EP0602938A1 - Dispositif pour changer la direction du mouvement d'un matériau en bande - Google Patents

Dispositif pour changer la direction du mouvement d'un matériau en bande Download PDF

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EP0602938A1
EP0602938A1 EP93310081A EP93310081A EP0602938A1 EP 0602938 A1 EP0602938 A1 EP 0602938A1 EP 93310081 A EP93310081 A EP 93310081A EP 93310081 A EP93310081 A EP 93310081A EP 0602938 A1 EP0602938 A1 EP 0602938A1
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Masayoshi C/O Japan Tobacco Inc. Saito
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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
    • A24C5/14—Machines of the continuous-rod type
    • A24C5/20—Reels; Supports for bobbins; Other accessories
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H23/00—Registering, tensioning, smoothing or guiding webs
    • B65H23/04—Registering, tensioning, smoothing or guiding webs longitudinally
    • B65H23/32—Arrangements for turning or reversing webs
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2401/00—Materials used for the handling apparatus or parts thereof; Properties thereof
    • B65H2401/10—Materials

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  • the present invention relates to a device for changing the traveling direction of a strip material or a paper web used in the manufacture of cigarettes or filter cigarettes, while the paper web is being supplied to a cigarette or filter cigarette manufacturing machine.
  • a filter cigarette manufacturing machine or so-called filter attachment is supplied with cigarette rods, each having a length twice that of each individual cigarette, filter plugs, and a paper web and it manufactures filter cigarettes.
  • each of cigarette rods is first cut into two equal parts, whereby two coaxial cigarettes are obtained.
  • a filter plug is interposed between these cigarettes, and all these elements are fed to a rolling section of the filter attachment.
  • the rolling section is also supplied with paper pieces obtained by cutting the paper web.
  • the two cigarettes and the filter plug are connected to one another by being wrapped in one of the paper pieces, whereupon a double-size filter cigarette is prepared. Thereafter, the double-size cigarette is cut into two equal parts or regular filter cigarettes.
  • the cutting of the cigarette rod and the supply of the filter plug between the cigarettes are carried out as each cigarette rod is transported on a drum train toward the rolling section.
  • the double-size filter cigarette is cut as it is transported on another drum train which extends from the rolling section.
  • the paper pieces are obtained by cutting the paper web into equal parts with a predetermined length. Accordingly, the direction of the path of supply of the paper web to the filter attachment should be substantially in line with the direction of the drum trains.
  • the filter attachment and a source of supply of the paper web must be arranged on a straight line, and their layout is subject to substantial restrictions.
  • a reservoir In order to replace a web roll, for use as the paper web source from which the paper web is paid out, without suspending the operation of the filter attachment, a reservoir must be provided for previously storing a predetermined volume of the paper web before the replacement. This reservoir should be located between the filter attachment and the web source.
  • the supply path for the paper web to be guided from the web source to the filter attachment via the reservoir extends long in a straight line, so that the whole system is inevitably very long.
  • the object of the present invention is to provide a change-direction device for a strip material, ensuring a higher degree of freedom for the layout of a strip material source and a material consuming machine and suited for the reduction of the overall length of a system including the material source and the consuming machine.
  • a change-direction device which comprises a shaft disposed between a material source and a consuming machine and used to guide a strip material in traveling motion such that the strip material is passed around the shaft as it travels past the shaft, and supporting means for supporting the shaft in a manner such that the shaft is inclined against the direction of access of the strip material.
  • the strip material supplied from the material source When the strip material supplied from the material source is guided to the shaft, it is passed around the shaft. In this process, the traveling direction of the strip material is changed in accordance with the angle of inclination of the shaft against the direction of access of the strip material. After passing the shaft, the strip material is guided to the consuming machine.
  • the traveling direction of the strip material can be changed with use of only a simple arrangement such that the shaft is located in the path of travel of the strip material, which extends from the material source to the consuming machine.
  • the degree of freedom of the layout of the consuming machine and the material source can be improved, so that the whole system including the consuming machine and the material source can be installed with ease.
  • the opposite ends of the shaft of the device are supported in a nonrotatable manner by means of brackets, individually. Accordingly, the shaft never rotates as the strip material travels past it, so that the position where the strip material is passed around the shaft. After passing the shaft, therefore, the strip material can be guided to the consuming machine with reliability.
  • FIG. 1 there is shown a system including the aforementioned filter attachment.
  • the filter attachment 2 is supplied with a paper web as well as filter plugs and cigarette rods each having a length twice that of each individual cigarette.
  • each cigarette rod is transported on a drum train of the filter attachment 2 toward a rolling section.
  • the cigarette rod is cut into two equal parts or a pair of coaxial cigarettes.
  • the paired cigarettes are separated from each other so that a predetermined space is secured between-the cigarettes.
  • Filter plugs are obtained by cutting each filter rod, taken out one by one from a hopper, into a plurality of pieces as the filter rod is transported toward the drum train for cigarettes. Each filter plug is fed to the space between each pair of cigarettes transported on the drum train.
  • the paper web is paid out from its source of supply or a web roll 4, and is supplied to the filter attachment 2 through a reservoir 6.
  • the web source is provided with a pair of web rolls (not shown) and an automatic changer (not shown) therefor.
  • the paper web is paid out from one of the web rolls, for use as a working roll.
  • the automatic changer connects the paper web from the other web roll to the web from the working roll, and cuts the web from the working roll on the upstream side of the junction between the two webs. From this time on, therefore, the paper web is paid out from the other web roll.
  • the speed of paper web supply from the working roll is increased, so that the reservoir 6 is stored with the paper web in a predetermined quantity. Even during the roll changing operation, the paper web stored in the reservoir 6 goes on being supplied to the filter attachment 2, so that the operation of the attachment 2 can be continued.
  • a change-direction device 8 is disposed between the web source or the web roll 4 and the reservoir 6. The paper web paid out from the working roll 4 is fed to the reservoir 6 or the filter attachment 2 via the changing device 8.
  • the paper web supplied from the reservoir 6 is cut into paper pieces in the filter attachment 2 by means of a cutting device. Thereafter, the paper pieces are delivered from the cutting device to the rolling section.
  • each paper piece is wound around them, whereupon a double-size filter cigarette is obtained.
  • the double-size filter cigarette is transported on another drum train which extends from the rolling section.
  • the double-size cigarette is cut into two equal parts or regular filter cigarettes. Thereafter, these filter cigarettes are fed from the filter attachment 2 to a wrapping machine (not shown).
  • Fig. 2 shows the change-direction device 8 as viewed from the side of the filter attachment 2.
  • the changing device 8 comprises a frame 10, which is arranged on a same straight line with respect to the lengthwise direction of the attachment 2.
  • the frame 10 has a front 12 which faces the paper web source side, and a bracket 14 is mounted on a middle- level portion of the front 12.
  • brackets 16 and 28 are mounted on a top surface 24 of the frame 10.
  • the one bracket 16 projects from the front 12, while the other bracket 28, which is kept apart from the bracket 16, projects upward from the top surface 24.
  • the brackets 16 and 28 support guide rollers 20 and 26 for rotation.
  • the roller 26 is situated on a higher level than the roller 20.
  • the guide rollers 18, 20 and 26 are arranged horizontally, and their axes extend substantially at right angles to the path of travel or traveling direction of the paper web P paid out from the web roll 4.
  • a rectangular movable table 30 is mounted on the top surface of the frame 10 so as to be situated between the guide rollers 20 and 26.
  • the table 30 is held between a pair of guide rails 33, and is movable in the direction of the arrow of Fig. 2 or 3 between the guide rollers 20 and 26.
  • a mounting plate 31 is mounted on the movable table 30 so as to extend along a diagonal thereof.
  • a pair of brackets 32 and 34 are set up individually on the opposite ends of the mounting plate 31. As seen from Fig. 3, a segment which connects the brackets 32 and 34 diagonally crosses the path which connects the guide rollers 20 and 26.
  • a shaft 36 is horizontally stretched between the brackets 32 and 34.
  • the opposite ends of the shaft 36 are supported in a nonrotatable manner by means of the brackets 32 and 34, individually.
  • the shaft 36 is situated on a higher level than the guide roller 26.
  • the axis of the shaft 36 is inclined at a predetermined angle to the axes of the guide rollers 20 and 26.
  • the shaft 36 is inclined at 45° to the rollers 20 and 26.
  • the paper web P paid out from the web roll 4 reaches the change-direction device 8
  • it is guided from a guide roller 22 on the web roll side to the guide rollers 18 and 20 on the frame 10, extends along the front 12 of the frame 10 in parallel relation, and reaches the side of the top surface 24 of the frame 10, as shown in Fig. 2.
  • the paper web P extends parallel to the top surface 24 of the frame 10, between the guide rollers 20 and 28, and is passed around the roller 26 from below and turned back toward the shaft 36.
  • the change-direction device 8 is located between the web roll 4 and the filter attachment 2, therefore, the web roll 4 or the source of the paper web can be situated on a straight line which extends at right angles to the lengthwise direction of the attachment 2, as seen from Fig. 1.
  • the layout of the web source can enjoy a higher degree of free-dom.
  • the paper web source and the filer attachment 2 are arranged with the layout shown in Fig. 1, the distance between the web source and an operator usually attending to the attachment 2 on the front side thereof can be shortened. Accordingly, the operator can quickly access the web source to cope with a trouble on the web source side, if any, without delay.
  • the center line of the paper web can be accurately aligned with a regular supply line on the filter attachment side by moving the movable table 30.
  • the shaft 36 Since the shaft 36 is nonrotatable, the position where the paper web P is passed around the shaft 36 cannot be dislocated with respect to the axial direction of the shaft 36 as the web P travels past the shaft 36, so that the traveling direction of the web P can be changed with reliability.
  • the paper web P is in sliding contact with the shaft 36, so that the traveling resistance of the web P increases.
  • the reservoir 6 is located on the downstream side of the change-direction device 8, so that the paper web P can be fed to the cutting device of the filter attachment 2 by means of a feed roller or pulling roller of the reservoir 6 itself.
  • the cutting device side there is no possibility of the paper web lacking in tensile force.
  • the direction changing shaft 36 is inclined at 45° to the traveling direction of the paper web P from the web source side so that the traveling direction of the web P is shifted by 90° .
  • the angle of intersection between the shaft 36 and the paper web P need not always be 45° .
  • the intersection angle of the shaft 36 can be suitably selected in accordance with the layout of the web source and the filter attachment 2.
  • the paper web P is guided to the shaft 36 after its traveling direction is reversed by the guide roller 26.
  • the traveling direction of the paper web P may be changed in like manner by reversing the direction of intersection of the shaft 36 so that the web P is guided directly from the guide roller 20 to the shaft 36.
  • a coating layer 36a e.g., nitride layer
  • a low coefficient of friction and high wear resistance is formed on the outer peripheral surface of the shaft 36, as shown in Fig. 5, the traveling resistance of the paper web P can be lowered.
  • the change-direction device is applied to the manufacturing system for filter cigarettes including the filter attachment.
  • a change-direction device may be applied to a cigarette manufacturing system for cigarettes or double-size cigarettes.
  • the cigarette manufacturing system comprises a cigarette manufacturing machine 40, a web source or a web roll 42, a reservoir 44 and the change-direction device 46 arranged between the web roll 42 and the reservoir 44.
  • a paper web is paid out from the web roll 42 and supplied to the machine 40 by means of the change-direction device 46 and the reservoir 44.
  • the paper web is passed around a shaft of the change-direction device 46, its traveling direction is shifted toward the machine 40.
  • the cigarette manufacturing machine 40 is further supplied with cut cigarettes and manufactures the double-size cigarettes.

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FR2311507A1 (fr) * 1975-05-20 1976-12-17 Molins Ltd Procede pour fabriquer des cigarettes a filtre
EP0118984A1 (fr) * 1983-01-31 1984-09-19 Gallaher Limited Enveloppe pour tige à fumer
DE3334879C1 (de) * 1983-09-27 1984-12-20 Erhardt & Leimer GmbH, 8900 Augsburg Vorrichtung zum Wenden und Führen einer laufenden Warenbahn.
DE8423013U1 (de) * 1984-08-02 1986-03-13 Süka Süddeutsche Spezialdruckerei Hermann Jung GmbH, 7512 Rheinstetten Zuführvorrichtung für Endlos-Papierbahnen zu einem Schnelldrucker
GB2202127A (en) * 1987-03-03 1988-09-21 Koerber Ag Making filter cigarettes from pairs of plain cigarettes of double unit length
US4863087A (en) * 1988-08-05 1989-09-05 The Kohler Coating Machinery Corporation Guide apparatus for elongated flexible web
EP0342491A2 (fr) * 1988-05-18 1989-11-23 M.A.N.-ROLAND Druckmaschinen Aktiengesellschaft Dispositif de retournement pour retourner et/ou déplacer une bande imprimée
EP0401886A1 (fr) * 1989-05-29 1990-12-12 Stork Screens B.V. Rouleau de support ou de guidage
WO1992015513A1 (fr) * 1991-03-11 1992-09-17 Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme Aktiengesellschaft Dispositif de deviation d'une bande d'impression entre deux imprimantes rapides
US5156169A (en) * 1990-11-06 1992-10-20 R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company Apparatus for making cigarettes

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FR2311507A1 (fr) * 1975-05-20 1976-12-17 Molins Ltd Procede pour fabriquer des cigarettes a filtre
EP0118984A1 (fr) * 1983-01-31 1984-09-19 Gallaher Limited Enveloppe pour tige à fumer
DE3334879C1 (de) * 1983-09-27 1984-12-20 Erhardt & Leimer GmbH, 8900 Augsburg Vorrichtung zum Wenden und Führen einer laufenden Warenbahn.
DE8423013U1 (de) * 1984-08-02 1986-03-13 Süka Süddeutsche Spezialdruckerei Hermann Jung GmbH, 7512 Rheinstetten Zuführvorrichtung für Endlos-Papierbahnen zu einem Schnelldrucker
GB2202127A (en) * 1987-03-03 1988-09-21 Koerber Ag Making filter cigarettes from pairs of plain cigarettes of double unit length
EP0342491A2 (fr) * 1988-05-18 1989-11-23 M.A.N.-ROLAND Druckmaschinen Aktiengesellschaft Dispositif de retournement pour retourner et/ou déplacer une bande imprimée
US4863087A (en) * 1988-08-05 1989-09-05 The Kohler Coating Machinery Corporation Guide apparatus for elongated flexible web
EP0401886A1 (fr) * 1989-05-29 1990-12-12 Stork Screens B.V. Rouleau de support ou de guidage
US5156169A (en) * 1990-11-06 1992-10-20 R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company Apparatus for making cigarettes
WO1992015513A1 (fr) * 1991-03-11 1992-09-17 Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme Aktiengesellschaft Dispositif de deviation d'une bande d'impression entre deux imprimantes rapides

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CN110921395A (zh) * 2019-12-05 2020-03-27 湖州亭鸣服饰有限公司 一种便于使用服装加工用面料翻转装置
CN110921395B (zh) * 2019-12-05 2021-03-12 吴江桑尚丝绸有限公司 一种便于使用服装加工用面料翻转装置

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