EP0745335B1 - Méthode et unité pour l'alimentation d'une machine de fabrication de cigarettes - Google Patents

Méthode et unité pour l'alimentation d'une machine de fabrication de cigarettes Download PDF

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EP0745335B1
EP0745335B1 EP96108443A EP96108443A EP0745335B1 EP 0745335 B1 EP0745335 B1 EP 0745335B1 EP 96108443 A EP96108443 A EP 96108443A EP 96108443 A EP96108443 A EP 96108443A EP 0745335 B1 EP0745335 B1 EP 0745335B1
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Fiorenzo Draghetti
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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
    • A24C5/185—Separating devices, e.g. winnowing, removing impurities
    • 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
    • A24C5/39—Tobacco feeding devices

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  • the present invention relates to a method of and a unit for supplying a cigarette manufacturing machine according to claims 1 and 4 which are delimited against the prior art as known e.g. from DE-A-42 42 325.
  • shredded tobacco is normally fed from an input feedbox to a box body in which a carding unit feeds it to the input portion of a supply path.
  • This comprises an upflow output portion closed at the top by one or more conveyor belts permeable to air, and is connected at the bottom to said input portion at a junction where the path communicates with a catch basin.
  • An upflowing air current at least partly produced by suction through said conveyor belt, blows the light parts of the tobacco, comprising powder and relatively minute shreds, along the output portion of the supply path, while any heavier, e.g. woody, parts drop by force of gravity into the catch basin.
  • a method of supplying a cigarette manufacturing machine comprising the steps of feeding a stream of shredded tobacco to at least one conveyor belt along a supply path comprising an upflow output portion, and an input portion communicating, at a junction, with the output portion and with a basin into which the heavy particles in the stream of tobacco fall; and stratifying the stream of tobacco, as it travels along the input portion, to form a stratified stream comprising layers of heavy particles and layers of light particles adjacent to each other; characterized in that said stratification is achieved by so feeding the stream of tobacco that it presents a first given traveling direction at a given point along said input portion; forming, at said given point, a jet of tobacco traveling in said first direction; deflecting the jet of tobacco in a second direction substantially crosswise to said first direction; and causing the jet to rain down onto a surface defining a portion of said input portion.
  • the heavier particles in the jet therefore tend to land on said surface upstream from the light particles, thus forming, on the surface, a stratified stream in which the heavy particles are positioned stably beneath the light particles, and therefore drop into the basin without taking the light particles with them.
  • the present invention also relates to a unit for supplying a cigarette manufacturing machine.
  • a unit for supplying a cigarette manufacturing machine comprising guide means for guiding a stream of shredded tobacco comprising heavy waste particles, the guide means defining a path along which to supply the stream to at least one conveyor belt, and the path comprising an upflow output portion, an input portion, and a junction connecting the input and output portions; a basin into which the heavy particles fall, the basin communicating with the path at said junction; hurling means located at a given point along said input portion, and for forming a jet of tobacco traveling in a first direction; and a surface defining a portion of said input portion, and for receiving said jet; the unit being characterized by also comprising deflecting means, preferably pneumatic deflecting means, located between said given point and said surface, and for deflecting said jet in a second direction substantially crosswise to said first direction.
  • deflecting means preferably pneumatic deflecting means
  • Number 1 in Figure 1 indicates a supply unit forming part of a cigarette manufacturing machine 2, and for supplying shredded tobacco 3 to a known wrapping unit (not shown) of machine 2 by means of two known conveyor belts 4 permeable to air and by which tobacco 3 is retained by suction and fed to said wrapping unit (not shown).
  • Unit 1 comprises an input feedbox 5 for feeding shredded tobacco 3 into a box body 6 and onto a conveyor belt 7, which feeds tobacco 3 to a carding unit 8 housed inside box body 6.
  • Carding unit 8 feeds tobacco 3 onto a supply path 9 extending between box body 6 and the bottom surface of conveyor belts 4, and comprising an input portion 10 and an output portion 11 communicating with each other at a junction 12.
  • Input portion 10 comprises a dropdown channel 13, the top end of which communicates with the output of box body 6, and the bottom output end of which communicates with a substantially cylindrical-section distribution chamber 14 forming part of input portion 10.
  • chamber 14 is defined by a substantially L-shaped plate 17, and by a top wall 15 presenting a central through channel 16 with a substantially vertical axis and defining the bottom end of channel 13.
  • Plate 17 is connected integral with a lateral edge of wall 15, and comprises a substantially vertical top portion 18 defining the rear wall of chamber 14, and a bottom portion 19 sloping slightly upwards in direction 20 from the bottom end of portion 18 and defining the bottom wall of chamber 14.
  • the free end of portion 19 and the lateral edge of wall 15 opposite that connected to plate 17 define an axial lateral opening 21 of chamber 14.
  • Chamber 14 houses, at least partially, a hurling unit 22 comprising a known powered conveyor roller 23 presenting a number of radial teeth 24, housed inside chamber 14 directly beneath channel 16, and rotating, anticlockwise in Figures 1 and 2, about an axis 25 perpendicular to the Figure 2 plane and substantially coincident with the axis (not shown) of chamber 14.
  • Hurling unit 22 also comprises a known powered lead-in roller 26 housed inside a cylindrical cavity 27 formed to one side of wall 15, and rotating or oscillating about an axis 28, parallel to axis 25, to feed tobacco 3 between teeth 24 and towards opening 21 along a channel 29 engaged by teeth 24 and defined on one side by wall 15 and on the other by the cylindrical periphery of roller 23.
  • hurling unit 22 also comprises a hurling roller 30 powered to rotate, clockwise in Figure 2, about an axis 30a parallel to axis 25, and at a surface speed faster than that of roller 23.
  • Roller 30 is located outside chamber 14, at opening 21 and the output end of channel 29, and presents radial teeth 31 engaging the gaps between teeth 24 of roller 23 to engage the tobacco 3 fed by roller 23 along channel 29, and so form a jet 32 directed downwards in a direction 33 inclined substantially crosswise to direction 20, and towards the transportation branch 34 of a conveyor belt 35 traveling in a direction 36 substantially parallel to direction 20, and defining the output portion of input portion 10 of path 9.
  • Belt 35 is looped about two pulleys 37 and 38, the second of which is located at junction 12 and at the top end of a substantially vertical basin 39 divided into a top chamber 40 and a bottom chamber 41 by a known rotary slide valve 42.
  • Chamber 41 communicates with a suction conduit 43 for withdrawing the heavy waste particles 44 falling along chamber 40 onto valve 42; and chamber 40 communicates with the outlet of a blower 45 for generating an air current along chamber 40 in an upward direction 46 substantially crosswise to direction 20.
  • output portion 11 of path 9 is defined by a substantially vertical upflow channel 47 extending upwards from junction 12 and substantially aligned with the output of chamber 40, and which provides for feeding the light tobacco particles 48 onto the underside of conveyor belts 4 with the aid of the air current generated by blower 45, and an air current aspirated through belts 4 and through lateral openings 49 formed in channel 47.
  • bottom portion 19 of plate 17 forms the top wall of the outlet nozzle 50 of a blowing device 51 for emitting a jet of compressed air directed in direction 20 and interfering with tobacco jet 32.
  • carding unit 8 feeds a continuous stream 52 of tobacco 3 to the input of channel 13 and along channel 13 to input channel 16 of chamber 14, where stream 52 is deflected by roller 23 along channel 29 and into engagement with roller 30 by which it is accelerated in direction 33 towards branch 34 of conveyor belt 35 in the form of jet 32.
  • jet 32 In the space between roller 30 and branch 34, jet 32 is intercepted by the air jet generated by nozzle 50 in direction 20, and is deflected transversely towards pulley 38. In view of the difference in inertia in direction 33, however, heavy particles 44 and light particles 48 in stream 52, and hence in jet 32, are obviously not deflected transversely in the same way.
  • heavy particles 44 are deflected to a lesser extent, and settle on branch 34 relatively close to the outlet of nozzle 50 to form, on branch 34, a first layer 53 as shown in Figure 2; whereas light particles 48 are deflected to a greater extent, and settle on branch 34 further away from the outlet of nozzle 50 to cover layer 53 with a layer 54 and form, with layer 53, a stratified stream 52a of tobacco, which is fed by conveyor belt 35 to junction 12.
  • stream 52a encounters the air current generated by blower 45, and is divided into a stream 52b of light particles 48, substantially corresponding to layer 54 and which is blown along channel 47 to conveyor belts 4, and a stream of heavy particles 44 forming layer 53. Being located, in stream 52a, beneath light particles 48 and facing basin 39, heavy particles 44 drop down into basin 39 together with a negligible quantity of light particles 48, which are easily separated from the accompanying heavy particles 44 by the air current blowing along chamber 40 in direction 46.

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  1. Procédé d'alimentation d'une machine de fabrication de cigarettes (2), le procédé comprenant les phases consistant à distribuer un flux (52) de tabac broyé (3) jusqu'au moins une bande transporteuse (4) le long d'un passage d'alimentation (9) comprenant une partie de sortie à courant ascendant (11), et une partie d'entrée (10) communiquant, à une jonction (12), avec la partie de sortie (11) et avec un réservoir (39) dans lequel des particules lourdes (44) dans le flux (52) de tabac tombent ; et stratifier le flux (52) de tabac, tandis qu'il se déplace le long de la partie d'entrée (10), de manière à former un flux stratifié (52a) comprenant des couches (53) de particules lourdes (44) et des couches (54) de particules légères (48) adjacentes ; caractérisé en ce que ladite stratification est réalisée en distribuant le flux (52) de tabac de telle sorte qu'il ait une première direction de déplacement donnée (33) à un point donné (29) le long de ladite partie d'entrée (10) ; en formant, audit point donné (29), un jet (32) de tabac se déplacant dans ladite première direction (33) ; en déviant le jet (32) de tabac dans une seconde direction (20) sensiblement transversalement à ladite première direction (33) ; et en amenant le jet (32) à pleuvoir sur une surface (34) définissant une partie de ladite partie d'entrée (10).
  2. Procédé selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que ledit jet (32) de tabac est dévié au moyen d'un jet d'air.
  3. Procédé selon la revendication 1 ou 2, caractérisé en ce que ledit jet (32) de tabac est formé en distribuant ledit flux (52) jusqu'à une unité de projection (22) définie par deux rouleaux à dents à rotation antagoniste (23, 30).
  4. Unité d'alimentation d'une machine de fabrication de cigarettes (2), l'unité (1) comprenant des moyens de guidage (13, 29, 34, 47) pour guider un flux (52) de tabac broyé comprenant des particules lourdes de déchets (44), les moyens de guidage (13, 29, 34, 47) définissant un passage (9) le long duquel distribuer le flux (52) jusqu'au moins une bande transporteuse (4), et le passage (9) comprenant une partie de sortie à courant ascendant (11), une partie d'entrée (10), et une jonction (12) reliant les parties d'entrée et de sortie (10, 11) ; un réservoir (39) dans lequel les particules lourdes (44) tombent, le réservoir (39) communiquant avec le passage (9) à ladite jonction (12) ; un moyen de projection (22) situé à un point donné (29) le long de ladite partie d'entrée (10), et pour former un jet (32) de tabac se déplaçant dans une première direction (33) ; et une surface (34) définissant une partie de ladite partie d'entrée (10), et pour recevoir ledit jet (32) ; l'unité étant caractérisée en ce qu'elle comprend également des moyens de déviation (50, 51) situés entre ledit point donné (29) et ladite surface (34), et pour dévier ledit jet (32) de tabac dans une seconde direction (20) sensiblement transversalement à ladite première direction (33).
  5. Unité selon la revendication 4, caractérisée en ce que ladite seconde direction (20) est sensiblement parallèle à ladite surface (34).
  6. Unité selon la revendication 4 ou 5, caractérisée en ce que lesdits moyens de déviation (50, 51) sont des moyens de déviation pneumatiques.
  7. Unité selon la revendication 4, 5 ou 6, caractérisée en ce que ledit moyen de projection (22) comprend une chambre (14) présentant une entrée latérale (16) pour ledit flux (52) de tabac ; un premier rouleau à dents (23) situé sur ladite surface (34) et logé dans ladite chambre (14) afin de tourner autour d'un axe (25), le premier rouleau (23) définissant, avec une paroi (15) de ladite chambre (14), un canal de sortie (29) pour ledit flux (52) ; et un second rouleau à dents (30) tournant autour d'un axe (30a) et coopérant avec le premier rouleau (23) pour extraire le tabac (3) dudit canal (29) dans ladite première direction (33).
  8. Unité selon la revendication 7, caractérisée en ce que lesdits moyens de déviation (50, 51) comprennent une buse (50) orientée dans ladite seconde direction (20) et située entre ledit premier rouleau (23) et ladite surface (34) ; et un moyen soufflant (51) pour alimenter ladite buse (50) en air.
  9. Unité selon la revendication 8, caractérisée en ce que ladite buse (50) définit une paroi inférieure de ladite chambre (14).
  10. Unité selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes 4 à 9, caractérisée en ce qu'elle comprend un moyen de bande transporteuse (35) s'étendant au-dessous dudit moyen de projection (22) et vers le haut jusqu'à ladite jonction (12) ; ledit moyen de bande transporteuse (35) comprenant un brin de transport (34) définissant ladite surface (34).
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