EP1027837B1 - Dispositif pour la formation d'une mono-couche à partir d'une épaisse couche de matière continue - Google Patents

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EP1027837B1
EP1027837B1 EP00101913A EP00101913A EP1027837B1 EP 1027837 B1 EP1027837 B1 EP 1027837B1 EP 00101913 A EP00101913 A EP 00101913A EP 00101913 A EP00101913 A EP 00101913A EP 1027837 B1 EP1027837 B1 EP 1027837B1
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Heiko Niehues
Torsten Koch
Renke Schlarmann
Harry Drewes
Hans Dierken
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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
    • A24C5/39—Tobacco feeding devices
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A24—TOBACCO; CIGARS; CIGARETTES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES; SMOKERS' REQUISITES
    • A24B—MANUFACTURE OR PREPARATION OF TOBACCO FOR SMOKING OR CHEWING; TOBACCO; SNUFF
    • A24B1/00—Preparation of tobacco on the plantation
    • A24B1/04—Sifting, sorting, cleaning or removing impurities from tobacco
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A24—TOBACCO; CIGARS; CIGARETTES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES; SMOKERS' REQUISITES
    • A24B—MANUFACTURE OR PREPARATION OF TOBACCO FOR SMOKING OR CHEWING; TOBACCO; SNUFF
    • A24B3/00—Preparing tobacco in the factory
    • A24B3/18—Other treatment of leaves, e.g. puffing, crimpling, cleaning

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  • the invention relates to an arrangement for forming a monolayer passing through a foreign body detection and separation device from a continuously fed, thick-layered, low-density material flow with a conveyor belt web which accelerates and extends the supplied material flow.
  • a relatively thin-layer material web ideally a predominantly isolated, ie single-layered juxtaposed components of a conveyed material and any foreign bodies composed material flow to understand the unwanted components are clearly recognizable and selectable.
  • a "thick-layered material flow” is one of the desired flow rate per unit time correspondingly compact, composed of many superimposed components of the material to be conveyed under the inclusion of foreign bodies composed Massengutstrom.
  • a “material flow of low density” with relevant for the promotion Material properties of the material to be conveyed, for example a food product, is to be understood as its specific lightweight, ie product constituents which have a relatively high air resistance, based on their weight.
  • Such product components are, for example, leaf-shaped, such as leaf tobacco or spinach; Further, fragments of leaves or leaf-like shaped components such as tobacco strips and lettuce leaves, as well as stems or stem-shaped components such as tobacco ribs and green beans, and moreover shrub-like products such as fresh thyme.
  • Product of the type mentioned, in particular food products are subject to special quality requirements with regard to the purity requirement. This is especially true for tobacco, which undergoes a processing process to the manufacture of rod-shaped end products in the form of cigarettes, filter cigarettes and the like. According to experience, tobacco contains foreign constituents of the most varied types. It is desirable to remove these foreign substances as early as possible in order to prevent disturbances in the processing process and quality impairments of the end product. In particular Blattabak or stripped Blattabak in the form of so-called "strips", which may resemble the impurities in form and size under circumstances, makes special demands of conveyor technology with regard to a clear identification of such foreign bodies in the moving tobacco stream.
  • the object of the invention is to increase the amount of material delivered per unit of time and monitored for foreign constituents in the case of an at least equally good, possibly better separation result.
  • a shortening of the conveyor line or a minimum number of conveyor stages is also achieved in that the first acceleration band downstream acceleration belt is associated with a synchronously mit noteworthydes upper band together form a converging in the conveying direction, laterally closed conveyor channel, wherein moreover the upstream acceleration belt and the downstream acceleration belts are drivable at such a speed ratio that a layer thickness of the material flow on the downstream acceleration belt forming on the upstream acceleration belt is reduced to the order of about half.
  • the feed conveyor and the belt cascade form a substantially horizontally oriented transport path.
  • the effectiveness of the cascade cascade is significantly determined by the conveying material accelerating the delivery channel of the downstream funding.
  • Whose air duct or lateral air termination is achieved in a simple manner by the conveyor channel is limited by lateral angle plates on the horizontal legs of the upper belt is guided along sliding and their vertical legs are provided with the acceleration band contacting sealing lips.
  • the advantage achieved by the invention is that by a more effective stepwise acceleration of the material flow whose layer thickness is gradually reduced such that a uniform layer without significant differences in layer thickness is achieved. In this way, a very good efficiency of the foreign body detection and disposal device is ensured even at a high flow rate of material flow rate.
  • FIG. 1 is a FremdMechabscheider 1 - based on the conveying direction (arrow 2) of a tobacco stream 3 - upstream of a belt cascade 4 formed transport belt web, consisting of two in the conveying direction (arrow 2) successive acceleration belts 6 and 7, of which the first acceleration belt with a speed of about 2.5 to 3.5 m / sec, which approximates the speed of the tobacco, depending on the nature and quality of the material to be conveyed (strips, ribs, sheet material).
  • the preferred transport speed is about 2.7 m / sec in approximation to a mean floating speed of about 3 m / sec.
  • the second acceleration belt 7 of the cascade cascade 4 is associated with a synchronously co-moving upper belt 8, which together form a converging in the conveying direction (arrow 2) or to a mouthpiece 12 formed by two guide rollers 9 and 11 narrowing conveyor channel 13.
  • the conveyor channel 13 is closed laterally according to Figure 2 by two angle plates 14 and 16, wherein the conveyor channel 13 delimiting lower run of the upper belt 8 on the horizontal legs of the angle plates 14, 16 is guided along sliding and the vertical legs of the angle plates 14, 16 each with a the upper channel of the acceleration belt 7 contacting the conveying channel 13 is provided with contacting sealing lips 17 whose contacting outer side has a felt support.
  • the belt cascade 4 is - related to the conveying direction (arrow 2) - upstream of a feed conveyor 18, assigned in the present embodiment in the form of a vibrating conveyor trough 19, wherein the cascade cascade 4 and the vibrating conveyor trough 19 extend horizontally.
  • the FremdMechabscheider 1 consists of known laser detectors 21 for scanning the tobacco stream 3, a color matched to the tobacco reference drum 22, a well-known in the FremdMechabscheider 1 integrated, not shown image processing processor for detecting and Location of foreign bodies 23 and exhaust nozzles 24 for selecting the foreign body 23.
  • With 26 is a conveyor for receiving and removal of the liberated from foreign bodies tobacco stream 3 and denoted by 27 a conveyor for collecting and discharging the sorted foreign body 23.
  • the laser detectors 21 which respond over the full width perpendicular to the plane on passing foreign body 23 and emit appropriate signals.
  • the image processing processor also recognizes the respective position of the foreign body 23 within the tobacco stream 3 and controls the corresponding exhaust nozzles 24 for selective rejection of the detected foreign body 23 at.
  • the particular at relatively small foreign bodies 23 simultaneously with blown tobacco leaves are then sorted out again and returned to the processing process.
  • the cascade of cascades 4 could possibly be supplemented by an additional band line corresponding to the acceleration band 7.

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  • Manufacturing Of Cigar And Cigarette Tobacco (AREA)
  • Structure Of Belt Conveyors (AREA)
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  1. Dispositif pour former une monocouche passant par une structure d'identification et de séparation de corps étrangers, à partir d'un flux de matière de faible densité, en couche épaisse, introduit en continu, dispositif présentant une voie de bandes transporteuses accélérant et étirant le flux de matière introduit, caractérisé en ce que la voie de bandes transporteuses comprend un groupe de bandes en cascade (4) constitué d'au moins deux bandes accélératrices (6, 7) placées l'une à la suite de l'autre dans la direction de transport (flèche 2) et, à la bande accélératrice (7) disposée en aval de la première bande accélératrice (6), est adjointe une bande supérieure (8) défilant conjointement avec elle de façon synchrone.
  2. Dispositif selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce qu'au groupe de bandes en cascade (4) est adjoint un moyen transporteur de chargement (18) sous forme d'une goulotte de transport oscillante (19) introduisant le produit à transporter sous une épaisseur de couche de l'ordre de 7 cm environ.
  3. Dispositif selon la revendication 1 ou 2, caractérisé en ce que, dans le cas de deux bandes accélératrices (6, 7) placées l'une à la suite de l'autre, la bande accélératrice (6) située en amont, par rapport à la direction de transport, peut être entraînée à une vitesse de l'ordre de 2,5 à 3,5 m/s environ, approchant la vitesse de mise en suspension du produit à transporter.
  4. Dispositif selon l'une des revendications 1 à 3, caractérisé en ce que la bande accélératrice (7) et la bande supérieure (8) à défilement conjoint, forment ensemble un canal de transport (13) fermé sur les côtés, qui est convergent dans la direction de transport (flèche 2).
  5. Dispositif selon l'une des revendications 1 à 4, caractérisé en ce que la bande accélératrice (6), située en amont, et la bande accélératrice (7), située en aval, peuvent être entraînées suivant un rapport de vitesses tel, qu'une épaisseur de couche du flux de matière s'établissant sur la bande accélératrice (6) située en amont soit, sur la bande accélératrice (7) située en aval, réduite de l'ordre de la moitié environ.
  6. Dispositif selon la revendication 2, caractérisé en ce que les moyens transporteurs de chargement (18) et le groupe de bandes en cascade (4) forment une section de transport d'orientation essentiellement horizontale.
  7. Dispositif selon la revendication 4, caractérisé en ce que le canal de transport (13) est délimité par des cornières latérales (14, 16), sur les branches horizontales desquelles la bande supérieure (8) est guidée suivant leur longueur, en contact frottant avec elles, et dont les branches verticales sont pourvues de lèvres d'étanchéité (17) en contact avec la bande accélératrice (7).
EP00101913A 1999-02-13 2000-02-01 Dispositif pour la formation d'une mono-couche à partir d'une épaisse couche de matière continue Expired - Lifetime EP1027837B1 (fr)

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DE19906125 1999-02-13
DE1999106125 DE19906125A1 (de) 1999-02-13 1999-02-13 Anordnung zum Bilden einer Tabakmonolage aus einem kontinuierlich zugeführten, dickschichtigen Tabakstrom
DE19918774 1999-04-24
DE1999118774 DE19918774A1 (de) 1999-04-24 1999-04-24 Anordnung zum Bilden einer Monolage aus einem kontinuierlich zugeführten dickschichtigen Materialstrom

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