Classifications

• • 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
  • A24C5/40—Hand-driven apparatus for making cigarettes
  • A24C5/42—Pocket cigarette-fillers
  • A24C5/425—Pocket cigarette-fillers for obtaining cigarettes of various lengths

Definitions

• Hand stuffing device for cigarette tubes in particular
• Cigarette filter tubes with tobacco press chamber variable in length are Cigarette filter tubes with tobacco press chamber variable in length
• the invention relates to a hand stuffing device for cigarette tubes, in particular for cigarette filter tubes, with a tobacco pressing chamber extending in the longitudinal direction thereof, which by means of a housing arranged in a base part, a pressure bar provided on a cover covering the housing and articulated on the housing, an ejection slide and optionally one with this connected spoon for ejecting a tobacco rod pressed in the tobacco pressing chamber from which it is formed via an opening provided in the housing in a cigarette (filter) sleeve, a clamping device which the cigarette (filter) sleeve arranged on an at the exit of the tobacco pressing chamber Holds pipe socket clamping, and a locking, snap or the like device for detachable connection of the housing and cover.
• Such a hand stuffing device for cigarette tubes, in particular for cigarette filter tubes, with a tobacco pressing chamber extending in the longitudinal direction thereof is known from DE-PS 2021738.
• the tobacco pressing chamber of this hand tamping device is essentially formed by a housing arranged in the base part and a press beam which is provided on a cover which covers the housing and is hinged to the housing.
• the tobacco pressing chamber of this hand stuffing device is a spoon and an ejection slide for ejecting one pressed tobacco rod from the tobacco pressing chamber through an opening provided in the housing in a cigarette (filter) sleeve limited.
• this hand tamping device has a clamping device which holds the cigarette (filter) sleeve in a clamping manner on a pipe socket arranged at the outlet of the tobacco pressing chamber.
• this hand tamping device also comprises a latching, snap-on or similar device for the detachable connection of the housing and the cover, which is arranged on a spring hook-shaped web which is connected to the free end of the cover which is connected to the articulation between the cover and the housing and is essentially hook-shaped Has locking lug, which can be brought into engagement with a locking projection provided on the housing.
• the locking lug extends approximately in the direction of the articulation between cover and housing and the locking projection approximately in the opposite direction.
• the similarly functioning hand tamping device is also known from DE-4207196 A1, wherein this hand tamping device is a further development of the aforementioned device according to DE-PS 20 21 738.
• the further development relates to the latching or snap-in device mentioned for the detachable connection of the housing and cover, and to a particularly light, yet stable construction of the device as a whole.
• the present invention has for its object to provide a hand stuffing device of the type mentioned, the tobacco press chamber can be adapted to different lengths of prefabricated cigarette (filter) sleeves, d. H. especially on "King Size” sleeves on the one hand and "Regular Size” sleeves on the other.
• the ejection slide is connected to a spoon, its length must be selected so that it is still within the tobacco pressing chamber even with a minimal filling length, i. H. does not protrude through the opening provided in the housing.
• At least two different filling lengths of the tobacco pressing chamber can be set, namely once for filling a "king size” tube and secondly a "regular size” tube.
• the filling length of the tobacco press chamber is understood to mean the maximum length of the same with the ejection slide fully retracted. In this position, the tobacco press chamber is filled with tobacco.
• the present invention can also be used for hand stuffing devices of other types, e.g. B. for hand stuffing devices with a swivel lever for actuating the ejection slide, wherein a swiveled around a gear between the swivel lever and ejection slide
• the stop provided according to the invention is assigned either directly to the ejection slide or to the swivel lever in such a way that the maximum return position of the ejection slide can be changed.
• the filling length of the tobacco press chamber naturally also changes accordingly. Furthermore, it makes no difference whether the ejection slide is moved relative to the housing or the housing is moved relative to the ejection slide for the purpose of filling the cigarette paper sleeve. In both cases, the tobacco filling position of the ejection slide is set by a stop which can be displaced either on the housing relative to the ejection slide or on the ejection slide relative to the housing.
• FIG. 1 shows a perspective view of an embodiment of a hand tamping device designed according to the invention with the lid partially open;
• FIG. 2 shows a perspective view of an embodiment of the hand tamping device according to FIG. 1 with the cover open further;
• FIGS. 1 and 2 shows a perspective side view of an embodiment of the inventive hand stuffing device according to FIGS. 1 and 2 with the lid closed;
• Fig. 4 is a perspective side view of a
• FIGS. 1-4 shows a side view of an embodiment of the hand stuffing device according to the invention from FIGS. 1-4 with the lid still open;
• FIG. 6 shows a side view of an embodiment of a cover of the hand tamping device according to the invention from FIGS. 1-5 in an enlarged representation
• 7 shows a central longitudinal section through an embodiment of a housing of the hand tamping device according to the invention according to FIGS. 1-5 in an enlarged representation
• FIGS. 1-5 shows a side view of an embodiment of a base part of the hand tamping device according to the invention from FIGS. 1-5 in an enlarged representation;
• FIG. 9 shows a front view of an embodiment of the base part according to arrow X in FIG. 8;
• FIG. 10 shows a front view of an embodiment of the housing according to arrow Y in FIG. 7;
• Fig. 11 is a bottom view of an embodiment of the floor menu corresponding to Fig. 8;
• FIG. 12 shows the part of the hand tamping device according to the invention on the housing opening in section, showing the relative position of the housing and base part in the tobacco filling position of the device;
• FIG. 13 shows a stop provided according to the invention for determining the filling position of the ejection slide and thus the filling length of the tobacco pressing chamber, which can be integrated in the bottom wall of the bottom part according to FIG. 11, in a top view and on an enlarged scale.
• FIG. 14 the stop according to FIG. 13 in section along line XIV-XIV in FIG. 13;
• FIG. 15 the stop according to FIG. 13 in section along line XV-XV in FIG. 13;
• 16 is a top view of the hand stuffing device according to the invention, showing a first filling position of the ejection slide relative to the housing;
• FIG. 17 shows the hand stuffing device according to the invention in a top view, showing a second filling position of the ejection slide relative to the housing;
• Fig. 18 the hand stuffing device in plan view showing a third filling position of the ejection slide relative to the housing.
• FIG. 1-5 shows a hand tamping device 10 designed according to the invention for cigarette tubes (not shown), in particular for cigarette filter tubes (not shown), with a tobacco pressing chamber extending in the longitudinal direction of the hand tamping device.
• the tobacco press chamber is formed by a housing 12 which is arranged in a longitudinally displaceable manner in a base part 14.
• the tobacco press chamber is delimited by a press bar 16 which is provided on a cover 18 which covers the housing 12 and is articulated on the housing 12.
• the tobacco press chamber is determined by a spoon 20 and an ejection slide 22 for ejecting a pressed tobacco rod from the tobacco press chamber via an opening 24 provided in the housing 12 into a cigarette (filter) sleeve.
• the base part 14 which is approximately U-shaped in cross section (compare in particular FIG. 9), has two undercuts 26 for receiving two correspondingly shaped guide strips 28 of the housing 12.
• the housing 12 in the base part 14 can only be moved back and forth in the longitudinal direction of the hand stuffing device 10.
• a latching device or the like is provided between the bottom part 14 and the housing 12 which is longitudinally displaceably received by the bottom part 14 and which has a certain stiffness at the start of the actual tamping process
• the latching device here consists of at least one lateral projection 30 on at least one of the two guide strips 28 of the housing 12, which is just received by the undercut 26 of the base 14 provided as a guide.
• the lateral projection which is attached to at least one of the two guide strips 28 of the housing 12, can be snapped into a lateral recess 32 which is adapted to this, in the undercuts 26 of the base part provided as a guide.
• the projection 30 is assigned three recesses 32 which are formed on the undercuts 26 at an axial distance from one another.
• These recesses 32 correspond to different relative positions between the housing 12 on the one hand and the bottom part 14 together with the ejection slide 22 on the other hand, these different relative positions being determined by a stop arranged displaceably in the bottom wall 44 of the bottom menu 14.
• the projection 30 on the guide bar 28 of the housing 12 and the recesses 32 in the undercut 26 of the base part 14 are provided in the region of the end 36 of the cover 18 or base part 14 near the linkage 34 between cover 18 and housing 12.
• the two side walls 38 of the bottom section 14, which is U-shaped in cross section, are provided with recessed grips 42 or the like in the region of the end 40 of the bottom part 14 opposite the linkage 34 between the cover 18 and the housing 12.
• the recessed grips 42 offer in particular the thumb and the index finger of the user ⁇ during the actual tamping process, ie during the longitudinal displacement of the housing 12 with the lid 18 hinged to it, a good hold within the base plate 14. This prevents slipping during the actual tamping process.
• recesses 46 are made in the bottom wall 44 connecting the two side walls 38 of the bottom tray 14 with one another to save material and thus to reduce the weight of the hand tamping device 10 as a whole.
• the discharge slide 22 carrying the spoon 20 is mounted according to FIG. 8 in the region of the end 36 of the base part 14 near the linkage 34 between the cover 18 and the housing 12.
• the housing 12 has a filling opening 48 for filling the tobacco into the tobacco pressing chamber and an opening 24 for ejecting the pressed tobacco rod from the tobacco pressing chamber, to which a pipe socket 50 connects.
• the pipe socket 50 serves to hold the cigarette (filter) sleeve which is just to be filled with tobacco.
• Opening 24 and pipe socket 50 are arranged in the region of the end 40 of the base part 14 opposite the articulation 34 between the cover 18 and the housing 12.
• the articulation of the cover 18 to the housing 12 takes place here by means of two laterally outwardly extending circular projections 52 on the cover 18 which engage in correspondingly large bores 54 in the housing 12.
• the housing 12 has material cutouts 56, preferably in the region of the linkage 34, for further reducing the weight of the hand tamping device 10.
• the stiffening ribs 58 at the same time achieve a high stability and strength of the hand stuffing device 10.
• the hand stuffing device 10 comprises a clamping device 59, which holds the cigarette tube by clamping it to the pipe socket 50 arranged at the outlet of the tobacco press chamber, as well as a snap-in, snap-in or similar device 60 for releasably connecting the housing 12 and Lid 18.
• the latching, snap-in or similar device 60 has a latching lug 62 which is arranged on the free end 64 of the lid 18 opposite the linkage 34 between the lid 18 and the housing 12 and with a latching projection 66 provided on the housing 12 can be brought into engagement.
• the locking lug 62 and the locking projection 66 are essentially hook-shaped, the locking lug 62 extending approximately in the direction of the linkage 34 between the cover 18 and the housing 12 and the locking projection 66 approximately in the opposite direction.
• the latching lug 62 and the latching projection 66 come into contact with one another by way of latching surfaces 68, 70.
• the two latching surfaces 68, 70 of latching lug 62 or latching projection 66 lie in a plane 72 which is perpendicular to the plane of the page and which extends the horizontal plane 74 which is perpendicular to the plane of the page at an angle a of 15 degrees to 75 degrees, in particular at an angle a of 45 degrees, as shown in FIGS. 6 and 7 in detail.
• a locking trough can also be used
• the locking lug 62 is arranged on a resilient web 78, which in turn is connected to the free end 64 of the cover 18 via a further resilient web 76. Finally, an actuating web 80 projecting upwards is formed on the free end of the cover 18.
• the clamping device 59 consists of a clamping piece 82, which comes into close contact with the pipe socket 50 during the functional engagement of the latching or snap device 60. In this way, the cigarette (filter) sleeve is automatically clamped onto the pipe socket 50, namely during the entire actual tamping process, ie during the entire ejection movement of the tobacco from the tobacco compression chamber.
• the clamping piece 82 is preferably resilient formed, in particular from soft plastic, rubber or the like.
• a stop 84 for fixing the tobacco filling position of the ejection slide 22 relative to the housing 12 is integrated in the bottom wall 44 of the bottom menu 14.
• This stop 84 is displaceable in the direction parallel to the tobacco ejection direction, such that the filling length of the tobacco pressing chamber can be varied accordingly.
• the abovementioned stop 84 corresponds to the lower edge 86 of the front end wall, which comprises the tobacco ejection opening 24, of the housing 12, which is displaceably mounted relative to the base part 14, as can be clearly seen in FIG. 12.
• the stop 84 is formed in the illustrated embodiment as a crossbar, i. H. as a bridge to the direction of ejection of the tobacco and approximately parallel to the bottom wall 44 of the bottom part 14.
• the mentioned crosspiece is arranged such that it can be displaced within a bottom wall insert part 88 which can be inserted separately into the bottom wall 44 of the bottom part 14, namely from a normal position according to FIG. 16, in which the filling length of the tobacco press chamber is at a maximum (e.g. for filling a king Size cigarette tube), in at least one, here two different positions according to FIGS. 17 and 18, in which the filling length of the tobacco press chamber is reduced accordingly.
• the different filling lengths of the tobacco press chamber are identified in FIGS. 16 to 18 with FLl, FL2 and FL3.
• the stop or the transverse web 84 defining it is in a middle position, which corresponds to the relative position between the housing 12 and the base part 14 according to FIG. 17.
• the cross bar 84 In normal position for Filling a king size cigarette paper tube, the cross bar 84 is offset to the left in FIG. 13. In order to fill a very short cigarette paper tube, the cross bar 84 is displaced to the right in FIG. 13. The latter two positions correspond to the relative positions of the base part 14 including the ejection slide 22 on the one hand and the housing 12 including the cover 18 on the other hand, as shown in FIGS. 16 and 18.
• the crosspiece 84 is an integral part of a plate-like element 90, which is mounted so as to be longitudinally displaceable within an approximately rectangular recess 92 of the separate bottom wall insert part 80 and, as here, can be snapped in differently at three predetermined locations.
• the plate-like element 90 has on its flat sides assigned to the end faces of the transverse web 84 a longitudinal web 94 and at a distance above the same a nose-like projection 96, between which there is a complete longitudinal web 98 within the recess 92 for the purpose of longitudinally displacing the plate-like element 90 Bottom wall
• Insert part 88 extends through.
• These longitudinal webs 98 have axially spaced recesses 100 corresponding to the nose-like projections 96, into which the mentioned nose-like projections 96 of the plate-like element 90 can be snapped.
• the plate-like element 90 in one of the three latching positions of the plate-like element 90 shown in FIG. 13, the latter is pressed down according to FIG. 14, so that the nose-like projections 96 come into engagement with the complementary recesses 100. If the plate-like element 90 together with the transverse web 84 are to be displaced, the plate-like element 90 must be pressed upward according to FIG. 15 so that the nose-like projections 96 disengage from the complementary recesses 100.
• the plate-like element 90 can be moved along the longitudinal webs 98 until another desired locking position is reached.
• the recess 92 in the bottom wall insert part 88 has an opening free of longitudinal webs, through which the plate-like element 90 can be inserted in the manner described.
• the opening mentioned is closed again.
• the bottom wall insert part 88 is designed in the manner of a rectangular frame.
• the closure 102 is formed by a closure plate, which is firmly glued in after assembly of the plate-like element 90. Subsequently, the bottom wall insert 88 is also firmly glued into the bottom wall 44.
• bottom wall 44 it is also conceivable to design the bottom wall 44 so that it has all the features of the bottom wall insert part 88 described. This embodiment is intended to be covered by protection. However, it should be noted that the latter is technically the latter
• Embodiment is somewhat more complex; because it is easier to manufacture the separate bottom wall insert and integrate it into the bottom wall 44, as shown in FIGS. 11 and 12.
• the ejection slide can be displaced relative to the housing of the hand-tamping device by means of a separate handle.
• the housing has the abovementioned stop in association with
• the stop in such a way that the ejection slide can be moved back to different extents to fill the tobacco pressing chamber with tobacco.
• the stop can also be assigned to the pivot lever. In any case, it is a positionally displaceable stop, so that different filling lengths of the tobacco pressing chamber can be set.
• a variable change in the position of the stop mentioned would also be conceivable; in this case, the stop must be provided with a clamping mechanism so that it can be held in any relative position.
• a hand tamping device for cigarette tubes in particular cigarette filter tubes, is therefore also protected, which has a tobacco press chamber extending in the longitudinal direction of the mentioned tubes, this tobacco press chamber having a press bar and an ejection slide for ejecting a tobacco rod pressed into the tobacco press chamber from this into a cigarette (-filter-) sleeve are assigned.
• the tobacco filling position is determined by an adjustable stop, this stop - as mentioned above - either directly with the ejection slide or indirectly with it
• Actuator interacts. This stop causes the maximum retraction of the ejection slide to its filling position, whereby the filling length of the tobacco press chamber can be changed accordingly.
• the limitation of the ejection movement of the ejection slide is fixed anyway, so that no changes need to be made in this regard.

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