US20050000527A1 - Rotating printing unit for a machine of the tobacco processing industry - Google Patents

Rotating printing unit for a machine of the tobacco processing industry Download PDF

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US20050000527A1
US20050000527A1 US10/868,771 US86877104A US2005000527A1 US 20050000527 A1 US20050000527 A1 US 20050000527A1 US 86877104 A US86877104 A US 86877104A US 2005000527 A1 US2005000527 A1 US 2005000527A1
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Manfred Dombek
Helmut Voss
Matthias Overath
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41F—PRINTING MACHINES OR PRESSES
    • B41F17/00—Printing apparatus or machines of special types or for particular purposes, not otherwise provided for
    • B41F17/08—Printing apparatus or machines of special types or for particular purposes, not otherwise provided for for printing on filamentary or elongated articles, or on articles with cylindrical surfaces
    • B41F17/14—Printing apparatus or machines of special types or for particular purposes, not otherwise provided for for printing on filamentary or elongated articles, or on articles with cylindrical surfaces on articles of finite length
    • B41F17/20—Printing apparatus or machines of special types or for particular purposes, not otherwise provided for for printing on filamentary or elongated articles, or on articles with cylindrical surfaces on articles of finite length on articles of uniform cross-section, e.g. pencils, rulers, resistors
    • 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
    • A24C5/38—Machines combined with printing devices
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
    • B41J15/00—Devices or arrangements of selective printing mechanisms, e.g. ink-jet printers or thermal printers, specially adapted for supporting or handling copy material in continuous form, e.g. webs
    • B41J15/04—Supporting, feeding, or guiding devices; Mountings for web rolls or spindles
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
    • B41J15/00—Devices or arrangements of selective printing mechanisms, e.g. ink-jet printers or thermal printers, specially adapted for supporting or handling copy material in continuous form, e.g. webs
    • B41J15/18—Multiple web-feeding apparatus
    • B41J15/22—Multiple web-feeding apparatus for feeding webs in separate paths during printing

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  • the invention relates to a process and a device for applying print marks by a printing element to an article of the tobacco processing industry, in particular wrapping strips, preferably cigarette paper strips or a rod-shaped smoking article, conveyed along a transport direction at a predetermined conveyor speed. Furthermore, the invention relates to a machine of the tobacco processing industry, in particular a cigarette rod maker (rod-making machine) or a filter tipping machine.
  • a machine of the tobacco processing industry in particular a cigarette rod maker (rod-making machine) or a filter tipping machine.
  • Printing units for applying print marks to a wrapping strip of the tobacco processing industry are known from the prior art. For example, an imprint is printed on the cigarette paper strip in a cigarette rod maker with a printing roll. Rod-shaped articles such as cigarettes, cigarillos, cigars or filter rods or the like are produced in the rod maker in a rod process. The tobacco rods are wrapped in the cigarette rod maker by the wrapping strip, whereby the wrapping strips used feature print marks or print images that can be, e.g., cigarette brands, manufacturer names or other information.
  • smoking articles should be understood to be cigarettes with and without filters and all other rod-shaped smoking articles with a printed wrapping strip, whereby the imprint appearing on the article primarily shows the brand.
  • imprint or stamp is a conspicuous quality feature of such articles and requires particular care regarding the components and production conditions necessary for its production, such as the type and condition of the ink used and its supply, transfer and distribution through several rolls up to application through the wrapping strip.
  • the printing units installed in the rod makers according to the prior art comprise a roll arrangement, whereby the material web to be printed is guided between the rolls.
  • a so-called printing roll is provided which is synchronized with the continuously moved material web.
  • the printing roll is in contact with a counter pressure roll thereby, whereby the wrapping strip is guided between the printing roll and the counter pressure roll.
  • the printing units have the disadvantage that as a result of the rotation of the printing roll the quality of the imprint is reduced or under certain circumstances is impossible at a higher conveyor speed of the wrapping strip, so that at higher machine speeds the manufacture of cigarette rods with an imprint on the wrapping strip is considerably restricted.
  • the present invention renders possible the printing of print images on articles of the tobacco processing industry, in particular wrapping strips or rod-shaped articles, at high conveyor speeds of the articles. In this way, it should be possible to apply the print mark flawlessly at high conveyor speeds of the article.
  • the instant invention is directed to a process for applying print marks by a printing element on an article of the tobacco processing industry, in particular wrapping strips, preferably cigarette paper strips or a rod-shaped smoking article, conveyed along a transport direction at a predetermined conveyor speed, in which the relative speed between the printing element and the article is reduced along the transport direction during the printing process.
  • the printing element producing the print image is moved (entrained) in the transport direction of the conveyed article, so that during this movement of the printing element together with the article a reliable imprint of the print mark is made through the printing element.
  • the material strip to be printed is no longer rolled up on the printing roll; instead the printing element is likewise conveyed in the conveyor direction of the material strip.
  • a reliable imprint on the article is achieved in that the printing element is moved along the transport direction at approximately the same or the same speed as the conveyor speed of the article.
  • a uniform imprint is obtained in particular when the printing element and/or the article are moved transverse, in particular perpendicular to the transport direction, whereby the printing element and the article move in the same transport direction. This leads to two movement directions, in the conveyor direction and transverse to the conveyor direction, being superimposed. If, for example, the printing element is guided perpendicular to the transport direction, the printing element exerts a lifting movement at the same time.
  • the printing element and/or the article perform a backward and forward movement transverse, in particular perpendicular to the transport direction.
  • the printing element is guided back into its starting position before the start of printing, so that the printing element applies one or more print images onto the article after a certain period of time or at equidistant intervals.
  • the article is deflected during the printing process, in particular in a looped manner, so that this leads to a compact construction of the printing unit.
  • a larger transport path is covered through the looped deflection.
  • the printing element is guided on a rotary body so that the relative speed to the article is low when the article is conveyed on the rotary body of the article.
  • print marks are printed on the article by the printing element so that in addition to a brand name, e.g., also product-identifying numbers can be printed on surfaces of the wrapping strip that are covered in subsequent gluing processes, e.g., by tipping paper webs at the filter tipping machine. Moreover, imprints can be applied on these surfaces in the seam area of the cigarettes in order to determine the genuineness of the product.
  • a brand name e.g., also product-identifying numbers
  • imprints can be applied on these surfaces in the seam area of the cigarettes in order to determine the genuineness of the product.
  • the printing element is programmed with print data for the print mark or the print marks so that a rapid garniture exchange is possible at the printing unit without changing the printing element.
  • a corresponding data set for the new garniture has therefore to be transmitted to the printing element so that the new imprint for the new tobacco garniture to be produced is applied to the wrapping strip.
  • the printing element is exchanged after expendable material of the printing element is used up, so that a quick exchange, e.g., of an empty printing cartridge is carried out quickly.
  • the printing element is adjusted for the printing process so that the printing element is easily adapted for an imprint according to the requirements for the print image and paper or other operating conditions.
  • the instant invention is directed to a device for applying print marks with a printing element to at least one article of the tobacco processing industry, preferably wrapping strips, in particular cigarette paper strips or a rod-shaped smoking article, conveyed along a transport direction at a predetermined conveyor speed. Further, the device, during the printing process the printing element, can be moved along the transport direction of the article such that the relative speed between the printing element and the article is reduced.
  • the printing element can be moved along the transport direction at approximately the same or the same speed as the conveyor speed of the article.
  • the printing element and/or the article can be moved transverse, in particular perpendicular to the transport direction.
  • the printing element and/or the article can be moved backward and forward transverse, in particular perpendicular, to the transport direction.
  • a space-saving printing device is achieved when a device is provided for deflecting the article during the printing process, particularly in a looped manner.
  • a rotary body is provided for the printing element.
  • several printing elements are provided so that during the conveying of the article several sections, e.g., of a wrapping paper strip, are provided with a print image at the same time and next to one another.
  • At least one printing element can be programmed so that the imprint on the cigarette paper strip is changed in a simple manner during a garniture change at the cigarette rod maker.
  • a laborious exchange e.g., of a printing roll according to the prior art with a new type face is no longer necessary.
  • At least one printing element can be exchanged.
  • the exchange can take place automatically.
  • a preferred embodiment of the device is wherein at least one printing element applies a multi-colored print mark to the article.
  • the instant invention is directed to a machine of the tobacco processing industry, in particular a cigarette rod maker or filter tipping machine, that is provided with a device according to the invention as described above.
  • the printing device according to the invention is preferably used for printing a wrapping strip on a cigarette rod maker.
  • the printing unit according to the invention it is also possible to print individual finished filter cigarettes or other rod-shaped smoking articles.
  • the present invention is directed to a process for applying print marks to an article that includes conveying the article along a transport direction at a predetermined conveyor speed, during a printing procedure, reducing a relative speed between a printing element and the article conveyed along the transport direction, and applying print marks to the article by the printing element.
  • the article is an article of the tobacco processing industry.
  • the article of the tobacco industry can be a wrapping strip, and may be one of a cigarette paper strip and a rod-shaped smoking article.
  • the reducing of the relative speed can include moving the printing element along the transport direction at one of a same or an approximately same speed as the conveyor speed of the article.
  • the process can also include moving at least one of the printing element and the article transversely to the transport direction.
  • the at least one of the printing element and the article can be moved perpendicularly to the transport direction.
  • the process can include moving at least one of the printing element and the article forwardly and backwardly in a direction transverse to the transport direction. Further, the at least one of the printing element and the article may be moved forwardly and backwardly in a direction perpendicular to the transport direction.
  • the process can include deflecting the article during the printing process.
  • the article may be deflected in a looped manner.
  • the article may be conveyed on a rotary body during the printing process.
  • the printing element can be guided on a rotary body.
  • the printing element may print several print marks on the article.
  • the printing element can be programmed with print data for the print mark or print marks.
  • the process can include exchanging the printing element after expendable material of the printing element is used up.
  • the printing element can be adjusted for the printing process.
  • the present invention is directed to a device for applying print marks to an article in accordance with the above-described process.
  • the present invention is directed to a device for applying print marks to an article that includes at least one printing element, a conveyor device structured and arranged for conveying an article to be printed in a transport direction at a predetermined speed, and a drive device structured and arranged for moving the printing element, during a printing procedure, in the transport direction at a speed to reduce relative speed between the at least one printing element and the conveyor.
  • the article may be an article of the tobacco processing industry.
  • the article of the tobacco processing industry can be a wrapping strip, and may include one of a cigarette paper strip or a rod-shaped smoking article.
  • the drive device can be structured to move the at least one printing element in the transport direction at one of a same or an approximately same speed as the predetermined speed.
  • a shifting device can be structured and arranged for shifting at least one of the at least one printing element and the article in a direction transversely to the transport direction.
  • the shifting device can shift the at least one of the at least one printing element and the article perpendicularly to the transport direction.
  • a shifting device can be structured and arranged to shift at least one of the at least one printing element and the article forwardly and backwardly in a direction transverse to the conveyor direction.
  • the shifting device may shift the at least one of the at least one printing element and the article forwardly and backwardly in a direction perpendicular to the transport direction.
  • a deflection device can be structured and arranged to deflect the article during a printing procedure.
  • the deflection device may be structured to deflect the article in a looped manner.
  • a rotary body can be structured and arranged for conveying the article during a printing procedure.
  • a rotary body may be structured and arranged for guiding the at least one printing element.
  • the at least one printing element may include a plurality of printing elements, and the rotary body can be structured and arranged for guiding the plurality of printing elements.
  • the at least one printing element is structured to apply a multi-colored print mark onto the article.
  • the instant invention is directed to a machine of the tobacco processing industry comprising the above-described device. Further, the machine can be a cigarette rod maker or the machine is a tipping machine.
  • the instant invention is directed to an apparatus for printing on an article that includes an article conveyor having at least one seat structured to guide the article in a transport direction at a conveyor speed, at least one movable printing element, a drive device for moving the at least one movable printing element, during a printing procedure, at a speed corresponding to the conveyor speed, and a drive device for moving at least one of the at least one seat and the at least one movable printing element in a direction cross-wise to the transport direction.
  • the at least one printing element may include a plurality of printing elements
  • the article conveyor can include a rotatable cylinder
  • the apparatus can further include a rotatable disk having a surface to which the plurality of printing elements are mounted for bi-directional movement normal to the surface.
  • the rotatable disk is rotatable in the transport direction. A range of the bi-directional movement is sufficient to allow the printing element to cross an entirety of the width of the article.
  • the article conveyor may include a rotatable cylinder having a plurality of seats mounted for bi-directional movement cross-wise to the transport direction.
  • a range of the bi-directional movement may be sufficient to allow an entirety of the width of the article to cross the printing element.
  • FIG. 1 illustrates a cigarette rod maker equipped with a printing device according to the invention
  • FIGS. 2 a - 2 c illustrate different perspective views of a printing device according to the invention
  • FIGS. 3 a and 3 b illustrate a front view and side view of a printing device
  • FIGS. 4 a and 4 b illustrate a front view and side view of an alternative embodiment of a printing device
  • FIG. 5 illustrates a section of a printed wrapping strip in diagrammatic form
  • FIGS. 6 a and 6 b illustrate a front view and side view of a drum arrangement in a cigarette tipping machine in a diagrammatic form.
  • a pre-distributor 2 is supplied from a gate 1 with tobacco in portions.
  • a removal roll 3 of the pre-distributor 2 replenishes a storage container 4 with tobacco in a targeted manner from which a steep conveyor 5 removes tobacco and supplies a retaining chute 6 in a controlled manner.
  • a pin roll 7 removes a uniform stream of tobacco that is knocked out of the pins of the pin roll 7 by a beater roll 8 and propelled onto a spreader belt 9 rotating at a constant speed.
  • a tobacco web formed on the spreader belt 9 is propelled into a separating device 11 that is composed essentially of an air curtain through which larger or heavier tobacco parts pass, whereas all other tobacco particles are deflected by the air into a funnel 14 formed by a pin roll 12 and a wall 13 .
  • the tobacco is propelled by the pin roll 12 into a tobacco channel 16 against a rod conveyor 17 on which the tobacco is held by air suctioned into a vacuum chamber 18 and a tobacco rod is poured.
  • An equalizer 19 removes excess tobacco from the tobacco rod that is then laid on a cigarette paper strip 21 guided in a synchronous manner.
  • the cigarette paper strip 21 is pulled off a bobbin 22 , guided through a printing device 23 and laid on a driven garniture belt 24 .
  • the garniture belt 24 transports the tobacco rod and the cigarette paper strip 21 through a garniture 26 in which the cigarette paper strip 21 is folded around the tobacco rod so that one edge still projects which is glued by a gluing device (not shown) in a known manner. Subsequently, the glued seam is closed and dried by a tandem seam smoother 27 .
  • a cigarette rod 28 thus formed passes through a rod density measuring device 29 that controls the equalizer 19 and is cut into double-length cigarettes 32 by a knife device 31 .
  • the double-length cigarettes 32 are transferred by a transfer device 34 of a transfer drum 36 of a filter tipping machine 37 which transfer device features controlled arms 33 , on the cutting drum 38 of which filter tipping machine they are separated into individual cigarettes with a circular knife.
  • Conveyor belts 39 , 41 convey excess tobacco into a container 42 arranged from the storage container 4 , from which container 42 the returned tobacco is removed again by the steep conveyor 5 .
  • two webs of a material strip 210 . 1 , 210 . 2 are provided with print marks for a double rod machine.
  • print marks for a double rod machine.
  • FIGS. 2 a through 2 c Different views of the printing device 230 are shown in perspective in FIGS. 2 a through 2 c.
  • the two material strips 210 . 1 , 210 . 2 are deflected parallel and next to one another by two deflection rolls 50 , 51 , so that the material strips 210 . 1 , 210 . 2 rest around a rotating cylinder body 60 and wrap around the cylinder body 60 with a high degree of grip.
  • the deflection roll 51 is arranged on an arm 52 , so that the material strips 210 . 1 , 210 . 2 rest on the jacket surface of the cylinder body 60 taut and free of creases.
  • Print heads 70 are arranged on a rotary body 71 around the cylinder body 60 at regular intervals.
  • the rotary body 71 rotates in the same direction as the cylinder body 60 .
  • the print heads 70 are moved perpendicular to the rotation movement so that during their lift movement print marks are imprinted on the material strips 210 . 1 , 210 . 2 .
  • a full lift movement of the print head 70 is carried out with a forward and backward movement. During this forward and backward movement the print marks are completely imprinted on the material strips 210 . 1 , 210 . 2 .
  • Ink jet print heads are used as print heads, whereby the ink used in particular meets the national standards or tobacco ordinances.
  • a pressure in particular a regulated pressure, is exerted on the ink in the container of the ink cartridges, which pressure acts against the centrifugal forces dependent on the rotational speed.
  • a membrane is located for this between the atmosphere and the ink.
  • the rotational speed or the conveyor speed of the print heads 70 on the rotary body 71 and the material strips 210 . 1 , 210 . 2 or the rotational speed of the cylinder body 60 are the same, so that there is no relative speed between the material strips 210 . 1 , 210 . 2 and the respective print heads 70 .
  • a reliable imprint of the print marks is thus guaranteed even at a high conveyor speed of the material strips 210 . 1 , 210 . 1 .
  • the two material strips 210 . 1 , 210 . 2 are respectively fed via a deflection roll 53 to a tobacco rod on a double-line cigarette rod maker.
  • the lengths of a single length cut tobacco rod are indicated respectively by the transverse lines regularly indicated on the material strips 210 . 1 , 210 . 2 .
  • the print marks are applied on the mouth end of the material strip 210 . 1 , 210 . 2 of the subsequently formed single length cut tobacco rods. To this end the print marks adjacent to one another are printed in a mirror inverted manner at the subsequent cut of a double-length cut tobacco rod. To this end the print heads 70 feature two application points arranged next to one another.
  • FIGS. 3 a , 3 b show in diagrammatic form a printing device 23 for a single-web material strip 21 in a front view and a side view.
  • the material strip 21 is guided over the deflection rolls 50 , 51 and 53 around the jacket surface of the cylinder body 60 with a high grip.
  • the printing process takes place transverse to the transport direction, whereby the time for applying the print image is extended to a corresponding number of cigarette cycles through the simultaneous use of several print heads 70 .
  • the print heads inside the cylinder body 60 so that the application of the print marks on the material strips takes place from inside.
  • the lift to be carried out by the print heads is smaller, since in this case only the print area has to be covered and the paper circulates on the jacket surface of the cylinder body 60 on the outside.
  • FIG. 3 a the various work areas of the print heads during their rotation and lift movement in a complete rotation are shown by Roman numerals.
  • area I a print head is guided next to the material strip 21 so that no imprint occurs in this area.
  • area II a forward movement perpendicular to the drawing plane is carried out and the print head 70 is guided laterally to the material strip.
  • area III the material strip 21 is printed while the movement direction perpendicular out of the drawing plane is maintained.
  • the print head has reached its final position and the reversal point for the total lift H (cf. FIG. 3 b ).
  • area IV the print head is moved back, whereby in this area IV the cigarette paper 21 is likewise printed.
  • area V the print head is moved back.
  • FIGS. 4 a , 4 b a further printing device 23 according to the invention is shown in a front and side view whereby the rolls 51 , 52 carry out the deflection of the cigarette paper strip 21 by a holder 54 .
  • the print heads 70 feature the five working positions I through V.
  • FIG. 5 shows diagrammatically a section of a cigarette paper strip 21 the length of which corresponds to the length of two cut tobacco rods.
  • the printable area is shown in a shaded manner.
  • the dashed line 121 shows the position of the subsequent cut edge of the cut tobacco rods.
  • the print head 70 Since the print head 70 has a print width DB, the entire dashed area can be printed. In particular it is possible to describe the overlapping area of one tipping paper web and a cut tobacco rod. This area is labeled with reference number 122 . Since the tipping paper web is placed around this connection point, the imprinted information about the cigarette or the type of manufacture, etc., is not visible. Further information on the genuineness or on the quality control can be applied near the cut tobacco rod seam by the print head 70 . This area is labeled with reference number 123 .
  • the print heads 70 used as printing elements are moved transverse or perpendicular to the transport direction of the material strips 210 . 1 , 210 . 2 , 21 .
  • articles of the tobacco processing industry e.g., rod-shaped smoking articles, in particular filter cigarettes
  • FIGS. 6 a and 6 b One example is shown diagrammatically in FIGS. 6 a and 6 b in a front and side view.
  • the drum arrangement 100 shown in these Figures is present, e.g., in a filter tipping machine.
  • Filter cigarettes of single unit length 90 are hereby transferred from a conveyor drum 101 to a conveyor drum 102 .
  • the filter cigarettes 90 are displaced in a manner transverse to the axis and perpendicular to the transport direction and inserted into the seats 170 of a printing drum 160 . This takes place in area II.
  • the printing drum 160 has individual print heads 170 , the number of which corresponds exactly to the number of seats of the conveyor drum 102 .
  • the printing drum 160 moves at the same conveyor speed as the conveyor drum 102 , so that there is no relative speed between the print heads 170 and the inserted filter cigarettes 90 .
  • the advantage achieved with the invention is that on articles of the tobacco processing industry a clean print image is applied to the articles, whereby the articles are conveyed at a high conveyor speed, e.g., in a cigarette rod maker or a filter tipping machine. Moreover, multi-colored print images can also be realized on the articles.

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