EP1732408B1 - Procede de fabrication d'un article a fumer - Google Patents

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EP1732408B1
EP1732408B1 EP05715773A EP05715773A EP1732408B1 EP 1732408 B1 EP1732408 B1 EP 1732408B1 EP 05715773 A EP05715773 A EP 05715773A EP 05715773 A EP05715773 A EP 05715773A EP 1732408 B1 EP1732408 B1 EP 1732408B1
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Jörg Tobias
Franz-Peter Koch
Joachim Kreidelmeyer
Andreas Mieszala
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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
    • A24C5/1892—Forming the rod with additives, e.g. binding agent, flavorants
    • 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
    • A24C5/1821—Forming the rod containing different tobacco mixtures, e.g. composite rods

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  • the invention relates to a process for the preparation of a smokable article in which tobacco is puffed up and an extrudate is formed, wherein the extrudate is applied to the churned tobacco.
  • the invention relates to an apparatus for producing a tobacco rod containing an extrudate with a Saugstrangadder for sucking tobacco, an extruding device for forming the extrudate and for applying the extrudate to the Aufauerten tobacco.
  • a flavors loaded with thread which may also consist of tobacco foil, is withdrawn from a reel and is introduced before the format inlet into the tobacco rod.
  • Object of the present invention is therefore to provide a method for operating a stranding machine, with which it is possible to place an additive location-dependent in a cigarette. It is also an object of the invention to provide a device for producing a tobacco rod, with which an additive can be placed in a smokable article location dependent.
  • an apparatus for producing a tobacco rod containing an extrudate comprising a suction belt conveyor for sucking tobacco and an extruding device for forming the extrudate and applying the extrudate to a tobacco tobacco, the extruding device comprising a discontinuous feeding device
  • Additive to an insertable into the extruder base component comprises, which feeds the additive batch of the base component in the operation of the apparatus for producing the tobacco rod.
  • the solutions according to the invention make possible a location-dependent positioning of an additive in a tobacco rod and also in the cigarette subsequently formed from the tobacco rod.
  • the disadvantage of the prior art that in a continuous admixture of an additive to an extrudate, the additive is already released when the cigarette is lit, can be avoided. Since the speed with which the tobacco rod or tobacco is transported, as well as the The rate at which the extrudate is applied to the tobacco that has been quenched is known from a process engineering point of view, may be achieved by means of a discontinuous feed of the additive the base material accurate positioning of the additive in the extrudate and thus be achieved later in the cigarette.
  • tobacco may also be or include other smokable material.
  • the additive of the base component is supplied via a switchable device. This makes it possible to influence the discontinuous supply of the additive.
  • reconstituted tobacco in a pasty consistency is suitable as the base component.
  • Reconstituted tobacco usually consists of water, tobacco dust and a binder. The consistency of the mass is influenced by the water content.
  • a binder z.
  • methyl cellulose dextrin glue, starch, Polyvinylacetatleim, polyvinyl alcohol or modified starch in question.
  • the extrudate is formed from a plurality of different base components, which are then brought together with one or possibly more additives. If the extrudate to be foamed, it is advantageous to mix it from two basic components, of which a z. B. with calcium carbonate and the others are mixed with citric acid.
  • the additive of the base component is added in a mixing device.
  • a mixing device By designing the mixing device thus a uniform admixture of the additive to the base component for the formation of the extrudate mixture is made possible.
  • the extrudate of base component and additive is introduced onto the tobacco that has been quenched via a nozzle device.
  • the nozzle device of the mixing device is connected downstream of or integrated into it, so that from the nozzle device, the finished extrudate can escape, which is applied to the Aufauerten tobacco.
  • the additive to which the base component is added is, in particular, a flavoring agent, for example, sugar, menthol, liquorice, amino acid, cocoa, or another substance which influences taste or burning behavior.
  • a flavoring agent for example, sugar, menthol, liquorice, amino acid, cocoa, or another substance which influences taste or burning behavior.
  • the extrudate is fed at a rate to the tobacco, which corresponds approximately to the speed at which the tobacco is conveyed on the suction belt conveyor.
  • the control of the position of the additive in the extrudate and later in the tobacco rod via suitable devices, which are connected downstream of the Saugstrangmer, z. B. on the cutting apparatus of a stranding machine.
  • the extrusion device comprises a mixing device, wherein the additive can be introduced into the mixing device.
  • the device for producing the tobacco rod with the extrudate comprises a switchable valve with which the additive of the base component can be fed discontinuously.
  • This valve is designed, in particular, as a fast-switching valve, in order to precisely carry out the positioning of the additive in the extrudate.
  • a piezoelectric element which is switched by a controller so that the supply of the additive is made precisely for the portion of the extrudate, which is to contain the additive in the later cigarette.
  • the tobacco fleece thus formed is then trimmed and wrapped in a strand forming device with a wrapping material and formed into a shaped tobacco strand.
  • Fig. 1 shown schematic representation of the apparatus for producing a tobacco rod, in which an extrudate is or is introduced, comprises a suction belt conveyor 22, which continuously sucks tobacco 10 and thus forms over its length a growing tobacco shower 11.
  • the tobacco 10 is fed to the suction belt conveyor 22 via a feed device (27).
  • the Saugstrang makeuper 22 is associated with an extrusion 13.
  • the extruder 13 is responsible for the formation or production of the extrudate 12.
  • the extrudate 12 is applied to the tobacco 11 by means of the extruding device 13.
  • the extruding device 13 comprises a mixing device 14 to which a base component 16 is supplied.
  • the base component 16 is conveyed for example via a pump 23 from a reservoir 25 to the mixing device 14.
  • the extruding device 13 comprises a storage container 24 in which the additive, for example a flavoring agent 17, is stored.
  • the additive 17 is supplied via a pump 23 to a device 20.
  • the device 20 is switched by a controller 21, so that the additive 17 of the mixing device 14 can be fed discontinuously.
  • the switchable device 20 is designed, in particular, as a piezoelectric element, since this allows an exact feeding of the additive 17.
  • a further base component 26 is supplied, which is stored in a further reservoir 25 and is also supplied via a pump 23 of the mixing device 14. In the mixing device 14, the base component 16 and the additive 17 are brought together or mixed.
  • the extrudate is already formed in its basic consistency and the additive is sprayed onto the extrudate in the mixing device.
  • the mixing device 14 is coupled to a nozzle device 15.
  • the nozzle device 15 discharges the finished extrudate 12 at a predetermined extrudate velocity V 2 .
  • the extrudate 12 is fed to the building tobacco web 11 on Saugstrangmer 22.
  • Fig. 2 shows a section of a further embodiment of a device according to the invention, in which in particular the application of the extrudate 12 is shown on the tobacco tobacco 11.
  • the tobacco 11, which may also be formed as a fiber cake or fleece, runs along a suction belt conveyor 22 with a tobacco conveying speed v1.
  • the exiting extrudate 12 is applied to the tobacco tobacco 11.
  • the position of the extrudate 12 on the tobacco 11 can be influenced.
  • the diameter or the shape of the exiting extrudate 12 can be adjusted.
  • Fig. 2 is shown to supply the additive 17 of the nozzle device.
  • Fig. 3 shows a process flow diagram for operating a stranding machine the tobacco processing industry.
  • step S11 ready-prepared tobacco is sucked in by the suction-strand conveyor 22 and tobacco 11 is thrown up, so that a fleece is formed.
  • the tobacco 11 is transported at a tobacco conveying speed v1 on Saugstrang makeuper.
  • step S12 the base component 16 or a plurality of base components 16, 26 are supplied to the mixing device 14 in step S12.
  • the fast-acting valve 20 is actuated by a controller 21, whereby the additive 17 is discontinuously added to the base component 16 (S13).
  • step S14 the finished extrudate 12 is discharged from the nozzle device 15.
  • step S15 the extrudate 12 exiting the nozzle device 15 is applied to the tobacco 11.
  • step S16 further processing steps on the tobacco rod, comprising the tobacco 11 and 11 'and the extrudate 12, made downstream of the suction belt conveyor 22.
  • This includes, for example, a wrapping with a wrapping material.
  • step S17 the tobacco rod 11 is cut according to the position of the additive 17 in the extrudate 12, so that wrapped with wrapping material tobacco sticks arise (S18) in which the additive, in particular a flavoring 17, is positioned depending on location and thus for example when lighting a finished cigarette still is not released but only when smoking the cigarette.

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  1. Procédé de fabrication d'un article à fumer, présentant les étapes de procédé suivantes :
    - déposer du tabac (11) en gerbe
    - former un extrudat (12)
    - appliquer l'extrudat (12) sur le tabac déposé en gerbe (11), l'extrudat (12) contenant un constituant de base (16), et
    - selon lequel une substance additive (17) est amenée par intermittence au constituant de base (16).
  2. Procédé selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que la substance additive (17) est amenée au constituant de base (16) par l'intermédiaire d'un dispositif commutable (18).
  3. Procédé selon la revendication 1 ou 2, caractérisé en ce que l'extrudat (12) contient plusieurs constituants de base différents (16, 26).
  4. Procédé selon une ou plusieurs des revendications 1 à 3, caractérisé en ce que le constituant de base (16) et la substance additive (17) sont réunis dans un appareil mélangeur (14), en vue de la formation d'un mélange constituant l'extrudat (12).
  5. Procédé selon la revendication 4, caractérisé en ce que l'extrudat est appliqué sur le tabac déposé en gerbe (11), par l'intermédiaire d'un dispositif à buse (15).
  6. Procédé selon une ou plusieurs des revendications 1 à 5, caractérisé en ce que le tabac (10), auquel est amené l'extrudat (12), contient du tabac coupé.
  7. Procédé selon une ou plusieurs des revendications 1 à 6, caractérisé en ce que la substance additive (17) est un aromate.
  8. Procédé selon une ou plusieurs des revendications 1 à 6, caractérisé en ce que l'extrudat (12) est appliqué sur le tabac déposé en gerbe (11), à une vitesse (v2) sensiblement égale à la vitesse de transport (v1) du tabac.
  9. Dispositif pour produire un boudin de tabac contenant un extrudat (12), qui comprend un transporteur aspirant de boudin (22), destiné à aspirer du tabac (10), et un dispositif d'extrusion (13) destiné à former l'extrudat (17) et à appliquer l'extrudat (17) sur le tabac déposé en gerbe (11), caractérisé en ce que le dispositif d'extrusion (13) comprend un dispositif (14) qui est destiné à amener par intermittence une substance additive (17) à un constituant de base (16) pouvant être introduit dans le dispositif d'extrusion (13) et qui est adapté pour amener la substance additive (17) par intermittence au constituant de base (16) dans le cours du fonctionnement du dispositif pour produire le boudin de tabac.
  10. Dispositif selon la revendication 9, caractérisé en ce que le dispositif d'extrusion (13) comprend un appareil mélangeur (14), la substance additive (17) pouvant être introduite dans l'appareil mélangeur (14).
  11. Dispositif selon la revendication 9 ou 10, caractérisé en ce qu'il est prévu un dispositif à buse (15) pour amener l'extrudat (17) jusqu'au tabac déposé en gerbe (11).
  12. Dispositif selon une ou plusieurs des revendications 9 à 11, caractérisé en ce que le dispositif (18) d'amenée intermittente est conçu sous forme d'une vanne commutable (20).
  13. Dispositif selon la revendication 12, caractérisé en ce que la vanne (20) est conçue sous forme d'un élément piezo-électrique ou comprend un élément piezo-électrique.
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