EP3550995B1 - Filtersegmentzusammenstellvorrichtung und verfahren zum zusammenstellen von filtersegmenten der tabak verarbeitenden industrie - Google Patents

Filtersegmentzusammenstellvorrichtung und verfahren zum zusammenstellen von filtersegmenten der tabak verarbeitenden industrie Download PDF

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EP3550995B1
EP3550995B1 EP17821492.0A EP17821492A EP3550995B1 EP 3550995 B1 EP3550995 B1 EP 3550995B1 EP 17821492 A EP17821492 A EP 17821492A EP 3550995 B1 EP3550995 B1 EP 3550995B1
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Oliver Deppe
Nikolai Wuttke
Carsten Eggers
Florian Hartmann
Daniel Diedrich
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    • 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
    • A24D3/0275—Manufacture of tobacco smoke filters for filters with special features
    • A24D3/0287—Manufacture of tobacco smoke filters for filters with special features for composite filters
    • 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
    • A24D3/025—Final operations, i.e. after the filter rod forming process
    • A24D3/0254—Cutting means

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  • the invention relates to a filter segment assembly device for the tobacco processing industry with a filter segment run for the transverse axial transfer of a filter segment to a filter segment assembly element.
  • the invention also relates to a method for assembling filter segments in the tobacco processing industry in a transverse method.
  • Devices and methods of this type are required, for example, in order to produce cigarette filters of a single or multiple useful length, which are connected to tobacco rods in cigarette-making machines.
  • EP 1 393 640 B1 a corresponding method and a device for assembling groups of filter segments is known.
  • the device shown there enables an extremely variable combination of filter segments to form corresponding groups of filter segments.
  • corresponding units which are provided as modules or cabinet elements, disclosed that each unit in the EP 1 393 640 B1 are described as a soft element unit 10-14, have a plurality of drum-shaped conveying and processing organs.
  • a filter run of a soft element unit 10 which is 1 the EP 1 393 640 B1 shown, has a removal drum 22.1, which engages with two circular knives 27 in order to cut filter rods of multiple use lengths taken from the magazine or the storage container 21.1 twice, then to stagger them on the staggering drum 23.1, then on the sliding/cutting drum 24.1 to push the filter rods, which have already been cut into three filter segments, first into aligned positions and then to cut them again.
  • These cut filter segments are then staggered in a staggering drum 25.1 and transferred to a collating drum 28.1 by a pushing/transfer drum that follows.
  • this filter segment run or filter rod run-off already has relatively few conveying and processing elements, it could, however, be further optimized.
  • EP 0 383 970 B1 discloses an apparatus for manufacturing filter cigarettes, with two filter runs in 1 are provided that deliver the filter segments onto a large troughed drum 142 .
  • DE 1 235 206 B discloses an apparatus for feeding and cutting filter rods into filter rod segments according to the preamble of claim 1.
  • WO 2008/081340 A2 discloses a filter cutting system.
  • DE 1 090 560 B discloses a method and apparatus for making filter rods for double filter cigarettes using filter rods of n times the even working length.
  • a filter segment assembly device in the tobacco processing industry with a filter segment barrel for the cross-axial transfer of a filter segment to a filter segment assembly member, with a removal device being provided in the filter segment barrel which is designed to remove a filter rod of multiple usage length from a filter magazine, with a pushing/cutting device being provided in the filter segment barrel which is designed to accommodate the filter rod of multiple usage length, the pushing/cutting device having depressions for accommodating filter rods, which is further developed in that the number of depressions is a prime number that is greater than or equal to 29, in particular greater than or equal to 37.
  • a number of organs for conveying and processing filter rods or filter segments can be saved.
  • the removal device and the pushing/cutting device each rotate about a rotation axis during operation.
  • a filter rod of multiple usable lengths can be cut several times, for example on a pushing/cutting device which is preferably designed as a pushing/cutting drum. With each rotation of the sliding/cutting device, a cut can thus be made through the filter rod or the filter segments. As a result, one sliding/cutting drum or one cutting drum can be saved.
  • the number of troughs in the pushing/cutting drum is a prime number that is greater than or equal to 29 or 37, a large number of filter rods can be introduced, so that high efficiency is made possible, and on the other hand it is ensured that a very high degree of variability is made possible. This will be discussed in more detail later.
  • the removal device can be designed as a removal drum and for this purpose can have, for example, a removal ring body which is provided with troughs.
  • the pushing/cutting device can be designed as a pushing/cutting drum, which has, for example, a sliding cutting ring body with corresponding troughs. In the sliding/cutting device, not only can filter rods be moved, but filter segments can also be moved.
  • a number of troughs in the pushing/cutting drum of 61 troughs is particularly preferred.
  • the pushing/cutting device has a stop against which filter rods or filter segments accommodated in the troughs are pushed or can be pushed, wherein in particular a cutting device is provided which is designed to cut at least one filter segment from the filter rods at an adjustable distance from the stop. Due to the adjustability of the distance, a very variable device and a very variable method are possible. For example, a filter rod eight times the working length, which is 8 cm long, could cut the filter rod into a total of 8 filter segments by making 7 cuts of the cutting device at a distance of 1 cm from the stop with a total of 7 revolutions of the pushing/cutting device.
  • a filter segment is then cut into a length of 1 cm and a second filter segment of 7 cm remains, which is pushed to the stop in the next cycle of the sliding/cutting device, where it is cut into another first filter segment with a to be cut to a length of 1 cm, leaving a second filter segment with a length of 6 cm.
  • filter rods or filter segments of different lengths are then arranged in the adjacent troughs of the sliding/cutting drum.
  • the pushing/cutting device is preferably designed in such a way that the filter segments, which are arranged between the stop and the cutting device, are released or can be released.
  • a cut filter segment which has a length that corresponds to the distance between the cutting device and the stop, is therefore always released from the pushing/cutting drum, whereas the remaining second filter segments remain on the pushing/cutting device and continue to circulate with the drum.
  • a second filter segment is pushed onto the stop, which already has the corresponding length that has the distance between the cutting device and the stop.
  • This filter segment is then no longer cut, but simply released, creating a free trough that is then filled again with a filter rod of multiple usable length. In the above example, this happens after 8 revolutions of the pushing/cutting device.
  • the removal device preferably has troughs for receiving filter rods, the number of troughs being variably predeterminable and/or the removal device being followed by an accelerator device which has troughs the number of which can be variably predetermined.
  • the accelerator device is preferably an accelerator drum or has an accelerator ring body which rotates about an axis of rotation or on a shaft.
  • the filter run has only the removal device or removal drum, if necessary the accelerator device, in particular accelerator drum, the pushing/cutting device, in particular pushing/cutting drum, and the filter segment assembly element or an assembly drum or a corresponding assembly conveyor belt with corresponding troughs as active conveying elements for filter rods or filter segments.
  • a filter run is preferred which, as active conveying elements for filter rods or filter segments, only has the removal device or removal drum, the pushing/cutting device, in particular the pushing/cutting drum, and the filter segment assembling element or a assembling drum or a corresponding assembling conveyor belt with corresponding troughs.
  • the pushing/cutting drum is followed by a pushing drum, which then transfers filter segments or groups of filter segments that have been pushed into an end position to a filter segment assembling element or an assembling drum, with this filter segment assembling element then preferably rotating on an axis of rotation which corresponds to the rotational axis of the pushing/cutting drum or is arranged on the same shaft.
  • the variability is preferably given by a different number of active wells.
  • a different number of active troughs is preferably achieved via exchangeable outer drum rings, which are also referred to as removal ring bodies, sliding cutting ring bodies or accelerator ring bodies, preferably each with a different number of troughs.
  • the removal device or removal drum have a extraction ring body that is easily replaceable.
  • variable suction air connections can be arranged on the troughs or troughs can be blinded by introducing bodies.
  • a click drum with a variable number of troughs can be provided.
  • a conveyor drum 2 is disclosed there, which can be provided with trough elements 6 .
  • the trough elements 6 have sockets 14 on their underside, which can be inserted into suction bores or suction openings of the conveyor drum.
  • Appropriate base bodies or trough elements can then be used that have a width that allows a trough element to be introduced into every suction air opening distributed over the circumference or, for example, only into every second or every third etc., in which case the further suction air openings can then be closed by closing means or an area that is expanded in the circumferential direction of the conveyor drum is provided on the trough elements, which closes or seals the suction air openings in the conveyor drum that are spaced apart from the trough.
  • the conveyor drum which in EP 2 921 062 A1 is disclosed can be used as a removal device. It can also be used as a pushing/cutting device.
  • variable suction air connections or the blind setting of troughs is on the EP 2 328 429 B1 referenced, in which three examples are disclosed of how corresponding suction air openings of troughs can be blinded, for example by providing a valve in the suction air opening or a closing body, which can be designed as a seal.
  • an inner ring can also be provided which, on its outside, connects to the inside of an outer ring body which has the suction air openings.
  • fewer suction air openings can be provided in the inner ring than in the outer ring. It is this particular on the 1 and 2 the EP 2 328 429 B1 and reference numerals 22, 26 and 28 there, as well as the associated description and description of the figures.
  • the filter segment assembly device is particularly preferred when the removal device has a number of troughs or active troughs of 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12, 15, 20, 30, 40, 60, 120 or 240.
  • the maximum number provided is preferably 120 and can be changed by the variability described above, and in particular can be correspondingly decreased or reduced.
  • a reduced active number of wells results from dividing the base number of wells by a natural number, with the natural number being selected such that the division leaves no remainder.
  • n 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12, 15, 20, 30, 40 or 60 can be.
  • the removal device is particularly preferably designed as a removal drum which has a removal ring body which has a number of troughs corresponding to the number of base troughs. It is then possible simply by exchanging the removal ring body to vary the number of troughs in the removal device or removal drum.
  • Two filter segment runs are preferably provided, with two removal ring bodies being arranged on a rotation axis of the removal device for this purpose and/or two sliding cutting ring bodies being provided on a rotation axis or shaft of the sliding/cutting device, with the sliding cutting ring bodies being arranged in particular mirror-symmetrically to one another.
  • the designation "removal ring body” can also be understood as a removal drum body.
  • the term “sliding cutting ring body” can also be understood to mean a sliding/cutting drum body.
  • two removal ring bodies or two removal drums are provided means in particular that two removal ring bodies or two removal drums are arranged one behind the other on the axis of rotation or on a common shaft in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the trough.
  • the provision of two sliding cutting ring bodies on one axis of rotation means that two sliding cutting ring bodies are arranged one behind the other, in particular on a common shaft, in the longitudinal direction of the trough or in the direction of the axis of rotation.
  • two accelerator drums or two accelerator annular bodies can be provided on a rotational axis of the accelerator drum or, in particular, preferably on a common shaft.
  • At least three, preferably four, filter segment runs are provided, with a corresponding number, in particular at least three, preferably four, removal ring bodies being provided for this purpose on a rotation axis of the removal device and/or with a corresponding number, in particular at least three, preferably four, sliding cutting ring bodies being provided on a rotation axis of the sliding/cutting device.
  • the sliding cutting ring bodies can preferably be mirror-symmetrical to one another, for example two pairs of sliding cutting ring bodies can be mirror-symmetrical to one another. These can each have a stop which is arranged, for example, centrally between the sliding cutting ring bodies.
  • mirror symmetry means that the filter rods or filter segments are arranged on one side of the sliding/cutting device or of the respective sliding/cutting ring body that adjoins the other sliding/cutting ring body that is adjacent thereto.
  • two sliding/cutting ring bodies arranged mirror-symmetrically to one another share a common stop body which is arranged along the circumference of the sliding/cutting ring bodies between the respective sliding/cutting ring bodies is.
  • a sliding drum is preferably provided, which pushes the filter segments received by the sliding cutting ring bodies to one side and delivers them to the filter segment assembling element.
  • the filter segment assembly element preferably has an axis of rotation which corresponds to that of the pushing/cutting drum. This makes a compact design possible.
  • the sliding drum is preferably provided in particular when four filter segment runs are provided, in which four removal ring bodies are provided on a rotation axis of the removal device and/or four sliding cutting ring bodies are provided on a rotation axis of the pushing/cutting device.
  • the four removal ring bodies and/or the sliding cutting ring bodies are preferably each arranged on a common shaft.
  • another rotating sliding element can also be provided.
  • a cutting drum is preferably provided between the sliding/cutting device and the filter segment assembling element, with a spreading drum in particular adjoining the cutting drum in the filter segment conveying direction.
  • This measure increases the number of conveying and/or processing elements, it can also be advantageous in certain constellations, for example if two identical filter segments are to be placed at a distance from one another on an assembly device, preferably an assembly drum or an assembly conveyor belt.
  • the spacing of the filter segments is preferably a spacing in the longitudinal axis of the filter segments.
  • a multi-segment filter manufacturing machine is used to process the tobacco Industry provided with a filter segment assembly device according to the invention, wherein a transfer device is provided which delivers the cross-axially assembled filter segments to a strand forming device or wherein a device is provided for wrapping the assembled filter segments with a wrapping material strip in a rolling process.
  • the strand forming device conveys the filter segments longitudinally and axially. There is therefore a transfer from a transverse axial conveying direction of the filter elements to a longitudinal axial conveying direction. In the variant of the rolling process, the filter segments remain in a cross-axial conveying movement.
  • the object is also achieved by a method for assembling filter segments in the tobacco processing industry according to claim 11.
  • the method according to the invention enables filter segments in the tobacco processing industry to be assembled very efficiently and with few organs, i.e. inexpensively, in particular in groups of filter segments.
  • the second filter segment in the next round of Sliding/cutting device moved to the end position and either delivered as a first filter segment or cut into a first filter segment and another second filter segment, in which case the first filter segment is then delivered in this circulation of the sliding/cutting device.
  • troughs of the pushing/cutting device that become free are again covered with filter rods.
  • troughs of the sliding/cutting device that become free are again covered with filter rods.
  • the troughs can also be filled with filter rods, in which only a first filter segment is arranged and then, after being filled with the new filter rod, it is then released, whereupon the filter rod is then pushed against a stop in order to then be cut into a first filter segment and a second filter segment.
  • this accelerates the start-up process of the method and the filter segment assembly device.
  • the pushing/cutting device has a number of troughs for receiving filter rods and filter segments which is a prime number which is 29 or 37 or greater.
  • At least two filter runs with troughs aligned parallel and at least partially collinear with one another are on at least two removal ring bodies of a removal device and also with troughs aligned parallel and at least partially collinear with one another Troughs provided on at least two sliding cutting ring bodies of a sliding/cutting device.
  • the method is then preferably carried out with these features in at least two filter runs.
  • a sliding/cutting device with a number of troughs that is a prime number greater than or equal to 29, in particular greater than or equal to 37, is preferably used in a filter run of a filter segment assembly device in the tobacco processing industry.
  • a well number of 61 is particularly preferred.
  • the drums provided with different troughs according to the invention or the corresponding removal ring bodies preferably have different pitches for increased variability. Increased variability through a different division or number of troughs in the removal ring bodies is particularly preferred, with the variability being able to be increased in this way by providing interchangeable removal ring bodies.
  • a sliding/cutting device preferably in the form of a sliding/cutting drum, preferably comprising two or more sliding cutting ring bodies with a number of troughs that is a prime number and greater than or equal to 29, in particular greater than or equal to 37, preferably 61, an efficient processing of the filter rods into filter segments and an efficient compilation of groups of filter segments is possible.
  • two, in particular preferably at least three, in particular four, filter runs on corresponding extraction ring bodies or extraction drums, which are arranged on a rotation axis or a common shaft, as well as a corresponding pushing/cutting device with a corresponding number of sliding cutting ring bodies or pushing/cutting drums, which are arranged on a common axis of rotation and in particular a common shaft, are possible.
  • two or more filter runs are made possible, so to speak, in parallel on common axes of the conveying organs or processing organs.
  • the rotational speed of the corresponding removal device and the pushing/cutting device as well as the filter segment assembly element are approximately the same in terms of peripheral speed. In the event that an accelerator device is provided between the removal device and the pushing/cutting device, the speed between the removal device and the pushing/cutting device is adjusted.
  • Corresponding accelerator devices or accelerator drums are known in the prior art. These are provided with movable troughs, which have the slow speed of the removal device for removing filter rods from the removal device and then accelerate them to the peripheral speed of the sliding/cutting device in the conveying direction for delivery to the pushing/cutting device.
  • a single run is provided, by means of which filter rods of multiple usable lengths can be cut into several filter segments, in order to then release every second filter segment and to move the remaining filter segments into a release position during one revolution of the pushing/cutting device.
  • the filter segments can then be cut in the middle again and spread.
  • a double filter run or double filter segment run is provided, with a common shaft being provided for the respective conveying and processing elements or devices.
  • the second variant can also be designed in the form of a quadruple barrel.
  • Two double filter segment runs can also be provided, the corresponding filter segments made available on a common filter segment assembling element to form one Group of filter segments are assembled.
  • the number of filter segments that are correspondingly dispensed is the same for each filter run per revolution of the sliding cutter ring body.
  • FIG. 1 shows a multi-segment filter production device with a device according to the prior art for assembling groups of filter segments for the production of multi-segment filters in a schematic side view.
  • the multi-segment filter manufacturing facility is divided into respective units.
  • the device is according to the patent application DE 101 55 292 A the applicant can be divided into a plurality of independent functional units.
  • the functional units are a few soft element units 10-14, two transfer units 15 and 16, which can also be represented as one transfer unit, and a corresponding strand-forming unit 17, which is only represented very schematically.
  • the soft element units 10-14 are similar to each other. These essentially correspond to the soft element units of FIG. 5a) of FIG DE 101 55 292 A the applicant. With regard to all further details of these soft element units, explicit reference is made to the patent application DE 101 55 292 A .
  • the soft element units 11, 12 and 13 differ from the soft element units 10 and 14 in that an additional circular blade 27 is provided, by means of which the supplied filter elements are cut up again. In this embodiment five soft element units 10-14 have been used.
  • Soft element units can also be used instead of or in addition to these Soft element units also hard element units are used, which have a hard filter element such as sintered elements, hollow cylinders or hollow chambers and capsules, which can also be filled with granules, for example, instead of a filter element made of cellulose acetate or fleece, for example.
  • a hard filter element such as sintered elements, hollow cylinders or hollow chambers and capsules, which can also be filled with granules, for example, instead of a filter element made of cellulose acetate or fleece, for example.
  • the soft element units 10-14 of 1 include corresponding reservoirs 21.1-21.5, which can have, for example, filter elements 12 times the useful length or, for example, those 16 times the useful length.
  • the filter elements of n times the useful length are removed by means of the removal drum 22.1 and cut up by circular knives 27 into filter elements of a shorter useful length. If there are only two circular knives, filters with 12 times the working length are cut into filter elements with 4 times the working length. If the upper circular blade is a circular blade and the lower one is two circular blades arranged one behind the other in the back plane, filter elements with 16 times the working length are cut into filter elements with 4 times the working length.
  • the filter elements with four times the useful length are then transferred to a staggering drum 23.1, in which the filter elements are staggered, in order to then be displaced in a sliding/cutting drum 24.1, initially aligned transversely and axially, in order to then finally carry out another cut with a circular knife 27, which cuts the filter elements with four times the useful length into filter elements with two times the useful length.
  • these filter elements are staggered in order to then be aligned transversely axially in a shifting/transferring drum 26.1 and then placed on a collating drum 28.1.
  • filter elements twice usage length stored. These are then passed on to a collating drum 28.2 of the soft element unit 11 by means of a transfer drum 29. Two filter elements of a single working length are then placed on this assembly drum 28.2, which are then pulled apart longitudinally and axially in the spreading drum 30.1. For this purpose, reference is made in particular to the 2 , which shows the position of the respective filter elements.
  • the soft element unit 11 differs from the soft element unit 10 in that another circular blade 27 is arranged in the area of the shifting/transfer drum 26.2, which cuts filter elements of twice the usable length into filter elements of a single usable length.
  • the soft element unit 11 differs from the soft element unit 10 in that a spreading drum 30.1 is used instead of the transfer drum 29.
  • the soft element units 12 and 13 also include corresponding spreading drums 30.2 and 30.3, respectively, by means of which correspondingly inserted segments or filter elements can be pulled apart or spread apart.
  • the soft element unit 14 again essentially corresponds to the soft element unit 10, although instead of the transfer drum 29 a relay drum 31 is used, which is essential for the invention.
  • the assembled segments or filter elements which are arranged in a corresponding group of 8 filter elements in this exemplary embodiment, namely 6 filter elements of a single use length and two filter elements of twice the use length, are divided into two subgroups, namely staggered accordingly in this exemplary embodiment, in order to then be aligned transversely axially in the sliding drum 32 and to be compressed in a subsequent wobble drum 33.
  • the subgroups are then transferred to a transfer drum 34 and accelerated by means of an acceleration drum 35, inserted into an insert wheel 19 of a transfer conveyor 20 in order to be transferred in a known manner into a multi-segment filter assembly which is then wrapped in filter paper and cut to length.
  • a transfer drum 34 and accelerated by means of an acceleration drum 35, inserted into an insert wheel 19 of a transfer conveyor 20 in order to be transferred in a known manner into a multi-segment filter assembly which is then wrapped in filter paper and cut to length.
  • the strand-forming unit that 1 shown schematically at 17 is, for example, a conventional strand-forming device from the applicant with the designation KDF 2 E.
  • Two removal devices 1 are provided in the form of removal drums, which remove the filter rods 8 from filter rod magazines or storage containers, not shown.
  • the removal drums have a number of 60 troughs 7 for receiving the filter rods 8.
  • the removal drums are shown here as removal ring bodies 100.
  • the extraction drums or extraction ring bodies 100 rotate in the direction of the arrow about an axis of rotation 140 or are arranged on a corresponding shaft, which is not shown.
  • the filter rods 8 are transferred from the removal devices 1 to pushing/cutting devices 3 .
  • the respective pushing/cutting device 3 is designed in the form of a pushing/cutting drum which has a pushing/cutting ring body 110 .
  • the respective sliding/cutting device 3 rotates about an axis of rotation or is driven in rotation on a corresponding shaft.
  • the troughs 7 provided on the pushing/cutting device 3 have a number of 61 in this example.
  • a circular blade 6 is provided in each case in order to cut the inserted filter rods 8 into a first filter segment 9 and a second filter segment 9'.
  • the first filter segment in each case is then placed on a filter segment assembling element 28 in the form of an assembling drum, so that there two filter segments 9, 9' are introduced one behind the other in the longitudinal axial direction into the corresponding troughs 7.
  • the two filter segments 9, 9' can be transferred for further processing, for example in a cross-axial roll winding or in a longitudinal-axial strand manufacturing machine.
  • the second filter segments 9′ remaining on the pushing/cutting device 3 are pushed onto the stop 130, corresponding to how the filter rods have been pushed onto the stop 130 and are then released onto the filter segment assembling element 28 designed as a assembling drum during the next run. In the then remaining empty wells 7 filter rods 8 are introduced again.
  • an assembly conveyor belt which has troughs 7, for example, can also be provided.
  • a removal drum 100 could be provided which has 120 troughs 7, ie the division of which is half as large as that in FIG 2 illustrated division of the removal device 1. It can also be provided 30 troughs, 15 troughs or another number of troughs, which has already been mentioned above. Provision could also be made, for example, for four filter segments to be cut from a filter rod 8 . In this case, a well number of 30 wells with a double pitch as that in FIG 2 shown, ie a double spacing of the troughs to be provided. A simple interchangeability or possibility of variation is given by the fact that the removal ring bodies 100 can be exchanged correspondingly provided with different troughs.
  • FIG. 3 shows schematically a filter run or filter segment run in another embodiment of the invention.
  • the removal device 1 in the form of a removal drum runs at a slower peripheral speed than the pushing/cutting device 3 in the form of a pushing/cutting drum.
  • an accelerator drum 2 or relay drum 2 is provided at the end.
  • the correspondingly cut filter segments are delivered by the pushing/cutting device 3 to a filter segment assembling member 28 designed as an assembling drum.
  • a merging belt can be provided instead of a merging drum. In this case, it would make sense if the circular knife 6 side of the sliding / cutting device 3, as in the 3 as shown, is arranged to allow the collating line to be placed beneath the pusher/cutter 3.
  • the removal device 1 ′ includes two removal ring bodies 100 and 101 , both of which rotate together about an axis of rotation 140 .
  • the removal device 1' has a removal ring body 100 with 60 troughs and a coaxially arranged removal ring body 101 with 40 troughs. Other numbers of wells can also be provided, as indicated above.
  • the pitch of the removal ring body 100 is thus one and a half times as small as the pitch of the removal ring body 101.
  • the filter rods 8 are removed from magazines or storage containers (not shown) by the removal device 1, so that the filter rods 8 rest against the edge of the adjacent removal ring body 100 or 101. Alternatively, the filter rods 8 can be removed and slid into position adjacent the removal ring body 100 and 101, respectively.
  • the filter rods 8 are then transferred to a pushing/cutting device 3' comprising two pushing/cutting ring bodies 110 and 111. It is also possible for only one sliding/cutting ring body to be provided. It must only be possible for a stop 130 to be provided in the center of this sliding/cutting ring body or when using two sliding/cutting ring bodies, against which the filter rods 8 or correspondingly cut filter segments 9 and 9' can be placed.
  • the number of troughs in the sliding/cutting ring bodies 110 and 111 is 61.
  • a circular blade 6 is provided for each sliding/cutting ring body, which cuts the filter rods 8 or filter segments 9, 9'.
  • the cut filter segments 9, 9' are then correspondingly delivered to the filter segment assembling member 28 or the assembling drum.
  • the sliding/cutting device 3′ comprising two sliding/cutting ring bodies 110 and 111, rotates about an axis of rotation 141 or on a common shaft.
  • a correspondingly identically designed further double filter run is in 4 shown, so that a total of four filter runs or two double filter runs, which are arranged on common axes of rotation or shafts, are made possible or are carried out.
  • a group of filter segments then results on the filter segment assembling element 28 designed as an assembling drum, which are arranged alternately long-short-long.
  • the short filter segments are made by cutting a filter rod into three filter segments on the push/cut ring bodies 110, 111, which have been transferred from the extraction ring bodies 101.
  • the somewhat longer filter segments were created by cutting a filter rod 8 once, namely on the respective sliding/cutting ring body 110, 111.
  • figure 5 shows another embodiment of the invention.
  • Four removal ring bodies 100, 101, 102 and 103 are arranged here on a common axis of rotation 140 or a common shaft on a removal device 1".
  • the divisions or the number of troughs are also different here.
  • the removal ring body 100 has 60 troughs
  • the removal ring body 101 has 40 troughs
  • the removal ring body 102 has 20 troughs
  • the removal ring body has 10 3 10 wells.
  • a sliding/cutting device 3" arranged on a common shaft is directly connected to the removal device 1". of the four sliding/cutting ring bodies 110, 111, 112 and 113 are arranged.
  • Two sliding/cutting ring bodies can also be provided, each representing a unit of the sliding/cutting ring bodies 110 and 111 as well as 112 and 113.
  • a stop 130 is provided in the center of these two sliding/cutting ring bodies.
  • FIG. 6 shows a further variation of the invention in a schematic representation.
  • a removal device 1 is followed by an accelerator drum 2 which is followed by a pushing/cutting device 3 .
  • filter rods 8 can first be cut and delivered as filter segments to a further cutting drum 4 in order to be cut there again, for example in the middle.
  • the correspondingly cut filter segments are released from the cutting drum 4 onto a spreading drum 5 in order to be spread along the longitudinal axis.
  • the correspondingly spread filter segments 9 can then be combined with other filter segments on a filter segment combining element.

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