JP2006174834A - Module of machine of rod-like article of tobacco production industry and punching method - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for improving the modules of a machine of a tobacco production industry for performing at least one of treatment, assembly and examination related to the rod-like articles of the tobacco production industry to enable high variability, and for simultaneously efficiently punching the rod-like articles of the tobacco production industry. <P>SOLUTION: The modules (13 to 16) of the machine 10 of the tobacco production industry for assembling and examining the rod-like articles (60 to 68) of the tobacco production industry have vertical conveyers (34 to 34'''') and further at least two punching devices (80 to 80''', 81 to 81''') disposed at upper and lower positions. This invention comprises conveying rod-like articles in a row, forming at least two partial rows from the row, conveying and supplying the articles (60 to 68) of each partial row to punching devices, punching the rod-like articles, and then assembling these partial rows into a row of punched articles 66. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a module of a tobacco manufacturing machine for performing one or more of transporting, processing, assembling, and inspection relating to a tobacco article. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a method for punching a rod-shaped article in the tobacco manufacturing industry.

  Such a module is known, for example, from the patent document 1 of the applicant. In this document, a module is an independent functional unit, for assembling a group of filter segments described therein to produce a multi-segment filter or a multi-segment filter in the tobacco manufacturing industry in a continuous manner. Can be divided into independent functional units. In this way, high variability is obtained in the production of multi-segment filters or in the production of multi-segment filters, in which case the variability of the relevant equipment or machinery in the tobacco manufacturing industry makes various multi-segment filters inexpensive. Can be manufactured. This facility or machine can be modified with less time burden. Furthermore, the equipment or machine takes up no space.

Patent Document 2 discloses a method for producing a cigarette with improved ventilation by perforation or a method for perforating a cigarette. Another method and another apparatus for punching a cigarette are disclosed in US Pat.
International Patent Publication No. 03 / 024256A2 German Patent Specification No. 10145326A1 German Patent Specification No. 10217409A1 European Patent Publication No. 2004/007039

  An object of the present invention is to improve a module of a tobacco manufacturing machine for carrying out one or more of transporting, processing, assembling and inspection of a tobacco manufacturing rod-like article, in particular comprising at least one module. To enable very high variability of machines in the tobacco manufacturing industry. Furthermore, an object of the present invention is to provide a method that enables efficient drilling of a rod-shaped article in the tobacco manufacturing industry.

  This problem is solved by using a vertical conveyor in a filter mounting machine or a machine for assembling a rod-shaped article in the tobacco manufacturing industry, such as the machine described in Patent Document 1 of the applicant and the machine described in Patent Document 4. Solved by. By using a vertical conveyor, for example, a multi-segment filter manufacturing machine, a filter mounting machine or a machine for assembling a bar manufacturing article in the tobacco manufacturing industry can be made space-saving and in a highly variable form. Is possible. That is, the vertical conveyor can serve as a variable height interface for other parts of the tobacco manufacturing machine. In particular, it is possible to realize delivery to the vertical conveyor in various, particularly vertically arranged positions, and discharge of articles from the tobacco manufacturing industry.

  Advantageously, the vertical conveyor transports tobacco manufacturing articles at least partly exclusively vertically. This can be realized particularly simply when the vertical conveyor has a conveyor belt. Advantageously, the vertical conveyor is a vertical belt conveyor. By using a vertical conveyor or a vertical belt conveyor in a filter mounting machine or a machine that assembles rod-like articles of the tobacco manufacturing industry, the interface with other transfer parts of such a machine is realized in a particularly simple and variable manner can do. Furthermore, the machine can be formed in a very space-saving manner.

  Furthermore, this problem is solved by having a vertical conveyor in a module of a tobacco manufacturing machine for performing one or more of processing, assembly, and inspection of a tobacco manufacturing rod-like article. In this case, this module is advantageously an independent functional unit in the sense of US Pat.

  Advantageously, this vertical conveyor is configured such that the articles can be transported vertically at least in portions. The vertical conveyor is particularly preferably a belt conveyor or a vertical belt conveyor. By deploying a vertical conveyor on the module, the variability of the module and the variability with respect to the use of the module on the machine is also greatly improved. Furthermore, such modules and thus such machines are also very space-saving.

  Advantageously, this vertical conveyor is arranged at an outlet which is downstream with respect to the transport direction of the articles of the module. This provides an interface to another module or another transfer component or transfer means, for example a take-up drum, at the outlet of the module. A plurality of drums can also be operated in conjunction with this vertical conveyor. Thereby, a very variable interface is obtained. Easy and efficient between two modules where at least one module has a vertical conveyor when the part receiving the article from the vertical conveyor is deployed at the inlet upstream of the module located downstream with respect to the direction of goods transfer A simple interface.

  It is particularly advantageous to configure this module to operate in conjunction with at least one other module. In this case, the two modules can be directly connected to each other and thus placed in close contact. In this way, a particularly high variability of the machine with the at least two modules is obtained. Particularly high space savings are also obtained with such machines.

  Advantageously, the tobacco manufacturing machine is a filter mounting machine or facility for assembling groups of filter segments to produce multi-segment filters. A typical filter mounting machine is sold by the applicant under the name “MAX”. A very efficient filter mounting machine is described, for example, in US Pat. Reference is made to the entire disclosure of this patent application. An installation for assembling a group of filter segments to produce a multi-segment filter is described in detail in Applicant's US Pat. The disclosed contents of Patent Document 1 are also incorporated into the disclosed contents of this patent application over the entire range.

  Furthermore, the problem is that a cigarette manufacturing machine module for performing one or more of transporting, processing, assembling, and inspection related to tobacco manufacturing rod-like articles is provided with at least two upper and lower punching devices. Is solved by having By arranging these drilling devices up and down, in particular vertically up and down, a very space-saving module can be realized. Advantageously, each perforator has a transfer part that can receive articles from the first conveyor and can be delivered to the second conveyor. In this way, a very high variability of this module is obtained. Advantageously, both or one of the first and second conveyors is a vertical conveyor. When this vertical conveyor is constructed so that articles can be transported vertically at least part-by-part, a space-saving module can be realized. The vertical conveyor is particularly preferably a belt conveyor, in particular a vertical belt conveyor.

  Advantageously, a tobacco manufacturing machine with parts for performing one or more of assembly, transfer, processing, and inspection of a tobacco manufacturing rod-like article is one of the aforementioned modules according to the present invention. Have one. Advantageously, the machine is a facility for assembling a filter mounting machine or a group of filter segments to produce a multi-segment filter.

  Furthermore, the task is to transfer the rod-shaped article in a row, form at least two partial rows from this row, transfer and supply each partial row of articles to the drilling device, followed by drilling, then In addition, this is solved by a method for punching rod-shaped articles in the tobacco manufacturing industry, in which these partial rows are knitted into a row of punched articles. In this way, a very efficient method can be realized, in which the throughput in this method can be clearly improved by dividing the column of articles into at least two partial columns.

  Advantageously, the subsequences are each assigned to at least one drilling device. By doing so, it is possible to punch a rod-like article of the tobacco manufacturing industry very efficiently. If this row is transported vertically at least partly, this method can be carried out with a small spatial load.

  Advantageously, this row is transported on a vertical conveyor. This vertical conveyor is preferably a belt conveyor or a vertical belt conveyor. These subsequences are also preferably transported on a single vertical conveyor. It is advantageous if the sub-row articles are perforated vertically up and down. This perforation is preferably performed using a high energy beam, in particular a laser beam.

  Advantageously, this basic drilling method or basic drilling device, i.e. the drilling of holes in the tobacco article rod-like article, is carried out according to patent document 2 or patent document 3, Reference is made to the type or method of the device, such as punching holes in the surface of a bar article, eg, cigarette paper. These documents describe this in detail, so please refer to these documents for a clear description thereof.

  In the following, the present invention will be described based on examples, but is not intended to limit the general technical idea of the present invention. For details that are not described in detail in the language of the present invention, all references should be made to the drawings.

  FIG. 1a shows a schematic diagram of a dual track filter mounting machine 10 according to an embodiment using relatively few modules or parts. This is a basic configuration according to one method of the filter mounting machine 10. A cigarette material transfer module 11, a filter mounting module 12, and an inspection / discharge module 13 are provided, and these modules operate in cooperation in order. In this filter mounting machine, a tobacco material transfer module 11 is disposed upstream with respect to the flow of the article, and an inspection / discharge module 13 is disposed downstream.

  Although not shown in FIG. 1a, a tobacco material 60 twice as long as in use as shown in FIG. 1b is put on the receiving drum 30 and passed from there to the transfer drum 31, Therefore, the cutting part 32 is used to cut into two cigarette materials having a length that is one-time longer than that in use, and is transferred to the transfer / spacing drum 33. On the drum, the cigarette materials 61 having a length which is one time as long as in use are pulled apart from each other. Then, the cigarette material having a length of one time in use is transferred to the vertical conveyor 34. In addition, at the interface with the filter mounting module 12, a filter 62 (see FIG. 1 b) that is twice as long as in use is passed to a vertical conveyor 34 configured as a vertical belt conveyor. From the filter storage 36, a filter rod-shaped body several times as long as that in use is taken out. These filter rods are cut on the receiving drum 37 by one or a plurality of blades (not shown) into a filter twice as long as in use, arranged on the stepped drum 38, and slid Shifted to a single filter row on the drum 38a, the acceleration drum 39 passes these filters to the vertical conveyor 34. As schematically illustrated in FIG. 1 b, the double-length filter rod 62 in use is placed in a suitably deployed trough (not shown) at one position of the vertical conveyor 34. The position corresponds to the position between the cigarette material 61 having a length which is one time longer than that of the tobacco material 61 to be supplied thereafter. Then, the cigarette material-filter-cigarette material group 63 is transferred to the receiving drum 41.

  The web 43 is cut into a web 64 by a coating machine 42 in the usual manner, and is pasted on a cigarette material-filter-cigarette material group 63. This method is well known to those skilled in the art and is therefore not explicitly addressed. Then, the cigarette material-filter-tobacco material group 63 provided with the cigarette piece 64 is transferred to the transfer drum 44, and on the transfer drum 44, the cigarette piece 64 is made of cigarette material-filter-tobacco material. Wrapped around group 63. By doing so, a filter-wrapped cigarette 65 that is twice as long as in use is completed. After passing the filter-wound cigarette 65 having a double length in use to the transfer drum 45, the filter-wrapped cigarette 65 having a double length in use is divided into two filter papers by the cutting part 32 '. Cut into cigarettes 66. These are transferred to a vertical conveyor 34 ', here a vertical belt conveyor. The vertical belt conveyor 34 ′ operates in conjunction with a receiving drum or transfer drum 46, which each receives a filter cigarette 66 arranged coaxially in the trough and passes it to a transfer drum 47. The filtered cigarette 66 then reaches the discharge drum 48 where it is spread or separated from each other so that they are separated from each other.

  The filter-wrapped cigarette 66 spread between these leads to the vertical conveyor 34 ", which is preferably a belt conveyor. From this vertical belt conveyor 34 ″, the filter-wrapped cigarette 66 is received by using the receiving drum 50 and passed to the inspection drum 51. The cigarette 66 on the inspection drum 51 is inspected using the inspection device 53. In this case, the defective cigarette can then be discarded, for example, under the vertical conveyor 34 '', as indicated by the arrow extending diagonally to the lower left from the vertical conveyor 34 ''. The inspected cigarette 66 is transferred from the inspection drum 51 to the discharge drum 52 and reaches the conversion drum 55 via the vertical conveyor 34 ″ and the transfer drum 54, and then again to the vertical conveyor 34 ″. Returned. The cigarettes 66 all aligned in the same direction are delivered to the conveyor belt 57 via the discharge drum 56.

  FIG. 1b schematically shows the part. Since this workflow has already been described in connection with FIG. 1a, to that extent, this workflow will not be explicitly described again based on FIG. 1b. In FIG. 1b, for example, drums such as 30, 31, 33, 41, and 44, vertical conveyors 34, 34 ′, and 34 ″ such as articles 60 to 66 are schematically illustrated in the direction of the arrows in the work flow. It is shown schematically.

  FIG. 2a shows another filter mounting machine with four modules according to the invention, in which a tobacco material / filter transfer module 14, a filter mounting module 12, a perforation module 15 and an inspection / discharge module 13 are provided. In this case, the order is from upstream to downstream in the direction of transmission or transfer of the tobacco material.

  The tobacco material / filter transfer module 14 includes a filter transfer function unit 26 (FIG. 5) having a filter storage 36 ′, a receiving drum 37 ′, a stepped drum 38 ′, a slide drum 38a ′, and an acceleration drum 39 ′ in the upper region. (See FIG. 1a) is different from the tobacco material transport module 11 in FIG. 1a. Therefore, in this embodiment, two different types of filter members 67 and 68 (see FIG. 2b) are arranged on the vertical conveyor 34 and arranged between the cigarette material 61 having a length that is one time that it is used. . This filter mounting module 12 is the same as that of FIG. Further, the inspection / discharge module 13 is the same as that of FIG. 1a.

  A drilling module 15 is arranged between the inspection / discharge module 13 and the filter mounting module 12. First, the filter cigarettes 66 arranged coaxially in the trough of the transfer drum 70 via the vertical conveyor 34 ′ and, of course, in order with respect to the transfer direction of the transfer drum 70, Using the transfer drum 70, it is transferred to the vertical conveyor 34 ′ ″. Two parts from one row of filter cigarettes 65 with a filter length of twice the length of the cut cut in use, arranged in order transverse to the transport direction or filter cigarettes with filter 66 arranged coaxially The rows, i.e. the partial rows of the perforating drum 81 and the partial rows of the perforating drum 81 ', respectively, are removed from the vertical conveyor 34' ''. In this case, these cigarettes are punched in the usual manner using punching device 80 or 80 'and then passed to vertical conveyor 34 "" from which the perforated filtered cigarette 66 is passed. Is transferred to the transfer drum 46. This laser drilling will be described in more detail in connection with FIGS.

  FIG. 2b schematically shows the work flow of the machine of FIG. 2a. The transport path for tobacco manufacturing goods 60-66 is schematically indicated by arrows in the upper area of FIG. 2b. First, the cigarette material 60 having a length twice that in use is transferred onto the receiving drum 30. Next, they are transferred to the transfer drum 31 where they are cut into a cigarette material 61 that is twice as long as in use. The cigarette material 61 having a length of one time in use is passed over the transfer / spacing drum 33 and then widened or spaced in the axial direction. Tobacco material 61 having a length that is one time longer than that in use is passed to vertical belt conveyor 34. Further, on the vertical belt conveyor 34, a filter member 68 of twice the length in use is placed on the vertical belt conveyor 34 from the filter mounting module 12, where the filter member 68 is shown in the illustration of the vertical conveyor 34. It is placed in the center of each trough that is not being used or a storage trough. On each trough of the vertical belt conveyor 34, two filter members 67 are placed around the filter member 68, and as a result, after the cigarette material 61 having a length of one time in use is passed, the vertical belt conveyor 34, a set of a cigarette material 61 having a length that is one time in use, a filter member 67, a filter member 68, a filter member 67, and a cigarette material 61 having a length that is one time in use is disposed in each trough. Will be. In this case, in particular, means for shifting these members together can be provided either in the region of the vertical belt conveyor 34 or in the region of the receiving drum 41.

  On the receiving drum 41, a wrapping piece 64 is appropriately affixed or adhered to the tobacco material-filter-tobacco material group 63. Each wrapping piece 64 is wound around the group 63 on the drum 44. Therefore, a filter-wrapped cigarette 65 twice as long as in use is obtained at the outlet of the drum 44 and the transfer drum 45, and a filter-wrapped cigarette of twice as long as that in use is obtained on this transfer drum. 65 is cut into two cigarettes 66 at the center and delivered to the vertical belt conveyor 34 '.

  The cigarette 66, which is arranged in close contact with the adjacent filter in the axial direction, is then passed to the drum 70 and from there to the vertical belt conveyor 34 '' ''.

  The cigarettes 66 adjacent in each trough of the vertical belt conveyor 34 '' 'are transported to the drum 81' through a row of cigarettes on the vertical belt conveyor 34 '' '. The drum 81 'takes out the cigarette 66 in one partial row in this row, that is, every two troughs. The remaining cigarette 66 still on the vertical belt conveyor 34 ′ ″ is removed by the drum 81. Then, the cigarette 66 is perforated on the drums 81 and 81 '. The perforated cigarette 66 is transferred onto the vertical belt conveyor 34 "" and then transferred to the vertical belt conveyor 34 "via the drums 46, 47, 48. Further, on the drum 48, the cigarette 66 is pulled apart as schematically shown in FIG. 2b before being delivered to the vertical belt conveyor 34 ″.

  Next, the separated cigarette 66 is sequentially passed over the inspection device 53 by the inspection drum 51 in the order of the symbols in FIG. 2a and inspected accordingly. The inspected cigarette passes through the drum 52 again to the vertical belt conveyor 34 '' and from there through the drum 54 to the conversion drum 55, where the conversion drum produces a partial row. The cigarette is then turned over so that all the cigarettes 66 are aligned in the same direction. The cigarette 66 transported in the same direction reaches the conveyor belt 57 from the vertical belt conveyor 34 ″ via the discharge drum 56.

  FIG. 3a shows a schematic diagram of another filter mounting machine according to the invention, which in this case is a quadruple filter mounting machine. The tobacco material transfer module 11 ′ is different from FIG. 1 a in that a tobacco material supply function unit 21 is added. The cigarette material supply function unit 21 includes a receiving drum 30 ′, a transfer drum 31 ′, a cutting part 32 ′, a transfer / spacing drum 33 ′, and a starting end portion or a part of the conveyor belt 90.

  For this reason, two cut and separated tobacco materials 61 having a length of one time in use are alternately transferred from the transfer / spacing drums 33 and 33 ′ onto the vertical conveyor 34. From there, one row of two separated tobacco materials 61 of a single length in use is passed to the conveyor belt 90 and two separated tobacco materials 61 of a single length in use. Are further processed by the filter mounting module 12 '. For this purpose, a filter-wrapped cigarette 65 having a length twice as long as that in use and a filter-paper cigarette 66 arranged coaxially next to each other and disposed in the trough are manufactured. This is done according to the description with respect to FIGS. 1a, 1b, 2a, 2b.

  In the region of the vertical conveyor 34 ′ of the filter mounting module 12 ′ located upstream, the cigarette paper 61 with a filter coming from the upper side and the cigarette material 61 having a length of one time used from the lower conveyor belt 90 are exchanged. Is called. The double-length tobacco material 61 in use is supplied from the filter storage 36 '' to the double-length filter material 62 in use, which is supplied to the double-length tobacco material 61 in use. In the filter mounting module 12 ′ arranged downstream, the filter cigarette 65 with a filter twice as long as that in use is firstly formed, and then the filter cigarette 66 with a filter is formed. This is done as described above.

  The exchange at the interface between the vertical conveyor 34 ′ of the upstream filter mounting module 12 ′ and the conveyor belt 90 is the same as that of the filter mounting module 12 ′ upstream of the tobacco manufacturing rod article on the conveyor belt 90. Such storage troughs are provided or are provided so as to be exchanged for articles, and these articles are processed into the cigarette 66 with a filter by the filter mounting module 12 'located downstream.

  Next, unlike the inspection / discharge module 13 of FIG. 1a, the filter manufactured in the inspection / discharge module 13 ′ having the inspection function unit 23 further provided with the inspection drum 51 ′, the discharge drum 52, and the inspection device 53 ′. Check the attached cigarette 66 accordingly. In this embodiment, two inspection devices 53 and 53 'are provided in order to satisfy the throughput improvement related to the filter-attached cigarette 66 to be inspected. Correspondingly, the row of filter cigarettes transported from the discharge drum 48 to the vertical conveyor 34 ″ is also divided into sub-rows, with the filter cigarettes in one sub-row aligned in one direction. And the other sub-row cigarette with filter is aligned in the opposite direction. Also in this case, the flow of the cigarette with filter is discarded to the lower area of the vertical conveyor 34 ''.

  FIG. 3b shows a schematic functional flow corresponding to the quadruple track filter mounting machine of FIG. 3a, in which case the description has already been given before. In this case, quadruple orbitalization is achieved by moving parts 30, 30 ′; 31, 31 ′; 33, 33 ′ and 34 ″, 91; 51, 51 ′, 34 ″, 52 arranged vertically in FIG. Is obtained. For the sake of clarity, a conveyor belt 90 is shown below the transfer part which is above the vertical in FIG. 3a.

  FIG. 4a shows a schematic diagram of a large scale stage filter mounting machine according to the invention.

  Unlike the implementation according to FIG. 3a, instead of the tobacco material transport module 11 ′, a tobacco material and filter transport module 14 ′ is provided, which is a filter for complementing the tobacco material transport module 11 ′. A transfer function unit 26 is provided, which in the filter transfer module 16 is a filter reservoir 36 '", a receiving drum 37'", a stepped drum 38 '", a slide drum 38a'", an acceleration It has a drum 39 '' '. In this case, an acceleration drum 39 ″, a vertical conveyor 34 ′ operating in cooperation with the acceleration drum 39 ′ ″ of the filter mounting module 12 ′ arranged downstream, the conveyor belt 90, and the take-out drum 41 ″ are also provided. There is a separate module with. That is, unlike FIG. 3a, a double-filtered cigarette is produced in a quadruple track. In addition, another filter transfer function unit 26 is provided which has a filter storage 36 ', a receiving drum 37', a stepped drum 38 ', a slide drum 38a' and an acceleration drum 39 '.

  The drilling module 15 'has four laser drilling devices 80, 80', 80 ", 80 '" and four drilling drums 81, 81', 81 ", 81 '". Thus, for perforation, a four-part flow of the manufactured filter cigarette is made and taken accordingly from the vertical conveyor 34 '' 'and passed to the vertical conveyor 34' '' 'for perforation. Filtered cigarettes are organized into one complete row. Module 13 'is the same as the module of Fig. 3a.

  FIG. 4b shows a schematic functional flow of the quadruple track filter mounting machine of FIG. 4a, which is also obvious to those skilled in the art based on the above description.

  In FIG. 5, the modules defined by the present invention are shown in the upper area of FIG. 5, that is, the tobacco material transfer module 11, the filter mounting module 12, the inspection / discharge module 13, the perforation module 15, and the filter transfer module 16. Has been. The tobacco material / filter transfer module 14 obtained by combining the tobacco material transfer module 11 and the filter transfer function unit 26 is not shown. Further, in the lower area of FIG. 5, various functional units that can be attached to each module are shown. For example, an inspection function unit 23 that can be attached to the inspection / discharge module 13 is provided. When this functional unit 23 is attached to the inspection / discharge module 13, it is advantageous to omit the transfer drum 54 and the conversion drum 55. Furthermore, a drilling function unit 25 having two laser drilling devices 80 ″ and 80 ′ ″ and two drilling drums 81 ″ and 81 ′ ″ is provided. Furthermore, a transmission function unit 27 having a conveyor belt 90 or a part of the conveyor belt 90 is provided. Finally, there is also a cigarette material supply function unit 21 having in particular a receiving drum 30 ', a transfer drum 31', a cutting part 32 'and a transfer / spacing drum 33'.

  FIG. 6 shows a schematic diagram of the perforation apparatus. In the vertical conveyor 34 '' ', the trough 95 is provided on the conveyor belt of the vertical conveyor 34' ''. The direction of transfer is indicated by an arrow. The cigarette 66 is taken into the trough 95 on the conveyor belt in the article storage unit 100. In this embodiment, each one trough is released and one trough is filled, i.e. always taken alternately. In the area of the perforated drum 81 ′, one filter cigarette 66 is received from the vertical conveyor 34 ′ ″ and the filter cigarette next to the accepted filter cigarette 66 is the conveyor belt. Left over. Thus, the trough pitch on the perforated drum 81 'is twice as large as the trough pitch on the vertical conveyor 34' ''. The filtered cigarette partial row 66 left on the vertical conveyor 34 ′ ″ is passed to the perforating drum 81. In the area of the punching device 80, 80 ', the filter cigarette 66 is punched in the filter area in the usual way. For this purpose, in particular a grooved drum 92 or 92 ′ is provided, with which the filtered cigarette 66 is rotated about its own axis, while the focused high-energy beam 98 is Directed on the filter paper and burned a small hole there. Regarding the functional method of the perforating devices 80, 80 ', 80 ", 80'", the disclosure content of the entire patent document 2 is incorporated into the disclosure content of this patent application, with particular reference to Patent Document 2.

  Then, the perforated filter cigarette is transferred to the vertical conveyor 34 ″ ″, and as a result, the corresponding row of the filter cigarette 66 is obtained and delivered in the region of the article discharge unit 101.

  FIG. 7 shows a schematic view of another drilling device according to the invention, in which the pitch of the troughs 95 of the vertical conveyors 34 ′ ″ and 34 ″ ″ is four of the drilling drums 81-81 ′ ″. It has doubled. In this case, that is, in this embodiment, instead of the two in FIG. 6, four laser drilling devices 80-80 ″ ′ and drums 81-81 ′ ″ are provided. The perforation, acceptance and discharge of the filter cigarette are the same as in FIG. If the moving parts have the same speed, the throughput can simply be doubled.

  By using the perforating apparatus of FIG. 8, the throughput of the filter cigarette can be doubled as compared with the example of FIG. In this embodiment, perforators 80 and 80 'having two optical systems 93 and 94 or 93' and 94 ', respectively, are used, and these optical systems are used to generate a high energy beam 98, for example a laser beam. It can also be focused on the cigarette 66. In addition, a rotating belt 96 or 96 'operating in conjunction with the cigarette 66 is provided, the cigarette being between the rotating belt 96 or 96' and the rotating bar 97 or 97 '. The cigarette 66 is rotated. Regarding the special configuration of each punching device 80 or 80 ', reference is made to Patent Document 3 over the entire range, and the content thereof is incorporated into the disclosure content of this patent application over the entire range.

a Schematic diagram of a double track type filter mounting machine according to the present invention b Schematic diagram of a functional flow of the double track type filter mounting machine according to FIG. 1a a Schematic diagram of a double track type filter mounting machine according to another embodiment of the present invention b Schematic diagram of a functional flow of the double track type filter mounting machine according to FIG. 2a a Schematic diagram of the quadruple track type filter mounting machine according to the present invention b Schematic diagram of the functional flow of the quadruple track type filter mounting machine according to FIG. 3a a Schematic diagram of a quadruple track filter mounting machine according to another embodiment of the present invention b Schematic diagram of the functional flow of the filter mounting machine according to FIG. 4a Schematic diagram of modules according to the present invention and additional function units capable of expanding these modules Schematic diagram of the drilling device according to the invention Schematic diagram of a drilling device according to another embodiment of the present invention Schematic diagram of another perforating apparatus according to the present invention

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Filter attachment machine 11, 11 'Cigarette material transfer module 12, 12' Filter attachment module 13, 13 'Punching / discharging module 14, 14' Tobacco material / filter transfer module 15, 15 'Punching module 16 Filter transfer module 21 Tobacco material Supply function unit 23 Inspection function unit 25 Drilling function unit 26 Filter transfer function unit 27 Transmission function unit 30, 30 'Receiving drum 31, 31' Transfer drum 32, 32 ', 32''Cutting parts 33, 33' Transfer / spacing Drum 34, 34 ', 34 ", 34'", 34 "" Vertical conveyor 36, 36 ', 36 "Filter storage 37, 37', 37" Receiving drum 38, 38 ', 38 " Stepped drum 38a, 38a ', 38a''slide drum 39, 3 9 ', 39''Acceleration drum 41, 41''Receiving drum 42, 42''Coating machine 43, 43''Wrapping paper 44, 44''Transfer drum 45, 45''Transfer drum 46 Transfer drum 47 Transfer drum 48 Discharge Drum 50 Receiving drum 51, 51 ′ Inspection drum 52 Discharged drum 53, 53 ′ Inspection device 54 Transfer drum 55 Conversion drum 56 Discharge drum 57 Conveyor belt 60 Tobacco material 61 double in length when used 61 Tobacco material 62 Length double filter when used 63 Cigarette material-Filter-Tobacco group 64 Paper strip 65 Paper cigarette with double length when used 66 Paper cigarette with filter 67 Filter Member 68 Filter member 70 Delivery drum 80, 80 ′, 80 ″, 80 ′ ″ Laser drilling device 8 , 81 ′, 81 ″, 81 ′ ″ Perforated drum 90 Conveyor belt 91 Transfer drum 92, 92 ′, 92 ″, 92 ′ ″ Grooved drum 93, 93 ′ Optical system 94, 94 ′ Optical system 95 Trough 100 Article storage section 101 Article discharge section

Claims (23)

  Use of a vertical conveyor (34-34 ″ ″) in a filter manufacturing machine (10) or a machine (10) for assembling rod-shaped articles (60-68) in the tobacco manufacturing industry.   Use according to claim 1, characterized in that the vertical conveyor (34-34 "") transports tobacco manufacturing articles (60-68) at least partly exclusively vertically.   Use according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the vertical conveyor (34-34 "") has a conveyor belt (34-34 "").   Tobacco manufacturing machines (10) for carrying out one or more of processing, assembly and inspection of tobacco articles (60-68) with vertical conveyors (34-34 '' '') Modules (11-16).   5. Module according to claim 4, characterized in that the vertical conveyor (34-34 '' '') is configured to be able to transport articles (60-68) at least partly exclusively vertically. .   6. A module according to claim 4 or 5, characterized in that the vertical conveyor (34-34 '' '') is a belt conveyor (34-34 '' '').   The vertical conveyor (34-34 "") is arranged at an outlet located downstream with respect to the transfer direction of the articles (60-68) in the modules (11-16). The module according to any one of 6 to 6.   Part (41) for receiving articles (60-68) from a vertical conveyor (34-34 '' '') at the inlet of modules (11-16) arranged downstream with respect to the transfer direction of the articles (60-68) , 41 ″, 46, 70).   9. Module (11-16) according to any one of claims 4 to 8, characterized in that the module (11-16) is configured to operate in conjunction with at least one other module (11-16). module.   10. The tobacco manufacturing machine (10) is a facility for producing a multi-segment filter by assembling a group of filter mounting machines (10) or filter segments (67, 68). The module as described in any one of up to.   During transport, processing, assembly, and inspection of tobacco articles (60-68) with at least two top and bottom perforators (80-80 ′ ″, 81-81 ′ ″) A module of a tobacco manufacturing machine (10) for performing one or more of the following.   Each perforator (80-80 ′ ″, 81-81 ′ ″) is capable of receiving articles (60-68) from the first conveyor (34 ′ ″) and the second conveyor (34 12. Module according to claim 11, characterized in that it has a transfer part (81-81 '' ') that can be discharged to ~ 34' '' ').   13. Module according to claim 12, characterized in that both or one of the first and second conveyors (34 '' ', 34' '' ') is a vertical conveyor.   12. The vertical conveyor (34 ′ ″, 34 ″ ″) is configured to be able to transport articles (60-68) at least partly exclusively vertically. The module according to any one of 13 to 13.   15. Module according to claim 13 or 14, characterized in that the vertical conveyor (34 '' ', 34' '' ') is a belt conveyor.   A part (30-57; 70-97) and any one of claims 4 to 15 for performing one or more of assembling, transporting, processing, and inspection relating to a bar-shaped article (60-68) in the tobacco manufacturing industry. Tobacco manufacturing machine (10) having the module (11-16) according to one.   17. Machine (10) according to claim 16, characterized in that this machine is a filter mounting machine (10) or a facility for assembling a group of filter segments to produce a multi-segment filter.   A method for perforating rod-shaped articles (60-68) in a tobacco manufacturing industry, wherein the rod-shaped articles (60-68) are transferred in a row to form at least two partial rows, and each of the partial rows Articles (60-68) are transferred to a perforation device (80-80 '' ', 81-81' ''), followed by perforation, and then these sub-rows are arranged in a row of perforated A method of knitting into articles (66).   19. A method according to claim 18, characterized in that the subsequences are each assigned to one perforator (80-80 '' ', 81-81' '').   20. A method according to claim 18 or 19, characterized in that the columns are transported vertically at least part by part.   21. A method as claimed in claim 20, characterized in that the row is transported on a vertical conveyor (34 '' ', 34' '' ').   22. A method according to any one of claims 18 to 21, characterized in that said sub-row articles (60-68) are perforated vertically up and down.   23. A method according to any one of claims 18 to 22, characterized in that the perforation is carried out using a high energy beam (98), in particular a laser beam.

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