US3665931A - Cigarette ripping device - Google Patents

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US3665931A
US3665931A US48161A US3665931DA US3665931A US 3665931 A US3665931 A US 3665931A US 48161 A US48161 A US 48161A US 3665931D A US3665931D A US 3665931DA US 3665931 A US3665931 A US 3665931A
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A24—TOBACCO; CIGARS; CIGARETTES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES; SMOKERS' REQUISITES
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  • cigarettes are processed to separate the tobacco from the other parts of the cigarette.
  • the cigarettes are stored in a random manner in a bin.
  • An endless belt having paddle-like projections scoops cigarettes from the bin and deposits them onto a feed track having a plurality of channels. The cigarettes travel along each of the channels in end-to-end relationship.
  • the cigarette paper As the cigarettes travel along the channels, the cigarette paper is wet along a line that is parallel to the axis of the cigarette, the paper is opened along the wet line, the cigarette is further opened and filter plugs, if present, are broken away, and the tobacco is then separated from the other parts of the cigarette.
  • Cigarette ripping devices of two main types are currently in use. One is a long rod ripping device and the other is a single cigarette (with or without filter plug) ripping device.
  • cigarette making machinery incorporated a ripping device which was generally used to rip not only the long rod but also single cigarettes which were rejected as being defective or the like.
  • the cutting blade which should incise the paper only, actually penetrates into the cigarettes, thus partially degrading some of the tobacco by cutting part of the tobacco shreds.
  • the defective cigarettes are stored for a substantial interval of time before being fed to a ripping device, thus allowing the cut tobacco to dry below the normal moisture values and cause degradation of the tobacco.
  • the blade when ripping defective cigarettes having filter tips, also cuts the filter paper to cause cellulose acetate threads from the filter to mix with the cut tobacco. It is to be noted that cellulose acetate adversely affects the taste.
  • a vibrating sieve is utilized to separate the tobacco from the paper after the cigarette is ripped.
  • cigarettes that are to be ripped are picked up from a hopper where they are stored in bulk, and then longitudinally aligned in an orderly manner along a plurality of parallel and adjoining feed tracks. Thereafter, they are moved under a wetting roller positioned transversely to the tracks which wets a portion of the paper of each of the cigarettes longitudinally from one end to the other. The cigarettes are then engaged by a ripping roller which tears open the cigarettes along the transversely positioned wet area. The cigarettes so opened are then moved to a finned striking roller which further opens the cigarettes and partially separates the filter plug from the cigarette.
  • the opened and broken cigarette then drops onto a vibrating sieve through which most of the cut tobacco falls.
  • the paper and the filter plugs are then conveyed to a tumbler when they are subjected to a centrifugal force which separates the remaining tobacco shreds by whipping.
  • the shreds of paper and filter tips are then pneumatically discharged, completely clean of tobacco into a receptacle and a bag.
  • FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a cigarette ripping device in accordance with the principles of this invention.
  • the cigarettes to be ripped are positioned randomly in a hopper 1 from where they are picked up by the lugs or pockets 2 of an elevating conveyor 3.
  • the cigarettes are discharged by the pockets 2 at the top of a chute 4.
  • the chute has a group of parallel depressions which form a plurality of grooves or channels which extend in the direction of the chute slope.
  • the channels of chute 4 have alternate crests of two difierent heights, the lower crests being designated 4a and the higher crests 4b, the distance between a low crest and the two adjacently positioned higher crests being less than the length of a cigarette.
  • Chute 4 discharges the cigarettes onto a conveyor 5 which, starting from the outlet end of chute 4, is subdivided into a plurality of parallel tracks by means of a group of fixed spaced apart guides 6.
  • a vibratory or shaking motion is impressed upon the assembly guide 6 in a direction that is transverse to the motion of the conveyor 5, which motion induces the cigarettes to enter the tracks between the spaced apart guides 6 wherein the longitudinal axis of the cigarettes are aligned in the direction of movement of the conveyor 5.
  • the cigarettes so transported by the conveyor 5 pass under a rotary cylinder 7 having appropriate radial fins which push back those cigarettes which surmount those presently positioned within the tracks. The cigarettes so pushed back eventually find and enter a free space in the tracks.
  • a rubber surfaced roller 8 Downstream of the finned rotary cylinder 7 relative to the forward direction of motion of the cigarettes on conveyor 5, there is mounted a rubber surfaced roller 8.
  • the roller 8 is mounted to rotate freely and its peripheral surface is kept wet with water by means of a wetting felt 10 which touches the surface of the roller. Water is fed to the felt from a row of capillary pipes 9 which, in turn, receive water from a manifold 109.
  • the manifold 109 receives water from a tank when an automatically operated tap 27 is opened.
  • the cigarettes that have been wet pass beneath and are contacted by low-speed rotating roller 11 having a plurality of spaced sharp-edged peripheral annular projections or discs.
  • the discs contact and compress the cigarettes along the previously wet surface and tear the paper of the cigarette along its entire length.
  • the cigarettes that are broken are fed from the discharge end of conveyor 5 to a vibrating sieve 14, where most of the cut tobacco is separated from the paper and falls onto an underlying conveyor 15 which discharges the tobacco into a container 16 if desired onto another conveyor.
  • the cigarette paper and the filter plugs pass from the vibrating sieve 14 to a tumbler 17 consisting of four rollers 18, each provided with flexible radially extending stripes composed of, for instance, polyvinyl chloride cloth or other suitable material.
  • a net positioned below the rollers 18 is to follow partially the curved section of the peripheral route of rollers 18.
  • Rollers 18 are rotatably driven at a high speed such that the radially extending stripes 118 violently and repeatedly strike the cigarettes to further separate the cut tobacco from the paper.
  • a collecting bag 21 composed of air permeable cloth.
  • the bag is positioned within chamber 22 and is connected to the inlet of fan 23 by means of a duct 24.
  • a centrifugal device interposed in duct 24 removes tobacco dust from the air in duct 24 and feeds the tobacco collected to box 25.
  • a photocell 26 is coupled to a circuit which stops the ripping device when bag 21 is full and, at the same time, actuates the solenoid valve 27 to interrupt the flow of water from container 28 to the capillary ducts 9.
  • the bag 21 When the bag 21 if full, it can be very quickly removed and replaced with an empty one. The ripping device can then be re-started and, at the same time, the water feed to the capillary ducts 9 will be resumed.
  • the output of the system is determined by the number of cigarette conveying channels and therefore is quite high.
  • Apparatus for removing tobacco from cigarettes comprismg:
  • a hopper to receive and store cigarettes in a random manner
  • conveyor means for receiving cigarettes from the hopper and transporting them to a transfer area
  • channel means mounted at the transfer area and adapted to receive cigarettes from the conveyor means, said channel means comprises at least three grooves where each groove includes first and second side walls, said first side wall having a height that is less than the second side wall, the first and second grooves of said three grooves being a first pair of grooves and the second and third grooves of said three grooves being a second pair of grooves, the two first side walls of said first pair of grooves being coupled and forming sides of the first pair and the two second side walls of said second pair of grooves being coupled and forming sides of the second pair, and the distance from a pair of second side walls to a next occuring pair of second side walls is less than the length of a cigarette,
  • separating means for receiving the opened cigarette and separating the tobacco from the other parts thereof.
  • the structure of claim 3 including vibrator means coupled to vibrate said conveyor in a direction transverse to its direction of motion.
  • said means coupled to wet the paper of each cigarette comprises a roller coupled to rotate about an axis transverse to the direction of motion of the cigarettes, and means coupled to wet said roller with water.
  • said opening means comprises an annular knife coupled to rotate about an axis transverse to the direction of motion of the cigarette to engage and open the cigarettes along the wet line.
  • said separating means comprises a rotatable member, projections coupled to said rotatable member to strike said opened cigarettes to break the filter plug from the cigarette and to further open the opened cigarette, and a sieve means to receive the opened cigarette and separate the tobacco from the other parts of the cigarette.
  • said sieve means comprises a vibrating screen member which passes tobacco and rejects the other parts of the cigarette, feeding the parts of the cigarette rejected by the screen to a rotary paddle tumbler which separates the tobacco still adhering to the paper and pneumatic means to feed the tobacco free paper to an air permeable container.
  • the structure of claim 9 including means to stop the removal of tobacco from cigarettes when said air permeable container is full of cigarette paper.

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