EP0629354B1 - Procédé et dispositif de fabrication de produits de l'industrie du tabac à densité de tabac variable - Google Patents

Procédé et dispositif de fabrication de produits de l'industrie du tabac à densité de tabac variable Download PDF

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EP0629354B1
EP0629354B1 EP93810432A EP93810432A EP0629354B1 EP 0629354 B1 EP0629354 B1 EP 0629354B1 EP 93810432 A EP93810432 A EP 93810432A EP 93810432 A EP93810432 A EP 93810432A EP 0629354 B1 EP0629354 B1 EP 0629354B1
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Jacques Babey
Brian Salmon
Eric De Borst
Bernard Tallier
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Philip Morris Products SA
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Priority to ES93810432T priority patent/ES2109463T3/es
Priority to AT93810432T priority patent/ATE158476T1/de
Priority to SG1996004274A priority patent/SG46399A1/en
Priority to SK437-94A priority patent/SK281668B6/sk
Priority to AU60649/94A priority patent/AU673417B2/en
Priority to HU9401320A priority patent/HU214185B/hu
Priority to CZ941168A priority patent/CZ283949B6/cs
Priority to CA002125111A priority patent/CA2125111C/fr
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Priority to US08/259,718 priority patent/US5501233A/en
Priority to JP15638994A priority patent/JP3484229B2/ja
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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
    • A24C5/18—Forming the rod
    • A24C5/1814—Forming the rod containing parts of different densities, e.g. dense ends

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  • the present invention relates to a method and a device for obtaining a product from the tobacco industry, in particular a cigarette where the density of tobacco is variable over the length of said product, respectively of the cigarette.
  • a cigarette of this type obtained by a usual manufacturing process, will have a low filling density value, ie poor retention of the tobacco in the cigarette. If, in order to increase this filling density to a favorable value, the tobacco is further tightened, respectively its stuffing is increased, a cigarette is obtained having modified characteristics, such as, for example, resistance to draft or yield.
  • EP-A-0.354.874 describes a device for clipping a tobacco rod during manufacture, this device being preceded by a device making it possible to compress a portion of the length of the rod in order to increase the density of tobacco, these higher density portions corresponding to the ends of cigarettes, thus preventing them from losing strands of tobacco by their ends.
  • a first object of the present invention is to propose a method and a device making it possible to obtain an improved filling of a product of the tobacco industry or more particularly of a cigarette made up in whole or in part of other raw materials.
  • tobacco industry than long tobacco strands, either from expanded tobacco strands and / or ribs or short strands, which has a favorable compactness when measured by a compressibility meter and which is pleasant to smoke, not requiring excessive suction effort.
  • Another object of the invention is to provide a product from the tobacco industry or more particularly a better quality cigarette, made wholly or partly from strands and / or ribs of expanded tobacco or short strands, which exhibits improved filling and favorable compactness when measured by a compressibility measuring device and which is pleasant to smoke and does not require excessive suction force.
  • FIG. 1 there is a schematic perspective representation of a downstream portion of a conventional cigarette making machine 1 of known type. It comprises in particular a tank 10 containing tobacco or other raw materials as described above 2, as well as a porous belt 11 driven in a longitudinal movement by two pulleys 12 and 13. A depression is created on the upper part of the lower strand of the porous belt 11 in order to suck the tobacco strands 2 out of the tank 10 and to form a tobacco rod 20, below the belt 11 and circulating with it.
  • the machine 1 then comprises a device 14 for regulating the tobacco rod 20, consisting of two clipping discs 15, preferably of the type described in application EP-A-0,354,874, preceded by a cam compression device 16, in synchronous rotation with the advancement of the flange 20 and periodically compressing the flange, possibly being supplemented with a control device 17 of the tube, as described in application EP-A-0,465,414.
  • a device 14 for regulating the tobacco rod 20 consisting of two clipping discs 15, preferably of the type described in application EP-A-0,354,874, preceded by a cam compression device 16, in synchronous rotation with the advancement of the flange 20 and periodically compressing the flange, possibly being supplemented with a control device 17 of the tube, as described in application EP-A-0,465,414.
  • the flange 20 continues its path to then be separated from the porous belt 11, then be wrapped in a paper cover and cut into individual cigarettes in a known manner.
  • the cam 3 in FIG. 2 replaces the cam 16 in FIG. 1, in order to allow the production of a rod of tobacco of variable density.
  • the cam 3 is composed of a cylindrical core 30 rotating around an axis as indicated, and supporting a number of blades extending radially from the cylindrical core 20 and comprising bearing surfaces arranged so as to exert compression on the tobacco rod 20 which circulates along an axis perpendicular to the axis of rotation of the cam 3.
  • the cam 3 is designed to perform a turn for a length of tobacco rod equivalent to the length of two cigarettes, that is to say that the outer perimeter of the cam is two lengths of the tobacco part of a cigarette.
  • These bearing surfaces 31A are intended, given their relatively large bearing length, to compress the tobacco from the ends of each cigarette, ie the zones 21 of the rod 20 of FIG. 3A which thus see their density increase.
  • the cam 3 is completed with a plurality of other blades, 32, 33, 34 and 35, four in this case, ie two for each length of cigarette, these blades each having a bearing surface 32A, 33A, 34A and 35A whose support length is clearly shown in the case here lower than the bearing surfaces 31A.
  • the bearing surfaces 32A, 33A, 34A and 35A of this embodiment of the cam are arranged on the same cylindrical peripheral envelope as the bearing surfaces 31A, causing them to press equally on the flange 20 creating compressed areas of equal increased density.
  • FIG. 3A A longitudinal section of a flange 20 obtained using a cam 3 as described above is shown in FIG. 3A; a distinction is made between the zones with increased density 21 having a length equivalent to the length of the support surfaces 31A as well as the zones with increased density 22 which correspond to the passage of the support surfaces 32A and 33A or 34A and 35A, each of these zones being separated by a low density zone 23 corresponding to the passage of the tube between the bearing surfaces.
  • the sausage will receive its paper envelope then will be cut at the places marked by 24 in order to form the tobacco part of a cigarette.
  • the zones 23 with low density of tobacco all have the same length; this comes from the position of the blades around the core 30, it would also be possible to arrange the blades at different relative angles, so as to lengthen, respectively shorten, some of these areas.
  • FIG. 3B represents a curve showing the variation in density D of the tobacco along the rod of FIG. 3A, we see that zones 23 are at low density, value D0, and that zones 21 are at higher density, value D1 .
  • the cam 3 in FIG. 4 is similar to the previous one, except that the blades 32, 33, 34 and 35 are each shaped by way of example in a different way, therefore having a different effect on the flange tobacco.
  • the bearing surface 32A of the blade 32 is located on a cylindrical peripheral envelope with a diameter slightly smaller than that of the cylindrical peripheral envelope of the bearing surfaces 31A; if the cam 3 had all its blades 32, 33, 34 and 35 designed in this way, the compression, respectively the density, of the zones 22 of the flange 20 would have a density higher than D0 but lower than D1, ie a value D2 as shown in Figure 5A.
  • the payroll 35 in FIG. 4 shows a combination of the preceding variations, either having a support surface 35A situated at a lower level than that of the support surfaces 31A, a greater support length and a support width lower.
  • the central portion of the strand would then have a density distribution as shown in FIG. 5C. It is obvious that we will not encounter a cam as shown in FIG. 4 comprising such a variety of compression means, but which appears here only by way of example possible means of compression or increase in density.
  • the cam can be dimensioned to make one revolution for a length of cigarette or more than two turns per length of cigarette, the diameter of the cylindrical envelope of the bearing surfaces, the number of blades and surfaces d 'support as well as the speed of rotation of the cam being chosen accordingly, so that the peripheral speed of the bearing surfaces of the blades corresponds to the speed of longitudinal displacement of the rod.
  • intermediate zone with increased density 22 there is more than one intermediate zone with increased density 22 over the length of a cigarette, it is also possible that the type of compression is different between these zones, for example if there are three intermediate zones 22 over a length cigarette, without counting the end zones 21, there may be two lateral zones of high density and of short length, caused by bearing surfaces similar to the surfaces 32A of FIG. 2 surrounding a central zone 22 of slightly higher density weak, of greater length but not extending over the entire width of the rod, caused by a bearing surface similar to the surface 35A of FIG. 3.
  • a product of the tobacco industry or a cigarette composed in whole or in part of other raw materials of the tobacco industry that long strands of tobacco, either from short strands, strands or expanded ribs , present, if manufactured as described above, one or more intermediate zones with higher density, so that its filling and its measured compactness are better than those of a cigarette not having these intermediate zones with higher density.
  • Such a product has an equivalent support and is as pleasant to smoke as a usual product.

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EP93810432A EP0629354B1 (fr) 1993-06-16 1993-06-16 Procédé et dispositif de fabrication de produits de l'industrie du tabac à densité de tabac variable
DE69314165T DE69314165T2 (de) 1993-06-16 1993-06-16 Verfahren und Vorrichtung zur Herstellung von Produkten mit variabler Tabakdichte in der Tabakindustrie
DK93810432.0T DK0629354T3 (da) 1993-06-16 1993-06-16 Fremgangsmåde og indretning til fremstilling af produkter med variabel tobaktæthed i tobaksindustrien
ES93810432T ES2109463T3 (es) 1993-06-16 1993-06-16 Procedimiento y dispositivo de fabricacion de productos de la industria del tabaco con una densidad de tabaco variable.
AT93810432T ATE158476T1 (de) 1993-06-16 1993-06-16 Verfahren und vorrichtung zur herstellung von produkten mit variabler tabakdichte in der tabakindustrie
SG1996004274A SG46399A1 (en) 1993-06-16 1993-06-16 Process and device for manufacturing products of the tobacco industry having variable tobacco density
SK437-94A SK281668B6 (sk) 1993-06-16 1994-04-15 Tabakový výrobok, spôsob jeho výroby a zariadenie na jeho vykonávanie
AU60649/94A AU673417B2 (en) 1993-06-16 1994-04-22 Process and device for manufacturing products of the tobacco industry having variable tobacco density
HU9401320A HU214185B (hu) 1993-06-16 1994-05-05 Eljárás és berendezés dohányipari termékek előállítására, valamint az így előállított dohányipari termék
CZ941168A CZ283949B6 (cs) 1993-06-16 1994-05-12 Způsob a zařízení k produkci tabákových výrobků s nestejnoměrnou hustotou tabáku
CA002125111A CA2125111C (fr) 1993-06-16 1994-06-03 Procede et dispositif de fabrication de produits de l'industrie du tabac a densite de tabac variable
PL94303833A PL178897B1 (pl) 1993-06-16 1994-06-14 Wyrób tytoniowy o zmiennej gęstości tytoniu oraz sposób i urządzenie do wytwarzania wyrobów tytoniowych o zmiennej gęstości tytoniu
US08/259,718 US5501233A (en) 1993-06-16 1994-06-14 Apparatus for varying tobacco rod density
JP15638994A JP3484229B2 (ja) 1993-06-16 1994-06-16 多様なタバコ密度を有するたばこ生産業の製品の製法及びその製造装置
US08/575,108 US5586565A (en) 1993-06-16 1995-12-19 Method for varying tobacco rod density and tobacco rods with varying density produced thereby

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SG1996004274A SG46399A1 (en) 1993-06-16 1993-06-16 Process and device for manufacturing products of the tobacco industry having variable tobacco density

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AU6064994A (en) 1994-12-22
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PL178897B1 (pl) 2000-06-30
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