EP1405573A2 - Egalisateur pour machine de tige de cigarette - Google Patents

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EP1405573A2
EP1405573A2 EP03004727A EP03004727A EP1405573A2 EP 1405573 A2 EP1405573 A2 EP 1405573A2 EP 03004727 A EP03004727 A EP 03004727A EP 03004727 A EP03004727 A EP 03004727A EP 1405573 A2 EP1405573 A2 EP 1405573A2
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Frédéric LOUIS
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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
    • A24C5/14—Machines of the continuous-rod type
    • A24C5/18—Forming the rod
    • A24C5/1814—Forming the rod containing parts of different densities, e.g. dense ends
    • 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
    • A24C5/14—Machines of the continuous-rod type
    • A24C5/18—Forming the rod
    • A24C5/1842—Trimming devices

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  • the invention relates to a device for trimming a tobacco rod, especially in a cigarette rod machine, with a strand forming agent Formation of a trimmed tobacco rod. Furthermore concerns the invention a use of a device as well a machine of the tobacco processing industry, in particular Cigarette-making machine.
  • Cigarettes are generally made so that you free head end, for filter cigarettes the end of the fire, has a head reinforcement that prevents tobacco falls out of the headboard.
  • This head reinforcement exists from an area of greater tobacco density at the head of the Cigarette.
  • After wrapping the tobacco rod with a wrapping material strip one after the other rod-shaped sections single or multiple Use length separated into a transverse axial Direction of conveyance redirected and processed into filter cigarettes become.
  • Head reinforcements on a suction line conveyor expanded tobacco rod using an equalizer trimmed.
  • the equalizer is supposed to be by trimming the excess tobacco the desired cigarette weight adjust and at the same time realize a head reinforcement.
  • a leveler consists of two trimmer disks and a paddle wheel, the trimmer discs depending on the format are.
  • the trimmer discs are also available Provide head reinforcement pockets so that the edge ends and / or mouthpiece ends of the tobacco pieces reinforced become.
  • the number of pockets in the trimmer discs is the length of the tobacco stick and the type of head reinforcement dependent.
  • the excess tobacco is from a paddle wheel located below the trimmer discs chipped or severed.
  • the severed Tobacco is fed via a return conveyor belt and a shaking channel to the back of the distributor in a tobacco store recycled.
  • the Tobacco is pre-regulated with a pair of smooth trimmers, with a cam at the locations of the head reinforcement compacted and then with the smooth Trimming disc pair trimmed to the correct height.
  • the tobacco fibers in the areas of the desired head reinforcements mechanically stressed, so that longer Tobacco fibers are broken and the head ends instead a higher filling power have a lower filling power. As a result, the cigarettes have soft ends exhibit.
  • the strand forming agent to form a trimmed Tobacco skeins with alternately arranged trimmed and non-trimmed areas is.
  • the strand forming agent supplied tobacco rod which is also trimmed can be, with an upstream trimming device Provided areas by the strand forming agent be trimmed or not trimmed. During the trim become longer tobacco fibers in the places that subsequently form the head ends of cigarettes, neither broken or compressed. At the same time, surplus Tobacco fibers in the areas where the Tobacco density should be low due to the means of purchase away.
  • the trimming system according to the invention has no compacting means or compression means for head reinforcement on.
  • the strand-forming agent according to the invention may even a pre-leveling one to trim tobacco strands are eliminated.
  • Those in the non-trimmed Areas arranged longer tobacco fibers are treated gently overall, because according to the Invention no compression or compression provided is so that the longer fibers are not broken.
  • the strand forming agent with at least a pair of trim discs and a removal means trained to remove excess tobacco is.
  • the tobacco fibers will be in the untrimmed areas especially then not mechanically stressed or compresses if at least one trim disc with at least one recess and / or at least one Flattening is provided.
  • Compact the trim discs hence the tobacco fibers neither at a cutting nor overlapping arrangement of the slices when the tobacco fibers between the recesses or flats of the two trim discs.
  • the removal means with at least one recess is provided so that sections of the tobacco rod excess tobacco can be easily separated.
  • the recess according to the invention achieved tobacco fibers from the the head reinforcements non-trimmed areas removed or knocked out of the tobacco rod become.
  • At least two cutouts are preferably at the Acceptance means provided and / or regularly on the acceptance means trained so that high productivity of Machine is reached.
  • the removal means is a paddle wheel.
  • the trim discs and the means of acceptance, in particular the recesses and / or the flats of the trim discs and at least a recess in the take-off means, synchronizable are so that a tobacco rod with a high Conveying speed after passing through the strand-forming agent with trimmed by the strand forming agent and non-trimmed areas.
  • the synchronization above all means high production speeds and proper operation of the guaranteed device according to the invention.
  • the pre-equalization agent by means of a pair of trim discs, especially with smooth panes and / or a removal device, preferably paddle wheel.
  • Another solution is to use a Device with an inventive, above described strand forming agent in a machine the tobacco processing industry, especially the cigarette rod making machine. To avoid repetitions is on the strand forming agent described above expressly referred.
  • the object is achieved by a machine tobacco processing industry, especially cigarette rod making machine, those with a facility or a strand forming agents according to the invention for forming a trimmed tobacco rods with alternating arrangement trimmed and untrimmed areas.
  • FIG. 1 is a perspective view Applicant's "PROTOS" cigarette rolling machine shown.
  • a lock 1 a pre-distributor 2 is charged with tobacco in portions.
  • a removal roller 3 of the pre-distributor 2 supplements controlled a storage container 4 with tobacco, from which a Steep conveyor 5 takes tobacco and a storage shaft 6 controlled feed.
  • a pin roller 7 removes one from the storage shaft 6 uniform flow of tobacco from a knockout drum 8 knocked out of the pins of the pin roller 7 and is thrown onto a surrounding diffuser 9.
  • tobacco fleece formed on the spreading cloth 9 is in a Sighting device 11 hurled, which essentially consists of an air curtain, the larger or heavier Pieces of tobacco happen while all other tobacco particles from the air into one of a pin roller 12 and a wall 13 formed funnel 14 are directed.
  • the tobacco is transferred from the pin roller 12 into a tobacco channel 16 hurled against a strand conveyor 17 on the the tobacco is sucked into a vacuum chamber 18 Air is kept and a tobacco rod is piled up.
  • a leveler 19 removes excess tobacco from that Strand of tobacco (reference numeral 50, Fig. 2), which then a cigarette paper strip fed in synchronism 21 is placed.
  • the cigarette paper strip 21 is from withdrawn from a bobbin 22 by a printing unit 23 guided and placed on a driven format tape 24.
  • the format tape 24 transports it through the leveler 19 trimmed tobacco rod (reference number 55, Fig. 2) and the cigarette paper strip 21 by a format 26, in that of the cigarette paper strips 21 around the tobacco rod is folded so that an edge protrudes from a glue apparatus, not shown, in a known manner is glued. Then the adhesive seam is closed and dried from a tandem seam plate 27. So educated A cigarette rod passes through a rod density measuring device 29, which controls the equalizer 19, and is operated by a knife apparatus 31 into double-long cigarettes 32 cut.
  • the double long cigarettes 32 are from one Controlled arms 33 having transfer device 34 a take-over drum 36 of a filter attachment machine 37 passed on the cutting drum 38 with a Circular knives can be divided into individual cigarettes.
  • conveyor belts 39, 41 convey excess tobacco into one containers 42 arranged under the storage container 4, from which the returned tobacco from the steep conveyor 5 is removed again.
  • a leveler 19 is shown, the two in trims in the opposite direction 60.1, 60.2 and a paddle wheel 65 as a removal means for includes the excess tobacco.
  • the trim discs 60.1, 60.2 touch at least approximately with their scope in the middle of the channel of a suction conveyor or the Tobacco skein 50.
  • the trim disks 60.1, 60.2 recesses 62.1, 62.2 formed in their circumferences, the evenly or regularly on the circumference of the trim discs 60.1, 60.2 are arranged.
  • the trim discs 60.1, 60.2 are driven synchronously, so that each a recess 62.1, 62.2 of each trim disk 60.1, 60.2 at the same time, i.e. symmetrical, in the tobacco rod 50 be rotated.
  • the tobacco fibers in Tobacco rod 50 not mechanically loaded or compressed, so that on the trimmed by the leveler 19 Tobacco strand 55 areas 57 are formed that are not are trimmed.
  • the areas 57 are particularly then not trimmed if at the same time the paddle wheel 65 its recesses 66 below the tobacco rod is rotated.
  • trimmed areas 56 are arranged trimmed areas 56 by trimming using the trims 60.1, 60.2 and the paddles of the paddle wheel 65 are formed. at the trimming of the areas 56 are the outer peripheral areas the trim discs 60.1, 60.2 approximate each other. By trimming the tobacco excess in Strand of tobacco removed in areas 56 so that the Density of the tobacco, as desired, in this area 56 should be low.
  • the untrimmed areas 57 then form the head reinforcements or head ends of the formed cigarettes. By not trimming the longer tobacco fibers in areas 57 longer tobacco fibers are retained, so that the filling power or holding force in the end areas of a cigarette thereby being improved.
  • FIG. 3 is another embodiment of a Equalizer 19 shown, the one described in Fig. 2 Pair of trim discs 60.1, 60.2 and the paddle wheel 65 in the conveying direction of the tobacco rod 50 another pair of trim discs 70.1, 70.2 and another Paddle wheel 75 for pre-leveling the tobacco rod 50 is prefixed.
  • the trim discs 70.1, 70.2 are as smooth discs trained, i.e. without recesses or head amplifier pockets, so that the tobacco rod 50 is trimmed first is based on the degree of head reinforcement with the Head reinforcement areas 57, which are subsequently from the Trim discs 60.1, 60.2 and the paddle wheel 65 are not be trimmed.
  • the tobacco rod 50 is the paddle wheel 75 below the trim discs 70.1, 70.2 arranged that with its continuously revolving Paddle the excess tobacco away. This in Direction of delivery following pair of trim discs 60.1, 60.2 trims the pre-trimmed tobacco rod to the tobacco weight and leaves the excess tobacco pre-trimmed Tobacco strand for head reinforcement in areas 57 stand.
  • FIGS. 4a, 4b and 5a, 5b are top views, respectively on different trim discs 60.1, 60.2 shown.
  • 4a and 5a show the trim discs 60.1, 60.2 in a touching position, 4b and 5b, respectively, the trimming discs 60.1, 60.2 overlap in an overlap area 67.
  • the trim disks 60.1, shown in FIGS. 4a, 4b, 60.2 have regularly arranged recesses 62.1, 62.2 over the circumference of the cutting discs 60.1, 60.2.
  • 5a, 5b is a further embodiment for Trim discs 60.1, 60.2 shown.
  • the Trim discs 60.1, 60.2 flats 64.1, 64.2 their scope.
  • the flattening 64.1, 64.2 as a straight cut of the originally circular Trim discs 60.1, 60.2 are formed.
  • the flattenings 64.1, 64.2 are arranged evenly.
  • the trim discs 60.1, 60.2 symmetrical to each other arranged and are driven synchronously.
  • the Cutouts 62.1, 62.2 or the flats 64.1, 64.2 become a non-trimmed one in the tobacco rod to be trimmed Area trained.
  • the selection of the disc geometry and the type of Arrangement, contact on the disc circumference (see Fig. 4a, 5a) or overlap (see. Fig. 4b, 5b) to achieve the Head reinforcement depends on the one to be processed Tobacco mix e.g. of the fragility of the fibers or the mixture composition (proportion of ribs, expanded tobacco and / or tobacco foil and type of used tobacco types).

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CN106983173A (zh) * 2017-05-16 2017-07-28 红云红河烟草(集团)有限责任公司 一种protos70新型平整器
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