EP3469923A1 - Maschine und verfahren zur herstellung von stabförmigen rauchartikeln - Google Patents

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EP3469923A1
EP3469923A1 EP18199808.9A EP18199808A EP3469923A1 EP 3469923 A1 EP3469923 A1 EP 3469923A1 EP 18199808 A EP18199808 A EP 18199808A EP 3469923 A1 EP3469923 A1 EP 3469923A1
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Nicola Baldanza
Massimo Sartoni
Luca Federici
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A24—TOBACCO; CIGARS; CIGARETTES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES; SMOKERS' REQUISITES
    • A24B—MANUFACTURE OR PREPARATION OF TOBACCO FOR SMOKING OR CHEWING; TOBACCO; SNUFF
    • A24B3/00—Preparing tobacco in the factory
    • A24B3/14—Forming reconstituted tobacco products, e.g. wrapper materials, sheets, imitation leaves, rods, cakes; Forms of such products
    • 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
    • A24C5/01—Making cigarettes for simulated smoking devices
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A24—TOBACCO; CIGARS; CIGARETTES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES; SMOKERS' REQUISITES
    • A24D—CIGARS; CIGARETTES; TOBACCO SMOKE FILTERS; MOUTHPIECES FOR CIGARS OR CIGARETTES; MANUFACTURE OF TOBACCO SMOKE FILTERS OR MOUTHPIECES
    • A24D3/00—Tobacco smoke filters, e.g. filter-tips, filtering inserts; Filters specially adapted for simulated smoking devices; Mouthpieces for cigars or cigarettes
    • A24D3/02—Manufacture of tobacco smoke filters
    • A24D3/0204—Preliminary operations before the filter rod forming process, e.g. crimping, blooming

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  • This invention relates to a machine and method for making rod-shaped articles for smoking (hereinafter “rod-shaped smoking articles”).
  • the rod-shaped smoking articles referred to herein are articles made from a web of material for the tobacco industry such as, for example: tobacco-based material (reconstituted, pre-treated, homogenized or cast-leaf tobacco), filter paper material or PLA.
  • tobacco-based material reconstituted, pre-treated, homogenized or cast-leaf tobacco
  • filter paper material PLA
  • These articles can be used in the tobacco industry to make traditional filter cigarettes, that is, cigarettes which can be smoked by burning the end of the cigarette opposite the filter, or electronic cigarettes such as, for example: heat not burn, electronic-cig, mixed electronic-cig and tobacco.
  • a web of material for the tobacco industry is cut lengthways into longitudinal strips which are then gathered and wrapped in a web of paper to form a continuous rod containing a plurality of longitudinal strips placed side by side. It is then possible to obtain a plurality of articles from the rod, each comprising a plurality of longitudinal strips placed side by side.
  • document US 4,889,143 describes a machine and a method for making rod-shaped smoking articles where two webs of material for the tobacco industry are unwound from rolls and fed to a cutting station configured to cut the webs into strips. The strips thus obtained are then gathered and sent to a garniture conveyor to make a continuous rod of material for the tobacco industry which can be cut to obtain a plurality of rod-shaped articles.
  • the longitudinal strips wrapped in the paper web to make the continuous rod do not form a structurally stable element because the strips are not disposed in such a way as to fill the rod correctly, resulting in gaps or zones of different density.
  • the technical purpose which forms the basis of this invention is to propose a machine and a method for making rod-shaped smoking articles to overcome one or more of the above mentioned drawbacks of the prior art.
  • this invention has for an aim to provide a machine for making rod-shaped smoking articles and which is capable of making longitudinal strips which allow the smoking article to be effectively filled.
  • a further aim of this invention is to provide a method for making rod-shaped smoking articles and which allows improving the filling uniformity of the smoking articles, thus improving the quality of the end product.
  • this invention provides a machine for making rod-shaped smoking articles, comprising:
  • the machine also comprises forming means for making a plurality of longitudinal easy folding zones in such a way that each longitudinal strip has at least one longitudinal easy folding zone.
  • the longitudinal strips according to this invention can be easily folded during the steps of gathering and conveying so that adjacent longitudinal strips adhere effectively to each other, thus making a continuous stream and a continuous rod of high quality in which the longitudinal strips are closely pressed together and optimally compacted to fill the smoking article uniformly.
  • the invention also provides a method for making rod-shaped smoking articles, comprising the following steps:
  • the method also comprises a step of forming a plurality of longitudinal easy folding zones in such a way that each longitudinal strip has at least one longitudinal easy folding zone.
  • forming a plurality of longitudinal easy folding zones makes it possible to improve the manufacturing quality of the smoking articles.
  • the numeral 1 denotes in its entirety a machine for making rod-shaped smoking articles and hereinafter referred to simply as machine 1.
  • the machine 1 comprises unwinding means 2 for unwinding at least one roll 2a of web 100 of material for the tobacco industry such as, for example, tobacco based material, filter paper or PLA.
  • the web 100 is adapted to be unwound along a longitudinal feed direction, indicated by the arrow X in Figure 1 .
  • the machine 1 Downstream of the unwinding means 2, the machine 1 preferably comprises one or more systems for adjusting the tension of the web 100 (for example, an unwinding feedback sensor) and/or one or more systems, not illustrated, for centring the web 100.
  • the machine 1 comprises first cutting means 3 for cutting the web 100, located downstream of the unwinding means 2, and configured to receive and cut the web 100 in such a way as to create a plurality of longitudinal strips 101 along the longitudinal feed direction "X".
  • the first cutting means 3 comprise at least a first roller 4 and a second roller 5 acting in conjunction with each other and configured to create the plurality of longitudinal strips 101 on the web 100 sliding between the rollers 4, 5.
  • At least one between the first roller 4 and the second roller 5 comprises a plurality of cutting discs 6, preferably rotary (alternatively, they may be fixed, while the roller 4, 5 rotates) configured to make longitudinal strips 101 having straight or wavy or zig-zag edges 102.
  • the cuttings discs 6 create longitudinal cutting lines defining the edges 102 of the longitudinal strips 101.
  • each cutting disc 6 has a straight or wavy or zig-zag cutting profile.
  • each cutting profile of one cutting disc 6 and the next corresponds to the width of the longitudinal strips 101.
  • making longitudinal strips with wavy or zig-zag edges 102 allows improving the cohesion between the longitudinal strips 101 during subsequent processes so as to prevent material from falling out of the tips of the articles.
  • first roller 4 is provided with cutting discs 6, whilst the second roller 5 is "plain": that is to say, it has a substantially flat surface, without grooves or other cutting discs 6.
  • the machine 1 comprises forming means 7 for making a plurality of longitudinal easy folding zones 103 in such a way that each longitudinal strip 101 has at least one longitudinal easy folding zone 103.
  • the longitudinal easy folding zones 103 allow improving the step of gathering and conveying the longitudinal strips 101 which can be folded more easily so as to make rod-shaped smoking articles which are more compact and cohesive, with better filling uniformity.
  • the longitudinal easy folding zones 103 allow weakening the structure of the material so it can be folded more easily during the subsequent step of gathering.
  • the forming means 7 for making a plurality of longitudinal easy folding zones 103 can be disposed upstream of the first cutting means 3.
  • the forming means 7 for making a plurality of longitudinal easy folding zones 103 are located on at least one between the first roller 4 and the second roller 5 and comprise at least one between:
  • reduced diameter is used to mean that the diameter of the reduced diameter scoring discs 9 is smaller than the diameter of the cutting discs 6.
  • each longitudinal strip 101 comprises at least one crimp or one longitudinal score line.
  • the first roller 4 is provided with cutting discs 6 whose cutting profiles are straight, whilst the second roller 5 is provided with crimping discs 8 which are offset relative to the cutting discs 6 so as to make longitudinal strips 101 of the type shown in Figure 4B , where the longitudinal easy folding zones 103 made on the underside of the web 100 create longitudinal strips 101 which have a triangular cross section and which are easy to fold.
  • the first roller 4 is provided with cutting discs 6 whose cutting profiles are straight, with alternately interposed crimping discs 8, whilst the second roller 5 is of the plain type so as to make longitudinal strips 101 of the type shown for example in Figure 4B , where each longitudinal strip 101 has two longitudinal easy folding zones 103 made on the top side of the web 100 to facilitate folding of the longitudinal strips 101 themselves.
  • the first roller 4 is provided with cutting discs 6 whose cutting profiles are straight, with two alternately interposed reduced diameter scoring discs 9, whilst the second roller 5 is of the plain type so as to make longitudinal strips 101 of the type shown for example in Figure 4C , where each longitudinal strip 101 has two easy folding zones 103 made on the top side of the web 100 to facilitate folding of the longitudinal strips 101 themselves.
  • each longitudinal strip of this invention has at least one longitudinal easy folding zone.
  • the machine 1 also comprises gathering and conveying means 10 configured to gather and convey the longitudinal strips 101 from the first cutting means 3 to create at least one continuous stream 100'.
  • the gathering and conveying means 10 comprise at least one funnel-shaped member 11 having an infeed cross section 11a suitable for receiving the longitudinal strips 101 and an outfeed cross section 11b suitable for expelling the continuous stream 100' formed as the longitudinal strips 101 are fed through the funnel-shaped member 11.
  • the gathering and conveying means 10 comprise at least two funnel-shaped members 11 horizontally juxtaposed or at least partly superposed.
  • the gathering and conveying means 10 comprise three funnel-shaped elements 11: two below, juxtaposed horizontally; and one above, partly superposed on the two below.
  • the longitudinal strips 101 to be gathered and conveyed can be distributed in a simple and ordered manner in order to avoid entanglement.
  • the machine 1 may preferably also comprise suction means, not illustrated, associated with the gathering and conveying means 10 and configured to facilitate gathering of the longitudinal strips 101 by sucking them towards the outfeed section 11b.
  • the machine 1 Downstream of the gathering and conveying means 10, the machine 1 comprises a garniture tongue 12 configured to receive the continuous stream 100' and to progressively wrap it in a paper web 13 to make at least one continuous rod 100".
  • the continuous rod comprises a plurality of longitudinal strips 101 having at least one longitudinal easy folding zone 103 so as to improve the cohesion of the longitudinal strips 101 while they are being compacted, thus obtaining optimum filling uniformity.
  • the machine Downstream of the garniture tongue 12, the machine then comprises second cutting means 14 for cutting the continuous rod 100" and configured to cut the continuous rod 100" into a plurality of rod-shaped smoking articles, not illustrated in the accompanying drawings
  • the machine 1 comprises at least one device (not illustrated) for applying an additive (for example a liquid or metal particles) on the web 100 and/or on the longitudinal strips 101.
  • an additive for example a liquid or metal particles
  • the additive may be applied in liquid or spray form or dispersed as granules/flakes.
  • the additive may have a flavouring effect (for example, vanilla, menthol, etc.) or a filtering effect (for example, activated carbon, sepiolite, silica gel, etc.) or it may contribute to the creation of aerosols and vapours (for example, glycerine, etc.) or improve the flowability of the materials to facilitate gathering and formation of the continuous rod 100" (for example, oils, water, alcohol, glycerine, etc.) or, in the case of metal particles, it may be capable of heating the tobacco by an electromagnetic induction effect.
  • a flavouring effect for example, vanilla, menthol, etc.
  • a filtering effect for example, activated carbon, sepiolite, silica gel, etc.
  • aerosols and vapours for example, glycerine, etc.
  • improve the flowability of the materials to facilitate gathering and formation of the continuous rod 100" for example, oils
  • the machine 1 may comprise a device (not illustrated in the accompanying drawings) for reducing the electrostatic charge of the material for the tobacco industry, more preferably located upstream of the first cutting means 3.
  • the machine 1 may comprise at least one detecting sensor (not illustrated in the accompanying drawings) configured to detect jamming and/or breaks in the longitudinal strips 101, more preferably located between the first cutting means 3 and the gathering and conveying means 10.
  • at least one detecting sensor (not illustrated in the accompanying drawings) configured to detect jamming and/or breaks in the longitudinal strips 101, more preferably located between the first cutting means 3 and the gathering and conveying means 10.
  • the detecting sensor may be an optical sensor (vision system, standard or diffuse photocells), an acoustic sensor (ultrasonic) or a capacitive sensor.
  • optical sensor vision system, standard or diffuse photocells
  • acoustic sensor ultrasonic
  • capacitive sensor a capacitive sensor
  • the detecting sensor may be located downstream of the garniture tongue 12 and be configured to detect the density of the continuous rod 100".
  • this invention provides a method for making rod-shaped smoking articles, comprising the following steps:
  • the step of making the longitudinal easy folding zones 103 allows making compact, cohesive smoking articles capable of improving the efficiency of the production process and the quality of the end product.
  • a rod-shaped smoking article comprising a plurality of longitudinal strips 101 obtained from a web 100 of material for the tobacco industry, where the longitudinal strips 101 extend longitudinally in the rod-shaped smoking article and are wrapped in a paper web 13, and where each longitudinal strip 101 is at least partly folded along a longitudinal easy folding zone 103 made on the longitudinal strip 101 itself.
  • This invention achieves the preset aims, overcoming the disadvantages of the prior art, by providing the user with a machine 1 for making rod-shaped smoking articles by making longitudinal strips 101 capable of improving rod filling uniformity, and with a method which can improve the efficiency of the production process.
  • the rod-shaped smoking article according to this invention is thus uniformly filled, well compacted and cohesive and free of problems due to material falling out of the tips and which can advantageously be used to make high-quality products.

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