WO2004012535A1

WO2004012535A1 - Device for producing and packing cigarettes and arrangement of corresponding devices

Info

Publication number: WO2004012535A1
Application number: PCT/EP2003/007467
Authority: WO
Inventors: Nikolaos Georgitsis
Original assignee: Hauni Maschinenbau Ag
Priority date: 2002-07-30
Filing date: 2003-07-10
Publication date: 2004-02-12
Also published as: EP1524919A1; DE10234761A1; CN1671305A; JP2005534310A; AU2003250026A1; PL374873A1

Abstract

The invention relates to a device (60 to 65) for producing and packing cigarettes, said device comprising a cigarette machine (10) provided with at least one cigarette machine unit (11 to 13, 20) which is especially a valve unit (11), a tobacco rolling unit (12), a filter producing unit (20) and/or a filter adding unit (13), in addition to a packing machine (9) for packing the cigarettes into packets, packages, boxes and/or onto pallets. The invention is characterised in that the packing machine (9) and at least one cigarette machine unit (11 to 13, 20) are arranged in an essentially straight line.

Description

Device for the production and packaging of cigarettes and arrangement of corresponding devices

description

The invention relates to a device for the production and packaging of

Cigarettes, with a cigarette machine, comprising at least one cigarette machine unit, which is in particular a distribution unit, a strand unit, a filter manufacturing unit and / or a filter attachment unit, and with a packaging machine for packaging the cigarettes in packs, containers, boxes and / or on pallets.

The invention further relates to an arrangement of such devices.

A production and packaging line for cigarettes is known from DE 40 18 266 C2. The cigarette making machine and the packaging machine are arranged in a square cell. The material is supplied via a separate area on one side of the cell. In contrast, it is an object of the present invention to provide a generic device for the production and packaging of cigarettes which require as little space as possible and which simplify supply and operation.

This object is achieved by a device for the production and packaging of cigarettes, with a cigarette machine, comprising at least one cigarette machine unit, which is in particular a distribution unit, a strand unit, a filter manufacturing unit and / or a filter attachment unit, and with a packaging machine for packaging the Cigarettes in packs, containers, cartons and / or on pallets, the packaging machine and at least one cigarette machine unit being arranged in a substantially straight line.

The space requirement of the device is minimized by the device according to the invention.

Within the scope of the invention, a packaging machine comprises one or more packaging units, such as, for example, a cigarette block forming unit, which in particular can also provide an inside wrap of the cigarette block with, for example, tinfoil paper, a collar attachment unit, by means of which a collar can be arranged on the block provided with an inside wrap, a blank unit by means of which blanks are folded and glued around the block, a film wrapping unit by means of which a film can be brought around the finished folded and glued cigarette packaging, a stick packing unit by means of which cigarette packaging rods can be packed and a rod wrapping unit by means of which the manufactured cigarettes - Poles are wrapped with, for example, a polypropylene film.

The cigarette machine comprises at least one cigarette machine unit, such as a distribution unit, into which tobacco is fed, optionally sifted and, in particular, piled up into several tobacco rods, a rod unit by means of which the tobacco rod is wrapped with cigarette paper, a filter manufacturing unit, by means of the filters, for example from a filter Filtertow be manufactured and a filter releasing unit. Corresponding packaging units and cigarette machine units are essentially known. For example, the "Protos" cigarette machine from Hauni Maschinenbau AG comprises a distribution unit and a strand unit and also a filter attachment unit, which Hauni Maschinenbau AG sells under the name "Max". The applicant's "Chronos" packaging machine comprises a block forming unit, a collar attachment unit, a blanking unit and a film wrapping unit. The Chronos can be expanded with a corresponding bar packing unit and a bar wrapping unit. The tobacco distribution unit of the "Protos" can be arranged upstream in the conveying direction, a filter manufacturing unit, which consists of the known units "AF" and "KDF". The "AF" unit is used to produce a filter strand from filter tow and the "KDF" unit is used to wrap this filter strand with a filter paper. The corresponding filter manufacturing unit or filter manufacturing machine is also sold by Hauni Maschinenbau AG and is known to the experts.

If the filter attachment unit is arranged in a substantially straight line with the packaging machine, an even more space-saving variant of the invention is provided. If the strand unit is additionally arranged in a substantially straight line with the packaging machine and the filter attachment unit, an even smaller area requirement is necessary. If finally all the cigarette machine units of the cigarette machine and the packaging machine are arranged in an essentially straight line, a minimal area requirement of

Needed.

In a preferred embodiment of the device according to the invention it is provided that the device can only be operated from a first side and from a second side

Side, which is arranged in particular opposite the first side, to provide a supply of the device with packaging material. This preferred embodiment of the device according to the invention minimizes the workload of the operating personnel and furthermore optimizes the space required in a production hall for cigarettes and cigarette packaging. As packaging material for the packaging Packing machine units are used in the context of the invention film, collar, blankets, the collar and the blankets can be pre-cut or can be in bobbin shape and cut to size. The packaging material is preferably arranged on bobbins and is fed to the packaging units from the second side.

The logistics regarding the feeding of the packaging material is done automatically via feeders and material handling stations. The filling of the corresponding packaging material stocks can, as described in DE 40 18 266 C2, be done with portal robots. If the supply of the device is provided exclusively from a second side, it is possible to save on ways when storing the packaging material, so that the stockpiling can be made very effective and time-consuming. A supply of the cigarette machine unit with at least part of the materials necessary for the production of cigarettes is preferably made possible from the second side. The for the production of

Materials necessary for cigarettes are in particular tobacco, filter tow, filter paper, cigarette paper and base paper. A particularly preferred embodiment of the invention is provided when the tobacco is supplied from above with the device and the other cigarette machine units are supplied from the second side.

In order to provide optimized use of space in a cigarette manufacture for the packaging hall (??), an arrangement according to the invention according to the invention described above is characterized in that at least two adjacent devices are spaced such that corridors form between the devices that are intended exclusively for supplying the facilities with packaging material or are intended exclusively for operating the facilities. The arrangement according to the invention of the devices according to the invention provides either short ways to supply the devices or short ways to operate the devices. Optimal use of space or space is also possible. In the context of the invention, spacing is understood to mean, in particular, a spacing transverse to the essentially straight line of the devices. A plurality of devices are preferably arranged such that adjacent devices are spaced apart in such a way that corridors are formed along the essentially straight lines which are provided exclusively for supplying the devices with packaging material and / or are provided exclusively for operating the devices. This preferred embodiment of the arrangement according to the invention enables even better utilization of the areas provided for the devices. An arrangement which enables an even faster supply or operation due to the shorter distances to be covered comprises corridors which are formed by the spacing of devices along the respectively substantially straight line, the corridors continuing in the direction of this line of neighboring devices.

The invention is described below without restricting the general inventive concept using exemplary embodiments with reference to the drawings. With regard to all details according to the invention not explained in detail in the text, reference is expressly made to the drawings. Show it:

1 is a schematic plan view of an inventive device for the production and packaging of cigarettes,

2 shows a schematic top view of a further device according to the invention,

3 shows a schematic top view of a third device according to the invention,

4 shows a schematic top view of yet another device according to the invention,

5 shows a schematic top view of an arrangement of devices according to the invention, 6 shows a schematic top view of a further arrangement of devices according to the invention,

7 shows a schematic top view of a third arrangement of devices according to the invention,

8 shows a schematic top view of a further arrangement of devices according to the invention, and

Fig. 9 is a schematic plan view of a further arrangement of devices according to the invention.

In the following figures, the same elements are identified with the same reference numbers, so that the respective elements are not re-introduced.

1 shows a schematic plan view of a cigarette manufacturing and packaging device 60 according to the invention. The cigarette manufacturing and packaging device 60 comprises a packaging machine 9 and a cigarette machine 10. The cigarette machine 10 comprises a conventional tobacco distributor 11, is from the DE 36 19 579 C2 known. In this distribution unit 11, tobacco is sifted, for example, in order to then be separated and finally to be fed to two suction line conveyors on which tobacco lines are formed. Downstream of the tobacco distributor 1 1, a strand unit 12 is provided, in which the tobacco rods formed are placed in a format set in the shape intended for the cigarette and are wrapped with cigarette paper. The cigarette paper is taken from a cigarette paper supply 21, which in this example can consist of cigarette paper bobbins. In order to enable proper removal, a material handling station 41 is provided. A feeder 31 is used to fill up the cigarette paper supply 21. The manufacture of the cigarette rod is described, for example, in EP 0 582 136 B1 from Hauni Maschinenbau AG. This document also shows the format device for producing the cigarette shape accordingly. A filter attachment unit 13 is provided downstream of the strand unit, by means of which filter elements of twice the useful length are brought between two tobacco sticks covered with cigarette paper, in order to then be wrapped and glued with covering paper. The filter elements are then cut twice in the middle so that finished filter cigarettes are produced. A tipping paper supply 22 is assigned to the filter attachment unit 13 and is supplied to the filter attachment unit 13 with a material handling station 42. A feeder 32 is provided for filling the topping paper supply 22. The cigarette machine 10 comprises the tobacco distributor 11, the strand unit 12 and the filter attachment unit 13. Downstream of the cigarette machine 10 there is a packaging machine 9, which in this embodiment consists of six units. These units are a block forming unit 14, a collar attachment unit 15, a blanking unit 16, a film wrapping unit 17, a bar packing unit 18 and a bar wrapping unit 19. Fewer or more units can also be provided in the packaging machine 9.

In the block forming unit 14, blocks are first formed from a desired number of filter cigarettes, which are then wrapped with an internal wrap, such as a stanol foil. For this purpose, an internal wrapping supply 23 is provided, which is fed to the block forming unit with a material handling station 43. A feeder 33 is provided to fill up the inside wrapping supply 23. A collar attachment unit 15 is then provided, which places a collar on or under the block provided with an internal fold. In this exemplary embodiment, the collar attachment unit 15 is provided with a collar supply 24 which is in the form of a bobbin. The corresponding collar material, for example cardboard, is drawn off from a bobbin by means of the material handling station 44 and cut into a corresponding collar shape and, if necessary, pre-punched in order to provide fold lines. In order to fill up the collar stock 24, a feeder 34 is provided.

The collapsed cigarette blocks provided with a collar are then fed to a blank unit 16 in which a cigarette packaging blank is folded around the cigarette block provided with a collar and glued accordingly. The blankets are made available from a blanket supply 25 by means of a material handling station 45. The blank supply 25 is also filled accordingly via a feeder 35. The cigarette packaging then arrives in a film wrapping unit 17 in which, for example, a transparent polypropylene film is wrapped around the cigarette packaging. An outer wrapping supply 26 is assigned to the film wrapping unit 17 and is supplied to the film wrapping unit 17 by means of a material handling station 46. The outside stock 26 is filled up by means of a feeder 36. Subsequently, the cigarette packaging provided with an external wrap is arranged in groups of, for example, 2 × 5 cigarette packaging and provided with a folded blank to form a rod. This takes place in a bar packing unit 18. This is assigned to a bar blank chain supply 27. The bar blank chains are fed from the bar blank chain supply 27 to the bar packing unit 18 by means of a material handling station 47. The bar blank chain stock 27 is filled by means of a feeder 37.

Finally, the cigarette sticks go into a stick wrapping unit 19 in which, for example, transparent polypropylene film surrounds them

Poles is struck. For this purpose, a stock of outside stock 28 is provided. The outer wrapping material is fed to the bar wrapping unit 19 by means of a material handling station 48. The outside stock of stock bars 28 is filled by means of a feeder 38.

1 also shows a tobacco inlet 52, which indicates a tobacco inlet from above in the tobacco distributor 11.

Another cigarette manufacturing and packaging device 61 according to the invention is shown in FIG. 2. The difference from FIG. 1 is that the tobacco distributor 11 is not arranged in a straight line with the packaging machine 9, but transversely therefrom. For this purpose, two units of the cigarette machine 10 are arranged in a line with the packaging machine 9, namely the strand unit 12 and the filter attachment unit 13. However, all the supplies of the cigarette machine are also in a substantially straight line directly on the cigarette machine. tenmaschine and the packaging machine arranged.

FIG. 3 shows a further schematic top view of a cigarette manufacturing and packaging device 62 according to the invention. This exemplary embodiment corresponds essentially to the exemplary embodiment in FIG

Fig. 1. There is only one filter manufacturing unit 20 upstream of the tobacco distributor 11. The filter manufacturing unit 20 produces a rod-shaped filter from a filter tow, which is arranged in a filter tow supply 50. For this purpose, the filter tow is first fed to a filter tow conveying device by means of a filter tow puller 51 and then provided in a format with filter paper in a known manner in order to be transferred into an endless filter strand. The endless filter string is then cut into filter pieces of the desired length. The filter paper is made available to the filter manufacturing unit 20 from a filter paper supply 29 by means of a material handling station 49. The filter paper supply 29 is filled by means of a feeder 39.

In the case of the cigarette production and packaging device 62, all units of the cigarette machine, which in this exemplary embodiment also includes the filter production unit 20, and all units of the

Packaging machine 9 arranged substantially in a straight line.

4 shows a further embodiment of a cigarette manufacturing and packaging device 63 according to the invention, part of the filter manufacturing unit 20 being arranged at an angle of essentially 90 ° to the substantially straight line of the further units. This angled unit is the well-known AF unit from Hauni Maschinenbau AG. This is followed by a KDF unit from Hauni Maschinenbau AG, which in this exemplary embodiment is essentially in a straight line to the other units.

In Figures 1 to 4 elements shown in dashed lines are intended to indicate doors that can be opened and closed accordingly for handling the facilities.

5 shows a top view of an arrangement of 6 according to the invention Cigarette manufacturing and packaging facilities 60 acc. Fig. 1. This arrangement according to the invention requires very little space or space when installing the cigarette manufacturing and packaging devices 60. In addition, the operation of the cigarette manufacturing and packaging devices 60 is simplified and finally the loading or the supply of the device with packaging material and with the material required for the cigarette manufacture.

The devices 60 according to the invention are arranged in this way; that operating sides 70 of the cigarette manufacturing and packaging devices 60 are adjacent and supply sides 71 are adjacent. This creates service corridors 73 and supply corridors 72. In this exemplary embodiment, two operating corridors 73 are arranged in alignment and two supply corridors 72 are aligned. An operator now only has to move in an operating aisle 73 in order to be able to keep an eye on two or even four cigarette manufacturing and packaging devices 60. Corresponding machines or robots for supplying the cigarette manufacturing and packaging devices 60 only have to move in one supply aisle 72, so that the distance traveled to supply the devices can be minimized, so that, if necessary, fewer supply robots or machines can be used with the same output Cigarette manufacturing and packaging equipment 60.

In the exemplary embodiment according to FIG. 5, an intermediate passage 74 is also provided between the cigarette manufacturing and packaging devices 60, which are provided transversely to the essentially straight line of the arrangement of the units of the cigarette machines 10 and the packaging machines 9.

6 shows a schematic top view of a further arrangement according to the invention of six cigarette manufacturing and packaging devices 61 according to FIG. 2. Corresponding operating aisles 73 and intermediate aisles 74 also arise in this case. The same applies to FIG. which represents a schematic top view of an arrangement according to the invention of a cigarette manufacturing and packaging device 62 according to FIG. 3.

Correspondingly, FIG. 8 shows a further arrangement according to the invention of six cigarette manufacturing and packaging devices 63 according to FIG. 3. The preferred service aisles 73 and supply aisles 72 also result in this exemplary embodiment. The arrangements according to the invention according to FIGS. 6 and 8 require little space. The arrangements according to the invention according to FIGS. 5 and 7 require even less space.

In another arrangement according to the invention according to FIG. 9, four cigarette manufacturing and packaging devices 64 are shown, which differ in comparison to the cigarette manufacturing and packaging devices 60 to 63 described above. In this case, the packaging stocks or material stocks for tobacco production are not arranged directly adjacent to the units of the packaging machine and the cigarette machine, but at a distance. In this exemplary embodiment, the supply of the corresponding materials takes place via supply lines 40, which are located above the heads of the operators or below the operators. In this exemplary embodiment, two supply aisles 72 are arranged in alignment with one another between the corresponding inventories. This enables a very quick and effective replenishment of the stocks by appropriate machines or robots. For the cigarette manufacturing and packaging device 64, an operating aisle 73 is provided for the operator, from which there is easy access to the operating side 70 of the cigarette machine and the packaging machine. Two supply sides 71 can be handled in the supply passages 72.

The arrangement according to FIG. 9 also enables a very effective utilization of the given space or the given area made available. It is possible to have the individual cigarette machine units 11, 12, 13, 20 and packaging machine units or packaging machine parts 14 to 19, which can also include intermediate stores for completely or partially finished products, coupled via known logistics systems. The logistics systems known per se can be mass flow systems, storage systems or slant systems. Optimal use of the installation space is achieved, however, if the facilities, as far as this is possible, without the interposition of appropriate logistics components

Systems can be coupled directly to one another.

LIST OF REFERENCE NUMBERS

9 packaging machine

10 cigarette machine

11 tobacco distributors

12 strand unit

13 filter attachment unit 14 block formation unit

15 collar attachment unit

16 blank unit

17 film wrapping unit

18 bar packing unit 19 bar wrapping unit

20 filter manufacturing unit

21 cigarette paper stocks

22 Base paper supply

23 Inner wrap stock 24 Collar stock

25 blank stock

26 Outside stock

27 bar blank chain stock

28 stock of outside wrapping 29 filter paper stock

31 to

39 feeders

40 supply line

41 to 49 material handling station

50 filter tow supply

51 filter tow puller

52 tobacco inlet 60 to 65 cigarette manufacturing and packaging facility Operator side supply side supply aisle service aisle intermediate aisle

Claims

claims

1. Device (60 to 65) for the production and packaging of cigarettes, with a cigarette machine (10), comprising at least one cigarette machine unit (11 to 13, 20), in particular a valve unit (11), a rod unit (12), a filter manufacturing unit (20) and / or one

Filter attachment unit (13), and with a packaging machine (9) for packaging the cigarettes in packages, containers, cartons and / or on pallets, characterized in that the packaging machine (9) and at least one cigarette machine unit (11 to 13, 20) are arranged in a substantially straight line.

2. Device according to claim 1, characterized in that the filter attachment unit (13) in a substantially straight line with the packaging Packing machine (9) is arranged.

3. Device according to claim 2, characterized in that in addition the strand unit (12) is arranged in a substantially straight line with the packaging machine (9) and the filter attachment unit (13).

4. Device according to claim 3, characterized in that all the cigarette machine units (11 to 13, 20) of the cigarette machine (10) and the packaging machine (9) are arranged in a substantially straight line.

5. Device according to one or more of claims 1 to 4, characterized in that only from a first side (70) of the device (60 to 65) an operation of the device (60 to 65) and from a second side (71), which is arranged in particular opposite to the first side (70), a supply of the device (60 to 65) with packaging material is provided.

6. Device according to claim 5, characterized in that from the second side (71) a supply of the cigarette machine unit (11 to 13, 20) with at least part of the materials necessary for the manufacture of cigarettes is possible.

7. Device according to claim 6, characterized in that the supply of the device (60 to 65) with tobacco from above and the

Supply of the further cigarette machine units (12, 13, 20) from the second side (71) takes place.

8. arrangement of devices (60 to 61) according to one or more of claims 1 to 7, characterized in that at least two adjacent devices (60 to 61) are arranged so spaced that corridors (72, 73) between the devices ( 60 to 65), which are only intended to supply the equipment (60 to 65) with packaging material or are only intended to operate the equipment (60 to 65).

9. Arrangement according to claim 8, characterized in that a plurality of devices (60 to 65) are arranged such that adjacent devices (60 to 65) are spaced such that corridors (72, 73) along the substantially straight line are formed, which are provided exclusively for supplying the facilities (60 to 65) with packaging material and / or are provided exclusively for operating the facilities (60 to 65).

10. The arrangement according to claim 9, characterized in that corridors (72, 73), which are formed by the spacing of devices (60 to 65) along the respective substantially straight line, by adjacent devices in the direction of this line (60 to 65 ) continue.

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