EP2976952A1 - Maschine zur Herstellung eines Rauchartikels - Google Patents

Maschine zur Herstellung eines Rauchartikels Download PDF

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EP2976952A1
EP2976952A1 EP14177803.5A EP14177803A EP2976952A1 EP 2976952 A1 EP2976952 A1 EP 2976952A1 EP 14177803 A EP14177803 A EP 14177803A EP 2976952 A1 EP2976952 A1 EP 2976952A1
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • 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
    • A24C5/40—Hand-driven apparatus for making cigarettes
    • A24C5/42—Pocket cigarette-fillers

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  • the present invention relates to a device for making a smoking article.
  • a typical cigarette tube-filling device comprises a tobacco chamber, a nozzle at one end of the tobacco chamber, a device for clamping a cigarette tube onto the nozzle, and a means of pressing tobacco into the chamber.
  • the strand of tobacco from the chamber is typically injected into the cigarette tube by way of a user-operated sliding mechanism.
  • the issue to be solved is therefore how to provide a Make-Your-Own device for producing higher-quality smoking articles that alleviates the issue of end fall-out.
  • a device for making a smoking article comprising: a casing having an elongate structure and defining a cavity for receiving smoking material in use, the casing having an aperture for receiving a smoking article tube at an insertion end thereof, the aperture being connected to the cavity, such that, in use smokable material within the cavity is driven into the tube so that a smoking article is created, wherein the cavity is arranged such that it has a region of increased cross-sectional area in a direction perpendicular to the direction of insertion at an end opposite to the insertion aperture.
  • a user may make a cigarette by firstly placing tobacco, or other smokable material, into the cavity. The user will typically then compress the material within the cavity, and slide the tube along the direction of insertion with the effect of pushing the material into the tube.
  • a device according to the invention possesses the additional advantages of being portable and conveniently operable in a handheld manner, and being easy to manufacture, with a low cost of production owing to its simple design.
  • the elongate direction or axis of the casing may be aligned with, or substantially parallel to, the direction of insertion.
  • Such an arrangement is well-suited to accommodating elongate cigarette tubes, since it allows the volume of the device to be minimised.
  • the convenient, handheld, portable nature of the invention in combination with its ability to produce dense ended cigarettes is a valuable advantage.
  • the insertion aperture is arranged to allow the insertion of the tube into the cavity.
  • the insertion aperture therefore preferably has a substantially circular shape in order to accommodate the passage of cylindrical smoking articles in the direction of insertion.
  • the casing comprises an opening for receiving smoking material therethrough in use.
  • the opening will typically be connected to the cavity so as to provide the user access for filling the cavity with smokable material.
  • smokable material is placed in the cavity via the opening.
  • the opening is positioned along the length of the elongate casing and has length and width similar to those of the cavity. Such a placement allows a user control over the distribution of smokable material within the cavity, and provides access for the material to be compressed into the cavity.
  • the opening being separate from the provided aperture for receiving a smoking article tube is preferable because the aperture should preferably have a size and shape configured for receiving a smoking article tube, while the opening should preferably have a size and position as described above.
  • the device comprises a closure having a portion arranged to cover the opening and press smokable material into the cavity in use.
  • the closure will typically be in the form of a lid attached to the device such that it may be pivoted between open and closed positions wherein the opening is uncovered and covered respectively.
  • the smokable material is pressed into the cavity using the closure by closing it such that a protruding portion of the closure projects into the opening. This arrangement allows a user to apply the necessary compression to the material with a single pressing action.
  • the closure may be arranged to fasten the tube within the insertion aperture in use.
  • the purchase that is required in order to push the smokable material into tube, and the compression of the material are both provided by the same mechanism, thereby simplifying the construction of the device.
  • the portion of the closure has a shape corresponding to the shape of the opening.
  • the pressing portion of the closure will therefore include a widening portion conforming to the shape of the end of the cavity, such that even compression is applied to the entirety of the material in the cavity.
  • the closure may be connected to the casing by a pivot such that, in use, the closure may be moved with respect to the casing so as to open and close the opening.
  • the inclusion of the pivot provides the advantage that the pressing of smokable material and the securing of a cigarette tube are both achieved by a repeatable, consistent action.
  • the device further comprises a tongue for assisting the driving of smokable material within the cavity into the tube, the tongue being positioned within the cavity and arranged so as to enter the tube along with the smokable material.
  • the cavity may be arranged such that it has more than one region of increased cross-sectional area in a direction perpendicular to the direction of insertion. This provision of additional wide sections of the cavity will result in additional bands of higher density smokable material in the finished smoking article.
  • Such an arrangement allows the creation of "lower ignition-propensity" (LIP) products as a result of the decreased rate at which the smokable material will combust within high-density bands.
  • LIP lower ignition-propensity
  • a device for making a smoking article is shown at four stages of use (A-D).
  • the device comprises a casing 3 having an elongate structure and defining a similarly elongate cavity 4 for receiving smokable material 7 in use.
  • the casing has an aperture 10 for receiving a smoking article tube 11 at an insertion end 13 thereof.
  • the cavity is connected to the insertion end 13 through the aperture 10.
  • the device may be constructed such that it does not have an elongate structure overall, it will contain elongate elements, such as an inner casing or a cavity, so as to be suited to the device's function of filling tube-shaped smoking articles.
  • the opening 6 through which smokable material is received is positioned in the top of the casing, as defined by the orientation in which a user holds the device in use. This provides the user with easy access to, and visibility of the cavity, however the material may be inserted via an opening having any reasonable position.
  • a closure 8 may be connected via a pivot to the top of the device.
  • the portion 9 arranged to cover the opening and press into the cavity has the form of a bar attached to the closure 8.
  • the bar is arranged such that, when the closure pivots about its hinge, the bar rotates within a plane aligned with the direction of insertion and/or the casing's elongate axis.
  • the face of the bar that is arranged to press against the smokable material has a concave curve around an axis parallel to the direction of insertion. The curve conforms to the cylindrical shape of the smoking article tube, however it may have any other shape, including being substantially flat.
  • the portion may have a size and shape that allows all parts of the pressing face to extend into the cavity to a substantially equal degree. A user could therefore apply even compression to the entire area of smokable material within the cavity by applying a single pressing action to the closure, resulting in the smoking article being filled with improved uniformity.
  • the closure 8 has a gripping region 12 arranged to fasten a smoking article tube to aperture 10 when the closure is pressed into the closed position. It can be seen that, similarly to the portion 9, the gripping region has a concave curve shape conforming to the cylindrical shape of the smoking article tube.
  • the insertion end 13 of the casing includes a holder 19, as shown in Figure 3 , arranged for a smoking article tube to be positioned thereon in use.
  • a user places a cigarette tube onto the holder, before moving the closure into the closed position so as to both press the smokable material into the cavity and secure the cigarette tube onto the holder.
  • the tube remains clamped onto the holder by the gripping region of the closure, by way of the top part of an end of the tube being gripped between the holder and the curved gripping region, while the tube is filled with smokable material.
  • the closure is connected by a pivot to the portion of the device containing the cavity, however it may alternatively be attached to any other part of the device. It may also be connected to the device by alternative means, for example, a mechanism allowing the closure to slide vertically with respect to the casing so as to press tobacco into the opening 6 in the top of the casing.
  • the closure or pressing portion may alternatively be detached or detachable from the device.
  • the assembly comprising the closure and the cavity are slid backwards with respect to the device, along the direction of insertion, with the effect of pushing smokable material into the tube.
  • the gripped tube is pulled into the casing so that the tube envelops the smokable material.
  • the driving of smokable material into the tube is facilitated by the support tongue (not shown).
  • the support tongue is positioned at the bottom of the cavity such that when smokable material is placed into the cavity, the smokable material sits upon the tongue.
  • the strand of material remains upon the tongue as the tongue enters the tube through the aperture.
  • the tongue may be curved around the axis of insertion such that its shape conforms to the curvature of the tube or the cavity.
  • the assembly is slid forward with respect to the device, returning to its original configuration, and the support tongue is withdrawn while the smokable material is retained in the tube. Opening the closure then releases the tube from the tube holder and the complete smoking article is removed.
  • a device 1 for making a smoking article according to the present invention is shown alongside an expanded view of the cavity 5 therein. It can be seen that the cavity has a region 15 of increased cross-sectional area in a direction perpendicular to the direction of insertion. The cavity therefore has an elongate cuboid shape except for a flared region 15 wherein the width increases towards the distal end 14.
  • the method of using the device is the same as that described above.
  • filling the cavity to a uniform level and density naturally results in a slightly increased quantity at the end region 15.
  • this slight excess of material from region 15 is compressed to a greater degree than the remainder of the material, resulting in a denser end than obtained with a state of the art MYO machine.
  • the pressing portion 9 of the closure is formed such that the face of the portion that confronts the smokable material has a shape which is complementary to the shape of the opening 6.
  • the portion therefore has the shape of a bar featuring a widening region 16 that fits into the flared region 15 of the cavity.
  • a device 1 according to the invention is shown together with cross-sectional views of a cavity 4 having uniform width and a cavity 5 having a region 15 of increased width, and a smoking article 2.
  • the width and length of original cavity 4 are represented by D 0 and L 0 respectively.
  • the modified cavity 5 has decreased uniform width D 1 over the majority L 1 of the cavity's length and a width, hence the cross section that increases linearly from D 1 to D 2 over the length L 2 of end portion 15. It can be seen that the relationship between these width is D 1 ⁇ D 0 ⁇ D 2 .
  • the cross section could increase non-linearly from D1 to D2, for example by defining a parabolic shape.
  • FIG. 5 a cross-sectional view of two cavities 5 according to the invention are shown, wherein 5a represents a cavity as described previously, and the cavity at 5b contains multiple additional regions 18 of increased cross-sectional area in a direction perpendicular to the direction of insertion. In use, each of these regions has the same effect of containing an excess of material and consequently yielding a section of greater density compared to a standard cavity in the produced cigarette.

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DE3410039A1 (de) * 1984-03-19 1985-09-19 Efka-Werke Fritz Kiehn Gmbh, 7218 Trossingen Tabakerzeugnis mit einem vorportionierten, in eine vorgefertigte zigarettenpapierhuelse ueberfuehrbaren tabakvorrat sowie verfahren und vorrichtung zur herstellung eines derartigen tabakerzeugnisses
US6345624B1 (en) * 2000-01-03 2002-02-12 Ctc Canada Inc. Compact cigarette making machine
DE202006001708U1 (de) * 2006-02-03 2006-10-19 Trentmann Gmbh & Co. Kg Handgerät zum Stopfen von Zigarettenhülsen

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DE3410039A1 (de) * 1984-03-19 1985-09-19 Efka-Werke Fritz Kiehn Gmbh, 7218 Trossingen Tabakerzeugnis mit einem vorportionierten, in eine vorgefertigte zigarettenpapierhuelse ueberfuehrbaren tabakvorrat sowie verfahren und vorrichtung zur herstellung eines derartigen tabakerzeugnisses
US6345624B1 (en) * 2000-01-03 2002-02-12 Ctc Canada Inc. Compact cigarette making machine
DE202006001708U1 (de) * 2006-02-03 2006-10-19 Trentmann Gmbh & Co. Kg Handgerät zum Stopfen von Zigarettenhülsen

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