EP0970626B1 - Une pluralité d'enveloppes remplies de tabac pour la fabrication de cigarettes - Google Patents

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EP0970626B1
EP0970626B1 EP99121159A EP99121159A EP0970626B1 EP 0970626 B1 EP0970626 B1 EP 0970626B1 EP 99121159 A EP99121159 A EP 99121159A EP 99121159 A EP99121159 A EP 99121159A EP 0970626 B1 EP0970626 B1 EP 0970626B1
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Heinrich W. Ruppert
Günter Schütze
Klaus G. Gätschmann
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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
    • A24C5/40—Hand-driven apparatus for making cigarettes
    • A24C5/42—Pocket cigarette-fillers
    • 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
    • A24C5/40—Hand-driven apparatus for making cigarettes

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  • the invention relates to a variety of tobacco intended for the manufacture of cigarettes filled strand casings according to the preamble of claim 1, as described in DE-A 32 44 906 is known.
  • This portion of tobacco should be under Making a smokable cigarette a conventional one Rolling cigarette papers around and in itself known way be glued.
  • Cigarettes As a fundamentally different kind of self-production of Cigarettes are known as self-stuffing cigarettes.
  • a plug-in nozzle for attaching and plugging on an empty cigarette tube provided.
  • the bale chamber is ended by a piston-like tobacco discharge valve limited, by means of which the tobacco supply from the Bale chamber can be transferred into the cigarette tube (cf. e.g. DE 2 833 681).
  • a piston-like tobacco discharge valve limited, by means of which the tobacco supply from the Bale chamber can be transferred into the cigarette tube.
  • These well-known tamping devices have become proven more or less well in practice. It is their responsibility however, the disadvantage is that when the bale chamber is filled a certain contamination of the user's hands as well as the Environment with tobacco residues or crumbling should not be avoided can, which is perceived as bothersome and the user often discourages the use of such a device. After all, manual filling is always a constant filling level of the bale chamber and thus the Cigarette tube not possible.
  • the self-stuffed cigarette behaves similarly to the rolling cigarette.
  • the pollutant content is also the self-stuffed or turned in a conventional manner Cigarette very different and uncontrolled accordingly the different fill levels of the cigarette tube.
  • Cigarette stopper for the self - production of cigarettes by the Proposed consumer, which is characterized by an as such non-smokable prefabricated in the form of a prefabricated tobacco cartridge, consisting of a open at the end, with its diameter the Cigarette paper sleeve adapted to the finished cigarettes Strand casing and a strand-like, one each A portion of tobacco corresponding to a cigarette, which by an assigned, the inner diameter of the strand casing customized pistons from the strand casing into an empty one Cigarette paper tube is transferable.
  • This tobacco product is suitable for use in conjunction with conventional self-filling cigarette tubes as well Compound with conventional self-rolling papers.
  • this Proposal will give the consumer a precisely dosed, namely the filling quantity of a conventional, industrial Corresponding quantity of tobacco in the form of a Cigarette tobacco cartridge provided, whose Tobacco filling in a prefabricated cigarette tube commercial type is convertible.
  • a Cigarette tobacco cartridge provided, whose Tobacco filling in a prefabricated cigarette tube commercial type is convertible.
  • the object underlying the invention is a Varieties of tobacco intended for making cigarettes filled strand sleeves to create better handling in the manufacture of cigarettes at the same time Improvement in the manufacturing quality of cigarettes can guarantee. Furthermore, a particularly suitable one Tobacco unit of use are provided that deal with a system for making cigarettes based of cigarette paper tubes.
  • the strand casings filled with tobacco according to the present Invention have the advantage that they are due to their as Unit held together shape can be handled very conveniently can and also because of their strand casing connection be kept dimensionally stable.
  • FIG. 1 shows strand casings 150 filled with tobacco 151 on one side of the casing 150 interconnecting strips 153 made of paper, plastic or thin cardboard.
  • This unit of strips 153 and strand sleeves 150 is combined into one device used, from which the individual tobacco portions with the help of pistons from the strand casings 150 can be transferred into commercially available cigarette paper tubes.
  • Fig. 2 shows a belt of tobacco 151 filled casing 150, which on one side Connecting strip 153 arranged, preferably glued.
  • Connecting strip 153 arranged, preferably glued.
  • Fig. 3 shows a plan view of the belt of FIG. 2.
  • Fig. 4 shows an extrusion belt, which is characterized in that the Tobacco 151 filled casing 150 between an upper and a lower Connecting strips 153 made of plastic, paper or thin cardboard arranged and with the Connecting strips 153 connected, in particular glued. Additionally or alternatively a gluing of the tobacco-filled casing 150 along their contact lines conceivable.

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Claims (7)

  1. Pluralité d'enveloppes remplies de tabac pour la fabrication de cigarettes (150),
       pour laquelle au moins deux, en particulier plusieurs enveloppes (150) respectivement remplies de tabac disposées parallèlement l'une à côté de l'autre sont maintenues ensemble, caractérisée en ce que
       les enveloppes (150) sont maintenues ensemble au moins sur un côté par une liaison des enveloppes sous la forme d'une bande (153) de matière plastique, de papier ou de carton.
  2. Ensemble suivant la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que les enveloppes remplies de tabac (150) sont écartées respectivement l'une de l'autre.
  3. Ensemble suivant la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que les enveloppes remplies de tabac (150) sont disposées étroitement juxtaposées.
  4. Ensemble suivant l'une des revendications 1 à 3, caractérisé en ce que les enveloppes remplies de tabac (150) sont collées à la bande de liaison.
  5. Ensemble suivant la revendication 3, caractérisé en ce que les enveloppes remplies de tabac (150) sont collées entre elles au moins ponctuellement le long de leurs lignes de contact.
  6. Ensemble suivant la revendication 1 ou3, caractérisé en ce que les enveloppes (150) remplies de tabac sont disposées entre une bande de liaison supérieure et une bande de liaison inférieure (153) en matière plastique, papier ou carton mince et sont reliées, en particulier collées, à la bande de liaison (153).
  7. Ensemble suivant la revendication 6, caractérisé en ce que les enveloppes remplies de tabac (150) sont en plus collées entre elles le long de leurs lignes de contact.
EP99121159A 1993-12-23 1994-12-22 Une pluralité d'enveloppes remplies de tabac pour la fabrication de cigarettes Expired - Lifetime EP0970626B1 (fr)

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DE4344281 1993-12-23
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DE4400192 1994-01-05
DE4400192A DE4400192C2 (de) 1993-12-23 1994-01-05 Verfahren und Vorrichtung zum Füllen bzw. Stopfen von Zigarettenpapierhülsen mit Tabak
EP94120439A EP0659352B1 (fr) 1993-12-23 1994-12-22 Procédé et dispositif pour remplir ou bourrer des tubes de papier à cigarette avec du tabac

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