EP1847186B1 - Aufbereitungseinheit zur Aufbereitung mindestens eines Filtertowstreifens für die Herstellung von Filtern für stabförmige Rauchartikel - Google Patents

Aufbereitungseinheit zur Aufbereitung mindestens eines Filtertowstreifens für die Herstellung von Filtern für stabförmige Rauchartikel Download PDF

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EP1847186B1
EP1847186B1 EP07007594A EP07007594A EP1847186B1 EP 1847186 B1 EP1847186 B1 EP 1847186B1 EP 07007594 A EP07007594 A EP 07007594A EP 07007594 A EP07007594 A EP 07007594A EP 1847186 B1 EP1847186 B1 EP 1847186B1
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Stephan Wolff
Gerd Strohecker
Sönke Horn
Jan Peisker
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A24—TOBACCO; CIGARS; CIGARETTES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES; SMOKERS' REQUISITES
    • A24D—CIGARS; CIGARETTES; TOBACCO SMOKE FILTERS; MOUTHPIECES FOR CIGARS OR CIGARETTES; MANUFACTURE OF TOBACCO SMOKE FILTERS OR MOUTHPIECES
    • A24D3/00—Tobacco smoke filters, e.g. filter-tips, filtering inserts; Filters specially adapted for simulated smoking devices; Mouthpieces for cigars or cigarettes
    • A24D3/02—Manufacture of tobacco smoke filters
    • A24D3/0204—Preliminary operations before the filter rod forming process, e.g. crimping, blooming

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  • the invention relates to a processing unit for processing at least one filter tow strip for the production of filters for rod-shaped smoking articles such as cigarettes, with at least one Tow Entrysumble along which a filter tow is movable in the direction of its longitudinal extent, and with the at least one Tow Entrysumble associated processing facilities for processing the filter tow , Furthermore, the invention relates to a device for processing filter tow material for the production of filters for rod-shaped smoking articles, such as cigarettes, with filter tow providing means for providing at least two filter tows and at least two processing units.
  • Such a processing unit and such a device are for example from the DE 42 09 789 A1 or the DE 43 08 093 A1 known.
  • filter rods can be produced in the two-strand process.
  • filter tows eg cellulose acetate filaments
  • plasticizer e.g. ethylene glycol dimethacrylate
  • round-shaped and delivered in a desired shape and consistency for further processing to a filter rod making a filter strand from the processed filter tow by wrapping with a HüllmaterialstMail, finally in filter rods for cigarettes or other rod-shaped smoking article is cut.
  • An arrangement for producing at least one filter bag is from EP 1625799 A1 known.
  • the invention is based on the object of further improving a processing unit and a device of the type mentioned in the introduction.
  • the treatment unit is designed as a separate module, which is designed for a combination with at least one further treatment unit in juxtaposed and / or superimposed arrangement, and has an interface for connection to a downstream device for further processing of the filter tow such as a stranding machine .
  • a downstream device for further processing of the filter tow such as a stranding machine
  • the footprint required overall can be significantly reduced.
  • the treatment unit according to the invention claimed a greater height in the vertical direction.
  • this is readily acceptable in view of the advantage achieved by the construction according to the invention a significant reduction in space requirements in the horizontal direction and otherwise provides experience otherwise anyway no problem, especially by the arrangement of the processing facilities substantially at an angle to the vertical, preferably about horizontally directed row the height required by the processing unit is relatively low.
  • the latter feature is particularly advantageous for a flat design of the treatment unit responsible and therefore also allows a superposed arrangement of more than two processing units.
  • the term "tow routing path” primarily means only the path along which the filter tow strip moves through the processing unit.
  • the tow guide path can be provided with a web guide, which guides the filter tow strip in a supportive manner. Such a web guide is at least not consistently mandatory.
  • a processing unit is provided with only a single Tow Equipmentsumble along which a single filter tow is movable in the direction of its longitudinal extent, resulting in a single-strand filter, preferably one row of processing facilities a first section of the Tow Equipmentsumble and the other row of processing facilities a second Section of the Tow Equipmentsumble be assigned, which can be adapted to the application in a particularly simple and at the same time clever way in the case of a single-strand filter preparation required by the processing unit space.
  • the two sections of the Tow Equipmentsumble are substantially vertically above the other; In this way, a relatively space-saving design can also be realized in a single-strand filter preparation.
  • the processing means comprise means for spreading, stretching, treating and / or forming the filter tow.
  • a device for rounding the filter tow strip can be provided, which preferably forms the last processing device in the sequence. This results in the advantage that, after leaving this last processing device, the filter tow strip, which is now essentially round in cross-section, can in principle be deflected in any direction before it leaves the processing unit.
  • the processing unit For the modular construction of at least two processing units, it is expedient to provide the processing unit with at least one further inlet and at least one further outlet, wherein the filter tow strip prepared by another processing unit can be passed through such a further inlet and such a further outlet that the filter tow strips prepared by the processing units can run in substantially the same direction to the same downstream device.
  • a device for processing filter tow material for the production of filters for rod-shaped smoking articles, such as cigarettes with filter tow providing means for providing at least two filter tows and at least two processing units.
  • Such a device accordingly has a substantially modular construction of at least two processing units.
  • the processing units can be arranged in different ways.
  • at least two processing units should preferably be arranged substantially vertically one above the other. Additionally or alternatively, however, it is also conceivable to arrange the processing units either essentially one behind the other and / or substantially next to one another.
  • the filter tow providing means with respect to the direction of movement of the processed filter tow strips as they exit the device.
  • a group-by-group summary of the filter tow provision means is also conceivable, for example, in that the filter tow provision means in the group are arranged essentially next to one another and the group is placed substantially in front of the processing units.
  • such a device should furthermore have a transition module, by means of which the filter tow strips processed by the processing units are transferred to a downstream device for further processing, such as, for example, a stranding machine.
  • the construction of the device can result in a machine setup either in line or at an angle.
  • the processing units are arranged substantially in an angular, preferably approximately right-angled, row to the processing direction of a downstream device.
  • FIG. 1 schematically shows the structure of the processing modules 2 shown there.
  • the structure of the two processing modules 2 shown is essentially identical except for one exception in the outlet region.
  • each processing module 2 is designed in two columns, wherein the two tow guide paths formed by the strands lie substantially next to one another in a horizontal plane. In FIG. 1 is therefore only the viewer facing strand with the associated Tow Equipmentsumble recognizable. Although the following description refers only to a strand or a Tow Equipmentsumble, this of course also applies to the in FIG. 1 unrecognizable second strand.
  • Each processing module 2 has a housing 4, according to FIG. 1 right end side forms an inlet side, on which an inlet 6 is provided, through which a filter tow 8 enters the housing 4.
  • the inlet 6 is formed by an opening in the corresponding end face of the housing 4, wherein for the formation of the inlet 6, for example, the housing 4 may also be opened on its end face as a whole.
  • a spreader nozzle 9 arranged downstream at a short distance from the inlet 6 and a pair of rollers 10 directly downstream of the spreader nozzle 9 belong to the inlet region.
  • the spreader nozzle 9 may be pivotally mounted in order to be able to align itself in dependence on the instantaneous course of the filter tow strip 8 ,
  • the filter tow 8 is in FIG. 1 represented schematically by a dotted line.
  • the filter tow 8 consists of a flat strip and must be introduced into the conditioning module 2 so that it is in a plane perpendicular to the plane of FIG. 1 runs.
  • the filter tow 8 between the pair of rollers 10 and a downstream pair of rollers 12 undergoes a pre-stretching, passes through the filter tow 8 a per se known stretching device, which is formed by the pair of rollers 12 and a downstream further pair of rollers 14 and makes the main stretch on the filter tow 8 , and downstream of the lower pair of rollers 14, a likewise known treatment device 16 in which the filter tow is sprayed with a treatment agent, which is not shown in detail in the figures.
  • the filter tow 8 After emerging from the treatment device 16 of the filter tow 8 passes through a shaping device 18, the structure in the figures not shown in detail, but also known per se and of the in FIG. 1 only one roller 20 and a directly downstream downstream pulley 22 are shown.
  • the filter tow 8 In the shaping device 18, the filter tow 8 is round-shaped. Of the so round shaped filter tow 8 is shown in the illustrated embodiment FIG. 1 subsequently deflected by the deflection roller 22 in the direction of a merging device 24, which serves to bring together a plurality of processed in the individual processing modules 2 filter tow 8 and in the illustrated embodiment has a plurality of rollers, each of which a roll a round shaped filter tow 8 leads.
  • the processing modules 2 shown differ with regard to the arrangement of the merging device 24, which is provided recognizably only in the upper processing module 2, while it is missing in the lower processing module 2.
  • the two processing modules 2 shown also differ with regard to the guidance of the round shaped filter tow strip 8 after leaving the deflection roller 22.
  • the filter tow 8 of the lower processing module 2 must in the embodiment according to FIG. 1 obliquely upward to the merging device 24 arranged in the upper processing module 2, so that for this purpose at the lower processing module 2 on the upper side of the housing 4, a corresponding outlet 26 must be provided.
  • the round-shaped filter tow 8 runs in the upper processing module 2 of the guide roller 22 internally to the merger 24.
  • the thus merged filter tow 8 leave together after exiting the merge means 24, the upper processing module 2 through an outlet 28 which in the adjacent end face of the housing 4 of upper processing module 2 is formed accordingly.
  • the described outlets usually consist of openings in the corresponding wall of the housing 4. The larger these openings, the more a variable orientation of the course of the filter tow 8 is possible. In this context, it is also conceivable, for example, to form the outlet 28 provided on the end face of the housing 4 in that this end face of the housing 4 remains completely open.
  • the lower processing module 2 according to FIG. 1 also a merging device and a front-side outlet accordingly the merging device 24 and the outlet 28 and the upper processing module 2 to provide an upper outlet corresponding to the outlet 26 to establish a structural identity between the processing modules 2.
  • the combination of the processed filter tow strips 8 can then take place optionally in a specific processing module 2. Determining for this is in particular a correct adaptation to the interface of a downstream device.
  • FIG. 1 can be seen, are the previously described processing devices 12 to 18 in the illustrated embodiment in a horizontally oriented row behind the other. This has the consequence that in the illustrated embodiment, the not designated in detail tow guide path, according to FIG. 1 from right to left, is directed substantially horizontally, in the section between the pair of rollers 10 and the former 18.
  • the housing 4 can be opened accordingly, which is not shown in detail in the figures.
  • FIG. 1 recognize a Towballen 30, which, based on the processing direction of the processing modules 2, arranged in front of these.
  • a plurality of towballs 30 are provided, each of which towballen 30 is associated with a strand or a Tow Unitsumble.
  • FIG. 1 is withdrawn before entering the processing module 2 of the filter tow 8 from the Towballen 30 and via an only schematically shown deflection and Towausbungsungsorgan 32, which is arranged at the upper end of a support arm, not shown in the figures, in the direction of the inlet. 6 directed.
  • processing modules shown can be used as individual functional units with a downstream stranding machine. But since the construction is based on a modular concept with essentially uniform interfaces and the use of as many common parts is based, the processing modules 2 can be particularly simple and without great design effort together in combination with a downstream multi-strand machine for a multiple strand filter use. An example of such combinations is shown in the figures, the example shown there being not exhaustive.
  • FIGS. 1 and 2 arrangement shown is provided for a four-strand filter production, including two superimposed conditioning modules are used, in particular FIG. 1 lets recognize.
  • FIG. 2 schematically shows four Towballen 30, each of which Towballen 30 is associated with a strand or a Tow Equipmentsumble.
  • the four towballs 30 are combined into two adjacent groups, in each of which two towballs are arranged one behind the other.
  • Towballen 30 there are other placements of Towballen 30 conceivable. In the arrangement of the towballs 30 must be ensured in any case that the filter tow 8 is guided after removal from the respective Towballen 30 from the Umlenkund Towausbungsungsorgan 32 so that the filter tow 8 in the in FIG. 1 shown manner in the associated processing module 2 occurs. Possibly. For this purpose, the filter tow strip 8 drawn off from the towbale 30 must still be subjected to a twist.
  • the processing modules 2 downstream of a four-strand machine 40 in which the processed filter tow 8 after leaving the upper processing module 2 according to FIG. 1 enter where they will be processed further.
  • Processing modules 2 described in each case have two tow guide paths and are therefore each formed with two strands. In principle, however, it is also conceivable to process only a single filter tow strip in a single processing module and thus to design the corresponding processing module as single-stranded.
  • two superimposed rows of processing devices 10 to 18 and thus two superimposed and substantially horizontally oriented Tow Unitsfflen may be arranged.

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