WO2007093417A1 - Apparatus for apportioning pourable foodstuffs or semi-luxury products - Google Patents
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- the invention relates to a device for portioning pourable food or beverage, such as cut tobacco, coffee powder or tea, with a storage space for the food or beverage and a portioning.
- the invention is particularly concerned with the subject of the production of cigarettes from cut tobacco, especially fine cut, by the end user.
- the background is that industrially finished cigarettes are subject to higher taxation than cut tobacco and are therefore much more expensive. Cost-conscious smokers as end users are therefore anxious to make their own cigarettes from cut tobacco.
- a device which makes it possible to enter loose cut tobacco in a sleeve is known, for example, from DE 32 47 370 A1.
- the device has a funnel-shaped reservoir. Below the reservoir a portioning chamber for the cut tobacco is provided.
- a comb shaft having four circumferentially spaced rows of spaced, radially outwardly directed teeth, the cut tobacco is combed from the reservoir into the portioning chamber.
- a spiral spring is arranged rotatably about its longitudinal axis. By rotating the coil spring about its longitudinal axis, the cut tobacco in the axial direction of the coil spring is first pressed from the portioning chamber into a funnel-shaped tube section tapering away from the portioning chamber and from there into a cylindrical tube section.
- the cut tobacco is formed into a tobacco rod.
- the sleeve is attached and by further rotation of the coil spring, the front end of the tobacco rod pushed into the sleeve.
- the sleeve Once the sleeve is completely filled with cut tobacco, it pushes down by further rotation of the coil spring and thereby further conveying the tobacco rod from the outlet end and drops after their complete filling. It can now be plugged and filled the next sleeve.
- the aforementioned device is quite cumbersome to handle, especially since the tobacco must first be poured from a storage container in the funnel-shaped reservoir.
- the reservoir of the device is open so that the tobacco stored therein can dry out. Due to the axially successive arrangement of portioning chamber and the actual tobacco molding device from funnel-shaped and cylindrical pipe section, the device is very long. The device is therefore suitable only for the production of cigarettes by the end user at home, which, for example, prefabricate the daily requirement and must save separately.
- the invention is based on the problem to provide an easy-to-use and compact device for portioning of pourable food and beverages, which can also be used in a simple way "on the go”.
- FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of a device according to the invention with a rotary drum and a housing for the rotary drum.
- Fig. 7 is a view for a rotary drum and a housing
- FIG. 8 to 10 a further embodiment of an inventive
- FIG. 11 shows a food or beverage portion packaging for an embodiment according to FIGS. 8 to 10;
- Fig. 23 shows a further embodiment of a device with the
- FIG. 24 shows the device according to FIG. 23 in cross section in the plane II -
- FIG. 25 shows a detail of the device according to FIGS. 23 and 24 from FIG.
- FIG. 24 Sectional view of FIG. 24; Fig. 26 shows another embodiment of a device with the
- FIG. 27 shows the device according to FIG. 26 in cross section in the plane V - FIG.
- FIG. 28 shows the device according to FIG. 26 in cross section in the plane V - FIG.
- FIG. 29 shows the device according to FIG. 26 in cross-section in the plane V -
- FIG. 30 shows the device according to FIG. 26 in cross section in the plane V - FIG.
- FIG. 31 shows the device according to FIG. 26 in cross-section in the plane V -
- Fig. 32 shows the device according to Fig. 26 in side view during its
- FIG. 33 the device of FIG. 26 in plan view during her
- Fig. 34 and 35 an embodiment of the device according to the invention with a bag-like receiving part for the food or beverage;
- FIG. 36 shows an alternative drum variant
- FIGS. 37 to 39 show an embodiment of a device according to the invention in which a rotary drum essentially forms the portion packaging itself;
- FIGS. 40 and 41 show two embodiments as a modification of the devices according to FIGS. 8 to 13;
- FIGS. 42 to 46 show a further embodiment of the device according to the invention, in which the food or beverage is combed into a press beam counterpart;
- FIGS. 47 and 48 show a further embodiment of the invention for a portion-packaging connection outside the housing or device
- FIGS. 49 to 51 show an embodiment of the device according to the invention with top-mounted portion packaging
- FIG. 52 shows a further embodiment of a device according to the invention.
- Figure 53 shows a variant embodiment for the portion packaging for a device according to the invention.
- FIG. 54 shows an embodiment of a device according to the invention with a tube-like portion packaging
- Figures 55 and 56 show two embodiments of the invention at different stages of production.
- a first embodiment of the invention is shown in Figure 1 and provided with the reference numeral 100. It comprises a housing 114, a rotary drum 102 and a can 108.
- the embodiments described herein and hereinafter are devices for portioning cut tobacco for self-production of cigarettes. This is only an example to understand, of course, adjustments can be made, which allow the processing or portioning other pourable food or beverage.
- the can 108 shown in FIGS. 1 to 4 will also be referred to as tobacco portion or tobacco portion packaging in the following. It comprises two covers 110, 112 and a wall 118, and has a substantially cylindrical shape.
- the covers 110, 112 may be made of a stronger material, preferably of plastic or solid optionally coated cardboard (moisture protection from the outside and moisture loss of the tobacco).
- the cylinder wall 118 is made of a flexible sheet material, paper material, or plastic skin which is preferably strong enough to maintain the package shape solely by its stability, even though multiple cans 108 are stacked on top of each other.
- the sealing foil 124 should be deformable so that it can be withdrawn together with the cylinder wall 118 and removed from the housing. Optionally, this can also be achieved by a suitable paper / foil or cardboard material (coating).
- a rotary drum which is configured here hinged.
- the rotary drum bears the reference numeral 102 and it is intended to receive the can 108, in order to then be introduced into the housing 114 together with the can. It has oblong, here oblique recesses or through holes 132 which are accommodated on its periphery 104. It can be rotated in the housing 114 by means of a handle 116, 118 which is divided into two parts here.
- the lower part of the drum 102 is designated 106.
- FIG. 1 also shows the portioning agent of the device according to the invention. It consists on the one hand of the through holes 132, on the other hand of a portioning chamber 134; the function of the scoop will be explained in detail later.
- the cylinder wall 118 In order to portion the tobacco from the can 108, the cylinder wall 118 must be removed, ie withdrawn out of the device. For this purpose, it has perforations in the region of its end faces, ie at the edge 120, the upper perforations being indicated in FIG. 2 and in FIG. 3 by the reference numeral 121. It can also simply be material weaknesses or predetermined breaking points. These perforations or Predetermined breaking points 121 can break when tightened to a tab of the cylinder wall, which carries the reference numeral 125 in Figures 2 and 3 and can protrude from the housing 114 (slot 127 in Figure 1) when the can 108 together with the drum 102 in the housing 114 is inserted.
- connection between the material of the cylinder jacket 118 and the covers 110, 112 by gluing, welding or the like and to design it in such a way that under targeted load, in particular during a tensile load, this connection is disconnected. After pulling the tab, the tobacco is exposed in the rotary drum 102 in the housing 114 and can be portioned.
- the covers 110, 112 can have special contours in order to fit them appropriately into the rotary drum 102 or the housing 114. These contours 128 can also fulfill security functions which will be described in more detail later.
- FIG. 5 shows in three steps A, B and C and with detail enlargements how a quantity of tobacco is portioned with a device according to the invention.
- the amount of tobacco 136 left in the rotary drum 102 after the film 118 or an additional film 124 (FIG. 3) has been removed is mixed by rotating the drum 102 in the housing 114, and may pass partially through the through holes 132 into the portioning space 134 fall.
- the passage openings 132 are preferably elongate or helical and arranged over the entire or part of the circumference. This leads to a shearing off of longer tobacco fibers.
- a and B is visible how the portioning space 134 fills with tobacco, and especially in the enlargement of the part B is visible how a shearing can take place.
- the separated portion of tobacco portion has been designated by the reference numeral 140.
- the tobacco portion 140 in the portioning space 134 may be compressed by a pressing bar 130 until it comes to lie in the circularly displayed strand forming chamber 138 as a tobacco rod, when the pressing bar 130 is moved in the direction of arrow 142 ( Figure 5C) right to the right.
- the portioning and compression thus takes place in the foot of the housing and ends with the formation of a tobacco rod from the separated tobacco portion portion 140th
- FIG. 6 An alternative embodiment is shown in FIG.
- the illustrated device also comprises the housing 114 and the rotary drum 102, but between the portioning space in which the separated tobacco portion is compressed by the pressing bar 130 to the strand here is a Vorportionleitershunt provided, the reference numeral 144 carries.
- the drum 102 is first rotated while the pressing bar 130 is closed until a tobacco portion is present in the pre-portioning chamber 144 and resting on top of the front side of the pressing bar 130.
- the platen 130 may be retracted according to arrow 146 and the portion falls into the actual main portioning or compression chamber (compression slot). If, according to the arrow 142, the pressing bar 130 is then displaced to the right again in the direction of the strand formation chamber, the strand formation can take place as previously described.
- FIG. 7 An oblique view of a cut rotary drum is shown in Figure 7, wherein also individual parts of the housing 114 are visible, namely the Portion michshunt 134 and the pressing beam 130.
- the drum 102 with the end face 117 and the handle 119 serves to transport the tobacco to the Portionierhunt 134.
- the handle 119 is thus provided to be able to rotate the drum, and depending on the tobacco used, it is conceivable that several revolutions, one revolution or only partial revolutions are necessary to fill the portioning chamber 134 with tobacco for a cigarette the tobacco passes through the through holes 132.
- the drum also serves to shave off excessively long tobacco fibers, and for this purpose the slots for the passage of tobacco are designed in the shape of a blade, in particular at the outer edges, where they are directed toward the portioning chamber 134.
- additional struts 115 to the drum to provide mechanical stability increase and control tobacco distribution better. These are arranged over the diameter or preferably spirally, whereby not always the same position of the portioning chamber remains covered.
- means that facilitate tobacco transport thus acting as a driver, for example, inwardly projecting ribs or struts.
- FIGS. 8 to 11 Another device concept according to the invention will first be explained with reference to FIGS. 8 to 11. In this concept, the portioning and the compression of the food or beverage in the drum takes place.
- the device itself is designated 150 and has the housing 152 and the drum 154 rotatable therein.
- the drum has on its inner circumference inwardly projecting struts 156th
- a tobacco portion is used, which is shown for example in Figure 11. It in turn has covers, one of which carries the reference numeral 182 and in the middle of the lid 182 has a centering projection 184 for centering the tobacco portion in the housing 152.
- On the outer wall 180 is in turn a tab 160, which - see Figure 8A - up through a slot in the housing 152 can be removed.
- the tobacco portion 158 comes to lie in the interior of the rotary drum 154 and falls, as can be seen at the portion 162, even the drum slightly downwards.
- FIGS. 12 and 13 a pressing beam 199 is displaceably mounted in the housing 192, in which the drum 194 with the inner struts 196 is located.
- the beam 199 may be slid sideways onto the molding 198 to form the strand in the device 190.
- the apparatus 200 of FIG. 12 is displaceably mounted in the housing 192, in which the drum 194 with the inner struts 196 is located.
- the beam 199 may be slid sideways onto the molding 198 to form the strand in the device 190.
- the pressing beam 209 is slid obliquely from below onto the counterpart 208 to train the strand.
- the passage openings for the pressing beam are arranged in the housings and also in the drums, in the latter distributed around the circumference.
- the implementation of the press bar at two opposite, defined positions is possible, in the figure 13 four positions are possible.
- An opening in the drum is indicated by the reference numeral 205 only by way of example.
- the tobacco sachet package ( Figure 11) has a recess 186 for insertion into the barrel and around the fitting into the housing.
- FIGS. 17 to 19 An embodiment of the invention with a different packaging for the foodstuff, in particular the cut tobacco, is presented in FIGS. 17 to 19.
- the safety device shown in Figures 14 to 16 has the function to ensure that only when inserting the right food or semi-luxury packaging, the device can be operated so as to prevent damage to the device and the risk of injury to the end user with open device reduce.
- a latch 214 is housed in the housing, which - see also the enlargement in the figure 15 - is pressed with a spring 216 in the drawing to the right.
- the arm 218 is on the recess 224 of the bolt 214 also pressed to the right, and this also applies to the perpendicular thereto extending arm, which has at its end the locking body 220, which prevents the actuation of the press bar 219. If, as shown in FIG.
- the associated drum with the associated can is inserted into the device or into the housing, contour projections 222 (corresponding, for example, to the contours 128 in FIG. 4) push the latch on the recess 224 against the spring pressure to the left, and the movement of the press bar 219 is released. With the associated can 226 so the device can be operated properly.
- the drum and the housing, and in particular also the tobacco can or the tobacco portion form the receiving parts or the receptacle of the device.
- FIGS. 17 to 19 only a part of the tobacco sachet packaging is used for this purpose when the device is considered to be in a functional state.
- the parts of the device are shown in Figure 17, as an example of a connection of the portion packaging outside the device.
- the portion package 230 has a container 234 (can) and a lid 232.
- the lid 232 has the projections 252 and 253 on.
- the associated housing has been provided with the reference numeral 240, and it again takes on a drum 248, but on its front side two recesses 236 and 238 shows.
- the lid 232 can be inserted with its projections 252, 253. After insertion, it can be rotated so that the projections 252, 253 behind the front panel 242 of the drum 248 in the housing (as in a swivel seat) are performed.
- this device is as follows: The container 234 is separated from the lid 232, and the tobacco is transferred to the drum 242. Thereafter, the lid 232 is inserted from the front by fitting the projections 252, 253 in the recesses 236, 238 and locked by rotation. The interior of the drum 248 is now completed and the device can be used. As a safeguard and to prevent the device from being operated with other lids or other tobacco portions, which could cause damage, a locking lug 244 is provided inside, behind the front panel of the drum 248, as shown in FIG. 19 evident. The projection 252, upon insertion and rotation of the lid, release the locking pin 244, which locks the drum by spring bias, thus rendering the device usable.
- This securing device is designed by the configuration of the locking pin 244 and a corresponding configuration of the projection 252 so that the pin 244 only dissolves when the lid has been inserted correctly.
- the lid is removed again, and thereby breaks the projection 252.
- the contour of the lid is thus designed so that the user can remove the lid only in the original position (position of Figure 19A) , And in this position of origin, the locking member 244 locks the drum and the device housing together again. It is important to restore the original position because the pre-portioning chamber 256 is closed here, so that no tobacco can enter during the filling process.
- FIG. 20 shows on the left a can 260 with a cover 262 and the opposite cover 264 as well as the removable wall 266.
- a lug 268 is attached to the cover 262 and it can be seen from the right-hand representation that this latching lug in the housing 270, if the Can 260 is arranged in the drum 272, comes to rest centrally. This can also be seen in the two illustrations of FIG. 21, where a recess 274 can be seen on the right in the housing 270, into which the latching nose 268 can engage.
- the recess 274 has a shoulder behind which it enlarges, and behind this shoulder the front detent portion of the centering projection 268 can engage.
- the projection 268 has at the front a slightly larger truncated cone, so that it engages behind the shoulder in the recess 274.
- the locked state is shown in the right-hand illustration of FIG. 22, and ensures smooth operation of the device and that no other packaging cans are used with the device which could damage them.
- the drum When the drum is empty, it becomes removed, and when removing the projection travels at its front part and can be removed through the recess 274.
- the containers of a further embodiment according to the invention shown in FIGS. 23 to 33 have a can 20 and a lid 21 detachably connectable to the can 20, which in the present embodiment form two receiving parts of the receptacle of the device.
- the can 20 is filled with tobacco 22, specifically with tobacco 22 in fine section.
- the tobacco 22 is indicated in Figs. 24, 25 and 27 by a honeycomb structure.
- a device for forming a tobacco rod from the Thomastabak 22 is arranged, which is actuated by a mechanism in the cover 21. These differ in the embodiments shown:
- a section 23 is separated from the actual storage space 24 for the tobacco 22 by a wall 25.
- the wall 25 forms in its central region a funnel 26 and laterally below the funnel 26 a Portionierhunt 27.
- a comb roller 28 At the transition region between the funnel 26 and Portionierhunt 27 is a comb roller 28 with four equidistantly distributed on the circumference of combs 29.
- a pinion 30 To actuate the comb roller 28 has the same on its cover-side end face a pinion 30.
- the pinion 30 meshes with an intermediate 31, which in turn meshes with a gear 32.
- a circular arc-section-shaped rack 33 is arranged, which in turn meshes with the gear 32.
- the rack 33 rotates the gear 32, which transmits this rotational movement via the intermediate gear 31 to the pinion 30.
- a nub roller 34 is arranged below the gear 32, which protrudes partially into the hopper 26.
- the nub roller 34 rotates in the illustration of FIG. 24 and 25 in a counterclockwise direction and thus in opposite directions to the nachrieselnden tobacco 22.
- the foremost tooth 35 of the rack 33 comes into engagement with a pinion segment 36th
- an integrally formed on the pinion segment 36 shell portion 37 is arranged.
- the jacket section 37 extends over the entire height of the portioning chamber 27 and bears with its outside against the portion of the wall 25 assigned to the portioning chamber 27.
- the toothed rack 24 engages with the pinion segment 26
- the pinion segment 36 and with it the skirt portion 37 rotate clockwise as viewed in FIGS. 24 and 25, whereby an opening 38 of the portioning chamber 27 facing the funnel 26 is closed.
- the seen in the closing direction of the front edge of the skirt portion 37 is a cutting edge 39 is arranged, which cuts off 38 protruding tobacco 22 when closing the opening.
- the cigarette rod is now completely formed within the portioning chamber 27. In this position, an opening in the lid 21 comes into coincidence with the Portionierhunt 27. A further opening is located in the bottom 40 of the can in registration with the Portionierhunt 27.
- the tobacco rod can now be ejected into a cigarette tube, as this later with reference to the embodiment is explained in more detail according to FIG. 26 to 33.
- a first wedge section 41 is arranged on the jacket of the can 20 and connected to the can 20.
- a second wedge portion 42 is connected to the lid 21, but also protrudes into the can 20 over the entire length.
- the walls 24 of the wedge portions 41 and 42 facing the storage space 24 together form a filling funnel for the cut tobacco 22.
- the wedge portions 41, 42 are designed so that they taper away from one another, so that the walls 25 facing the storage chamber 24 bear against the casing Can 20 run. Between the wedge portions 41, 42 a portioning chamber 43 is formed.
- the mutually facing ends of the wedge portions 41, 42 each form a half-shell 44, 45, whose diameter corresponds to the diameter of the tobacco rod to be formed.
- a spring element 46 is arranged on the side facing the storage space 24 side of the lid associated with the wedge portion 42. This in turn extends over the entire length of the box 20. It abuts with its rear end 47 against the jacket of the box 20 and is at the opposite end in the radial direction of the box folded outwards, resulting in a in the portioning chamber 43 reaching into the slider 48th results.
- the spring element 46 has on its side remote from the end 47 an activation tongue 49 which cooperates with a ramp 50 (see also FIG. 33).
- the actuating tongue 49 and the ramp 50 are arranged only in the region of the cover 21, wherein the ramp 50 is non-rotatably connected to the can 20.
- the distance between the half-shell 44 and the slider 48 and thus between the two half-shells 44 and 45 can be adjusted by the user by one of the two wedge portions 41 or 42, in the present case the wedge 20 associated wedge portion 41, is moved. At a smaller distance, a smaller amount of tobacco trickles into the portioning chamber 43, so that the tobacco 20 is pressed less during molding of the tobacco rod. By this measure, so the pressure of the tobacco can be adjusted depending on the wishes of the user.
- To set the distance between the half-shells 44, 45 serve latching marks 57 on the box 20 associated wedge portion 41, which cooperate with a latching nose 58 which is associated with the cover 21 associated wedge portion 42.
- Fig. 27 shows the initial position for forming a cigarette rod.
- the portioning chamber 43 is arranged as far down as possible on the table 51, so that the cut tobacco 24 trickles into the portioning chamber 43 between the half-shell 44 and the slide 48 (FIG. 27).
- the lid in the illustration of FIG. 27 to 31 and 33 is rotated clockwise relative to the box 20.
- the wedge portion 42 associated with the lid 21 thereby moves toward the other wedge portion 41.
- the spring element 46 is pushed upward, away from the wedge portion 42, as this is indicated in Fig. 29.
- the slider 48 slides out of the portioning chamber 43 and the tobacco 22 can enter the space between slide 48 and half-shell 45.
- the lid 21 is further rotated, whereby a web 52 of the cover 21 associated wedge portion
- the portioning chamber 42 comes into contact with the storage space 24 facing wall 25 of the other wedge portion 41.
- the front end of the web 52 is again formed as a cutting edge 53 and cuts off protruding Thomastabak.
- a tobacco tube 54 is placed on a suitable receptacle and the tobacco rod is pushed by a pin 55 into the sleeve 54.
- the sleeve 45 is assigned in the present case the bottom 40 of the can 21 and the slider 55 the lid 21.
- the latter has the advantage that the opening in the cover 21 with the receptacle for the sleeve 54 can be closed simultaneously by a flag or the like at the upper edge region of the can 20 with the lid completely turned back (FIG. 27), while the bottom opening is closed by the pin 55 is closed.
- the slider 48 may advantageously serve as a closure member, since it is an appropriate exchange air exchange between the space between the slider 48 and the half-shell 45 on the one hand and the half-shell 44 and the slider 48 and thus the storage space 24 on the other hand prevents.
- the expulsion of the tobacco rod in the sleeve 54 is carried out in the manner described above, as already indicated, even in the embodiment of FIGS. 23 to 26. While the device is not in use, the pin 55 in the inserted state within the Portionierhunt 27 and 43 are kept. But it may also be a separate chamber 56 may be provided, as indicated in Fig. 24 and 26. Additionally or alternatively, in the Unused area also sleeves 54 are kept. It is also possible to reserve part of the storage space 24 for storage of sleeves 54.
- the invention is not limited to the filling of cigarette tubes 54 with tobacco 22. Rather, with the device according to the invention, all pourable food and beverage can be portioned and possibly formed into any shape and possibly even pressed.
- the shape of the molded or pressed products is not limited to a circular cylindrical cross section. Rather, any shapes are possible. Examples of applications for the invention outside the cigarette sector are, for example, the portioning of coffee or tea.
- coffee pods or the like can be filled with ground coffee.
- FIGS. 17 to 19 A variant of the embodiments according to FIGS. 17 to 19 is shown in FIGS.
- the tobacco sachet 281 does not consist of a lid and a container but of a lid 282 and a bag 280 with a converging bag end 284.
- the tobacco sachet 281 is shown in two parts, and is intended for inclusion in a device , as shown in FIG. 35.
- the housing has the reference numeral 286 and it has a recess 288 in the rear housing wall.
- the tobacco sachet is used according to this embodiment in the housing 286 with the drum 287 therein, wherein the converging bag end 284 is guided in the recess 288 of the rear housing wall.
- the lid 282 is locked in rotation in the drum 287, again releasing a locking element (see FIG. 19).
- the bag can be removed altogether from the recess 288 from the housing.
- the connection between the bag 280 and the lid 282 dissolves, so that the tobacco lying inside the drum 287 is released into the drum.
- the device can be placed vertically to make better use of gravity when spreading the tobacco.
- the resulting hole in the device can be closed with a lid.
- the lid can be removed again, and in turn breaks off the locking lug, and the safety device operates as described with reference to FIG. 19.
- FIG. 36 shows an alternative embodiment of a drum 290 with differently shaped through openings 292 for the interior foodstuff.
- the drum 290 rotatable by the handle 294 preferably has prism-shaped recesses 292, and this configuration makes possible an even more oblique arrangement of the inclined edge pieces, which is advantageous in the bending of long tobacco fibers.
- the tobacco sachet packaging is formed substantially by the drum.
- the tobacco sachet 300 has a barrel portion 302, a lid 306, and a foil 304 with a tab 318, and is intended for insertion into the housing 314, which again has a latch 308, as described with reference to FIGS. 14-16 That is, a lock for the pressing beam 310.
- the drum packaging is thus designed at least three parts, and it is, as shown in the two left representations of Figure 38, inserted into the housing 314. In this case, the locking element 308 is released, as has already been described above.
- a locking pin 316 locks in the contour projection 312 in a recess 320.
- the package 300 is thus centered in the device and can be rotated.
- the film 304 can now be pulled off through an opening in the housing on the tab 318.
- a portion of the package 300 namely the portion 322 (FIG. 37), protrudes out of the housing 314, so that this part is suitable as a handle for rotating the drum 302.
- the contour of the housing is configured at 312 such that the user can not use another packaging structure not provided for the system, thus avoiding damage (due to incorrect assembly) and poor results in tobacco portioning.
- the package 300 is withdrawn with the detent pin 316 tearing off.
- Figures 40 and 41 show two modifications of the devices according to Figures 8 to 13. Again, the tobacco is pressed by a pressing bar in a molding to form the strand. Shown in the devices 330 and 340, respectively, the housings 332, 342, the drum 334, 344, mixing struts 338, 348, a transfer strut 346 and the tobacco portion 336.
- the embodiments each have attachments 339, 349 on the shaped pieces 335, 345, which improve the flow of tobacco during drum rotation.
- the attachment 339 is configured symmetrically so that the drum can rotate in both directions and push the tobacco well under the counterpart 335.
- the embodiment of Figure 41 is "one-sided"; When the drum is rotated in the direction of the arrow, the tobacco can be brought well from the bottom in front of the counterpart 345. Both embodiments have on the articles in front of the area of the counterpart cutting edges, which are each marked 337 and 347. These cutting edges serve to shear off long tobacco fibers, so that the transfer of the tobacco, respectively by the pressing bars 333, 343, can take place smoothly.
- the apparatus 350 again comprises a housing 352 with drum 354 and inner transport struts 356 which move the tobacco into the compression zone 357.
- the tobacco is designated by the reference numeral 360 and the drum rotates in the manner as shown for the first time in FIG.
- the tobacco is guided from below over a plateau 362 to enter the compression zone 357, where it runs against the stop 359 of the compression molding 358.
- FIGS. 44 to 46 more tobacco is then introduced into the compression zone 357 in a further drum rotation in the direction of the arrow until sufficient tobacco has accumulated there and the housing 352 can be moved downward onto the pressing bar 364 form the strand 366.
- the strand can then be transferred again by means of a slider in a sleeve, which sits for example on a spout.
- a slider in a sleeve which sits for example on a spout.
- FIG. 47 shows a portion packaging in two variants 370, 380 for a further embodiment according to the invention.
- the package has a container 374, at the upper edge projections 376 are arranged, as well as a top sealing seal 372.
- the container can be made of an aroma-tight cardboard packaging, in particular wound, or be provided as injection or deep-drawing cup.
- the seal 372 is for example a stamped aluminum, plastic or paper foil.
- the three-part embodiment variant 380 has a container 384, a flange 386, on which in turn projections are arranged, and also a seal 382.
- the container 384 and the seal 382 the above-mentioned materials can be used; the flange is for example an injection molding element or a stamped cardboard element.
- the operating procedure here is the following:
- the seal 372 or 382 is released from the container 374, 384 and the container is inserted with the introduction of the projections 376 and 374 in the opening 402, 404.
- the container 370 is then locked by rotation, and thereby in turn releases a locking element, which has fixed housing and drum against each other at this time. This will allow rotation of the drum.
- the locking element and its opening through the projection 376 function in the manner already described with reference to FIG. 19, and therefore this description will be hereby incorporated by reference only.
- the portion from the container is transferred by tilting or tilting the device into the drum. If the portion is consumed in the interior, the container is removed again and thereby breaks a locking tab on the projection 376, so that here again a safeguard against improper filling or operation of the device is provided.
- the comments on Figure 19 apply accordingly.
- Figures 49 to 51 show an embodiment of the device according to the invention with top-mounted portion packaging.
- the portion packaging again has a container 412, which has a bent guide flange 416 at its lower portion and which can be closed with a seal 418 from below.
- the container may be an aroma-tight cardboard packaging, in particular folded and / or glued, or an injection or thermoforming cup.
- the seal may again be a stamped aluminum, plastic or paper foil.
- a three-piece portion packaging conceivable. It is also possible to provide a portion packaging, in which the lid or another element serves as a "key". All the principles that have been exemplified in the lateral packaging application are also conceivable for a connection from above.
- the device according to the invention can be seen in the assembled state, wherein the container 412 is applied on top of the housing 410, which is closed at its front side by the wall 414.
- Figure 50 now shows details of the connection with respect to the housing 410, in which an upper opening 424 is formed, through which one can see the drum 422.
- the upper opening 424 has a guide receptacle 420 into which the guide flange 416 can be inserted.
- the container 412 comes to lie on the housing 410 by being pushed in, with the front portion of the seal 418 protruding and being able to be withdrawn forward so that the contents of the portion package can fall into the housing 410 and drum 422, respectively.
- FIG. 51 wherein the sequence according to the illustrations A, B, C and D takes place.
- Figures A and B show the container 412 prior to being pushed onto the housing 410, and in the detail enlargement of the illustration B, it can be seen how a spring 428 is provided in an over-grip 426, with the spring 428 pushing down a latch 430, which engages in a recess of the drum 422 and itself has a passage 429.
- the content of the portion packaging falls through the recesses in the drum 422. It is also conceivable that the drum 422 must be opened for this process by a kind of lid, this can for example be made in two parts be.
- the container 412 remains on the housing 410 throughout the portioning process, and when the tobacco in the drum is depleted, the container is removed again. The unlocking nose 432 breaks off. Improper reuse of the container 412 is thus prevented.
- FIG. 52 shows the device 440, which is a somewhat modified variant of the device 340 from FIG. 41.
- the housing 442 drives a punch 443 to introduce tobacco from the portioning portion 446 in the fitting 447.
- the drum 445 is rotated in the direction of the arrow, and it transported by their inner struts the tobacco in the area 446.
- an attachment 448 is applied, which is here wing-like designed and makes with its lower tip the department of tobacco, the is continued by the pursuit.
- the wing 448 which is concave here, facing the drum inner wall, forms a dashed area 444, which creates a type of storage chamber.
- FIG. 53 shows a variant embodiment for the portion packaging in a device according to the invention with a housing 460 and a drum 459. On the left, the inserted packaging is visible, on the right an exploded view.
- the device 450 has the upper lid 452, which has a recess which is indicated by the arrow 453.
- the food or beverage portion or cut tobacco is packaged in a container 457, the lower end 458 of which can pass through a slot 451 at the bottom of the case bottom.
- a key element 456 comes to lie, which is connected via two predetermined breaking points, an upper breaking point 454 and a lower breaking point 455.
- the container is a so-called "flowpack" and the key element may be an injection molded or cardboard element.
- the upper portion of the container 457 is first inserted into the lid 452. After the lid and the container 457 are mutually fixed, they are put together in the drum 459 in the housing 460, and thereby protrudes the lower end of the packaging 458 out of the housing through the slot 451.
- the key element 456 engages the drum 459 and releases there a locking element that may be configured similar to that shown in more detail in FIG. The rotation of the drum 459 becomes possible.
- the removal of the lower end of the packaging 458, the content is released into the drum 459, and thereby ruptures the upper predetermined breaking point 455.
- the entire flowpack container 457 can now be removed from the device (pulled down).
- FIG. 54 shows a variant embodiment of the device according to the invention with a tube-like portion packaging 470 which has certain similarities with the variants of FIGS. 17 to 19 and may also have corresponding features. The process is explained by the diagrams A, B and C in this order.
- the portion, in particular tobacco portion, 471 is housed in the tubular container 470, which is closed on the right side in the representation A by the seal 474; on the left side through the cover 472.
- This tube can then be attached as shown in B to the drum 478 in the housing 476, wherein the diameter of the drum 476 corresponds to the diameter of the tube 470.
- the tobacco 471 can be pushed into the interior of the drum 478 by pushing the cover 472 forwards through the pipe 470 in the pipe, as viewed to the right.
- the lid 472 may close the device and in turn act as a key element (see latching of Figure 19).
- FIGS. 55 and 56 show two further embodiments of the device according to the invention, with corresponding production stages being shown in each case in sequence with the illustrations A to D.
- FIG. The embodiments are in principle similar, only the tobacco transport takes place in different ways.
- the devices each comprise the housings 481, 491, with a rotating outer drum 482, 492 and a fixed inner drum 483, 493.
- a cross-section 480, 490 serves to transfer the tobacco 487, 497 during the strand formation.
- radially projecting cutting bars 486 are arranged between cutting openings 484, and portioning chambers 488 are formed between these cutting bars.
- the tobacco falls through the cutting openings 484 and is further transported by the cutter bars 486 as it rotates in the direction of the arrow.
- the cutter bars 486 There are individual portions, and when a portion has reached area 485 at transfer cross-section 480, it may be transitioned to strand formation (eg, by a die, not shown).
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- General Preparation And Processing Of Foods (AREA)
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- Formation And Processing Of Food Products (AREA)
- Supply Of Fluid Materials To The Packaging Location (AREA)
- Closures For Containers (AREA)
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