EP3232827B1 - Tabakstangenerzeuger mit tabakrückgabe - Google Patents

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EP3232827B1
EP3232827B1 EP15820492.5A EP15820492A EP3232827B1 EP 3232827 B1 EP3232827 B1 EP 3232827B1 EP 15820492 A EP15820492 A EP 15820492A EP 3232827 B1 EP3232827 B1 EP 3232827B1
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Mehmet SUCSUZ
Isa DINC
Huseyin AKAKINCI
Murat CAVUSOGLU
Ibrahim SEZEK
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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
    • A24C5/14—Machines of the continuous-rod type
    • A24C5/18—Forming the rod
    • 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
    • A24C5/14—Machines of the continuous-rod type
    • A24C5/18—Forming the rod
    • A24C5/1871—Devices for regulating the tobacco quantity
    • 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
    • A24C5/39—Tobacco feeding devices
    • A24C5/394—Tobacco feeding devices with an auxiliary feed unit

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  • the present invention relates to apparatus and methods for making a tobacco rod for a cigarette or other smoking article.
  • the increased density at the extremities of the tobacco rod is obtained by increasing the amount of cut filler provided at the ends of the tobacco rod.
  • GB-A-2 072 483 discloses a method for forming tobacco rods with dense ends, in which a continuous stream of cut filler tobacco is provided from a tobacco supply to a perforated endless conveyor belt. The tobacco is held against the conveyor belt by a slightly reduced pressure on the other side of the belt. The tobacco stream is conveyed past a trimming device consisting of two oppositely arranged trimmer disks similar to the trimmer shown in Figure 1 . Below the trimmer disks, a rotary brush extracts and removes the excess tobacco. The trimmer disks have so called pockets on their outer periphery. The depth of the pockets corresponds to a different cutting height of the trimmer device, so that the resulting tobacco stream has regions of increased depth at regular intervals along the tobacco stream.
  • the tobacco density is increased in the regions of increased depth.
  • the resulting continuous tobacco rod is cut in the middle of the regions of increased density such that the resulting individual tobacco rods have a region of increased density at each end.
  • US-A-5 003 996 discloses another method for forming cigarettes with dense ends.
  • a continuous tobacco stream is conveyed on an endless suction band.
  • the tobacco material is conveyed past a trimmer device that cuts the tobacco material at a desired height in order to obtain a tobacco rod having a uniform depth distribution.
  • a rotary cam is provided upstream from the trimming disks for compressing the continuous stream of tobacco at regular intervals. The intervals are such that the compressed portions with increased density are located at the extremities of the eventual tobacco rod. Directly after the cutting device the compressed tobacco will re-expand so that a continuous tobacco stream with increased depth at regular intervals is obtained.
  • GB 880 850 discloses cigarette making apparatus for making tobacco rods with dense ends. Tobacco is deposited from a feeder onto a first belt conveyor on which it is carried to a first wheel. The first wheel has a peripheral duct into which the tobacco is introduced by the first belt conveyor. Tobacco protruding from the duct is trimmed and the trimmings are directed to a peripheral duct on a second wheel, coaxial with the first. The continuous stream of tobacco in the duct of the first wheel is doctored from the duct onto a paper wrapper on a second continuous belt, on which it moves to a wrapping station of the apparatus.
  • the tobacco trimmings are passed from the duct in the second wheel onto a carding belt and from that onto a sieve that allows tobacco strands shorter than a certain length to pass through; this tobacco is returned to the first belt conveyor.
  • the trimmed tobacco that does not pass through the sieve is retained in a hopper from which portions are released at set intervals onto the continuous stream of tobacco from the first wheel before it enters the wrapping station, to provide dense end region in the rod.
  • apparatus for providing a stream of tobacco to be wrapped to form a tobacco rod comprising a chamber for cut tobacco filler, a conveyor for receiving cut tobacco filler from the chamber, a trimmer for removing tobacco from the conveyor, a receiver adjacent the trimmer for receiving cut tobacco filler trimmed from the tobacco on the conveyor, a separator connected to the receiver for receiving cut tobacco filler therefrom and separating the received cut tobacco filler into a reusable portion and a discard portion and a return path from the separator for reintroducing the reusable portion to the conveyor, an airstream generator that generates an airstream from the receiver through the separator so that cut tobacco filler that has been removed by the trimmer is transported in the airstream and drawn to the separator, the separator comprising a rotatable foraminous separator drum that allows small particles of tobacco into the interior of the separator drum but not larger pieces of tobacco, the interior of the separator drum being connected to the airstream generator so that the airstream is drawn from the receiver through the separator drum and means for blocking
  • the separator drum has a foraminous cylindrical surface, that is, at least a part of the cylindrical surface has holes in it. In some preferred embodiments, this surface is provided by a mesh or sieve. Preferably, the mesh or sieve has holes of diameter 0.3 mm to 0.5 mm, more preferably of diameter 0.315 mm to 0.5 mm..
  • the conveyor is a continuous belt. In some preferred embodiments, the belt is permeable and a partial vacuum can be drawn on one side of the belt to retain cut tobacco filler on the other side. In some preferred embodiments, the reusable portion is returned to the chamber.
  • the separator further comprises an upper chamber for receiving the surplus tobacco from the receiver and containing a least an upper part of the separator drum, a lower chamber and an airlock between the upper chamber and the lower chamber that allows re-usable cut tobacco filler to pass from the upper chamber to the lower chamber while substantially preventing the airstream from passing into the lower chamber.
  • the airlock comprises a rotatable airlock cylinder disposed below the separator drum substantially in the lower chamber parallel to the separator drum and having axially extending resilient vanes that, in use, impinge on the cylindrical surface of the separator drum, the circumferential spacing of the vanes being such that at least one vane is in contact with the separator drum throughout the rotation of the airlock cylinder.
  • elements of the apparatus of the invention that contact tobacco are made from food grade materials, such as stainless steel.
  • a method of providing a stream of tobacco to be wrapped to form a tobacco rod comprising providing a stream of cut tobacco filler on a conveyor, trimming tobacco from the said stream, separating the tobacco trimmed from the stream into a reusable portion and a discard portion; and returning the re-usable portion to the said stream, the separating step being achieved using a rotating foraminous separator drum, and accumulated tobacco being periodically removed from a surface of the separator drum with compressed air.
  • the apparatus shown in Figure 1 provides a stream of tobacco that is used to make a wrapped tobacco rod.
  • the apparatus comprises a tobacco chamber 100 below a continuous belt 102 passing over rollers 104, one of which is driven, so that the belt can move in the direction shown by the arrow A.
  • the belt 102 is air permeable.
  • the lower run of the belt 102 closes the bottom of a vacuum chamber 106, so that air can be drawn through the belt.
  • a trimmer knife 108 is provided immediately below the lower run of the belt.
  • the trimmer knife can be a circular blade rotating on a vertical axle.
  • the height of the blade of the trimming knife is adjustable, and the cutting height can varied if tobacco rods having 'dense ends', as described above, are to be made.
  • a second continuous belt 110 passing over rollers 112 (only one of which is shown in Figure 1 ) is provided beneath the downstream end portion of the permeable belt 102. One of the rollers 112 is driven so that the belt can move in the direction shown by
  • Beneath the trimmer knife 108 is a receiver 114 for trimmed tobacco.
  • the receiver is connected by a channel 116 to a separator 118.
  • the separator 118 has a discard outlet 120 and a tobacco recirculation outlet 122.
  • the discard outlet 120 is in communication with a fan 124.
  • Below the tobacco recirculation outlet 122 from the separator 118 is a third continuous belt 126 running over rollers 128, one of which is driven, so that the belt can be driven in the direction shown by the arrow C.
  • the end of the third belt 126 distal from the separator 118 is above an inlet 130 to the tobacco chamber 100.
  • cut tobacco filler 132 is supplied (by means not shown) to the tobacco chamber 100.
  • a stream 134 of tobacco is blown (by means not shown) out of the chamber 100 through a conduit 136 toward the upstream end of the permeable continuous belt 102.
  • a partial vacuum is drawn on the vacuum chamber 106 above the lower run of the permeable belt 102 so that the tobacco stream 134 is drawn onto the lower surface of the lower run of the permeable belt.
  • the permeable belt carries the tobacco stream 134 downstream, it impinges on the trimming knife 108. This cuts surplus tobacco 138 from the stream 134.
  • the vertical position of the trimming knife 108 is adjustable so that the stream has the correct tobacco density (that is, the correct weight of tobacco/unit length).
  • the height of the knife is adjusted from time to time so that the density of the stream downstream of the trimmer knife varies along its length, to provide the 'dense ends'.
  • the tobacco stream 134 passes the downstream end of the vacuum chamber 106, it is released from the permeable belt 102 and falls onto the upper run of the second continuous belt 110. This carries the tobacco stream to a garniture downstream of the apparatus shown in Figure 1 to be wrapped in a paper wrapper to form a continuous wrapped tobacco rod that can be cut and further processed into cigarettes or other smoking articles.
  • the surplus tobacco 138 cut from the tobacco stream 134 by the trimming knife 108 includes pieces of tobacco that are within a size range that allows it to be re-used.
  • the surplus tobacco also includes pieces that are too small to be re-used, usually known as tobacco dust. These small pieces are created by the action of trimming the tobacco stream 134 and by the treatment to which the tobacco has been subject upstream of the trimming knife 108, such as being blown along the conduit 136 from the tobacco chamber toward the permeable belt 102.
  • the surplus tobacco falls from the permeable belt 102 into the receiver 114 where it is entrained in air drawn through the receiver by the fan 124.
  • the surplus tobacco is drawn along the channel 116 to the separator 118.
  • the separator and its operation will be described in detail with reference to Figure 2 .
  • the separator 118 separates the surplus tobacco into a first, reusable stream 140 that exits the separator through the tobacco recirculation outlet 122 and a second, discard stream containing the tobacco dust that exits the separator through the discard outlet 120.
  • the re-usable tobacco stream 140 is made up of pieces of cut filler that are sufficiently large to be incorporated in the wrapped tobacco rod made from the tobacco stream, and the discard tobacco is smaller pieces.
  • the re-usable tobacco stream 140 drops from the tobacco recirculation outlet 122 of the separator 118 onto the upper run of the third continuous belt that carries it to the inlet 130 of the tobacco chamber 100, for incorporation once more into the tobacco stream 134.
  • the re-usable tobacco can be directed from the separator to the conduit 136 between the tobacco chamber 100 and the permeable belt 102, or directly to the tobacco stream on the permeable belt.
  • Tobacco in the discard stream can be used for other purposes, such as the manufacture of reconstituted tobacco sheet.
  • the separator 118 is shown in greater detail in Figure 2 . It comprises an outer housing 200, shown as transparent in Figure 2 for clarity, and having a front wall 202, a rear wall 204, two side walls 206 and a top wall formed by the upper region of the front wall curving over to meet the top of the rear wall.
  • the bottom of the housing 200 is open to provide the tobacco recirculation outlet 122 ( Figure 1 ).
  • the housing has an inlet pipe 210 in the upper region of its rear wall 204.
  • the inlet pipe 210 is connected to the channel 116 between the receiver 114 and the separator.
  • the housing is divided into upper 212 and lower 214 chambers by a rotatable separator drum 216 extending across the width of the housing with its principal axis horizontal.
  • the ends of the separator drum are rotatably mounted in the side walls 206 of the separator housing 200.
  • Two baffle plates 218 extend across the width of the housing 200 either side of the separator drum.
  • the baffle plates 218 extend from the lower region of the separator drum 216 diagonally upwards to meet the front 202 and rear 204 walls of the housing 200, respectively.
  • the lower edges of the baffle plates 218 are separated from the cylindrical surface of the separator drum 216 by a gap sufficient to allow pieces of cut filler to pass between the surface and the baffle plates.
  • the cylindrical surface of the separator drum 216 is foraminous, being a sieve having holes of from 0.3 mm to 0.5 mm, preferably from 0.315 mm to 0.5 mm.
  • a stator (not visible in Figure 2 ) extends along the length of the drum adjacent the cylindrical surface and through an arc of about 45° each side of vertical; the stator is effective to blank the holes in the sieve surface of the drum.
  • the interior of the separator drum 216 communicates through the ends of the drum with a bifurcated outlet channel 220 that extends outside the separator housing 200 from the ends of the separator cylinder 216, across the side walls 208 of the housing and across the rear wall 204 of the housing. From the middle of the portion of the outlet channel running across the rear wall 204 of the housing extends the discard outlet 120 of the separator.
  • an airlock in the form of a horizontal rotatable airlock cylinder 222, the ends of which are rotatably mounted in the side walls 206 of the separator housing 200.
  • the cylindrical surface of the airlock cylinder 222 carries six equally spaced apart axially extending resilient vanes 224 of, for example, polyurethane, along its length. At least the uppermost of these impinges on the lower region of the cylindrical surface of the separator drum 216 so that the upper chamber 212 is substantially separated from the lower chamber 214.
  • the vanes 224 are readily removable from the airlock cylinder 222 so that worn vanes can be replaced. Access to the vanes is gained through the open bottom of the separator, so that the separator need not be disassembled to replace the vanes.
  • surplus tobacco is drawn into upper chamber 212 of the separator 118 through the inlet 210 by the entraining air drawn by the fan 124 ( Figure 1 ) through the receiver 114 and the channel 116 between the receiver and the separator ( Figure 1 ).
  • the entraining air is drawn through the sieve surface of the separator drum 216 into the interior of the separator drum and out through the ends of the separator drum into the outlet channel 220 and into the discard outlet 120 of the separator.
  • Small particles of tobacco, too small to be used to make a tobacco rod pass through the sieve surface of the separator cylinder, drawn by the entraining air, and so pass along the outlet channel 220 to the separator discard outlet 120.
  • any pieces of tobacco that drop out of the entraining air in the upper chamber 212 of the separator housing will fall onto the baffle plates 218 and either pass through the gap between the baffle plate and the separator drum and directly into the lower chamber 214 or be picked up on the separator drum surface and carried around past the lower edge of the other baffle plate 218 and released into the lower chamber.
  • Tobacco can be fed from the separator to be reused at rates of up to 20kg/hour.
  • the rotation of the separator drum is slowed and compressed air is blown through the cylindrical wall of the separator drum from the inside to the outside to remove tobacco from the outside surface of the drum.
  • the compressed air can be blown for, for example, four seconds.
  • the apparatus of the invention allows reusable surplus tobacco cut from a stream of cut tobacco filler to be separated from discard surplus tobacco and reused in the manufacture of tobacco rods.
  • the discard portion of the tobacco can be used for other purposes, such as the manufacture of reconstituted tobacco sheet.
  • the separator can be easily attached to and removed form existing tobacco rod making apparatus.
  • the invention allows a reduction in tobacco usage in the manufacture of cigarettes and other smoking articles to be achieved; a reduction of 0.6% or more can be achieved.

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  1. Vorrichtung zum Bereitstellen eines zu umhüllenden Tabakstroms, um einen Tabakstock zu bilden, aufweisen eine Kammer (100) für Schnitttabakfüller (132);
    einen Förderer (102) zum Aufnehmen des Schnitttabakfüllers (132) von der Kammer (100);
    einen Trimmer (108) zum Entfernen des Tabaks von dem Förderer (102) ;
    einen Empfänger (114) neben dem Trimmer (108) zum Empfangen des Schnitttabakfüllers (132), der von dem Tabak getrimmt wurde, auf dem Förderer (102);
    einen Separator (118), der mit dem Empfänger (114) verbunden ist, zum Aufnehmen des Schnitttabakfüllers (132) davon und Trennen des aufgenommenen Schnitttabakfüllers (132) in einen wiederverwendbaren Abschnitt und einen Aussonderungsabschnitt;
    einen Rückführpfad (126) von dem Separator zum Wiedereinführen des wiederverwendbaren Abschnitts in den Förderer (102) und
    einen Luftstromgenerator, der einen Luftstrom von dem Empfänger (114) durch den Separator (118) erzeugt, sodass Schnitttabakfüller (132), der durch den Trimmer (108) entfernt wurde, in dem Luftstrom transportiert und zum Separator (118) gezogen wird,
    wobei der Separator (118) aufweist:
    eine drehbare poröse Trenntrommel (216), die kleine Partikel an Tabak in das Innere der Trenntrommel (216) zulässt, aber keine größeren Stücke Tabak, wobei das Innere der Trenntrommel (216) mit dem Luftstromgenerator verbunden ist, sodass der Luftstrom von dem Empfänger (114) durch die Trenntrommel (216) gezogen wird; und
    Mittel zum Blockieren des Luftstroms über einem Teil der zylindrischen Fläche der Trenntrommel (216), während diese sich dreht, sodass die größeren Stücke Schnitttabakfüller (132) die Fläche der Trenntrommel (216) verlassen und in den Rückführpfad eintreten können.
  2. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 1, wobei der Rückführpfad vom Separator (118) zum Wiedereinführen des wiederverwendbaren Abschnitts in den Förderer (102) die Kammer (100) für den Schnitttabakfüller (132) einschließt.
  3. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 1 oder 2, wobei der Förderer (102) ein Endlosband ist.
  4. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 3, wobei das Band durchlässig ist und ein Vakuum auf einer Seite des Bandes gezogen werden kann, um Schnitttabakfüller (132) auf der anderen Seite zurückzuhalten.
  5. Vorrichtung nach einem der vorstehenden Ansprüche, wobei der Separator (118) weiter aufweist:
    eine obere Kammer (212) zum Aufnehmen des überschüssigen Tabaks von dem Empfänger (114), die mindestens einen oberen Teil der sich drehenden Trenntrommel (216) enthält;
    eine untere Kammer (214);
    eine Luftschleuse zwischen der oberen Kammer (212) und der unteren Kammer (214), die erlaubt, dass wiederverwendbarer Schnitttabakfüller (132) von der oberen Kammer (212) zur unteren Kammer (214) hindurchgeht, während sie im Wesentlichen verhindert, dass ein Luftstrom in die untere Kammer (214) hindurchgeht.
  6. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 5, wobei die Luftschleuse einen drehbaren Luftschleusenzylinder (222) aufweist, der unter der Trenntrommel (216) und im Wesentlichen in der unteren Kammer parallel zur Trenntrommel (216) angeordnet ist und sich axial erstreckende elastische Schaufeln (224) aufweist, die im Gebrauch auf die zylindrische Fläche der drehenden Trenntrommel (216) auftreffen, wobei der Umfangsabstand der Schaufeln (224) derart ist, dass mindestens eine Schaufel während der Drehbewegung des Luftschleusenzylinders (222) in Kontakt mit der Trenntrommel (216) ist.
  7. Vorrichtung nach einem der vorstehenden Ansprüche, weiter aufweisend eine Druckluftversorgung zum Inneren der sich drehenden Trenntrommel (216), die betätigbar ist, um Tabak von der äußeren zylindrischen Fläche des sich drehenden porösen Zylinders zu entfernen.
  8. Vorrichtung nach einem der vorstehenden Ansprüche, wobei der Rückführpfad (126) von dem Separator (216) zum Wiedereinführen des wiederverwendbaren Abschnitts des Schnitttabakfüllers (132) in den Förderer (102) von dem Separator zu der Kammer (100) für Schnitttabakfüller (132) verläuft.
  9. Verfahren zum Bereitstellen eines zu umhüllenden Tabakstroms, um einen Tabakstock zu bilden, aufweisend:
    Bereitstellen eines Stroms von Schnitttabakfüller (132) auf einem Förderer (102);
    Trimmen von Tabak von dem Tabak auf dem Förderer (102);
    Trennen des Tabaks, der von dem Strom getrimmt wurde, in einen wiederverwendbaren Abschnitt und einen Aussonderungsabschnitt; und
    Zurückführen des wiederverwendbaren Abschnitts zu dem Förderer (102),
    wobei der Trennschritt unter Verwendung einer sich drehenden porösen Trenntrommel (216) erreicht wird,
    weiter aufweisend das periodische Entfernen von angesammeltem Tabak von einer Fläche der Trenntrommel (216) mit Druckluft.
  10. Verfahren nach Anspruch 9, wobei der wiederverwendbare Abschnitt des Schnitttabakfüllers (132) zu dem Förderer (102) zurückgeführt wird.
  11. Verfahren nach Anspruch 10, wobei der wiederverwendbare Abschnitt des Schnitttabakfüllers (132) zu der Kammer (100) für Schnitttabakfüller (132) zurückgeführt wird, bevor er zu dem Förderer (102) zurückgeführt wird.
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