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US1790404A
US1790404A US42212830A US1790404A US 1790404 A US1790404 A US 1790404A US 42212830 A US42212830 A US 42212830A US 1790404 A US1790404 A US 1790404A
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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
    • A24C5/322—Transporting cigarettes during manufacturing
    • A24C5/326—Transporting cigarettes during manufacturing with lateral transferring means

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  • This invention relates to cigarette collectors for continuous rod cigarette machines and particularly to collectors intended for use with high speed cigarette machines and.
  • the invention is also ap plicable to the handling of oval cigarettes.
  • Another object of the invention is'to provide'a collector having the above characteristics which will deliver alternate cigarettes in separate rows so "that in making tipped cigarettes which come out of the machine tip to tip, the cigarettes will be automatically sorted into two rows each having the tips pointing the same way. Such a delivery is also desirable with high speed machines even when not making tipped, cigarettes in order that two operators may cooperate conveniently in carrying OK the great volume of cigarettes produced.
  • FIG. 1 is a side elevation partly broken away of a construction carrying the invention into effect
  • Fig. 2 is a plan view partly broken away of the device shown in' Fig. 1
  • Fig. 3 is an end elevation partly broken away'seen from the line 3-3 of Fig. 1
  • Fig. 4 is a detail view taken on the line 4-4 of Fig. 1
  • Fig. 5 is a detailed sectional view on the line 5-5 of Fig. 1 showing the device operating on oval cigarettes.
  • a cigarette catcher having a series of cigarette pockets together with means for rotating said catcher to successively move said pockets into axialalignment with oncoming cigarettes and thence through aninclined position with respect thereto to delivery position to thereby slide each cigarette to an aligned position with relation to the other cigarettes in said pockets.
  • said catcher includes a rotatable device on which the pockets are arranged in conical formation.
  • Preferably said catcher. is positioned to overlie the path of the oncoming cigarettes.
  • the best constructions further include a guard extending about said therein.
  • the best constructions will further I include aligned cigarette stops associated with said ocke'ts, the stops in alternate pockets being ongit udinally offset to align alternate cigarettes in separate rows.
  • the frame of the collector is secured to the table 5 of the cigarette machine of which the collector forms a part, and comprises a bracket 6 which carries two frames 7 and 8 supporting a cigarette delivery belt 9 running over pulleys 10 and 11 on shafts 12 and 13, respectively.
  • the frame 7 carries a housing 14 and, together with bracket 6, a housing.15 which supports, a horizontal shaft 16.
  • the housing 15 su ports a vertical shaft 17.
  • a catcher element comprising a conical drum 20 whose surface is .divided by division walls 21 extending longitudinally from the base of the cone toward its a ex, into an even number of wedge shape pockets much lon er than the ci arettes, every second one of which is subdivi ed longitudinally by a transverse wall or partition preferably a little more than a cigarette length from the apex end of the cone.
  • a spiral gear 22 which is in mesh with a spiral gear 23 on the shaft 16.
  • the shaft 16 is pro.- vided with a worm-wheel 24 and is driven by a worm 25 on the shaft 17.
  • the latter shaft on its lower end has a bevel gear 26 projecting into a guard-housing 27 attached to table 5 and is driven by bevel gear 28 on the main shaft 29.
  • the other end of the shaft. 16 has a bevel gear 30 in mesh with a bevel gear 31 on the pulley shaft 13, the gears 30 and 31 being enclosed in a housing 32 attached to the side of the frame 7.
  • a housing bracket 33 which sup orts a vertical shaft 34 and,
  • the housing 35 is attached to bracket 6.
  • the lower end of the shaft 34 has a bevel gear 37 in mesh with and driven by a bevel gear 38 on a shaft 39 which shaft is supported by a sleeve 40 of a housing 41 fastened to the table 5.
  • the shaft 29-carrying a spur gear 44 drives the intermediate gear 45 on stud 46 which in turn meshes with a gear 47 on the shaft 39.
  • the upper end of the shaft 34 carries a spiral gear 48 in mesh with a spiral gear 49 on shaft 36, the other end of which carries a spiral gear 50 driving a spiral gear 51 on a shaft 52 which is supported by a housing 35 and a bracket 53 attached to the bracket 6.
  • the cigarettes C issuing from the cutoff enter between a pair of endless transfer belts 54 and 55.
  • the upper transfer belt 54 runs over pulleys 56 and 57 on studs 58 and59.
  • the stud 58 is held by a bracket 53 which also carries a spur gear 60, while the stud 59 is held by a lever 61 eccentrically mounted by means of a screw 62 on a frame 63 fastened to table 5.
  • a spring 64 attached to the lever 61 and anchored to a pin 65 in table 5 holds the belt 54 in tension.
  • the lower transfer belt runs over a pulley 66 on a frame .63,
  • the lower pocket just loaded chan es from a horizontal to a more and more inc ined osition, with respect to the horizontal pat of the cigarette rod so that a cigarette therein by gravity slides down towards the apex of the cone until stopped either by the stop disk 82 on shaft 19 near the apex of the cone, or by a series of partitions or stops 83, according to whether the cigarette happens to be in an undivided or in a divided pocket.
  • the drum 20 and the transfer belts 54 and 55 are so timed with reference to the cutoff that a cigarette is fed into the end of each pocket as it occupies the horizontal or lowermost position on the drum, therefore the cigarettes proceeding from the cutoff are alternately placed in a divi d and undivided pocket, and all cigaret the cork tip pointing one way al against the disk 82 and all thos way against the stop walls 83.
  • a ,aomplete revolution, the cigarette. ,r'ded by flaps 84 and 84a of the gua; and 79 upon the discharge belt 9 on wlfitirchey thus form two separate rows.
  • This belt is driven at a linear speed approximately equal to the peripheral speed of the portion of the cone near the mid portion of the belt so that there is little tendency of the cigarettes to roll.
  • the under side of the guard 78 is cut awayon line 85 to permit the cigarettes on the delivery belt to pass.
  • the spaces between disk 82 and guard 78, and between guard 78, which are cut away for this purpose as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, and the strip 79 are so dimensioned as to cause all cigarettes below a given length to drop out on their Way around the drum, a chute 86 attached to frames 7 and 8 being provided to guide the same into a suitable receptacle.
  • Fig. 1 For collecting oval cigarettes so that the printed sides face the same way after delivery the embodiment illustrated in Fig. 1 is employed as shown in Fig. 5.
  • the guards 78 and 7 9 ap roach sufliciently close to the bottoms of t e pockets formed by the conical surface of the catcher drum between said strips to positivel prevent rotation of the oval cigarettes. 0 this end, the distances between the guards and the bottoms of the pockets willbe less than the greater cross sectional dimension of the oval cigarette. Since this dimension is usually substantially greater than the diameter of round cigarettes the same catcher may be used without change for round cigarettes and certain common oval types.
  • the guard 78 extends under the belt 55 at the point where the belt extends under the conical drum, the oval cigarette cannot rotate as it is carried transversely off this belt.
  • the position .of the printed side of the oval cigarettes is thus under control from the time the cigarettes leave the cigarette machine proper to the time they are deposited on the transverse delivery belt.
  • the operation of the several parts has been set forth in connection with the description of the several parts but may be summarized as follows
  • the ci arettes are delivered by a pair of transfer elts 54 and 55 running at a speed faster than the cigarette rod toseparate the cigarettes and thus propel them into the successive pockets formed by the strips 21 on the rotating conical drum 20.
  • This conical drum rotates in a plane transverse to the path of the oncoming cigarettes so as to successively align the pockets at the under side of the cone with the path of the oncoming cigarettes.
  • Stops are associated with the pockets at the point some distance from the receiving end of the pockets which serve to bring the longitudinal motion of the cigarettes to a halt at the same time that the cigarettes are being moved transversely away from the path of the following cigarettes.
  • a catcher element for cigarette lecting mechanisms comprising a rotating conical drum having a circumferential series of outstanding strips extending along the conical surface of said drum from the base toward the apex to form wedge shaped cigarette pockets thereon, and transversely aligned partitions intermediate the ends of every other pocket.
  • aguard extending about said catcher from and includingreceiving posiing aligned printed oval cigarettes longitudinally with the printed sides all facing the same way, of a catcher for receiving'said cigarettes at a position in alignment with the path of oncoming cigarettes and moving them in plane transverse to saidpath to a delivery position and means. ,cooperating with said catcher to positively prevent rotation of said cigarettes from receivingto delivery position to deliver the cigarettes each with the printed side facing the same way, and a delivery belt extending transversely under said delivery position and means for driving said delivery belt at a speed approximately equal to that at whichthe cigarettes are delivered from the catcher.
  • a collector for continuous rod cigarette machines the combination with a rotating drum having cigarette receivers about the periphery of said drum, mechanism for gripping oncoming cigarettes from the cigarette machine and forwarding them into said re ceivers, and driving means for said mechanism connected with said drum to forward the cigarettes in timed relation to the rotation of the drum.
  • a collector for continuous rod cigarette machines the combination with a rotating drum having cigarette receivers about the periphery of said drum, mechanism for gripping oncoming cigarettes from the cigarette machine and forwarding them into said tively interconnect-ingjsaid and driving means for causing said gripping mechanism to forward the' cigarettes in timed relation to the rotation of the drum.
  • a collector for continuous rod cigarette machines the combination with a rotating drum having cigarette receivers about theperiphery of saiddrum, mechanism for gripping oncoming cigarettes from the cigarette machine and forwarding them into said receivers, driving means engaging said gripping means, and operating mechanism positively interconnecting said drum and driving means for causing said gripping mechanism to forward the cigarettes in timed relation to the rotation of the drum, said gri pin mechanism including opposed belts, an sai driving means including a pulley in driving engagement with each of said belts, and a positive drive from the'same source of mo-' tion to each of said pulleys and said drum.
  • a collector for continuous rod cigarette machines the combination with a rotating drum having cigarette receivers about the periphery of said drum, mechanism for gripping oncoming cigarettes from the cigarette machine and forwarding them into said receivers, driving means engaging said .gripping means, and operating mechanism posi

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US3039589A (en) * 1959-02-10 1962-06-19 Molins Machine Co Ltd Apparatus for receiving cigarettes from the cut-off of a continuous rod cigarette-making machine
US3104754A (en) * 1959-07-24 1963-09-24 Device for counting cigarettes and similar rod-like articles
US20030046898A1 (en) * 2001-07-31 2003-03-13 Handel Gary A. Method and apparatus for packaging tamales
EP1897453A3 (de) * 2006-09-06 2008-06-11 Hauni Maschinenbau Aktiengesellschaft Einrichtung zum Fördern von stabförmigen Artikeln
CN103040107A (zh) * 2011-10-12 2013-04-17 豪尼机械制造股份公司 用于生产烟草加工业产品的机器的接收滚筒
EP2884860B1 (en) 2012-07-12 2017-05-03 International Tobacco Machinery Poland Sp. z o.o. Rotary conveyor drum for use in tobacco industry machines, method and apparatus for transporting rod-like elements using such drum and machine for manufacturing multi-element rods

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* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US3039589A (en) * 1959-02-10 1962-06-19 Molins Machine Co Ltd Apparatus for receiving cigarettes from the cut-off of a continuous rod cigarette-making machine
US3104754A (en) * 1959-07-24 1963-09-24 Device for counting cigarettes and similar rod-like articles
US20030046898A1 (en) * 2001-07-31 2003-03-13 Handel Gary A. Method and apparatus for packaging tamales
US6854587B2 (en) * 2001-07-31 2005-02-15 Hormel Foods, Llc Method and apparatus for packaging tamales
EP1897453A3 (de) * 2006-09-06 2008-06-11 Hauni Maschinenbau Aktiengesellschaft Einrichtung zum Fördern von stabförmigen Artikeln
CN103040107A (zh) * 2011-10-12 2013-04-17 豪尼机械制造股份公司 用于生产烟草加工业产品的机器的接收滚筒
EP2580969A3 (de) * 2011-10-12 2013-05-01 Hauni Maschinenbau AG Übernahmetrommel für eine Maschine zur Herstellung von Produkten der Tabak verarbeitenden Industrie
EP2884860B1 (en) 2012-07-12 2017-05-03 International Tobacco Machinery Poland Sp. z o.o. Rotary conveyor drum for use in tobacco industry machines, method and apparatus for transporting rod-like elements using such drum and machine for manufacturing multi-element rods

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