US3232268A - Apparatus for lubricating cigarette-filter-forming filamentary material - Google Patents

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US3232268A
US3232268A US194778A US19477862A US3232268A US 3232268 A US3232268 A US 3232268A US 194778 A US194778 A US 194778A US 19477862 A US19477862 A US 19477862A US 3232268 A US3232268 A US 3232268A
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A24—TOBACCO; CIGARS; CIGARETTES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES; SMOKERS' REQUISITES
    • A24D—CIGARS; CIGARETTES; TOBACCO SMOKE FILTERS; MOUTHPIECES FOR CIGARS OR CIGARETTES; MANUFACTURE OF TOBACCO SMOKE FILTERS OR MOUTHPIECES
    • A24D3/00—Tobacco smoke filters, e.g. filter-tips, filtering inserts; Filters specially adapted for simulated smoking devices; Mouthpieces for cigars or cigarettes
    • A24D3/02—Manufacture of tobacco smoke filters
    • A24D3/0204—Preliminary operations before the filter rod forming process, e.g. crimping, blooming
    • A24D3/0212—Applying additives to filter materials
    • A24D3/022—Applying additives to filter materials with liquid additives, e.g. application of plasticisers
    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D01—NATURAL OR MAN-MADE THREADS OR FIBRES; SPINNING
    • D01D—MECHANICAL METHODS OR APPARATUS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ARTIFICIAL FILAMENTS, THREADS, FIBRES, BRISTLES OR RIBBONS
    • D01D5/00—Formation of filaments, threads, or the like
    • D01D5/04—Dry spinning methods
    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D04—BRAIDING; LACE-MAKING; KNITTING; TRIMMINGS; NON-WOVEN FABRICS
    • D04H—MAKING TEXTILE FABRICS, e.g. FROM FIBRES OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL; FABRICS MADE BY SUCH PROCESSES OR APPARATUS, e.g. FELTS, NON-WOVEN FABRICS; COTTON-WOOL; WADDING ; NON-WOVEN FABRICS FROM STAPLE FIBRES, FILAMENTS OR YARNS, BONDED WITH AT LEAST ONE WEB-LIKE MATERIAL DURING THEIR CONSOLIDATION
    • D04H3/00—Non-woven fabrics formed wholly or mainly of yarns or like filamentary material of substantial length
    • D04H3/08—Non-woven fabrics formed wholly or mainly of yarns or like filamentary material of substantial length characterised by the method of strengthening or consolidating
    • D04H3/16—Non-woven fabrics formed wholly or mainly of yarns or like filamentary material of substantial length characterised by the method of strengthening or consolidating with bonds between thermoplastic filaments produced in association with filament formation, e.g. immediately following extrusion

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  • This invention relates to apparatus for making and treating filters and materials.
  • cigarette filters which are presently available on the market are composed of small rods made from tows or bundles of synthetic filaments.
  • the component filaments extend substantially longitudinally of the cigarette, although at any given point the filaments generally deviate from the longitudinal direction, as by being crimped.
  • the filament producer first forms a high denier tow of the filaments, then crimps the tow, and finally packages the same in bales or cans for shipment to the filter manufacturer.
  • the latter in preparing for the actual filter forming operation, must open the tow to separate the individual filaments thereof so as to deregister their crimps, in order to ensure that there will be no channels in the ultimate filters through which smoke can pass freely.
  • the tow opening procedure is time-consuming and expensive, requiring both special apparatus and supervisory labor, and often is not 100% efficient and leads to the production of filters having a less than maximum possible filtering power.
  • a multiplicity of synthetic filaments are extruded from a plurality of adjacent orifices or jets toward a moving belt or like take-up surface, the filaments being subjected to the action of one or more transverse streams of compressed air at a level between the jets and the take-up belt, so that the filaments are whipped about and randomly entangled with one another and are then deposited on the take-up belt in the form of the desired flat web having a thickness of about 0.1 to 5.0 cm. and a width of about to 75 cm.
  • a more specific object of the present invention is to provide means whereby a treating agent can be externally applied to the newly formed web material in such a manner that the said agent reaches all parts of the material and yet is present in such small amounts that its presence is almost imperceptible in the ultimate cigarette filters.
  • the objectives of the present invention are achieved by the provision, at the Web-forming apparatus, of a treating device in which a suitable lubricant or finish composition is applied to the web, preferably after the same has been somewhat compacted into the form of a roving-like rope, substantially immediately after its formation but prior to the baling or packaging thereof for storage and/ or shipment.
  • the lubricant or finish applied to the web material is mineral oil.
  • Other finishes may also be used, e.g. silicone oils and alkyl esters of dibasic acids, as well as some vegetable oils and animal oils, but in any such case only if the finish is substantially free of all odor and taste.
  • the finish is preferably applied to the extent of about 0.1% to about 2% by weight of the starting web material based on the dry weight of the latter.
  • the means employed for applying the finish to the filamentary material preferably comprises a self-contained unit housing a wick roll arrangement in which a metal drum or roll rotating while partially immersed in a supply of mineral oil or other finish is in surface contact with a felt-covered wick or transfer roll which in turn is in rolling surface contact with one of a pair of feed rolls between which the said roving-like rope is passed.
  • a unit also includes means providing a relatively long path of tension-free travel for the lubricated or finished filamentary materials, so as to ensure that the applied treating agent can penetrate the material and reach substantially all portions thereof.
  • FIG. 1 is a schematic illustration of the web-forming and treating apparatus according to the present invention
  • FIG. 2 is a partly sectional elevational view of a preferred form of the lubricant applicator unit of the apparatus shown in FIG. 1;
  • FIG. 3 is a schematic illustration of a filter rod forming apparatus in which the lubricated filamentary material is processed by the cigarette manufacturer.
  • the apparatus for forming the filamentary material of which the ultimate cigarette filters are to be produced comprises in essence a cabinet 10 provided with a hot air intake duct 11 and a vapor exhaust duct 12.
  • a cabinet 10 provided with a hot air intake duct 11 and a vapor exhaust duct 12.
  • an endless belt 15 preferably made of wire mesh screen or like highly porous material.
  • a spinnerette or jet 16 Arranged above the upper reach of the belt 15, in the region of the drum 13, is a spinnerette or jet 16 provided with a multiplicity of narrow extrusion orifices (not shown) and connected by means of a conduit 17 to a source of filament-forming dope, e.g. a solution of filament-forming materials in filamentary web structure.
  • a volatile solvent under pressure.
  • two preferably inclined nozzles 18 and 19 Arranged at opposite sides of the extrusion jet or series of jets 16, and at a level intermediate the latter and the belt 15, are two preferably inclined nozzles 18 and 19 which are oriented to direct streams of an inert fluid, such as compressed air, at the filaments F descending from the jet 16 toward the upper take-up surface of the belt 15.
  • the filamentforming material in liquid phase e.g. in solution
  • the orifices in the jet 16 in the form of substantially parallel continuous filaments which are withdrawn from the extrusion area at a linear speed considerably slower than the linear speed at which the filament-forming material is extruded through the orifices, so that the weight of the resulting structure per unit length is considerably greater than if the filaments were to be withdrawn at the same linear speed at which they are extruded.
  • the streams of air cause the filaments to be whipped about and entangled with one another so as to wander randomly throughout the structure. Also, in view of the fact that the belt 15 is driven in the direction obvious in FIG.
  • the entangled filamentary structure upon reaching the upper surface of the belt, will be moved away from the region of the jet in the form of a matted web of predetermined width and thickness, as will be more fully explained presently.
  • the exact rate of withdrawal will depend upon the number of orifices, the speed of extrusion and the desired denier of the structure, i.e. the desired weight in grams of 9,000 meters of the
  • the denier of the whole material generally ranges from about 40,000 to 500,000 and preferably from about 55,000 to 100,000.
  • the denier of the individual filaments generally ranges from about 0.5 to 25 and preferably is less than about 10. It is an advantageous feature of this arrangement that filaments as small as 3 denier and even less than 2 denier, if desired, can readily be produced.
  • the number of filaments i.e. the number of extrusion orifices in the jet 16, may be as much as 3,000 or more although preferably it is less than about 1,800; increasing the number of filaments under a given set of spinning conditions permits the same total denier to be produced at a higher withdrawal speed.
  • the withdrawal ratio i.e. the ratio of the linear extrusion speed to web with drawal speed, preferably is at least about 25, although it may be as low as about 10 or 15. Lower withdrawal ratios will reduce the effective filtration surface and/or the randomness of the filament arrangement, which randomness contributes to the absence of channeling and to high filtration efficiency.
  • the selected ratio will, of course, be correlated with the number of filaments and their denier to produce a web W of predetermined total denier, the number of filaments and their individual average denier will vary inversely, i.e. their product will be a constant which, when multiplied by the withdrawal ratio, will equal the total denier.
  • the width and/or the thickness of the web material may vary widely.
  • the material may be extruded under conditions giving a structure about 5 to 50 mm. or more in thickness, in which event the structure will be quite narrow, generally below 300 mm. and possibly as little as about 25 mm.
  • the structure may be as much as 500 mm. or more in width, in which event it will usually be only 1 or 2 mm. in thickness.
  • the width may be positively controlled by providing a pair of lateral guides or bafiles (not shown) adjacent the opposite sides of the upper reach of the belt 15.
  • the apparent density of the material as measured with a substantially uncompressed sample is generally less than 1 pound per cubic foot.
  • the filaments in the web W are entangled with one another and wander randomly through the web structure in a multiplicity of directions. They are characterized by irregular crimps and bends. Inasmuch as the agitation of the filaments takes place as they are being extruded and while they are still somewhat plastic, they fuse or coalesce with one another randomly at their points of intersection, thereby providing body to the web structure which affords firmness to the resulting filters produced therefrom and eliminates the need for the subsequent steps of addition of plasticizer and curing which are customary with tow filters.
  • the compressed air or other fluid also serves to regulate the removal of solvent from the freshly formed filaments, due to the fact that as the air expands it C0015 and thus prevents too rapid a removal of solvent from the filaments surfaces.
  • an excessively rapid removal of the solvent would have the tendency to produce on each filament a hard shell resistant to outward diffusion of the solvent from the inside.
  • the filaments be extluded under extremely high pressures.
  • the extrusion pressure should exceed 600 p.s.i.g., which can be attained by employing small orifices, e.g. round orifices about .040 mm. or less in diameter, with linear rates of extrusion of 700 or more meters per minute.
  • the solvent appears to flash off and produces filaments having surface characteristics different from those generally resulting from dry spinning a solution through round orifices. Specifically, in cross section they are irregular and have many lobes and deep pits, fold, indentations, striations and/or knots.
  • the filaments F are shown in FIG. 1 as being extruded vertically downwardly, they may be extruded downwardly and at an acute angle to the plane of the support or belt 15 onto which they are deposited.
  • the cabinet may be equipped with a plurality of multiorificed jets in side by side relationship, and means may also be provided for reciprocating the extrusion jet or jets and/ or the air nozzles across the expanse of the belt 15. Since these refinements do not constitute a part of the present invention, however, they are not explicitly illustrated in the drawings, nor will they be more fully described herein.
  • filament-forming materials are organic derivatives of cellulose such as ethers and/ or esters thereof, e.g. ethyl cellulose, cellulose acetate, cellulose propionate, cellulose butyrate, cellulose acetate formate, cellulose acetate propionate, cellulose acetate butyrate, etc., which esters may be ripened so as to modify their solubility characteristics or may be unripened, i.e. containing fewer than about 0.29 free hydroxyl groups per anhydroglucose unit, such as cellulose triacetate.
  • other filament forming materials such as polyamides, e.g.
  • nylon 6 or 66 linear polyesters such as polyethylene terephthalate, acrylonitrile polymers and copoymers, olefinic polymers such as polyethylene, polypropylene polyvinyl chloride, polyvinyl acetate, polyvinyl chloride-vinyl acetate, polyvinylidene chloride, and the like, can be employed, organic acid esters of cellulose, such as cellulose acetate, are preferred and these are advantageously extruded as a solution into a heated evaporative atmosphere.
  • the formed web W taken up by the belt is moved toward an exit slot provided in an end wall 21 of the cabinet 10.
  • substantially all of the residual solvent contained in the filaments e.g. acetone in the case of cellulose acetate filaments, evaporates and is removed from the interior atmosphere of the cabinet 10 via the duct 12, leaving the web W effectively dry and with the various filaments thereof bonded to one another at their points of inter-section.
  • the web W is passed through a forming nozzle or like structure 22 in which it is reduced in width into the form of a roving-like rope R the width of which may range from about to about 100 mm.
  • the folds, of the web or rope reaches the tongue where the crust build-up has occurred, it tends to become trapped so that the section of the web or rope prior to each fold or crease is subjected to a considerable pull and necked, resulting in a plurality of thin spots in the rope.
  • the rod as well as the paper will be disfigured by one or more Wrinkles or dimples.
  • the lubricant comprises any suitable commercially available grade of mineral oil, for example light mineral oils marketed under the designations Bayol (viscosity: 50 Saybolt seconds at 100 F. and 33.4 Saybolt seconds at 210 F; specific gravity: 0.8268 at F. and 0.8221 at 77 P.) and Bayol F (viscosity: 53 Saybol-t seconds at 100 F. and 34 Saybolt seconds at 210 F; specific gravity: 0.8286 at 60 F. and 0.8237 at 77 F).
  • the lubricant is preferably applied to the filamentary material in amounts ranging from about 0.1% to about 2% by weight of the dry filamentary material, and most preferably between about 0.15 and 0.80% by weight of said material.
  • the treatment of the filamentary material in accordance with the principles of the present invention effectively eliminates the occurrence of wrinkles and dimples on the ultimately formed filter rods.
  • the application of the lubricant, e.g. mineral oil, to the filamentary mate-rial prior to the baling thereof enhances interfiber lubricity and thus reduces both the setting of the folds and the friction at the tongue. Tests have shown that the filamentary material as produced and lubricated in accordance with the present invention does not become nicked and creased even after extremely prolonged periods of compression in a bale.
  • the lubricant applicator unit 24 comprises a base 25 to the top of which is aflixed a central horizontal mounting plate 26 which supports a variable-speed drive mechanism 27 of any desired construction.
  • the mechanism 27, which may be started and stopped by means of a switch 27a, is operat-ively connected via a chain or drive belt 28 to the shaft 29 of a highly polished oiler roll 30 having a diameter of about 125 mm. and a length of about mm., the shaft 2? being rotatably journals-d in a suitable bearing structure supported atop the base 25.
  • the lowermost portion of the roll 30 is constantly immersed in a supply of mineral oil or like lubricating liquid disposed in a pan :or reservoir 31 to which additional lubricant may be supplied through a val ed conduit 52.
  • a predetermined level of the lubricant in the reservoir 31 is maintained with the aid of an overflow pipe 33.
  • the oilet" roll 30 is in frictional rolling surface contact with a felt-covered oil transfer roll 34 having a diameter of about mm. and a length of about mm, the shaft 34a of this roll being rotatably supported at its opposite ends in a bearing bracket assembly 35 carried by an arm 35a adapted to be revolved about the axis of the shaft 29.
  • the oil transfer roll 34 may thus be moved between its solid-line and broken-line positions shown in FIG. 2.
  • a suitable bearing structure atop the base 2 are two substantially vertically superposed rolls 36 and 37 made of metal or any other suitable hard material and each having a diameter of about 75 mm. and a length of about 250 mm, the upper roll 36 being smooth-surfaced and positioned to be in rolling surface contact with the lower roll 37 and with the felt-covered roll 34 when the latter is in its solid-line position.
  • the lower roll 37 is preferably fluted longitudinally and is positively driven by any suitable drive mechanism (not shown) which may be actuated through a switch 37a.
  • guard plates 38 Positioned at the opposite sides of the base 25 and adjacent the ends of the various rolls are two guard plates 38 (only one is shown) Supported by the base 25 in the center thereof is a substantially trough-shaped structure or J-box 30 one end of which is located at a point just below the discharge side of the fluted roll 37, and the other end of which is located at a point adjacent the opposite side of the base 25'.
  • the J-box 39 carries a guide member 40 which is disposed below the intake side of a pair of feed rolls 41 which are arranged in the same horizontal plane and are rotatably journaled in a suitable bearing structure on the base 25.
  • the base is provided with a pair of guard plates 42 (only one is shown).
  • the oiler roll In operation, as the oiler roll is rotated by the drive means 2728, it transfers a quantity of mineral oil or like lubricant from the reservoir 31 to the felt-covered roll 34, which in turn transfers the lubricant onto the smoothsurfaced roll 36. Consequently, with the roving like rope R being drawn through the nip of the rolls 36 and 37, of which the lower and fluted roll 37 is positively driven while the upper roll 36 rotates due to its frictional contact with the lower roll, the lubricant is applied to the rope at that portion of the surface thereof which is in contact with the roll 36. By virtue of the nature of the original filamentary web, the oil begins substantially immediately to spread and diffuse into the interior parts of the rope.
  • the arrangement of the two sets of rolls 3637 and 41-41 and the manner of feeding the rope through the unit 24 are such that the rope travels Without any externally applied tension, except for its own weight, and thus in as completely slack a condition as possible.
  • the portion of the rope R disposed between the lubricating rol ls 36-37 and the feed rolls hangs downwardly, as indicated at R, from its points of contact with the respective roll pairs and along the curved bottom 39a of the J-box 39. This increases the length of the path of travel of each given segment of the lubricated rope through the unit 24 and permits the oil applied to the rope to seep further into and penetrate through the entire rope before the latter leaves the lubricating unit.
  • the lubricated rope upon leaving the applicator unit 24, may then be packaged or baled in any suitable shipping container 23 in a manner well known to the tart.
  • any suitable shipping container 23 in a manner well known to the tart.
  • the rope R is drawn out of the bale or package 23 and fed, for example, with the aid of a pair of feed rolls 43 to the inlet trumpet or tongue 44 of a filter rod forming machine 45.
  • the rope R is still further condensed and compacted, as indicated at R", so that its cross section approximates that of a cigarette.
  • the so compacted rope or rod R" then enters a paper wrapping unit 46 of the apparatus 45 together with a strip of paper P and an endless belt 47, the paper being wrapped about the rope R and glued in the unit 46 in a conventional manner.
  • the paper-wrapped filter rod 48 issuing from the unit 46 is then cut by a knife 49 into filter plugs 50 of predetermined length.
  • the lubrication of the filamentary material also leads to a number of other noteworthy results, apart from the aforesaid elemination of wrinkles and dimples in the finished filters. In substantially eliminating the problem of tongue waxing, it leads to greater productivity as well as to greater economy of production of cigarette filters. This will be readily understood when it is considered that the encrustation deposit must be removed periodically, which necessitates shutting down the filter rod making apparatus at specified intervals to permit the tongue assembly to be cleaned.
  • the filter rods R" and filters 50 produced from the so lubricated filamentary material are possessed of greatly enhanced pressure drop characteristics, while variations in weight and diameter per unit length of filter rod are substantially reduced. Also, especially when mineral oil is employed as the lubricant, the resultant filters are found to be almost completely free of all odors and taste, a result which it has been substantially impossible to achieve heretofore with filters employing other additives or finishes.
  • Example A 26.8% by weight solution of cellulose acetate, having an acetyl value of 55%, in acetone is extruded through a jet having 304 circular holes each 0.032 mm. in diameter.
  • the linear extrusion speed is about 2000 meters per minute.
  • the pressure at the extrusion jet 16 is about 300 p.s.i.g., while the pressure at the source of the dope is 500 p.si.g.
  • the temperature of the solution is C.
  • the upper reach of the take-up belt 15 in the cabinet 10 is positioned 275 mm. below the jet 16 and advances at a speed of 50 meters per minutes. Compressed air at 20 p.s.i.g. and 25 C.
  • the resulting web W of randomly tangled filaments is about 0.3 cm. thick and has a total denier of about 80,000.
  • the web W is formed into a roving-like rope R having a diameter of about 1.5 cm.
  • the rope R is then passed through the lubricant applicator unit 24 shown in FIG. 2 where about 0.5% by weight of mineral oil (based on the dray weight of the filamentary rope R) is applied to the surface of the rope from the reservoir 31 through the intermediary of the rolls 30, 34 and 36.
  • the lubricated rope After passing through rolls 36-37 and 4141, the lubricated rope is baled and shipped to a cigarette making plane. There it is fed into a conventional filter making apparatus and converted into paper-wrapped filter plugs 17 mm. long, about 25 mm. in circumference, and weighing about 0.155 gram each. When tested, such filter plugs are found to be completely free of wrinkles and dimples. By way of comparison, filter plugs of the same dimensions were made from two batches of the same type of filamentary web material which were not lubricated prior to baling, and one of which was kept in baled form under compression for a longer period than the other.
  • the plugs made from the lubricated filamentary material are found to have greater hardness, higher pressure drop and improved filtration efficiency, as well as more uniform circumference and weight characteristics, than the plugs made from the other batches of unlubricated filamentary material.
  • Apparatus for treating cigarette-filter-forming filamentary material which is produced as an immediate adjunct to the extrusion of a plurality of synthetic filaments by the transformation of the latter into a mass of said filaments wandering randomly among one another in a multiplicity of directions and including numerous irregular crimps, bends and entanglements comprising means for moving said filamentary material away from the production location thereof, and means coacting with said moving means for applying lubricant to said filamentary material, said lubricant applying means comprising rotatable roll means carrying on the peripheral surface thereof a film of said lubricant and means for retaining said filamentary material in surface contact with said roll means during the movement of said filamentary material past said roll means, said roll means comprising at least one first roll having a smooth peripheral surface and mounted for free rotation, and said retaining means comprising at least one second roll juxtaposed to said first roll and in frictional rolling contact therewith for passage of said filamentary material between said rolls, said second roll having a fluted peripheral surface, and drive means operatively connected to

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