EP2046152A1 - System for self-assembly of cigarettes - Google Patents
System for self-assembly of cigarettesInfo
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- EP2046152A1 EP2046152A1 EP07724338A EP07724338A EP2046152A1 EP 2046152 A1 EP2046152 A1 EP 2046152A1 EP 07724338 A EP07724338 A EP 07724338A EP 07724338 A EP07724338 A EP 07724338A EP 2046152 A1 EP2046152 A1 EP 2046152A1
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Classifications
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A24—TOBACCO; CIGARS; CIGARETTES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES; SMOKERS' REQUISITES
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A24—TOBACCO; CIGARS; CIGARETTES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES; SMOKERS' REQUISITES
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Definitions
- the invention relates to a system for self-production of cigarettes with a stuffing device and a tobacco pack and a corresponding stuffing device and a corresponding tobacco pack.
- EP 0 584 805 B1 describes a device for the self-production of a cigarette, in which pre-portioned smoking tobacco is used.
- Each of the cigarette portions provided for a cigarette either has a wrapping, wherein they are connected to one another side by side to form a bar belt, in order to form a block, or they are surrounded by a common casing to form a block.
- These wraps are made of highly porous material that can be smoked.
- such a block is inserted with a longitudinal side first in a magazine which is arranged above the filling opening of a pressing chamber.
- the respectively lowest tobacco portion is conveyed into the pressing chamber, where, after separation from the remaining block, it is shaped by means of a separating knife from a transversely movable pressing bar into a tobacco rod.
- This tobacco rod is then pushed out of the pressing chamber by means of a pushing device and into a cigarette paper sleeve arranged in front of the pressing chamber.
- the porous wrapping material also cut through by the separating knife also gets into the cigarette paper tube.
- the wrapping material is so loose that it also comes with not very appropriate use also easy to soiling.
- a similarly designed device for self-production of cigarettes is known from US 2,731,971, US 3,127,900 and US 4,411,278.
- EP 0 178 605 B1 and DE 39 14 669 C2 describe devices and processes for the self-production of cigarettes, in which the tobacco intended for smoking is pre-portioned in the form of tobacco cartridges.
- the tobacco is surrounded by a non-smokable strand casing.
- the tobacco is transferred from the tobacco cartridge into a cigarette paper tube, leaving the strand casing of the tobacco cartridge.
- DE 101 29 260 C1 shows a handy stuffing device with the aid of which the tobacco can be transferred from such a tobacco cartridge into a cigarette paper tube.
- the waste due to the strand casings of the individual tobacco cartridges is disadvantageous.
- the inventive system for self-production of cigarettes has a stuffing device and a tobacco pack.
- the tobacco pack has a first end side and a second end side and is provided at the first end side with a removable, pre-removed first cover and at the (opposite) second end side with a removable second cover provided for removal.
- the tobacco pack is filled with tobacco, preferably fine-cut tobacco.
- Fine-cut tobacco is defined in Section 2 (4) of the German Tobacco Tax Act of 21 December 1992 (Federal Law Gazette I p. 2150), last amended by the Order of 10 July 2006 (Federal Law Gazette I p. 1473): "Smoking tobacco is a fine cut if more than 25 per cent of the weight of the tobacco parts are less than 1 mm long or wide. '
- the stuffing device has a pressing chamber with a longitudinal direction into which tobacco can be introduced via a longitudinally aligned filling opening.
- the tobacco can be shaped into a tobacco rod by means of a pressing bar movable transversely to the longitudinal direction of the pressing chamber and can be transferred from the pressing chamber into a cigarette paper tube arranged in front of the pressing chamber by means of a sliding device movable in the longitudinal direction of the pressing chamber.
- a holder is provided, into which a Tobacco pack of the aforementioned type with its second end side can be used ahead. In the inserted state, the second end side of the tobacco pack is arranged above the filling opening of the pressing chamber.
- the stuffing device of the system according to the invention has a similar structure as the devices described in EP 0 584 805 B1, US Pat. No. 2,731,971, US Pat. No. 3,127,900 and US Pat. No. 4,411,278.
- no loose tobacco is used and no tobacco which is pre-portioned with the aid of porous wrappings, but the tobacco is supplied in tobacco packs, preferably of cuboidal basic shape, which on two end faces, i. at the first end side and at the second end side, are easy to open.
- One way of using virtually no tobacco crumbs scattered in the environment is for the user to first open a tobacco pack on the second end side and then insert it into the holder such that the opened second end side of the tobacco pack is above the fill opening the press chamber comes to rest.
- the user can keep the stuffing device tilted, so that the tobacco pack is aligned substantially horizontally and loses no tobacco on the open second end side.
- the stuffing device is again in its upright position of use, the user can open the first end side of the tobacco pack. Now loose tobacco is located above the filling opening of the pressing chamber. The user can press on the tobacco via the opened first end side, thus advancing tobacco into the pressing chamber. With the tobacco contained in the tobacco pack, a number of cigarettes can be successively produced by operating the stuffing device.
- the tobacco pack is empty and can be removed from the holder.
- the tobacco is provided without unnecessary portioning material in a tobacco pack, which also serves as a magazine for the stuffing device. A decontamination of the tobacco associated with soiling by tobacco crumbs is not required.
- the stuffing device can be made with the tobacco of a tobacco pack in a simple and efficient way, a larger number of cigarettes.
- the inventive system for self-production of cigarettes is therefore user-friendly, clean and produces little waste.
- the stuffing device comprises a movable separating element, preferably a separating knife, which is arranged at the filling opening of the pressing chamber and is adapted to cut through the filler opening urging tobacco during movement, preferably a sliding movement, and optionally thereafter Close the filling opening.
- a movable separating element preferably a separating knife
- the movements of the separating element and the press beam are coupled.
- the stuffing device may comprise a movable actuating element, preferably a pivoting lever, which is operatively connected to the separating element, the pressing beam and the pushing device via an actuating mechanism.
- the separating element severes the tobacco which penetrates through the filling opening
- the pressing bar forms the tobacco located in the pressing chamber into a tobacco rod
- the pushing device transfers the tobacco rod into a cigarette paper tube arranged in front of the pressing chamber.
- the tobacco rod is shaped in a comparable manner and transferred into a cigarette paper tube.
- the cigarettenpapierhülse is preferably attachable to an arranged on the stuffing before the press chamber neck nozzle.
- a clamping or holding device can be provided, with which the cigarette paper tube is fastened to the attachment neck.
- the pushing device of the stuffing device is a piston, with which the finished shaped tobacco rod is pushed out of the pressing chamber.
- a preferred alternative is therefore a sliding device with a trough-shaped tongue, which is arranged opposite to the pressing beam and which preferably extends over the length of the pressing chamber.
- the tongue thus has a concave shape facing the tobacco, which can be supplemented by the preferably also concave-shaped pressing bar to form a substantially circular shape when the pressing bar is completely moved towards the tongue.
- the tongue may be serrated at its edge.
- Such tongues are known in stuffing devices.
- the stuffing device has a slide which can be inserted into the tobacco pack via the first end side of a tobacco pack inserted into the holder.
- the slider is adapted to advance the tobacco in the tobacco pack, for example by having its surface adjacent to the tobacco slightly smaller than the cross-sectional area of the tobacco pack.
- the user advances the tobacco with a provisional tool in the direction of the pressing chamber.
- this activity is considerably facilitated by a slider supplied with the stuffing device.
- the slider numerous embodiments are conceivable.
- the slider has a relatively high weight so that it automatically presses on the tobacco. Marker marks on the pusher may be convenient to read the remaining amount of tobacco contained in the tobacco pack.
- the pusher includes a tobacco pack receiving space and is insertable into the stuffer, preferably designed as a deployable and removable drawer. In such an embodiment, the user may always carry a tobacco pack in the stuffing device.
- the holder is pivotally mounted on the stuffing device and pivotable from a horizontal loading position into the use state. If the holder is lying, the user can introduce the tobacco pack even when the second end side open, without causing tobacco crumbs emerge from the tobacco pack to any appreciable extent. Once the tobacco pack is inserted, the user pivots the holder in the use state, in which the second end side of the tobacco pack is arranged above the filling opening of the pressing chamber.
- the stuffing device has a closure device, eg a closure slide which is movable from a closed state to an open state and covers the second end side of a tobacco pack inserted into the holder when closed, it can also move during the pivoting of the holder from the loading position into the use state no tobacco leak.
- the holder preferably has a shaft into which a tobacco pack with its second end side can be used in advance.
- the shaft preferably has a height which is less than the length of a tobacco pack inserted into the shaft, so that the tobacco pack can be easily gripped during insertion into the holder and during removal.
- the tobacco pack preferably has a cuboid basic shape. This includes deviations from an exact cuboid shape, such as e.g. Designs with rounded edges or corners.
- the thickness of the tobacco pack is matched in preferred embodiments of the invention to the width of the filling opening on the StopfVorraum.
- the thickness of the tobacco pack extends transversely to the longitudinal direction of the press chamber when the tobacco pack is inserted into the holder.
- the width dimension of the tobacco pack then runs in the longitudinal direction of the pressing chamber and the length dimension in the direction of the height of the holder.
- the width dimension of the filling opening runs transversely to the longitudinal direction of the pressing chamber.
- the thickness of the tobacco pack is 1.0 to 1.5 times the width of the filler opening.
- the thickness of the tobacco pack is not or not much larger than the width of the filling opening, there is no congestion over the filling opening when transferring the tobacco from the tobacco pack into the pressing chamber, resulting in undesirable compaction of the tobacco, increased friction and Problems could occur when transferring the tobacco into the bale chamber.
- the thickness of the tobacco pack is only slightly larger than the width of the filling opening, wherein a narrow projection on the filling opening serves as a stop for the tobacco pack.
- the filling opening of the stuffing device preferably has a width which corresponds to the diameter of a canned ciga- Rescue is comparable. If the filler opening were too wide, the tobacco would be compressed too much during the movement of the press beam. , The tobacco pack has therefore in the illustrated preferred embodiment, a thickness which is significantly less than the thickness of a conventional cigarette pack. Therefore, two tobacco packages can be provided with a common outer packaging, which has approximately the dimensions of a conventional cigarette pack and, for example, has a hinged lid. In such an outer packaging, for example, the self-made cigarettes can be stored later after the two tobacco packs have been removed.
- the tobacco pack may be made of conventional packing materials such as cardboard, cardboard, plastic or metal (e.g., aluminum, especially in sheet form). Composite materials are also conceivable.
- a friction-inhibiting coating on the inside of the tobacco pack is advantageous in order to be able to more easily transfer the tobacco into the pressing chamber. The same effect is achieved if already the base material of the tobacco package has a low adhesive or sliding friction with respect to tobacco.
- the tobacco pack preferably has on its inside a diffusion-inhibiting coating, in particular if the base material of the tobacco pack is open-pored.
- a friction-inhibiting and a diffusion-inhibiting coating may be identical, e.g. when coated with polyethylene.
- the first cover and the second cover on the first end side and the second end side can be removed, preferably easily removed.
- the two end pages are the narrow sides of a guaderartigen basic form.
- the first cover and / or the second cover may be connected via predetermined tear points with sides of the tobacco pack located between the first end side and the second end side.
- the predetermined tear points preferably have at least one perforation line.
- the tobacco pack has a base body, which preferably contains cardboard.
- This main body is open at the first end side and / or at the second end side, wherein a foil insert inserted into the main body is provided as first cover or second cover.
- the foil insert preferably has aluminum. Mixed forms in which the one end side is provided with the explained perforation lines and the other end side with a foil insert are also conceivable.
- first cover or as a second cover can also serve an outer packaging when the tobacco pack has a base body which is open on the first end side and / or on the second end side.
- the above-described outer packaging for receiving two flat tobacco packs can be additionally provided in such a configuration.
- the tobacco in the tobacco pack may be pre-portioned, e.g. in that the tobacco in the tobacco pack is shaped into a block which has a desired weak point parallel to the second end side between every two portions, preferably a notch. Such a pre-portioning facilitates the separation of a respective portion of tobacco after it has been introduced through the filling opening in the pressing chamber.
- the tobacco in the tobacco pack is preferably fine-cut tobacco. If the tobacco is short-fibred, it is easier to move from the tobacco pack into the bale chamber. It points the tobacco preferably has a fiber length of less than 2 mm, preferably at a level of more than 20% by weight.
- FIG. 2 shows a three-dimensional view of a first embodiment of a tobacco pack for the system according to the invention
- FIG. 3 shows a three-dimensional view of a second embodiment of a tobacco pack for the inventive
- FIG. 4 shows a three-dimensional view of a third embodiment of a tobacco pack for the system according to the invention
- FIG. 5 shows a three-dimensional view of a double pack containing two tobacco packs for the system according to the invention
- Figure 6 is a schematic partial cross-section through an embodiment of a stuffing device for the inventive system for self-production of cigarettes with a tobacco pack inserted, in part (a) before forming a Cigarettenstrangs and in part (b) after forming the Cigarettenstrangs, and
- Figure 7 is a schematic partial plan view of the Stopfvoroplasty according to Figure 6 with representation of arranged in different levels parts, in part (a) before molding a cigarette stick and in part (b) after forming and transferring the cigarette stick into a cigarette paper tube.
- FIG. 1 illustrates the functional principle of the system for self-production of cigarettes on the basis of a schematic representation.
- a cuboid tobacco pack 1 with a first end side 2 and a second end side 3 and located between the two end sides 2, 3 pages 4 is filled with tobacco 6, preferably with fine-cut tobacco.
- This tobacco pack 1 serves on the one hand for storing the tobacco 6, on the other hand, but also as a magazine for a StopfVorraum.
- the tobacco pack 1 In order to use the tobacco pack 1 with the stuffing device explained in more detail below, it is carefully inserted into a holder of the stuffing device after removing its second end side 3, so that no tobacco 6 falls out of the tobacco pack 1, and then the first end side 2 removed. With the help of a slide 8, which is a component of the stuffing device, the tobacco 6 can now be pushed out of the tobacco pack 1 via the second end side 3, into a pressing chamber of the stuffing device, to form a tobacco rod therefrom and transfer it into a cigarette paper tube ,
- This process can be repeated until the slider 8 has arrived at the second end side 3 of the tobacco pack 1 and the tobacco pack 1 is empty.
- FIG. 2 shows an embodiment of a tobacco pack 10, which is made of cardboard on all sides.
- the tobacco pack 10 is cuboid and has two end faces, the first end side 12 and the second end side 13, and four
- the first end side 12 serves as a first cover 16 and the second end side 13 as a second cover 17.
- the first cover 16 is above a perforation line 18 and the second cover 17 is connected via a perforation line 19 with the other pages 14 connected.
- the two covers 16 and 17 can be easily removed because of the perforation lines 18 and 19 so as to open the tobacco pack 10 at the first end side 12 and at the second end side 13.
- pull tabs may be provided on the first cover 16 and the second cover 17, respectively, or the perforation lines 18, 19 may have indentations, notches or points of attack to facilitate initial tearing facilitate (not shown in Figure 2).
- the first end side 22 and the second end side 23 of the base body of the tobacco pack 20 formed from the four sides 24 are open.
- this base body is made of cardboard.
- the first cover 26 and as a second cover 27 are foil inserts, as indicated by the dashed lines, which are made of aluminum in the embodiment.
- the first cover 26 and the second cover 27 may be pulled out of the base body formed by the four sides 24.
- the embodiment of a tobacco pack 30 shown in Figure 4 is also cuboid and has a first end 32, a second end 3 " 3, and a base formed from the four intermediate sides 34.
- This body is at the first end 32 and at the second end 33
- a conversion pack or envelope 36 which consists in the embodiment of a thin, transparent film.
- a tear strip 37 is provided, which divides the wrapper 36 into an upper part 38 and a lower part 39. In this way, the upper part 38 of the enclosure 36 forms the cover of the first end side 32, while the lower part 39 serves as a cover of the second end side 33.
- the lower part 39 of the envelope 36 can be easily removed, so that the tobacco packet 30 with the second end side 33 can be inserted into a holder of a tamping device without causing it Tobacco crumbs from the tobacco pack 30 emerge. Thereafter, the upper part 38 of the enclosure 36 can be pulled upwards.
- Cardboard or cardboard in particular, but other materials such as plastic or metals (eg aluminum foil) and composite materials can be used as the material for the tobacco pack or the body of the tobacco pack.
- a coating of the inner sides which reduces the friction between the packing material and the tobacco, for example a coating with polyethylene or polypropylene.
- a coating is provided on the inner sides of the sides 14, 24 and 34.
- Such a coating can also have diffusion-inhibiting properties to maintain the tobacco moisture in the package. Alternatively, an additional diffusion-inhibiting coating comes into consideration.
- the system for self-production of cigarettes works particularly well when (see FIG. 1) the tobacco 6 exiting at the second end side 3 of the tobacco pack 1 does not accumulate during filling in a stuffing device. Therefore, preferably the dimensions of the second end side 3 of the tobacco pack 1 are substantially adapted to the dimensions of the filling opening of the stuffing device. Since the width of this filling opening is preferably slightly larger than the diameter of a cigarette, while the length of the filling opening substantially coincides with the length of the tobacco rod in a cigarette, the second end side 3 of the tobacco pack 1 thus has substantially the length of a cigarette or the tobacco rod of a cigarette, while its width (thickness of the tobacco pack 1) is slightly larger than a cigarette diameter.
- the tobacco pack 1 is therefore relatively narrow in preferred embodiments, i. it has a small thickness.
- a double pack 40 which has a repacking 42 made of cardboard with a hinged lid 44 and contains two tobacco packs 46 and 47.
- These tobacco packs 46 and 47 are constructed, as previously explained, and designed, for example, like the tobacco packs 10, 20 or 30. Since the tobacco packs 46 and 47 are thin or narrow, the overpack 42 can accommodate two such tobacco packs and has dimensions that substantially match those of a conventional cigarette pack.
- the outer package 42 may be used after removing the first tobacco pack 46 and the second tobacco pack 47 eg for storing the cigarettes made with the system for self-production of cigarettes. In the following, it will be explained with reference to FIGS. 6 and 7 how an embodiment of the stuffing device of the system functions and cooperates with a tobacco pack of the type described.
- FIG. 6 shows a schematic partial cross section of the stuffing device labeled 50 along the line VI-VI from FIG. In the StopfVor therapies 50 a tobacco pack 1 is inserted.
- the stuffing device 50 has a base 52 in which a pressing chamber 54 is formed as a cavity.
- the pressing chamber 54 is aligned in a longitudinal direction L, see FIG. 7.
- the pressing chamber 54 is accessible via a filling opening 56, which in the exemplary embodiment extends over the entire length of the pressing chamber 54 and is slightly wider than the diameter of one usual cigarette.
- the pressing chamber 54 On one side (on the left in FIG. 6), the pressing chamber 54 is delimited by a pressing beam 58 with a concave surface 59.
- the pressing beam 58 is displaceably mounted transversely to the longitudinal direction L, as indicated in FIG. 6 (a) by the arrow.
- a separating knife 60 is arranged with a cutting edge 61, in the embodiment firmly mounted on the pressing bar 58.
- the cutting blade 60 extends as well as the pressing beam 58 over the entire length of the pressing chamber 54.
- the pressing bar 58 made of plastic and the separating blade 60 made of steel.
- a one-piece design of press beams and separating knife is conceivable.
- a tongue 62 is arranged, which is shaped like a channel and has a concave surface 63.
- the tongue 62 is mounted longitudinally displaceable and at a star pel 64 which forms the rear end of the press chambers 54 when the tongue 62 is fully retracted, see Figure 7 (a).
- the tongue 62 also extends the full length of the compression chamber 54. In the embodiment, it has some prongs near its front end.
- an attachment piece 66 is arranged in front of the pressing chamber 54, which is slightly beveled in the exemplary embodiment.
- a clamp 68 which springs against the neck piece 66.
- a holder 70 is disposed above the filling opening 56.
- the holder 70 forms a shaft 72 into which the tobacco pack 1 with its second end side 3 can be inserted in front.
- the shaft 72 is slightly wider than the filling opening 56, so that at its lower end at the edge of the filling opening 56, a projection 74 is formed.
- the projection 74 serves as a lower stop for the tobacco pack 1.
- the length of the holder 70, measured in the longitudinal direction L, in the exemplary embodiment is about as large as the length of the pressing chamber 54.
- the holder 70 can be pivoted in the embodiment with respect to the base 52.
- a latch 78 located in the lower region of the holder 70 on one side two joints 76, while on the opposite side, a latch 78 is provided to lock the holder 70 in the erected state shown in Figure 6 (state of use). After releasing the latch 78, the holder 70 can be pivoted about 90 ° to the base 52. This is useful to save 50 when transporting the stuffing device.
- the second end 3 should not be held down so that no tobacco crumbs escape.
- the tobacco pack 1 is inserted into the shaft 72 with its second end face 3 ahead and advanced to the projection 74.
- the height of the holder 70 is less than the length of the tobacco pack 1, so that the tobacco pack 1 protrudes at the upper end of the shaft 72 and can be easily removed again later.
- the user can slightly tilt the light stuffing device 50 in the embodiment when inserting the tobacco pack 1, so that no tobacco falls out on the second end side 3. After the tobacco pack 1 is aligned as shown in Figure 6, the cover on the first end side 2 can be removed without risk of contamination.
- the user first puts a cigarette paper sleeve 82 with a filter 84 on the neck piece 66.
- the cigarette paper sleeve 82 is secured by the clamp 68.
- the user operates the operating mechanism of the stuffing device 50, which is not shown in detail in the figures.
- This causes the first pressing bar 58 is advanced in the arrow direction.
- the mitbewegte separating knife 60 cuts through the tobacco 6 along the line 86, so that the entered into the pressing chamber 54 tobacco is guided by the pressing bar 58 against the tongue 62.
- a tobacco rod 88 is formed by the concave surfaces 59 and 63, whose diameter corresponds to that of a cigarette.
- the pressing bar 58 has reached its end position.
- the tobacco rod 88 is fully formed, wherein the tobacco may be slightly compressed compared to the tobacco 6 in the tobacco pack 1.
- FIG. 7 (b) shows a state just before the self-made cigarette 80 is removed from the attachment stub 66.
- a sample of approx. 40 g of fine-cut tobacco is sifted (for standard fine-cut tobacco moisture content) with a set of five superimposed sieves, which meet the following specifications in the order from top to bottom: Sizes according to ISO 3310-2 31.5 mm, 13.2 mm and 4.0 mm and mesh screens to ISO 3310-1 with nominal sizes 2.0 mm and 1.0 mm.
- the conclusion forms in the lowest position a shallow shell, which receives the sieves one above the other and inserted into each other.
- the product "KS 1000" Retsch set to agitation (speed) of 90 divisions and a period of 3 minutes.
- the fractions remaining on the sieves and the fraction on the bottom shell are weighed.
- sieving can be carried out e.g. with five samples and determine the mean percentage distribution on the individual sieve fractions.
- the fraction with a fiber length of less than 2 mm results from the fractions on the bottom sieve and on the bottom shell, based on the sum of all fractions.
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