Classifications

• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A24—TOBACCO; CIGARS; CIGARETTES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES; SMOKERS' REQUISITES
  • A24D—CIGARS; CIGARETTES; TOBACCO SMOKE FILTERS; MOUTHPIECES FOR CIGARS OR CIGARETTES; MANUFACTURE OF TOBACCO SMOKE FILTERS OR MOUTHPIECES
  • A24D3/00—Tobacco smoke filters, e.g. filter-tips, filtering inserts; Filters specially adapted for simulated smoking devices; Mouthpieces for cigars or cigarettes
  • A24D3/02—Manufacture of tobacco smoke filters
  • A24D3/0204—Preliminary operations before the filter rod forming process, e.g. crimping, blooming
  • A24D3/0212—Applying additives to filter materials
• • 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
  • A24C5/14—Machines of the continuous-rod type
  • A24C5/18—Forming the rod
  • A24C5/1892—Forming the rod with additives, e.g. binding agent, flavorants
• • 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
  • A24C5/14—Machines of the continuous-rod type
  • A24C5/31—Machines of the continuous-rod type with special arrangements coming into operation during starting, slowing-down or breakdown of the machine, e.g. for diverting or breaking the continuous rod
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A24—TOBACCO; CIGARS; CIGARETTES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES; SMOKERS' REQUISITES
  • A24D—CIGARS; CIGARETTES; TOBACCO SMOKE FILTERS; MOUTHPIECES FOR CIGARS OR CIGARETTES; MANUFACTURE OF TOBACCO SMOKE FILTERS OR MOUTHPIECES
  • A24D3/00—Tobacco smoke filters, e.g. filter-tips, filtering inserts; Filters specially adapted for simulated smoking devices; Mouthpieces for cigars or cigarettes
  • A24D3/02—Manufacture of tobacco smoke filters
  • A24D3/0295—Process control means

Definitions

• the invention relates to a method for operating a stranding machine and a stranding machine of the tobacco-processing industry.
• WO 2005/096851 A1 discloses a method and a device for producing a smokable article in which tobacco is peeled open and an extrudate is formed, wherein the extrudate is applied to the tobacco which has been quenched.
• a method for producing a cigarette in which an admixture of expanded tobacco pulp is added to a tobacco layer.
• the expandable tobacco pulp may also be provided with a flavoring agent, for example menthol.
• the additive preferably comprises or is a fluid or an extrudate.
• the additive may, for example, be a pasty mass which is squeezed out or injected under pressure from an additive supply device, for example a nozzle.
• the additive may in this case be finely atomized, but may also be present as a continuous strip or in the form of strip pieces or smaller chunks or particles or splashes.
• no additive is dispensed onto the strand material or parts of the strand machine. It is also possible, when starting the stranding machine, which is to be understood in particular in the context of the invention, a commissioning of the strand machine, only then provide the supply of additive when strand material is arranged on the suction belt conveyor.
• the supply of additive is interrupted or the additive is released into a collecting container or no additional additive is made available.
• the additive is supplied to the strand material only shortly before the connection until at the latest to the connection of a gluing of a strip of material enveloping the strand material.
• the additive is supplied to the strand material at the latest at a time in which the strand material is detected in a strand guiding device.
• the additive is at a time between the connection of a gluing of a the strand material um- - A -
• the Strandabtrainr is usually used when the strand produced has the desired properties and should be transferred for further processing in the processing process.
• the additive is in the case of Hers damagess a wrapping material strip free strand supplied at the latest then the strand material in which a Strandabtrainr is activated.
• suction belt conveyor comprising, for example
• Saugband is not polluted, since no or substantially no additive can reach the Saugstrangzierer.
• the detection upstream of the supply of the additive to the strand material is particularly well-suited to determine quickly enough whether strand material is placed on the suction belt conveyor.
• the predeterminable amount of strand material can be designed so that in the presence of strand material on the Saugstrang adapter the additive is added and in the case in which no strand material is arranged on the Saugstrang adapter, also no supply of additive takes place.
• the predeterminable amount can also be a layer of strand material which is substantially opaque, ie in which the suction strand conveyor is substantially completely covered with the material.
• the additive supply is interrupted or additive is discharged into a collecting container.
• Such an irregularity is also referred to as choke.
• strand machine stop In a strand machine stop, when an extruder stop signal is used to stop the additive feed or dump additive into a catch tray, strand machine stop prevents parts of the skein machine from becoming contaminated.
• the strand material comprises isolated fibers of tobacco or filter material.
• the object is further achieved by a rod making machine of the tobacco processing industry with a first sensor which detects the occupancy of a Saugstrang makeers with strand material, wherein a device for supplying additive (Zusatzstoffzu fürvorraum) is provided to the arranged on the Saugstrang adapter strand material.
• the stranding machine according to the invention makes it possible to add an additive to the strand material at the right time.
• the additive feed device tion is preferably arranged downstream of the first sensor in order to determine the time or the moment of supplying additive to the strand material more accurately.
• the supply of additive may be ended in time to reduce the amount of strand material that can no longer be used. gladly.
• a control device is provided, which is connected to the first sensor and / or the second sensor and controls the additive supply device.
• the strand material comprises fibers of tobacco and / or filter material.
• FIG. 1 is a schematic side view of a part of a strand machine according to the invention
• FIG. 2 shows a schematic sectional view of the device according to the invention from FIG. 1 in a position tilted by 90 °, FIG.
• Fig. 3 is a schematic sectional view of the device according to the invention of FIG. 1 in a top view tilted by 90 °
• Fig. 4 is a schematic three-dimensional representation of a
• Fig. 1 shows a schematic side view of part of a strand machine according to the invention of the tobacco-processing industry, wherein from a suction channel 1 13, which is shown in Fig. 2, only one side wall or channel wall 103 is shown.
• an additive supply device namely in this case a nozzle device 102 is provided with a nozzle body 115 having a nozzle opening 1 10, from which a fluid 101 flows.
• the fluid 101 may be a binder, flavor, or other agent, for example, supplied to tobacco or filter material. It can also be an extrudate, which is pressed out of the nozzle opening 10 as a pasty mass and optionally atomized.
• a fibrous material such as tobacco or filter fibers
• a suction belt 106 moves in Fig. 1 from right to left in Saugband makeupcardi 109. It forms thereby from a quenched fibers 107 existing nonwoven fabric on the Aufschauer requirements 1 16.
• the fibers 1 17 may also be mixed with granules or powder.
• the transport air flow 108 is interrupted. curved in sections in the suction channel 113.
• the fibers 1 17 are also indicated schematically.
• the embodiment of Fig. 1 is shown in a rotated by 90 ° schematic sectional view. 2
• the second channel wall 105 is additionally shown, which has a recess 104 relative to the nozzle device 102.
• the recess 104 serves to provide no narrowing of the suction channel 1 13 in the region of the nozzle device 102.
• the recess is initially in the conveying direction of the fibers 17 1, the cross-section of the channel 1 13 expanding and then tapered back to the suction belt 106 back. This results in a convex bulge in the channel wall 105th
• Fig. 3 shows the embodiment of Fig. 1 in a schematic plan view in a sectional view tilted 90 ° downwards.
• the transitions of the bulge may be formed without edges, contrary to the representation of FIG.
• a nozzle or nozzle device 102 is incorporated in the one channel cheek or channel wall 103 and a pocket or recess 104 in the opposite channel cheek or channel wall 105.
• the device is to be designed such that the already thawed tobacco 107 on the suction belt 106 and the further shudder is not or substantially not influenced.
• the nozzle device 102 is preferably mounted or arranged on the channel wall 103, which is less flowed by the tobacco stream or material flow. In suction shafts or when using suction channels 1 13 in combination with fluid bed conveyors, which are not shown, this is done in particular by centrifugal forces, through which the material flow more or less clinging to one side.
• the nozzle device 102 can be in the form of a partially flowed volume body, such as in the examples of FIGS. 1 to 3, or as a capillary or as a combination of a partially flowed or full flow volume body with a capillary, which is not shown. Through the capillary tube, a better backflow of an introduced fluid is made possible.
• the nozzle devices used are preferably extrusion nozzle devices.
• the extruded strand material 107 provided with additive is fed in the direction of the arrow 109 to a format device 126, after the nonwoven fabric 107 has been trimmed as usual.
• the nonwoven fabric is placed on a wrapping strip 121, for example made of paper, which runs on a format strip 127 in the format device 126.
• the strand material is wrapped with the wrapping strip 121, the wrapping strip 121 is completely wrapped around the strand material and glued, optionally cured and, if the strand is proper, cut to length by the strand stripper 122, so that in the moment the tee provided upstream of the Abtschägers strand can be fed to further processing.
• a first sensor 118 which detects whether a sufficient amount of strand material 107 is aufauert on the suction belt 106.
• the sensor 118 may be integrated into the channel wall 105, as shown in FIGS. 2 and 3. It may also be a corresponding sensor 1 18 'may be provided, which also detects whether a sufficient amount of strand material is aufauert on the suction belt 106.
• the first sensor 1 18 ' is in the nozzle body 1 15 of the nozzle device 102 integrated.
• the first sensor 118 ' is arranged upstream of the nozzle opening 110.
• Jams of the strand material during insertion into the format device It may be sufficient to provide only a first sensor 118, 1 18 'and a second sensor 119, 1 19'.
• the signals of the sensors 1 18, 1 18 ', 1 19, 1 19' are fed to a control device 120, which controls the nozzle device 102. This is indicated by dashed lines.
• the control device 120 also controls the operation of a collecting container 123 or a suction device, which ensures that negative pressure prevails in the collecting container 123, a suction tube 125 and the suction bore 124, which ensures in the region of the nozzle opening 110 that the fluid 101 passes through the suction hole 124, the suction tube 125 passes into the collecting container 123.
• the invention is particularly suitable for preventing or largely avoiding that strand material provided with an additive, for example a tobacco rod, gets into the weft, for example a shredder.
• an additive for example a tobacco rod
• the startup times and stop times are to be adjusted to the connection and disconnection of the additive feed.
• the connection is preferably made when the strand is detected on a prism rail following the Strandabeller 122, behind a measuring head, which measures the properties of the tobacco rod.
• no additive may reach the unoccupied suction belt 106 at the start or at the stop.
• the Saugbandbelegung over a suitable sensor 118, 118 'interrogated.
• a sensor 119, 1 19 'directly behind the nozzle 102 or 1 10 should detect so-called chokes and terminate the additive addition immediately upon detection of such chokes.
• FIG. 4 shows a schematic three-dimensional representation of a stranding machine, which is in particular a tobacco rod machine, by means of which a cigarette rod or tobacco rod is produced.
• a pre-distributor is charged in portions with, for example, tobacco.
• a removal roller 3 of the pre-distributor 2 fills a storage container 4 with tobacco, from which a vertical conveyor 5 removes tobacco and sends a stowage 6 under control.
• From the storage shaft 6 takes a pin roller 7 a uniform stream of tobacco, which is knocked out by a rollover roller 8 of the pins of the pin roller 7 and thrown on a circulating at a constant speed spreading cloth 9.
• a formed on the spreading cloth 9 tobacco fleece is thrown into a sighting device 1 1, which consists essentially of an air curtain, the larger or heavier tobacco particles pass, while all other tobacco particles from the air into a funnel formed by a pin roller 12 and a wall 13 funnel 14 are steered.
• the tobacco is thrown into a tobacco channel 16 against a strand conveyor 17 or suction belt conveyor 17, on which the tobacco is held by means sucked into a vacuum chamber air and a tobacco rod is aufauert.
• An equalizer 19 or trimmer 19 removes excess tobacco from the tobacco strand, which is then placed on a synchronously guided cigarette paper 21 strips.
• the cigarette paper strip 21 is withdrawn from a reel 22, passed through a printing unit 23 and placed on a driven format tape 24.
• the format strip 24 transports the tobacco rod and the cigarette paper strip 21 through a format 26 by folding the cigarette paper strip 21 around the tobacco rod, so that an edge is still projecting, which is glued in a known manner by a sizing apparatus (not shown). Then the bond is closed and dried by a Tandemnahtplätte 27.
• a cigarette strand 28 thus formed passes through a strand density measuring device 29, which is preceded by a strand guiding device or in which a strand guiding device is integrated.
• Extrusion meter 29 controls the equalizer 19 or trimmer 19.
• the cigarette rod 29 is cut by a knife apparatus into double-length cigarettes 32.
• the double-length cigarettes 32 are transferred from a transfer device 34, which has controlled arms 33, to a transfer drum 36 of a filter attachment machine 37, onto the cutting drum 38 of which they are divided by a circular knife into single cigarettes.
• Conveyor belts 39, 41 promote excess tobacco in a arranged under the reservoir 4 container 42, from which the recycled tobacco is removed from the vertical conveyor 5 again.

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