EP1752053A1 - Dispositif et procédé pour le stockage et la fourniture de produits du tabac semi-manufacturés - Google Patents

Dispositif et procédé pour le stockage et la fourniture de produits du tabac semi-manufacturés Download PDF

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EP1752053A1
EP1752053A1 EP06101709A EP06101709A EP1752053A1 EP 1752053 A1 EP1752053 A1 EP 1752053A1 EP 06101709 A EP06101709 A EP 06101709A EP 06101709 A EP06101709 A EP 06101709A EP 1752053 A1 EP1752053 A1 EP 1752053A1
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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
    • A24C5/35—Adaptations of conveying apparatus for transporting cigarettes from making machine to packaging machine
    • A24C5/352—Adaptations of conveying apparatus for transporting cigarettes from making machine to packaging machine using containers, i.e. boats
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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
    • A24C5/35—Adaptations of conveying apparatus for transporting cigarettes from making machine to packaging machine
    • A24C5/352—Adaptations of conveying apparatus for transporting cigarettes from making machine to packaging machine using containers, i.e. boats

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  • the present invention relates to a device and a method for storing and making available semi-manufactured tobacco products. More particularly, the invention finds application in the tobacco industry, wherever a situation arises in which a machine turning out semi-manufactured tobacco products, referred to conventionally as a maker, needs to be linked operationally with a machine by which the semi-manufactured items are processed further, referred to conventionally as a packer.
  • the operational link between maker and packer is embodied generally as a conveyor belt along which the semi-manufactured items are directed from the outfeed of the maker to the infeed of the packer.
  • certain prior art devices take the form of storage units interposed and connected between the maker and the packer, which function as buffers able to compensate any imbalances in output of the maker and the packer. This means, by way of example, that in the event of a malfunction or of reduced demand for semi-manufactured items at the infeed of the packer, excess output from the maker will be taken up by the buffer and made available subsequently to the packer when required.
  • the object of the invention is to provide a device and a method for storing and making available semi-manufactured tobacco products, such as will be unaffected by the drawbacks mentioned above.
  • One particular object of the invention is to set forth a device and a method for storing and making available semi-manufactured tobacco products, able to offer a high level of operational flexibility.
  • a further object of the invention is to provide a device and a method for storing and making available semi-manufactured tobacco products, such as can be used to link any given number of machines turning out semi-manufactured tobacco products, with any given number of machines for subsequent processing of these same semi-manufactured items.
  • numeral 1 denotes a device, in its entirety, for storing and making available semi-manufactured tobacco products, in accordance with the present invention.
  • the device 1 comprises a plurality of storage units 2 linked directly to a machine 3 (indicated schematically in figures 1 and 2) by which tobacco products are made; the storage units 2 are designed to accommodate a plurality of semi-manufactured tobacco products 4 turned out by the machine 3.
  • a semi-manufactured tobacco product is taken to mean any given item of elongated appearance, such as a filter plug, a cigarette stick or a finished filter tipped cigarette.
  • a finished tobacco product in this latter instance, is a packet containing a plurality of cigarettes.
  • each storage unit 2 comprises a preferably flat, spiral track 5 accommodating a plurality of tobacco products 4 lying parallel to the plane occupied by the track 5.
  • the storage unit 2 further comprises means 6 by which the tobacco products 4 are loaded onto and unloaded from the spiral track 5.
  • Such loading and unloading means 6 comprise a flexible belt 7 coupled slidably with the spiral track 5, on which the tobacco products 4 are positioned.
  • the flexible belt 7 is allowed two degrees of freedom, and more exactly, able to bend along two axes perpendicular one to another and both to the predominating length dimension of the belt itself.
  • the flexible belt 7 is extractable from the spiral track 5 in order to allow of directing the tobacco products 4 out of or into the storage unit 2.
  • the function of the flexible belt 7 and the manner of its extraction from the spiral track 5 will be made clear in the course of the present specification.
  • the storage unit 2 further comprises means 8 by which the tobacco products 4 are retained on the flexible belt 7.
  • the retaining means 8 in question take the form of an inflatable spiral coil 9 positionable directly on the tobacco products 4, extending parallel with and distanced from the flexible belt 7.
  • the spiral coil 9 is anchored to a top wall 10 of the storage unit 2, so that when inflated it will apply a compressive force to the tobacco products 4, which are thus held in place and prevented from shifting out of position when the storage unit 2 is set in motion.
  • the device 1 also comprises at least one bin 11 designed to accommodate a plurality of storage units 2, in ordered arrangement, and at least one unit 12 by means of which to collect a plurality of storage units 2 from the bin 11.
  • each collection unit 12 comprises means 13 by which the storage units 2 are stacked in ordered sequence, and means 14 by which the units 2 are released in ordered sequence.
  • the stacking means 13 comprise four vertical rods 15 insertable through holes 2b afforded by the storage units 2 (see also figure 5).
  • Each collection unit 12 is able to stack twelve storage units 2.
  • Release means 14 will comprise an elevator (not illustrated) by which the storage units 2 occupying the collection unit 12 can be lifted either singly or together.
  • motion-inducing means denoted 16, indicated schematically as wheels 17 in the drawings, such as will allow the unit 12 to be transferred from one location to another.
  • each flexible belt 7 is extracted from the relative storage unit 2 through the agency of appropriate motion-inducing means 18 (indicated schematically in figure 3).
  • such means 18 of inducing motion in the flexible belt 7 could take the form of an electric motor 19 mounted to a base portion 12a of the collection unit 12 and connected to a shaft 20 extending perpendicular to the planes on which the storage units 2 occupying the collection unit 12 are aligned.
  • the shaft 20 is coupled by way of clutches and/or suitable electronic components (not illustrated) to a portion of the flexible belt 7 projecting beneath a bottom wall 21 of the storage unit 2 in such a way that the flexible belt 7 associated with a single storage unit 2 can be set selectively in rotation.
  • the flexible belt 7 can be extracted from the unit 2, that is to say removed from the spiral track 5, or inserted into the unit 2, hence directed onto the track 5.
  • a bin 11 is associated with each machine turning out semi-manufactured tobacco products of a given type.
  • the bin 11 presents a first opening 22 through which storage units 2 are admitted, and a second opening 23 through which storage units 2 are released.
  • Each bin 11 further comprises means 24 by which the storage units 2 are transferred in ordered sequence from the first opening 22 to the second opening 23.
  • Such transfer means 24, illustrated schematically in figure 2 are located at the opposite end of the bin 11 from the openings 22 and 23, in such a way as to engage the tops of the stacks of storage units 2 aligned respectively on the first opening 22 and on the second opening 23.
  • the bin 11 also comprises a flow compensating buffer 25 that allows the operations of loading and unloading the storage units 2 to take place out of phase.
  • the operations in question take place at respective loading and unloading stations denoted 26 and 27, of which the loading station 26 is located between the bin 11 and the machine 3 turning out semi-manufactured tobacco products 4.
  • the loading station 26 comprises a conveyor 28 connected to the outfeed of the machine 3 making the semi-manufactured tobacco products 4, and to an empty storage unit 2, that is to say containing no tobacco products 4, afforded by a collection unit 12 positioned immediately below the first opening 22 of the bin 11.
  • the unloading station 27 is located between the bin 11 and a collection unit 12 carrying no storage units 2 initially.
  • This collection unit 12 is positioned immediately below the second opening 23 of the bin 11 and, in the example illustrated, comes directly from the loading station 26 where all the storage units 2 carried previously by the selfsame collection unit 12 will have been taken up previously into the bin.
  • the device 1 further comprises first guidance means 29 serving to guide and transfer collection units 12 carrying storage units 2, taken from the bins 11, to at least one holding store 30.
  • the holding stores 30 are installed in number identical to the number of the types of semi-manufactured tobacco products turned out by the machines 3.
  • second guidance means 31 departing from the holding stores 30 and serving to connect the selfsame stores 30 to at least one downstream machine 32 by which further processing steps are performed on the tobacco products 4.
  • the holding stores 30 are linked by the second guidance means 31 to a station 33 from which the tobacco products 4 are delivered to the downstream machine 32.
  • the delivery station 33 comprises a conveyor belt 34 connected to the entry point of the downstream machine 32 and positionable in alignment with one of the storage units 2 stacked on the collection unit 12 coming from the store 30 (see figure 4).
  • the tobacco products 4, as will shortly be made clear, are taken up from the storage units 2 by the conveyor belt 34 and transferred to the downstream machine 32.
  • Numeral 35 denotes third guidance means departing from the downstream machines 32, by which these same machines are linked to the loading station 26 of the bins 11.
  • the collection units 12 carrying empty storage units 2, from which tobacco products 4 have been removed and delivered to the downstream machine 32 can be transferred to the loading stations 26 of the bins 11; it will be recalled, in effect, that the loading operation requires storage units 2 containing no tobacco products 4.
  • the first, second and third guidance means 29, 31 and 35 are able to operate in conjunction with the motion-inducing means 16 of the collection units 12 for the purpose of moving these same units between the various stations mentioned.
  • such means 29, 31 and 35 might take the form of electromechanical tracks, rails or the like, and accordingly, the motion-inducing means illustrated schematically as wheels in the accompanying drawings might equally well be embodied as electromagnetic shoes, for example, or the like.
  • a collection unit 12 parks or is positioned at the loading station 26 of the bin 11, in alignment with the first opening 22. At this stage the collection unit 12 carries a plurality of storage units 2 containing no tobacco products 4.
  • Semi-manufactured tobacco products 4 emerging from the machine 3 by which they have been made are transferred by the conveyor 28 toward a storage unit 2 at the top of the stack of units 2 carried by the collection unit 12.
  • This topmost storage unit 2 contains no tobacco products and has no flexible belt 7.
  • the flexible belt 7 occupying the next storage unit 2 down from the topmost unit is extracted at least in part from the spiral track 5 and positioned at the mouth of the spiral track 5 presented by the topmost storage unit 2.
  • the conveyor 28 begins to advance tobacco products 4, which come to rest on the portion of the flexible belt 7 positioned previously on the spiral track 5 of the topmost storage unit 2.
  • the flexible belt 7 is advanced along the spiral track 5 by the motion-inducing means 18, thereby conveying the tobacco products 4 into the storage unit 2.
  • the storage unit 2 will be filled with tobacco products 4.
  • the storage unit 2 is now elevated by the release means 14 and directed through the first opening 22 into the bin 11.
  • the storage units 2 are advanced by the transfer means 24 from the first opening 22 toward the second opening 23.
  • the collection unit 12 from which the storage units 2 were supplied to the loading station 26 is now transferred to the unloading station 27 of the bin 11. In this position, a plurality of storage units 2 will descend onto the stacking means 13 of the collection unit 12.
  • the collection unit 12 passes along the first guidance means 29 into the store 30 and will remain there until such time as the downstream machine 32 calls for further tobacco products 4 to process.
  • the collection unit 12 advances along the second guidance means 31 and parks, or is positioned, near to the station 33 from which the tobacco products 4 are delivered to the downstream machine 32 for further processing.
  • the conveyor belt 34 connected to the infeed of the downstream machine 32 is positioned in alignment with the last of the storage units 2, that is to say the unit farthest from the topmost storage unit 2, so as to take up the tobacco products 4 contained in this same unit 2.
  • the tobacco products 4 are transferred from the storage unit 2 onto the conveyor belt 34 serving the downstream processing machine 32. Once the flexible belt 7 is completely free, it will be returned to the loading station 26 of the bin 11 in readiness for a further loading operation, as described previously.
  • the unit 12 returns or is taken to the loading station 26 of the bin 11 and the entire sequence is repeated.
  • the foregoing description refers notionally to a sequence of steps in which tobacco products 4 are transferred from a single machine 3 turning out semi-manufactured products to a single downstream machine 32 for the further processing of such products, whereas in the preferred embodiment of the present invention illustrated schematically in figure 1, a plurality of machines 3 turning out semi-manufactured products would be connected to a plurality of downstream processing machines 32.
  • the device 1 disclosed guarantees appreciable flexibility in the transfer of tobacco products 4, inasmuch as one or more machines 3 turning out semi-manufactured tobacco products can be connected to any given number of machines 32 for further processing such products.
  • Figures 6 and 7 of the drawings illustrate an alternative embodiment of the device 1, comprising a plurality of storage units 36 (figure 7) filled directly from a machine 37 (figure 6) turning out semi-manufactured tobacco products 4, and positioned on a transporter unit 38.
  • the single storage unit 36 appears preferably as a disc and presents a spiral track 39 such as will accommodate a plurality of tobacco products 4 lying parallel to the plane occupied by the track 39, as illustrated in figure 7a.
  • the spiral track 39 presents two side walls 40 and a bottom wall 41 by which the tobacco products 4 are contained and supported, respectively.
  • the spiral track 39 commences with an inclined portion 42 serving as a ramp 43 and merging with the bottom wall 41, of which the function will be made clear in due course.
  • the single storage unit 36 also presents a centre hole 44 designed to engage with stacking means 45 afforded by each transporter unit 38.
  • the storage units 36 are stacked one on top of another on a transporter unit 38, their centre holes 44 occupied, with a measure of radial clearance, by a column 46 of the aforementioned stacking means 45. More exactly, as discernible in figure 8, the diameter of the centre hole 44 is significantly greater than that of the column 46, for reasons that will be made clear in due course.
  • each one will incorporate a locating groove 47 that extends entirely around the base portion presented by the outermost periphery of the single unit 36.
  • the locating groove 47 of each storage unit 36 engages with a matched locating tongue 48 extending around top of the peripheral rim presented by the single unit 36 beneath.
  • the transporter unit 38 comprises motion-inducing means 49 operating between the above noted stacking means 45 and each storage unit 36, of which a part is insertable into the centre hole 44 of the single unit 36, as will be made clear in due course with reference to figures 10...14.
  • the motion-inducing means 49 in question comprise a passive supporting element 50 and an active supporting element 51, illustrated schematically in figure 9.
  • the passive element 50 and the active element 51 are substantially cylindrical in shape and present a maximum diameter matched substantially to the diameter of the centre hole 44 presented by the storage units, so that both elements are insertable into the centre hole 44.
  • the passive supporting element 50 is furnished with coupling means 52 by way of which the selfsame element 50 and a storage unit 36 can be anchored one to another.
  • coupling means 52 comprise at least one pin 53 insertable into a corresponding groove or slot (not illustrated) on the storage unit 36.
  • the pin 53 will be actuated electromechanically, albeit in other embodiments the pin 53 might be actuated mechanically.
  • the pin 53 is capable of movement between an at-rest position, lodged entirely within the passive element 50, and an operating position lodged partly within the passive element 50 while also engaging the storage unit 36.
  • the passive supporting element 50 is equipped with locking means 54 by which the selfsame element 50 can be clamped to the stacking means 45.
  • locking means 54 might be mechanical or electrical or electromechanical.
  • the active supporting element 51 is furnished with coupling means 55 identical to those of the passive supporting element 50 described previously.
  • the active element 51 comprises first and second drive means denoted 56 and 57 respectively.
  • the first drive means 56 operate between the active supporting element 51 and the column 46 of the stacking means 45, in such a way that the active element 51, hence also a relative storage unit 36, can be moved along the stacking means 45 of the transporter unit 38.
  • the second drive means 57 operate likewise between the active supporting element 51 and the column 46 of the stacking means 45, in such a way that the active element 51, hence also a relative storage unit 36, can be set in rotation about the stacking means 45.
  • the active supporting element 51 is positioned beneath the passive supporting element 50 on the stacking means 45.
  • the active element 51 presents a cylindrical portion 58 projecting from the main body of the element.
  • the diameter of this cylindrical portion 58 is smaller than the maximum diameter of the active element 51 and designed to locate in recess 59 afforded by the passive element 50 when the two elements 50 and 51 are positioned one on top of the other.
  • the motion-inducing means 49 comprising the passive supporting element 50 and the active supporting element 51 are designed such that the operation of loading and unloading tobacco products 4 to and from the storage units 36 is made swift and simple.
  • the transporter units 38 are designed to carry a plurality of storage units 36.
  • the transporter units 38 with the storage units 36 full of tobacco products 4, are directed along first guidance means 60 linking the machine 37 turning out semi-manufactured items to at least one holding store 61.
  • the holding stores 61 are installed in number identical to the number of the types of semi-manufactured tobacco products turned out by the machines 37.
  • second guidance means 62 departing from the holding stores 61 and linking them to at least one downstream machine 63 by which the tobacco products 4 are processed further.
  • the holding stores 61 are linked by the second guidance means 62 to a station 64 from which tobacco products 4 are delivered to the downstream machine 63.
  • the delivery station 64 comprises take-up means 65, shown schematically in figure 6, connected to the infeed of the downstream machine 63; the tobacco products 4, as will shortly be made clear, are taken up by these same means 65 and transferred to the downstream machine 63.
  • Numeral 66 denotes third guidance means by which the downstream machines 63 are linked to loading stations 67 operating between each machine 37 turning out semi-manufactured tobacco products 4 and the transporter units 38.
  • transporter units 38 carrying empty storage units 36, from which tobacco products 4 have been removed and delivered to the downstream machine 63 can be transferred to the loading stations 67 where they are refilled by supply means 68 (see figures 10 and 14) forming part of the selfsame stations 67.
  • the first, second and third guidance means 60, 62 and 66 are designed to operate in conjunction with motion-inducing means 69, illustrated schematically as wheels 70 in the accompanying drawings, by which the transporter units 38 are moved between the various stations mentioned.
  • motion-inducing means 69 illustrated schematically as wheels 70 in the accompanying drawings
  • the motion-inducing means illustrated schematically as wheels in the drawings might equally well be embodied as electromagnetic shoes, for example, or the like.
  • a transporter unit 38 with storage units 36 parks or is positioned at the loading station 67. At this stage, all the storage units 36 except one are stacked and elevated above the base of the transporter unit 38. One storage unit 36, conversely, is positioned on the base of the transporter unit 38, as illustrated in figure 10.
  • the passive supporting element 50 is offered, or rather anchored by way of the coupling means 52, to the storage unit 36 facing the unit positioned on the base of the transporter unit 38 and supports the stack of units distanced from the unit 36 positioned on the base, with which the active supporting element 51 is associated.
  • the active element 51 is lifted marginally by the first drive means 56, and with it the storage unit 36 positioned on the base of the transporter unit 38, sufficiently for the unit 36 to clear the base.
  • the supply means 68 are activated, setting in motion a double conveyor 71 preferably of belt type, which will proceed to advance a plurality of semi-manufactured tobacco products 4 turned out by a corresponding machine 37.
  • One end of the double conveyor 71 is placed in alignment with the ramp 43 of the storage unit 36 coupled to the active supporting element 51 whereupon the element 51, and with it the storage unit 36, is set in rotation by the second drive means 57.
  • the double conveyor 71 now begins directing tobacco products 4 into the spiral track 39 of the storage unit 36 which, in the course of its rotation, will pull the end of the conveyor 71 across the spiral until the entire track 39 has been filled with tobacco products 4.
  • the double conveyor 71 is shifted away to a point outside the dimensional compass of the transporter unit 38, whereupon the unit 36 can be repositioned on the base of the transporter unit 38 and the active supporting element 51 uncoupled.
  • the active element 51 is now raised by the first drive means 56 toward the passive supporting element 50, which continues to hold the stack of empty storage units 36 in the elevated position as illustrated in figure 11.
  • the first drive means 56 of the active element 51 are now activated again, and the stack of empty storage units 36 is raised by a distance equivalent to the depth of one such unit 36. Once the stack is at the appropriate height, the locking means 54 and the coupling means 52 of the passive element 50 are again activated to secure the storage unit 36 in position, clamped to the stacking means 45 of the transporter unit 38 immediately above the unit 36 now engaged by the active element 51.
  • the first drive means 56 of the active supporting element 51 are activated, and the empty storage unit 36 is lowered onto the storage unit 36 filled previously.
  • the sequence is repeated until all the storage units 36 have been filled.
  • the transporter unit 38 passes along the first guidance means 60 into the store 61 and will remain there until such time as the downstream machine 63 calls for further tobacco products 4 to process.
  • the transporter unit 38 advances along the second guidance means 62 and parks, or is positioned, near to the station 64 from which the tobacco products 4 are delivered to the downstream machine 63 for further processing.
  • a double conveyor identical to the double conveyor 71 described above and connected to the infeed of the downstream machine 63, is positioned in alignment with one of the storage units 36 and proceeds to take up the tobacco products 4 contained therein.
  • one end of the double conveyor is offered to the ramp 43 of the storage unit 36, whereupon the unit 36 is set in rotation and the tobacco products 4 are unloaded directly onto the double conveyor.
  • the storage unit 36 to which the double conveyor of the take-up means 65 attaches at the unloading station 64 is the unit positioned on the base of the transporter unit 38, whereas all the remaining storage units 36 are distanced from the bottom unit and held in the elevated position by the passive supporting element 50, in exactly the same manner as occurs when the tobacco products 4 are loaded.
  • Motion is induced in the storage units 36 for the purpose of unloading the full complement of tobacco products 4 in exactly the same way as occurs when the products are loaded, that is to say, releasing the storage units 36 singly from the stack held by the passive supporting element 50 and attaching the double conveyor to each one in turn.
  • the direction in which the storage units 36 are caused to rotate when emptying, self-evidently, is opposite to the direction of rotation induced when the selfsame units 36 are being filled.
  • the unit 38 returns or is taken to the loading station 67 and the entire sequence is repeated.
  • the foregoing description refers notionally to a sequence of steps in which tobacco products 4 are transferred from a single machine 37 turning out semi-manufactured products to a single downstream machine 63 for the further processing of such products, whereas in the preferred embodiment of the present invention illustrated schematically in figure 6, a plurality of machines 37 turning out semi-manufactured products would be connected to a plurality of downstream processing machines 63.
  • the device 1 disclosed guarantees appreciable flexibility in the transfer of tobacco products 4, inasmuch as one or more machines 37 turning out semi-manufactured tobacco products can be connected to any given number of machines 63 for further processing such products.

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