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• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
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• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
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• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
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• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
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• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
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• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
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Definitions

• the present invention relates to a method and a device for producing a package for bar-shaped smoking articles that has at least one outer layer.
• bar-shaped smoking articles is meant to include cigarettes, cigarillos, or cigars. For the sake of simplicity, mostly only cigarettes are mentioned in the following.
• a cigarette package is generally composed of an inner package that may consist of paper, plastic material, metallized paper, or synthetic paper, in rare cases also of an aluminum foil, and of an outer package that may consist of thin cardboard as it is e.g. described in WO-2010/012370 Al, or generally of plastic material, or of different layers of paper and plastic material, that offers sufficient mechanical protection, and may or not be provided with a protecting layer that protects from
• both the inner package and the outer package are supplied as blanks to the packaging machine where the cigarettes are wrapped in the inner package and introduced into the shaped outer package.
• the inner package can be embossed, i.e. satinized and provided with logos, according to known techniques.
• Supplying the two blanks synchronously to the cycle of the packaging machine requires complex synchronizing means, particularly when the inner package is being embossed and/or printed.
• increasing efforts have been made by governments and organizations to contain cigarette consumption
• the object of the present invention to provide a method and a device for producing packages for cigarettes, cigarillos, or cigars which meet the various requirements with regard to such packages without using an inner package, on one hand, and on the other hand, enable a more rational production and allow to provide the package with a large diversity of visible or virtually invisible factually, acoustically, or olfactorily perceptible signs that may also serve as authentication features.
• the term "sign" is meant to include any kind of logotypes, individual points, groups of points, colors, as well as combinations thereof which are produced by the embossing roller (s) and are visually, factually, acoustically, or olfactorily perceptible.
• embossing unit in a pinup-pinup configuration shows a roller assembly in a pinup-pindown configuration, shows a section according to line VIIIA - VIIIA in Fig. 8, shows an exemplary embodiment of a creasing roller assembly, shows a lateral view of Fig. 9, shows an exemplary embodiment of a cutting roller assembly, schematically shows a folded blank, shows a portion of cigarettes, Fig. 14 shows the package of Fig. 12 in the closed state,
• Fig. 15 shows a cigarette holder strip
• Fig. 16 shows an innerliner
• Fig. 1 shows a simplified flow chart of a possible device for producing a package for cigarettes as it is illustrated in Figures 12 and 14.
• Device 1 according to Fig. 1 comprises a foil strip reel 2 with a foil strip 3 that runs first through an embossing unit 4, then through a creasing unit 5, and finally through a cutting unit 6 in order to
• the packaging foil i.e. the foil strip 3 for producing an outer package
• a light material e.g. of paper, thin cardboard
• hybrid foils i.e. foils having multiple coatings of different materials, or of plastics foils that may be metallized or otherwise coated, or for certain applications, in certain countries where it is still allowed, a metal foil.
• this will simply be designated by the term "foil”.
• device 1 comprises a first regulating unit 8
• Work cadence P may e.g. be defined by a length of packaging foil 3 that is to be fed to the
• the packaging machine per time unit and to which operating cadence Al of embossing unit 4 has to be adjusted in the pretreatment of foil 3. Thereto corresponds an accurate positioning of embossed surface structures on each length of foil 3 that is to be supplied.
• the surface structures may be structures of the embossed signs 23S, 24S.
• Synchronizing unit 8 comprises a detection device 9 for determining the operating cadence Al of embossing unit 4. This may e.g. include an optical detection of the position of surface structures 23 that have been embossed on foil 3 in embossing unit 4. More specifically, the detection takes place on the transport path between embossing unit 4 and creasing unit 5.
• the detected operating cadence Al may subsequently be adapted to work cadence P in a positioning device 10.
• a manual and/or automated adaptation procedure may be contemplated.
• the driven roller may be temporarily disengaged from the drive in order to thus lengthen the transport path of foil 3 by a desired amount that will be in conformity with work cadence P.
• device 1 comprises a second regulating unit 11.
• Regulating unit 11 comprises a comparing device 12 that allows detecting a quantitative deviation between operating cadences Al and A2 of the embossing unit and of the creasing unit. This may e.g. be accomplished by means of an optical representation by a lamp that is arranged to irradiate the foil with light at regular time intervals in the manner of a strobe. The irradiation frequency preferably corresponds to work cadence P. In this manner, an optical representation of the relative position of the surface structures embossed in embossing unit 4 and of creasing breaks 21 a-e formed on foil 3, i.e. on blank 19 in creasing unit 5 is accomplished.
• the obtained information is subsequently used in a
• Positioning device 13 in order to adapt operating cadence A2 to operating cadence Al in such a manner that the resulting creasing breaks 21 a-e are located at the desired relative positions on foil 3.
• Positioning device 13 may e.g. be arranged for a manual and/or automated adjustment of the circumferential position of driven creasing roller 34 relative to foil 3.
• creasing roller 34 disengaging creasing roller 34 from roller drive 36 may be contemplated. In addition, this allows a demand-driven or process-dependent variation of the relative positions of creasing breaks 21 a-e on foil 3.
• Comparing device 21 may also be used for detecting the relative deviation of operating cadence A2 from work cadence P for an additional verification of the synchronization to the following packaging process. Furthermore, it is possible in this manner to obtain indirect indications of an
• another buffer unit 14b is provided downstream of creasing unit 5.
• Second regulating unit 11 is followed by a third regulating unit 15 for synchronizing the operating cadence A3 of cutting unit 6 to work cadence P.
• third regulating unit 15 comprises a comparing unit 16 that allows detecting a quantitative deviation between operating cadences A2 and A3 of the creasing and cutting units, respectively.
• the signals may be acquired in analogy to the second regulating unit.
• the thus obtained information is subsequently used in a positioning device 17 in order to adapt operating cadence A3 to
• Foil strip 3, 3b may be previously printed or unprinted. However, it is also possible to arrange a printing unit upstream of the embossing unit in order to print the foil strip in time with work cadence P.
• the regulating unit provided for this purpose is similar to the described regulating units and allows synchronizing the operating cadence of the printing unit to the operating cadence of the other units and to the work cadence.
• a station for applying odorants may be integrated into the device, in which case an additional regulating unit ensures that this station operates in time with work cadence P.
• Foil strip 3b is embossed, folded, and cut in a similar manner as foil strip 3 to obtain the blank 19b with the embossed signs 24S, creasing breaks 25, and cuts 26. It is understood that both the embossing unit and the creasing and cutting units are adapted to the width of the foil strip .
• the creasing unit is not used and the regulating units are adapted accordingly.
• the number and the design of the rollers of embossing unit 4 is largely a function of the properties of the foil strip and of the desired kind of the embossed signs. If foils similar to innerliners are being processed, one side of which is metallized or has similar properties, known
• embossing rollers may be used which are defined in various patent specifications and applications to the applicant of the present invention, e.g. in WO 02/07671, and illustrated in Figures 2 and 3.
• the latter are rollers in a pinup-pinup constellation where the signs are created by entirely or partly removing teeth on the embossing roller.
• Assemblies of two or three rollers are described, but the assemblies may also comprise more than three rollers.
• the rollers that are provided with signs and possibly with individual teeth are defined as being embossing rollers whereas the remaining rollers, whether driven via
• synchronizing means or directly or indirectly driven are defined as being counter-rollers. However, this does not exclude that several rollers of a device may be provided with signs and are therefore embossing rollers. Moreover it is assumed that the foil strip is always passed between the rollers in the same orientation with respect to what will be its outside.
• Embossing assembly 4A comprises three rollers, i.e. an embossing roller 53 that is driven by a drive 27 and a first counter-roller 32 and a second counter-roller 33, the two counter-rollers being neither directly driven nor
• the three rollers do not have the same structure. While the driven embossing roller 53 has teeth 31, the first counter-roller 32 is provided with rings 32R running around the entire circumference and arranged in parallel to each other such that the teeth 31 of embossing roller 53 engage in the grooves between the rings. Rings 32R are outwardly tapered and flattened so as to engage between teeth 31.
• the second counter-roller 33 has longitudinal ridges 33L that are outwardly tapered and flattened like rings 32R in such a manner that longitudinal ridges 33L cooperate with teeth 31 of embossing roller 53. Also, the rings or
• longitudinal ridges may affect the appearance of the embossing patterns produced by the embossing roller provided with teeth.
• embossing roller assemblies it is possible, by variations of teeth 31 or of rings 32R or of longitudinal ridges 33L, i.e. by altering the height, the flanks, or the edges of the teeth, rings, or longitudinal ridges, or by applying patterns to their upper surfaces, to produce different embossing patterns or signs and to achieve a better breaking of the fibers of the foil paper .
• Roller assembly 4B has the same drive 27 and the same driven embossing roller 53 as well as a counter-roller 29 having teeth 31.
• Logos 23L are obtained by removing or modifying teeth 31 in the corresponding locations.
• rollers are suitable where teeth are only provided in those locations where the logo is to be created, and the teeth are preferably provided on the non-driven roller .
• Embossing assembly 4C according to Fig. 4 is based on a pinup-pinup configuration that has been successfully used for embossing innerliners where all three rollers 28, 29 and 30 are provided with teeth 31 that project from the roller cylinder and one tooth of one roller engages between four teeth of the other rollers, whereby a self-synchronization is achieved and the embossing accuracy is improved and the drive mechanism simplified.
• First roller 28 is driven by a schematically illustrated drive 27 which may also be a motor.
• roller 28 that is driven via drive 27 is provided with logo lines 23, 23A and at both edges with tooth rows 52 in order to achieve a better transmission of the driving force to the counter-rollers and to prevent a pitching movement of the embossing roller if only few embossing lines or rows are provided.
• "Embossing lines or rows” are meant to designate lines or rows on which any signs formed of teeth 31 are arranged.
• counter-rollers 29 and 30 only comprise teeth 31.
• the embossing rollers according to Figures 2 and 3 e.g.
• teeth are only provided on the corresponding embossing roller in those locations where signs are to be embossed.
• the teeth of the counter-rollers may serve for breaking the fibers of the paper, as the case may be.
• embossing assembly 4D one of the two non-driven rollers is the embossing roller 3 OA that is provided with embossing lines 23, 23A. This may also apply to the case where the embossing assembly 4E only comprises two rollers, as illustrated in Fig.
• embossing assembly 4E comprises a driven roller 28F and an embossing roller 29A that is driven by the latter and provided with logo lines 23, 23A.
• embossing roller 29A has twice the circumference of driven roller 28F.
• teeth 31 are pyramidal with a square horizontal projection while their tips may be
• pyramidal teeth having a variety of other horizontal projections and shapes are known in the art, e.g. pyramidal teeth having a rectangular horizontal projection which may e.g. have a longer footprint in the direction of the longitudinal axis than in the other direction.
• frustoconical or conical teeth may be provided.
• the teeth may have a pitch, i.e. a distance between tips, of 0.05 mm to 0.4 mm, for a theoretical height without the flattened portions of 0.03 mm to 0.3 mm.
• Figure 7 illustrates an embossing assembly 4F having a similar roller configuration as in Fig. 2, the driven embossing roller 28 cooperating with a first counter-roller 32 having rings 32R and with a second counter-roller 33 having longitudinal ridges 33L.
• the driven embossing roller 28 cooperating with a first counter-roller 32 having rings 32R and with a second counter-roller 33 having longitudinal ridges 33L.
• embossing roller 28 is only provided with teeth 28 in those locations where embossing lines or rows 23, 23A are to be created.
• embossing rollers that are known in the art per se allow embossing signs that are visible to the eye as patterns, colors, color patterns, or are almost invisible, serve as authentication features, are factually perceptible, or may produce acoustic signals.
• Figures 2 , 4 , 5 , or 7 it is symbolically indicated that both counter-rollers interlock with the embossing roller, but this is not necessarily always the case.
• the first or the second counter-roller, respectively only interlocks or is only engageable with the first or the preceding roller, respectively.
• both the diameter and the length of the individual rollers may differ.
• soft rollers may be used.
• Figure 8 illustrates a roller assembly 4G in a so-called pinup-pindown configuration, the raised embossing elements 23R being provided on the driven roller 54 and the
• FIG. 9 and 10 a possible arrangement of a creasing unit 5 is illustrated.
• This creasing unit comprises two creasing rollers 34 and 35, creasing roller 34 being driven by a drive 36.
• the second creasing roller 35 is driven and synchronized via synchronizing gears 41 and 42.
• the two creasing rollers are substantially smooth and are provided with mutually complementary structures in order to obtain the desired creasing breaks.
• Creasing roller 35 is provided with both circular rings 37 and longitudinally arranged ridges 38 a-e which engage in corresponding circular grooves 40 and longitudinal grooves 39 a-e of creasing roller 34.
• the creasing rollers with embossing elements, e.g. teeth or groups of teeth that may be arranged on one or on both rollers as in Figures 2 to 7, or embossing elements according to the roller assembly of Figures 8, 8A where the raised embossing elements 23R are arranged on creasing roller 35 having the creasing tools and the hollow embossing elements 23H on the other creasing roller 34.
• embossing elements e.g. teeth or groups of teeth that may be arranged on one or on both rollers as in Figures 2 to 7, or embossing elements according to the roller assembly of Figures 8, 8A where the raised embossing elements 23R are arranged on creasing roller 35 having the creasing tools and the hollow embossing elements 23H on the other creasing roller 34.
• Fig. 10 a lateral view of Fig. 9, illustrates the mutual engagement of the longitudinal ridges and longitudinal grooves.
• a possible arrangement of a cutting unit 6 is depicted.
• the latter consists of two cutting rollers 43 and 44, cutting roller 43 being driven via a drive 45 and driving the second cutting roller 44 via synchronizing gears 46 and 47.
• first cutting roller 43 is smooth while second cutting roller 44 has cutting blades 48 and 49 a-e that are arranged so as to cut blank 19 according to Fig. 1A or IB.
• the cutting rollers may be provided with embossing teeth and/or embossing elements. Both the creasing rollers and the cutting rollers may be provided with means for preventing a pitching movement thereof, these means e.g. being rings or teeth.
• FIG. 12 illustrates the operation of creasing blank 19 to receive cigarettes 18, and Fig. 14 the finished package 20. If necessary, the cigarettes can be held together in a holder 50 according to Figure 15 and/or in an innerliner 51 according to Figure 16 that fits into the package 20.
• this device is particularly suitable for the online production of packages for smoking articles, the foil strip supplied from the reel being printed, embossed, and/or folded, as the case may be, and subsequently cut and the blank being folded, filled, and wrapped around the cigarettes, all these operations being performed in time with the cycle of the packaging machine.
• an online processing of thin cardboard, paper, or plastics materials is facilitated, or made possible in the first place, by the counter-roller (s) which fold and break the fibers of those materials.
• the device may be provided with an integrated odorizing unit that applies odorants online prior to creasing. From the description of the rollers it is understood that any desired combination of embossing, creasing, and cutting elements on rollers is possible .
• the device either processes an outer or an inner package, but it is possible to use at least one more device online so that both a foil strip for the outer and a foil strip for the inner package are processed and both foil strips are folded in the
• the regulating units are equipped accordingly so as to ensure the necessary synchronization to the operating cadences and the work cadence.

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