US1941190A - Tobacco supply means for cigarette machines - Google Patents

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US1941190A
US1941190A US381826A US38182629A US1941190A US 1941190 A US1941190 A US 1941190A US 381826 A US381826 A US 381826A US 38182629 A US38182629 A US 38182629A US 1941190 A US1941190 A US 1941190A
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Schneider Willi Friedrich
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Firm "universelle" Cigarettenmaschinen-Fabrik J C Muller & Co
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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
    • A24C5/39—Tobacco feeding devices
    • A24C5/391—Tobacco feeding devices feeding to several cigarette making machines

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  • the subject of the present invention vis a means of supplying a number of cigarette machines with tobacco by means of a single pneumatic supply conduit in such manner that the tobacco'is automatically supplied to those cigarette machines of which at any time the tobacco supply is exhausted.
  • each cigarette machine is connected with'an indicating device coming into or set in operation on exhaustion of the tobacco supply by a control valve associated with the cigarette machine in question and interposed in the continuously operating feed conduit in such manner that the supply of the tobacco to this v cigarette machine continues until on exhaustion Fig.
  • the control may be wholly automatic or semi-automatic by providing in front of each cigarette machine i a tobacco collecting hopper which is preferably connected to the usual dust separating device and is connected with the tobacco spreader in such manner that by opening the closing valve or the like of the collecting hopper an electric circuit is closed which actuates an indicating device, by which the supply valve in the pneumatic feed line for the tobacco to the collecting hopper in question is controlled.
  • the feed valves interposed in the pneumatic .feedline consist of closing flaps which are arranged as plates at the branches from the main feed line to the separate cigarette machines and are held under spring control in such manner that they close the corresponding line, while an electromagnet influences a tension member which, on the electromagnet being excited and overcoming the tension of the spring, moves the valve flap into the position where the extension of the main feed line is closed and the branch is opened.
  • Fig.1 is a side elevation and Fig. 2 a plan view,while 3 shows an enlarged detail of the juncture of the main tobacco feed conduit and one of the branch lines leading therefrom.
  • A, B, C indicate three cigarette'machines disposed'one behind the other and adapted to be supplied by a common pneu-
  • the compressed airrsupply is provided by a'blower b and the tobacco is delivered to the inlet 0. 7 1 p jIn'front of each cigarette machine is located a dust separator dof; known construction, each dust separator being connected by a line e branching off at an inclination from the main feed line a'of the pneumatic tobacco supply.
  • the compressed air loaded with dust passes from the dust separator into the common delivery pipe f' through a connecting branch 9.
  • a collecting hopper h which is T P T we Y connected to the dust separator and is supplied thereby with clean tobacco, while a closing flap 1' permits the transfer of the tobacco from the collecting hopper h into the tobacco spreader of the associated cigarette machines only after being moved into the open position.
  • the dimensions of the'collecting hopper h are so chosen that the tobacco supply of the filled collecting hopper corresponds to the usual quantum of the tobacco spreader.
  • a flap valve is which is arranged as a plate in such manner 'that'it may turn about a pivot Z and either cut off the extension'of the main feed line a (in the position indicated by full lines) or cut off the branch e (see the position indicated by the dotted line).
  • a tension spring n tend- 5 ing to pull the flap continuously into the position to close the branch line 6.
  • a longitudinally movable connecting rod 0 which terminates in the armature p of an electro-magnet q. When the electro-magnet is excited it attracts the armature p and turns the flap valve 7c against the action of the spring 72 into the position to close the extension of the main feed line a.
  • Each closing flap i of each collecting hopper h is formed as a contact so that on moving the corresponding closing flap i into the openposition an electric. circuit is closed through the conductors r, 8, each conductor 1', s acting on an indicating, device as is usual in electric bell annunci- 'ators or the like, and in which by the dropping of. a flap an indicator is'exposed' to view. On this indicator appears a number orithe letter,
  • the tobacco Spreaders of the separate cigarette machines are kept supplied with tobacco and the corresponding collectors h are filled.
  • the corresponding flap 2 is opened.
  • the tobacco supply of the corresponding hopper is thus emptied into the tobacco spreader and at the same time the corresponding valve flap is operated by the electromagnet, so that a further supply of tobacco is delivered to the collecting hopper h.
  • the arrangement can easily be such thatone of the cigarette machines is-always in a condition such that subsequent filling of the tobacco.
  • the operation can be carried out automatically or semi-automatically. It is possible obviously to control the flaps i automatically in conjunction with the control of the flap valves is. Morethe other, a common feed inlet, a common pneumatic feed conduit for said machines leading from said inlet, a dust separator in front of each of said machines, a branch conduit leading from said' common feed conduit to each dust separator, a common dust delivery pipe, branch pipes leading from each separator to said common dust delivery line, a collecting hopper between each dust separator and machine, a valve at the bottom of each collecting hopper, a valve at the juncture of each branch feed line and main feed line to divert the feed of the tobacco in the main feed line to the respective branch feed line and means for operating said last named valve.
  • valve at the bottom of each collecting hopper consists of a flap.

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Cited By (6)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US3096770A (en) * 1959-04-21 1963-07-09 American Mach & Foundry Cigarette making machine and method
US3099492A (en) * 1960-06-24 1963-07-30 Vokes Ltd Apparatus for feeding tobacco to cigarette-making machines
US3141705A (en) * 1961-05-09 1964-07-21 Polymark Int Ltd Conveyor systems
US3185434A (en) * 1962-02-28 1965-05-25 Michael J Bozich Conveying system and valve construction therefor
US3326609A (en) * 1965-08-27 1967-06-20 Curlator Corp Fiber distributing system
US3797890A (en) * 1972-10-16 1974-03-19 A Walters Pneumatic scaling system

Cited By (6)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US3096770A (en) * 1959-04-21 1963-07-09 American Mach & Foundry Cigarette making machine and method
US3099492A (en) * 1960-06-24 1963-07-30 Vokes Ltd Apparatus for feeding tobacco to cigarette-making machines
US3141705A (en) * 1961-05-09 1964-07-21 Polymark Int Ltd Conveyor systems
US3185434A (en) * 1962-02-28 1965-05-25 Michael J Bozich Conveying system and valve construction therefor
US3326609A (en) * 1965-08-27 1967-06-20 Curlator Corp Fiber distributing system
US3797890A (en) * 1972-10-16 1974-03-19 A Walters Pneumatic scaling system

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