EP3482642A1 - Retournement d'articles en forme de tige de l'industrie de traitement du tabac - Google Patents

Retournement d'articles en forme de tige de l'industrie de traitement du tabac Download PDF

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EP3482642A1
EP3482642A1 EP18203927.1A EP18203927A EP3482642A1 EP 3482642 A1 EP3482642 A1 EP 3482642A1 EP 18203927 A EP18203927 A EP 18203927A EP 3482642 A1 EP3482642 A1 EP 3482642A1
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Franz Rottmann
Frank Grothaus
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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
    • A24C5/32—Separating, ordering, counting or examining cigarettes; Regulating the feeding of tobacco according to rod or cigarette condition
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  • the invention relates to a device for turning rod-shaped articles of the tobacco-processing industry, in particular filter rods and / or cigarettes. Furthermore, the invention relates to an arrangement for turning rod-shaped articles of the tobacco-processing industry, in particular filter rods and / or cigarettes.
  • the invention relates to a machine of the tobacco processing industry, in particular Filteransetzmaschine. Moreover, the invention relates to a method for conveying rod-shaped articles of the tobacco-processing industry, in particular filter rods and / or cigarettes.
  • a turning drum is provided, by means of which the rod-shaped articles are turned.
  • Such devices are used for example in cigarette making machines or filter attachment machines.
  • a filter attachment machine are produced as rod-shaped articles filter cigarettes, wherein the articles are manufactured with double the length of use and then cut by means of a cutter into two single-length products (filter cigarettes) or article.
  • the rod-shaped products or filter cigarettes are further processed with uniformly oriented filters in the filter attachment machines, wherein the subsidized in two rows filter cigarettes are turned by means of a turning device so that the filter cigarettes of a row are turned by 180 ° about a perpendicular to the longitudinal axis transverse axis.
  • the turned filter cigarettes are arranged on a conveyor drum between two non-turned filter cigarettes in a respective free receiving trough of the conveyor drum, so that after turning a number of filter cigarettes is formed.
  • the two rows of opposite filter cigarettes must be longitudinally spread on a spreading drum before turning, then a number of filter cigarettes or rod-shaped products are transferred to the Kegelwendetrommeln on which the rod-shaped Products describe a conical path, and then subsequently to the conveyor drums, on which the non-turned rod-shaped products are conveyed, to be arranged between the non-turned filter cigarettes on the conveyor drum.
  • the object of the invention is to enable, in an arrangement for the transverse axial conveying of rod-shaped articles, a turning of rod-shaped products on a conveyor drum, wherein in particular prior to the turning operation, a spreading or a longitudinal axial spacing of articles of two rows should be dispensed with.
  • a device for turning rod-shaped articles of the tobacco-processing industry in particular filter rods and / or cigarettes, with a truncated cone and a truncated cone coat having turning drum, wherein the turning drum is rotatable about a rotation axis or is driven in rotation, wherein the truncated cone shell the turning drum receiving troughs for the rod-shaped article in the circumferential direction of the truncated cone, which is further developed in that a.
  • the receiving troughs are formed and arranged on the truncated cone shell such that the Muldenmittenlinsachsen the receiving troughs of the turning drum and the axis of rotation of the turning drum do not intersect, and / or b.)
  • the central longitudinal axes of the rod-shaped articles and the axis of rotation of the turning drum do not intersect.
  • the invention is based on the idea that the trough center longitudinal axes of the receiving troughs are arranged and aligned on the truncated cone mantle so that the trough center longitudinal axes of the receiving troughs do not intersect with one another.
  • the trough center longitudinal axes of the receiving troughs are arranged on the truncated cone jacket such that they do not intersect with the axis of rotation of the turning drum.
  • the receiving troughs are arranged obliquely on the truncated cone casing between the larger base surface and the smaller top surface, so that the Muldenmittenlteilsachsen the receiving troughs to the surface line, which forms the tangent to the truncated cone shell and intersects with the axis of rotation by an angle> 0 °, preferably between 10 ° to 35 °, is arranged.
  • the respective surface line is collinear or aligned parallel to the Muldenmittenlticiansachsen the receiving troughs.
  • the turning drum according to the invention it is possible that a turning process is carried out in Filteransetzmaschine is, in which case a spread or the longitudinal axial spacing of rod-shaped articles in two rows can be omitted before the turning process, since using two turning drums according to the invention, the rod-shaped article taken from a row by means of the first turning drum from a conveyor drum and then to a second Turning drum are passed, so that subsequently turned by the second turning drum, the rod-shaped article by 180 ° returned to the conveyor drum and the turned rod-shaped articles, which are funded by the first turning drum and the second turning drum, alternately arranged between the turned articles on the conveyor drum are formed, whereby a series of rod-shaped articles on the conveyor drum, which are then transferred in a single row to a subsequent conveyor drum.
  • the turned rod-shaped articles are arranged with the same orientation on the conveyor drum, so that the turned rod-shaped articles are turned by 180 °.
  • the device is characterized in that the turning drum has an angle between the axis of rotation of the turning drum and the generatrix of the truncated cone of 45 ° to 70 °, in particular from 45 ° to 60 °.
  • the receiving wells are each formed by a groove on the truncated cone surface, wherein relative to the direction of rotation of the turning drum, the grooves each have a first of the base surface of the truncated cone facing widening, wherein the first broadening the respective groove protrudes, and the grooves each have a second widening facing away from the base of the truncated cone widening, wherein the second widening of the respective groove with respect to the direction of rotation of the respective groove lags.
  • a drive for rotating the turning drum is provided for the turning drum.
  • the object is achieved by an arrangement for turning rod-shaped articles of the tobacco processing industry, in particular filter rods and / or cigarettes, which is formed with a first device, as described above, and is also formed with a second device, as described above ,
  • the arrangement for turning of rod-shaped articles on two truncated cone-shaped turning drums where the MuldenmittenlHarsachsen the receiving troughs of the respective turning drum and the axes of rotation of the respective respective turning drum does not intersect and / or arrangement of rod-shaped articles in the receiving troughs of the respective turning drum, the central longitudinal axes the rod-shaped article and the axes of rotation of the respective beater does not cut.
  • the receiving troughs are aligned on the truncated cone shell of the respective turning drum so that the central longitudinal axes of the receiving troughs do not intersect.
  • a conveyor drum for Queraxialen conveyance of rod-shaped articles, in particular filter rods and / or cigarettes provided, wherein the conveyor drum is arranged on the first device and on the second device, wherein the conveyor drum is arranged in the circumferential direction, preferably on a cylindrical drum body, transaxially successively arranged receiving troughs a series of transversely axially successively arranged rod-shaped articles or two rows of lhacksaxial side by side and queraxial axially arranged rod-shaped articles upon rotation of the conveyor drum about the axis of rotation of the conveyor drum promote.
  • the axis of rotation of the conveyor drum does not intersect with one of the axes of rotation of the beater of the first device or the beater of the second device or with both axes of rotation of the beater of the first device and the beater of the second device.
  • the object is achieved by a machine of the tobacco processing industry, in particular filter attachment machine, with a device described above or with an arrangement described above for conveying rod-shaped articles. To avoid repetition, reference is expressly made to the above statements.
  • the object is achieved by a method for conveying rod-shaped articles of the tobacco processing industry, in particular filter rods and / or cigarettes, wherein one or two rows of transversely axially successively arranged rod-shaped articles in receiving troughs of a, in particular cylindrical, conveying drum are conveyed transversely, wherein the rod-shaped article of one row or one of the two rows be transferred from the rotating conveyor drum to a device described above for turning rod-shaped articles and are conveyed into the receiving troughs of the rotating turning drum of the first device, wherein the longitudinal center axes of the rod-shaped articles do not intersect with the axis of rotation of the turning drum of the first device, wherein then the rod-shaped article from the turning drum of the first device to a second device, as described above, passed and gefö in the receiving troughs of the rotating beater of the second device in which the longitudinal center axes of the rod-shaped articles do not intersect with the axis of rotation of the turning drum of the second device, and subsequently the rod
  • the articles of one row are turned by means of the turning drum of the first device and by means of the turning drum of the second device in a turning process wherein the turned rod-shaped articles after the turning operation between rod-shaped articles of the second row, which are left on the conveyor drum and not turned, are inserted so that on the conveyor drum, the turned rod-shaped articles and the non-turned rod-shaped articles have the same orientation, and are arranged in a row queraxial successively on the conveyor drum.
  • FIG. 1 Fig. 3 is a schematic view of a drum assembly T for conveying filter cigarettes to a filter attachment machine F shown.
  • the corresponding flow chart is in Fig. 2 shown accordingly.
  • the drum arrangement T has a conveyor drum 10, on which filter cigarettes 101, 102 are conveyed in two rows transversely one behind the other. After the production of double-length tobacco rod filter plug tobacco rod groups and a central section through the double-length filter plug, the filter cigarettes 101, 102 are transferred from an upstream cutting drum to the conveyor drum 10, wherein on the conveying path from the cutting drum to the conveyor drum 10th the pairs formed from the filter cigarettes 101, 102 are not spread longitudinally axially. In this case, no spreading drum or the like is provided between the production of single-length filter cigarettes 101, 102 in the conveying direction in order to carry out a longitudinal axial spreading operation between the respectively formed filter cigarette pairs 101, 102 before the turning process.
  • the two rows with the filter cigarettes 101, 102 are subsequently transferred to a subsequent conveyor drum 12, wherein the row with the filter cigarettes 101 remains on the conveyor drum 12 in the receiving troughs (see. Fig. 2 ).
  • the filter cigarettes 102 arranged next to the filter cigarettes 101, 102 are transferred to a first turning drum 20, wherein the filter cigarettes 102 are subsequently transferred from the first turning drum 20 to a subsequent second turning drum 22.
  • the turned filter cigarettes 102 are arranged with the same orientation as the filter cigarettes 101 remaining on the conveyor drum 12 between the filter cigarettes 101 so that on the conveyor drum 12 after turning the filter cigarettes 102, a series of filter cigarettes 101, 102 arranged transversely axially one behind the other is provided Filter cigarettes are arranged alternately one behind the other in the corresponding receiving troughs of the conveyor drum 12. Subsequently, the single row successively arranged filter cigarettes 101,102 are transferred from the conveyor drum 12 to a subsequent conveyor drum 14.
  • This conveyor drum 14 may be formed in one embodiment with a test device for testing the filter cigarettes 101, 102.
  • Fig. 3 is schematically shown in section a perspective view of the turning drum 20.
  • the turning drum 20 is frustoconical in design, the turning drum 20 has a truncated cone shell 30 which is formed with receptacles 32, so that in the receptacles 32, the filter cigarettes 102, which are received in the receptacles 32 accordingly.
  • the turning drum 20 has a rotation axis 38, wherein a corresponding drive is provided for the rotation of the turning drum 20.
  • the receiving troughs 32 are arranged on the outside of the turning drum 20 in such a way that the trough center longitudinal axes of the receiving troughs and the axis of rotation 38 of the turning drum do not intersect.
  • the receiving wells 32 are arranged such that in the arrangement of the filter cigarettes 102 in the receiving wells 32, the central longitudinal axes of the filter cigarettes 102 do not intersect.
  • the corresponding center longitudinal axis 105 is located.
  • FIG. 4a, 4b are perspective views of the arrangement of the conveyor drum 12 with the turning drums 20, 22 arranged therein.
  • Fig. 4a is schematically the removal or transfer of the filter cigarettes 102 to the first turning drum 20 shown schematically, while in Fig. 4b the transfer of the turned filter cigarettes 102 to the conveyor drum 12 is shown schematically.
  • the two turning drums 20, 22 in this case have the same shape and have a cone angle greater than 90 °, i. the angle between the tangent to the surface line and the axis of rotation of the turning drum is at an angle greater than 45 °.
  • the two turning drums 20, 22 are of identical construction.
  • the turning drum 20 has the rotation axis 38, while the second turning drum 22 has a rotation axis 48.
  • the turning drums 20, 22 are arranged such that their axes of rotation 38, 48 do not intersect.
  • the rotation axes 38, 48 intersect with the axis of rotation of the conveyor drum 12th
  • the cone axis 38 is arranged such that the filter cigarettes 102 after receiving from the conveyor drum 12 (see. Fig. 4a ) move away from the center of the conveyor drum 12 and a machine center and that the filter cigarettes 102 before the transfer to the conveyor drum 12 back to the center of the conveyor drum 12 (see. Fig. 4b move).
  • the receiving troughs of the conical drum 20, 22 are provided with cutouts to allow the path of movement of the cigarettes 102 on the conical drums 20, 22.

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DE2632557A1 (de) * 1976-07-20 1978-02-02 Hauni Werke Koerber & Co Kg Vorrichtung zum wenden einer reihe von zigaretten
DE3445945A1 (de) * 1983-12-29 1985-07-11 Sasib S.P.A., Bologna Wendevorrichtung fuer filterzigaretten

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