EP1519657B1 - Procede de production de cigarettes a bout filtre - Google Patents

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EP1519657B1
EP1519657B1 EP03741079A EP03741079A EP1519657B1 EP 1519657 B1 EP1519657 B1 EP 1519657B1 EP 03741079 A EP03741079 A EP 03741079A EP 03741079 A EP03741079 A EP 03741079A EP 1519657 B1 EP1519657 B1 EP 1519657B1
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Fiorenzo Draghetti
Gabriele Giunta
Salvatore Rizzoli
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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
    • A24C5/478—Transport means for filter- or cigarette-rods in view of their assembling

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  • the present invention relates to a method of producing filter-tipped cigarettes.
  • filter-tipped cigarettes are known to be produced on a filter assembly machine defining internally a path along which elongated tobacco articles are fed in a direction crosswise to their respective axes.
  • the above known filter assembly machine receives, at an input, a succession of first tobacco articles - hereinafter referred to as "double portions" - which, travelling transversely along said path through a cutting station, are each cut.into two coaxial single portions.
  • each double portion is then spaced axially and separated by the interposition of a double filter, which is fed to the double portion feed line by a separate feed line, and forms, together with the relative pair of single portions, a second tobacco article hereinafter referred to as a " group " .
  • each group is then connected integrally to one another at a rolling station by means of a gummed strip to form a third tobacco article - hereinafter referred to as a "double cigarette" - wherein a central portion of the strip covers the double filter, and the end portions of the strip cover the facing ends of the two single cigarette portions.
  • rolling the groups to form the relative double cigarettes is a highly critical step, in that rolling speed, which is a direct function of the output rate of the filter assembly machine, must be kept within a given maximum value to avoid tobacco fallout from the open ends of the single portions.
  • rolling speed is also known to depend directly on the pitch with which the succession of groups is fed to the rolling station.
  • the standard pitch with which the groups are fed to the rolling station is relatively long (about 37.7 mm) and, though simplifying various handling operations upstream from the rolling station, is directly and largely responsible for the rolling speed of the groups.
  • US-5349968-A1 discloses a method of producing filter-tipped cigarettes, in which an orderly succession of first tobacco items, each consisting of a double cigarette portion, is fed along a path, along which the first items are cut into two portions, which are connected by rolling, and by means of an outer band and the interposition of an intermediate double filter, to form an orderly succession of second items, which are cut to form a first and second succession of third items consisting of single, side by side, oppositely-oriented cigarettes; the cigarettes in one of the two successions being turned over 180 DEG in relation to those in the other succession to form at least one stream of equioriented cigarettes for supply to a follow-up machine.
  • the pitch of the various successions of items undergoing only one change along the entire path and in particular the pitch is reduced downstream from a rolling station.
  • US-5474091-A1 proposes feeding the double portions to the filter assembly machine with a shorter than standard pitch, i.e. a pitch approximately equal to but no shorter than the length of the strips used - in actual practice, a length ranging between approximately 32 and 20 mm. According to a different embodiment shown in figure 3, US-5474091-Al proposes reducing the pitch of the items to the above shorter pitch immediately upstream from a rolling station.
  • FIG. 1 and 2 show schematic side views of a first and second portion respectively of a system for implementing the method constituting the object of the present invention.
  • Number 1 in Figure 1 indicates as a whole a system for producing filter-tipped cigarettes, and comprising a known cigarette manufacturing machine 2.
  • Machine 2 in turn comprises an output plate 3, along which a continuous cigarette rod (not shown) is fed at substantially constant axial speed and divided by a known cutting head (not shown) into a succession of double portions 4.
  • the cutting head (not shown) is rotated in known manner at such a speed as to produce double portions 4 of a length equal to the sum of the lengths of the tobacco-containing portions of two filter-tipped cigarettes being produced.
  • Number 5 in Figure 1 indicates as a whole a filter assembly machine, a known input unit 6 of which transfers double portions 4 successively in known manner from output plate 3 of manufacturing machine 2 into respective seats 7 equally spaced with a pitch P1, normally of 37.7 mm, along the periphery of a roller 8 defining an input roller of filter assembly machine 5 and rotating anticlockwise in Figure 1 at constant angular speed.
  • manufacturing machine 2 is a dual-rod machine; in which case, double portions 4 are picked up in pairs, one for each rod, off plates 3 and transferred to roller 8 by a known input unit, preferably of the type described in US Patent No. 4,645,063.
  • Input roller 8 feeds double portions 4, crosswise to their respective longitudinal axes, along an input portion of an initial portion S1 of a path B extending along the whole of filter assembly machine 5, and transfers double portions 4 successively to respective seats 9 equally spaced with said pitch P1 along the periphery of a roller 10, which is powered to rotate clockwise in Figure 1, is located tangent to input roller 8, and conveys double portions 4 with their ends contacting an aligning plate 11, which aligns them perfectly with one another crosswise to their travelling direction.
  • double portions 4 are fed by roller 10, still along portion S1 of path B, through a known cutting station 12, where each double portion 4 is cut into two portions 13 and 14, which remain aligned inside seat 9 and substantially contacting each other end to end.
  • roller 10 is tangent to side by side rollers 16 and 17 of a parting or axial spacing assembly indicated as a whole by 18.
  • parting assembly 18 is of the type described in US Patent No. 4,531,629, to which full reference is made herein for the purpose of full disclosure, though other types of parting devices, such as that described in US Patent No. 4,200,179, may obviously be used in place of parting assembly 18 shown.
  • portions 13 and 14 occupying each seat 9 are transferred to respective seats 19 and 20, which, in known manner, are wider than seats 9 and spaced along the peripheries of respective rollers 16 and 17 with pitch P1.
  • parting assembly 18 By virtue of parting assembly 18, whose rollers 16 and 17 are offset in height, the portions 13 and 14 formerly aligned inside each seat 9 are parted axially by a distance substantially equal to the length of a double filter 21, and are fed, at a transfer station 22 defining an output end of initial portion S1, into seats 23, which, in known manner and like seats 19 and 20, are wider than seats 9 and spaced, with a shorter pitch P2 than P1, along the periphery of a roller 24 substantially tangent to rollers 16 and 17 and defining the input roller of a first intermediate portion S2 of path B.
  • pitch P2 ranges between 30 and 32 mm, and is normally 31 mm.
  • Roller 24 is parallel to roller 10, and defines an output portion of both portion S1 of path B and a line 25 supplying double filters 21, and which comprises an output roller 26 having seats 27 spaced with the shorter pitch P2 along the periphery of roller 26.
  • Roller 26 feeds each double filter 21 to a relative seat 23 at a loading station 28 located upstream from transfer station 22. More specifically, roller 26 feeds each double filter 21 into a substantially central portion of respective seat 23 corresponding to the gap between the facing ends of the relative pair of portions 13 and 14, so that, once fed into respective seat 23, each double filter 21 defines, inside seat 23, two vacant end portions, which are eventually occupied by respective coaxial portions 13 and 14 to form, on roller 24, a group 29 defined by two portions 13 and 14 separated by a double filter 21.
  • Roller 24 feeds groups 29 successively, with the shorter pitch P2, to seats 30 of a roller 31, which is located along portion S2 and feeds groups 29 successively through a loading station 32 for loading a succession of strips 33 fed with the shorter pitch P2 to roller 31 by a feed line 34.
  • Each strip 33 integrally connects portions 13 and 14 and double filter 21 of a respective group 29, and is of a length approximately equal to but no less than the length of the outer periphery of portions 13 and 14, and approximately equal to but no greater than pitch P2, which is just sufficient to enable each strip 33 to engage a relative group 29 along an outer generating line of group 29, and to project from relative group 29 towards, and without contacting, the adjacent upstream group 29.
  • a pitch P2 of 31 mm provides for producing cigarettes of any currently used size (roughly 8.6 mm maximum diameter), though shorter pitches P2 may obviously be used in the case of machines producing given sizes.
  • a known rolling unit 35 is located immediately downstream from roller 31, and comprises a roller 36 having seats 37 spaced with the shorter pitch P2 along the periphery of roller 36, and each for receiving in known manner from roller 31 a relative group 29 and a relative strip 33.
  • Roller 36 feeds groups 29 and relative strips 33 to a rolling station 38, which is defined by a fixed plate 39 facing the outer periphery of roller 36 and defined, in known manner on the side facing roller 36, by a knurled cylindrical surface portion coaxial with roller 36 and separated from an outer cylindrical surface of roller 36 by a distance approximately equal to but no greater than the diameter of a portion 13, 14.
  • each group 29 rolls backwards about its axis and out of relative seat 37, so that relative strip 33 winds about relative double filter 21 and the end portions, facing double filter 21, of relative portions 13 and 14 to form a double cigarette 40.
  • double cigarettes 40 roll backwards, during rolling, along the periphery of roller 36, so as to reduce their pitch, by the end of plate 39, to a pitch P3 substantially equal to half pitch P2 and normally of 16-17 mm.
  • double cigarettes 40 are transferred, with pitch P3 and at a transfer station 41, into respective seats 42 spaced with pitch P3 along the periphery of a roller 43.
  • Roller 43 defines the input roller of a second intermediate portion S3 of path B, and transfers double cigarettes 40 to a further roller 44 for feeding double cigarettes 40 through a cutting assembly 45, which cuts double cigarettes 40 in half to produce, from each double cigarette 40, two coaxial single cigarettes 46 with their filters facing and contacting end to end.
  • each pair of single cigarettes 46 is transferred to respective aligned seats 48a and 48b on a roller 49 of a turnover unit 50 defining the input of an output portion S4 of path B.
  • seats 48a are fixed with respect to roller 49, whereas each seat 48b is movable with respect to roller 49, and rotates obliquely 180° with respect to roller 49 into a position between two respective adjacent seats 48a, so as to form a succession of equioriented single cigarettes 46, which are spaced with a pitch P4 equal to half pitch P3, are positioned substantially contacting one another laterally, and are transferred, with pitch P4 and through a succession of known work stations (not shown) located between two rollers 51 and 52, to an output roller 53, and onto an output conveyor 54 terminating portion S4 and path B.
  • both double filters 21 and strips 33 can be supplied with the shorter pitch P2 and therefore at a slower speed.

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  1. Procédé de production de cigarettes à bout filtre, le procédé comprenant les étapes consistant à :
    alimenter une succession ordonnée de premiers articles (4) de tabac, espacés avec un premier espacement (P1) et chacun défini par une partie de double cigarette, à une première partie (S1) d'une voie (B) de passage s'étendant le long d'une machine (5) d'assemblage de filtres ;
    alimenter lesdits premiers articles (4) le long de ladite première partie (S1) et à travers une première station (12) de coupe pour couper lesdits premiers articles (4) de façon transversale en des paires respectives de parties (13, 14), et ensuite par un moyen (18) d'espacement pour espacer de façon axiale les parties (13, 14) dans chaque dite paire ;
    alimenter lesdites paires de parties espacées (13, 14) le long d'une deuxième partie (S2) de ladite voie (B) de passage ;
    interposer, au moment où ils se dirigent le long de ladite deuxième partie (S2), un double filtre (21) entre les parties (13, 14) dans chaque dite paire, pour former une succession de deuxièmes articles (29), chacun défini par ladite paire relative de parties (13, 14) et par ledit double filtre interposé relatif (21) ;
    appliquer en roulant, le long de ladite deuxième partie (S2), une bande respective (33) sur chaque deuxième article (29) pour joindre ladite paire relative de parties (13, 14) et ledit double filtre relatif (21) et former un troisième article (40) défini par une double cigarette ;
    alimenter lesdits troisièmes articles (40) le long d'une troisième partie (S3) de ladite voie (B) de passage et à travers une deuxième station (45) de coupe pour obtenir, de chaque dit troisième article (40), deux quatrièmes articles (46) orientés de façon opposée et chacun défini par une cigarette à bout filtre; et
    alimenter lesdits quatrièmes articles (46) le long d'une quatrième partie (S4) de ladite voie (B) de passage et à travers une unité rotative (50) pour obtenir une succession desdits quatrièmes articles équiorientés (46) ; le procédé est caractérisé en ce qu'il comprend l'étape supplémentaire de soumettre lesdits premiers articles (4), au moment où ils se dirigent le long de ladite première partie (S1) et ainsi avant d'interposer un double filtre (21) entre les parties (13, 14) dans chaque dite paire, à une réduction d'espacement pour créer un deuxième espacement (P2) plus court que ledit premier espacement (P1) et d'une longueur environ égale à mais non inférieure à la longueur de ladite bande relative (33).
  2. Procédé selon la revendication 1, dans lequel ledit premier espacement est d'environ 37,7 mm, et ledit deuxième espacement (P2) se situe entre 30 et 32 mm.
  3. Procédé selon la revendication 2, dans lequel ledit deuxième espacement (P2) est d'environ 31 mm de long.
  4. Procédé selon l'une des revendications 1 à 3, dans lequel ladite réduction d'espacement est effectuée à l'extrémité de ladite première partie (S1) au moment où lesdits premiers articles (4) sont transférés de ladite première partie (S1) à ladite deuxième partie (S2).
  5. Procédé selon l'une des revendications 1 à 3, dans lequel ladite réduction d'espacement est effectuée le long de la première partie (S1) et avant que lesdits premiers articles (4) ne soient transférés de ladite première partie (S1) à ladite deuxième partie (S2).
  6. Procédé selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 5, et comprenant l'étape supplémentaire de soumettre lesdits troisièmes articles (40), au moment où ils se dirigent le long de ladite deuxième partie (S2), à une réduction d'espacement supplémentaire pour créer un troisième espacement (P3) plus court que ledit deuxième espacement (P2).
  7. Procédé selon la revendication 6, dans lequel ladite réduction d'espacement supplémentaire est effectuée au moment où lesdits troisièmes articles (40) sont transférés de ladite deuxième partie (S2) à ladite troisième partie (S3).
  8. Procédé selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 7, et comprenant l'étape supplémentaire de soumettre lesdits quatrièmes articles (46), au moment où ils se dirigent le long de ladite quatrième partie (S4), de nouveau à une réduction d'espacement supplémentaire pour créer un quatrième espacement (P4) plus court que ledit troisième espacement (P3).
  9. Procédé selon la revendication 8, dans lequel ladite réduction d'espacement supplémentaire est effectuée au moment où lesdits quatrièmes articles (46) se dirigent à travers ladite unité rotative (50).
  10. Procédé de production de cigarettes à bout filtre, le procédé comprenant les étapes consistant à:
    alimenter une succession ordonnée de premiers articles (4) de tabac, espacés avec un premier espacement (P1) et chacun défini par une partie de double cigarette, vers une première partie (S1) d'une voie (B) de passage s'étendant le long d'une machine (5) d'assemblage de filtres ;
    alimenter lesdits premiers articles (4) le long de ladite première partie (S1) et à travers une première station (12) de coupe pour couper lesdits premiers articles (4) de façon transversale en des paires respectives de parties (13, 14), et ensuite par un moyen (18) d'espacement pour espacer de façon axiale les parties (13, 14) dans chaque dite paire ;
    alimenter lesdites paires de parties espacées (13, 14) le long d'une deuxième partie (S2) de ladite voie (B) de passage ;
    interposer, au moment où ils se dirigent le long de ladite deuxième partie (S2), un double filtre (21) entre les parties (13, 14) dans chaque dite partie, pour former une succession de deuxièmes articles (29), chacun défini par ladite paire relative de parties (13, 14) et par ledit double filtre interposé relatif (21) ;
    appliquer en roulant, le long de ladite deuxième partie (S2), une bande respective (33) sur chaque deuxième article (29) pour joindre ladite paire relative de parties (13, 14) et ledit double filtre relatif (21) et former un troisième article (40) défini par une double cigarette ;
    alimenter lesdits troisièmes articles (40) le long d'une troisième partie (S3) de ladite voie (B) de passage et à travers une deuxième station (45) de coupe pour obtenir, de chaque dit troisième article (40), deux quatrièmes articles (46) orientés de façon opposée et chacun défini par une cigarette à bout filtre ; et
    alimenter lesdits quatrièmes articles (46) le long d'une quatrième partie (S4) de ladite voie (B) de passage et à travers une unité rotative (50) pour obtenir une succession desdits quatrièmes articles équiorientés (46) ;
    et le procédé est caractérisé en ce qu'il comprend les étapes supplémentaires consistant à :
    soumettre lesdits premiers articles (4), au moment où ils se dirigent le long de ladite première partie (S1), à une réduction d'espacement pour créer un deuxième espacement (P2) plus court que ledit premier espacement (P1) et d'une longueur environ égale à mais non inférieure à la longueur de ladite bande relative (33);
    soumettre lesdits troisièmes articles (40), au moment où ils se dirigent le long de la deuxième partie (S2), à une deuxième réduction d'espacement pour créer un troisième espacement (P3) plus court que ledit deuxième espacement (P2) ; et
    soumettre lesdits quatrièmes articles (46), au moment où ils se dirigent le long de ladite quatrième partie (S4), à une troisième réduction d'espacement pour créer un quatrième espacement (P4) plus court que ledit troisième espacement.
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