US2133341A - Cigarette tipper - Google Patents

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US2133341A
US2133341A US8363A US836335A US2133341A US 2133341 A US2133341 A US 2133341A US 8363 A US8363 A US 8363A US 836335 A US836335 A US 836335A US 2133341 A US2133341 A US 2133341A
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Wilhelm B Bronander
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    • AHUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A24TOBACCO; CIGARS; CIGARETTES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES; SMOKERS' REQUISITES
    • A24CMACHINES FOR MAKING CIGARS OR CIGARETTES
    • A24C5/00Making cigarettes; Making tipping materials for, or attaching filters or mouthpieces to, cigars or cigarettes
    • A24C5/56Making tipping materials, e.g. sheet cork for mouthpieces of cigars or cigarettes, by mechanical means
    • A24C5/58Applying the tipping materials
    • A24C5/583Applying the tipping materials to a continuous web of cigarette paper
    • YGENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10TTECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T156/00Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture
    • Y10T156/12Surface bonding means and/or assembly means with cutting, punching, piercing, severing or tearing
    • Y10T156/1317Means feeding plural workpieces to be joined
    • Y10T156/1322Severing before bonding or assembling of parts
    • Y10T156/133Delivering cut part to indefinite or running length web
    • Y10T156/1335Cutter also delivers cut piece

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  • This invention relates to an improved tipping with the winding of an electromagnet and so mechanism to be used in conjunction with contimed as to periodically engage the tipping mai tinuous-rod cigarette machines, wrapping material as it is fed between the cutter drum and chines, or label-applying machines, its main obthe ledger plate.
  • this finger makes contact with the cut- 5 ation at high speed and operating to continuously ter drum, thereby completing an electromagnetic feed the tipping material.
  • the tipper is also provided with a contact nrevolving drum.
  • the cut portions which are ger which rests against the traveling web of each of a length sufficient to provide cork tips wrapping material while the same is continuously -for two cigarettes, are transported by the cutfed.
  • the finger makes contact with a l leading ends are nipped between the rotating roller through which its connections energize the drum and a rotating segmental roller around electromagnetic circuit which controls the clutch which passes the web of wrapping material which operating means. In this manner the feeding of is to be tipped.
  • the webV of Fig. 1 is a plan view of Ithe improved tipper; 25
  • Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same.
  • ping material advanced by the cutters are provided mechanism for continuously advancing brought into register and pressed into adheringa web of wrapping material, mechanism for con- 30 relation with the paste spots on the wrapping tinuously advancing a web of tipping material, material.
  • the tipped web l is then led to -feed a device for applying paste at predetermined inrolls which advance it toward the cigarette tervals to the web of wrapping material, a cutter machine.
  • operating to sever portions from the traveling Afurther objectof the invention is to stop the web of tipping material and by itself advance 35 feeding of the webs of tipping and wrapping ma'-l them into register with the pasted sections of the terial when either web is broken or exhausted web of wrapping material, and means for pressand to prevent the application' of paste to the ing the registered portions into adhering relation wrapping material when the web of tipping mawith the web of wrapping material.
  • the best 40 terlal is broken or exhausted.
  • vthe tipper is provided with automatic capacitating the mechanisms for feeding the mechanism for moving the web of wrapping mawebs of tipping and wrapping material whenever terial out of operative relation to the' paste applieither web is broken or exhausted, and there is cator when the web of tipping material is broken also provided means for moving the web of wrapl4:', or exhausted, thus permitting the wrapping maping material out of operative relation to said 45 terial to pass freely by the applicator without bepaste-applying device whenever the web of tiping pasted and thereby preventingsmearing of ping material is broken or exhausted.
  • a drive shaft l0 is 55 equipped with a female clutch member Ii loosely mounted thereon and engaging a male clutch member I2 fastened on the main shaft I3 of the cigarette machine, wrappim machine, or other type of machine to which the tipper is attached.
  • a helical gear I4 meshing with a helical gear I5 mounted on the jack-shaft I6, the shaft It also -carrying a sprocket (not shown) which drives a chain I1 over a sprocket (not shown) mounted on the drum-shaft I8.
  • Shaft I8 carries a pinion Il meshing with a gear mounted on shaft 2i, the gear 20 meshing with a gear 22 which drives a gear 23.
  • Gears 22 and 23 are mounted on shafts 24 and 2Q respec- ⁇ tively, and shafts 24 and 25 carry the feed rollers 26 and 21, respectively, which coact to feed the web of tipping material C.
  • the shaft I8 also carries a gear 28 meshing with an intermediate gear 29 on shaft 30, gear 29 meshing with a gear 3i mounted on shaft 32.
  • shaft 32 is also mounted a gear sin. which drives a gear 33 mounted on shaft i4.
  • the gear33 drives a gear 35 mounted on shaft Si.
  • a pinion 31 on a shaft 33, which also carries a pinion Sla, is driven by the gear 3E; and the pim ion 31a drives a gear @t mounted on a shaft it supported in bearings cf the paste pot 4i.
  • the paste pot 4i is provided with a scrar or doctor 42 which is slidably mounted on the paste pot and equipped with an adjusting screw t; for adjustment of the scraper 42 closer or farther away from the paste wheel G4 and thereby controlling the amount of paste on the latter.
  • a scrar or doctor 42 which is slidably mounted on the paste pot and equipped with an adjusting screw t; for adjustment of the scraper 42 closer or farther away from the paste wheel G4 and thereby controlling the amount of paste on the latter.
  • the web of wrapping material P is from a reel (not shown) over a metallic roller 5I and around a stud 52 carried by the frame 53. 0n the stud 52 is pivotally mounted a spring-tensioned arm 53a which during normal operation is held in vertical position by a 4latch 54.
  • the arm 53a carries studs 55 and 56, and the wrapper web P passes over said studs and between the drum-49 and a roller 51 as it is drawn upwardly by continuously rotating rubber feed rollers (see Fig. 2) driven from the shaft I8 by a gear train (not shown).
  • the revolving paste applicator 4B which rotates at a greater linear velocity than the speed of the traveling wrapper web P rubs over the section of the latter spanning the studs 55 and 56 and thereby applies paste to the continuously moving wrapper web at the proper intervals.
  • the pasted wrapper web P is then carried around the roller 51; and the cut portion of tipping material which is being advanced by the cutting edge of either cutter 50 or 50a into register with the web P, is pressed thereon as it is nipped between the respective protuberance of the drum 43 and the raised segment of roller 51.
  • a cam ti; mounted on shaft I8 is provided with diametrically opposite steps 59 which each successively engage the spring-pressed arm Eil and permit the same and a metallic contact finger 5I fastened to its hub to momentarily move inward.
  • the electromagnet Si which is connected in parallel with the solenoid 63, is also energized and attracts an ⁇ arm II connected to the female clutch member I I, thus moving the arm 68 as indicated by the dotted arrow to disengage the clutch members II-I2 and stop the cigarette machine, or other type of machine to which the tipper is attached.
  • one of the lines 81. which are supplied with current from a suitable source of electric current, not shown, is connected by a lead Il to astationary contact 80.
  • the arm 6I engages one of thc steps 50 of the cam Il and the inner end of the contact maker II enters either of the grooves in the protuberances of the drum 4I, the outer end of the contact maker is pressed against the contact so that the current flows through a wire 1l to the solenoid u.
  • the eiectromagnet 65y is energized through a branch circuit comprising la lead 13 connected to the line 61 and the roller 5I and a contact finger 14 which is then free to make contact with the peripheryof the roller Il'.
  • the current then passes through the fingen-*14 and flows to the eiectromagnet through a wire ⁇ 15, returning to the other line 81 through the lead 12.
  • a device forapplying paste at predetermined intervals to the traveling webl of wrapping material a rotary cutter operating to sever portions from the traveling web of tipping material and of itself advance them into register with the pasted sections of the web of wrapping material, said cutter being the ⁇ only means-for advancing said portions, and means for pressing the registered portions into adhering relation with the pasted sections of the web of wrapping material.
  • a tipper the combination with mechanism for continuously advancing a web of wrapping material, of mechanism for continuously advancing a web of tipping material, a device for applying paste at predetermined intervals to the traveling web of wrapping material, a cutter operating to sever portions from the traveling web of tipping material and of itself advance them into register with the pasted sections ofthe web of wrapping material, and means for pressing the registered portions into adhering relation with the pasted sections of the' web of wrapping material, a concave provided with an integral, slightly raised, ledger plate, a rotary drum mounted within said concave, the clearance between said drum and said concave being slightly greater than the thickness .of the tipping material and said cutter being set in the rim of said drum and its cutting edge projecting from the periphery of said drum suiilciently to sever the web of tipping material across said ledger plate and push the severed portions along the concave.
  • a tipper the combination with mechanism for continuously advancing a web of wrapping material, of mechanism for continuously advancing a web of tipping material, av device for applying paste at predetermined intervals to the traveling web of wrapping material, a cutter operating to severportions from the traveling web of tipping materialvand of itself advance them into register with the pasted sections of the web of wrapping material, and means for pressing the registered portions into adhering relation with the pasted sections of the web of wrapping material, a concave'provded with an integral, slightly raised, ledger plate, a rotary drum mounted within said concave, the clearance between said drum and said concave being slightly greater than lthe Vthickness of the tipping material and said cutter being set inthe rim of said drum and its cutting edge projecting from the periphery of said drum suiiiciently to sever the web of tipping material across said ledger plate and push the severed portions along the concave, and said strippressing means including a protuberance on said drum, the cutter
  • a tipper the combination withmechanism for continuously advancing a web of wrapv ⁇ ping material, of mechanism for continuously advancing a web of tipping material, a device for applying paste at predetermined intervals to the l traveling web of wrapping material, a cutter operating to sever portions from the traveling web of tipping material and of itself advance them into register with the pasted sections of the web of wrapping material, and means for pressing the registered portions into adhering relation with the pasted sections of the web of wrapping material, and means for incapacitating the mechanisms for feeding the webs of wrapping and tipping material whenever either web is broken or exhausted.
  • said cutter being the only means for advancing said portions.
  • a tipper the combination with mechanism for continuously advancing a web of wrapping material, of mechanism for continuously advancing a web of tipping material, a device for applying paste at predetermined intervals to the traveling web of wrapping material, a cutter operating to sever portions from the traveling web of tipping material and of itself advance them into register with the pasted sections of vthe web of -wrapping material, and means for pressing the registered portions into adhering relation with ⁇ the pasted sections of the web of wrapping material, and means vfor incapacitating the mechanisms for feeding the webs of wrapping and tipping material whenever either web is broken or exhausted, a-concave provided with an integral, slightly raised, ledger plate, a rotary drum mounted rwithin said concave, the clearance between said drum and said concave being slightly greater than the thicknessof the tipping material, and said cutter being set in therim of said drum and its cutting edge projecting from the periphery of said drum suilicientlyto sever-the web of tipping material across said ledger plate
  • a tipper the combination with mechanism for continuously advancing a web of wrapping material, of mechanism for continuously advancing a webl of tipping material, a device for applying paste at predetermined intervals to the traveling web of wrapping material, members arranged and spaced to receive the web of tipping material therebetween and guide the same, a
  • cutter operating to sever portions from the travellng web of tipping material as it is advanced between said'members and of itself advance said severed portions between said members into register with the pasted sections of the web of wrapping material, said cutter being the only means -for advancing said portions, andv means for pressing 'the registered portionsv into adhering .relation with the pasted sections of the web of wrapping material.
  • a tipper the combination with mecha-l nism for continuously advancing a web of wrapping material, of mechanism for continuously advancing a web of tipping material, members arranged and spaced to receive the web of tipping material therebetween and guide the same, a
  • cutter operating to sever portions from the trav-4 eling web of tipping material as it is advanced between said members and of itself advance said severed portions between said members into engagement with the web of wrapping material, said cutter being the only means for advancing Said portions, and'means for pressing said severed portions into adhering relation with the web of wrapping material.
  • a cutter operating -to sever portions from the traveling web of tipping material as it is -advanced between said members and of itself advance said severed portions' between said members into engagement with the web of wrapping material, and means for pressing said severed portions into adhering relation with the web of wrapping material, said members including a stationary ccncave and a rotary drum in the rim of which said cutter is set.
  • a tipper In a tipper, the combination with mechanism for continuously advancing a web of tip-ping ⁇ material, of members arranged and spaced to receive the web of tipping material therebetween and guide the same, and a cutter operating to sever portions from the traveling web of tipping material as it is advanced between said members and of itself advance said severed portions between said members, said cutter being the only means for advancing said portions.
  • a tipper In a tipper, the combination with mechanism for continuously advancing a web of wrapping material, of mechanism for continuouslyadvancing a web of tipping material, a device for applying paste at predetermined intervals to the ping material, of mechanism for 'continuously advancing a web of tipping material, a cutteroperating to sever portions from the traveling web of tipping material, relatively moving members arranged and spaced to receive the web of tipping material therebetween and smooth and guide- Cil the same under@ the cutter and'guide the portions severed therefrom into engagement with the web of wrapping material, and means for pressing said severed portions into adhering relation with the web of wrapping material.
  • a tipper the'combination with mechanism for continuously advancing a web of wrapping material, of mechanism for continuously advancing a web of tipping material, a cutter operating to sever portions from the traveling web of tipping material and advance them on vto the wrapping material, and an immovable member arranged to guide the same under the cutter and guide the severed portions into engagement with the web of wrapping material.
  • a tipper the combination with mechanism for continuously advancing a web of wrapping material, of 'mechanism for continuously advancing a web of tipping material, a cutter operating to sever portions from the traveling web of tipping material, and members arranged and spaced to receive the web of tipping material therebetween and guide the same under the cutter and guidethesevered portions into engagement with the web oi' wrapping material, said members including a stationary concave and a rotary drum in the rim of which said cutter is set.
  • a tipper for cigarette machines the comv bination with vmechanism for continuously advancing a web of wrapping material, mechanism for continuously advancing a web of tipping material, members arranged and spaced to receive tip material and guide the same to said wrapping material, a cutter, and means imparting operating movement to said cutter across said tip material to sever a tip therefrom and against the rear cut edge of the severed tip portion in a direction lengthwise of said tipping material to push the severed tip from severing position .to a position in engagement with said Wrapping material, said cutter being the only means for ad vancing said severed tip portion.
  • a tipper for cigarette machines the combination with mechanism -for advancing a web of wrapping material, mechanism for advancing a web of tipping material, members arranged and spaced to receive tip material and guide the same to said wrapping material, a cutter, and means imparting operatingl movement to said cutter across said tip material to sever a tip therefrom and against the rear cut-edge of the severed tip portion in a direction lengthwise of said tipping material to push the severed tip from severing position to a position in engagement with said wrapping material,l said movement imparting means including driving parts advancing said cutter substantiallyV at the speed of advance of said wrapping material to deliver the cut tip to said last mentioned position at substantially the same speed as that of the wrapping material, said cutter being the only means Yfor advancing said severed tip portion.
  • a tipper for cigarette machines the combination with mechanism for continuously advancinga web of wrapping material, of mechanism for continuously advancing a web of tipping material at a slower speed than that of the wrapping material, a cutter for cutting tips from said tip material, means providing a tip-way from tip cutting position to av position in engagement with the wrapping material, and operating means for said cutter imparting feeding movement thereto atsubstantially the speed of the wrapping material to advance the severed tips along said way.
  • a tipper In a tipper, the combination with mechanism -for continuously advancing a web of paper, of mechanism for continuously advancing a web of tipping material at linear speed less than that Aof the paper, a device for applying paste at regular intervals to the traveling paper web, a rotary cutter moving at a constant linear speed equal to that of the paper for cutting the web of tipping l material and operating to advance the cut strips into register with successive pasted sections of the paper, and means for pressing said registered portions into adhering relation with the pasted sections of the paper.
  • a tipper In a tipper, the combination with mechanism for continuously advancing a webof paper, of mechanism for continuously advancing a web of tipping material at a linear speed less than that of the paper, a device for applying paste at regular intervals to the traveling paper web, and a member rotating constantly at the linear speed of the paper and operating to sever lengths from the web of tipping material and advance them into register with successive pasted sections of the paper web. 25.
  • a tipper In a tipper, the combination with mechanism for continuously advancing a web of paper, of mechanism for continuously advancing a web of tipping material at a linear speed less than that oi.' the paper, a device for applying paste at regular intervals to the traveling paper web, and a member rotating constantly at the linear speed of the paper and operating to sever lengths from the web of tipping material and advancey them into register with successive pasted sections of the paper web, and press them into adhering relation therewith.
  • a tipper In a tipper, the combination with means for advancing a web of paper, of means for advancing a web of tipping material, a device for applying paste at regular intervals to the traveling paper web, mechanism for severing lengths from the web of tipping material and advancing them into register with successive pasted sections ofthe paper web, and means acting to detect absence of severed lengths of tipping material in said mechanism while the same is operating to advance a severed length, and thereupon incapacitate the means for advancing the web of tipping material.
  • a tipper In a tipper, the combination with means for advancing a web of paper, of means for ad-L of the paper web, means vacting to detect absence of severed lengths of tipping material in said mechanism while the same is operating to advance a severed length, and thereupon incapacitate the means for advancing the web of tipping material and the means for advancing the paper web.
  • a tipper the combination with means for advancing a web of paper, of means for advancing a web of tipping material, a device for applying paste at regular ,intervals to the traveling paper web, mechanism for severing lengths from the web o1' tipping material and advancing them into register with successive pasted sections of the paper web, and means acting to detect absence of severed lengths of tipping material in said mechanism while the same is operating to advance a severed length, and thereupon inamasar capacitate the means for advancing the web of tipping material, the means for advancing the paper web and said device.
  • a tipper the combination with means for advancing a web of paper, of means for advancing a web of tipping material, a device for applying paste at regular intervals to the trave1' ing paper web, mechanism for severing lengths from the web of tipping material and advancing them into register with successive pasted sections of the paper web, means acting to detect absence of severed lengths of tipping material in said mechanism while the same is operating to advance a severed length, and thereupon incapacitate the means for advancing he web of tipping material and said device.

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FR791371D FR791371A (fr) 1935-02-26 1935-06-17 Perfectionnements aux mécanismes pour appliquer de petites pièces d'une matière de recouvrement ou à constituer des bouts sur une bande de matière d'enveloppement avancant d'une manière continue

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Cited By (6)

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US2423554A (en) * 1940-02-19 1947-07-08 Davidson Glenn Method of and means for making mouthpiece cigarettes
US2449047A (en) * 1941-06-27 1948-09-14 Minnesota Mining & Mfg Automatic adhesive tape dispenser
US3023128A (en) * 1957-11-27 1962-02-27 Wolf Detroit Envelope Company Envelope making machine
US3212507A (en) * 1961-03-16 1965-10-19 Hauni Werke Koerber & Co Kg Apparatus for producing mouthpiece cigarettes
US4001072A (en) * 1972-09-13 1977-01-04 Minnesota Mining And Manufacturing Company Applicator for pressure-sensitive adhesive fasteners
US4869775A (en) * 1988-04-26 1989-09-26 Quittner John P Tab depositing dispenser

Cited By (6)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US2423554A (en) * 1940-02-19 1947-07-08 Davidson Glenn Method of and means for making mouthpiece cigarettes
US2449047A (en) * 1941-06-27 1948-09-14 Minnesota Mining & Mfg Automatic adhesive tape dispenser
US3023128A (en) * 1957-11-27 1962-02-27 Wolf Detroit Envelope Company Envelope making machine
US3212507A (en) * 1961-03-16 1965-10-19 Hauni Werke Koerber & Co Kg Apparatus for producing mouthpiece cigarettes
US4001072A (en) * 1972-09-13 1977-01-04 Minnesota Mining And Manufacturing Company Applicator for pressure-sensitive adhesive fasteners
US4869775A (en) * 1988-04-26 1989-09-26 Quittner John P Tab depositing dispenser

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