EP1038452B1 - Einrichtung zum Überführen von pulver- oder granulatförmige Artikel enthaltenden Filterstäben - Google Patents

Einrichtung zum Überführen von pulver- oder granulatförmige Artikel enthaltenden Filterstäben Download PDF

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EP1038452B1
EP1038452B1 EP00105161A EP00105161A EP1038452B1 EP 1038452 B1 EP1038452 B1 EP 1038452B1 EP 00105161 A EP00105161 A EP 00105161A EP 00105161 A EP00105161 A EP 00105161A EP 1038452 B1 EP1038452 B1 EP 1038452B1
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Hans-Herbert Schmidt
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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
    • A24C5/32—Separating, ordering, counting or examining cigarettes; Regulating the feeding of tobacco according to rod or cigarette condition
    • A24C5/322—Transporting cigarettes during manufacturing
    • A24C5/323—Transporting cigarettes during manufacturing pneumatically

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  • the invention relates to a device for transferring powder or granular Particles, in particular carbon particles, containing filter rods from the tobacco processing industry Industry from a sending station to a receiving station a pneumatic conveying the articles in a longitudinal axial sequence Delivery line, with a free particle collecting and discharging delivery line section.
  • the invention is based, free carbon particles independent of the task delivery capacity of the pneumatic delivery line in an effective manner as completely as possible and in good time before entering pollution-prone areas Remove conveyor units.
  • this object is achieved in that the delivery line section provided in the area of the receiving station is interrupted by essentially transverse slots into which blown air channels aligned with a rising chamber open.
  • the delivery line section has separate delivery line segments formed by slots formed as radial slots.
  • the blown air ducts expediently branch off from a common blown air supply line running parallel to the conveying line section.
  • the discharge of the particles collected in the collecting chamber is simplified and facilitated in that the conveying line section - with respect to the conveying direction from top to bottom - is arranged to run essentially vertically with an outlet opening on the underside of the collecting chamber.
  • the advantage achieved by the invention is that both at low and even at high conveyor speeds of the filter rods that flow transversely Blown air detects and removes all adhering particles, the particles from the virtually unpressurized collecting chamber in this conveyor line section without more can be carried down.
  • the conveying device of FIG. 1 essentially consists of a transmitting station 1, a pneumatic conveying line 2 and a receiving station 3, as well as a braking means 4 arranged upstream of the receiving station 3 for reducing the conveying speed of filter rods 6 conveyed by the conveying line and an accelerating means 7 for the individual feeding of the filter rods 6 to the receiving station 3.
  • the devices offered by the applicant under the name "FILTROMAT" can be used as the transmitting and receiving station.
  • a U-shaped curved guide 8 is arranged between the braking means 4 and the acceleration means 7, the open side of which is covered by a flexible spring plate 9. With a guide 8 of this type, the conveying direction of the filter rods 6 can be changed in a very small space.
  • the brake means 4 and the acceleration means 7 are identical in their construction and are described together below.
  • the reference symbols for the braking means 4 are provided with the index a and those for the acceleration means 7 have the index b .
  • the braking means 4 (acceleration means 7) consists of four rollers 11a, 12a, 13a, 14a (11b, 12b, 13b, 14b), of which two rollers 11a, 12a (11b, 12b) and 13a, 14a (13b, 14b) ) are arranged one behind the other in the conveying direction (arrow 16) of the filter rods 6 and are looped around by endless belts 17a (17b) or 18a (18b) designed as means for transmitting the braking force (acceleration force) to the filter rods 6.
  • the distances between the rollers 11a and 13a (11b and 13b) or 12a and 14a (12b and 14b) are selected so that the belts 17a, 18a firmly grip the filter rods 6 on the one hand, but do not deform them too much on the other hand.
  • the rollers 11a and 13a (11b and 13b) can be driven by a motor 23 via a belt drive 19a (19b) and a pair of gears 21a, 22a (21b, 22b) connecting the rollers 11a and 13a (11b and 13b), the rollers 12a or 14a (12b or 14b) can also be driven via the belts 17a (17b) or 18a (18b).
  • the belt drives 19a and 19b are designed such that the rollers 11b and 13b of the accelerating means 7 can be driven at a greater peripheral speed than the rollers 11a and 13a of the braking means 4.
  • the removal station 3 has a conveyor in the form of two endless parallel belts 24, of which only the rear one is shown, which are used to move the filter rods 6 in the transverse axial direction into a memory (not shown), for example the memory of a filter attachment machine.
  • the conveyor belts 24 are guided around rollers 26, 27, wherein the roller 27 can also be driven by a motor, not shown, via a pair of gearwheels 28 and the corresponding counter-roller via a toothed belt drive 29.
  • a arranged between the pair of rollers 26 and the accelerating means 7 guide surface 31 for the filter rods 6 emerging from the conveying line 2 has a guide wedge 32 for lifting the leading ends of the filter rods 6 so that they can be gripped by the central strands of the pairs of belts 24.
  • a containment chamber 33 enclosed conveyor line section 34 installed as shown in Figure 2 by transverse radial slots 36 in a row Delivery line segments 37 is divided.
  • Blown air channels 38 Open into the radial slots 36 Blown air channels 38, which on the opposite chamber wall of the enclosing Collection chamber 33 are aligned and of a common, parallel branch off to the delivery line section 34 extending blown air supply line 39.
  • the Blown air supply line 39 has a blown air connection 41 and the collecting chamber 33 equipped with a drain port 42 for carbon particles 43.
  • the mode of operation of the device according to FIGS. 1 and 2 is as follows:
  • Filter rods 6 are conveyed from the transmitting station 1 through the pneumatic delivery line 2 to the braking means 4.
  • the transverse air flow in the radial slots 36 detects free or detached carbon particles 43 or detached from the filter rods 6 and throws them in the direction of the opposite chamber wall of the collecting chamber 33, where they sink to the bottom and are removed via the outlet connection 42.
  • the filter rods 6 freed from stray carbon particles 43 are non-positively gripped and braked by the belts 17a, 18a.
  • a backlog of filter rods 6 forms in front of the braking means 4, a not inconsiderable pressure being exerted on the filter rod 6 held between the belts 17a, 18a.
  • the filter rod 6 in question is guided by the belts 17a, 18a practically over its entire length, it can be held without slippage without being excessively deformed and braked to a defined speed.
  • the guide area of the braking means 4 does not necessarily have to correspond to the entire length of a filter rod, but it can also be shorter or longer, depending on the length of the filter rods to be processed.
  • the filter rods slide through the curved guide 8 and are non-positively gripped by the belts 17b, 18b of the accelerating means 7 and conveyed to the receiving station 3 in an accelerated manner. This ensures that the filter rods 6 are in each case spatially separated from a subsequent filter rod 6.
  • the filter rods 6 slide over the guide surface 31 onto the guide wedge 32 and are thereby raised so that they are gripped by the belts 24 and transported upwards.

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  • Manufacturing Of Cigar And Cigarette Tobacco (AREA)
  • Cigarettes, Filters, And Manufacturing Of Filters (AREA)
  • Air Transport Of Granular Materials (AREA)
  • Solid-Sorbent Or Filter-Aiding Compositions (AREA)
  • Water Treatment By Sorption (AREA)
  • Filtering Of Dispersed Particles In Gases (AREA)
EP00105161A 1999-03-25 2000-03-11 Einrichtung zum Überführen von pulver- oder granulatförmige Artikel enthaltenden Filterstäben Expired - Lifetime EP1038452B1 (de)

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