EP0141629A1 - Procédé et appareil pour la production d'un paquet d'articles pour fumer - Google Patents

Procédé et appareil pour la production d'un paquet d'articles pour fumer Download PDF

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EP0141629A1
EP0141629A1 EP84307398A EP84307398A EP0141629A1 EP 0141629 A1 EP0141629 A1 EP 0141629A1 EP 84307398 A EP84307398 A EP 84307398A EP 84307398 A EP84307398 A EP 84307398A EP 0141629 A1 EP0141629 A1 EP 0141629A1
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Antonio Paolo Alfredo Frattolillo
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B19/00—Packaging rod-shaped or tubular articles susceptible to damage by abrasion or pressure, e.g. cigarettes, cigars, macaroni, spaghetti, drinking straws or welding electrodes
    • B65B19/02—Packaging cigarettes
    • B65B19/04—Arranging, feeding, or orientating the cigarettes

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  • This invention relates to a method and apparatus for producing a novel pack of smoking articles, such as a packet of cigarettes.
  • Smoking articles such as cigarettes are produced in a great many types. For example, different tobaccos having characteristic flavours, such as Turkish and Virginia are used to produce cigarettes having the characteristic flavour of the tobacco. Further, cigarettes of differing strength of flavour, total particulate matter delivery and nicotine delivery are made, as well as filter tipped and plain cigarettes. Many different types of filter tips are available as are cigarettes containing flavour-- ants such as menthol.
  • a smoker may obtain cigarettes of a particular type only by purchasing a pack containing that type of cigarettes alone.
  • a smoker wishing to smoke different types of cigarette on different occasions must buy more than one pack of cigarettes.
  • a process for producing a pack of smoking articles comprising two distinct groups of smoking articles, each group containing only smoking articles of one type, the process comprising: retaining smoking articles of two types in two separate bodies, each body containing smoking articles of only one type; removing a group containing a predetermined number of smoking articles from each body of smoking articles; separately wrapping each group of smoking articles in inner wrappers: and packing the wrapped groups of smoking articles together in an outer wrapper.
  • apparatus for producing packs of smoking articles comprising two distinct groups of smoking articles, each group containing only smoking articles of one type, the apparatus comprising a hopper (11) divided into at least two discrete smoking article dispensing compartments (13,15); means for separately wrapping smoking articles dispensed from each dispensing compartment; and means for packaging the wrapped smoking articles from more than one dispensing compartment in the same pack.
  • the embodiment shown in the drawings comprise a hopper 11 divided into two dispensing compartments 13 and 15 by a partition 17 which runs across the interior of the hopper 11.
  • Each compartment is divided at its lower end into a number of generally upwardly extending channels by dividers 19 which are surmounted by guide fingers 21.
  • a base plate 22 extends across the bottom of the hopper closing it off.
  • the width of each channel formed by the dividers 19 is marginally greater than the diameter of a cigarette, so that cigarettes can stack up on the base plate 22 within the channels.
  • Cigarettes are introduced separately into each compartment 13 and 15 from separate cigarette making machines (not shown) by means of two supply trays 23 and 25, one tray feeding each compartment.
  • the cigarettes 27 supplied to the left-hand dispensing compartment 13 contain an American tobacco
  • those cigarettes 29 supplied to the right-hand dispensing compartment 15 contain a Turkish tobacco. It will be appreciated that the cigarettes may be of any two types.
  • the cigarettes 27, 29 move from the supply trays 23, 25 into the dispensing compartments 13,15.
  • They move further down the hopper 11, they are guided by guide fingers 21 into the channels formed by dividers 19 to form stacks within the columns on the base plate 22.
  • the American cigarettes 27 are still separated from the Turkish cigarettes 29 by the partition 17-
  • the cigarettes are removed from the channels, for example by being pushed out from behind by means not shown, to form a group 33 of American cigarettes 27 and a group 35 of Turkish cigarettes 29 ready for wrapping.
  • the groups shown in Fig. 2 each contain ten cigarettes, but it will be appreciated that by selecting the number of dividers 19 in each dispensing compartment 13, 15 appropriately and by appropriate positioning of the partition 17 within the hopper 11, groups containing any desired numbers of cigarettes may be made.
  • the groups 33, 35 of cigarettes are then separately wrapped in, for example, aluminium foil, and the wrapped groups 37, 39, each containing one type of cigarettes, are then packed in a conventional cigarette pack to provide a pack of twenty cigarettes containing ten American and ten Turkish cigarettes.
  • this invention provides apparatus for producing a mixed type pack of cigarettes which may be constructed by a simple adaption of a conventional cigarette packing hopper.

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
  • Packaging Of Annular Or Rod-Shaped Articles, Wearing Apparel, Cassettes, Or The Like (AREA)
  • Wrapping Of Specific Fragile Articles (AREA)
EP84307398A 1983-10-28 1984-10-26 Procédé et appareil pour la production d'un paquet d'articles pour fumer Expired EP0141629B1 (fr)

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GB08328881A GB2148836B (en) 1983-10-28 1983-10-28 Method and apparatus for the production of a pack of smoking articles
GB8328881 1983-10-28

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EP0141629A1 true EP0141629A1 (fr) 1985-05-15
EP0141629B1 EP0141629B1 (fr) 1987-01-14

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BE (1) BE900913A (fr)
CH (1) CH660865A5 (fr)
DE (1) DE3462005D1 (fr)
FR (1) FR2554085B1 (fr)
GB (1) GB2148836B (fr)
IT (1) IT1179793B (fr)

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GB2188895A (en) * 1986-04-08 1987-10-14 Hauni Werke Koerber & Co Kg Feed apparatus for pneumatic transporting of rod-shaped articles of the tobacco processing industry
GB2275679A (en) * 1993-03-05 1994-09-07 Gd Spa Hopper exit for cigarettes
WO2006002980A1 (fr) 2004-07-06 2006-01-12 Focke & Co. (Gmbh & Co. Kg) Dispositif pour produire des paquets de cigarettes comportant deux blocs de cigarettes
WO2006016154A2 (fr) * 2004-08-11 2006-02-16 Philip Morris Products S.A. Procede et dispositif pour la production de contenants de cigarettes personnalises
EP1741350A1 (fr) * 2005-07-04 2007-01-10 G.D S.p.A. Dispositif d'alimentation en filtres pour une machine d'assemblage de filtres
WO2014015940A1 (fr) 2012-07-27 2014-01-30 Philip Morris Products S.A. Appareil et procédé de formation de regroupements d'articles en forme de tige
EP2923953A1 (fr) * 2014-03-25 2015-09-30 G. D Societa per Azioni Station et procédé de rejet permettant l'expulsion d'un groupe de cigarettes défectueuses provenant d'une poche d'un convoyeur formant un groupe de machines d'emballage de cigarettes
WO2017129714A1 (fr) 2016-01-29 2017-08-03 Philip Morris Products S.A. Appareil et procédé de distribution d'articles en forme de tige
WO2017129715A1 (fr) 2016-01-29 2017-08-03 Philip Morris Products S.A. Appareil et procédé de distribution pour articles en forme de tige

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FR1439384A (fr) * 1964-06-11 1966-05-20 Dispositif d'amenée de cigarettes, monté dans une machine à emballer les cigarettes

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GB282124A (en) * 1926-07-13 1927-12-13 Walter Everett Molins Improvements in or relating to packing machinery
GB513798A (en) * 1938-04-20 1939-10-23 John Walker Chalmers Improvements in or relating to slide and shell boxes
GB944324A (en) * 1959-04-29 1963-12-11 Theegarten Franz Improvements in apparatus for wrapping sweets
DE1586046B1 (de) * 1967-01-07 1972-03-09 Heinz Focke Vorrichtung zum Verpacken von Zigaretten in Weichpackungen
GB1440923A (en) * 1972-10-19 1976-06-30 Schmermund A Machine for packaging rod-shaped articles
JPH0210007B2 (fr) * 1978-07-11 1990-03-06 Molins Plc
DE3123496A1 (de) * 1981-06-13 1983-01-13 Focke & Co, 2810 Verden Vorrichtung zum herstellen von packungen, insbesondere zigaretten-stangen

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FR1439384A (fr) * 1964-06-11 1966-05-20 Dispositif d'amenée de cigarettes, monté dans une machine à emballer les cigarettes

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GB2188895A (en) * 1986-04-08 1987-10-14 Hauni Werke Koerber & Co Kg Feed apparatus for pneumatic transporting of rod-shaped articles of the tobacco processing industry
GB2275679A (en) * 1993-03-05 1994-09-07 Gd Spa Hopper exit for cigarettes
GB2275679B (en) * 1993-03-05 1996-09-25 Gd Spa Hopper for elongate elements,in particular smokers' articles
WO2006002980A1 (fr) 2004-07-06 2006-01-12 Focke & Co. (Gmbh & Co. Kg) Dispositif pour produire des paquets de cigarettes comportant deux blocs de cigarettes
CN100551780C (zh) * 2004-08-11 2009-10-21 菲利普莫里斯生产公司 用于生产定制包装香烟的设备和方法
WO2006016154A3 (fr) * 2004-08-11 2006-04-20 Philip Morris Prod Procede et dispositif pour la production de contenants de cigarettes personnalises
EA008996B1 (ru) * 2004-08-11 2007-10-26 Филип Моррис Продактс С.А. Устройство и способ для изготовления выполненных на заказ емкостей для сигарет
JP2008509849A (ja) * 2004-08-11 2008-04-03 フィリップ・モーリス・プロダクツ・ソシエテ・アノニム カスタマイズされたシガレット容器を生成するための装置及び方法
EP2033896A1 (fr) 2004-08-11 2009-03-11 Philip Morris Products S.A. Conteneur hermétique, sensiblement imperméable à l'air, pour cigarettes
WO2006016154A2 (fr) * 2004-08-11 2006-02-16 Philip Morris Products S.A. Procede et dispositif pour la production de contenants de cigarettes personnalises
US7866127B2 (en) 2004-08-11 2011-01-11 Philips Morris Usa Inc. Apparatus and method for producing customised containers of cigarettes
US9162783B2 (en) 2004-08-11 2015-10-20 Philip Morris Usa Inc. Apparatus and method for producing customised containers of cigarettes
EP1741350A1 (fr) * 2005-07-04 2007-01-10 G.D S.p.A. Dispositif d'alimentation en filtres pour une machine d'assemblage de filtres
CN104583080A (zh) * 2012-07-27 2015-04-29 菲利普莫里斯生产公司 用于形成棒状制品的排列的设备和方法
JP2015525718A (ja) * 2012-07-27 2015-09-07 フィリップ・モーリス・プロダクツ・ソシエテ・アノニム ロッド状物品のコレーションを形成するための装置及び方法
WO2014015940A1 (fr) 2012-07-27 2014-01-30 Philip Morris Products S.A. Appareil et procédé de formation de regroupements d'articles en forme de tige
US9540126B2 (en) 2012-07-27 2017-01-10 Philip Morris Products S.A. Apparatus and method for forming of collations of rod shaped articles
RU2627198C2 (ru) * 2012-07-27 2017-08-03 Филип Моррис Продактс С.А. Устройство и способ для формирования групп стержнеобразных изделий
CN104583080B (zh) * 2012-07-27 2018-01-30 菲利普莫里斯生产公司 用于形成棒状制品的排列的设备和方法
EP2923953A1 (fr) * 2014-03-25 2015-09-30 G. D Societa per Azioni Station et procédé de rejet permettant l'expulsion d'un groupe de cigarettes défectueuses provenant d'une poche d'un convoyeur formant un groupe de machines d'emballage de cigarettes
WO2017129714A1 (fr) 2016-01-29 2017-08-03 Philip Morris Products S.A. Appareil et procédé de distribution d'articles en forme de tige
WO2017129715A1 (fr) 2016-01-29 2017-08-03 Philip Morris Products S.A. Appareil et procédé de distribution pour articles en forme de tige
RU2728857C2 (ru) * 2016-01-29 2020-07-31 Филип Моррис Продактс С.А. Устройство и способ подачи стержнеобразных изделий

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IT1179793B (it) 1987-09-16
BE900913A (fr) 1985-02-15
FR2554085B1 (fr) 1987-08-21
CH660865A5 (fr) 1987-05-29
FR2554085A1 (fr) 1985-05-03
GB8328881D0 (en) 1983-11-30
GB2148836B (en) 1987-11-11
DE3462005D1 (en) 1987-02-19
GB2148836A (en) 1985-06-05
IT8468065A0 (it) 1984-10-26

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