US3485337A - High speed cigarette turnaround and conveyor drum - Google Patents

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US3485337A
US3485337A US708475A US3485337DA US3485337A US 3485337 A US3485337 A US 3485337A US 708475 A US708475 A US 708475A US 3485337D A US3485337D A US 3485337DA US 3485337 A US3485337 A US 3485337A
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John R Everhart
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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
    • A24C5/33—Catching or ordering devices
    • A24C5/336—Turning means
    • Y—GENERAL 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
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10S—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10S198/00—Conveyors: power-driven
    • Y10S198/951—Turning cigarettes end-for-end

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  • the cigarettes in one row of the transport members are deposited at a second location onto a fluted conveyor drum of cylindrical or conical frustum configuration.
  • the transport members are successively and reciprocally tilted by pairs into opposing relation with one another and the cigarettes carried by the other row of transport members are thereupon transferred to the one row thereof.
  • the transferred cigarettes are deposited on the fluted conveyor drum at the second location. The latter accordingly receives only cigarettes oriented to having their filter tip structures at a common end.
  • each transport flute member 18 in the row B thereof is released by release of the flute vacuum through a vacum release port 33 of the valve plate 20 and is thereupon transferred to the corresponding flute member 18 in the row A thereof since the latter has a vacuum impressed on its flute through the vacuum-control port 21 of the valve plate 20.
  • the flute member of row B has its flute cleaned of possible tobacco particles by positive air pressure supplied from a pressure source (not shown) through a conduit 34 to a pressure port 35 of the valve plate 20.
  • cigarettes are retained in and released from the flutes 19 of the flute members 18 by application and release of vacuum to the flutes under control of the valve plate 20.
  • the latter is retained against rotation on the spindle 17 by a key 84 seated in cooperating keyways 85 formed axially in the valve plate 20 and end plate hub portion 59, but may slide longitudinally of the spindle and is biased by a helical compression spring 86 into engaging relation with a hardened wear-resistant steel plate 87 secured by machine screws 88 on the end of the drum flange 16 as shown.
  • a cigarette turnaround or conveyor drum embodying the invention operates rapidly to convey a succession of individual cigarettes from one location to another while pivoting the cigarette axes in succession and under positive control through any preselected angle during transport of the cigarettes from the one location to the other thereof.
  • the cigarette turnaround or conveyor drum of the invention has the further advantage that it is characterized by conveyor operation at high cigarette handling rate with positive cigarette control at all times regardless of whether the axes of successive cigarettes are merely tilted through a small angle during their transport from one location to another or are turned around end-for-end during transport between such locations.
  • cam means includes opposing cam surfaces providing a continuous cam groove confiningly engaged by said follower rollers.

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Cited By (8)

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US3863750A (en) * 1972-02-24 1975-02-04 Amf Inc Device for forming pairs of axially aligned cigarettes with an interposed double filter
US3973671A (en) * 1974-01-30 1976-08-10 Hauni-Werke Korber & Co., Kg Apparatus for changing the orientation of filter cigarettes or the like
US4090602A (en) * 1976-07-20 1978-05-23 Hauni-Werke Korber & Co. Kg Tip turning apparatus for cigarettes or the like
US4211318A (en) * 1976-10-20 1980-07-08 Arenco-Decoufle, Societe Anonyme Plate with tilted reversal heads for a device for orientating cigarettes
US4664249A (en) * 1983-12-29 1987-05-12 Sasib S.P.A. Turn around device for filter cigarettes
EP0641524A1 (en) * 1993-09-01 1995-03-08 G.D Societa' Per Azioni Combined manufacturing-filter assembly unit for producing filter-tipped cigarettes
US6591967B1 (en) * 1999-06-14 2003-07-15 Sidel Conveyor system and installation for blow-moulding of containers
CN111443002A (zh) * 2020-04-28 2020-07-24 河南中烟工业有限责任公司 一种磁吸式卷烟硬度测量装置

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DE2846090A1 (de) * 1978-10-23 1980-04-30 Schmermund Maschf Alfred Foerdervorrichtung an einer zigarettenmaschine
IT1207706B (it) * 1987-05-28 1989-05-25 Gd Spa Dispositivo di traslazione assiale di spezzoni di sigaretta

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US3151728A (en) * 1961-11-10 1964-10-06 Schmermund Alfred Rotary conveyor converger

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US3151728A (en) * 1961-11-10 1964-10-06 Schmermund Alfred Rotary conveyor converger

Cited By (8)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US3863750A (en) * 1972-02-24 1975-02-04 Amf Inc Device for forming pairs of axially aligned cigarettes with an interposed double filter
US3973671A (en) * 1974-01-30 1976-08-10 Hauni-Werke Korber & Co., Kg Apparatus for changing the orientation of filter cigarettes or the like
US4090602A (en) * 1976-07-20 1978-05-23 Hauni-Werke Korber & Co. Kg Tip turning apparatus for cigarettes or the like
US4211318A (en) * 1976-10-20 1980-07-08 Arenco-Decoufle, Societe Anonyme Plate with tilted reversal heads for a device for orientating cigarettes
US4664249A (en) * 1983-12-29 1987-05-12 Sasib S.P.A. Turn around device for filter cigarettes
EP0641524A1 (en) * 1993-09-01 1995-03-08 G.D Societa' Per Azioni Combined manufacturing-filter assembly unit for producing filter-tipped cigarettes
US6591967B1 (en) * 1999-06-14 2003-07-15 Sidel Conveyor system and installation for blow-moulding of containers
CN111443002A (zh) * 2020-04-28 2020-07-24 河南中烟工业有限责任公司 一种磁吸式卷烟硬度测量装置

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