate 37 attached; its free edge rests on the perimeter surfaces the role 125.

During operation of the device, cigarettes C are from the conveyor belt 1 under the rollers 125 in the space between the Circumference of the drum 8, the plate 37, the strip 39 »of the bridge 3d and the belt 12 carried. Lie rolls 125 lie on the stack of cigarettes moving beneath them; they raise and lower depending on the moment Depth of cigarettes. At the same time, the rollers 125 convey the cigarettes as a result of their speed compulsorily forward to ensure this space is kept full of cigarettes at all times. Ee is It is desirable that the container be completely filled with cigarettes at all times to keep the cigarettes in tighter

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Contact can be kept with one another and thus aXs m-3hr or less maasive bodies can be moved through the container; For this reason, the rollers rotate at a peripheral speed _P which is higher than the normal feed speed of the cigarettes, so that they try to ensure that there is no shortage of cigarettes at or immediately behind the entrance to the container. The flexible strip 59 carries, by lightly against the rollers 125 just leaving cigarettes printed _t also helps to keep the cigarettes close to each other.

If the quantity of cigarettes fed out of the belt 1 should decrease, the level of cigarettes on the belt will fall and the oil 125 will fall accordingly; are reversed, if you increase the amount on the belt 1, the Kollen 125 increase. These up and down movements
serve, as described above, to actuate means by which the speeds of the drum O, the belt 12 and the collar 20 are increased to allow more cigarettes to get into the container, or decreased when fewer cigarettes are received.

Any speed changes of the belt 20 cause a change in the size of the container to that described in the aforementioned patent. Way.

Lie Figures 3 and 4 show a modified embodiment of the container entrance.

A pair of endless chain conveyors 51C only one of which is shown is) takes cigarettes C e.g. from a plurality of

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Cigarette machines, on and promotes aie right in the Figure, The spaced-apart chains carry projections 52 'which form pockets in which cigarettes be included. The chains are driven by sprockets 53 and run back over them.

Three endless belts 54 (only one of which is shown) are between the two chains 51 and on either side the same arranged. These tapes run across Hollen and 56, which limit their upper run, being the hells Tension the belt, as well as over guide roller 5öa and drive wheels 59 · The upper runs of the bands are inclined upwards in the direction of movement and intersect the neg of the chains 51 to lift the cigarettes off the chains. they run over.a guide plate 62.

The chains 51 and the belts 54 of this embodiment replace the band 1 according to Figure 1.

On the right of the belt rolls 58 there is a drum 68, a bridge 69, a concave plate 70, and a belt 72, those of the drum 8, the bridge 9 * of the concave plate 10 and correspond to the band 12 of FIG.

Above the belts 54 are two pairs of flange washers and 76, the disks 76 partially extending between the disks 75. The disks 76 are rotatable about a spindle 77 carried by arms 78; these arms are pivotably mounted about a spindle 79 on which

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the disks 75 rotatable ^ ela ^ t-rt sinr. and the. from a swingable arm 80, ο Lor Arm 80 is "!: loosely mounted so that it can swing around a shaft 81 on which a drive roller 82 is attached, which is provided with a flange, as in FIG For 4 feezeifct. A belt made of nylon or other non-stretchable material, supported by a narrower belt 84, extends around the pulleys and the drive roller and is driven by the latter at the same speed as the chains 51, jüas narrow support belt 84 fits between the flanges of the drive roller 82 and prevents the assembled beard from wandering around. On the hub 85 of the arm 6C, a cage Ana 86 is attached, which is connected to one end of a rod 87 and the rod lengthways 8 back and forth moves * when the arm 80 swings up and down. The other end of the rod 8? engages in one end of a pivotably mounted element 68 which is identical to the element 36a in FIG.

The disks 75 and 76 and the surrounding band 83 »that on First iron the chains 51 and then the belts 54 cigarettes that have been worn correspond to the roles the Pifeur 1.

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Claims (1)

Ans ρ r U. c; · ?. e 1. Cigarette feeder: to feed cigarettes into a container, gekennzeiähnct by at the entrance of the container arranged test means to determine animal speed, with which the cigarettes enter the container, whereby these PrüfHiitt.3l have a movable toilet, that is in contact with the cigarettes and moves in the direction of movement of the cigarettes to promote in the container. '2. Device according to claim 1, characterized in that the movable part is on a moving part in the container the stack of cigarettes being conveyed lies on top of it and is carried by it, so that it rises or falls, when the depth of the stack increases or decreases, and that the The surface of the movable part resting on the cigarettes moves in such a Kicfcvong that it the Promotes cigarettes towards the container. 3. Provision according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that it is that the movable part is pivoted on oineia Element is mounted, whereby the swivel movement & ungyn this Elements actuate control means that determine the grosso of the container v «? increase or decrease. 4098 2 7/0347 .. ,,,, Apparatus iiaoh any one of claims 1 to 3 d _P "ei" raw go-kennzelehnet, dasfä "3IS PrUi'irattel an at least. have rotatable member = 5. Device according to one of claims 1 to 4 _P, characterized in that the movable part is with a Ge. The speed of vision is at least equal to the speed of the cigarette _P which it touched 6 · Cigarette feeder with a container for cigarettes and facing each other, the cigarettes inside this container limiting elements and within of the container arranged feed elements, which the cigarettes - convey through this container, characterized by opposing, - calibrating moving elements delimiting an inlet in the container, the cigarettes in the Convey containers and have conveyor means for carrying and conveying cigarettes as a moving stack! by a test element, which is mounted above the conveyor, is freely movable up and down and has a surface that moves towards the container and rests on the moving stack of cigarette cigarettes, so that the index member if the depth of the pile increases or decreases, or is lowered, and by means that are actuated by the raising and lowering of the test member and the speed change the conveying elements within the container » 409 8 27/0 3 Ul BAD ORSGJNAL ?. Device according to spoke 6, characterized in that »the test member has a rotatable rope and that the device has a drive shaft , an arm freely rotatable around this shaft at one end» wherein the rotatable part is rotatably mounted on the other end of the arm »one on this Drive wheel attached to the shaft, and a collar driven by this drive wheel, which rotates the rotatable file. 409827/0347