US3202156A - Apparatus for filling paper cigarette tubes with tobacco - Google Patents

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US3202156A
US3202156A US337899A US33789964A US3202156A US 3202156 A US3202156 A US 3202156A US 337899 A US337899 A US 337899A US 33789964 A US33789964 A US 33789964A US 3202156 A US3202156 A US 3202156A
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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
    • A24C5/40—Hand-driven apparatus for making cigarettes
    • A24C5/42—Pocket cigarette-fillers
    • A24C5/425—Pocket cigarette-fillers for obtaining cigarettes of various lengths

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  • the primary object of the invention is to adapt the filling operation to variou lengths of cigarette tubes.
  • This object is achieved by providing the cam disc with a stop which is joined fast but adjustably to the camdisc and which limits the movements of the tobacco slide by cooperation with stationary stop surfaces projecting into its path of movement.
  • the stop may be mounted. rotatably on the driving shaft of thecam disc and be adjustable and fastenable with the aid of jecting through a slot-shaped aperture in the projection.
  • the stop surfaces preferably cooperates with the stop surfaces through a finger formed on it and penetrating into a stationary aperture which is providedin the casing of the apparatus and the bounding surfaces of whichform the stop surfaces. Depending on the positions of the stop, the latter cooperates earlier or later with the stop surfaces.
  • the stop can be utilised for controllingsaidclamp means.
  • curved portion of the cam disc which cooperates with the press plate can be provided with at least one recessed face portion, whereby the initially more powerful pressing operation is followed by premature relaxation of the press late.
  • FIGURE 1 shows a perspective view of an apparatus
  • FIGURE 2 is a sectional plan View of the apparatus of FIG. 1 with the top portion of the casing removed and with the tobacco slide in the starting position.
  • FIGURE 3 shows a plan view similar to FIGURE 2 with the tobacco slide brought into the front end position
  • FIGURE 4 is a plan view corresponding to FIGURE 2, with the tobacco slide in an intermediate position
  • FIGURE 5 illustrates a section through the apparatus of FIG. 1 on the line V-V
  • FIGURES 6 and 7 show further embodiments of the invention in sectional plan view
  • FIGURES 8 and 9 illustrate various cam discs for use with the devices of FIGS. 1 to 7 in plan view
  • FIGURE 10 shows a detail of the apparatus of FIG. 1 in elevation.
  • the apparatus shown in FIGS. 1-5 has a bottom casing part 1 and an upper casing part 2 adapted to fit on to the lower part.
  • the casing supports the operating elements of the apparatus.
  • the lower part 1 of the casing is provided with a slot-shaped aperture 3 through which passes an operating lever 5.
  • the lever 5 is fixed on a shaft 4 which is journaled in the casing.
  • the end of the lever 5 which passes out of the aperture carries a rotatable handle 6.
  • a cam disc 7 is made fast: to the shaft 4 and the lever 5, and acts on a press plate 9 through a rockable intermediate lever 8.
  • the press plate 9 is slidable in the bottom part 1 of the casing in the direction toward a tobacco magazine 11; against the action of springs it) and at the end penetrating into the magazine is bounded by a surface 9 curved in the shape of an arc of a circle and adapted to the peripheral surface of the paper cig arette tube.
  • the magazine At its upper side the magazine It is provided with a filling aperture 12 which is aligned with an aperture 12' in the upper part 2 of the casing.
  • the apertures 12 and 12' enable tobacco to beintroduced into the magazine II.
  • a longitudinally slidable tongue 13 also projects into the magazine 11 and holds fast an ejecting slide 14 which is guided in a longitudinal slot 15 in the bottom part 1 of the casing.
  • the slide 14- carries a driver pin 17 which projects into the aperture 3 and can be brought into operative connection with the operating lever 5.
  • the latter has a guide slot 16 in which the driver pin I7 engages when the operating leverS is swung accordingly.
  • a tube 18 is connected to the magazine 11.
  • the cigarette tubes can be pushed on to the tube 18 and secured by means of clamp tongs 19.
  • the tongs are rockable by means of a slide 21 about a stationary pin 28 mounted on the bottom part 1.
  • the slide 21 is ac commodated in a guide slot in the bottom part 1 of the casing and adapted to be moved longitudinally against the action of a spring 22 by a two-armed lever 23 which is rotatable at 2d.
  • the rotational movements of the lever 23 are actuated f the cam disc '7.
  • the stop 26 is movably mounted on the For this purpose the trailing the cam disc 7, the press top end of the shaft 5 and connected to the cam disc 7 by a clamping screw 27 guided in a slot 28.
  • the stop 26 15 associated with a recess 29 which is provided inthe bottom part 1 of the casing and extends over the swinging path of the cam disc 7.
  • the walls 36, 31of the recess z ' form the abutment surfaces for the stop 26or an abutment finger 26' formed thereon and penetrating into the recess.
  • An aperture 32 above the screw 27 in the upper part 2 of the casing permits the passage of a tool for loosening or tightening the screw 27. During the operation of the apparatus, the aperture 32 is closed by an insert 32, preferably of transparent material.
  • the operation of the apparatus will be described with initial reference to FIGURE 2.
  • the operating lever 5, plate 9, and the slide 14- with its tongue 13 are in the starting position.
  • the plane surface 25' of the stop 26 engages the lever 23, and the slide 21 is withdrawn by the spring 22 from the clamp tongs 19, so that the latter are opened by a non-illustrated spring and a paper cigarette tube can be placed on the tube 18 (see FIG. 10).
  • the operating lever S is swung clockwise to bring the curved portion 7' 'of the cam disc 7 into contact with the intermediate lever 8, whereby the intermediate lever /w pushes the press/pla 9 toward the magazine 11, and the tobacco contained therein is compressed into a ohann, FIG. 4.
  • the cam 25 rocks the lever 23, and the slide 21 closes the clamp tongs 19 about the paper cigarette tube on the tube 18.
  • the operating lever 5 After a quantity of tobacco has been introduced into the magazine 11 and a paper cigarette tube placed on the tube 18, the operating lever 5 is turned in the previously described manner, the press plate 9 is moved in order to compress the tobacco, and through the subsequent cooperation of the operating lever 5 and pin 17 the slide 14 with the tongue 13 is moved in the direction of the tube 18 in order to eject the tobacco.
  • This ejection operation is stopped when the finger 26' of the stop 26 bears against the wall 31 of the recess 29 (FIGURE 4). It is found that in dependence on the positions of the stop 26 and the cam disc 7 the swinging movements of the operating lever 5 are terminated earlier or later and thereby the slide 14 with its tongue 13 is moved farther or less far in the direction of the paper cigarette tube.
  • the tobacco is not excessively compressed when it is pressed into paper cigarette tubes of shorter length, nor is it left loose in paper cigarette tubes of great length.
  • the cam disc illustrated in FIGURES 2 to 5 may be replaced by cam discs which are stepped in the manner illustrated in FIGURES 8 and 9.
  • the operative curved portion 57' is provided with a shoulder 33 extending over trailing portion (in the direction of pressing), whereby towards the end of the ejection movement the pressure is released in order to facilitate the ejection and complete filling of the paper cigarette tubes with tobacco.
  • a cam disc 47 of the type illustrated in FIGURE 9 is used, after full pressure is exerted at the beginning by a curved cam portion 47', there is a temporary relaxing of pressure over the region of the shoulder 33, While the major portion of the tobacco column is ejected into the paper cigarette tube, and towards the end of the ejection movement the pressure for the remainder of the tobacco is increased again over the region of the curved portion 47", in order to fill a tube of greater length uniformly.
  • the movable parts of the apparatus such as the cam disc 7, stop 26, intermediate lever 8, press plate 9, lever 23, slide 21, and clamp tongs 19 or slide 14 are made of synthetic plastic in the embodiments illustrated.
  • FIGURE 6 shows an apparatus in which the cam disc 7 acts directly on a press plate 34 in a known manner.
  • the cam disc 7 is provided with a curved portion 7' of the type illustrated in FIGURES 1 to 5, but may also have a curved portion of the type illustrated in FIG- URES 8 and 9. It carries a fixed but adjustable stop 26 which abuts against the stationary walls 30, 31 to terminate the rocking movements of the operating lever 5 earlier or later and to permit the uniform filling of paper cigarette tubes of different lengths.
  • FIGURE 7 shows a stop 126 for a cam disc.
  • the sliding movements of the press plate 37 mounted in a guide 36 on the bottom part 35 are actuated by means of a link or parallelogram linkage 38 which is operated through a pin 38' and a cam slot 39 on the disc 4d.
  • the driving shaft 41 of the disc 46 is connected to an operating lever (not illustrated) and through links 42, 43 acts on a tobacco slide 44 having a tongue 45 which passes through the paper receiving tube 46 during the ejection operation.
  • the stop 126 is loosely mounted on the driving shaft 41 and i adjustably fastened to the disc 46 by means of a clamping screw 27 and shift'able in a slot 28.
  • a finger 26' on the stop 126 engages a recess 29 whose walls 30, 31 stop the finger 26. Depending on the position of the stop 126, the finger 26' abuts against the walls 30, 31 after movement of the operating lever through a smaller or larger angle for filling shorter or longer paper cigarette tubes.
  • Apparatus for filling cigarette tubes with tobacco comprising, in combination:
  • fastening means for releasably fastening one of said abutment means to a corresponding one of said members in a plurality of positions spaced from each other in the direction of said path and for thereby varying the spacing between said intermediate and terminal positions;
  • second motion transmitting means interposed between said operating member and said ejecting means for moving said ejecting means while said operating member moves from said intermediate position to said terminal position, and for thereby ejecting said column over a distance which is a direct function of the spacing of said intermediate and terminal positions.
  • one of said motion transmitting means include a cam member operatively connected to said operating member for joint angular movement about said axis, and said one abutment means in- 'clude an abutment member releasably fastened to said cam member by said fastening means, said plurality of positions of said one abutment means being angularly spaced about said axis.
  • cam member and said abutment member constitute a pair of members, one member of said pair being formed with an elongated arcuate slot about said axis, and said fastening means include a clamping member engaging said slot for longitudinal movement therein and movable on the other member of said pairtoward andaway from a position in which said clamping member engages said one member of said pair for fastening the same to said other member.
  • sup port member is formed with a recess, said abutment member being movable in said recess, and a face of said support member in said recessconstitutingthe other abutment means cooperating with said one abutment means.
  • said one motion transmitting means is said first motion transmitting means
  • said cam member has two arcuate face portions about said axes, said face portions being circumferentially consecutive and the spacing of one of said face portions from said aXis being smaller than the spacing of the other face portion from said axis, said pressure means sequentially engaging said face portions during said angular movement of said cam member.
  • said one motion transmitting means is said first motion transmitting means
  • said cam member has three circumferentially consecutive face portions, said face portions being arcuate about said axis, one of said face portions being circumferentially interposed between the other two face portions, and the spacing of said one face portion from said axis being smaller than the corresponding spacings of said other face'portions, said pressure means sequentially engaging said face portions during said angular movement of said cam member.

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