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US2093437A
US2093437A US698207A US69820733A US2093437A US 2093437 A US2093437 A US 2093437A US 698207 A US698207 A US 698207A US 69820733 A US69820733 A US 69820733A US 2093437 A US2093437 A US 2093437A
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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 is intended to receive the cigarettes as they issue in a single line from the cutoff and deliver them in side by side row formation.
  • the principal object of the invention is to provide a collector which will overcome these diiliculties and which will becapable of use at the highest speeds of which cigarette machines are capable. To this end it is an object of the invention to provide a collector in which the endwise travel of the cigarettes 'is retarded by the gentle action of suction, instead of by the mechanical resistance of a stop, with necessarily harsh action on the ends of cigarettes traveling at high speed.
  • Still another important object is to provide for accurate placing and aligning of the cigarettes without however the use of pocket walls to segregate and position cigarettes.
  • the pocket walls are a source of considerable trouble when the cigarettes for any reason open up or the cutoff is out of time with the collector because at the point where the ends of the walls pass the line of cigarettes, under such circum- 4 stances, a windmill action takes place which tangles up and scatters cigarettes andV tobacco.
  • 'I'he present device makes it possible to eliminate such pocket walls or partitions and at the'same time holds the cigarettes in exactly separated spaced positions for accurate spacing and alignment on the delivery belt.
  • Another object of the invention is to insure a clear cut separation of cigarettes and a firm grip on the cigarettes by the suction means through the shaping of the cigarette engaging portion of the suction means and through the positive engaging of the cigarettes with the suction means.
  • Another object of the invention is to provide a collector which will deliver cigarettes with the seam side or the printed side of successive cigarettes facing in the same direction thus eliminating elaborate devices often hitherto used to obtain this uniformity ordinarily lost in the collector. In this connection itis an object to maintain the uniform rotational arrangement of round as well as oval cigarettes.
  • Fig. l is a plan view of the improved collector
  • Fig. 2 is a sectional side elevation of the cigarette collector, omitting the suction. drum to show the parts behind;
  • Fig. 3 is a detail view in sectional elevation of the suction drum on the line 3-3 of Fig. l;
  • Fig. 4 is a section in elevation on the line 4-4 of Fig. 1;
  • Fig. 5 illustrates a modied form of the invention for delivering aligned cigarettes in two rows.
  • a combination of devices for delivering a line of endwise moving cigarettes with suction means which are relatively stationary with respect to the endwise movement of the cigarettes and which. act as a brake on said cigarettes to retard or stop their endwise Y movement.
  • said suction means comprises a rotating suction drum and preferably the rotating suction Vdrum has suction ports arranged to extend alongside the line of cigarettes.
  • means are provided for positively pushing the cigarettes from the endwise moving line into contact with said suction ports. ⁇ A Referring now to Figs.
  • the cigarettes C as they are delivered in an endwise moving line from the cutoff, (not shown) of a continuous rod cigarette machine are forwarded between upper and lowerv belts II and I2.
  • 'I'hese belts travel at a speed greater than that of the cigarette rod in order to space the suc.- cessive cigarettes.
  • Cigarettes are forwarded by these belts alongside the collector drum I3 which has a series of grooves I3a parallel to its axis on its periphery, which grooves .through suction ports I5 with a suction chamber S within the drum which is o f hollow cylindrical construction.
  • a pusher is provided for positively seating the cigarettes in the grooves I3a and against the suction ports.
  • the pusher I4 forces the cigarettes against the suction ports and the drum carries the cigarettes a quarter turn to a position where said cigarettes are picked oi by delivery belts I6 and transported to a stationary table, where the cigarettes are arranged in side by side accurately aligned formation which facilitates inspection and packaging and enables the operator to handle more cigarettes per minute than otherwise possible.
  • the suction drum I3 is secured to one end of a shaft I1. On the other end of this shaft is a gear I8 adjustably attached to a hub I9 which is secured to the shaft I1.
  • the shaft I1 is driven through gears I8, 29, and'2I from gear 22 on the shaft 23 which gears establish a ratio of l to 24 between the shafts I1 and 2'3 for a drum having 24 cigarette receiving grooves, so that a groove comes opposite the cigarette line for each cigarette forwarded.
  • the pusher I4 is given an orbital movement toward and across the'cigarette line while moving along said line, then away from the line and so on, and for this purpose is secured on cranks I4a on the shafts 28 and 29 which are driven through spiral gears 24 and 25 on shaft 23 engaging with spiral gears 26 and 21 on the shafts 28 and 29, shafts 23 and 28 and 29 being driven at a 1 to l ratio such that there is one cigarette pushed for every cycle of operation of the cigarette machine.
  • This shaft 23 through a spiral gear 30 drives the spiral gear 3
  • a gear 33 on the shaft 32 through gear 34 on the shaft 35 and pulley 36 drives the lower guide belt I2 at the same speed as the guide belt II.
  • a suction conduit and chamber S connects with the hollow interior of the collector drum I3 as shown in Fig. 3, through a manifold sleeve 31 which is held by the pressure of a spring 38 in substantially air tight relation to a iiange 39 on the drum I3.
  • a valve 48 on the valve stern 4I is adjustably secured by arm 42 to a bracket 43 which serves to hold the valve stationary against movement with the drum. As shown in Fig.
  • the suction chambar S formed by the valve and conduit is so ar-V ranged that the limits of the suction chamber act to turn on suction to the ports I at a point just preceding the receiving of a cigarette from the delivery belts II and I2 and cuts off the suction at the point where the cigarettes are delivered from the drum about ninety degrees from the first mentioned point'onto the delivery belt I6.
  • the delivery belt I6 runs in grooves I6a in the suction drum so that the belts do not interfere with the action of the grooves I5 and yet underlie the cigarettes so as to produce a gradual but positive separation thereof at the delivery position.
  • a modified form of the invention is shown for the purpose of delivering aligned cigarettes in two rows with the cigarettes arranged side by side.
  • the construction of this form is substantially the same as that shown in Figs. l to 4 except that -the drum 53 is made somewhat more than twice as long and is provided with two circumferential sets of grooves- I3a and ports I5.
  • the pusher 54 extendsv alongside both sets of grooves and is timed to operate vonce every second cycle of the cigarette machine to push two cigarettes at a time into contact with the two sets of suction grooves which are delivered by two sets of side delivery belts 56 in rows.
  • the drum 53 is carried by the shaft 51, which also carries the valve stem 55.
  • the drum 53 is rotated at a speed such that aligned grooves -I3a arrive in cigarette receiving position once Afor thev delivery of cork tipped cigarettes and for use with very high speed cigarettes machines where one girl cannot take care of the delivery int one row.
  • the present collector has no deep pockets or partitions extending between successive cigarettes and so that there is no likelihood of cigarettes when fed opened up or out of time with the cigarette machine becoming caught or mangled between partition walls or scattered windmill fashion by said walls and that the structure is substantially self-clearing since it has no parts on which cigarettes or shorts may be caught.
  • a device for spacing endwise moving cigarettes longitudinally of means coacting therewith for collecting the cigarettes side by side including a member having transversely moving suction areas for retarding and removing the cigarettes from said device, and mechanism for. cutting oiI the suction to release the removed cigarettes.
  • a device for spacing endwise moving cigarettes longitudinally of means coacting therewith for collecting the cigarettes side by side including a rotating drum having transversely. moving suction areas for retarding and removing the cigarettes from said device,rand
  • a device for spacing endwise moving cigarettes longitudinally of means coacting therewith for collecting the cigarettes side by side including a rotating drum having transversely moving grooves provided with suction areas for retarding and removing the cigarettes from said device.
  • a device for spacing endwise moving cigarettes longitudinally of means coacting therewith for collecting the cigarettes side by side including a rotating drum having transversely moving grooves provided with suction areas for retarding and removing the cigarettes from said device, andmechanism within Ksaid drum for cutting of! the suction to release the removed cigarettes.
  • a device for spacing endwise moving cigarettes longitudinally of means coacting therewith for collecting the cigarettes side by side including' a member having transversely moving suction areas for retarding and removing the cigarettes from said device, and collecting means receiving the cigarettes from said member.
  • a cigarette collector the combination with devices delivering a line of endwise moving cigarettes. of means having suction ports extending alongside said line in close proximity to retard the longitudinal movement of said cigarettes, and means including a cigarette engaging element having movement toward, along and away from said line for pushing the cigarettes sidewise into contact with said means, and a source of suction connected to the ports oi' said means.
  • a moving cigarette carrier having cigarette receiving portions for receiving a cigarette from said succession and delivering a cigarette onto said delivery belt, suction openings communicating with said receiving portions and suction conduits connecting to said openings for producing suction at the openings to hold the cigarettes on said carrier against rotation or loss of rotational position to deliver cigarettes with the seams thereof facing the same way relative to each other as received and means for delivering the cigarettes of said succession into the range of action of the suction at said openings.
  • a cigarette collector In a cigarette collector, the combination with means for delivering a succession of cigarettes endwise in a line, of a cigarette conveying drum for receiving cigarettes from said succession and displacing them sidewise, and means coacting with said drum and the cigarettes thereon to prevent the rotation of round cigarettes relative to the during the period sai -cigarettes are carried by the drum.
  • Va cigarette collector the combination including a rotating cigarettecarrier for receiving round cigarettes from said succession, displacing them sidewise from said line and delivering them onto said supporting means, and means coacting with said carrier and the round cigarettes thereon to prevent round cigarettes from rotating relative to the carrier, said carrier and supporting means being so arranged that the carrier delivers the cigarettes onto said supporting means with successive cigarettes in the same rotational position relative to each other as when received by said carrier.
  • a cigarette collector the combination with means for delivering a succession o! cigarettes endwise in a line, transversely travelling endless conveyor means i'or receiving a supply of said cigarettes, a moving cigarette carrier interposed between said succession and said endless conveyorarranged to deliver cigarettes onto said conveyor, means coacting with said carrier and the round cigarettes thereon to prevent round cigarettes from rotating as long as the same are in contact with said carrier, said endless conveyor being arranged with a horizontal supporting surface thereof in contacting relation with the cigarettes as they are delivered from said carrier tok avoid rotation thereof as the same are delivered.
  • transversely travelling endless conveyor means for receiving a supply of said cigarettes, a moving cigarette carrier inberposed between said succession and said endless conveyor arranged to deliver cigarettes onto said conveyor, means coacting with said carrier and the round cigarettes thereon to prevent round cigarettes from rotating as long as the same are in contact with said carrier, said endless conveyor being arranged with'a horizontal supporting surface thereof in contacting relation with the cigarettes as they are delivered from said carrier to avoid rotation thereof as the same are delivered, said carrier being peripherally grooved, and said conveyor means entering said ⁇ grooved portion of the conveyor.
  • a cigarette collector for acting on a. succession of endwise moving cigarettes

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US2550785A (en) * 1948-05-19 1951-05-01 Crosset Company Method and apparatus for debutting brussels sprouts
US2633254A (en) * 1948-08-18 1953-03-31 Oak Rubber Company Apparatus for feeding or sorting small flexible articles
US2621792A (en) * 1949-09-29 1952-12-16 Lyle G Mclean Vacuum separator
US2760536A (en) * 1952-10-18 1956-08-28 Charles H Willsey Egg cracking mechanism
US2854009A (en) * 1954-10-29 1958-09-30 Arenco Ab Machine for winding tobacco, or tobacco articles, into tobacco leaves
US3136320A (en) * 1956-07-16 1964-06-09 Molins Machine Co Ltd Manufacture of mouthpiece cigarettes
US2917156A (en) * 1957-01-22 1959-12-15 Koerber & Co Kg Transfer mechanism for cigarettes
US3122233A (en) * 1957-06-28 1964-02-25 Smithe Machine Co Inc F L High speed rotary machines
US3094128A (en) * 1958-10-27 1963-06-18 American Mach & Foundry Mouthpiece cigarette making machine
US3166179A (en) * 1961-12-13 1965-01-19 Molins Machine Co Ltd Apparatus for handling rod-like articles such as cigarettes
US3513619A (en) * 1966-07-18 1970-05-26 Hauni Werke Koerber & Co Kg Apparatus for arraying cigarettes or the like
US3650566A (en) * 1969-10-24 1972-03-21 Aluminum Co Of America Machine for arranging cans in position
US4535790A (en) * 1983-03-31 1985-08-20 Philip Morris Incorporated Method and apparatus for aligning oval cigarette filters
US4596257A (en) * 1984-06-29 1986-06-24 Philip Morris Incorporated Method and apparatus for tipping smoking articles
US4883163A (en) * 1986-12-17 1989-11-28 G.D. Societa Per Azioni Apparatus and method for regularly spacing apart randomly spaced objects while conveying them
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