EP3679810B1 - Speichervorrichtung für stabförmige artikel der tabak verarbeitenden industrie - Google Patents

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EP3679810B1
EP3679810B1 EP20150458.6A EP20150458A EP3679810B1 EP 3679810 B1 EP3679810 B1 EP 3679810B1 EP 20150458 A EP20150458 A EP 20150458A EP 3679810 B1 EP3679810 B1 EP 3679810B1
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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
    • A24C5/33—Catching or ordering devices
    • 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
    • A24C5/35—Adaptations of conveying apparatus for transporting cigarettes from making machine to packaging machine
    • 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
    • A24C5/35—Adaptations of conveying apparatus for transporting cigarettes from making machine to packaging machine
    • A24C5/352—Adaptations of conveying apparatus for transporting cigarettes from making machine to packaging machine using containers, i.e. boats
    • A24C5/356—Emptying the boats into the hopper of the packaging machine

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  • the invention relates to a storage device for storing rod-shaped articles in the tobacco processing industry, in particular filter rods, and a machine in the tobacco processing industry, in particular filter rod further processing machines.
  • the invention relates to a method for operating a storage device for storing rod-shaped articles in the tobacco processing industry, in particular filter rods.
  • rod-shaped articles of the tobacco processing industry also includes, for example, cigarettes, cigarillos or cigars with and without filters, to which the invention can be applied to the same extent.
  • these rod-shaped articles or parts thereof are conveyed from a manufacturing machine via pneumatic conveying lines conveyed to a processing machine.
  • filter rods are transported via a conveyor line to a storage magazine, for example a filter attachment machine.
  • U.S. 5,452,984 a tray that is filled at a filling device via an opening.
  • the filter rods are filled into an expanding, flexible band that encloses the filter rods in the tray.
  • One end of the tape is attached to an opening and the other end is wound on a drum.
  • the tray is guided to a removal station where the filter rods are emptied through the same opening that was used for filling.
  • the band that encloses the filter rods in the tray is wrapped up again.
  • a magazine for rod-shaped articles of the tobacco processing industry is known, with rod-shaped articles, eg filter rods, being introduced into a storage space of the magazine via an inlet.
  • a filter loading device is arranged on the side of the magazine, via which a connected conveying line receives longitudinally axially funded filter rods from a filter sending station and introduces the received filter rods transversely axially into the storage space via outlets of the filter loading device.
  • EP 2 570 038 A1 a filter rod loading device for a permanent magazine of a filter rod further processing device described in the tobacco processing industry, with the filter rod loading device being arranged above the permanent magazine.
  • DE 16 32 165 A1 a cigarette machine with a storage container and an insertion funnel underneath.
  • DE 25 00 526 A1 Another arrangement for conveying a flow of rod-shaped articles in the tobacco processing industry.
  • DE 25 20 116 A1 shown a loading arrangement for a feed device of a rod-shaped article of the tobacco processing industry processing machine.
  • One object of the invention is to enable careful treatment of the filter rods supplied to the storage volume when storing or temporarily storing rod-shaped articles in, for example, a mass storage device, with the design effort for this being to be kept as low as possible.
  • a storage device for storing rod-shaped articles from the tobacco processing industry, in particular filter rods, the storage device having a receiving store for the rod-shaped articles and an article feed device provided on the receiving store, with a working store below the receiving store, the storage volume of which can be adjusted, for the rod-shaped Article is provided and from the receiving memory Rod-shaped articles can be introduced or are introduced into the working memory, the working memory having a side wall that can be moved, in particular horizontally, to adjust the storage volume, the side wall being connected to at least one pivotably mounted sliding plate of the working memory to move the side wall.
  • the invention is based on the idea that when rod-shaped articles are fed, e.g. when feeding filters or filter rods, on a machine in the tobacco processing industry, in particular a filter attachment machine or multi-segment filter manufacturing machine, a working memory that is spatially separate from the receiving memory is provided below the receiving memory, which in its storage volume is adjustable.
  • the receiving store which preferably has a constant volume for the rod-shaped articles, is loaded with filter rods or rod-shaped articles from an article feed device.
  • the article feed device is designed as an individual article feed device or with a plurality of individual article feed devices, so that the rod-shaped articles are introduced transversely axially into the receiving store by means of the individual article feed device.
  • the article feed device is designed as an article mass flow transport device, so that rod-shaped articles are conveyed to the receiving store in a multi-layered mass flow, eg in a hexagonal arrangement of the rod-shaped articles.
  • the articles are preferably introduced into the reception store from one side.
  • the article feed device is designed as a tray filling device, whereby rod-shaped items are fed from a tray to the reception store, e.g. B. be fed from above.
  • a constriction is provided between the receiving store and the working store, so that the rod-shaped articles can be or are brought into the working store from the receiving store via the constriction provided between the receiving store and the working store.
  • a working storage is provided below the receiving storage, the storage volume of which can be adjusted, which is preferably designed as an actively operable working storage, with a constriction being provided between the receiving storage and the working storage, whereby when the working storage is filled with rod-shaped articles from the working storage, these have a narrowing between the receiving memory and the working memory are brought into the working memory by gravity.
  • the transverse transport of the rod-shaped articles is decoupled from the insertion force that is applied in order to insert the rod-shaped articles against the weight of the rod-shaped articles already present in the receiving store.
  • the prior art provides that in the case of a filter loading device with individual article feed device(s) on the individual article loading device, the rod-shaped articles pushed into a magazine must build up a force during transverse transport, with which the package of rod-shaped articles in the store is pushed up against the weight force the article already in the magazine is pushed.
  • the rod-shaped articles are stressed, so that the rod-shaped articles are damaged.
  • a constriction is provided between the underside outlet of the receiving store and the upper side inlet of the working store, through which the rod-shaped articles are introduced from the receiving store into the working store.
  • the storage volume of the main memory can be changed or adjusted between a minimum volume and a maximum volume.
  • the storage volume of the main memory is adjusted by an actively operated mode of the main memory.
  • the rod-shaped articles are arranged and oriented such that the longitudinal axes of the rod-shaped articles are aligned parallel, and in particular horizontally, whereby the rod-shaped articles are in a kind of package or in a hexagonal-like arrangement or the like. This results in a compact arrangement of the rod-shaped articles in the receiving memory and in the working memory.
  • the minimum volume of the working store is designed in such a way that when it is formed during operation of the storage device, rod-shaped articles are always present in the working store.
  • the receiving storage has at least one filling level sensor for detecting the filling level of the rod-shaped articles in the receiving storage and that a control device is provided, so that depending on the filling level detected in the receiving storage by the at least one filling level sensor, the storage volume of the Working memory adjusted, in particular regulated, and / or depending on the level detected in the receiving memory by the at least one level sensor filling level influences the supply of the rod-shaped articles by means of the article feeder, in particular regulated, is.
  • a level sensor in particular a mechanical level sensor, for example a swiveling measuring arm, to be arranged on the side of the receiving store in order to use the deflection of the level sensor to detect the level of the rod-shaped articles in the receiving store.
  • a mechanical level sensor for example a swiveling measuring arm
  • the working store is arranged below the receiving store and thus also below the article feed device, with the rod-shaped articles being brought into the receiving store or pushed transversely axially from the article feeding device, such as an individual article feed device, with at least one filling level sensor being provided in the receiving store in order to to detect the filling level of the rod-shaped articles in the receiving memory.
  • two fill level sensors are preferably provided in the receiving store or receiving magazine in order to determine a maximum level of the rod-shaped articles in the receiving store and to capture a minimum level of stick-shaped articles in the receiving memory.
  • the storage volume of the working memory is increased or decreased by the operation of one or more actuators of the working memory.
  • the rod-shaped articles arranged in the receiving store are introduced into the working store due to gravity, whereby due to the emptying of the rod-shaped articles in the receiving store in the article feed device, the rod-shaped articles are fed into the receiving store with little or no insertion force being applied, whereby the receiving store is filled.
  • the inserted rod-shaped articles are spared during the filling of the receiving storage.
  • a measuring arm or, preferably exclusively, a sensor for the receiving memory is provided as a mechanical, movable, in particular pivotable, fill level sensor, preferably exclusively, then it is provided within the scope of the invention that depending on the deflection of the mechanical fill level sensor, in particular depending on the Deflection position of the level sensor, a maximum fill level of the rod-shaped items in the receiving memory and a minimum level of the rod-shaped items are recorded in the receiving memory.
  • the feed speed of the rod-shaped articles to the receiving storage can be reduced and/or the storage volume of the working storage can be increased, or when a minimum filling level in the receiving storage has been reached, the feeding speed of the rod-shaped articles to the receiving storage can be increased and /or the storage volume of the main memory can be reduced.
  • a removal store of a removal device is provided, with a constriction being provided between the working store and the removal store, so that rod-shaped articles are introduced from the working store via the narrowing between the working store and the removal store.
  • the removal device which is arranged below the working store, has a removal store with a constant volume.
  • the removal device preferably has a removal drum provided on the removal store, so that for further processing the rod-shaped articles are conveyed on the removal drum in the transverse axial direction and removed from the removal store.
  • At least one conveyor belt or several conveyor belts is provided below the working store, in particular below the outlet of the working store, as a removal device, so that the rod-shaped articles conveyed from the working store are transferred to the conveyor belt or conveyor belts and those on the conveyor belt or the Conveyor belts arranged rod-shaped articles are promoted in a multi-layer mass flow, for example to a further processing machine or a bulk storage.
  • a further aspect of the invention provides that the storage device is part of a conveyor system in the tobacco processing industry, the conveyor system being designed with conveyor means for conveying a mass flow of articles made up of rod-shaped articles in the tobacco processing industry, in particular cigarettes or filter rods.
  • a conveyor system in the tobacco processing industry for conveying rod-shaped articles in a mass flow is known under the designation RTS (Rod Transfer System) from Hauni Maschinenbau GmbH, Hamburg.
  • one configuration of the storage device is characterized in that the article feed device has at least one individual article feed device, in particular two or more individual article feed devices, with the at least one individual article feed device being arranged laterally on the receiving store, so that rod-shaped articles are fed into the receiving store in a transverse axial direction with respect to their longitudinal axis are supplied, and/or that the article feed device has a tray filling device, the tray filling device being arranged above the receiving store, so that rod-shaped items are fed from a tray into the receiving store.
  • the article feed device is designed as an article mass flow transport device, so that the article mass flow transport device conveys a multi-layer mass flow of rod-shaped articles, e.g. in a hexagonal arrangement, to the receiving store.
  • the mass flow article transport device comprises at least one or more conveyor belts arranged upstream of the receiving store.
  • the article mass flow is preferably conveyed in a horizontal direction to the reception store on the conveyor belt or conveyor belts.
  • the main memory in order to adapt, i.e. to widen or reduce, the storage volume, has two horizontally movable side walls, in particular aligned parallel to one another, with the side wall or the side walls in particular being aligned vertically.
  • a drive is provided, which is preferably connected to the control device, so that, for example, depending on the detected fill level of the rod-shaped articles in the reception memory, the control device transmits a corresponding control command to the drive of the side wall or the side walls in order to move the side wall or the side walls.
  • the control device transmits a corresponding control command to the drive of the side wall or the side walls in order to move the side wall or the side walls.
  • a drive is provided for each of the two side walls. This makes it possible to move or shift the side walls individually in the horizontal direction. It is also possible for the side walls to be moved simultaneously, i.e. synchronously. In order to move the side wall or the side walls in the horizontal direction, horizontal guides are preferably provided for the side wall or the side walls.
  • one embodiment provides that a motor-driven pivoting mechanism, which is connected to the side wall or the side walls, is connected in order to move the sides or the side walls.
  • the motor-driven pivoting mechanism is also connected to the control device, in particular, so that the pivoting mechanism receives corresponding control commands from the control device depending on the detected fill level.
  • corresponding position sensors are provided for the side wall or the side walls in order to detect, for example, the horizontal end positions of the side wall or the side walls.
  • an embodiment of the storage device is characterized in that, for the movement of the side walls, the side walls each have are connected to at least one pivotably mounted sliding plate of the main memory.
  • the at least one pivotable sliding plate which is connected to at least one side wall, makes it possible to correspondingly move or shift the side wall horizontally.
  • two sliding plates are provided for each side wall, each of which is pivotably mounted about a horizontal pivot axis, with a pivot axis of a sliding plate or a sliding plate being provided in the upper area of the main memory and a pivot axis of a sliding plate or a sliding plate being provided in the lower area of the working memory. It is also conceivable within the scope of the invention that a sliding plate which can be pivoted about a horizontal pivot axis is provided for each side wall.
  • two sliding plates are provided in the upper area of the working memory and/or in the lower area of the working memory, each of which is connected to a side wall, it is possible to form a funnel-shaped arrangement of the sliding plates, which improves the guidance of the rod-shaped articles in the working memory.
  • the working storage has one or two storage volume adjustment bands, with the length of the section of the storage volume adjustment band lying against the rod-shaped articles or the lengths of the sections of the storage volume adjustment band lying against the rod-shaped articles being variable.
  • this is an end of the storage volume adjustment band or an end of the sections of the storage volume bands that are variable in length fixed in memory, especially at the bottom of memory.
  • the storage volume adjustment straps are wound up or unwound from a motor-driven reel.
  • the drive of the roller or rollers for the storage volume adjustment belts is connected to the control device, which receives appropriate control commands from the control device in order to adjust the storage volume of the main memory accordingly.
  • the storage device has an article density measuring device for detecting and/or determining the article density of the rod-shaped articles in the main memory.
  • the article density measuring device can be designed in such a way that the torques of the drives of the adjustable or movable side walls are detected by means of a torque sensor or by means of torque sensors and the density of the rod-shaped articles in the working memory is determined or determined as a function of the detected torques of the drives, since, for example the rod-shaped articles arranged in the working memory exert a force on the side walls and, when the side walls are moved by the drives, a counterforce or torque is applied when the working memory is reduced.
  • the opposing force applied is a measure of the article density in the main memory.
  • the volume of the main memory is not reduced when an excessively large torque to be applied by the drives is detected. If, in a further embodiment, the rod-shaped articles located in the main memory exert too great a force on the side walls, this force can be determined by means of the torque sensor or the torque sensors of the drives.
  • the article density measuring device is connected to the control device so that Corresponding values or signals are transmitted from the article density measuring device to the control device.
  • an article density measuring sensor to be provided in the working memory (as article density measuring device) for detecting the article density of the rod-shaped articles in the working memory, with the article density measuring sensor being connected to the control device in a further development. If it is determined here that a target article density is being exceeded, the storage volume of the main memory is increased and/or the operation of the article feed device is regulated, in particular stopped.
  • the object is also achieved by a machine in the tobacco processing industry, in particular a filter rod further processing machine, which is designed with a storage device as described above for storing rod-shaped articles in the tobacco processing industry. To avoid repetition, reference is expressly made to the above statements.
  • an article store which comprises a plurality of storage devices described above for storing rod-shaped articles, the storage devices being arranged one behind the other in relation to the conveying direction of the rod-shaped articles fed to the article store and/or or are arranged next to one another, in particular in parallel.
  • a cascade-like arrangement of the storage devices is formed, with one embodiment also providing for corresponding conveying devices, such as conveyor belts, to be provided between the storage devices in order to feed corresponding rod-shaped articles, preferably in a mass flow, to the individual receiving stores of the storage devices.
  • corresponding conveying devices such as conveyor belts
  • the conveyors such as for example conveyor belts, arranged between the receiving storages of the individual storage devices.
  • the object is also achieved by a method for operating a storage device for storing rod-shaped articles in the tobacco processing industry, in particular filter rods, the storage device having a reception storage and a working storage which can be adjusted in terms of its storage volume, the reception storage being arranged above the working storage, with the adaptation of the storage volume, the working storage has a side wall that can be moved, in particular horizontally, with the side wall being connected to at least one pivotably mounted sliding plate of the working storage to move the side wall, with rod-shaped articles being fed into the receiving storage from at least one article feed device, so that the receiving storage with is or will be filled with rod-shaped articles at a filling level, and the rod-shaped articles are brought into the working memory from the receiving store.
  • the rod-shaped articles are brought into the working storage from the receiving storage via a constriction provided between the receiving storage and the working storage.
  • the storage volume of the working store for the rod-shaped articles is adjusted, in particular regulated, and/or that, depending on the fill level of the rod-shaped articles in the reception store, the supply of the rod-shaped articles Article influenced by the article feeder, in particular regulated, is.
  • the method is characterized in that the filling level of the rod-shaped articles in the receiving memory is detected by means of at least one filling level sensor, in particular two or more filling level sensors.
  • a filling level sensor is provided for detecting a minimum filling level of the rod-shaped articles in the receiving memory.
  • the maximum filling level of the rod-shaped articles in the receiving memory is provided by means of a second filling level sensor.
  • a first filling level sensor detects a maximum filling level of the rod-shaped articles in the receiving memory and a second filling level sensor detects a minimum filling level of the rod-shaped articles in the receiving memory.
  • the side walls delimiting the working storage are moved away from one another by means of one or more drives for the side walls in order to increase the amount of memory.
  • rod-shaped articles are introduced from the main store into a removal store of a removal device provided below the main store, preferably via a constriction provided between the main store and the removal store, with the rod-shaped items being removed from the removal store in particular by means of be removed from a removal drum of the removal device.
  • the article feed device has at least one individual article feed device, in particular two or more individual article feed devices, with the at least one individual article feed device being arranged laterally on the receiving store, so that rod-shaped articles, based on their longitudinal axis, in the transverse axial direction in the Receiving storage are supplied, and / or that the article feeder has a tray filling device, wherein the tray filling device is arranged above the receiving storage, so that rod-shaped articles are fed from a tray into the receiving storage.
  • the storage volume of the main memory is adjusted by means of at least one horizontally movable, in particular vertically aligned, side wall by moving the at least one horizontally movable side wall in the horizontal direction.
  • two side walls are provided to adjust the storage volume of the main memory, the side walls being movable horizontally and being laterally spaced apart from one another in the horizontal direction, the side walls being moved individually or simultaneously to adjust the storage volume of the main memory.
  • the at least one horizontally movable side wall is moved by means of a sliding plate or by means of several sliding plates, the sliding plate or the sliding plates being connected to the at least one side wall and being pivotably mounted about a horizontal pivot axis, so that when the sliding plate or sliding plates are pivoted about the respective pivot axis, the horizontally movable side wall is moved in the horizontal direction.
  • the pivot axis of the sliding plate or the pivot axes of the sliding plates are provided in the upper area and/or in the lower area of the main memory.
  • one or two sliding plates are provided for each side wall.
  • a horizontal guide for the side walls is provided.
  • the end positions of the side walls are detected by means of position sensors.
  • the method is characterized in that the main memory has at least one storage volume adjustment band, the length of which can be varied, for adjusting the storage volume of the main memory for the rod-shaped articles, with the length of the section of the storage volume adjustment band adjoining the rod-shaped articles being increased in order to increase the storage volume of the working store and/or the length of the section of the storage volume adjustment band adjoining the rod-shaped articles being reduced in order to reduce the storage volume of the working store.
  • the article density of the rod-shaped articles in the working storage is detected and/or determined by means of an article density measuring device, for example the torques of the drives for the side walls of the working storage by means of torque sensors. Depending on the detected torques, it is possible to determine the item density of the rod-shaped items in the working memory.
  • one embodiment of the method is characterized in that an article density measuring sensor (as an article density measuring device) is provided in the main memory, so that the article density measuring sensor is used to record the article density of the rod-shaped articles in the main memory, with the storage volume of the main memory increasing when an article density setpoint in the main memory is exceeded and/or the operation of the article feeding device is regulated, in particular stopped.
  • an article density measuring sensor as an article density measuring device
  • the operated storage device has features that have been described above. To avoid repetition, reference is expressly made to the above statements in this regard.
  • a stick article storage device 10 in accordance with the present invention is shown.
  • the storage device 10 has a reception storage 20 with a constant, ie unchangeable volume for rod-shaped articles, such as filter rods.
  • a working storage 30 with a variable storage volume, which is connected to the reception storage 20 on the upper side via a constriction 32 with the reception storage 20 .
  • the constriction 32 can also be a type of channel or shaft.
  • receiving store 20 Laterally in the embodiment in 1 on the right-hand side of receiving store 20 are two individual article feed devices 12 arranged one above the other, which are connected to conveying lines (not shown here) for filter rods or rod-shaped articles, with the filter rods being conveyed longitudinally and axially in the respective conveying lines and by means of deflection devices, also not shown, of the respective individual article feed devices 12 are transferred in a transverse axial conveying direction, so that filter rods or rod-shaped articles are introduced into the reception store 10 in the transverse axial direction by the individual article feed devices 12 .
  • the receiving memory 20 is thus filled by means of the individual feed devices 12 .
  • the Reception store 20 on the Reception store 20 a tray 14 is placed or placed above the reception store, so that using a tray, the reception store 20 is also filled with rod-shaped articles from above or can be filled.
  • the receiver store 20 is funnel-shaped and tapers downwards, so that the outlet of the receiver store 20 on the underside opens into the constriction 32 .
  • the working memory 30 is arranged below the reception memory 20 and below the constriction 32 and is connected to the constriction 32 on the input side.
  • the main memory 30 has vertically aligned side walls 34, 35 which are arranged parallel to one another.
  • the side walls 34, 35 are movable in the horizontal plane.
  • the ends of the side walls 34, 35 are each connected to an upper guide 44.1 or 45.1 and to a lower guide 44.2 or 45.2.
  • the horizontal guides 44.1, 44.2 for the side wall 34 and the horizontal guides 45.1, 45.2 for the side wall 35 are in this case aligned horizontally.
  • the spaced-apart guides 44.1, 44.2 for the side wall 34 and the guides 45.1, 45.2 for the side wall 35 are spaced apart from one another in the vertical direction.
  • the guides 44.1, 44.2 and 45.1, 45.2 can be designed, for example, as guide rails or the like.
  • Sliding plates 36 , 37 are arranged in the lower region of the working memory 30 and are pivotably mounted on the output side of the working memory 30 .
  • the sliding plate 36 is connected to the side wall 34 via a corresponding link, such as a longitudinal guide or the like, and the sliding plate 37 is also connected to the side wall 35 via a corresponding link.
  • the pivot axes of the sliding plates 36, 37 are in this case aligned perpendicularly to the plane of the drawing and horizontally.
  • the side walls 34, 35 connected thereto are moved in the horizontal direction.
  • To the Movement of the sliding plates 36, 37 are here schematically drawn drives 46, 47 are provided, so that the vertically aligned side walls 34, 35 are moved horizontally by a motor.
  • the sliding plates 36, 37 are arranged symmetrically to one another and form a funnel-shaped feed for the rod-shaped articles in the direction of the outlet of the working store 30.
  • the opening angle of the funnel-shaped feed is increased or decreased when the sliding plates 36, 37 are pivoted.
  • the receiving store 20 has two level sensors 21, 22, by means of which the level of the rod-shaped articles in the receiving store 20 is detected.
  • a maximum filling level of the rod-shaped articles in the receiving memory 20 is detected by means of the filling level sensor 21
  • a minimum filling level of the rod-shaped articles in the receiving memory 20 is detected by means of the filling level sensor 22 .
  • the level sensors 21, 22 are connected to a control unit 50, so that the level sensors 21, 22 transmit corresponding signals to the control unit 50.
  • the control unit 50 is also connected to the drives 46, 47 for the pivotable sliding plates 36, 37, so that the control unit 50 transmits corresponding control commands to the drives 46, 47.
  • a common drive for the pivotable sliding plates 36, 37 is provided, which is connected to the control unit 50.
  • the sliding plates 36, 37 are pivoted synchronously by means of one drive.
  • fill level sensor 21 is used to determine that the maximum fill level of the rod-shaped articles in receiving memory 20 is present or exceeded, a corresponding signal is transmitted to control unit 50, so that in order to lower the fill level in receiving memory 20, the control unit sends a control command to drives 46 , 47 transmitted, whereby the sliding plates 36, 37 are pivoted outwards and thereby the distance between the side walls 34, 35 is increased and the storage volume of the RAM 30 is increased. By increasing the storage volume of the main memory 30, the fill level in the reception memory 20 is lowered.
  • filter rods for example, are introduced or pushed into the receiving store 20 by the individual article feed devices 12 in the transverse axial direction.
  • the introduced filter rods are then moved through the constriction 32 by gravity from the receiving store 20 into the working store 30 .
  • the control unit 50 transmits a corresponding control command to the drives 46, 47 for the sliding plates 36, 37 or for the side walls 34, 35, whereby the distance of the side walls 34, 35 is reduced and thus the storage volume of the main memory 30 is reduced.
  • one embodiment provides that position sensors 24, 25 are provided for the side walls 34, 35 on a guide, e.g. guide 44.2, in order to determine the end positions of the side wall 34.
  • control unit 50 can send a corresponding control command the individual article feeders 12 connected to the control unit 50 are transmitted, whereby, for example, the operation of the individual article feeders 12 is stopped or the conveying speed of the individual article feeders 12 is throttled becomes.
  • control unit 50 is connected to one or more transmission units (not shown here) for the rod-shaped articles, with the transmission unit or units being connected to the individual article feed devices 12 via one or more conveyor lines in order to remove rod-shaped articles from the To promote sending units to the individual article feeders. If, for example, a maximum filling level is reached in receiving memory 20, it is possible within the scope of the invention for a corresponding control command to be transmitted from control unit 50 to the transmitter unit or units and, if applicable, to the individual article feeder 12, so that the operation of the transmitter units and, if applicable, the Operation of the individual article feeders 12 can be throttled or stopped.
  • an article density measurement sensor 26 is provided in the main memory 30 in order to determine the article density of the rod-shaped articles in the main memory 30 . For example, if the density of the rod-shaped articles in the working storage 30 is too high, the pressure or forces are exerted on the rod-shaped articles, so that they can be damaged. If the article density sensor 26 detects that the pressure is too high, the article pressure sensor 26 can transmit a corresponding signal to the control unit 50 connected to the sensor, so that, depending on this, the storage volume of the main memory 30 is increased, for example, in order to reduce the pressure on the rod-shaped articles in working memory 30 to lower. On the underside of the working store 30, the rod-shaped articles are conveyed downwards out of the working store 30 through a constriction 33.
  • the storage device 10 is, for example, part of a filter attachment machine or a filter rod further processing machine for the further processing of filter rods.
  • FIGS. 2a, 2b and 2c a memory device 10 according to a further embodiment is shown schematically in each case.
  • the drawings show different positions of the side walls 34, 35, with Figure 2a the main memory 30 has reached its maximum storage volume, while in Figure 2c it is shown that the main memory 30 occupies its minimum storage volume.
  • Figure 2b 12 shows a middle position of the side walls 34, 35 with a storage volume which can be increased or decreased depending on the movement of the side walls 34, 25.
  • the storage device 10 on the left-hand side of the receiving store 20 there are three individual article feeders 12 so that rod-shaped articles are introduced into the receiving store 20 by means of the individual article feeders 12 .
  • the introduced rod-shaped articles are conveyed via the constriction 32 between the receiving storage 20 and the working storage 30 due to gravity, so that the rod-shaped articles that are in Figure 2a are indicated schematically, are moved from the upper receiving memory 20 to the lower working memory 30.
  • the rod-shaped articles are then conveyed as a result of gravity from the working storage 30 via the outlet-side constriction 33 of the working storage 30 to a removal device 60, the removal device 60 having a removal magazine 62 with a constant volume.
  • a removal drum 63 is arranged on the removal storage 62 so that the rod-shaped articles present in the removal storage 62 are removed by means of the removal drum 63 .
  • the working memory 30 has sliding plates 36, 37 on the underside and also sliding plates 136, 137 on the upper side, which are arranged pivotably on the upper input side of the working memory 30.
  • the sliding plates 36, 37 on the upper side form an opening that enlarges downwards (cf. Figures 2a, 2b ).
  • torque drives or drives (not shown here) are provided, by means of which the sliding plates 36, 37 are pivoted and the side walls are thereby moved horizontally.
  • torque sensors are provided on the torque drives for the sliding plates 36, 37, by means of which the torques of the torque drives are detected. The detected torques of the torque drives can be used to determine whether the article density of the rod-shaped articles in the main memory 30 is too high or too low.
  • the rod-shaped articles arranged in the working store 30 exert a force on the side walls 34, 35, then when the side walls 34, 35 are moved by the drives, a counterforce or torque must be applied when the working store 30 is reduced. If the torques to be applied by the drives for reducing the volume of the working storage 30 by reducing the distances between the side walls 34, 35 exceed a predetermined target value for the torques, at which a predetermined article density is present in the working storage 30, the side walls 34, 35 will not moved towards each other. It is possible to provide an article density measuring device for the storage device 10 by means of the torque sensors for the torque drives of the sliding plates 36 , 37 . In particular, according to a further preferred aspect, the article density measuring device with the control unit 50 (cf figure 1 ) connected, so that corresponding values or signals are transmitted to the control unit 50 by the article density measuring device.
  • FIG. 3a and 3b A further embodiment of a storage device 10 according to the invention is shown, the embodiment shown therein having only one horizontally movable side wall 34 .
  • the wall 38 opposite the movable side wall 34 is immovable, ie stationary, in this case.
  • the sliding plate 36 By pivoting the sliding plate 36, the movable side wall 34 between the in Figures 3a and 3b end positions shown moved back and forth in the horizontal direction.
  • a constriction 32 is provided between the receiving store 20 and the working store 30 in order to transfer the rod-shaped articles from the receiving store 20 into the working store 30 . From the working store 30, the rod-shaped articles are conveyed downwards out of the working store 30 via the outlet-side constriction 32 for further processing.
  • the volume of the main memory 30 is increased or decreased accordingly.
  • the working memory 30 has, instead of the horizontally movable side walls 34, 25 (cf. 1 , 2a to 2c ) two bands 64, 65 on.
  • the tapes 64, 65 are fixed at their ends on the output side of the working storage 30 in the lower area, while on the input side or top of the working storage 30 the tapes 64, 65 are each wound up on a tape roll 66, 67.
  • the belts 64 , 65 that are or can be wound up on the belt rollers 66 , 67 lie on sections of the belts 64 , 65 against the rod-shaped articles in the article magazine 30 .
  • the tapes 64, 65 By winding or unwinding the tapes 64, 65, the lengths of the portions of the tapes 64, 65 varies.
  • Figure 4a shows the maximum storage volume of the volumes delimited by the bands 64, 65
  • Figure 4b the minimum storage volume of the main memory 30 is shown schematically.
  • the belts 64, 65 rest against the rod-shaped articles with their sections on both sides of the main storage 30, with the belts 64, 65 being unwound from the belt rolls 66, 67 to increase the storage volume of the main storage 30 become.
  • the tapes 64, 65 are wound up by the tape reels 66, 67 in order to reduce the storage volume.
  • Corresponding drives (not shown here) are provided in each case for the operation of the tape rollers 66, 67.
  • FIG. 5a to 5c different positions of the main memory 30 according to a further embodiment of the memory device 10 are shown in each case.
  • the in the Figures 5a to 5c The storage device 10 shown has a working memory 30 which is formed in its storage volume by means of a fixed side wall 38 and the band 64 in the working memory 30 . By winding and unwinding the tape 64 by means of the roller 66, the volume of the working memory 30 is increased or decreased accordingly.
  • FIG 5a the maximum storage volume of memory 30, bounded by band 64 and sidewall 38, is illustrated.
  • Figure 5c the minimum storage volume of the main memory 30 is shown.
  • Figure 5b an intermediate position is shown, the removal device 60 being enlarged or reduced depending on the supply of the rod-shaped articles from the receiving store 20 and the removal of the rod-shaped articles from the working store 30 into the removal store 62 .
  • the memory device 10 has a receiving memory 120 and a working memory 130 arranged below the receiving memory 120 .
  • a mass flow feed device 140 for the rod-shaped articles is provided laterally on the input side of the receiving store 120, by means of which the rod-shaped articles are conveyed in a multi-layer mass flow to the receiving store 120 in the transverse axial conveying direction.
  • the mass flow feed device 140 has at least one conveyor belt or a plurality of conveyor belts.
  • the mass flow transport device 140 is part of a conveyor system for conveying rod-shaped articles in a mass flow.
  • a conveyor system from Hauni Maschinenbau GmbH is known under the name Rod Transfer System (RTS).
  • the rod-shaped articles are conveyed into the reception store 120 by means of a lower-side conveyor belt 121 and a upper-side conveyor belt 122 .
  • the rod-shaped articles enter the receiving store 140 while maintaining their transverse-axial conveying direction.
  • a pivotable feeler arm 123 is provided on the upper side of the receiving store 120, the feeler arm 123 being deflected depending on the filling of the receiving store 120 with rod-shaped articles.
  • the deflection or pivoting movement of the feeler arm 123 is detected by means of a corresponding sensor, e.g. a rotary encoder, and transmitted to a control unit 150.
  • control unit 150 is connected to a common drive 160 for the sliding plates 36, 37, so that the sliding plates 36, 37 are pivoted by means of the common drive 160, whereby the distance between the side walls 34, 35 is reduced or increased and thus the storage volume of the main memory 130 is reduced or increased accordingly. This takes place as a function of the control command transmitted from the control unit 150 to the drive 160 .
  • control unit 150 transmits a corresponding control command to the drive 160 for the sliding plates 36, 37, as a result of which the sliding plates 36, 37 pivot accordingly are and the storage volume of the working memory 130 is reduced by the approximation of the side walls 34, 35.
  • control unit 150 transmits further control commands to a further machine, such as a filter rod manufacturing machine, arranged e.g. upstream of the storage device 10, it being possible to reduce or stop the production speed of the machine .
  • the maximum fill level of the stick-shaped articles in the receiving store 120 is determined by means of the sensor arm 123, with the control unit 150 then corresponding control command is transmitted to the drive 160 in order to increase the working volume of the memory 130 if the side walls 34, 35 have not yet taken their maximum distance from one another. If the side walls 34, 35 are in their end positions for forming the maximum storage volume of the working storage 130, then, according to one aspect, when a maximum fill level of the rod-shaped articles in the receiving storage 120 is reached, the conveying speed of the mass flow transport device 140 is reduced or stopped.
  • the conveying speed of the mass flow transport device 140 can be regulated and the storage volume of the working storage 130 can be regulated.
  • the 6 The memory device 10 shown has further technical features which are described in the memory devices shown in FIGS. 1, 2a to 2c.
  • the conveyor arrangement 200 also has a transport device 170 arranged downstream on the underside constriction 33 of the working store 130, by means of which the rod-shaped articles transferred from the working store 130 to the transport device 170 are conveyed further in a mass flow.
  • the transport device can have a plurality of conveyor belts or conveying devices in order to further convey the rod-shaped articles transferred from the working store 130 via the constriction 33 to the transport device 170 in a mass flow.
  • the transport device 170 transports the rod-shaped articles in the mass flow horizontally and/or in the vertical direction.
  • the storage device is preferably part of a conveyor system, such as a rod transfer system (RTS) from the patent applicant.
  • RTS rod transfer system
  • an arrangement of a plurality of storage devices 10 is shown in a simplified, schematic representation.
  • the arrangement has a plurality of storage devices 10 , rod-shaped articles being conveyed to the storage devices 10 in a mass flow by means of the mass flow conveying device 140 .
  • the reception stores 120 have an entry opening for receiving rod-shaped articles.
  • the receiving store 120 which is connected via a conveyor belt 125 in the conveying direction of the rod-shaped articles to a downstream receiving store 120, also has an exit side for rod-shaped articles, so that rod-shaped articles emerging from the receiving store 120 are conveyed by means of the conveyor belts 125 to a downstream receiving store 120 become.
  • the last receiving store 120 in the conveying direction of the rod-shaped articles has only one entry side and no exit side for rod-shaped articles.
  • a cover 126 which can be moved in the vertical direction is provided above the reception storage 120, as a result of which the reception storage 120 is limited at the top.
  • the covers 126 can be moved in the vertical direction, with the respective height or position of the covers 126 being detected as a filling level measurement signal of the respective receiving memory 120 by means of a corresponding sensor device by means of corresponding sensors.
  • the storage volume of the working memory 130 arranged below the receiving memory 120 is correspondingly regulated.
  • the rod-shaped articles are delivered from the respective working storage 130 to a conveyor belt 127 via the underside constrictions 33, so that the rod-shaped articles are conveyed on the conveyor belt 127 in a mass flow.
  • the storage devices may be arranged in a cascade-like manner one behind the other and/or next to one another.
  • the memory device 10 according to a further exemplary embodiment is shown in a schematic view.
  • a tray 80 is arranged above the receiving store 120 as an article feed device, so that the rod-shaped items are emptied from the tray 80 into the receiving store 120 .
  • a schematically illustrated light barrier 90 is provided, for example, as a filling level sensor. It is provided for the control principle according to the invention that a constant filling level is formed or maintained in the receiving memory 120 in order to keep or reduce the height of the rod-shaped articles from the tray 80 low. Due to the adjustable storage volume of working storage 130, a corresponding control (not shown here) ensures that the filling level of the rod-shaped articles in receiving storage 120 is kept constant, while at the same time sufficient rod-shaped articles are conveyed from working storage 130 via constriction 33 to a further processing machine become.
  • a control command is sent to the drive for sliding plates 36, 37 by means of a corresponding control system in order to increase the storage volume of working store 130, whereby the filling level in the Receive memory 120 is reduced. If the fill level falls below this level, the storage volume of the main store 130 is reduced by the side walls moving closer together when rod-shaped articles are removed from the main store 130, so that overall the fill level of the rod-shaped articles in the receiving store 120 is not significantly lowered any further.

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