US20100101588A1 - Machine for manufacturing pouches of cohesionless material - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a machine for manufacturing individual bags or sachets of cohesionless material, and in particular, pouches of nasal snuff, or of moist snuff (also known as snus) for oral use.
- the prior art embraces machines of the type in question, which comprise a dispensing disc rotatable intermittently about a vertical axis and furnished with a ring of cavities, each containing a quantity or portion of tobacco that will correspond to the contents of a single pouch.
- the portions are released into the single cavities at a filling station from a hopper containing a supply of powdered tobacco en masse, treated with flavouring and moisturizing agents.
- the cavities are directed through a transfer station where the single portion of tobacco contained in each cavity is ejected.
- pneumatic ejection means comprising a nozzle positioned above the dispensing disc. At each pause in the movement of the disc, a portion of tobacco is forced by the nozzle from the relative cavity into a duct, of which the mouth lies beneath the disc and in alignment with the nozzle, and toward a wrapping station where the single pouches are formed.
- the wrapping station comprises a tubular element, placed at the outlet of the duct and functioning as a mandrel over which to fashion a tubular envelope, for example, of paper material or nonwoven fabric.
- the material in question consists of a continuous web decoiled from a roll and fed in a direction parallel to the axis of the tubular element, which is wrapped progressively around the element and sealed longitudinally.
- the machine is equipped with transverse sealing means of which the operation is intermittent and synchronized with the transfer of the tobacco portions, in such a way that each successive portion will be sealed in a relative segment of the continuous tubular envelope of wrapping material delimited by two consecutive transverse seals.
- the successive tubular segments of wrapping material formed as pouches containing respective portions of tobacco, are separated one from the next through the action of cutting means positioned downstream of the transverse sealing means.
- the amount of tobacco deposited on the walls of the connecting duct and the tubular element increases significantly, in particular, when the moisture content of the tobacco exceeds certain limits, jeopardizing correct operation of the machine.
- the object of the present invention is to provide a machine for manufacturing single pouches of smokeless tobacco that will be unaffected by the drawbacks mentioned above in connection with machines of the prior art, and able to guarantee a high production tempo while avoiding the formation of tobacco deposits internally of the aforementioned connecting duct and tubular element.
- FIG. 1 which shows a machine according to the present invention, viewed schematically and in a front elevation.
- numeral 1 denotes a machine for manufacturing pouches 2 containing a cohesionless material, in particular a smokeless tobacco product.
- the machine 1 comprises a hopper 3 filled with the material in question and constituting tobacco feed means 100 , also conveying means 4 rotatable between a delivery station 5 at which the cohesionless tobacco material is taken up from the feed means, and a transfer station 6 at which successive portions 7 of tobacco are ejected.
- the machine 1 further comprises a wrapping station 8 where the portions 7 of tobacco removed from the transfer station 6 are taken up and enclosed in respective pouches 2 .
- the conveying means 4 are embodied as a drum 9 rotatable intermittently and anticlockwise, as viewed in the drawing, about a horizontal axis A.
- the drum 9 is interposed between a bottom end of the hopper 3 , delimited by two side walls 3 a and 3 b, and the aforementioned transfer station 6 .
- the drum 9 presents a cylindrical wall, denoted 10 , that includes a band 11 of predetermined width rendered permeable to air by a plurality of through holes 11 a.
- the enclosure 12 delimited by the cylindrical wall 10 is divided by two radial walls 12 a and 12 b into two sectors, denoted 13 and 14 .
- a first sector 13 located adjacent to the outlet of the hopper 3 and extending around to the transfer station 6 , is connected to a source of negative pressure (not illustrated).
- a second sector 14 positioned adjacent to and in alignment with the transfer station 6 , is angularly complementary to the first sector 13 and connected to a first source of compressed air (not illustrated).
- the second sector 14 provides the machine 1 with forcing means 102 .
- interconnecting means denoted 15 embodied as a rectilinear duct 16 , interposed between the transfer station 6 and the wrapping station 8 .
- the mouth of the duct 16 is in fluid communication with a second source of compressed air (not illustrated)
- the wrapping station 8 comprises a tubular mandrel 17 positioned at the outlet end of the rectilinear duct 16 , around which a continuous web 18 a of wrapping material is formed into tubular envelope 18 .
- the web 18 a of material is decoiled from a roll (not illustrated) and wrapped around the tubular mandrel 17 , by degrees, through the agency of suitable folding means.
- the edges of the web are sealed by welders 19 positioned next to the tubular mandrel 17 , so as to close the tubular envelope 18 longitudinally.
- the machine 1 also comprises sealing means 20 located beyond the tubular mandrel 17 , of which the function is to bond the tubular envelope 18 transversely and thus form a continuous succession 101 of pouches 2 , each containing a single portion 7 of tobacco.
- the longitudinal welders 19 and the transverse sealing means 20 are of ultrasonic type.
- the longitudinal ultrasonic welders 19 are located in close proximity to, and substantially in contact with the tubular mandrel 17 .
- aspirating means 21 located at the outlet end of the tubular mandrel 17 and able, given the porosity of the wrapping material, to create a draught internally of the mandrel 17 such as will ease the passage of the tobacco along the selfsame mandrel.
- the transverse sealing means 20 are followed downstream by a pair of transport belts 22 looped around respective pairs of pulleys 22 a, serving to advance the continuous succession 101 of pouches 2 toward cutting means 23 by which the single pouches 2 of the succession 101 are separated one from the next.
- the air-permeable band 11 will gradually attract a continuous stream 24 of tobacco.
- the continuous stream 24 advances as far as the transfer station 6 , where a given length of the selfsame stream 24 , corresponding in quantity to one portion 7 , will be detached gradually from the drum by a jet of compressed air forced through the holes 11 a of the air-permeable band 11 , and directed into the duct 16 .
- the portion 7 of tobacco passes along the rectilinear connecting duct 16 and into the tubular mandrel 17 , which is ensheathed by the web 18 of wrapping material.
- the portion 7 of tobacco is carried forward with the additional force of the air jet generated at the mouth of the rectilinear duct 16 by the aforementioned second source of compressed air.
- the envelope 18 of paper is sealed lengthwise by the ultrasonic welders 19 , and crosswise, at the outlet end of the tubular mandrel 17 , by the transverse sealing means 20 .
- transverse sealing means 20 The operation of the transverse sealing means 20 is intermittent, and timed to match the frequency at which successive portions 7 of tobacco are fed into the transfer station 6 , in such a way that each portion 7 of tobacco will be enclosed between two consecutive transverse seals.
- the single pouches 2 are separated one from the next by the cutting means 23 .
- the conveying means will consist in a drum with two air-permeable bands, in such a way that two portions of tobacco can be supplied simultaneously to the transfer station, and each then directed into a respective duct.
- the machine according to the present invention is able to overcome the aforementioned drawbacks connected with the prior art, by virtue of the fact that the ultrasonic longitudinal welding means serve not only to form the tubular envelope of wrapping material, but also to generate a shaking action on the tubular mandrel internally of which the tobacco advances, and thus prevent the accumulation of deposits on the inside wall of the mandrel.
- the mandrel remains free of obstructions internally, and there is no need for any stoppage of the machine to allow the removal of tobacco deposits manually from the inside wall.
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PCT/IB2008/000663 WO2008114133A1 (en) | 2007-03-20 | 2008-03-19 | A machine for manufacturing pouches of cohesionless material |
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