EP1779739B1 - Dispositif d'alimentation de filtres - Google Patents

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EP1779739B1
EP1779739B1 EP06019623A EP06019623A EP1779739B1 EP 1779739 B1 EP1779739 B1 EP 1779739B1 EP 06019623 A EP06019623 A EP 06019623A EP 06019623 A EP06019623 A EP 06019623A EP 1779739 B1 EP1779739 B1 EP 1779739B1
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    • AHUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A24TOBACCO; CIGARS; CIGARETTES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES; SMOKERS' REQUISITES
    • A24DCIGARS; CIGARETTES; TOBACCO SMOKE FILTERS; MOUTHPIECES FOR CIGARS OR CIGARETTES; MANUFACTURE OF TOBACCO SMOKE FILTERS OR MOUTHPIECES
    • A24D3/00Tobacco smoke filters, e.g. filter-tips, filtering inserts; Filters specially adapted for simulated smoking devices; Mouthpieces for cigars or cigarettes
    • A24D3/02Manufacture of tobacco smoke filters
    • A24D3/025Final operations, i.e. after the filter rod forming process
    • A24D3/0254Cutting means
    • AHUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A24TOBACCO; CIGARS; CIGARETTES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES; SMOKERS' REQUISITES
    • A24CMACHINES FOR MAKING CIGARS OR CIGARETTES
    • A24C5/00Making cigarettes; Making tipping materials for, or attaching filters or mouthpieces to, cigars or cigarettes
    • A24C5/47Attaching filters or mouthpieces to cigars or cigarettes, e.g. inserting filters into cigarettes or their mouthpieces
    • A24C5/478Transport means for filter- or cigarette-rods in view of their assembling

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  • the invention relates to a device for feeding rod-shaped articles of the tobacco processing industry, in particular filter rods or filter pieces, from a magazine for the articles, wherein in the magazine a partition wall for forming two partial magazines for the article is provided, each sub-magazine, each with an outlet is formed and at each outlet of the sub-magazines each have a removal drum is provided for the article, so that the article from the sub-magazines are removed or removed simultaneously.
  • the invention relates to a machine of the tobacco processing industry, in particular filter attachment machine or Füterher einsmaschine.
  • the filter attachment machine has two storage containers for filter rods and two drum trains for removing, transporting and processing the filter rods. Further, a third drum train is provided, on which the first drum trains open to insert the filter between the tobacco sticks. In addition, an adjustment device is provided to adapt the two first drum trains to double filter or single filter operation. According to the technical teaching, the two first drum trains are always in operation together.
  • a device for feeding cigarettes to a packaging machine includes a hopper adapted to receive a mass of cigarettes and an upper feed inlet and a number of lower outlets.
  • the device fulfills balancing means arranged inside the funnel to change the capacity of the funnel itself, caused by the change of the mass of cigarettes due to the removal of groups of cigarettes.
  • GB-A-1 538 582 a magazine of a filter attachment machine, wherein a conveyor belt is provided on a removal drum in the removal area (see. Fig. 2 ).
  • the first solution of the problem is in a device for feeding rod-shaped articles of the tobacco processing industry, in particular filter rods or filter pieces, with a magazine for the article, wherein in the magazine a partition wall for forming two partial magazines for the article is provided, each sub-magazine is designed with one outlet and at each outlet of the sub-magazines each have a removal drum is provided for the articles, so that the articles from the sub-magazines are removed or removed simultaneously, proposed that each provided a conveyor belt for the article at each outlet of the sub-magazines and the removal drums are operated simultaneously with the conveyor belts, wherein the conveyor belts have different conveying directions during operation and in each case a separate conveyor section is provided for the articles removed from each removal drum.
  • the magazine is formed as a structural unit, which is divided inside into two partial magazines. These are two partial magazines arranged in parallel, from which filter rods are removed.
  • two different filter plugs are used on the filter feed device, so that it is possible to provide dual filters or combination filters with two filter types which are inserted between the spaced tobacco rod pairs.
  • the filter plugs can have different lengths.
  • the conveyor belts have different, preferably opposite, conveying directions during operation. Moreover, it is advantageous if at least one drive is provided for the conveyor belts. In a preferred embodiment, each conveyor belt has a drive.
  • the partial magazines are formed with an article receiving station.
  • a filter receiving station is known under the name "Filtromat” HAUNI Maschinenbau AG.
  • each separate conveying section advantageously comprises at least one conveying member.
  • a cutting drum and / or a staggering drum and / or a sliding drum and / or an accelerator drum is provided as the conveying member, so that a drum run or a drum arrangement for the separate conveying sections is formed in a correspondingly desired or predetermined combination of said conveying elements.
  • a common conveying section for the articles with at least one conveying element is provided following the separate conveying sections.
  • cut filter pieces or filter plugs are further conveyed via the common conveying section and inserted between pairs of tobacco sticks which are spaced along the longitudinal axis.
  • a predetermined drum race is formed for the respectively removed articles.
  • a drive is provided in each case for a plurality of conveying elements, so that a gear unit is provided by means of the common drive, which drives, for example, a plurality of drums of a conveying section synchronously.
  • the object is achieved by a machine of the tobacco processing industry, in particular filter attachment machine or filter manufacturing machine, which is equipped with a feed device described above. To avoid repetition, reference is expressly made to the above statements.
  • the invention has the advantage that with a magazine provided as a unit, consisting of two sub-magazines, and two removal devices different filter rod formats are processed on a machine, without extensive rebuilding measures are carried out on the storage magazine.
  • predetermined conveying devices or conveyor drums in the connection provided for the removal of the articles are carried out.
  • Fig. 1 is the front view of a filter attachment machine type MAX Hauni Maschinenbau AG shown. This machine has the following details: An infeed drum 111 transfers the tobacco sticks produced by a cigarette rod maker to a staggering drum 222, which delivers the supplied tobacco stems of two pieces with a space between the tobacco sticks to a compilation drum 133.
  • the filter rods pass from a magazine 40 onto a removal drum 60, are there cut to filter plug twice the length of use, staggered on a staggering drum 70, aligned by a sliding drum 80 to a series of successive plugs and stored by an accelerator drum 90 in the spaces between the cigarette rows on the assembly drum 133.
  • the tobacco rod filter plug tobacco rod groups are taken over by a tumbling drum 110 and pushed together.
  • a tipping paper strip 120 drawn from a tipping paper bobbin 130 is glued by a gluing device 140 and then cut in a cutting device 160 on a suction drum 170 by the blades of a cutterhead 180 into tipping rolls.
  • the separated pad sheets are adhered to the tobacco rod filter plug tobacco rod groups on the tumbling drum 110 and rolled on a roller drum 190 around the cigarette filter groups.
  • the finished double filter cigarettes are fed via a transfer drum 210 of a cutting drum 220 and assembled on this by central cutting through the filter plug to single-filter cigarettes.
  • a turning device 230 turns the series of filter cigarettes and at the same time transfers them into the continuous unswept series of filter cigarettes.
  • the filter cigarettes pass through a test drum 240 to an ejector drum 260.
  • a take-off drum 280 cooperating with a brake drum 270 places the filter cigarettes on a take-off belt 290.
  • Fig. 2 1 shows an exemplary embodiment of a feed device 50 according to the invention, wherein a vertically arranged dividing wall 41 is introduced in the magazine 40 so that two partial magazines 401, 402 arise.
  • inwardly and downwardly facing guide plates 46, 47 are arranged to guide the filter rods from the sub-magazines 401, 402 in cooperation with the partition wall 41 to the conveyor belts 61, 62.
  • the conveyor belts 61, 62 are arranged horizontally, so that the filter rods are conveyed to the removal drums 11 and 21, respectively.
  • a filter receiving station 45 is disposed on both sides of the sub-magazines 401, 402, each receiving filter rods from a filter transmitter, not shown here and laterally in the sub-magazines 401, 402 introduce.
  • a known filter receiver is known under the name "Filtromat” HAUNI Maschinenbau AG.
  • a separate conveying section is formed for the filter rods or funded filter plugs removed on the left side.
  • This separate conveying section is designated by the reference symbol L.
  • a removal drum 11 is arranged in the lower region, so that the filter rods are transported at the outlet by means of the conveyor belt 61 to the removal drum 11, removed by means of the removal drum 11 from the sub-magazine 401 and cut by means of cutting knife 12 into filter plugs , Subsequently, the cut filter plugs from the removal drum 11 to a conveyor drum 13 (as a staggering drum) and then to a subsequent conveyor drum Pass 14 (as a slider drum) on which the filter plug are arranged according to deliver it to the transfer drum 31.
  • the right conveying section for the filter rods or cut filter plugs removed from the right partial magazine 402 is designated by the reference symbol R and consists of the drums 21, 23, 24 and 26.
  • the drums 11, 13, 14 of the left conveyor section L are driven in such a way that filter plugs are transferred via both conveyor sections L and R to the transfer drum 31 and assembled there.
  • the number of cutting blades 12 and 22 may vary according to the desired filter product. Thus, either one or two cutting blades 12 and 22 can be respectively arranged on the removal drums 11 and 21, respectively.
  • a common conveyor section consisting of the transfer drum 31, which is designated by the reference numeral G is further provided for both conveyor sections L and R thereafter.
  • the transfer drum 31 on the filter plug from both conveyor sections L and R to a combination filter or dual filters are put together as a double filter, the assembled filters are passed to an accelerator drum 39.
  • filter rods are removed from the magazine 40 or the sub-magazines 401, 402 via the left conveyor section L (see Fig. 2a) and the right conveyor section R (see Fig. 2b). taken and cut.
  • the corresponding conveying members of the conveyor section L and R are driven simultaneously accordingly.
  • feeder 50 is on an existing filter attachment machine (see. Fig. 1 ) Can be retrofitted, so that the benefits of such upgraded Filteransetzmaschine is significantly increased, since a product change is greatly facilitated on the filter attachment.
  • Fig. 3a shown schematically that the drums 11, 13, 14, 21, 23, 24, 26, 31 are each driven by a single drive.
  • the single drive for the respective drums 11, 13, 14, 21, 23, 24, 26, 31 is designated by the reference numeral 35.
  • a common drive 36 for the drums 11, 13, 14 is provided for the left conveyor section L and a common drive 37 for the drums 21, 23 and 24 is formed for the right conveyor section R.
  • a separate drive 38 is provided in each case.
  • a drive 71, 72 is provided for the conveyor belts 61, 62, which have opposite flow directions.
  • the drums 13, 14 and 23, 24 and 26 are arranged in their operation as a sliding drum, staggering drum or transfer drum either on the machine in a predetermined manner, so that they act together and combined filter plug as a double filter of the Transfer drum 31 passed to the accelerator drum 39.

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  1. Dispositif (50) de transport d'articles en forme de tiges de l'industrie de transformation du tabac, en particulier des tiges de filtres ou des bouts filtres, comprenant un chargeur (40) pour les articles, une paroi de séparation (41) étant prévue dans le chargeur (40) pour former deux compartiments de chargeur (401, 402) pour les articles, chaque compartiment de chargeur (401, 402) étant pourvu respectivement d'une sortie, et un tambour de prélèvement (11, 21) des articles étant prévu respectivement à chaque sortie des compartiments de chargeur (401, 402) de façon telle que les articles peuvent être ou sont prélevés simultanément des compartiments de chargeur (401, 402), caractérisé en ce qu'un convoyeur à bande (61, 62) pour les articles est prévu à chaque sortie des compartiments de chargeur (401, 402) et en ce que les tambours de prélèvement (11, 21) sont entraînés simultanément avec les convoyeurs à bande (61, 62), les convoyeurs à bande (61, 62) présentant, en fonctionnement, différentes directions de transport et une section de transport (L, R) séparée étant respectivement prévue pour les articles prélevés par chaque tambour de prélèvement (11, 21).
  2. Dispositif (50) selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que les convoyeurs à bande (61, 62) présentent, en fonctionnement, des directions de transport opposées.
  3. Dispositif (50) selon la revendication 1 ou 2, caractérisé en ce qu'est prévu au moins un mécanisme d'entraînement (71, 72) des convoyeurs à bande (61, 62).
  4. Dispositif (50) selon l'une des revendications 1 à 3, caractérisé en ce que les compartiments de chargeur (401, 402) sont pourvus chacun d'une station de réception d'articles (45).
  5. Dispositif (50) selon l'une des revendications 1 à 4, caractérisé en ce que chaque section de transport (L, R) séparée comprend au moins un organe de transport (11, 13, 14, 21, 23, 24, 26).
  6. Dispositif (50) selon la revendication 5, caractérisé en ce qu'est prévu comme organe de transport (13, 14, 23, 24, 26) un tambour de coupe et/ou un tambour de répartition et/ou un tambour pousseur et/ou un tambour d'accélération.
  7. Dispositif (50) selon l'une des revendications 1 à 6, caractérisé en ce qu'est prévue, dans la direction de transport des articles, à la suite des sections de transport (L, R) séparées, une section commune de transport (G) des articles, comprenant au moins un organe de transport (31).
  8. Dispositif (50) selon l'une des revendications 1 à 7, caractérisé en ce qu'est prévu respectivement pour chaque organe de transport (11, 13, 14, 21, 23, 24, 26, 31) un mécanisme d'entraînement individuel (35).
  9. Dispositif (50) selon l'une ou plusieurs des revendications 5 à 7, caractérisé en ce qu'est prévu respectivement un mécanisme d'entraînement (35, 36) pour plusieurs organes de transport (11, 13, 14, 21, 23, 24) d'une section de transport (L, R).
  10. Machine de l'industrie de transformation du tabac, en particulier machine d'assemblage de filtres ou machine de fabrication de filtres, dotée d'un dispositif (50) selon l'une ou plusieurs des revendications 1 à 9.
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