EP0022943A1 - Dispositif d'alimentation en cigarettes à partir de récipients, pour une machine à empaqueter ou analogue - Google Patents

Dispositif d'alimentation en cigarettes à partir de récipients, pour une machine à empaqueter ou analogue Download PDF

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EP0022943A1
EP0022943A1 EP80103641A EP80103641A EP0022943A1 EP 0022943 A1 EP0022943 A1 EP 0022943A1 EP 80103641 A EP80103641 A EP 80103641A EP 80103641 A EP80103641 A EP 80103641A EP 0022943 A1 EP0022943 A1 EP 0022943A1
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A24—TOBACCO; CIGARS; CIGARETTES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES; SMOKERS' REQUISITES
    • A24C—MACHINES FOR MAKING CIGARS OR CIGARETTES
    • A24C5/00—Making cigarettes; Making tipping materials for, or attaching filters or mouthpieces to, cigars or cigarettes
    • A24C5/35—Adaptations of conveying apparatus for transporting cigarettes from making machine to packaging machine
    • A24C5/352—Adaptations of conveying apparatus for transporting cigarettes from making machine to packaging machine using containers, i.e. boats
    • A24C5/356—Emptying the boats into the hopper of the packaging machine
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A24—TOBACCO; CIGARS; CIGARETTES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES; SMOKERS' REQUISITES
    • A24C—MACHINES FOR MAKING CIGARS OR CIGARETTES
    • A24C5/00—Making cigarettes; Making tipping materials for, or attaching filters or mouthpieces to, cigars or cigarettes
    • A24C5/35—Adaptations of conveying apparatus for transporting cigarettes from making machine to packaging machine

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  • the invention relates to a device for feeding rod-shaped objects, in particular cigarettes, removed from a tray or the like to a consumer, in particular to a packaging machine, with an intermediate conveyor which extends essentially horizontally below the tray, with an adjoining, likewise horizontally oriented transfer conveyor for the transport of the cigarettes to the consumer and with a storage upstream of the transfer conveyor in the cigarette flow for receiving and dispensing cigarettes depending on the intermittent delivery of cigarettes.
  • cigarette transfer devices are known in which a store is formed in the cigarette stream conveyed at the same level throughout, which receives cigarettes during the emptying of a tray and releases them again to maintain the conveying stream when the emptying of a tray has ended.
  • the invention has for its object to improve a transfer device for discontinuous, especially by a cigarette fed cigarette to a consumer in terms of functionality, reliability and gentle handling of the cigarettes.
  • the tray station according to the invention is characterized by a compact design, in particular a low construction height with an optimal cigarette flow.
  • the cigarettes are passed through the tray to a relatively elongated intermediate conveyor (conveyor belt). During this first longer conveyor section without an upper limit for the cigarettes, these are aligned to an exact relative position. Any cigarettes pointing in the conveying direction are aligned or dispensed on the side.
  • the relatively long transport route through the intermediate conveyor enables a cigarette store with a relatively large capacity in the form of a belt store, namely with a conveyor belt, on which an end wall which can be moved back and forth is arranged without any design effort in terms of height.
  • Such a memory is basically known.
  • a distribution space for the cigarettes which is formed after the intermediate conveyor and which has a passage delimited by the end of the intermediate conveyor into the lower-lying cigarette plane. Beneath this passage are the mutually facing ends of the storage tape and the transfer conveyor, approximately in the middle with respect to the passage rers.
  • the flow of cigarettes from the area of the distribution space therefore arrives in partial flows directly on the transfer conveyor and in partial flows in the store, namely during the emptying of the tray.
  • measurements of the cigarette level that is, the level of the cigarettes, are carried out according to the invention in such a way that the device is stopped when a certain minimum quantity is reached, for example due to an instantaneous machine stop on the feed side.
  • the maximum level of cigarettes is monitored, also with the result of a machine shutdown.
  • trays 11 filled with cigarettes 10 are fed manually or mechanically and thus arranged net that the cigarettes can flow down from the tray 11.
  • an intermediate conveyor 12 in the form of a conveyor belt within the device.
  • the cigarettes 10 are accommodated on the upper run of the intermediate conveyor 12 and are removed to the left in relation to FIG. 1.
  • Above the intermediate conveyor 12 - between side walls 13 and 14 - movable pivoting bodies 15 are arranged with a triangular cross-section, which are intended to ensure proper drainage of the cigarettes 10 in this area.
  • the intermediate conveyor 12 forms a relatively long conveying path following the area of the tray 11.
  • the distribution space 16 is inclined on the side opposite the end of the intermediate conveyor 12 through a funnel wall 17 limited downward arrangement, such that a narrower passage 18 is formed in the area between the deflection point of the intermediate conveyor 12 and the hopper wall 17. This is delimited on the side opposite the hopper wall 17 by the end of the intermediate conveyor 12, namely by its deflection roller 40.
  • the distribution room 16 has several tasks. Monitoring devices for the respectively available amount of cigarettes are arranged in this area, namely a light barrier 21 formed by sensors 19 and 20 (transmitter and receiver), which extends in an inclined plane across the cigarettes 10. This light barrier 21 is used to monitor a minimum level of the cigarettes 10 in the distribution space 16. If the light barrier 21 released by falling below a corresponding level, the device is switched off.
  • a light barrier 22 directed from the side wall 13 to the side wall 14 is installed transversely to the device. This monitors a maximum permissible cigarette level within the distribution space 16 at a suitable point, with the result that the cigarette supply is interrupted when the light barrier 22 is exceeded and is thereby interrupted.
  • a memory 23 is formed more or less exactly below the intermediate conveyor 12. This consists of a back and forth movable storage tape 24 and an end wall 25 arranged thereon. The latter can be moved back and forth between the end positions shown in broken lines in FIG. 1, forming correspondingly large storage spaces for holding cigarettes 10. The upper limit of this storage space is an upper wall 26 immediately below the intermediate conveyor 12.
  • a transfer conveyor 27 extends, in continuation thereof, namely a conveyor belt through which the cigarettes 10 or the like are fed in the horizontal plane to the packaging machine (not shown).
  • the cigarettes 10 therefore arrive at the packaging machine on a horizontal transport path. They are usually given to a magazine.
  • the device described so far works in such a way that the intermediate conveyor 12 immediately after emptying the tray 11 is switched off in order to avoid a further drop in the cigarette level in this area.
  • the cigarette level directly below the incline 11 is monitored here by a transversely or horizontally directed light barrier 28.
  • cigarettes 10 are removed from the (more or less) filled store 23, specifically by moving the end wall 25 in the direction of the transfer conveyor 27.
  • the quantity of cigarettes 10 emerging from the store 23 is preferably greater than the absorption capacity of the transfer conveyor 27.
  • Cigarettes 10 also step back into the distribution space 16 until a maximum level monitored by the light barrier 22 is reached.
  • the intermediate conveyor 12 After placing a filled tray 11, the intermediate conveyor 12 is started again.
  • the quantity of cigarettes now fed is greater than the transport capacity of the transfer conveyor 27. Accordingly, part of the cigarettes 10 passes from the distribution space 16 directly to the transfer conveyor 27. Another part is fed to the store 23, with the opposite movement of the end wall 25.
  • the store 23 can be filled up to its maximum capacity.
  • the emptying of the store 23 can take place continuously or also discontinuously, depending on the take-off capacities, that is, with the end wall 25 temporarily in intermediate positions.
  • the space above the intermediate conveyor 12 including the distributor space 16 is laterally limited by the side walls 13, 14.
  • the side wall 14 is as supporting structural part formed and connected to a machine frame or the like.
  • the opposite side wall 13 is preferably made of transparent material, in particular plastic.
  • This side wall 13 is divided into two sections. In the area below the incline 11 and in an adjoining area (vertical section according to FIG. 3), only the space above the intermediate conveyor 12 with the side wall 13 is limited.
  • the memory 23 is here without limitation on the side opposite the side wall 14. In the area of the distributor space 16 and in the adjoining area, the side wall 13 extends over the full height, that is to say including the store 23 (FIG. 4).
  • the side wall 13 in the area outside the distribution space 16 is pivotally supported by hinge 29 (FIG. 3).
  • the side wall 13 can also be pivoted in the area of the distributor space 16 by a hinge 30 arranged in the upper area.
  • the side wall 13 here performs a pulsating pivoting movement with the purpose of aligning the cigarettes 10 within the distribution space 16.
  • the side wall 13 is pretensioned by a tension spring 31 which connects the two side walls 13 and 14 to one another.
  • a support roller 32 is mounted, which receives 33 system on a circumferential curve piece. The design of the curve piece 33 causes the side wall 13 to be lifted and pressed down.
  • the tension spring 31 is connected in the present case to a magnet 34 seated on the side wall 13, namely via a metal piece 35.
  • the magnetic force is dimensioned such that the connection is selected rend the pulsating movements against the retaining force of the tension spring 31 is held.
  • the side wall 13 can be swiveled as a whole, namely by manually tearing off the magnet 34.
  • the curve piece 33 is arranged on a deflecting roller 36 for the storage belt 24, and is accordingly driven with the latter.
  • edge slots 37 and 38 running in the conveying direction are formed in addition to the latter. This allows the aforementioned cigarettes 10 to fall downward onto a baffle 39 directed obliquely to the side.
  • the relative position of the three conveyors with respect to one another or with respect to the distribution space 16 is of particular importance.
  • the mutually facing ends of the store 23 and the transfer conveyor 27 with the deflection rollers 36 and 41 lie in the region of the passage 18, as shown in FIG. 1, slightly offset from a middle vertical plane to the memory 23.
  • Storage belt 24 and transfer conveyor 27 are essentially in a common horizontal plane.
  • the cigarette flow from the distribution space 16 is thereby deflected accordingly when it is taken up by the memory. A predominant flow of the cigarettes 10, however, reaches the transfer conveyor 27 directly.
  • the end wall 25 of the accumulator 23 is provided with an inclined end surface 42. With this design of the end wall 25, the reservoir 23 can be completely emptied. In the In the emptying position (on the left in FIG. 1), the end wall 25 with the inclined end surface 42 extends from the end of the intermediate conveyor 12 to the beginning of the transfer conveyor 27.

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DE19792929660 DE2929660A1 (de) 1979-07-21 1979-07-21 Vorrichtung zum zufuehren von aus einem schragen entnommenen zigaretten zu einer packmaschine o.dgl.

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EP0177688A2 (fr) * 1983-02-08 1986-04-16 Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co.) Dispositif pour le transport de cigarettes ou analogues vers une machine d'empaquetage
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EP0177688A2 (fr) * 1983-02-08 1986-04-16 Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co.) Dispositif pour le transport de cigarettes ou analogues vers une machine d'empaquetage
EP0177688A3 (fr) * 1983-02-08 1988-12-28 Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co.) Dispositif pour le transport de cigarettes ou analogues vers une machine d'empaquetage
WO2008110390A1 (fr) * 2007-03-13 2008-09-18 Hauni Maschinenbau Ag Magasin de vidage pour un dispositif de vidage de conteneur conçu pour vider des conteneurs remplis de produits en forme de tige

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