US20120031041A1 - System for packaging cigarettes into bent sheets equipped with electronic control motors - Google Patents

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US20120031041A1
US20120031041A1 US13/264,408 US201013264408A US2012031041A1 US 20120031041 A1 US20120031041 A1 US 20120031041A1 US 201013264408 A US201013264408 A US 201013264408A US 2012031041 A1 US2012031041 A1 US 2012031041A1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B19/00—Packaging rod-shaped or tubular articles susceptible to damage by abrasion or pressure, e.g. cigarettes, cigars, macaroni, spaghetti, drinking straws or welding electrodes
    • B65B19/02—Packaging cigarettes
    • B65B19/22—Wrapping the cigarettes; Packaging the cigarettes in containers formed by folding wrapping material around formers
    • B65B19/24—Wrapping the cigarettes; Packaging the cigarettes in containers formed by folding wrapping material around formers using hollow mandrels through which groups of cigarettes are fed
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B11/00—Wrapping, e.g. partially or wholly enclosing, articles or quantities of material, in strips, sheets or blanks, of flexible material
    • B65B11/06—Wrapping articles, or quantities of material, by conveying wrapper and contents in common defined paths
    • B65B11/38—Wrapping articles, or quantities of material, by conveying wrapper and contents in common defined paths in a combination of straight and curved paths
    • B65B11/46—Wrapping articles, or quantities of material, by conveying wrapper and contents in common defined paths in a combination of straight and curved paths to fold the wrappers in channel form about contents and then to close the ends of the channel by folding and finally the mouth of the channel by folding or twisting
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B11/00—Wrapping, e.g. partially or wholly enclosing, articles or quantities of material, in strips, sheets or blanks, of flexible material
    • B65B11/54—Wrapping by causing the wrapper to embrace one end and all sides of the contents, and closing the wrapper onto the opposite end by forming regular or irregular pleats
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B19/00—Packaging rod-shaped or tubular articles susceptible to damage by abrasion or pressure, e.g. cigarettes, cigars, macaroni, spaghetti, drinking straws or welding electrodes
    • B65B19/02—Packaging cigarettes
    • B65B19/22—Wrapping the cigarettes; Packaging the cigarettes in containers formed by folding wrapping material around formers
    • B65B19/223—Wrapping the cigarettes; Packaging the cigarettes in containers formed by folding wrapping material around formers in a curved path; in a combination of straight and curved paths, e.g. on rotary tables or other endless conveyors
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B19/00—Packaging rod-shaped or tubular articles susceptible to damage by abrasion or pressure, e.g. cigarettes, cigars, macaroni, spaghetti, drinking straws or welding electrodes
    • B65B19/02—Packaging cigarettes
    • B65B19/22—Wrapping the cigarettes; Packaging the cigarettes in containers formed by folding wrapping material around formers
    • B65B19/228—Preparing and feeding blanks
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B49/00—Devices for folding or bending wrappers around contents
    • B65B49/08—Reciprocating or oscillating folders
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B49/00—Devices for folding or bending wrappers around contents
    • B65B49/14—Folders forming part of, or attached to, conveyors for partially-wrapped articles

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  • the present invention relates to a system for packaging cigarettes into bent sheets equipped with electronic control motors.
  • EP0970887, EP1616794, EP1780127, EP1832516, JP50322219, U.S. Pat. No. 4,887,408, U.S. Pat. No. 4,584,816, U.S. Pat. No. 4,559,758 and GB1425009 are described however other systems for packaging cigarettes in bent sheets having in common at least two wheels cooperating to join both cigarettes and the relative packaging sheet. The presence of two or more wheels, contributes to make these systems highly complex and bulky.
  • the known packaging systems have means for moving the various component parts which are substantially mechanically operated, such as an oil bath type, which have little flexibility in use and configuration.
  • the purpose of the present invention is to solve the aforesaid problems of prior art by providing a system for packaging cigarettes in bent sheets equipped with electronic control motors, which is flexible and immediately adaptable to different end-use configurations, providing a fully electronic solution for moving the system, thereby allowing to achieve, for example, intermittently moving and advancement solutions without the use of complex mechanical solutions, but simply providing an electronic movement of various axes, with obvious advantages of immediacy and a wide range of different possible solutions.
  • electronic controlled electric motors allow for high flexibility where special bends in one direction or the other are needed to be made (bending points shifting); and further, when you turn off a motor for various reasons, the others may remain on, which allows clearing of the line in case of stalls.
  • FIG. 1 shows a front perspective view of a preferred embodiment of the system for packaging cigarettes into bent sheets according to the present invention
  • FIG. 2 shows another front perspective view of the system of FIG. 1
  • FIG. 3 shows a rear perspective view of the system of FIG. 1
  • FIG. 4 shows an enlarged view of other components of the system for packaging cigarettes into bent sheets according to the present invention
  • FIG. 5 shows an enlarged view of other system components for packaging cigarettes into bent sheets according to the present invention
  • FIG. 6 shows an enlarged view of other system components for packaging cigarettes into bent sheets according to the present invention.
  • FIGS. 7 a to 7 f shows a sequence of certain phases of the packaging by way of the system according to the present invention.
  • system adapted for packaging cigarettes into bent sheets includes:
  • the intermittent motion is made preferably by a chain driven by a cam mechanism or a motor (not shown).
  • the collecting means 7 may be operatively located upstream with respect to the packaging means 11 (as in the preferred embodiment illustrated in the Figures) and the means for keeping the sheets 6 , or may also be operatively located downstream with respect to the packaging means 11 and the means for keeping the sheets 6 themselves.
  • the packaging sheet 6 is placed in a container 9 by the packaging means 11 , and the cigarettes 4 are then inserted into the container 9 and therefore in the relative sheet 6 .
  • the collecting means 7 may be made of at least one wheel 8 , defining the aforesaid plane, rotating around the rotation axis RR: peripherally and radially around the wheel 8 are preferably connected the elongated containers 9 , each of which, cyclically rotating jointly with the wheel 8 , is filled with the appropriate number of cigarettes 4 by the supplying means 3 and is covered with the relative packaging sheet 6 by the packaging means 11 : in correspondence to the moving means 13 , the package 15 is therefore removed from the container 9 which therefore may return towards the means for supplying 3 cigarettes 4 to begin a new cycle of packaging: as can be seen particularly from FIG.
  • the wheel 8 is preferably supplied with steps 17 to withdraw the packages 15 by way of pushing elements 19 placed, preferably upon at least one chain (not shown).
  • the means for collecting 7 cigarettes 4 could obviously be achieved in many equivalent ways, such as using a catenary wire (not shown) in the roto-translational motion of collecting and moving containers of cigarettes 4 .
  • the collecting means 7 are made in such a way that, by means of the containers 9 , only a part of or all the operations of collecting, tips control and possible rejection of cigarettes 4 can be performed.
  • the tips control and rejection operation is done before inserting the cigarettes 4 into containers 9 with sheets 6 .
  • the packaging means 11 of the system 1 according to the present invention include:
  • the system 1 for packaging cigarettes into bent sheets described above includes, for achieving the aims according to the invention:
  • the fourth electric motor 37 and the fifth electric motor could be built-in into a single motor to control both the packaging and keeping means; or else the seventh 41 , the eighth 43 and the ninth electric motor 45 could be built-in into a single motor to operate the various means for bending 22 , 44 packages 15 .

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ITTO2009A000297A IT1394942B1 (it) 2009-04-17 2009-04-17 Sistema per il confezionamento di sigarette in fogli ripiegati dotato di motori di controllo elettronici
ITTO2009A000297 2009-04-17
PCT/IT2010/000157 WO2010119473A1 (fr) 2009-04-17 2010-04-13 Système de conditionnement de cigarettes en feuilles pliées équipé de moteurs de commande électroniques

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