EP2730182A2 - Dispositif et procédé de récupération de parties d'articles à fumer provenant d'articles à fumer - Google Patents

Dispositif et procédé de récupération de parties d'articles à fumer provenant d'articles à fumer Download PDF

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EP2730182A2
EP2730182A2 EP20130160313 EP13160313A EP2730182A2 EP 2730182 A2 EP2730182 A2 EP 2730182A2 EP 20130160313 EP20130160313 EP 20130160313 EP 13160313 A EP13160313 A EP 13160313A EP 2730182 A2 EP2730182 A2 EP 2730182A2
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Hartmut Werner
Alexander Sachse
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    • 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
    • A24C5/36—Removing papers or other parts from defective cigarettes

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  • the invention relates to a device and a method for the recovery of smoking article parts from smoking articles.
  • Smoking articles are understood in particular to be cigarettes, cigarillos with or without filters and filter rods alone.
  • the filters may be designed as special filters.
  • a filter may be formed as a multi-segment filter and contain adsorbent materials such as activated carbon.
  • additives and in particular flavorings are introduced in a filter. These are especially in liquid or gel form.
  • the additives can be injected directly into the filter or even inserted into the filter with the aid of an additive filled body. These bodies can be destroyed by pressure on the filter as needed by the user to release the additives therein and thus the flavor of the smoking article to influence.
  • These bodies are in particular in the form of capsules or balls, but will be referred to simply as bodies in the following.
  • Menthol, mint, eucalyptus, fruit flavor or other suitable flavoring, as well as mixtures thereof are known as additives and in particular flavoring and flavoring agents for such bodies.
  • modifiers can be used in bodies which neutralize, ameliorate, humidify or cool the smoke.
  • these substances are generally referred to as additives.
  • the device according to the invention for the recovery of articles of smoking articles from smoking articles has at least one conveying device for moving the smoking articles along a conveying direction and at least one cutting device and at least one discharging device for removing a smoking article and / or an ejecting device for removing a body from a filter of a smoking article.
  • a smoking article By the at least one cutting device, a smoking article, and preferably a part of a filter or the entire filter can be cut off. A separated from the cutting device filter section can then be removed by the discharge device from the conveyor and collected separately. This has the advantage. That special filters or sections located therein such as activated carbon segments can be easily separated and then recovered.
  • an ejection device for bodies located in the filter can be provided. If such bodies are arranged on the outer edge of the filter, they can be mechanically removed directly by the ejection device and then collected for reuse.
  • the cutting device can separate only a part of the filter to expose one or more bodies located in the filter, which are then separated via the ejection device from the rest of the filter.
  • the conveying device is designed as an endless conveyor belt with a plurality of receptacles for the smoking articles.
  • a multi-feed conveyor belt may convey a plurality of smoking articles along a linear process path to a plurality of separating means such as cutters or ejectors.
  • the images are arranged parallel to each other, so that the smoking article can be moved transversely to its longitudinal axis along a linear process path. It is particularly advantageous if the wells are formed such that the generally cylindrical smoking article can be included in these.
  • the filter cigarettes are aligned so that they filter side abut the edge on which the cutting device and / or ejection device is arranged.
  • a corresponding orientation of the filter is advantageously carried out before the task of filter cigarettes on the conveyor belt.
  • the orientation of the filter cigarettes can also be done on the conveyor belt itself. This is particularly useful when cutting devices and / or ejection device is provided on each side of the conveyor belt.
  • this preferably has receptacles with a length which is at least a total filter cigarette length and a mouthpiece length. Due to the advantageous length of the receptacles filter cigarettes can be offset by a sensor device for detecting a filter in combination with a positioning means to each other so that the filter sides abut each edge and the filters do not overlap. In this way, separating means arranged on both sides of the conveyor belt can, depending on the orientation of the filter cigarettes, carry out the separation of filter sections or the ejection of the bodies from the filters at the respective edge of the receptacles. After the filter-side alignment of the filter cigarettes at the respective conveyor belt edges can thereby vertical Cutting devices are used as separating, without otherwise oriented smoking articles are unintentionally mit tannin.
  • the at least one cutting device is arranged vertically to the conveying direction of the conveying device in order to cut a filter of a smoking article along its cross section.
  • the cross section is to be understood here as a section vertical to the longitudinal axis of the article of smoking.
  • the cutting device is preferably designed as a rotating cutting blade. Rotary knives have the advantage that they can be resharpened during continuous operation.
  • a part of a filter can be cut or the entire filter can be cut along its cross section.
  • the conveying device has at least one recess for the at least one cutting device arranged vertically to the conveying device.
  • the conveying device has at least one recess for the at least one cutting device arranged vertically to the conveying device.
  • unnecessary wear of a conveyor belt or a cutting device can be prevented with a recess extending parallel to the edge of the conveying device. Furthermore, a complete cutting of the smoking article can thus be ensured.
  • the discharge device is designed as a compressed air device.
  • a compressed air device which is preferably arranged above the conveyor belt, and which can act on the separated filter part or smoking article with compressed air, it can be easily removed from the conveyor and therefore does not interfere with subsequent processes.
  • the discharge device is arranged on the edge of the conveying device and designed as a suction nozzle.
  • the separated filter sections can also be removed pneumatically from the conveyor.
  • suction nozzles are provided on the edge of a arranged adjacent to the conveyor recording, wherein the cut Filtered parts are sucked through a funnel-shaped nozzle and fed, for example, a collection vessel.
  • the discharge device is designed as a guide plate.
  • the baffle is placed above the conveyor belt after the separating means.
  • Baffles have the advantage that they are simple and a compressed air device and the associated parts are not necessary. This allows for a simpler structure and reduces the other the acquisition and operating costs.
  • the resulting sections can each be subsequently removed pneumatically or mechanically in the conveying direction.
  • the said alternative discharge devices having baffles, suction nozzles or compressed air devices may be arranged on both sides of a conveyor belt, depending on the position of the separated filter sections or filter to remove them from the conveyor belt. It is also conceivable that these are combined to provide redundant systems.
  • the device has a plurality of cutting devices for at least partially exposing a body in the filter, wherein at least one cutting device is formed vertically to the conveying direction of the conveyor to the filter article between a filter in the filter body and a filter-tobacco rod to interface to cut at least to the height of an upper edge of the body.
  • a further cutting device is formed horizontally to the conveying direction of the conveying device in order to cut the filter horizontally above the body and to remove or discharge a filter section thus separated from the filter.
  • the upper edge of the body is understood to be the point or edge of the body which has the greatest distance to the conveying device.
  • This embodiment is particularly advantageous for the separation of body-containing filter cigarettes in combination with a discharge device connected downstream in the conveying direction.
  • the vertical cutting device is provided to cut between a filter in the body and an interface between the filter rod and the tobacco rod to at least the height of the upper edge of the body, the filter.
  • the horizontal cutting device is designed to execute a horizontal filter cut above the body from an edge of the article of smoking.
  • the horizontal cutting device serves not only for the separation of a semi-cylindrical filter part but also as a discharge device for the separated filter part.
  • the vertical cutting device is designed as a revolving double blade with two blades of different length in the radial direction in order to separate the filter section and to cut off a body-free filter end part.
  • the filter end part located beyond the body can be completely separated off.
  • the edge-side filter part By shortening the edge-side filter part, the body is thus arranged on the edge of the filter, whereby the removal of the bodies from the filter is made possible or facilitated.
  • the ejection device is designed to remove the body as a rotatable drum.
  • a rotatable drum which rotates on the conveying device facing side in the conveying direction of the conveying device, the position of the exposed body can be fixed and a rotational movement of the smoking article relative to the conveying device can be avoided.
  • a rotatable drum or roller can serve not only as an ejection device but also as a pressure roller or as a holding means of the filter.
  • the drum is conveniently connected to a central drum axis through which it can be rotated by a suitable drive.
  • the drum is rotated at the same peripheral speed as the conveyor belt to prevent changes in body position due to axial rotation of the smoking article relative to the conveyor. In this way the body remains accessible for removal by the ejector.
  • the body or bodies are collected in the ejection direction in the longitudinal direction of the filter in a suitable collecting device, so that they can be returned to the manufacturing process.
  • the mechanical removal of the body can also be assisted by suction.
  • the drum has cam means with a spring for spring biasing the movable pins, depending on the rotational position of the drum, and then causing the movable pins to pop out for ejection.
  • the cam device with the spring allows to mechanically control the spring-loaded and movable pins for ejecting the body.
  • the ejection mechanism is made by the rotational movement and is triggered when the ejected body is conveyed at the level of the movable pin. This ejection position is reached after a movable biased pin is immersed in a filter. Thereafter, the movable pins abruptly advance to eject a body from the filter.
  • the rotatable drum may expediently be constructed such that it serves both as ejection means and as holding means or pressure roller.
  • the rotatable drum may expediently be constructed such that it serves both as ejection means and as holding means or pressure roller.
  • the rotatable drum may expediently be constructed such that it serves both as ejection means and as holding means or pressure roller.
  • the rotatable drum may expediently be constructed such that it serves both as ejection means and as holding means or pressure roller.
  • the rotatable drum may expediently be constructed such that it serves both as ejection means and as holding means or pressure roller.
  • the ejection device can be combined with further separating means.
  • the tobacco may be recovered from the smoking article by blowing it out before the filter is cut by the at least one cutting device.
  • a preferably designed as a pressure roller holding means is positioned with a compressed air device in the conveying direction before the cutting devices.
  • the pressure of the pressure roller is to be chosen so that a destruction of the body is avoided and at the same time a fixation during the blowing of the tobacco can be realized.
  • the pressure roller may have needles to improve fixation.
  • the pressure or needle roller and pressure pads can be provided as a holding means.
  • a device for recovering smoking article parts equipped with a purging agent and an ejection device has the advantage that filter cigarettes are separable both in tobacco and in body.
  • the remaining smoking article part usually consisting of paper wrapper and residual filter, can be discharged via the conveyor.
  • the smoking articles for example filter cigarettes
  • the smoking articles can be aligned during conveying of the smoking article so that the smoking articles with the filters rest against the respective edges of the conveyor belt.
  • a detection by means of a sensor device whether filters or tobacco sticks are present at the edge.
  • tobacco cigarette-oriented filter cigarettes can be displaced to the other side of the conveyor belt with the aid of a positioning means, which is preferably designed as a compressed air device.
  • a positioning means which is preferably designed as a compressed air device.
  • the upstream blowing of tobacco from the smoking articles additionally allows the recovery of tobacco.
  • a filter or mouthpiece of the smoking article is fixed by means of a trained as a pressure roller holding means and simultaneously blown out by applying compressed air to a filter tobacco.
  • the separation products usually comprise on the one hand tobacco and on the other hand a paper envelope with filter. If subsequently filter sections of the filter are discharged, the discharge device can be designed pneumatically with another compressed air device.
  • bodies contained in the filter can be recovered.
  • the vertically separated by means of the double blade filter part can be removed by means of a discharge device pneumatically or mechanically from the conveyor belt.
  • the other cut through the double knife leads only to the subsequent horizontal cutting to a separable filter part.
  • the loosened filter part can be removed by means of the rotating horizontal cutter.
  • the horizontal cutting device is used successively as a separating agent and then as a discharge device.
  • the combination of vertical and horizontal cutting allows optimal exposure of the body in the filter so that the body or bodies can be pushed out of the filter or levered out.
  • the ejection takes place mechanically in the longitudinal direction of the smoking article, after which the respectively recovered bodies can be collected for recycling in the manufacturing process.
  • a commercial smoking article 10 as in Fig. 1 shown, has a tobacco rod 12, and which is surrounded by a paper wrapper 11. At one end of the smoking article 10, a mouthpiece 13 is arranged with a filter, while the other end of the tobacco rod 12 is formed open.
  • the illustrated smoking article 10 is a filter cigarette.
  • Fig. 1 a shows a filter 14 having a coal segment 19 as a filter component.
  • coal activated carbon, graphite, carbon or other filter materials can also be used.
  • the coal may be arranged in granular or powdered form in a cavity between the remaining filter 14 and an interface between tobacco rod and filter 17 (hereinafter: tobacco rod filter interface).
  • the in Fig. 1b partly cut to the interface filter tobacco rod 17 illustrated filter 14, has a spherical body 16.
  • This body 16 is filled with a solution or gel or the like, so that the user can optionally be provided by crushing the body 16 additives.
  • other rounded, spheroidal or capsule-like forms of the body 16 are conceivable.
  • not only one body 16 but a plurality of bodies 16 can be used in the filter.
  • the body 16 has usually an outer shell that can be destroyed by external force or contact pressure on the upper edge 18 or another part of the body 16.
  • Fig. 2 shows a conveying device 20, which is designed as a conveyor belt 25 with a plurality of trough-shaped receptacles 52.
  • the conveyor 20 has a drive roller 23 which is moved about the axis 22 in a clockwise direction in the direction of arrow A.
  • the roller shown can also serve as a tension roller and the drive of the endless conveyor belt 25 via the second deflection roller, not shown, take place.
  • the smoking articles 10 are placed in the receptacles 52, which are longer than the smoking article 10, so that a filter end or an open end of a smoking article 10 is positioned on the edge 33 of the conveyor belt 25.
  • the positioning on the conveyor belt edge 33 can take place via a guide plate, not shown.
  • the conveying device 20 conveys the smoking article 10 transversely to its longitudinal direction in the conveying direction X to the sensor device 58. If tobacco 12 is detected by the sensor device 58 instead of a filter 14, the smoking article 10 is formed by means of compressed air via the positioning means 59, which is preferably designed as a compressed air device is shifted to the edge 34 of the opposite side of the conveyor belt 25.
  • the smoking article 10 or the filter cigarettes can be positioned in the receptacles 52 so that the filter 14 is located respectively at the edges 33 and 34 of the conveyor belt 25.
  • the filter cigarettes are conveyed in the conveying direction X to the separating means in the form of cutting devices 55, 55 '.
  • the cutting devices 55, 55 ' are designed as rotating and therefore rotating cutting blades or as cutting wheels, which rotate about the axes 56, 56'.
  • the mouthpieces 13 and / or filter 14 separated by means of the vertical cutting device 55, 55 'on each side of the conveyor belt contain, for example, special filters such as activated carbon filters 19.
  • discharge devices are arranged above the conveyor belt after the cutting devices 55, 55 ', which are designed as compressed air devices 36, 36' in order to remove the cut filters 13 or mouthpieces 14 from the receivers 25 by applying compressed air from the receivers 52.
  • the thus discharged filter parts can be passed against vertical plates, not shown, and then collected in underneath collecting containers on each side or in a common receptacle.
  • the filterless smoking articles 45 each comprising a paper wrapper 11 with tobacco rod 12 are not moved by the compressed air supply of the compressed air device 36, 36 'and further promoted in the conveying direction X on the conveyor belt 25. After reaching the not shown second deflection roller, the filterless smoking articles can be collected in a collecting container.
  • Fig. 3 shows a further embodiment of the device with an alternative discharge device in the form of a guide plate 57.
  • the separated mouthpieces 13 can be included
  • Activated carbon filter 19 in a collecting container which may be arranged below the conveying device 20, are collected for further use.
  • a second sensor device 58' is provided, which detects the presence of a filterless article of tobacco 45 by the detection of the tobacco rod 12.
  • the sensor device 58 ' can be designed, for example, as an optical sensor device that can detect the dark tobacco rod 12.
  • the clamping conveyor 31 conveys the filterless smoking article 45 along its longitudinal axis between two belt conveyors 21, 21 'in the Z direction.
  • the filterless smoking articles 45 reach horizontal cutting devices 40, 40 '.
  • the horizontal cutting devices 40 are formed as rotating cutting discs which rotate about the axis 41 and are surrounded by the housing 42 during operation.
  • the horizontal cutting device 40, 40 ' are arranged so that the paper wrapper 11 of a filterless cigarette slit laterally on both sides or cut and divided into two halves. In this way, the internal tobacco rod 12 is not damaged and by the simultaneous fixation by means of the clamping conveyor 31 is a straight running in the horizontal direction section.
  • Fig. 4 schematically shows that with the in Fig. 3 illustrated device executable method 60 for separating a smoking article or a filter cigarette 10 in the filter 14, tobacco rod 12 and paper wrapper 11.
  • the filter cigarettes to a Dispensed conveyor 20 and then funded.
  • the filter 14 can be separated in a step 62 by means of the separating means in the form of a vertical cutting device 55 or 55 '. Thereafter, the separated filter 14 is removed by means of baffles 57 or alternative discharge devices 35, 36.
  • step 63 the paper sheaths 11 containing the tobacco rod 12 are conveyed to a positioning means 59 'in order to be conveyed as a function of a sensor result to a clamping conveyor 31 with separating means. Then, in step 64, the paper wrapper is divided into two halves by horizontal cutters 40 and the tobacco stick 12 is subsequently separated from the paper wrappers 11 by screening.
  • Fig. 5 shows the same recovery device as in Fig. 4 with an alternative embodiment of the discharge devices.
  • baffles 57, 57 'are in Fig. 5 Suction nozzles 35, 35 'are arranged on each side of the conveyor belt, whereby the separated filter 14 can be selectively discharged from the conveyor belt 25.
  • carbon filters 19 can be collected via a subordinate control system (not shown). This embodiment allows a controlled discharge and further transport of the separated filter 14th
  • Fig. 6 and 7 show a plan view and a perspective view of another embodiment of the device according to the invention with a discharge device 80, 80 'for body 16 which are contained in the filters 14 and are enveloped by the filters 14.
  • Fig. 6 shows in addition to the top view dashed line and schematic diagrams 6a and 6b illustrating the process steps 102, 111, 104-106 along the linear conveyor line.
  • the process shown for the recovery of tobacco rod 12 and bodies 16 is carried out in a continuous process and comprises the following process steps:
  • the method step 102 follows, which includes aligning the filter cigarettes 10 or filterless smoking article 45 with the respective edge or sorting of the filter cigarettes.
  • abandoned filter cigarettes 10 are aligned so that the mouthpieces 13 are arranged respectively at the edge 33 and 34 respectively.
  • Filterless smoking articles 45 can be detected by the second sensor device 58 'and subsequent displacement can be shifted by the second positioning means and fed to a clamping conveyor 31 arranged perpendicular to the conveyor belt 25.
  • the clamping conveyor 31 recovers the tobacco rod 12 by means of horizontal cutting devices 40 by lateral slitting and subsequent screening (not shown).
  • step 111 which is described in Fig. 6a is shown, the aligned smoking article 10 are held at their mouthpieces 13 and at the same time acted upon by compressed air druch compressed air devices to blow the tobacco rod 12 from the paper wrapper 11.
  • the separating means for blowing out 95, 95 'of the tobacco rod 12 are arranged on each side of the conveyor belt 25 together with holding means.
  • pressure rollers 90, 90 'are shown instead of the pressure rollers 90, 90 'also (not shown) needle rollers for fixing the filter 14 and mouthpieces 13 can be used.
  • the subsequent process step which is shown schematically in FIG Fig. 6b 1, the separation of a body 16 or a plurality of bodies 16 from a filter 14 and is subdivided into the method steps 104, 105 and 106 (double-headed arrows).
  • the method step 104 comprises vertical cutting by means of the vertical blades 70, 70 'designed as double knives. These each have a first cutting device 71, and a second cutting device 72, which are designed as rotating cutting wheels with different diameters and are rotatably mounted about the common axis 74. The knives thus have a different length in the radial direction. In order not to damage the conveyor belt 25 by the longer second cutting device 72, the conveyor belt 25 has a recess 78 parallel to its edge.
  • the first vertical cutting device 71 only partially intersects the filter 14 from above. In this case, the first cutting device 71 cuts between the body 14 located in the filter 14 and the filter-tobacco rod interface 17 to at least the height of the top edge 18 of the body 16. In other words, the cutting device 71 cuts the filter 14 behind the body 16 to about the height of the body Half of the filter diameter. This vertical incision is in Fig. 6b indicated by the arrow on the mouthpiece 13.
  • a Filterendteil 77 is cut off at the same time to the incision of the first cutting device 77 in front of the body position.
  • a discharge device (not shown) may be arranged in the form of a compressed air device in order to remove the separated filter end part 77 from the conveyor belt 25 ( Fig. 6b ).
  • the subsequent method step 105 comprises horizontal cutting.
  • Cutting device 73, 73 ' is arranged, which rotates about the axis of rotation 75 as a rotating or rotating cutter wheel.
  • This cutting device 73 cuts the filter 14 horizontally, above the body 16 and removed by the rotational movement of the cutting wheel 73, the dissolved filter part 76 (see Fig. 6b ).
  • the cutting devices 73, 73 ' serve not only as a separating means but also as a reject device. Further shows Fig. 6b after the cutting device 73, a body 16 exposed by the cutting devices.
  • the body 16 exposed by means of the method step 105 can be pushed out of the filter 14 by the following method step 106 with the aid of a drum 80 with ejection device as separating means. If a filter 14 with an exposed body 16 reaches the height of the drum 80, the body 16 can be released from the filter cloth with the help of lever devices, not shown, and subsequently collected in a collecting device (not shown). In the Fig. 6 and 7 the effective direction of the ejection device is indicated by the arrow 82.
  • the ejector drum 80 rotates about the axis 81 in the direction of rotation B, and the axis 81 for controlling the contact pressure on the filters 14 can be displaced in the Y direction.
  • the drum 80 can serve as a pressure roller or holding means.
  • the drum 80 rotates counterclockwise in the direction B in the same speed as the conveyor belt 25 to fix the position of the filter 14 in the receptacle 52 and hold. In this way it is ensured that the exposed body 16 remains accessible for the ejection process.
  • the deflated filter 14 together with the empty paper wrapper 11 remains after separating the body 16 on the conveyor belt 25 for collection in a catch tank (not shown).
  • a sensor device 58 ' is provided in order to transport these, depending on the sensor result, by means of a compressed air device 59' to a clamping conveyor 31.
  • the clamping conveyor 31 is arranged transversely to the conveying direction X of the conveyor belt 25, wherein the tobacco rod 12 is recovered by means of horizontal cutting devices 40 by lateral slitting of the paper wrapper.
  • Fig. 8 shows an embodiment of a drum 80 with ejector, on the circumference of movable pins 86 are arranged.
  • the movable pins 86 are formed so that the body 16 can be pushed out of the filter 14.
  • a cam device not shown, with a spring, the pins 86 are biased by the rotational movement about the axis 81.
  • the movable pins 86 in the filter 14 After movement into the receiving means 52 of the conveyor belt opposite the drum 80, the movable pins 86 in the filter 14, to the bodies 16 to push out of the filter 14.
  • the distances of the movable pins are chosen so that the pins only enter the receptacles 52.
  • the rotatable drum 80 comprises two adjacent peripheral surfaces 84, 85.
  • the peripheral surface 84 facing the conveyor belt edge 33 or 34 has movable pins 86 in order to push the bodies out of the filter 14.
  • the other peripheral surface 85 is formed as a holding surface to hold the mouthpiece 13 between the body 16 and filter-tobacco rod interface 17. In this way, the filter position can be fixed in the receptacles 52 before and during the ejection process.
  • Fig. 9 summarizes possible methods with various embodiments of the device.
  • the method begins at step 101 with the application of filter cigarettes 10 to a conveyor 20 or otherwise at step 110, when directly filterless cigarettes are fed to a conveyor 20.
  • filter cigarettes 10 are conveyed transversely to their longitudinal direction on a conveyor belt 25, they are aligned in method step 102 by means of a pneumatic or mechanical device along the receptacles 52, so that the filters 14 abut respectively on the edge. If non-filter smoking articles are given up, they can be sorted out.
  • the tobacco rod 12 can subsequently be blown out in a further step 111.
  • a body discharge with the method steps 104 to 106 can subsequently take place (cf. Fig. 6 ).
  • the filter 14 contains a plurality of bodies 16, these too can be recovered by means of a suitable lever device and collected in a collecting container (method step 107). The remaining part of the filter 14 may be discarded or cut once more vertically in a step 109 if a valuable filter segment such as activated carbon filter is to be recovered (process step 108).
  • the filter 14 can be separated from the remaining cigarette bodies by means of a cutting device in a step 103. If the separated filter 14 is a special filter with bodies 16, the already mentioned steps 104 to 107 follow.
  • a filterless smoking article 45 or the tobacco rod 12 with paper envelope 11 separated from the filter in method step 103 can be separated from the paper by means of a horizontal cutting device in method step 113. Subsequently, in the method step 114, the tobacco is separated from the paper envelope halves by shaking under sieving. In a step 112, the recovered tobacco may be collected for reuse.

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