EP2740674A1 - Vorrichtung zum Transport und Prüfen von Gruppen von Rauchartikeln - Google Patents

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EP2740674A1
EP2740674A1 EP13195698.9A EP13195698A EP2740674A1 EP 2740674 A1 EP2740674 A1 EP 2740674A1 EP 13195698 A EP13195698 A EP 13195698A EP 2740674 A1 EP2740674 A1 EP 2740674A1
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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
    • B65B19/00—Packaging rod-shaped or tubular articles susceptible to damage by abrasion or pressure, e.g. cigarettes, cigars, macaroni, spaghetti, drinking straws or welding electrodes
    • B65B19/02—Packaging cigarettes
    • B65B19/04—Arranging, feeding, or orientating the cigarettes
    • B65B19/10—Arranging cigarettes in layers each comprising a predetermined number
    • 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
    • B65B19/00—Packaging rod-shaped or tubular articles susceptible to damage by abrasion or pressure, e.g. cigarettes, cigars, macaroni, spaghetti, drinking straws or welding electrodes
    • B65B19/28—Control devices for cigarette or cigar packaging machines
    • B65B19/30—Control devices for cigarette or cigar packaging machines responsive to presence of faulty articles, e.g. incorrectly filled cigarettes
    • 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
    • B65B19/00—Packaging rod-shaped or tubular articles susceptible to damage by abrasion or pressure, e.g. cigarettes, cigars, macaroni, spaghetti, drinking straws or welding electrodes
    • B65B19/28—Control devices for cigarette or cigar packaging machines
    • B65B19/32—Control devices for cigarette or cigar packaging machines responsive to incorrect grouping of articles or to incorrect filling of packages

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  • This invention relates to an apparatus for transferring and checking groups of smoking articles.
  • the invention relates to an apparatus for transferring and checking groups of cigarettes in a cigarette packing line and this description refers to an apparatus used for this purpose without thereby limiting the scope of the inventive concept.
  • cigarette packing lines it is common practice to form the cigarettes to be packed into groups in succession and to check the number and quality of the cigarettes in the groups.
  • the groups of cigarettes to be checked usually comprise one or more superposed layers of cigarettes, often three layers.
  • the checks are preferably carried out by optical devices which direct rays of light at the ends of the cigarettes and analyse the properties of the reflected rays in order to obtain information which indicates missing or poorly filled cigarettes.
  • these optical checks are performed on groups of cigarettes which are in motion relative to the checking devices which direct the light rays at the cigarettes in pulsed manner in suitable phase relationship. Carrying out the checks while the cigarettes are in motion is imperative in continuous packing lines and preferable in intermittent packing lines because it means the operating speed of the packing lines does not need to be changed with relatively lengthy stops to allow the checking devices to monitor the cigarettes correctly.
  • the checks are very easy to carry out because it is sufficient to mount a small number of light ray emitter-receivers, equal to the number of layers making up the groups, at respective fixed positions along the path followed by the respective layers in order to acquire information about all the cigarettes in transit.
  • This invention has for an aim to provide an apparatus for transferring and checking groups of smoking articles which can be effectively used in a relatively inexpensive manner to check groups of cigarettes moving perpendicularly to the planes defined by the layers making up the groups.
  • the numeral 25 denotes a packing machine (only partly illustrated) designed to make the cigarette packets, not illustrated.
  • the packing machine 25 has many components in common with the machine illustrated and described in patent EP481305B1 , which is incorporated herein by reference for completeness of description, and comprises a hopper 26 for feeding cigarettes 27 and equipped at the bottom of it with three outlet openings 28 placed side by side in pairs and able to deliver in succession groups 29 of cigarettes 27 into respective, angularly equispaced peripheral compartments 30 of a wheel 31 rotatable stepwise in an anticlockwise direction (in the example illustrated) about a horizontal axis.
  • the hopper 26, in combination with the wheel 31, constitutes what is also defined herein in its entirety as "apparatus for transferring and checking groups of cigarettes".
  • each of the pusher elements the same number of counterpushers, not illustrated, which move with reciprocating motion in a direction parallel to the axis of rotation of the wheel 31, slide inside the compartments 30 into which respective groups 29 are being inserted in order to align the axial ends of the groups 29 being inserted by aligning the ends of the selfsame groups 29 opposite to those adjacent to the pusher elements.
  • the wheel 31 brings in succession a group 29 of cigarettes 27 towards a station 32 for transferring the groups 29 into respective hollow mandrels 33, which are substantially in the shape of a parallelepiped and which are spaced at equal angular intervals around the periphery of a wrapping wheel 34 rotating stepwise in a clockwise direction about a horizontal axis parallel to the axis of rotation of the wheel 31.
  • each group 29 into a mandrel 33 is effected, during a dwell of the wheels 31 and 34, by pusher elements not illustrated, of essentially known type, which push the group 29 axially in order to extract it from a compartment 30 of the wheel 31 and insert it into a respective mandrel 33.
  • the wheel 34 is equipped with twelve radial spokes, each of which mounts one of the mandrels 33 in cantilever fashion.
  • Each mandrel 33 is open at the ends of it and is oriented with its longitudinal axis parallel to the axis of rotation of the wheel 34.
  • the cigarette packets are formed by folding respective sheets 36 of metallized paper or foil, and then blanks, not illustrated, around each mandrel 33, a group 29 of cigarettes 27 being fed into the mandrel 33 after the respective blank has been folded around it.
  • the operating steps of the wheel 31 are also identifiable in the schematic representation of Figure 3 , which shows the management of the groups 29 of cigarettes 27 on the wheel 31, and in Figures 2 and 3 it may be noticed that the groups 29 of cigarettes 27 housed in the compartments 30 of the wheel 31 are moved perpendicularly to the planes defined by the straight layers 29a, 29b and 29c of cigarettes 27 making up the selfsame groups ( Figure 1 ).
  • a checking device labelled 38 in its entirety, which checks that all the cigarettes 27 in each group 29 are present and that each cigarette 27 in the group 29 is properly formed and filled.
  • the checking device 38 might, however, be situated at each position where the wheel 31 brings a compartment 30 containing a group 29 to a stop.
  • the checking device 38 comprises a detecting head 39 of essentially known type and fully described in patent US4511045A , which, for completeness of description, is incorporated herein by reference.
  • the operating modes of the detecting head 39 in terms of electronics are not described since they are well known from patents US4511045A and DE19642793A1 .
  • the detecting head 39 comprises three emitter-sensors 40 positioned at levels substantially coincident, respectively, with those of the three layers 29a, 29b and 29c making up each group 29 stopped in the checking station 37.
  • the number of emitter-sensors 40 is equal (at least) to the number of layers making up the group 29.
  • the detecting head 39 is connected to a linear actuating device 42 which, each time the wheel 31 stops, imparts to the detecting head 39 a translational movement directed along a direction parallel to the planes defined by the layers 29a, 29b, 29c, in such a way as to cause the respective emitter-sensors 40 to pass substantially in front of the central zones of all the ends of the cigarettes 27 making up the layers 29a, 29b and 29c.
  • the actuating device 42 is able to move the detecting head 39 in both directions between two positions situated on opposite sides of the compartment 30 which has stopped in the checking station 37, that is to say, between two zones in the proximity of the two opposite sides of the compartment 30 itself relative to a diametric direction of the wheel 31.
  • the actuating device 42 causes the detecting head 39 to move translationally in such a way as to carry it to the zone opposite to the zone where the detecting head 39 is when the conveyor 31 stops, and thus, with reference to Figures 1 and 3 , the detecting head 39 alternates translational movements from left to right with translational movements from right to left during successive stops of the wheel 31.
  • the detecting head 39 while in motion, carries out the check on the cigarettes 27 making up the group 29 contained in the compartment 30 which has stopped in the station 37.
  • the emitter-sensors 40 are activated cyclically, during a translational movement of the detecting head 39, each time they move in front of the substantially central zone of a cigarette 27 of a respective layer 29a, 29b, 29c and at each detection they send to a processing unit 41 of known type a respective electrical signal indicating whether the cigarette 27 checked is acceptable or not and whether it is present or absent. If one or more defective or missing cigarettes 27 are detected in a group 29, the processing unit 41 activates in known manner an ejecting device, not illustrated, which expels the defective group 29 from the packing machine 25.
  • the cigarettes 27 present in the groups 29 moving perpendicularly to the planes defined by the layers 29a, 29b and 29c making up the groups can be checked quickly and easily, thus overcoming the disadvantages described above with reference to the prior art.
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US4511045A (en) 1981-03-06 1985-04-16 G.D. Societa Per Azioni Device for transferring and verifying batches of cigarettes
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EP0481305B1 (de) 1990-10-18 1995-02-15 SASIB S.p.A. Maschine zum Verpacken von Zigaretten, insbesondere zum Verpacken von Zigaretten in Klappschachteln
DE19642793A1 (de) 1996-10-17 1998-04-23 Topack Verpacktech Gmbh Verfahren und Anordnung zum Prüfen von Zigaretten in definierten Zigarettenformationen
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US4511045A (en) 1981-03-06 1985-04-16 G.D. Societa Per Azioni Device for transferring and verifying batches of cigarettes
US4976544A (en) * 1988-06-29 1990-12-11 G.D. Societa' Per Azioni Method of inspecting the ends of stacked cigarettes
EP0481305B1 (de) 1990-10-18 1995-02-15 SASIB S.p.A. Maschine zum Verpacken von Zigaretten, insbesondere zum Verpacken von Zigaretten in Klappschachteln
DE19642793A1 (de) 1996-10-17 1998-04-23 Topack Verpacktech Gmbh Verfahren und Anordnung zum Prüfen von Zigaretten in definierten Zigarettenformationen
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