EP0645098A1 - Dispositif pour enlever le tabac excédentaire d'un boudin de tabac - Google Patents

Dispositif pour enlever le tabac excédentaire d'un boudin de tabac Download PDF

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EP0645098A1
EP0645098A1 EP94114573A EP94114573A EP0645098A1 EP 0645098 A1 EP0645098 A1 EP 0645098A1 EP 94114573 A EP94114573 A EP 94114573A EP 94114573 A EP94114573 A EP 94114573A EP 0645098 A1 EP0645098 A1 EP 0645098A1
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Uwe Heitmann
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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
    • A24C5/1842—Trimming devices
    • 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 invention relates to a device in a cigarette rod machine for removing excess tobacco from a tobacco rod moved in a tobacco duct on a suction line conveyor according to the preamble of claim 1.
  • smokable articles especially cigarettes, tobacco fibers, tobacco substitutes or mixtures of both, which are usually fed loose in a tobacco shower, are first turned into a longitudinally axially moving endless tobacco rod on a rotating suction line conveyor, for example in the form of an air-permeable fabric belt educated. After the excess has been removed, this tobacco rod is placed on a wrapping material strip and wrapped in it. The cigarette rod thus formed is cut into single or multiple cigarettes, which are then processed further. In this way, rod-shaped smoking articles such as cigarettes, cigarillos, cigars and the like can be produced from tobacco or tobacco substitutes.
  • the tobacco rod is compressed to form a so-called head reinforcement in the sections which later form the open head ends after the cigarettes have been cut and finished.
  • the invention has for its object to further improve a removal device of the type specified.
  • this object is achieved according to the invention in such a device.
  • a gentle tobacco removal from the fiber strand is ensured because the excess tobacco is cut off from the fiber strand and is not subjected to any additional mechanical stress from paddles or similar impact agents when removed from the removal area.
  • Claim 2 contains features of the arrangement of the circular knife, which enable gentle further promotion of the tobacco after cutting. With the features of claims 3 to 7, the prerequisite is created for the tobacco particles removed from the strand to be transported away in preferred directions without being exposed to destructive mechanical loads.
  • Features of a further improvement of the removal device proposed according to the invention, which also enable the production of compressed sections in the tobacco rod, are contained in claims 8 and 9. Since the holding disks cannot have pockets for the formation of head reinforcements in the tobacco rod due to the circular knife, the compression of the rod required for the head reinforcements of the cigarettes is produced by means of the rotating eccentric.
  • Claim 9 specifies a particularly advantageous arrangement of the eccentrics for the tobacco rod compression. This is selected according to the invention so that the compressed sections in the tobacco rod cannot expand again until the excess is removed.
  • the features of claim 10 are provided to ensure that the tobacco rod is compressed as uniformly as possible.
  • Claims 11 and 12 relate to preferred designs of the deflector element.
  • the invention offers the advantage that the excess can be removed very gently from a tobacco rod in a cigarette rod making machine, so that the removed excess tobacco can be returned to the rod structure without additional loss of quality. At the same time, the excess tobacco removed is directed in a certain direction and can be used without loss.
  • the compression of the tobacco rod required for the head reinforcement of the cigarettes are generated very evenly and are designed so that they do not require any additional deformation work when wrapping the tobacco rod with a cigarette paper. Because of the compact design of the take-off device according to the invention, the compression generated in the strand is optimally retained until the excess is taken off. Overall, the removal device according to the invention ensures the production of a tobacco rod of high quality and uniformity with little technical effort.
  • FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of a device according to the invention in a schematic side view.
  • 1 designates a suction line conveyor of a cigarette rod machine, which is otherwise not shown.
  • An air-permeable tobacco belt 2 is provided as the suction line conveyor, e.g. a perforated band or an air-permeable fabric band which runs around a front and a rear deflection roller 3a or 3b and around guide rollers 4.
  • the lower run 2a of the tobacco band 2 is guided in a tobacco channel 6 over spaced support rollers 7 and in this way forms an air-permeable channel floor.
  • the tobacco channel 6 runs in a straight line in a guide body 8 with parallel side cheeks 8a and 8b (cf. FIG. 3).
  • the tobacco band 2 guided in the tobacco channel 6 is assigned a vacuum chamber 9 on the back, which is connected to a vacuum source 11 and causes a suction draft through the air-permeable tobacco band 2.
  • the tobacco band 2 runs in the direction of an arrow 12.
  • an excess removal device 17 Arranged downstream of the line build-up zone Z is an excess removal device 17 which takes off excess tobacco from the tobacco rod 16.
  • the discharge end 18 of the tobacco band 2 or the tobacco channel 6 lies above the paper inlet of a format device 19, in which the tobacco rod is encased with a wrapping material strip, for example a cigarette paper strip 21, which is fed in the direction of the arrow 21a.
  • a circulating format belt 22 promotes the cigarette paper strip 21 and the tobacco rod 16 placed thereon under an entry finger 23 into the format 19 in which the cigarette paper strip 21 is closed longitudinally around the tobacco rod.
  • the removal device 17 is described in more detail with simultaneous reference to FIGS. 1 to 3. It has retaining disks 26a and 26b which run around parallel axes 24a and 24b. The direction of movement of the strand is indicated by arrow 27 and the direction of rotation of the holding disks by arrows 28a and 28b.
  • the holding disks 26a and 26b run in a common plane, the distance of which from the suction line conveyor 2 is just the same as the desired line height of the finished line.
  • the holding disks touch on their circumference just in the middle of the tobacco rod 16 and separate the excess tobacco from the tobacco rod.
  • a circular knife 32 rotating in the direction of arrow 29 about a knife axis 31 is provided to remove the excess tobacco in the contact zone of the rotating holding disks.
  • the circumferential plane of the circular knife 32 is approximately parallel to the plane of the holding disks 26a and 26b and touches them in the contact zone 33 of the holding disks or runs closely above them, so that the tobacco held between the holding disks is sheared off.
  • a small clearance angle can be provided between the plane of the revolving circular knife 32 and the surface plane of the holding disks 26 by inclining the knife axis 31 to the axes 24 of the holding disks in order to keep the wear on the knife as low as possible.
  • a deflector element 34 is assigned to the circular knife 32, which is designed as a rotating body 36 concentrically rotating around the knife axis with an axially extending peripheral surface 37 acting as a deflector surface.
  • This deflector surface 37 of the rotating body can run in the shape of a truncated cone, as shown in FIGS. 1 and 2. It can also have a concave groove, which is not shown.
  • This deflector element 34 which rotates in synchronism with the circular knife 32, has the effect that the excess tobacco 38 separated from the strand is deflected in a certain preferred direction without mechanical impact stresses as in the known paddle wheels being required. The cut and distracted excess tobacco 38 therefore essentially maintains its consistency and only marginally loses quality due to the cutting itself.
  • the circular knife 32 can be attached to the end of the deflector element 34, as shown in FIG. 1. This circular knife can then be replaced separately. As shown in FIG. 3, a cutting edge 39 can also serve as the circular knife 32, which is formed on the circumference of the end face of the deflector body 36. This cutting edge 39 and also the separate circular knife 32 can consist of a hard, wear-resistant material. Long service lives of the take-off device are thus achieved.
  • the tobacco rod 16 formed in the stand construction zone Z has an irregular surface with elevations and depressions.
  • a removal means 41 in the form of a paddle wheel 43 rotating in the direction of arrow 42 is provided.
  • the axis of the paddle wheel 43 is set at an angle to the strand direction, so that the rotating paddle wheel removes the elevations from the strand surface to the side, as indicated in FIG. 1.
  • the paddle wheel is adjusted to the surface of the strand so that the tobacco rod which is evened out with it still contains a considerable excess amount of tobacco.
  • a compression means 44 in the form of a cam wheel 47 rotating in the direction of arrow 46 with compression cams 48 evenly distributed over its circumference.
  • the compression cams 48 compress successive strand sections perpendicular to the plane of the strand conveyor and compress the tobacco contained in these sections 49 in a defined manner.
  • the tobacco rod 16 which is exfoliated in the strand building zone Z, is first equalized with the paddle wheel 43 by reducing the elevations present on the surface of the rod, in order to create defined strand relationships.
  • the fiber strand thus defined is compressed with the cams 48 of the cam wheel 47 at regular intervals, so that strand sections 49 of higher tobacco density are produced.
  • the cam wheel 47 is laid so far in the inlet gusset 51 of the rotating holding disks 26 that the compressed sections 49 of the strand can no longer expand significantly until the excess is removed.
  • the indication of a compacted strand section 49a indicates the position in which the currently active cam 48a (see FIG. 1) is at the moment of the action on the tobacco rod.
  • This tobacco rod 16 provided with compressed sections 49, which still contains a considerable amount of excess tobacco, runs under the holding disks 26a and 26b, the excess being pinched between the holding disks and cut off by the rotating circular knife 32.
  • the cut tobacco fibers are deflected by the deflector surface 37 of the deflector body 36 in a certain predetermined direction, which is denoted by 38 in FIGS. 2 and 3, so that they can reach a collecting conveyor, which they can enter Promotes the production process.
  • the tobacco rod 16 freed from excess tobacco is placed on the cigarette paper strip 21 and moved with the format belt 22 into the format device 19, where the cigarette paper strip 21 is placed around the tobacco rod and closed in a known manner.
  • Single or multiple cigarettes with head reinforcements at their ends are separated from the resulting wrapped cigarette rod by cuts through the compressed rod segments 49.

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DE4333046A DE4333046A1 (de) 1993-09-29 1993-09-29 Vorrichtung zum Abnehmen von überschüssigem Tabak von einem Tabakstrang

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EP0846424A1 (fr) 1996-12-03 1998-06-10 Fabriques De Tabac Reunies S.A. Dispositif de pré-égalisation d'un courant de tabac
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JPH07155158A (ja) 1995-06-20
US5526826A (en) 1996-06-18
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JP3615793B2 (ja) 2005-02-02
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