EP1602292B1 - Zigarettenherstellungsmaschine - Google Patents
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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
- A24C5/396—Tobacco feeding devices with separating means, e.g. winnowing, removing impurities
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- the present invention relates to a cigarette maker.
- shredded tobacco is directed normally along a feed duct to an infeed hopper, from which it is taken up by a picking or carding unit and fed into a descending channel or chute.
- the tobacco is transferred by a toothed outfeed unit onto a feed conveyor and then carried by this same conveyor toward the bottom end of an ascending channel or riser, of which the top end is enclosed by an air-permeable transport belt.
- An air current set up in the ascending channel ensures that the lighter particles of tobacco consisting in dust and relatively minute shreds are directed upwards, whereas any heavier particles such as scraps and stems, stones, metal or plastic fragments and the like, are caused to drop by gravity into a collection vessel at the bottom end of the ascending channel, from where they are rejected.
- the object of the present invention is to provide a cigarette maker that will be unaffected by the drawbacks in question, and will also be of simple and economic embodiment.
- 1 denotes a cigarette maker, in its entirety, comprising a hopper 2 filled with a mass of shredded tobacco 3, and a pneumatic feed duct 4 through which tobacco is conveyed to the hopper from a storage unit or a shredder shown schematically as a block denoted 5.
- the tobacco 3 is directed from the hopper 2 down into a feed chamber 6 occupied by a carding unit 7 equipped with a carding drum 8 driven in rotation about a horizontal axis 9 and turning anticlockwise as seen in figure 1.
- the carding roller 8 operates in conjunction with a proportioning roller 10 and an impeller roller 11 by which the tobacco 3 is projected, in the form of distinct particles, into a descending channel or chute 12 terminating at the bottom end adjacent to a toothed unit 13 such as will pick up the particles and direct them onto a transfer belt 14 advancing toward the bottom end of an ascending channel or riser 15.
- the top end of the riser 15 is enclosed by an aspirating transport belt 16 made of air-permeable material such as will attract the tobacco particles and gather them progressively into a continuous stream 17 providing the filler for the manufactured cigarettes (not illustrated).
- FIG. 18 denotes a separator device, shown in figure 1 as a unit or module 19 that can be installed along the aforementioned pneumatic feed duct 4 carrying the flow of shredded tobacco to the hopper.
- the separator device 18 establishes a predetermined feed path P to be followed by the flow of shredded tobacco, comprising a first feed section 20 along which the pneumatic pressure generated internally of the feed duct 4 is deactivated, and a second feed section 21 embodied as an ascending outfeed duct 22 along which the pneumatic pressure of the duct 4 is reinstated.
- the first section 20 of the separator device 18, which is coupled directly to the feed duct 4, comprises means, denoted 23 in their entirety, by which to form and feed the tobacco as a carpet 24 of predetermined thickness S.
- the forming and feeding means 23 of the first section 20 comprise a substantially horizontal looped conveyor belt 25 passing around two return pulleys 26, of which at least one is power driven, and a tray 27 caused to vibrate through the agency of respective actuator means shown schematically as a block denoted 28.
- the vibrating tray 27 is inclined, presenting a transverse dimension that increases along the feed direction followed by the tobacco carpet 24, as discernible in figure 5, and occupies a position interposed between the runout end of the belt 25 and the entry point of descending conveyor means, denoted 29 in their entirety and constituting the downstream part of the first section 20.
- the descending conveyor means 29 take the form of a substantially vertical duct 30 into which the tobacco 3 will drop and fall freely to a bottom outlet end coinciding with a vent 31a positioned to deliver a stream of air generated by blower means 31.
- the air stream serves to divert the flow of tobacco toward the substantially vertical outfeed duct 22, which is coupled to the pneumatic feed duct 4.
- the bottom outlet end of the vertical duct 30 is connected to the inlet end of the ascending outfeed duct 22 by way of a bend 32 in which foreign matter is able to accumulate before dropping through a reject duct 33 into a collection vessel 34.
- figure 3 differs from that of figure 2 in that the descending conveyor means 29 are afforded by an inclined plane 35 along which the tobacco carpet 24 slides downward by gravity.
- figure 4 differs from that of figure 2 in that the descending conveyor means 29 consist in a duct 36 presenting walls of zigzag profile, along which the tobacco tumbles by gravity.
- a relatively compacted mass of shredded tobacco 3 flowing from the upstream unit or machine 5 along the feed duct 4 at a first velocity V1 is deposited on the top branch of the conveyor belt 25, which will be driven at a second velocity V2 slower than the first V1.
- the tobacco 3 settles on the belt, spreading gradually to form a carpet 24 of relatively limited thickness S.
- the carpet 24 runs off the belt 25 and onto the vibrating tray 27, whereupon the vibratory motion has the effect of advancing the tobacco 3 while loosening the constituent particles and stems, which are thereupon distributed transversely to the feed direction in such a way as to form a layer of thickness S1 reduced further from the thickness S of the carpet 24 formed initially.
- the fact of isolating the conveyor belt 25 and the vibrating tray 27 from the pneumatic pressure of the feed duct 4 is instrumental in enabling a reduction in the rate at which the tobacco 3 advances, from a given first velocity V1 to a predetermined second velocity V2.
- the tobacco advances along the feed duct 4 at a relatively high velocity V1, determined by the associated pneumatic circuit, whereas during its passage along the belt 25 and thereafter along the tray 27, the first velocity V1 can be reduced to a lower velocity V2 in order to facilitate the removal of foreign matter.
- the unit or module 19 is easily deployed, whether as a first time installation or retrofitted to a cigarette maker 1 already in commission without any separator device 18.
- the inclusion of the unit 19 by no means excludes the possibility of the machine 1 being equipped with a second separator device installed downstream of the carding unit 7. Indeed in this instance, the presence of a second separator will help to obtain an extremely thorough winnowing action on the flow of tobacco ascending through the riser 15.
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- Zigarettenherstellungsmaschine, enthaltend: einen Einfülltrichter (2), einen pneumatischen Zuführkanal (4), der einen Fluss von geschreddertem Tabak (3) an den Trichter (2) führt, eine Kardiereinheit (7), durch welche der Tabak (3) von dem Trichter (2) entnommen und als Strom von getrennten Partikeln freigelassen wird, um zunächst durch einen abfallenden Kanal (12) und dann durch einen aufsteigenden Kanal (15) zu einem ansaugenden Ausgangsförderband (16) geleitet zu werden, angeordnet an dem oberen Ende des aufsteigenden Kanals (15), dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass sie eine Trennvorrichtung (18) zum Entfernen von Fremdkörpern aus dem Strom des geschredderten Tabaks (3) einschliesst, enthaltend Mittel (23) zum Formen und Zuführen eines Teppichs (24) von Tabak, sowie abfallende Fördermittel (29), in welche der Tabak durch die Form- und Zuführmittel (23) in freiem Fall gerichtet wird, einen Ausgangskanal (22), eingesetzt zwischen dem Ausgang der abfallenden Fördermittel (29) und einem mit dem Trichter (2) verbundenen Einlass, und Mittel (31), durch welche ein entlang dem Ausgangskanal (22) gerichteter Luftstrom erzeugt wird.
- Maschine nach Patentanspruch 1, bei welcher die Mittel (23), durch welche ein Teppich (24) von Tabak geformt und zugeführt wird, ein Schüttelbrett (27) enthalten.
- Maschine nach Patentanspruch 1, bei welcher die Mittel (23), durch welche ein Teppich (24) von Tabak geformt und zugeführt wird, ein Förderband (25) enthalten.
- Maschine nach Patentanspruch 1, bei welcher die Mittel (23), durch welche ein Teppich (24) von Tabak geformt und zugeführt wird, ein Förderband (25) enthalten, sowie ein Schüttelbrett (27), eingesetzt zwischen dem Förderband (25) und den abfallenden Fördermitteln (29).
- Maschine nach den Patentansprüchen von 1 bis 4, bei welcher die abfallenden Fördermittel (29) eine geneigte Fläche (35) enthalten.
- Maschine nach den Patentansprüchen von 1 bis 4, bei welcher die abfallenden Fördermittel (29) einen im wesentlichen vertikalen Kanal (30) enthalten.
- Maschine nach den Patentansprüchen von 1 bis 4, bei welcher die abfallenden Fördermittel (29) einen Kanal mit Wänden enthalten, die mit einem Zickzackprofil (36) versehen sind.
- Maschine nach den Patentansprüchen von 5 bis 7, bei welcher ein unteres Ende der abfallenden Fördermittel (29) mit einer Leitung (33) in Verbindung steht, durch welche die Fremdkörper ausgestossen werden.
- Maschine nach den Patentansprüchen von 1 bis 8, bei welcher die abfallenden Fördermittel (29) und der Ausgangskanal (22) durch einen Abschnitt (32) miteinander verbunden sind, übereinstimmend mit einer Lüftungsöffnung (31a), die Teil der Mittel (31) bildet, durch welche ein Luftstrom erzeugt wird.
- Maschine nach Patentanspruch 9, bei welcher der Ausgangskanal (22) ein aufsteigender Kanal und der Verbindungsabschnitt (32) eine Krümmung ist.
- Maschine nach den Patentansprüchen von 1 bis 10, bei welcher die Trennvorrichtung (18) aus einer Einheit oder aus einem Bauteil (19) besteht, installierbar entlang dem Zuführkanal (4), welcher den geschredderten Tabak (3) leitet.
- Maschine nach den Patentansprüchen von 1 bis 11, bei welcher die Trennvorrichtung (18) einen ersten, den geschredderten Tabak (3) vorschiebenden Zuführabschnitt (20) enthält, entlang welchem der durch den Zuführkanal (4) erzeugte pneumatische Druck entaktiviert ist, und einen zweiten Zuführabschnitt (21), entlang welchem derselbe pneumatische Druck wiederhergestellt ist.
- Maschine nach Patentanspruch 12, bei welcher der erste Abschnitt (20) der Trennvorrichtung aus den Mitteln (23) zum Formen und Zuführen eines Teppichs (24) von Tabak und aus den abfallenden Fördermitteln (29) besteht.
- Maschine nach Patentanspruch 12, bei welcher der zweite Abschnitt (21) durch den Ausgangskanal (22) gebildet ist.
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IT000358A ITBO20040358A1 (it) | 2004-06-04 | 2004-06-04 | Macchina per i confezionamento di sigarette |
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