EP1121869A1 - Unité de gommage - Google Patents

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EP1121869A1
EP1121869A1 EP01830049A EP01830049A EP1121869A1 EP 1121869 A1 EP1121869 A1 EP 1121869A1 EP 01830049 A EP01830049 A EP 01830049A EP 01830049 A EP01830049 A EP 01830049A EP 1121869 A1 EP1121869 A1 EP 1121869A1
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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
    • A24C5/14—Machines of the continuous-rod type
    • A24C5/24—Pasting the seam
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B05—SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
    • B05B—SPRAYING APPARATUS; ATOMISING APPARATUS; NOZZLES
    • B05B15/00—Details of spraying plant or spraying apparatus not otherwise provided for; Accessories
    • B05B15/50—Arrangements for cleaning; Arrangements for preventing deposits, drying-out or blockage; Arrangements for detecting improper discharge caused by the presence of foreign matter
    • B05B15/52—Arrangements for cleaning; Arrangements for preventing deposits, drying-out or blockage; Arrangements for detecting improper discharge caused by the presence of foreign matter for removal of clogging particles

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  • the present invention relates to a gumming unit.
  • the invention finds application to particular advantage in the art field of machines for the manufacture of tobacco products, namely cigarettes and the like, to which explicit reference is made throughout the following specification albeit with no limitation in scope implied.
  • Gumming units of the conventional type described above betray the drawback that the nozzles require frequent cleaning, due in particular to the fact that residues of the adhesive substance tend to dry on the applicators whenever a temporary stoppage occurs during operation of the machine.
  • the prior art also embraces gumming units furnished with devices by which the relative gumming devices are cleaned automatically. These units, however, are affected by drawbacks associated above all with the bulk and complexity of the automatic cleaning devices.
  • the prior art embraces gumming units of a type comprising at least one gumming device, equipped with an element that serves to occlude the applicator of the device; the occluder element is shifted away from and toward the applicator during each pause in gumming operations, moving between a position in which the orifice of the applicator is closed, when a pad fixed to one end of the occluder is located in contact with the selfsame applicator, and a position in which the applicator is open, when the pad is washed clean by an atomized liquid substance sprayed onto its surface.
  • a special device is required to deliver the atomized liquid substance used for washing the pad.
  • the device is somewhat costly and cumbersome as it comprises a battery of atomizer nozzles connected to a circuit supplying the liquid substance, which is held in a tank and delivered by a pump.
  • this type of gumming unit is unsuitable for cigarette making machines of conventional design, in which the space around the applicator generally is not sufficient to accommodate a movable pad of the type mentioned above.
  • the object of the present invention is to provide a gumming unit equippable with an automatic cleaning device whilst relatively simple and economical and of compact dimensions.
  • a gumming unit comprising at least one gumming device having a nozzle equipped with a relative applicator from which an adhesive substance is delivered, also occluding and cleaning means serving to close and wipe the orifice of the applicator during pauses in gumming operations, characterized in that the gumming device is movable in embodiment and the relative applicator capable thus of movement along a first predetermined path between an active gumming position and an at-rest position, in that the unit comprises drive means by which the applicator is moved between the gumming and at-rest positions, and in that the occluding and cleaning means are capable of movement along a second predetermined path of which a given section merges with the first path and coincides with the at-rest position.
  • the occluding and cleaning means are capable of movement unidirectionally along the second path in a predetermined direction, and their movement along the second path in the predetermined direction is induced by the gumming applicator in the course of assuming the at-rest position.
  • 1 denotes a portion, in its'entirety, of a cigarette-making machine (not illustrated).
  • the machine is a cigarette maker of the type disclosed in US Pat 4,336,812 by which two cigarette rods are fashioned simultaneously.
  • the portion 1 illustrated comprises a bed 2 carrying a beam 3 on which two continuous cylindrical cigarettes rods 4 are formed.
  • the beam 3 follows a rectilinear and substantially horizontal path P along which the cigarette rods 4 are formed, and affords two channels 5 of varying section each accommodating a respective rod 4.
  • Each channel 5 establishes a pass line along which a respective cigarette rod 4 is fed and formed in a predetermined direction D.
  • a continuous strip 6 of paper is directed along each channel 5 following the pass direction D, in conventional manner, and a continuous ribbon of tobacco filler (not illustrated) deposited on the advancing paper.
  • each is constrained gradually by the changing section of the relative channel 5, again in conventional manner, to envelop the respective tobacco filler (not illustrated) and ultimately assume a cylindrical shape.
  • each strip 6 advances with one longitudinal side edge 7 projecting upwards through a vertical slot 8 in the beam 3 and engaging in contact with a respective gumming device 9 that forms part of a gumming unit denoted 10 in its entirety.
  • the gumming unit 10 and the beam 3 occupy positions substantially of symmetry in relation to a vertical plane S lying between the two pass lines along which the rods 4 are fed and formed. More exactly, the two inside faces of the side edges 7 and the relative gumming devices 9 are oriented respectively in opposite directions on either side of the plane S.
  • the aforementioned portion of the gumming unit 10 is denoted 11 in its entirety and comprises, in addition to the gumming device 9, a device 12 by which the device 9 is occluded and cleaned during pauses in the gumming operations.
  • the gumming device 9 is mounted to the bed 2 and incorporates a nozzle 13, connected by way of a pipeline 14 to a circuit (not shown) from which an adhesive substance is delivered, and affording an orifice that serves as an applicator 15 by which the adhesive substance is metered and spread along the aforementioned side edge 7 of the respective strip 6.
  • the device 9 is mounted rigidly to a substantially cylindrical boss 16 rotatable about a substantially vertical axis 17 and keyed to the output shaft 18 of a motor (not indicated), in such a way that the device 9 can be made to describe a predetermined rotation about the axis 17 and the applicator 15 thus caused to travel along a first predetermined path P1 between an active gumming position A (figs 1 and 4) and an at-rest position B (figs 2 and 3).
  • the gumming device 9 is positioned on the cylindrical boss 16 in such a manner that when the applicator 15 occupies the gumming position A, the axis 19 of the nozzle 13 will be disposed at right angles to the pass direction D, substantially horizontal and angled marginally downwards in the direction transverse to the selfsame direction D.
  • the occluding and cleaning device 12 is mounted to the bed 2 and positioned alongside the beam 3 at a point beyond the gumming device 9, relative to the pass direction D.
  • the device 12 consists in a substantially tubular pad 20 of sponge material impregnated preferably with water or with whatever substance will dissolve the adhesive substance, such as will occlude the relative applicator 15 when occupying the at-rest position B (figs 2 and 3), and a wheel 21 rotatable about an axis 22 disposed parallel to the axis 17 of the boss 16, of which the peripheral cylindrical surface 23 provides a support for the pad 20.
  • the wheel 21 is rotatable freely and unidirectionally about the respective axis 22 along a second predetermined path P2, in a direction V opposite to the direction of rotation of the gumming device 9 when moving along the first predetermined path P1 from the gumming position A to the at-rest position B.
  • the second path P2 merges with the first path P1 for a given distance at a point coinciding with the at-rest position B.
  • the occluding and cleaning device 12 is equipped with a scraper blade 24 positioned in tangential contact with the pad 20 at a point remote from the beam 3 and the gumming device 9.
  • the operation of the gumming unit 10 will now be described, starting from a situation in which the two gumming devices 9 occupy their active gumming positions A (figs 1 and 4) and the applicators 15 are offered in contact to the inside faces of the side edges 7 presented by the respective strips 6 as these advance along the pass direction D, each in the respective channel 5.
  • a master controller (not illustrated) will pilot the gumming devices 9 to rotate about the respective axes 17 in such a way as to direct each applicator 15 along the relative path P1 toward the at-rest position B.
  • each applicator 15 engages and drags the relative pad 20 in rotation about the relative axis 22, in the direction denoted V.
  • each applicator 15 When in the at-rest position B, both applicators 15 are occluded by the respective pads 20, and more exactly, each applicator 15 is partially buried in the relatively soft sponge material from which the pad 20 is fashioned.
  • the controller pilots the gumming devices 9 to rotate about the respective axes 17 in the opposite direction, or rather in such a way as to return the applicators 15 along the respective predetermined paths P1 toward the initial gumming position A. Passing from the at-rest position B to the gumming position A, each applicator 15 brushes against the corresponding pad 20 which on this occasion remains motionless, for the reasons described above, in the position assumed previously. As a result the pad 20 performs a wiping action of which the effect is to clean the applicator 15.
  • the single pad 20 makes a discrete angular movement about the respective axis 22 in the predetermined direction of rotation V, and a clean portion of the outer surface 25 is brought thus into a position of readiness to engage the applicator 15 when the next pause occurs.
  • gumming unit according to the present invention is described and illustrated in the context of a cigarette maker equipped to turn out two cigarette rods, it will be obvious that the same unit might be used to equally good effect in a single rod type of machine or more generally in a machine for manufacturing or packaging products of whatever nature.

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  • Manufacturing Of Cigar And Cigarette Tobacco (AREA)
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  • Folding Of Thin Sheet-Like Materials, Special Discharging Devices, And Others (AREA)
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CN101803802A (zh) * 2009-02-18 2010-08-18 豪尼机械制造股份公司 具有至少一个涂胶喷嘴的用于烟草加工工业的卷束机的调节机构及具有该调节机构的卷束机
EP2217100A2 (fr) 2007-11-27 2010-08-18 Hauni Maschinenbau Aktiengesellschaft Dispositif permettant de traiter au moins deux boudins de filtre
EP2423112A1 (fr) * 2010-08-24 2012-02-29 Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG) Dispositif et procédé de fabrication d'emballages pour cigarettes
EP3260206A1 (fr) * 2016-06-20 2017-12-27 Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG) Station d'application de milieux fluidiques sur un substrat et son procédé de fonctionnement

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US5766356A (en) * 1995-07-06 1998-06-16 Toray Engineering Co., Ltd. Coating apparatus
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US4704308A (en) * 1985-03-18 1987-11-03 Windmoller & Holscher Method and apparatus for maintaining a glue applicator ready for operation
GB2278991A (en) * 1993-06-19 1994-12-21 Molins Plc Device for applying adhesive
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US5853812A (en) * 1996-08-30 1998-12-29 Tokyo Electron Limited Method and apparatus for processing substrates
DE19639260A1 (de) * 1996-09-25 1998-03-26 Topack Verpacktech Gmbh Vorrichtung zum Auftragen von Leim auf Hüllmaterialzuschnitte
EP0876855A2 (fr) * 1997-05-09 1998-11-11 Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co.) Procédé et installation pour nettoyer des machines d'emballage
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EP1314486A3 (fr) * 2001-11-21 2004-01-28 Hauni Maschinenbau AG Dispositif de nettoyage pour applicateur de colle
US7238233B2 (en) 2001-11-21 2007-07-03 Hauni Maschinenbau Ag Cleaning device for a glue-spreading element
EP2217100A2 (fr) 2007-11-27 2010-08-18 Hauni Maschinenbau Aktiengesellschaft Dispositif permettant de traiter au moins deux boudins de filtre
CN101803802A (zh) * 2009-02-18 2010-08-18 豪尼机械制造股份公司 具有至少一个涂胶喷嘴的用于烟草加工工业的卷束机的调节机构及具有该调节机构的卷束机
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EP2423112A1 (fr) * 2010-08-24 2012-02-29 Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG) Dispositif et procédé de fabrication d'emballages pour cigarettes
EP3260206A1 (fr) * 2016-06-20 2017-12-27 Focke & Co. (GmbH & Co. KG) Station d'application de milieux fluidiques sur un substrat et son procédé de fonctionnement

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DE60107125T2 (de) 2005-12-01
IT1320936B1 (it) 2003-12-18
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ATE282334T1 (de) 2004-12-15
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