US3707219A - Conveyor device having containers for storing and assembling overlying layered sets of side by side arranged cigarettes for packing up thereof as packets in cigarette packaging machines - Google Patents

Conveyor device having containers for storing and assembling overlying layered sets of side by side arranged cigarettes for packing up thereof as packets in cigarette packaging machines Download PDF

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US3707219A
US3707219A US125936A US3707219DA US3707219A US 3707219 A US3707219 A US 3707219A US 125936 A US125936 A US 125936A US 3707219D A US3707219D A US 3707219DA US 3707219 A US3707219 A US 3707219A
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  • a conveyor device having cigarette storing containers wherein cigarettes are arranged side by side at a plurality of supply stations for assembling overlying layered sets and packet packing up in cigarette packaging machines, characterized by comprising a belt element having one of its faces provided with transverse teeth longitudinally arranged throughout the belt length, said toothed belt element having an elongated looped configuration with horizontal runs about idle gears, wherein said transverse toothing is internally of said loop so as to mesh in a drive belt fashion with the toothing of said idle gears and having attached to the face opposite the transverse toothing and externally of the loop said cigarette set storing and assembling containers, said toothed belt element also being of a substantially inextensible material having a resiliently yieldable structure; protective fairing means being provided for a boxlike protection of the zone within the loop as defined by said toothed belt element and respective idle gears; and guide means being also provided for guiding said toothed belt element along said horizontal runs.
  • This invention relates to a conveyor device having containers for storing and assembling overlying layered sets of side by side arranged cigarettes for packing up thereof as packets in cigarette packaging machines.
  • the conveyor device is applicable to such machines as used for forming sets of overlying multi-layered cigarettes operating, when forming such cigarette sets, by sequential steps, i.e., forming said individual sets according to a predetermined number of cigarettelayers, subsequently overlying said cigarette layers, each of which comprising a certain number of cigarettes.
  • these conventional machines provide as many stations, which are side by side arranged and spaced apart from one another, as the layers comprising the cigarette set intended to be obtained and to each of these machines the cigarettes are sequentially supplied according to a side by side arrangement and in a same number as that desired for a corresponding layer; a conveyor device including a plurality of containers for carrying each container to sequentially stop at all of said stations; and means for transferring at the same time an individual cigarette layer from each of said stations into the container respectively at a stop thereat, so that, as each individual set is completed at the end of the successive stops of the corresponding container at all of said stations, a complete set is provided at each stop.
  • This spacing between the cigarette storing and assembling containers correspond to the gauge length for the conveyor device which, as known, in order to sequentially carry said containers to stop at the cigarette storing stations is intermittently or step driven, that is by a translation and a stop for each intermittency or step.
  • the present invention relates to a conveyor device for transferring orderly groups of cigarettes arranged to be packed as individual packets of cigarettes.
  • the conveyor device comprises an endless elongated belt element of a molded length of a resiliently yieldable material that provides functional rigidity.
  • the elon-' gated belt element has face portions thereon and is mounted for horizontal runs.
  • a plurality of spaced tubular container means are provided for holding the groups of cigarettes and are mounted on one of the face portions.
  • the containers are provided with, notch means.
  • Gear means are rotatably supported at the ends of the elongated belt element.
  • transverse teeth means are formed integrally with the molded length.
  • the teeth means are longitudinally arranged and are spaced along the length of the elongated belt element and are movable into cooperative engagement with the gear means.
  • FIG. 1- is a schematic front perspective view showing the conveyor device of the invention as applied to a machine for forming sets of sequentially. individually overlying 'multilayered cigarettes;
  • FIG. 2 is a schematic enlarged view showing the positively controlled end of said conveyor device according to a front elevational view with some portions being broken away and sectioned for better showing other portions;
  • FIG. 3 shows the same conveyor device-,in a sectional view taken along the broken line Il-II in FIG. 2 and seen in the direction of the respective end arrows A- A.
  • Said containers 1a have a tubular box-like shape of a rectangular crosssection and on the outermost face thereof relative to the conveyor element hereinafter described in more detail have a longitudinal opening 1b and a transverse notch 1c, the function of which is apparent'from the above mentioned reference.
  • the cigarettes to be assembled according to such overlying layered sets and then supplied to the packing up packaging machine, such as, for example, the high unit output rate type. of machine as disclosed in the above mentioned US. Pat. application Ser. No. 721,525, are moved parallel to one another into the supply hopper 2 in any known manner, as provided, for
  • the cigarettes from the hopper 2 will downward move by gravity passing through'channels leading them to the stations 2a, 2b and 2c in a side by side intercontacting arrangement and in an amount the same as that desired for making up a respective cigarette layer, for example in the case shown of three stations for forming tri-layered cigarette sets, having seven cigarettes for the outer stations and six cigarettes for the intermediate station.
  • the conveyor device 1 provided with an intermittent or step movement, when moving will carry its containers 1a to stop opposite said stations 2a, 2b and 2c, whereas during its stops, that is between one translation movement and the other, the reciprocable pusher device 3 will urge in its forward movement through its heads 3a, 3b and 3c the lowermost cigarette layer at the stations 2a, 2b and 2c from these stations into the containers respectively at a stop in front-of said stations.
  • the conveyor device 1 having, as explained hereinbelow, the cigarette storing and assembling containers la attached thereto, comprises according to the invention a belt element 1d having one of its faces provided with transverse teeth 1e longitudinally arranged throughout its length. Said transverse teeth 1e extend in the lengthwise direction thereof for a length limited to the median transverse zone of said belt element 1d.
  • This toothed belt element id is provided of substan- .tially inextensible material having a resiliently yieldable structure, such as of the type as manufactured and sold by Societa Pirelli under the trademark ISORAN, and is formed as an elongated loop having horizontal runs about idle gears 4 and 5, wherein said transverse teeth 1e are internally of said loop so as to mesh in a drive belt fashion with the toothing of said idle gears4 and 5. Said toothing of the idle gears 4 and 5 so develope in the tooth direction as to provide a crown gear of a width about-correspondingly the same as that for the median transverse teeth 1e of the belt element 1d.
  • Said idle gears 4 and 5 are carried by respective horizontal axes 6 and 7, one of which being positively controlled, such as axis 7 and associated idle gear 5, as from the corresponding above mentioned references.
  • the conveyor device 1 travels during its intermittent movement to carry said containers la to stop at the stations 2a, 2b and 2c which, in turn, in the present example are spaced apart from one another by a spacing twice as the length of said gauge, so that each container is carried to stop successively at each of said stations every other intermittency or step.
  • the attachment of said containers to said toothed element 1d can thus at one of the teeth or between two subsequent teeth.
  • the attachment will be accomplished with the aid of a plate 8 having such a transverse profile as to mate the outer tooth contour, while in the latter case the attachment is accomplished with the aidof a plate 8a having such a transverse profile as to accomodate the contour of the space between two subsequent teeth; in both cases, said attachment is completed by pairs of screws 9 integral with said containers la and by clamping nuts 10 (as particularly shown in FIGS. 2 and 3).
  • Such an attachment for the containers la involves having on the width of said idle gears 4 and 5 the provision of grooves, respectively indicated at 4a and 5a, circumferentially spaced apart from one another by a spacing as that between two plates for securing two subsequent containers, i.e., one gauge or step of the conveyor device.
  • Such a conveyor device which, as above shown, comprises a toothed belt element of substantially inextensible and resiliently yieldable material, isprovided with a protective fairing, particularly from the tobacco powder residuals building up in substantial amounts, as well known, during cigarette assembling operations and, as practically found, being deleterious to a successful operation particularly for a conveyor device embodying the structure according to the invention.
  • said protective fairing com-' the other end, where the idle gear 4 is located and at which two end plates 11a and 12a are provided as complementary with said plates 11 and 12.
  • the combinations comprising the plates 11-1 la and l2l2a, respectively, are provided with such a perimctral contour as to mate the loop formed by the toothed belt la' and are disposed laterally of said looped toothed belt element, so that as the latter moves its respective longitudinal side edges are slidably adhering to the peripheral edge of the'corresponding combination of plates 11-1 la and 12-1211.
  • the plates 11 and 12 are interconnected by ribs 13 internally of the space defined by said plates and with the aid of any known means, such as screws or equivalent means (not shown).
  • any known type of stretching mechanism is provided, such as a fork element 14 connected' by the free ends of the fork legs to the axis 6 of said idle gear 4 and with said fork tail 14a slidably mounted and guided in the guides 15 provided by plate 12 and securable to said plate 12 by screws 16 loosely engaged in the oblong holes 17 on said tail portion 14a.
  • the threading stretcher element 18 can be screwed to said tail portion 14a of the fork member 14 and to a fixed portion 19 projecting from said plate 12;
  • any slight yieldings inthe toothed belt element 1d can be registered, thereby maintaining the protective continuity of the fairing because of the overlying cooperation relationship between the adjacent ends of the plates 11-1 1a and 12-12a of said fairing (FIG. 1).
  • the containers 1d associatedth'erewith for cigarette storing and assembling are provided at the respective opposite longitudinal ends with lugs 1f projecting outwardly of the conveyor belt and directed inwardly of the loop as defined by said conveyor element.
  • Said lugs 1 f are so shaped as to slidably operate in combination with horizontal guide elements disposed laterally of the conveyor element along its upper run, such as by the guide elements 20 and 21 carried in any known means by the protective fairing plates.
  • said guide elements 20 and 21 are so shaped as to have a portion thereof, exemplary designated in FIG. 1 at 20a and 21a, upwardly extending to the respective opposite open end of the containers la, excepted for the section or sections where the respective cigarette control and transfer devices into or from said containers la operate, such as at the stations 2a, 2b and 20 for cigarette transfer by the heads 3a, 3b and 3c of the pusher 3 and where the sensing devices (not shown) operate for said cigarette control.
  • a conveyor device for transferring orderly groups of cigarettes arranged to be packed as individual packets of cigarettes comprising an-endless elongated belt element of a molded length mounted on one of the face portions of said elongated belt element, said containers having notch means;
  • said teeth means longitudinally arranged and spaced along the length of said elongated belt element and movable into cooperative engagement with said gear means;
  • vertically arranged fairing means including oppositely opposed and complementary mounted plate members positioned to protectively cover said horizontal run portions and said ends of said elongated belt element;
  • upstanding rail elements arranged parallel to and located adjacent the bottom horizontal run of said elongated belt member, said upstanding rail elements operatively engaging said notches of said containers for slidably supporting said containers thereon.

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