EP1121028B1 - Vorrichtung zum verbinden von axial fluchtenden zigaretten- filterstopfen- gruppen - Google Patents

Vorrichtung zum verbinden von axial fluchtenden zigaretten- filterstopfen- gruppen Download PDF

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EP1121028B1
EP1121028B1 EP99952514A EP99952514A EP1121028B1 EP 1121028 B1 EP1121028 B1 EP 1121028B1 EP 99952514 A EP99952514 A EP 99952514A EP 99952514 A EP99952514 A EP 99952514A EP 1121028 B1 EP1121028 B1 EP 1121028B1
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Phileffe Ozeray
Robert Calvairac
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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
    • A24C5/47—Attaching filters or mouthpieces to cigars or cigarettes, e.g. inserting filters into cigarettes or their mouthpieces
    • A24C5/471—Attaching filters or mouthpieces to cigars or cigarettes, e.g. inserting filters into cigarettes or their mouthpieces by means of a connecting band

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  • the invention relates to a device for connecting grouped aligned axially aligned cigarettes and filter plugs by wrapping glued connection flakes around the joints adjacent areas of the cigarette and the filter plug, with a moving rolling surface, which together with a Gegenroll Structure a rolling channel for rolling the groups and forms the wrapping around the leaflets caused thereby, wherein in the entrance region of the rolling channel, a launch bar for forcibly and simultaneously initiate the rolling movement of the groups is arranged.
  • the connecting leaflet may be so long as to cover not only the filter plug but also the cigarettes.
  • a glued connection leaflet is adhered to the filter plug and the areas of the group of cigarettes adjacent to the joints between filter plug and cigarette and the group is fed to a rolling channel.
  • This consists essentially of a moving rolling surface, which is generally formed as a surface portion of a rotatable roller drum, and a stationary or moving counter rolling surface. The distance between the rolling surface and the counter rolling surface is slightly smaller than the diameter of cigarettes and filter plug, so that a group conveyed on the roller drum performs a rolling movement in the rolling channel.
  • the glued connection leaflet is wrapped around filter plugs and the end portions of the cigarette adjacent to the joints. Thereafter, two filter cigarettes are formed from the group by a central cut through the filter plug.
  • filter cigarettes can also be formed from single cigarettes with adjoining filter plug simple use length, with a rolling and wrapping process following central section through the filter plug deleted.
  • a rolling and wrapping process following central section through the filter plug deleted.
  • the problem underlying the invention is the function of the start bar to improve, especially if in the rolling channel oval cigarettes and Filter plug to be rolled.
  • the launch bar facing at its the rolling channel Side on a group leading to the rolling channel transition is a group leading to the rolling channel transition.
  • the transition is formed as a continuous guide surface, which leads the groups after rolling smoothly to the level of the rolling channel.
  • the guide surface is advantageously rounded. It may have fine intersecting grooves (Strehlungsriefen) in a further embodiment of the invention, which make the surfaces of the guide more grip, which increases the accuracy of the leadership of the cigarette.
  • the launch bar may be serrated or wavy at its outer line of action. The launch bar of the invention is particularly suitable for the arrangement of rolling channels, which are designed to roll groups of oval cigarettes and filter plugs and whose rolling and Schmidtroll vom are designed according to wavy.
  • the rolling surface may have fine intersecting grooves (Strehlungsriefen).
  • grooves of a group of grooves of at least approximately parallel grooves intersect with the grooves of at least one group of likewise at least approximately parallel grooves.
  • the grooves of at least one share can then have an angle to the cigarette longitudinal axes.
  • the counter rolling surface can also be provided with Strehlungsriefen of the type described above.
  • the depth of the Strehlungsriefen according to the invention is Favor 0.3 mm 1.2 mm, z. B. about 0.5 mm.
  • the advantage of the device according to the invention is that the groups of cigarettes and filter plugs do not abruptly but gently leave the strip after the roll-up caused by the starting strip, after which they are gently guided on a continuous surface to the rolling channel.
  • the invention is particularly suitable for rolling oval cigarettes and filter plugs, which do not crash from the launch bar, but are gently guided downwards.
  • the application of intersecting Strehlungsriefen on the following rolling surface and / or the subsequent counter rolling surface is particularly advantageous because the grip of the boundary surfaces of the rolling channel is increased by this measure, so that the contact pressure on the cigarette filter plug groups can be reduced in the rolling channel which also reduces hardness losses.
  • FIGs 1 and 2 show a rolling device 30 known from DE-A1-195 07 395 of a filter tying machine, not shown, for wrapping oval cigarette filter plug cigarette groups 52 with the tipping paper leaflets 53, of which one is shown in Figure 2 for illustration purposes. The remaining leaflets are not shown for simplicity and clarity.
  • the rolling device 30 consists of the rotating roller drum 29 and the rolling surface 62 and the stationary roller hand 31 with a rolling surface of the roller drum adjacent counter-rolling surface 54.
  • the roller drum 29 has a hollow cylindrical drum body 56 which is a stationary control body 57 with a non-illustrated Vacuum source connected control slots 58 rotates in its outer peripheral surface.
  • axially parallel holding troughs 59 are arranged, to which via the control slots 58 corresponding Saugluftö réelleen 61 in predetermined angular ranges of the roller drum suction train can be applied.
  • the circumferential surface of the rolling drum 29 is, as already mentioned, formed as a rolling surface 62, in which the flat formed holding troughs 59 are integrated.
  • the roller drum rotates in the direction of arrow 63.
  • the counter-rolling surface 54 having rolling hand 31 is attached to a Paralielhebeltrieb not described in more detail 64, which pivots it away by means of a drive 66, such as a piston-cylinder unit, if necessary from the rolling drum 29 and keeps them in operation in its functional position.
  • the rolling surface 62 of the rolling drum 29 and the counter rolling surface 54 have a wave profile. This results between the surface 62 of the rolling drum 29 and the counter-rolling surface 54 a rolling channel 67.
  • the rolling surface 62 of the rolling drum 29 and the counter-rolling surface 54 are adapted to the non-circular shape of the roll channel 67 rolling article groups 52.
  • the shaft profiles are shaped so that the article groups 52 can roll when rolling in the rolling channel 67 on the moving rolling surface 62 of the rolling drum and the stationary counter rolling surface 54, at the same time the central axis of the article groups on a circular arc 68 about the axis 69 of the rolling drum 29th emotional.
  • This design of the rolling surface 62 and the counter rolling surface 54 thus causes the center of gravity of the article groups 52 to move in a continuous circular path through the rolling channel 67, while the non-round article groups are rolled.
  • the tipping paper leaflet 53 previously attached to the article groups wraps around the joints of the axially suitably arranged components and connects them to double-filter cigarettes 71.
  • an axially parallel launch bar 72 is arranged at the beginning of the counter rolling surface 54, which ejects the article groups from their holding troughs, while aligning parallel to the axis and starts the rolling process.
  • FIG. 3 shows a rolling drum 29 with a rolling surface 62 of the form shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the rolling surface of which additionally has fine intersecting grooves, so-called radial grooves.
  • the grooves of a family of at least approximately parallel grooves intersect advantageously with the grooves of at least one further family of likewise at least approximately parallel grooves.
  • the grooves of at least one group have an angle to the cigarette axes.
  • the grooves of a group can run parallel to the axes of the cigarette, while the grooves of at least one other group extend at an angle to the axes of the cigarette.
  • the intersecting grooves cover the rolling surfaces net-like, so that there are elevations with very small surfaces between the grooves, which are very grippy and let the cigarettes roll very well and without slippage. It is also possible to use two sets of intersecting grooves, none of which contain grooves that run parallel to the cigarette axes.
  • the depth of the Strehlungsriefen is preferably between 0.3 to 1.2 mm, z. B. at about 0.5 mm.
  • the forces on the cigarettes can be lower compared to the usual rolling channels, which reduces the hardness losses of the cigarettes.
  • the rolling surface 62 has not shown holding troughs corresponding holding troughs 59 in Figure 2.
  • the counter rolling surface 54 on the rolling hand 31 may advantageously also be provided in addition with Strehlungsriefen corresponding to the rolling surface 62, which further increase the grip of the boundary surfaces 62 and 54 of the rolling channel 67.
  • the advantage of lower load on the article groups and the resulting lower hardness losses also occurs in round cigarettes, which are rolled in rolling channels whose rolling surfaces and counter rolling surfaces are cylindrical. Also on such rolling surfaces and / or counter rolling surfaces can be applied intersecting crowds of Strehlungsriefen that cover the surfaces like a net.
  • the arranged at the beginning of the rolling channel 67 launch bar 72 has advantageous her the roll channel 67 side facing a group leading to the rolling channel Transition 72a on.
  • This transition can be designed as a guide surface be, which is formed by back grinding the launch bar 72, and advantageous also provided with Strehlungsriefen. Also these Strehlungsriefen can form intersecting crowds, which cover the surface 72a reticulate. They increase the grip of the transitional surfaces, especially for non-round cigarettes, like oval cigarettes, is very beneficial because it reduces the risk of tipping becomes.
  • the outer line of action of the launch bar 72 a Zacken- or Waveform 72b and 72c have.
  • the last-mentioned embodiments of Launch bar 72 with guide surfaces 72a and surfaces 72b, 72c according to the invention are not just for oval cigarettes, but also for round cigarettes advantageous.

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EP99952514A 1998-10-14 1999-10-05 Vorrichtung zum verbinden von axial fluchtenden zigaretten- filterstopfen- gruppen Expired - Lifetime EP1121028B1 (de)

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DE19847337 1998-10-14
DE19847337A DE19847337A1 (de) 1998-10-14 1998-10-14 Vorrichtung zum Verbinden von axial fluchtenden Zigaretten-Filterstopfen-Gruppen
PCT/EP1999/007443 WO2000021395A1 (de) 1998-10-14 1999-10-05 Vorrichtung zum verbinden von axial fluchtenden zigaretten- filterstopfen- gruppen

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