EP0882411B1 - Dispositif pour la fabrication et l'emballage de cigarettes - Google Patents

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EP0882411B1
EP0882411B1 EP98108954A EP98108954A EP0882411B1 EP 0882411 B1 EP0882411 B1 EP 0882411B1 EP 98108954 A EP98108954 A EP 98108954A EP 98108954 A EP98108954 A EP 98108954A EP 0882411 B1 EP0882411 B1 EP 0882411B1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B19/00—Packaging rod-shaped or tubular articles susceptible to damage by abrasion or pressure, e.g. cigarettes, cigars, macaroni, spaghetti, drinking straws or welding electrodes
    • B65B19/02—Packaging cigarettes
    • 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
    • A24C5/35—Adaptations of conveying apparatus for transporting cigarettes from making machine to packaging machine

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  • the invention relates to a device for producing and packaging cigarettes, consisting of a production station with two L-shaped layouts Cigarette manufacturing machines with filter attachment and a packaging station a packaging machine for packaging the cigarettes, the two manufacturing machines via a common cigarette conveyor with the packaging machine are connected.
  • Another known device also has two cigarette making machines connected to a common packaging machine.
  • the both manufacturing machines are alternatively on a common cigarette conveyor the packaging machine or to a separately arranged cigarette store connected.
  • Cigarette conveyors are connected to a common incline station (tray filler), thus with a station for filling containers for cigarettes (US 3,532,388).
  • a device which consists of two cigarette making machines and a common packaging machine exists (FR 2 299 220).
  • the two manufacturing machines are each on their own through separate cigarette conveyors Packaging machine connected.
  • the cigarette conveyors can be in the area of everyone Manufacturing machine form a cycle with an individual cigarette store connected is.
  • the invention has for its object units for the manufacture and packaging of To create cigarettes that are functionally coordinated and self-contained are, taking into account spatially favorable positioning.
  • the device according to the invention is not only compact in construction. By working together of two cigarette making machines with a common memory and a cigarette conveyor connected to this is an optimal compensation given between the facility's key performance machines.
  • 1 and 2 are complex systems schematically in plan view or facilities for the manufacture and packaging of cigarettes shown until ready for dispatch.
  • the machines and devices the manufacturing station 10 are up for performance the processing capacity of the machines and devices of the Packing station 11 matched.
  • the production station 10 consists of two independent, ie independent manufacturing machines 12 and 13 for cigarettes (so-called makers).
  • the production result of the two manufacturing machines 12 and 13 becomes a first packaging machine 14 fed. This produces standard cigarette packs.
  • the present embodiment shows a packaging machine 14 for the manufacture of cigarette packs of the soft cup type.
  • the (continuous) performance of the packaging machine 14 is designed so that the production of two manufacturing machines 12, 13 can be processed. Preferably is the (continuous) performance of the two manufacturing machines 12, 13 approximately in agreement.
  • the manufacturing result of Packaging machine 14 can, for example, contain 700 cigarette packs per minute. This means that every manufacturing machine 12, 13 produces about 7,000 cigarettes per minute.
  • the cigarettes produced by the two manufacturing machines 12, 13 are the packaging machine 14 by a common Cigarette conveyor 15 supplied. This in turn is with connected to a collective conveyor for the cigarettes, namely with a ring conveyor 16, which due to its design and Capacity also serves as a cigarette store.
  • the Cigarette conveyor 15 branches from the closed one in the present Fall from approximately oval ring conveyor 16.
  • a specialty is the positioning of the two cigarette making machines 12, 13 in the area of the production station 10.
  • the manufacturing machines 12, 13 are angular or L-shaped in plan formed with two at right angles to each other arranged legs 17, 18. This plan form the Manufacturing machines 12, 13 is functional.
  • the leg 17 is a strand unit of the manufacturing machine, i.e. the area in which a continuous string of cigarettes wrapped in cigarette paper is formed.
  • the transverse leg 18 is a filter attachment unit, i.e. a machine, in its area Filters can be attached to the cigarettes. Outdoors End of the leg 18, that is to say at an outlet of the filter attachment unit, includes a conveyor 19 in extension of Thigh 18.
  • the finished cigarettes are made by the conveyor 19 fed to a transfer unit 20. In the same area the cigarettes are moved in by a vertical conveyor 21 Upward direction in the ring conveyor 16 or in the cigarette store conveyed.
  • the two manufacturing machines 12, 13 are taken into account the described floor plan in a special way.
  • the contours of a rectangle are circumscribed.
  • the L-shaped manufacturing machines 12, 13 are with the inside facing each other and positioned diagonally opposite each other, thus "corner" of the (imaginary) rectangle.
  • the longer ones Leg 18 with subsequent conveyor 19 extend over the longer side of the rectangle, below longer rectilinear sections 22, 23 of the ring conveyor 16.
  • the arcuate in the area of section 22 to the ring conveyor 16 subsequent cigarette conveyors 15 leads in the present Trap to one arranged above the packaging machine 14, also elongated, oval cigarette store 24. From there, the cigarettes are fed via a downward conveyor as required 25 fed to the packaging machine 14, namely to a cigarette magazine 26 of a known type.
  • the finished cigarette packs - without an outer wrapping made of foil - Are on an exit side of the packaging machine 14th picked up by a package conveyor 27 and transversely to the longitudinal extent the packaging machine 14 one (double lane) Foil packer 28 fed. This is according to the arrangement Fig. 1 arranged parallel to the packaging machine 14. In the area of the film packer 28, the outer covering is made of cellophane or plastic film attached.
  • the cigarette packs which have been completed in this respect are supplied by the film packer 28 directly a transverse bar packer 29 passed. This works essentially across the film packer 28, is thus arranged approximately L-shaped with this.
  • the rod packer 29 usually produces (small) containers ten packs of cigarettes.
  • the bundles (bars) manufactured in the area of the bar packer 29 are transported further by a bar conveyor 30, first to a packing scale 31. In its area the weight of the individual containers or bars is checked and thus the correct design and / or filling of the same. In addition, organs are provided that the containers do not Check the desired content from metal etc. faulty packs are sorted out here.
  • the containers are transversely to the bar conveyor 30, namely towards the packaging machine 14, a carton packer 32 fed.
  • the cigarette packs are made ready for shipment, namely the containers are filled in boxes. That’s the cigarettes ready for distribution.
  • the film packer 28, the bar packer 29 and the carton packer 32 are positioned so that the floor space is used optimally is.
  • the machines are monitored by a few People possible, who are mainly in the by the mentioned Machines, including packaging machine 14 Hold space.
  • the machines can be designed in a suitable manner. advantageously, however, the film packer 28 is in detail trained according to DE 37 28 716.
  • the bar packer 29 can DE 197 16 930 correspond.
  • For the carton packer 32 shows DE 38 16 856 an expedient embodiment.
  • the manufacturing station 10 corresponds the embodiment according to FIG. 1.
  • the elongated packaging machine 14 is positioned transversely to the cigarette store 24, namely parallel to the legs 18 of the manufacturing machine 12, 13.
  • the single-lane film packer in this example 28 connect directly to the packaging machine 14, and in an extension of the same.
  • cross-directional is the bar packer 29.
  • the bar conveyor 30 is running above the machines mentioned.
  • the following Units, namely packing scales 31 and carton packers 32, are arranged in the same position as in the embodiment 1.
  • the ring conveyor 16 assigned to the production station 10 can advantageously formed in the manner shown in DE 37 42 955 his.
  • Fig. 3 shows a view according to arrow III Section of the ring conveyor 16.
  • the from a manufacturing machine 12, 13 cigarettes are coming through the vertical conveyor 21 inserted in the upward direction into the ring conveyor 16.
  • This forms a on belt conveyors 33 running all around multilayer cigarette stream 34.
  • This is constantly in one Direction according to arrow 35 promoted by the ring conveyor 16.
  • the area of a (single) removal station 36 becomes the cigarettes through a removal shaft 37 down to the Cigarette conveyor 15, the packaging machine in the manner described 14 leads.
  • the device can be used instead of the two manufacturing machines 12, 13 several, e.g. B. have three manufacturing machines, the corresponding Partial performance cigarettes for the common packaging machine 14 finished. Furthermore, the facility suitable for the manufacture and handling of other objects, as far as they are manufactured in a comparable way.

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  1. Dispositif pour la confection et l'emballage de cigarettes, constitué d'un poste de confection (10) comportant deux confectionneuses (12, 13) en forme de L en plan avec assembleuse et un poste d'emballage (11) comportant une empaqueteuse (14) pour la confection des paquets de cigarettes et l'emballage des cigarettes, les deux confectionneuses (12, 13), qui fonctionnent indépendamment, étant reliées à l'empaqueteuse (14) par un transporteur de cigarettes commun (15), et le débit continu de l'empaqueteuse (14) correspondant sensiblement au débit continu commun des deux confectionneuses de cigarettes (12, 13), caractérisé par les caractéristiques suivantes :
    a) les cigarettes confectionnées par les deux confectionneuses (12, 13) peuvent être introduites dans un magasin à cigarettes placé au-dessus des confectionneuses (12, 13),
    b) le magasin à cigarettes est un transporteur circulaire fermé (16) pour les cigarettes emmagasinées,
    c) le transporteur de cigarettes commun (15) qui mène à l'empaqueteuse (14) est relié au transporteur circulaire (16),
    d) à chaque confectionneuse (12, 13) est associé un dispositif de transfert pour l'introduction des cigarettes confectionnées dans le transporteur circulaire (16), à savoir un transporteur vertical (21),
    e) le transporteur de cigarettes (15) qui mène à l'empaqueteuse (14) est, dans la zone d'un poste de prise (36), relié au transporteur circulaire (16) par une cheminée de prise transportant vers le bas (37).
  2. Dispositif selon la revendication 1, caractérisé par le fait que l'assembleuse forme une branche (18) de la confectionneuse en forme de L (12, 13) et qu'un transporteur (19) pour les cigarettes achevées se joint à la branche (18) et mène au transporteur vertical (21).
  3. Dispositif selon l'une des revendications 1 et 2, caractérisé par les caractéristiques suivantes :
    a) une empaqueteuse pour l'enveloppement des paquets de cigarettes dans une feuille - cellophaneuse (28) - est, en ce qui concerne la direction de travail, placée parallèlement à l'empaqueteuse (14) à distance de celle-ci,
    b) l'empaqueteuse (14) est reliée à la cellophaneuse (28) par un transporteur de paquets (27) qui s'étend perpendiculairement à l'empaqueteuse (14) et à la cellophaneuse (28),
    c) la cellophaneuse (28) est suivie directement, avec direction de travail transversale, d'une fardeleuse, à savoir d'une encartoucheuse (29),
    d) une encartonneuse (32) pour l'encartonnage des cartouches produites par l'encartoucheuse (29) est, en ce qui concerne la direction de travail, placée parallèlement à l'encartoucheuse (29) et à distance de celle-ci,
    e) l'encartoucheuse (29) est reliée à une encartonneuse (32) par un transporteur de cartouches (30),
    f) l'encartonneuse (32) est placée dans un espace enfermé par les empaqueteuses (11, 28, 29) d'une part et les confectionneuses (12, 13) d'autre part.
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DE19723689A DE19723689A1 (de) 1997-06-05 1997-06-05 Einrichtung zum Herstellen und Verpacken von Zigaretten

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ES2191222T5 (es) 2007-04-16
EP0882411B2 (fr) 2006-10-18
JPH1170911A (ja) 1999-03-16
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