EP2630041A1 - Portionierungsvorrichtung und verfahren zum portionieren von gemahlenem oder geschnittenem tabakmaterial - Google Patents
Portionierungsvorrichtung und verfahren zum portionieren von gemahlenem oder geschnittenem tabakmaterialInfo
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- EP2630041A1 EP2630041A1 EP10778851.5A EP10778851A EP2630041A1 EP 2630041 A1 EP2630041 A1 EP 2630041A1 EP 10778851 A EP10778851 A EP 10778851A EP 2630041 A1 EP2630041 A1 EP 2630041A1
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- trough
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- portioning
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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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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
- B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
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Definitions
- the invention relates to a portioning device for portioning ground or cut tobacco material with at least one portion intake, which can be moved from a filling position at which the portion intake can be filled with a portion of the tobacco material to an ejection position at which the portion intake can be emptied.
- the invention further relates to a corresponding machine of the tobacco processing industry and a corresponding use and a method for portioning ground or cut tobacco material.
- the invention relates to the field of processing and portioning ground or cut tobacco material having a high moisture content.
- ground or cut tobacco and possibly additives are eligible.
- the cut length is so short that the cut moist tobacco material has a similar consistency as ground
- CONFIRMATION COPY moist tobacco material Such a moist ground or cut tobacco material is offered, inter alia, as so-called SNUS tobacco or smokeless tobacco and is used orally, ie in the oral cavity.
- SNUS tobacco has a moisture content of about 35% to 50% or more and is a fine-grained, lumpy substance that is similar in consistency to wet coffee grounds.
- SNUS tobacco is in some cases flavored with, for example, menthol, sal ammoniac or other flavoring agents, and is packaged in portions of 0.5 to 2 grams in so-called SNUS bags.
- This is a porous paper, the so-called “pouch”, which is completely sealed, but permeable to water and releases the ingredients of the "pouch” in the mouth and the mucous membranes of the mouth.
- the most common portion size is about one gram per serving. After consuming the "pouch" this is taken out of the mouth and disposed of.
- the ground or cut tobacco material is processed in the wet state.
- the bulk material is sieved.
- sifting a ground tobacco material having a moisture content of 35% or more is associated with building up of clumps of clumped material in the screen so that the screens and other components of the respective processing equipment must be thoroughly cleaned on a regular basis.
- a corresponding device is sold, for example, under the name TS 1000 of the company MediSeal GmbH. In it, the tobacco material is filled into a pre-metering chamber and then filled into an open sachet, which is then sealed.
- a device for homogenizing the tobacco material is described in DE 10 2010 029 243 of the Applicant, the disclosure content of which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
- the homogenizing apparatus described therein comprises a combination of a needle roller and a racket roller, wherein the needle roller is disposed downstream of a feeder and receives tobacco material from the feeder, the rack roller being configured to knock tobacco material out of the needle roller toward a portioning device.
- a portioning device is disclosed in WO 2008/062301 A1, wherein a flat rotatable disc with cavities arranged along the circumference is formed as a portioning element. These cavities are filled with tobacco material at a dispensing station and emptied at a transfer station. The emptying takes place in the direction of a device for the production of portion bags.
- the disclosure of this document is intended to be incorporated in full in the present patent application.
- the tobacco material is introduced into a vertical shaft before it is filled into the cavities.
- a scraper or skimming means is provided which serves to remove excess tobacco material from the cavity.
- the invention has for its object to provide a portioning device and a method for portioning of tobacco material, with which a homogeneous and repeatable same filling of "pouches" or portion bags is possible.
- a portioning device for portioning ground or cut tobacco material with at least one portion intake which can be moved from a filling position at which the portion intake can be filled with a portion of the tobacco material to an ejection position at which the portion intake can be emptied, dissolved
- the portioning device comprises a drum and a drum body, the trough drum is rotatable about a rotation axis and a frusto-conical mantle surface having at least one arranged on the lateral surface trough as Portionsfact, wherein the Hüll stresses a to the outer surface Complementary inner surface which seals the truncated cone-shaped lateral surface of the trough drum at least in sections, sealingly, wherein the enveloping body has an opening at the filling position through which a br ingable trough along at least part of its length or its entire length can be filled with tobacco material, wherein the trough is conveyed by rotation of the drum trunk in the enveloping
- the invention is based on the idea to use for portioning a hollow drum with frusto-conical lateral surface and one or more arranged on the lateral surface troughs as Portionsfactn, in combination with an enveloping body which closes the frusto-conical trough drum so tightly that tobacco material during the promotion in the troughs remains.
- a hollow allows it to be formed as a hollow To fill portion intake with homogenized tobacco, in particular over the entire length of the trough or on a selected part of the length of the trough, so that the trough is filled with homogenized tobacco material.
- the enveloping body at the filling position on an opening through which the tobacco material can be filled into the trough.
- the trough is preferably arranged straight on the frustoconical lateral surface of the trough drum. This means that the trough in its extension intersects with the axis of rotation of the trough drum. Several troughs are preferably arranged at regular or equiangular distances next to each other along the lateral surface. Such a hollow drum can also be referred to as a "bevel gear”.
- the complementary hollow truncated cone-shaped inner surface of the enveloping body seals the frusto-conical lateral surface of the well drum so that tobacco material remains in the depression during a rotation.
- the tobacco material is also protected against drying out during the rotation, since it is enclosed on all sides, except, if appropriate, one or both end surfaces of the trough. The tobacco material can not fall out so synonymous.
- Conducting means for example baffles or a filling funnel, can be arranged at the opening at the enveloping body at the filling position, which directs the flow of the homogenized tobacco material in the direction of the depression to be filled.
- an ejection device is provided at the ejection position, wherein the ejection position in a Direction of rotation of the drum well downstream of the filling position is arranged, wherein the ejection device is designed to eject tobacco material from a trough by means of compressed air or by means of a plunger in the direction of an inner surface of the trough drum.
- a device for producing sachets is particularly preferably arranged downstream of the drum.
- the tobacco material is expelled through an ejection opening at that end surface of the well drum having the larger cross section.
- the compressed air or the plunger penetrates from the direction of the smaller end face in a trough and ejects the tobacco material in the direction of the larger end face of the trough.
- This small surface of the truncated cone is also referred to as the top surface, the larger than the base of the truncated cone.
- the trough in the filling position is aligned substantially horizontally.
- the trough is aligned open at the top of the filling position, so that it can be filled with homogenized tobacco material from above, in particular berieselbar.
- the ejection of the tobacco material is advantageously carried by the fact that the trough in the ejection position is oriented substantially vertically.
- gravity aids in emptying the well, and the tobacco material can fall into the prepared open sachets.
- a particularly preferred design of the portioning device is thus achieved when the opening angle, ie the angle between the lateral surface and the central axis of rotation of the truncated cone-shaped drum drum is about 45 °, in particular between 40 ° and 50 °, and the filling position and the ejection position in the direction of rotation of the drum are mutually offset by 180 °.
- At least one substantially semi-tubular insert body is preferably provided for reducing a portion size which is formed in its length and outer shape matching the trough.
- the volume of the trough or the wells is changeable, so that portion bags with different contents can be produced by means of the same portioning device.
- the stamp size of a plunger is advantageously adapted for ejecting or emptying selected by means of compressed air.
- the portioning device according to the invention undergoes an advantageous development when at least one cleaning device is provided at a cleaning position, wherein the at least one cleaning position is arranged downstream of the ejection position in a rotational direction of the drum, wherein the cleaning device is formed, uninjected tobacco material and / or deposits on a well wall pneumatically, hydraulically or mechanically.
- Pneumatic cleaning means cleaning by means of compressed air, which can be stronger than the compressed air used for ejection, as the cleaning position is no longer taken into account must be that a portion bag must not be damaged.
- a hydraulic cleaning can be done by means of high-pressure water, which may also be mixed with cleaning substances, followed by a clear water rinse. Other liquid cleansing substances are also usable, especially at suitable temperatures.
- a mechanical cleaning is realized by means of an axially inserted into the trough cleaning brush, which may also be designed to be rotatable, or by means of scrapers or scratches.
- the cleaning can be done in each pass, i. Passing past the cleaning position, done, or only at intervals that correspond to a predetermined number of revolutions of the hollow drum, or when a predetermined degree of contamination is exceeded.
- the portioning device advantageously has a drive which is designed to clock the trough drum about its axis of rotation.
- the clocked rotation allows a trough at the filling position and at the ejection position to stand long enough to fill or empty.
- a plurality of wells each having their own filling positions and ejection positions for parallel operation are provided. This makes it possible to fill and create several sachets in parallel.
- the object underlying the invention is also achieved by a machine of the tobacco processing industry with at least one portioning device according to the invention described above.
- a machine of tobacco processing With regard to the portioning of the tobacco material, industry has the same advantages as the portioning device according to the invention.
- multiple portioning devices in the machine may be used to feed a plurality of parallel sachet strands.
- the plurality of portioning devices can each be designed to feed two or more portion bag cords or portion bag cell lines.
- the object underlying the invention is further solved by a use of a previously described Portion n istsvoriques for portioning ground or cut tobacco material. This use also has the same advantages as the portioning device according to the invention.
- the object on which the invention is based is achieved by a method for portioning ground or cut tobacco material with the following method steps: a) filling a depression of a well drum with a truncated conical surface at a filling position with tobacco material through an opening aligned with the depression in one Enveloping body which has an inner surface which is complementary to the lateral surface of the hollow drum and seals the truncated cone-shaped lateral surface of the hollow drum at least in sections, b) gradually rotating the hollow drum until the filled hollow reaches an ejection position, c) ejecting the tobacco material.
- Filling a depression of a well drum with a frusto-conical outer surface, which is sealed by a filling body over a large area, except for a filling has the previously mentioned advantage that tobacco material in the homogenized state in the respective cavity to be filled can be filled and during rotation is securely enclosed, which prevents falling out of the homogenized tobacco material and drying of the tobacco material during rotation.
- the optionally one or two open end surfaces of the trough are compared to the entire volume is a very small opening, which allows only a small exchange with the ambient atmosphere.
- the method is more preferably preformed if the following method steps follow at method step c): d) stepwise rotation of the hollow drum until the emptied trough reaches a cleaning position, e) cleaning the emptied trough.
- the cleaning is carried out in particular advantageously, as described above, by pneumatic, hydraulic and / or mechanical means.
- a quasi-continuous operation of the portioning device is achieved.
- the cleaning can be done with each revolution of the drum or drum after a certain number of revolutions or when a certain degree of contamination.
- Fig. 1 is a schematic perspective view of a portioning device according to the invention.
- FIG. 2 shows a further schematic perspective view of the device according to the invention according to FIG. 1.
- FIG. 2 shows a further schematic perspective view of the device according to the invention according to FIG. 1.
- a portioning device 1 according to the invention is shown schematically in a perspective view.
- the portioning device 1 has a bowl drum 2.
- the well drum 2 has a frusto-conical shape, of which the end face 6 with a smaller cross section, also referred to as a cover surface, is visible in FIG.
- troughs 5, 5 1 , 5 " which are identified by way of example
- the trough 5 extends in a straight alignment on the lateral surface 4 of the hollow drum 2. This means that the trough 5 extends in its extension with the axis of rotation 3 of FIG Trough drum cuts.
- the reference numeral 8 shows the filling position at which ground tobacco, which in particular is homogenized, is filled into the trough 5 in a filling direction 15.
- An ejection position 9 is shown offset by 180 ° in the opposite direction in the direction of rotation 7.
- the perspective of the illustration in Fig. 1 is such that the trough 5 "at the ejection position 9 is aligned with the viewing direction, so that the viewer in Fig. 1 through the trough 5" sees through.
- a cleaning position 10 is arranged in the direction of rotation 7 of the hollow drum 2 behind the ejection position 9 between the ejection position 9 and the filling position 8.
- the hollow drum 2 is surrounded by an enveloping body 1, which also has a frusto-conical shape.
- the inner surface not shown, has a komplemetäre shape adapted to the frustoconical lateral surface 4 of the drum 2 is, but has no negative shape of the wells themselves, so that the wells 5, 5 1 , 5 "are sealed by means of the inner surface of the enveloping body 1 1.
- no tobacco material can escape from the troughs.Also, the tobacco material against external influences and protected against dehydration in the hollows.
- the enveloping body 1 1 has an opening 12 for filling the depression 5 with tobacco material in the filling direction 15.
- the opening 8 is slot-shaped and aligned with the orientation of the trough 5 at the filling position eighth
- the enveloping body 1 1 has a further opening 13 through which, among other tobacco material from a trough 5 "of a sweeping ejector 21 is emptied.
- FIG. 2 the portioning device according to the invention shown in FIG. 1 is shown from another perspective, which corresponds approximately to a positioning in a machine tobacco industry.
- the opening 12 of the enveloping body 1 1 at the filling position 8 is aligned substantially horizontally or horizontally, so that in a filling region 16, which has the entire length of a trough 5, the trough 5 from above with tobacco material in a filling direction 15 can be fed.
- the filled trough 5 After rotation in a direction of rotation 7 by 180 °, the filled trough 5 reaches the ejection position 9, in which the trough assumes a now vertical orientation.
- a schematically indicated ejector 21 which can function pneumatically or mechanically with a plunger, and which exerts a discharge pulse in the direction of an ejection direction 22 on the trough.
- the emptying An impulse may be a blast of compressed air or a push-butt.
- a packaging device 23 which is schematically shown, the tobacco material, which is ejected in the ejection direction 22 from the trough, receives and packaged in sachets .
- a guide tube 24 may be arranged between the trough and the packaging device 23, arranged.
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| PL10778851T PL2630041T3 (pl) | 2010-10-19 | 2010-10-19 | Urządzenie do porcjowania i sposób porcjowania zmielonego lub pokrojonego materiału tytoniowego |
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| PCT/EP2010/006365 WO2012052038A1 (de) | 2010-10-19 | 2010-10-19 | Portionierungsvorrichtung und verfahren zum portionieren von gemahlenem oder geschnittenem tabakmaterial |
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| EP2630041A1 true EP2630041A1 (de) | 2013-08-28 |
| EP2630041B1 EP2630041B1 (de) | 2015-04-01 |
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