EP0586919A2 - Procédé de fabrication et emballage de cigarettes à filtre - Google Patents

Procédé de fabrication et emballage de cigarettes à filtre Download PDF

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EP0586919A2
EP0586919A2 EP93112965A EP93112965A EP0586919A2 EP 0586919 A2 EP0586919 A2 EP 0586919A2 EP 93112965 A EP93112965 A EP 93112965A EP 93112965 A EP93112965 A EP 93112965A EP 0586919 A2 EP0586919 A2 EP 0586919A2
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    • 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
    • A24C5/32—Separating, ordering, counting or examining cigarettes; Regulating the feeding of tobacco according to rod or cigarette condition
    • A24C5/33—Catching or ordering devices
    • A24C5/336—Turning means

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  • the present invention relates to a method of producing and packing filter-tipped cigarettes.
  • filter-tipped cigarettes are produced on a filter assembly machine, along a first portion of which each portion in a first succession of cigarette portions, arranged with a given spacing, is joined, at a rolling station and by means of a sheet type joining element, to a corresponding portion in a second succession of cigarette portions, so as to form a tobacco item hereinafter referred to as a "double cigarette.”
  • Each double cigarette consists of two cigarette portions separated by a double filter made integral with the cigarette portions by said joining element, the central portion of which surrounds the double filter, and each end portion of which surrounds the end of a respective cigarette portion.
  • the double cigarettes are fed successively through a cutting station where they are cut transversely in half to form two successions of oppositely-oriented single cigarettes.
  • the cigarettes in each pair of cigarettes formed by cutting a respective double cigarette are arranged with their filters facing and substantially contacting each other.
  • the two successions of filter-tipped cigarettes are then fed to a turnover station, where the cigarettes in one succession are turned over those in the other succession, so as to feed each turned-over cigarette into the space between two adjacent cigarettes in the other succession, and so form a single succession of equioriented cigarettes, which are then fed to the output of the filter assembly machine and from there to the input of a packing machine.
  • a method of producing and packing filter-tipped cigarettes comprising stages consisting in successively feeding tobacco items, each consisting of two cigarette portions joined by a double filter, to the cutting station of a filter assembly machine, to form a first and second side by side succession of oppositely-oriented single cigarettes; and in turning around the cigarettes in the first succession so that they are oriented the same way as those in the second succession; characterized by the fact that the cigarettes in the first succession are turned around away from those in the second succession, to form two successions of equioriented, transversely-spaced cigarettes.
  • said two successions of cigarettes are fed along respective separate paths to respective outputs of the filter assembly machine, and to respective transversely-spaced inputs of a two-input packing unit.
  • Number 1 in Fig.1 indicates a system for producing tobacco items, and comprising a filter assembly machine 2; and a packing unit 3 presenting two parallel packing lines 4 and 5 with respective known input feed devices 6 and 7 separated transversely in relation to lines 4 and 5.
  • Lines 4 and 5 comprise, in known manner, respective channels 8 and 9 connected to respective devices 6 and 7, and which provide for feeding masses 10 of filter-tipped cigarettes 11, indicated respectively 11a and 11b, to respective feedboxes 12 and 13 supplying respective known conveyors 14 and 15 for forming and supplying groups of cigarettes to respective known wrapping stations 16 and 17.
  • filter assembly machine 2 presents an output portion 18 comprising a first roller 19 supplied in known manner with a succession of double cigarettes 20, each comprising two cigarette portions 21 and 22 connected by a double filter 23.
  • Double cigarettes 20 are fed by roller 19, rotating clockwise in Fig.1, through a known cutting station 24 where they are cut in half to form two successions 25 and 26 of respective cigarettes 11a and 11b arranged side by side and oppositely oriented, i.e. with filters 27 facing and substantially contacting each other.
  • Successions 25 and 26 are transferred from roller 19 to a turnaround unit 28 described in more detail later on and comprising a roller 29 substantially tangent to roller 19 and rotating anticlockwise in Fig.1.
  • cigarettes 11a in succession 25 are turned around outwards, i.e. away from succession 26, by turning them 180° about a point close to the opposite end to filter 27, so that each is aligned with and oriented the same way as a respective cigarette 11b in succession 26, but at a distance from succession 26 substantially equal to the length of cigarette 11.
  • successions 25 and 26 are transferred from roller 29 to respective side by side rollers 30 located said distance apart, both tangent to roller 29, and constituting the input rollers of respective lines 31 and 32 for feeding respective successions 25 and 26 to devices 6 and 7 at the input of lines 4 and 5 of unit 3.
  • Each line 31, 32 comprises, in known manner, a known test unit 33 in turn comprising a roller 34 tangent to respective roller 30 and which provides for feeding respective cigarettes 11 to known devices 35 by which they are tested successively as to permeability and/or damage and/or ventilation and, if necessary, rejected at a known reject station 36 located along the periphery of a roller 37 tangent to roller 34 and located between roller 34 and an output roller 38 cooperating with respective input device 6, 7.
  • the outer surface of roller 29 of turnaround unit 28 is defined by a first and second cylindrical surface 39 and 40 coaxial with each other and with the central hub 41 of roller 29.
  • Surface 39 is smaller in diameter and at least twice as long as surface 40 with which it is connected by an annular shoulder 42.
  • roller 29 on the surface 39 side presents an annular cavity 43 coaxial with surface 39 and defining, on roller 29, an annular wall 44 defined externally by surface 39 and extending about a cam 45.
  • Cam 45 is housed inside cavity 43, is connected in rotary manner to hub 41, and is maintained angularly fixed by known external lock means (not shown) when roller 29 is rotated about its axis 46 by known activating means (not shown).
  • wall 44 presents a ring of substantially cylindrical through holes 47 equally spaced in a plane perpendicular to axis 46 and intermediate in relation to surface 39, and each having an axis 48 in said plane.
  • Axis 48 of each hole 47 forms a given angle A with the radius of surface 39 through a central point of hole 47, and slopes towards axis 46 and frontwards in the rotation direction of roller 29.
  • a pin 49 is fitted for rotation inside each hole 47, and presents two annular flanges 50 and 51 by which it is locked axially in relation to wall 44.
  • Flange 50 is located on the end of pin 49 projecting inside cavity 43, and presents a radial appendix 52 fitted with an eccentric tappet roller 53 having an axis 54 parallel to axis 48 of pin 49 and engaging a shaped annular groove 55 of cam 45.
  • Flange 51 is integral with an intermediate portion of pin 49, which presents an end portion 56 projecting outwards of surface 39, and is fitted on its free outer end with a radial appendix 57 extending from pin 49 in a direction diametrically opposite that of appendix 52.
  • a seat 58 communicates, via a dead axial conduit 59 in pin 49, a number of radial holes 60 in pin 49, an annular groove 61 formed in wall 44 on the surface of hole 47, and an axial hole 62 in wall 44 (Fig.4), with a suction conduit 63 for retaining cigarette 11a.
  • each pin 49 constitutes a device 64 for turning respective seat 58 and, hence, respective cigarette 11a, around 180° between an idle position and a diametrically-opposed operating position, as shown respectively by the continuous and dotted lines in Fig.4.
  • seat 58 of cigarette 11a is coaxial with and adjacent to a corresponding seat 65 formed in surface 40 and in which a cigarette 11b is retained by suction via a hole 66 connected to conduit 63.
  • seat 58 is still coaxial with respective seat 65, but is separated from it by a distance substantially equal to the length of cigarette 11.
  • devices 64 are set to the idle position, so that the cigarettes in each pair of cigarettes 11a and 11b are transferred from roller 19 to roller 29 in the original position, i.e. coaxial with each other and oppositely-oriented with filters 27 substantially contacting each other.
  • pin 49 is rotated gradually (anticlockwise in Fig.5) so as to gradually turn respective appendix 57 outwards by 180°. This is completed before device 64 reaches the point of tangency between roller 29 and rollers 30, so that seats 58 are set to the operating position prior to transferring cigarettes 11a in known manner on to roller 30 of line 31. Subsequently, seats 58 are restored to the idle position prior to reaching the point of tangency between rollers 19 and 29.
  • the present invention provides for equiorienting cigarettes 11 in successions 25 and 26 in extremely straightforward manner, by simply operating in reverse a substantially known and necessarily existing turnover device, for simultaneously equiorienting and axially spacing the cigarettes with no need for additional devices, and by duplicating the part of the filter assembly machine downstream from the turnover device.
  • each position of axis 48 will correspond to a minimum angle A for enabling each appendix 57 to clear the adjacent appendix 57 as pin 49 is rotated.

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EP19930112965 1992-09-03 1993-08-12 Method of producing and packing filter-tipped cigarettes Withdrawn EP0586919A3 (en)

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ITBO920311A IT1258139B (it) 1992-09-03 1992-09-03 Metodo per la realizzazione e l'impacchettamento di sigarette col filtro
ITBO920311 1992-09-03

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EP0586919A3 EP0586919A3 (en) 1994-05-25

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JP (1) JPH06153894A (fr)
CN (1) CN1086107A (fr)
BR (1) BR9303698A (fr)
IT (1) IT1258139B (fr)

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US20190142059A1 (en) * 2016-05-19 2019-05-16 British American Tobacco (Investments) Limited Cutting and arranging rods for tobacco industry products

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GB900387A (en) * 1957-09-06 1962-07-04 Tom Rowlands Improvements in or relating to apparatus for collecting or arranging cigarettes
US3215250A (en) * 1961-08-08 1965-11-02 Hauni Werke Koerber & Co Kg Article rotating apparatus
US3319764A (en) * 1964-04-27 1967-05-16 American Mach & Foundry Device for setting cigarettes in the same direction
FR2072687A5 (fr) * 1969-12-03 1971-09-24 Hauni Werke Koerber & Co Kg
FR2358843A1 (fr) * 1976-07-20 1978-02-17 Hauni Werke Koerber & Co Kg Dispositif pour retourner une rangee de cigarettes
FR2513492A1 (fr) * 1981-09-29 1983-04-01 Gd Spa Dispositif pour le retournement d'objets en forme de tiges tels qu'en particulier des cigarettes
DE3817740A1 (de) * 1987-05-28 1988-12-15 Gd Spa Vorrichtung zur axialen verschiebung von zigaretten
GB2241866A (en) * 1990-03-16 1991-09-18 Koerber Ag Making filter cigarettes

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GB900387A (en) * 1957-09-06 1962-07-04 Tom Rowlands Improvements in or relating to apparatus for collecting or arranging cigarettes
US3215250A (en) * 1961-08-08 1965-11-02 Hauni Werke Koerber & Co Kg Article rotating apparatus
US3319764A (en) * 1964-04-27 1967-05-16 American Mach & Foundry Device for setting cigarettes in the same direction
FR2072687A5 (fr) * 1969-12-03 1971-09-24 Hauni Werke Koerber & Co Kg
FR2358843A1 (fr) * 1976-07-20 1978-02-17 Hauni Werke Koerber & Co Kg Dispositif pour retourner une rangee de cigarettes
FR2513492A1 (fr) * 1981-09-29 1983-04-01 Gd Spa Dispositif pour le retournement d'objets en forme de tiges tels qu'en particulier des cigarettes
DE3817740A1 (de) * 1987-05-28 1988-12-15 Gd Spa Vorrichtung zur axialen verschiebung von zigaretten
GB2241866A (en) * 1990-03-16 1991-09-18 Koerber Ag Making filter cigarettes

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US20190142059A1 (en) * 2016-05-19 2019-05-16 British American Tobacco (Investments) Limited Cutting and arranging rods for tobacco industry products
US11744280B2 (en) * 2016-05-19 2023-09-05 British American Tobacco (Investments) Limited Cutting and arranging rods for tobacco industry products

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EP0586919A3 (en) 1994-05-25
JPH06153894A (ja) 1994-06-03
ITBO920311A0 (it) 1992-09-03
ITBO920311A1 (it) 1994-03-03
IT1258139B (it) 1996-02-20
CN1086107A (zh) 1994-05-04

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