EP0727154B1 - Appareil et procédé pour enlever des corps étrangers à longues fibres du tabac - Google Patents

Appareil et procédé pour enlever des corps étrangers à longues fibres du tabac Download PDF

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EP0727154B1
EP0727154B1 EP96102288A EP96102288A EP0727154B1 EP 0727154 B1 EP0727154 B1 EP 0727154B1 EP 96102288 A EP96102288 A EP 96102288A EP 96102288 A EP96102288 A EP 96102288A EP 0727154 B1 EP0727154 B1 EP 0727154B1
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Wilfried Köhl
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    • AHUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A24TOBACCO; CIGARS; CIGARETTES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES; SMOKERS' REQUISITES
    • A24BMANUFACTURE OR PREPARATION OF TOBACCO FOR SMOKING OR CHEWING; TOBACCO; SNUFF
    • A24B1/00Preparation of tobacco on the plantation
    • A24B1/04Sifting, sorting, cleaning or removing impurities from tobacco
    • AHUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A24TOBACCO; CIGARS; CIGARETTES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES; SMOKERS' REQUISITES
    • A24BMANUFACTURE OR PREPARATION OF TOBACCO FOR SMOKING OR CHEWING; TOBACCO; SNUFF
    • A24B3/00Preparing tobacco in the factory
    • A24B3/18Other treatment of leaves, e.g. puffing, crimpling, cleaning

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  • the invention relates to an apparatus and a method for Removing long-fiber foreign substances from tobacco before it Processing into cigarettes.
  • the tobacco to be processed in a cigarette machine can despite the necessary care in harvesting and shipping contain foreign bodies and foreign substances by the producer, that must not get into the cigarette machine, damage to the machine and negative effects exclude the quality of the cigarettes. Grainy foreign bodies like metal parts, characterized by their shape and weight clearly distinguishable from tobacco can be separated by suitable Eliminate detectors relatively easily. On the other hand prepare fibrous components that have a similar consistency such as tobacco have significant problems. The especially applies to fibers that result from shipping occasionally loosen the jute sacks used and get into the tobacco. Such fibers differ from the tobacco particles practically only by their larger Length.
  • a cleaning device is known from EP 046 63 49, with the pollutants and other substances removed from the tobacco become.
  • This cleaning device has comb rollers on which the substance to be cleaned is given up.
  • the comb rollers are provided with a layer with the small tick radially protrude outwards.
  • This layer consists of the material known under the trade name "Velcro". To the protruding ticks of this layer get caught Pollutants that are present in tobacco, so that these foreign bodies circulate with the comb rollers.
  • the comb rollers must therefore cleaned of foreign bodies at regular intervals become.
  • the disadvantage of the device shown is the low Cleaning effect of the "Velcro" layer since the above Check marks are elastic, so that heavier foreign bodies are badly taken away from this layer. Further the cleaning layer has to be laboriously cleaned or replaced if it is clogged with foreign bodies.
  • the invention has for its object a device create, with the help of long-fiber foreign matter from the Tobacco intended for processing in a cigarette machine can be removed.
  • the degree of cleaning should be improved over known devices and a created an easy way to clean the detergent become.
  • the device according to the invention has several in parallel juxtaposed rollers on their Outer periphery with a variety of radially outward facing Needles are provided and run in the same direction of rotation. Move the top peripheral surfaces of the rollers thereby moving and moving in essentially the same direction onto the rearmost roller in this direction of movement added tobacco one by one to the foremost roller. Small tobacco particles that fall between the rollers are caught underneath and added to the rest of the tobacco.
  • All needles advantageously have the same length of 5 to 30 mm, preferably 10 mm, and a mutual Distance from 1.5 to 15 mm, preferably 3 mm.
  • the between the tips of the needles of two adjacent rollers existing gap is 0.0 to 80 mm, preferably 50 mm wide, with an outside diameter of the rolls of 150 to 300 mm, preferably 200 mm.
  • rollers can be arranged in an open housing be and lie next to each other at the same height. But it is also possible to arrange them inclined to the horizontal, so that there is a slight slope in the direction of the transported tobacco.
  • rollers There are preferably two sets of rollers, alternately be loaded with the tobacco to be cleaned.
  • the rollers provided with a scratch tape on its circumference are provided with a scratch tape on its circumference.
  • a scratch tape is an elastic band from which is arranged obliquely Protruding steel needles. This scratch tape is easy to make, by putting a variety of staples through a tape with a textile layer and an elastic Plastic layer can be carried out. With the scratch tape the rollers with the needles protruding outwards easy and cheap to manufacture by putting the scraper tape on cylindrical rollers is wound.
  • a cleaning device is provided, which between foreign substances attached to the needles are removed. This eliminates the tedious manual cleaning of the rollers so that none Rollers must be provided for replacement when the Rollers with foreign bodies are clogged. Such a cleaning device shortens the cleaning process, the Rolls are cleaned very thoroughly.
  • the cleaning device preferably has at least one Cleaning roller, which is provided with knife disks.
  • a simple and thorough cleaning can be achieved when the needles are arranged in rows and the knife disks engage between two rows of needles. In order to wear is also kept low, since the individual The needles are not damaged and the knife discs on the Comb soft roller surface.
  • roller of the cleaning device in Is driven circumferentially, there is no separate Axial drive.
  • the feed is rather from the rotating, spirally arranged needles that with friction against the side surfaces of the knife discs Device fit and the cleaning roller axially move forward.
  • the device consists of a rectangular frame 1 with a support 2 arranged in the middle thereof, one Floor 3 bears.
  • the bottom 3 is about the axis of the support 2 rotatable and also in the manner shown in Fig. 1 inclined towards the horizontal.
  • On the floor 3 are next to each other two rectangular housing 4 arranged, consisting from a bottom and four side walls, while the top is open.
  • each housing 4 are adjacent and axially parallel seven rollers 5 stored, each by a common Drive 6 are driven in the same direction of rotation.
  • the Direction of rotation is such that the tops of the side by side Roll against the direction of the slope turn, i.e. the rollers 5 indicated in FIG. 1 rotate clockwise.
  • the rollers 5 have a diameter of about 200 mm and are equipped with a large number of short needles 7 on its outer circumference, which protrude radially outwards.
  • the needles are all the same length with a length of approx. 10 mm and are tight side by side.
  • the individual rollers are spaced from each other that between the peaks opposite each other There is a distance of about 50 mm between the needles.
  • a feed opens on the right for the tobacco to be processed in the form of a slide 8, while a removal conveyor is provided on the right, which in the illustrated embodiment formed as a conveyor belt 9 is.
  • a removal conveyor is provided on the right, which in the illustrated embodiment formed as a conveyor belt 9 is.
  • the housing 4 can also be placed on a suitable one Guide can be arranged horizontally.
  • the tobacco is continuously on the chute 8 on the rollers 5 abandoned, which rotate at high speed.
  • the short-fibered Tobacco particles are thereby from the top of the rollers with the needles taken along and arrive this way from one roller to the adjacent.
  • Smaller tobacco particles, that are more grain-shaped occur occasionally through the narrow gap between the rollers and fall due to their own weight and the centrifugal force of the rollers on the bottom of the housing 4. These particles are on Exit end of the housing 4 again with the fibrous tobacco particles united.
  • the drive 6 is stopped briefly and the waiting housing 4 by turning the Bottom 3 or moving the housing under the slide 9. Operation can then be resumed immediately.
  • the Foreign substances are removed by suitable means.
  • FIG. 4 is another exemplary embodiment of the invention shown, in which a cleaning device 10 is provided is.
  • the cleaning device 10 is located above a Roller 5 and has two cleaning rollers 11 through a belt 13 and a drive unit 12 are driven.
  • the cleaning device 10 is on a guide rail 14 movably supported by two guides 15 so that them along the guide rail 14 in the axial direction can be moved.
  • the scratch tape consists of a textile layer, the facing the roller 5 and an elastic plastic layer, which is attached to the textile layer.
  • Both layers are made up of a variety of staples Steel carried out above the elastic Plastic layer are slightly inclined.
  • the tops of the Staples form the needles 7.
  • the staples are included arranged in rows so that individual grooves 17 between neighboring needles 7 arise, which are a distance of about Have 1.5 mm.
  • the surface is at the end of the needle tips perpendicular to the radial direction when the scraper belt is on the Roller 5 is applied. By the inclination of the individual Needles 7 result on the surface of the end of the needles 7 different angles on the edge to this surface.
  • the cleaning rollers 11 have the same direction of rotation as that Roller 5 so that the cleaning rollers 11th arranged knife disks 18 and the roller 5 on the contact surface move in the opposite direction. Due to the spiral arrangement of the scratching tape and that through the individual needles 7 formed grooves 17, the entire cleaning device 10 moved in the axial direction. A drive for the feed not necessary.
  • the hardened knife disc 18 several knife teeth 19, the circumferential angle 15 ° on the cutter disc 18.
  • Each knife tooth 19 has on its front a cutting surface 20.
  • the knife disc 18 is guided in the groove 17 formed by needles 7, the knife teeth 19 the foreign matter from the groove 17 remove.
  • the foreign bodies are caused by the rotary motion the cutter disc 18 in the direction of rotation of the cutter disc 18 taken and sucked through a suction pipe 21.
  • the suction pipe 21 has an attachment on the cleaning device is firmly mounted and therefore follows every movement.
  • the Diameter is about 80 mm.
  • the knife disks 18 on the cleaning rollers 11 are against each other staggered so that the knife teeth 19 of the a knife disk 18 are then in contact with the roller 5, if in the adjacent knife disc 18 just by a There is a gap between the teeth and the roller 5. This ensures an uninterrupted support of the cleaning rollers 11 the roller 5.
  • the cleaning device 10 As soon as the cleaning device 10 reaches the edge region of a Has reached roller 5, the cleaning device from the Lifted roller 5 and placed on the next roller 5. On the next roller 5 is the scraper belt in the opposite Direction coiled spirally so that the cleaning device 10 from one end of the roller 5 to the other end the roller 5 is guided and thereby a meandering Cleaning pattern is created ..
  • the cleaning process is always carried out when none Tobacco is transported over the rollers 5.
  • the control of the Cleaning device can be done automatically or manually.
  • the speed of the roller 5 to about 15% of their normal rotation speed better grasp and separate the foreign bodies on the roller 5 to be able to.
  • the rotation speed of the cleaning roller 11 is approximately the same as the speed of rotation of the rollers 5 during the cleaning process.

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  1. Appareil pour enlever hors du tabac des matières étrangères à fibres longues avant la poursuite de son traitement pour donner des cigarettes, dans lequel sont prévus plusieurs cylindres (5) agencés parallèlement les uns à côté des autres, le tabac étant passé sur leurs surfaces, caractérisé en ce que les cylindres (5) sont pourvus à leur périphérie extérieure d'une pluralité d'aiguilles (7) dirigées radialement vers l'extérieur en vue de la réception de matières étrangères à fibres longues, et tournent dans la même direction de rotation.
  2. Appareil selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que les aiguilles (7) présentent une longueur égale entre 5 et 30 mm.
  3. Appareil selon l'une ou l'autre des revendications 1 et 2, caractérisé en ce que les aiguilles (7) présentent une distance mutuelle de 1,5 à 15 mm.
  4. Appareil selon l'une des revendications 1 à 3, caractérisé en ce qu'il est prévu entre les pointes des aiguilles (7) de deux cylindres (5) situés l'un à côté de l'autre un intervalle d'une largeur de 0,0 à 80 mm.
  5. Appareil selon l'une des revendications 1 à 4, caractérisé en ce que les cylindres (5) présentent un diamètre extérieur de 150 à 300 mm.
  6. Appareil selon l'une des revendications 1 à 5, caractérisé en ce qu'il est prévu quatre à huit cylindres (5) agencés les uns à côté des autres.
  7. Appareil selon l'une des revendications 1 à 6, caractérisé en ce que les cylindres (5) sont agencés dans un boítier (4) ouvert vers le haut.
  8. Appareil selon l'une des revendications 1 à 7, caractérisé en ce que les axes des cylindres (5) sont situés dans un plan.
  9. Appareil selon la revendication 8, caractérisé en ce que le plan qui inclut les axes des cylindres (5) s'étend par rapport à l'horizontale de telle manière que la direction de transport déterminée par la direction de rotation à la surface des cylindres est orientée en descente.
  10. Appareil selon la revendication 9, caractérisé en ce que l'inclinaison est réglable.
  11. Appareil selon l'une des revendications 1 à 10, caractérisé en ce qu'il est prévu plusieurs jeux de cylindres (5) disposés les uns à côté des autres pour un fonctionnement à alternance.
  12. Appareil selon la revendication 11, caractérisé en ce qu'il est prévu deux jeux de cylindres (5).
  13. Appareil selon la revendication 12, caractérisé en ce que les jeux de cylindres (5) sont agencés l'un à côté de l'autre et susceptibles d'être amenés sélectivement sous un dispositif d'amenée (8) pour le tabac à traiter, par translation latérale ou par rotation sur 180°.
  14. Appareil selon la revendication 12, caractérisé en ce que les jeux de cylindres (5) sont agencés l'un à côté de l'autre et susceptibles d'être amenés sélectivement sous un dispositif d'amenée (8) pour le tabac à traiter par rotation autour d'un axe sensiblement vertical.
  15. Appareil selon l'une au moins des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que les cylindres (5) sont pourvus d'une bande de carde à leur périphérie.
  16. Appareil selon la revendication 15, caractérisé en ce que la bande de carde comprend des aiguilles en acier (7) agencés en oblique par rapport à la direction radiale.
  17. Appareil selon l'une au moins des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que les aiguilles (7) sont agencées par rangées sur le cylindre (5).
  18. Appareil selon l'une au moins des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce qu'il est prévu un dispositif de nettoyage (10), qui enlève les matières étrangères accumulées entre les aiguilles (7).
  19. Appareil selon la revendication 18, caractérisé en ce que le dispositif de nettoyage (10) comprend au moins un cylindre de nettoyage (11), pourvu de plusieurs disques à couteau (18).
  20. Appareil selon les revendications 17 et 19, caractérisé en ce que les disques à couteau (18) s'engagent respectivement entre deux rangées d'aiguilles.
  21. Appareil selon les revendications 19 ou 20, caractérisé en ce que les disques à couteau (18) sont entraínés dans la même direction de rotation que les cylindres (5).
  22. Appareil selon l'une des revendications 19 à 21, caractérisé en ce que les disques à couteau (18) présentent pratiquement autant de dents de couteau (19) que d'intervalles inter-dentaires, répartis sur la périphérie.
  23. Appareil selon la revendication 22, caractérisé en ce que les disques à couteau (18) sont agencés de manière décalée les uns par rapport aux autres, de sorte que, vu en direction axiale, un intervalle inter-dentaire est suivi d'une dent de couteau (19) dans le ou les disque(s) de couteau voisin(s) (18), et une dent de couteau (19) est suivie d'un intervalle inter-dentaire dans le ou les disque(s) de couteau voisin(s) (18).
  24. Appareil selon l'une au moins des revendications 17 à 23, caractérisé en ce que la bande de carde est enroulée en spirale sur les cylindres (5), et en ce que le dispositif de nettoyage (10) est entraíné par la rotation de la rangée d'aiguilles disposées en spirale.
  25. Appareil selon la revendication 24, caractérisé en ce que dans deux cylindres voisins (5) la bande de carde est enroulée respectivement dans une direction différente sur le cylindre (5), de sorte que le dispositif de nettoyage est mené dans une direction axiale respectivement opposée pour une même direction de rotation des cylindres (5).
  26. Appareil selon l'une des revendications 17 à 25, caractérisé en ce qu'il est prévu une unité d'entraínement (12) pour les cylindres de nettoyage (11).
  27. Appareil selon l'une au moins des revendications 17 à 25, caractérisé en ce qu'il est prévu en arrière du dispositif de nettoyage (10) un tube d'aspiration (21) qui aspire les matières étrangères enlevées des cylindres (5).
  28. Appareil selon l'une au moins des revendications 17 à 26, caractérisé en ce qu'il est prévu des moyens à l'aide desquels le dispositif de nettoyage (10) est soulevé du cylindre (5), et le dispositif de nettoyage (10) est mené sur un trajet en méandres au-dessus des cylindres (5) agencés les uns à côté des autres.
  29. Procédé pour le nettoyage d'un cylindre (5) à la périphérie extérieure duquel il est prévu une pluralité d'aiguilles (7) orientées vers l'extérieur, dans lequel les aiguilles (7) sont agencées en spirale et en rangée, caractérisé par les opérations suivantes :
    on pose un dispositif de nettoyage (10) sur le cylindre à nettoyer (5) ;
    on déplace le dispositif de nettoyage (10) dans une première direction axiale par rotation du cylindre (5) ;
    on soulève le dispositif de nettoyage (10) depuis le cylindre (5) dans la région terminale axiale ;
    on pose le dispositif de nettoyage (10) sur un cylindre voisin (5) dans la région terminale axiale ;
    on déplace axialement le dispositif de nettoyage (10) dans la direction opposée à la première direction axiale.
  30. Procédé pour le nettoyage d'un cylindre, selon la revendication 29, caractérisé en ce qu'avant de poser le dispositif de nettoyage (10) sur le cylindre (5) on réduit la vitesse de rotation du cylindre (5).
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