USRE44505E1 - Assembly for perforating rod-shaped elements, particularly cigarettes - Google Patents
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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
- A24C5/36—Removing papers or other parts from defective cigarettes
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- Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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- Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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- the disclosure concerns an assembly for perforating rod-shaped elements, particularly cigarettes, used in particular in an apparatus for recovery of tobacco from damaged or sub-standard cigarettes, rejected in the production process.
- Description DE 4119873 presents a construction of an apparatus for tearing the cigarette paper wrapper of the sub-standard filter cigarettes.
- the above-mentioned device consists of a belt conveyor to transport parallel spaced cigarettes, and of at least one drum used to “open” paper wrappers by means of rotary cutters having tiny teeth located around their perimeter, and those teeth do not damage the cigarette filter tipping paper. Power transmission of the drum is synchronized with the power transmission of the belt conveyor.
- Description DE 4446323 discloses an apparatus for recovering tobacco from damaged cigarettes, wherein, behind the conveyor of cigarettes onto which cigarettes are sequentially placed, a cutting device and a sieve for sifting recovered tobacco from the fragments of cut cigarette paper wrapper are used.
- Device in accordance with GB 1262664 which is used to “open” rejected cigarettes, has a conveyor and a roller with V-shaped circumferential grooves, the roller being coupled with the conveyor.
- the grooves have appropriate dimensions so that cigarettes fed lengthwise are clamped between opposite surfaces of the roller's grooves and the conveyor. In this manner the cigarette paper wrapper is ripped and “open” cigarettes are moved to the beating engine, where paper wrapper, tobacco and filter tips are separated.
- the conveyor belt feeds the cigarettes onto the linear vibratory conveyor which moves them towards multiple groove drum conveyor, which transports the cigarettes to the subsequent stations of the apparatus.
- Cigarettes on the linear vibratory conveyor are moved axially along the direction of movement and are pushed onto the groove drum conveyor, tangentially to its circumference.
- a rotary cutter with numerous short blades arranged circumferentially is placed over each groove of the drum conveyor.
- Rotary cutters and drum conveyor rotate, which causes the paper wrapper of the cigarettes in the grooves of the drum conveyor to perforate, whereas, due to precise adjustment of the distance between the cutter blade and the groove surface of the groove conveyor, the cigarette tipping paper is not perforated.
- the cigarettes processed so move along the drum conveyor and fall on to the vibratory conveyor from where they are moved on to the next station of the process where tobacco is separated from the paper wrapper.
- One aspect of the disclosure is an assembly for perforating rod-shaped elements, particularly cigarettes, and said assembly comprises a driving shaft, along which a number of rotary perforating cutters are arranged and said cutters are separated by distance rings.
- Another aspect of the disclosure is locating each rotary cutter between two pushing elements and positioning said cutter so that it protrudes from between said pushing elements.
- the pushing elements are fixed or rotary and take, in particular, a form of cleaning rings with an off-center shift and the rings are loosely arranged on the distance rings, and the distance rings are mounted on the driving shaft and the off-center shift of the cleaning rings is directed either perpendicularly to the direction of the movement of cigarettes or along that direction.
- Tangential velocities of the circumference of the rotational pushing elements are synchronized with, or close to tangential velocity of the drum conveyor or to the speed of the linear conveyor and the perforating cutter.
- the advantage of the construction according to the disclosure is that the application of pushing elements of a simple design makes it possible to push the cigarettes off the peripheral surfaces of the rotary cutters on which said cigarettes have been caught and thus it provides efficient cleaning of the cutters.
- FIG. 1A shows a section of the assembly according to the disclosure in the cross-sectional view over the plane positioned perpendicularly to the axis of the driving shaft, and where the cleaning ring is shifted off-center in the direction of the movement of cigarettes;
- FIG. 1B is a section of the assembly according to FIG. 1A , in the cross-sectional view, over the plane parallel to the axis of the driving shaft, and
- FIG. 2 is a section of the assembly as per the disclosure, in the cross-sectional view, over the plane positioned perpendicularly to the axis of the driving shaft, whereas the cleaning ring is shifted off center and perpendicularly to the direction of the movement of cigarettes.
- the assembly for perforating cigarettes comprises a driving shaft 2 and a groove drum conveyor 5 located below the driving shaft.
- a series of rotary cutters 3 are arranged and said cutters have numerous short blades around their circumference, which are separated by the distance rings 4 fixed to the shaft 2 .
- the blades of the rotary cutters 3 are set within the grooves of the groove conveyor 5 and cigarettes 6 subject to perforation are moved along said grooves.
- Cleaning rings 1 with circumferential contact surface 1 ′ are loosely arranged and off-centrally movable, on the distance rings 4 between the rotary cutters 3 .
- the off-center movement of the ring 1 can be directed, essentially along the direction of the movement of cigarettes and is shown in FIG. 1A , or it can be directed perpendicularly to the direction of the movement, as shown in FIG. 2 .
- a directional shaft 7 is located in the upper section of the assembly.
- the size of the cleaning ring 1 allows for free perpendicular movements over a vertical plane.
- the limit to those movements of the cleaning ring 1 is imposed by the surface of the drum conveyor 5 and the directional shaft 7 from the outside and by the distance ring 4 from the inside. Positioning of all those elements ensures that the cleaning ring 1 is always in the off-center position against the driving shaft 2 and the distance ring 4 . Due to the direction of the off-center movement of the cleaning ring 1 , shown in the figures of the drawing, the contact surfaces 1 ′ of the cleaning rings 1 push off a cigarette 6 caught by the perforating rotary cutter 3 .
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PL384242A PL216538B1 (en) | 2008-01-11 | 2008-01-11 | Perforating unit for rodlike elements, especially cigarettes |
US12/351,029 US8056567B2 (en) | 2008-01-11 | 2009-01-09 | Assembly for perforating rod-shaped elements, particularly cigarettes |
US13/385,885 USRE44505E1 (en) | 2008-01-11 | 2012-03-12 | Assembly for perforating rod-shaped elements, particularly cigarettes |
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US3382874A (en) | 1965-06-04 | 1968-05-14 | Reynolds Tobacco Co R | Means for disassembling cigarette and filter assemblies |
GB1262664A (en) | 1967-10-20 | 1972-02-02 | Guenther Alich | Method and apparatus for measuring a length with the aid of a magnetic field |
DE3839431A1 (en) | 1988-11-23 | 1990-05-31 | Fr Niepmann Gmbh U Co Maschf | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR RECOVERY TOBACCO FROM DEFECTIVE CIGARETTES |
DE4119873A1 (en) | 1991-06-17 | 1992-12-24 | Fr Niepmann Gmbh U Co Maschf | DEVICE FOR SEPARATING THE PAPER CASE FROM FAULTY FILTER CIGARETTES |
CA2125911A1 (en) | 1993-06-16 | 1994-12-17 | Karsten Keller | Method for Processing Waste Material in the Form of Filter Rods, Filter Cigarettes and the Like |
DE4446323A1 (en) | 1994-12-23 | 1996-06-27 | Koehl Maschbau Gmbh | Recycler for intact tobacco from damaged cigarettes |
US20080115647A1 (en) | 2006-11-20 | 2008-05-22 | Tie Chun Wang | Cutting blade and rotary cutting assembly for shredders |
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US2002142A (en) | 1933-10-06 | 1935-05-21 | American Tobacco Co | Cigarette wrapper cutting machine |
US3382874A (en) | 1965-06-04 | 1968-05-14 | Reynolds Tobacco Co R | Means for disassembling cigarette and filter assemblies |
GB1262664A (en) | 1967-10-20 | 1972-02-02 | Guenther Alich | Method and apparatus for measuring a length with the aid of a magnetic field |
DE3839431A1 (en) | 1988-11-23 | 1990-05-31 | Fr Niepmann Gmbh U Co Maschf | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR RECOVERY TOBACCO FROM DEFECTIVE CIGARETTES |
DE4119873A1 (en) | 1991-06-17 | 1992-12-24 | Fr Niepmann Gmbh U Co Maschf | DEVICE FOR SEPARATING THE PAPER CASE FROM FAULTY FILTER CIGARETTES |
CA2125911A1 (en) | 1993-06-16 | 1994-12-17 | Karsten Keller | Method for Processing Waste Material in the Form of Filter Rods, Filter Cigarettes and the Like |
PL174406B1 (en) | 1993-06-16 | 1998-07-31 | Rhodia Ag Rhone Poulenc | Method of processing wastes in the form of filter rods, filter cigarettes and the like |
DE4446323A1 (en) | 1994-12-23 | 1996-06-27 | Koehl Maschbau Gmbh | Recycler for intact tobacco from damaged cigarettes |
US20080115647A1 (en) | 2006-11-20 | 2008-05-22 | Tie Chun Wang | Cutting blade and rotary cutting assembly for shredders |
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