EP2730184A2 - Dispositif et procédé de récupération de parties de corps à partir d'articles à fumer - Google Patents
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- the invention relates to a device and a method for the recovery of smoking article parts in particular body from smoking articles.
- Smoking articles are understood in particular to be cigarettes, cigarillos with or without filters and filter rods alone.
- the filter rods may be formed as a multi-segment filter, which are divided into individual filters during later cigarette production.
- a quad filter rod can be produced, each with one activated carbon segment.
- additives such as flavorings
- filters in particular.
- additives may be in gel or liquid form, liquid additives may be injected directly into the filter.
- additives with the aid of aroma bodies in the filter. If desired, these bodies can be destroyed by pressure applied to the filter by the user to release the additives therein and thus affect the taste of the smoking article.
- the advantage of this aroma body technique is that the body can only be broken to complete the cigarette smoking and no aroma is released before.
- These bodies are present in particular as capsules or balls and are referred to below as a simplified body.
- Menthol, mint, eucalyptus, fruit flavor or other suitable flavoring, as well as mixtures thereof are known as additives 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.
- Another object is to separate and qualify the products obtained by a recovery process, in particular, body and smoking article parts.
- the device according to the invention for the recovery of bodies from smoking articles has at least one bearing device for receiving at least a part of a smoking article and at least one ejection device, wherein the ejection device comprises at least one movable pin which is movable between a starting position and an active position to a body of a Smoke article, in particular a filter, eject.
- bodies of smoking articles received on the storage device can be easily removed mechanically.
- the body or bodies with additive it is advantageous for the body or bodies with additive to be arranged on the outer edge of the article of smoking, preferably on the filter edge, in order to be easily pushed out of the filter by an ejection device.
- suitable positioning means and / or conveying devices may be provided. The separated body can then be collected for reuse.
- the ejection device has a movable pin with a tip for piercing a smoking article, in particular a filter, and a sloping flank for ejecting a body from the smoking article.
- the tip filter paper of a filter can be inserted in a small distance to a body or directly next to the body in a simple and effective way. Subsequently, the body is contacted by a further preferably downward movement into the active position with the oblique edge of the pin and pushed away from the bearing device. Thereafter, the body and optionally with it falling filter parts can be collected for further processing.
- the bearing device may be arranged substantially below the ejection device, wherein the edge of the bearing device with at least one side of the pin, preferably with the body facing away from the back of the pin, is arranged substantially in alignment.
- the smoking article is positioned with the body so that the body is below the ejector near the edge of the bearing device.
- the ejection device is configured with respect to the bearing device and / or with respect to a recess of the bearing device such that at least a portion of the pin of the ejection device is movable beyond the plane of the bearing device.
- the device has an ejection device with at least one plunger, on which two pins are arranged at a distance.
- the ejection device or the plunger can be moved to a periodic lifting movement between the starting position and the active position. This movement allows you to pierce the pen tip and comb through a smoking article.
- the holding means are provided, which can be moved by means of the lifting drive simultaneously with the ejector down to push the remaining smoking article against the storage device. In this way, a simple and targeted fixation of the smoking article can be done.
- the holding means may also be formed on the level of the bearing device in the form of a clamping device or the like. By means of suitable holding means such as pressure pads or pressure rollers, the body position beyond the bearing device edge is fixed in the ejection-oriented position.
- the device further comprises a conveying device in order to convey the smoking articles at least to the ejection device.
- the conveying device can be used to align or position the smoking articles with respect to the ejection device.
- the conveyor device can act at the height of the ejection device as a bearing device or holding means.
- the conveying device has at least one preferably trough-shaped or groove-shaped receptacle to receive rod-shaped smoking articles.
- a preferred embodiment of a conveying device has a plurality of receptacles, wherein the smoking articles are received and conveyed transversely to the conveying direction.
- the conveying direction may preferably be configured as a rotatably mounted drum or as a conveyor belt.
- the conveying device and / or ejection device is designed as a rotatably mounted drum.
- the rotatable drum serve not only as a discharge device but at the same time as a conveying device of the smoking article during ejection.
- the drum on a plurality of ejector devices with pins which are movable depending on the rotational position of the drum by means of a cam device between the starting position and the active position.
- a combined conveying and ejecting drum has a cam mechanism Spring means to spring-bias the movable pins and then let the pins pop out for ejection.
- the ejection device is connected downstream in the conveying direction of the cutting device. In this way one or more bodies can be prepared for the subsequent ejection process.
- the cutting device is designed as a rotating rotary cutter wheel.
- recesses may be provided at the level of the cutting device.
- the device has a plurality of ejection devices.
- a plurality of ejection devices are used in, for example, a discharge device constructed as a drum. Further, a plurality of ejection devices arranged along the longitudinal axis of a smoking article is necessary when a plurality of bodies are to be separated from a multiple filter.
- a device designed for multiple filters has a plurality of cutting devices.
- This embodiment is particularly advantageous in the recovery of bodies from multiple filters.
- each disembodied filter segments are separated with a small distance to the stored bodies by means of cutting devices, which preferably rotate on a rotation axis.
- the separated filter parts can be removed from the process.
- the multiple filter is a double filter with two filters
- a double knife is used to separate the incorporeal filter end parts.
- the remaining filter segment is conveyed with two bodies.
- the bodies are in this case close to the cut surfaces, so that an ejection by means of the ejection device is facilitated.
- the smoking article with the bodies is positioned on the bearing device so that the bodies in the respective filter end part project respectively beyond the edge of the bearing device.
- the double filter positioned in this way can puncture and comb through the filter paper and the filter on both sides with two ejectors.
- the inclined flanks of the ejector pins push the bodies away from the bearing device, respectively, and separate the bodies from the filter material.
- the smoking article parts are positioned with respect to the ejection device when receiving in the storage device so that a body can be ejected optimally by means of the ejection device.
- the positioning can take place by means of a suitable and upstream conveying device and alignment means, wherein the conveying device can be designed, for example, as an endless conveyor belt or the like.
- a fixation of a smoking article is necessary if not attack both sides of a storage device ejection devices.
- the fixation ensures that the smoking article does not fall out of the recovery device during ejection.
- the conveying device can be the storage device at the same time.
- the alignment of the smoking article in the recordings of the conveyor takes place for example by means of Axialambasbegrenzer, which are arranged at the edge of the recordings of the conveyor. With the help of cutting a body-free article of smoking article, the body is exposed or positioned closer to the free end, so that a discharge of a body from the filter segment is simplified.
- the removal of separated smoking article parts can be done after cutting off filter segments by means of a cutting device.
- discharge devices or discharge devices such as suction nozzles can be provided.
- ejection device body and thereby falling filter parts are removed by means of a discharge device, where they can be fed to another conveyor device for further processing or a collection device.
- a conveying device designed as a drum and having a plurality of ejection devices
- a conveying device and an ejecting device can be combined in one unit.
- the movable pins are biased by means of a cam means and can rash into the smoking articles to expel bodies from the smoking article.
- a device for recovering bodies from smoking articles having a conveying device with a sieve for separating bodies of smoking article parts, in particular filter segments.
- the screen is designed so that the diameters of the bodies fit through, while longer filter segment parts are conveyed further on the screen.
- the conveying device is preferably designed for screening as a vibrating conveyor trough.
- the conveying device with a sieve has a discharge device for bodies with a baffle plate arranged underneath, in such a way that the bodies can be moved into a first collecting container or second collecting container as a function of their surface tension.
- a commercial smoking article 10 as in Fig. 1 shown, has a tobacco rod 12 which is surrounded by a paper wrapper 11. At one end of the smoking article 10 is the mouthpiece with a filter 14 which is enveloped by a filter paper 13. In the illustrated example of a smoking article 10 is a filter cigarette.
- FIG. 2a and 2b show top views of a filter cigarette with a filter 14 and tobacco rod 12.
- the position of the body 16 is shown in the filter 14, and the interface filter tobacco rod 17 indicated by a dash-dotted line.
- Fig. 3a and Fig. 3b show a further exemplary embodiment of a smoking article 10, which is designed as a multiple filter 40.
- the multiple filter 40 shown is designed as a quad filter with four filter segments 41, 42, 43, 44.
- Wie Fig. 3b shows, each filter segment 41, 42, 43, 44 in the middle of a body 16. Rejected material may also occur during filter production, so that there is also a need to separate body 16 from the respective filter segments 41, 42, 43 and 44.
- Fig. 4a and Fig. 4b show the process step 103 of cutting off a filter segment 19 by means of a cutting device 50.
- the cutting device 50 is designed as a rotating cutting wheel 55 which moves in a clockwise direction about the axis 45 in the direction of the arrow A.
- the cutting device 50 can additionally be moved downwards in the Y-direction for cutting 103 of smoking articles 10.
- the illustrated smoking article 10 has a filter 14 with a body 16.
- the smoking articles 10 can be transported in a conveying device, not shown, in suitable receptacles to the cutting device 50.
- Fig. 5b schematically shows the removal 104 of the body-free Filterenders 19 in a perspective view.
- Fig. 5c the next step 105 of picking up the smoking article 10 on the storage device 20 is shown.
- the smoking article 10 is conveyed to a storage device 20 and to an ejection device 30 by means of a conveying means, not shown, and positioned so that the body is located below the flank 34 of the ejection device 30.
- the ejection device 30 is disposed above the smoking article 10 and the bearing device 20 serves as a receiving and abutment.
- the smoking article 10 can be fixed on the storage device 20 during the ejection of retaining means, not shown.
- the at least one pin 31 of the ejector 30 has a tip 33 and an inclined flank 34 which is fixed to a plunger 27.
- Fig. 5c shows the starting position, wherein the tip 33 is in the starting position 23 in a so-called passive position or at the top dead center of a stroke movement.
- the lifting movement is indicated in the vertical direction Y by the double arrow and is closer in Fig. 5d shown.
- the bearing device 20 acts as an abutment.
- the paper envelope 13 of the filter is pierced by the tip 33 by the downward movement of the pin 31.
- the vertical downward movement in the direction of the double arrow Y slides the back 26 of the pin 31 along the edge or the edge 28 of the bearing device 20 down to the active position 25.
- the filter fabric is combed beyond the edge 28 and the flank 34 presses the body 16th away from the storage device 20. The separated bodies 16 can then be collected.
- Fig. 6a and Fig. 6b show a further embodiment of an ejection device, wherein the ejector 30 on the plunger 27 has two pins 31 and 32, each having a sloping edge 34 and a further oblique edge 35, which simplifies the insertion of the tip 33 in smoking article.
- FIGS. 7a and 7b show the in Fig. 6 illustrated embodiment in the side view and the front view and additionally a holding means 70 and a linear actuator 71.
- the ejector 30 has a plunger 27 on which at a distance 62, the pins 31 and 32 are fixed.
- the distance of the pins 62 is smaller than the diameter 61 of a spherical body 16.
- the smoking article end preferably a filter fabric
- the contact surfaces or guide rails for ejecting serve the oblique edges 34, which can push out the body 16 by the downward movement of the pins in the Y direction.
- the smoking article 10 is not displaced by the ejection movement or falls from the storage device 20, simultaneously with the ejection device, the holding means in the Y direction can be moved down to press the smoking article against the storage device 20 for fixing.
- the bearing device 20 is designed as a conveying device
- the holding means 70 can also be designed as a pressure roller.
- a holding means 70 is not necessary if a conveyor device 75, not shown, acts as a holding means or on both sides of the storage device 20, an ejection device 30 is arranged.
- a piercing or combing on both sides of a bearing device 20 is in the embodiment according to Fig. 8 shown.
- Fig. 8 shows a multiple filter 40 with four filter segments 41, 42, 43 and 44, wherein each filter segment includes a filter body 16.
- disembodied filter segments 82, 83 and 85 are cut off near the filter bodies at the boundary surfaces 56, 57, 58, 59 in method step 103 and removed from the process (method step 104).
- the body-containing filter segments 82 and 84 are respectively conveyed to storage devices 21 and 22 and received there (method step 105).
- the bearing devices 21 and 22 are configured to receive the body-free portions of the filter segments 82 and 84, respectively, while the ends of the filter segments 82, 84 project beyond the bearing devices 21, 22.
- the body-containing ends can be combed by means of the ejection devices 36, 37, 38, 39. In this case, slide the respective rear sides 26 of the pins 31, 32 along the Lagerervoriquesskanten 28 and 29th
- Fig. 9 and Fig. 10 show a side view and a perspective view of another embodiment of the device according to the invention.
- a conveyor 75 in Shown form of a drum having a plurality of receptacles 76 and ejectors 30.
- the smoking articles 10 are fed onto the conveying device 75 in the form of a drum (method step 101).
- the smoking articles are positioned and aligned with the edge of the respective receptacle 76 by means of an axial movement limiter 74 (step 102).
- the drum-shaped conveying device 75 rotates clockwise along the arrow and conveys the aligned smoking articles 10 in the plurality of grooves.
- body-free filter sections 81, 83, 85 are cut off during conveying by means of a cutting device 50.
- the embodiment shown is suitable for the recovery of bodies 16 from multiple filters 40.
- it is a quadruple filter 40 with four bodies 16, which can be separated from the multiple filter 40 by means of the recovery device.
- four cutting wheels 51, 52, 53, 54 are provided which, as in FIG Fig. 8a schematically illustrated, at the cutting surfaces 56, 57, 58, 59 perform cuts along the cross section of the smoking article.
- the number of cutting devices 50 may be varied according to the number of bodies 16 in a multiple filter. For simple smoking articles 10 with only one filter 14, the provision of a separating wheel 55 is sufficient.
- step 104 the body-containing filter segments 82, 84 are received on the storage devices 21 and 22 by means of the conveying device 75 (105) and conveyed as far as the ejection device 30.
- the bearing devices 21 and 22 are curved according to the drum circumference and extend between the cutting device 50 and the lowest point of the drum circumference.
- the conveying device 75 has a plurality of ejection devices 30.
- a lifting motion is generated.
- the stroke movement from the home position to the active position 25 is preferably supported by spring means.
- four ejection devices 36, 37, 38, 39 are simultaneously moved to the active position 25 (see. Fig. 8d ) to simultaneously remove four bodies 16 from the multiple filter 40.
- the bodies 16 and optionally parts of the respective filter segment fall downwards.
- the filter segments 82 and 84 remaining in the receptacles of the conveying devices are dropped by means of a discharge device 78 from the receptacles 76 of the conveying device 75 designed as a drum (method step 107).
- Fig. 11 represents a further conveying device 73 with a sieve 63 designed as a separation device.
- Body 16, 64 and filter segments 82, 84 are directed by a feeder 68 to the conveyor 73 (step 111).
- the conveying device 73 is preferably designed as a vibrating conveyor trough with a sieve 63 or sieve deck, which makes possible the method step of separating 112 of the bodies 16, 64 with diameters 61.
- the remaining on the screen 63 filter segments 82, 84 can be collected at the end of the conveyor 73.
- the fallen bodies 63, 64 may have different surface tensions. If the bodies 64 are damaged, the surface tension with respect to an intact body 16 will be less. Damaged bodies are identified by the reference numeral 64 and have a dotted circumferential line.
- Defective bodies 64 slip due to the lower surface tension along the baffle plate 77 in a collecting container 67 arranged underneath.
- Reusable body 16 with normal surface tension jump in a parachute 65 to be determined in another collecting container 66.
- the collecting container 66 are determined according to the Purfparabeln the body 16 is arranged at a distance from the baffle plate 77 to allow sorting and qualification of the body 16, 64.
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