EP1902636A2 - Dispositif destiné à découper des articles de tabac - Google Patents

Dispositif destiné à découper des articles de tabac Download PDF

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EP1902636A2
EP1902636A2 EP07015188A EP07015188A EP1902636A2 EP 1902636 A2 EP1902636 A2 EP 1902636A2 EP 07015188 A EP07015188 A EP 07015188A EP 07015188 A EP07015188 A EP 07015188A EP 1902636 A2 EP1902636 A2 EP 1902636A2
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knife
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Dirk Minkner
Michael KÜPPER
Horst Drieling
Alexander Schlag
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British American Tobacco Germany GmbH
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BAT Cigarettenfabriken GmbH
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A24—TOBACCO; CIGARS; CIGARETTES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES; SMOKERS' REQUISITES
    • A24F—SMOKERS' REQUISITES; MATCH BOXES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES
    • A24F13/00—Appliances for smoking cigars or cigarettes
    • A24F13/24—Cigar cutters, slitters, or perforators, e.g. combined with lighters
    • A24F13/26—Cigar cutters, slitters, or perforators, e.g. combined with lighters formed as pocket devices

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  • the invention relates to a device for cutting strand-shaped tobacco articles, in particular of tobacco articles for the self-production of cigarettes.
  • the device according to the invention is intended for use in prefabricated, in particular wrapped, tobacco carriers which are to be portioned for consumption and transferred into cigarette tubes.
  • a device which serves for the division of tobacco strands.
  • the device should allow a clean cut without squeezing the tobacco strands to be cut.
  • at least one knife is moved relative to the tobacco rod and fixed the tobacco rod during the cut by hold-down.
  • this application aims to compress the cut ends as small as possible.
  • the CA 2,124,510 describes a device for cutting cigarettes.
  • the object of the device is to cut cigarettes by means of a clean cut, without compressing the cut ends.
  • the device uses a cutting system of two knives, which are moved by a scissor-like movement against each other and so cut off the cigarette.
  • the Both knives are stored on the arms of a fork-like mechanism that is operated directly by the consumer.
  • a cigarette cutter known that can cut off a cigarette with a movable knife.
  • a U-shaped opening is provided, in which the cigarette can be inserted.
  • the knife is pushed down and the, in particular burning, cigarette is divided.
  • the knife is shown in this case in all embodiments as a single-edged and bevelled so that the cigarette is pushed during the cutting process in the rounding of the U-shaped opening.
  • a knife holder is held in a clamshell grip body.
  • the knife holder is similar to one conventional pocket knife folds out and thus releases a transverse opening in the handle body. In this transverse opening of the object to be cut is now introduced and by folding back the knife holder of the object, especially the cigar, cut.
  • the described devices according to the prior art are often difficult to handle or of complicated construction, in particular if several knives are used. It is proposed either to form both sides of the tobacco rod at the interface or to completely omit such shaping. Although a two-sided shaping facilitates the introduction of a tobacco rod in a sleeve, but on the other hand leads to an unaesthetic appearance of the free cigarette end. On the other hand, the complete omission of a molding makes it very difficult to insert the tobacco rod into a cigarette tube. In addition, disadvantages in the actual cutting guide are paid for by the shaping device parts described in the prior art, so that a compromise between cutting guide and shaping always has to be made.
  • an optimal separation should be achieved with advantageously designed separating surfaces.
  • an apparatus for cutting strand-shaped tobacco articles with a housing having an insertion opening for a string-shaped tobacco article, and with a knife slidably mounted in the housing, the blade can be pushed through the insertion to a introduced therein Tobacco strand to cut, the knife having a tip which is aligned substantially centrally of the insertion opening.
  • the knife of the device is no longer shaped so that it produces a linear contact already during or shortly after hitting the tobacco rod (as in knives with straight or U-shaped cut blades), but it is by the knife first made a point contact, by the knife tip.
  • the knife tip will pierce and rupture the tobacco rod or its sheath immediately upon first contact, and the knife may easily continue to cut at the resulting edges of the tear hole without the force applied thereby reshaping the tobacco article at the interface.
  • substantially centered means that the tip does not have to hit exactly in the center (ie at the apex) of the tobacco rod, but may also be slightly off, as long as it is ensured that the tip initially causes the piercing effect and then allow further cutting at the edges.
  • the inventive design of the cutting process with little force and easy to carry out, in particular, a single knife is sufficient to achieve a good cut.
  • the substantially round cross-section of the tobacco rod is maintained, that is, the tobacco article is not already deformed by the cutting process itself or by counter-holding forces in the insertion opening.
  • two returning blades are arranged from the top of the knife, forming an acute angle of 30 ° to 120 °, in particular 50 ° to 90 °, especially 60 ° to 80 °.
  • the cutting edges are ground in a variant of at least one flat side, but they can also be advantageously sanded from two flat sides. In a special design, they are ground symmetrically from both flat sides in order to form the cutting edge.
  • an apparatus for slicing tobacco cord-like articles comprising a housing having an introducer opening for a string-shaped tobacco article, and with a knife slidably mounted in the housing, the cutting edge of which can be slid through the insertion opening to cut a tobacco rod inserted therein, the apparatus having a separate cut end molding profile which forms the end of the tobacco article to be cut off and during displacement of the knife Cutting process is actuated.
  • a configured device may also have the above-mentioned features.
  • the cutting end forming profile in the region of the insertion opening on a compression structure which is moved in the displacement of the blade in the cutting process to the insertion opening and to be cut off the tobacco article to take this into engagement.
  • These Compression contour can then be formed in shape depending on the desired end design.
  • cut end shaping profile and the knife are held by an elastic train, especially a rubber or spring train, in an initial position in which they do not protrude into the insertion opening. This ensures that the introduction of the tobacco article can take place unhindered.
  • the cut end shaping profile has two arms which form a constricting receptacle formed as a compression structure in the region of the insertion opening and which is displaced toward the insertion opening during the displacement of the knife during the cutting process and to the tobacco article to be cut off.
  • the device in order to couple the displacement of the knife and the operation of the cut end forming profile, is configured so that the knife or a component displaced with the knife shifts the cut end forming profile to a position during the cutting operation Cut end shapes.
  • the forming area or compression structure of the cut end forming profile is located substantially on one side of the knife cutting plane so that the tobacco article is substantially compressed or compressed only on that side.
  • Shaping will be done on the other side of the knife, which side can be used to insert the tobacco article, for example, into a cigarette tube, which can be greatly simplified by the compression. Tobacco products can thus be cut so that one end is always compressed and the other end is cut off smoothly.
  • the cut end shaping profile or its compression structure in the region of engagement with the tobacco part in a desired configuration.
  • This embodiment may be, for example, cylindrical or widened away from the cutting plane, in particular widened conically. This shows the advantage that, according to the present invention, only different cut-end forming profiles with changed compression contours have to be provided if one wants to change something in the compression shape of a cigarette end.
  • FIGS. 1a to 1c show a device configured according to the invention in three operating phases or operating phases.
  • the device has a housing 1 with an upper housing part 3 and a lower housing part 5, and in the upper region of the housing there is an insertion opening 7, which extends through both housing parts 3, 5 and for inserting the to be separated bwz. to be cut, strand-shaped tobacco article is used.
  • the insertion opening 7 is circular in shape, and in particular, the diameter of the insertion opening 7 may be slightly larger than the diameter of a tobacco article to be cut. This achieves good to optimum support during the cutting process over much of the circumference. For ease of introduction, a slight chamfer may be provided in the upper housing part 3 around the insertion opening 7.
  • a slide 9 which is guided in a groove 11.
  • an additional sharpener 35 can be seen, which is designed funnel-shaped.
  • the knife 13 When the slider 9 is transferred from the one end position in Figure 1 a up and into a middle position of Figure 1b, the knife 13 is visible in the insertion opening 7.
  • the knife 13 is designed so that the cutting forces act symmetrically on the tobacco rod in the direction of movement. It has for this purpose, as can also be seen in Figures 2 and 3, a tip 15 which lies in the illustrated embodiment on the central knife longitudinal axis and whose movement takes place centrally through the insertion opening 7.
  • the knife 13 has, starting from the tip 15, two returning blades 17, which can generally form an acute angle of 30 ° to 120 ° and in the present case have an acute angle of about 70 °.
  • FIG. 2 shows the device with the housing 1 opened, more precisely with the housing upper part 3 removed.
  • the device is in the state of the operating phase of Figure 1 c, where the slide and the knife are driven all the way up.
  • the knife 13 is now completely visible above the slide 9 now.
  • the slide 9 and the knife 13 are mounted on a blade carrier 19, which in turn can be moved in the guide 21 slidably.
  • a stop 23 is provided for the blade carrier 19, which limits the movement of the blade carrier 19 to the bottom in the figure 2 side of the housing.
  • this two fork-like arms 25, which in turn have holders 27 for an elastic band 29, wherein the brackets 27 are better seen in Figure 3.
  • the elastic band 29 is connected via the holder 27 with the arms 25 and tensioned via a suspension 31 at the bottom in the housing so that the blade carrier 19 rests against the stop 23 in the unloaded state in the lower end position.
  • the blade carrier 19 with its arms 25 has an additional task, namely the shaping of one of the cut ends of the tobacco article, and this mode of operation can be seen from FIG.
  • the opened housing 1 is again to see, but this time from the lower side of the housing, wherein the lower housing part 5 is removed.
  • the operating phase is again identical to the figures 1 c and 2 and in the small representation next to the open housing this is shown from the back of the device forth.
  • the knife lies below the blade carrier 19.
  • the arms 25 lying above the knife have a narrowing recess in the area of the cutting edges 17, which results in a compression contour 33.
  • the knife with the cutting edges 17 is pushed forward by the slide 9 (FIGS. 1a to 1c and 2), it takes the blade carrier 19 in a further narrowing below the compression contour 33, and while the tobacco article is first pierced and then cut , it is formed on the side seen in Figure 3 above by the compression contour 33.
  • the compression contour 33 is designed so that the front portion of the cut tobacco article is conically or cylindrically compressed on this page, so that this end face of the cut tobacco article can be easily inserted into a filter sleeve.
  • the compression structure 33 does not protrude beyond the upper blade surface and therefore the tobacco rod is cut straight here and without compression to give a smooth front end which is referred to as a when lighting a cigarette has an appealing aesthetic shape, as one is used to from machine-made cigarettes.
  • This design of the device according to the invention makes it possible to give the two cut surfaces on the parting plane different designs.
  • the centrally located knife tip ensures a piercing and a light Cut that does not change the form at the cut end by the cutting forces alone.
  • the inventive design cut and shape are decoupled and better and more reproducible than in the known from the prior art technologies that use mostly faceted cutting surfaces.
  • apertures are provided at the upper corners of the housing which serve as knock-out openings 37 for the removal of tobacco particles possibly accumulating in the housing.
  • FIG. 4 shows a section through the upper part of the device according to the invention according to FIGS. 1, 2 and 3, wherein it can be seen how the previously described device elements lie one above the other.
  • the sectional plane A-A can be seen in the smaller reproduction on the left.

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DE102006043872A DE102006043872B4 (de) 2006-09-19 2006-09-19 Vorrichtung zum Zerschneiden von Tabakartikeln

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AU2007203408B2 (en) 2009-05-07
CA2599619A1 (fr) 2008-03-19
EP1902636B1 (fr) 2010-10-06
EP1902636A3 (fr) 2009-04-08
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AU2007203408A1 (en) 2008-04-03
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