EP1925221A1 - Coupe-cigarettes - Google Patents

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EP1925221A1
EP1925221A1 EP06024434A EP06024434A EP1925221A1 EP 1925221 A1 EP1925221 A1 EP 1925221A1 EP 06024434 A EP06024434 A EP 06024434A EP 06024434 A EP06024434 A EP 06024434A EP 1925221 A1 EP1925221 A1 EP 1925221A1
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cigarette
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cutter
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Marco Anorien
Udo Schiebenhöfer
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Brinkmann Tabakfabriken 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

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  • the invention relates to a cigarette cutter with a cutting means for cutting a cigarette to a new length.
  • a variant is known in which a prefabricated tobacco rod is pushed into a cigarette tube.
  • Such tobacco strands are surrounded by a porous, highly air-permeable material and therefore not self-smoking.
  • Such a tobacco rod must be inserted into a cigarette tube for smoking. It is therefore necessary that the tobacco rod is adapted to the length of the cigarette tube.
  • the disadvantage here is that the quality of the cutting, in particular the specification of the length to be cut off depends on the skills of the user. In particular, when cutting a plurality of cigarettes, which may thereafter be collected in a package for transportation or offering, inconveniences of the cutout will be unpleasant. It should be added that the cut-off remainder of the cigarette or tobacco rod should optionally be used even further. Inaccurate or faulty cutting of the cigarette or tobacco rod sometimes has a significant effect on the amount of tobacco cut off.
  • the present invention is therefore based on the object to counteract the disadvantages mentioned above.
  • a reliable and reproducible cutting a cigarette to a new length to be made possible.
  • a cigarette cutter with a cutting means for cutting a cigarette to a new length in which a counter element is provided for mechanically limiting a position of the cigarette in the axial direction for setting the new length.
  • a counter element is provided for mechanically limiting a position of the cigarette in the axial direction for setting the new length.
  • the cigarette cutter is designed so that the new length of the cigarette is determined by a distance between the cutting means and the counter element.
  • the distance between the abutment region of the mating element and the cutting element of the cutting means thus corresponds to the new length of the cigarette.
  • the cigarette cutter is designed so that the distance between the counter element and the cutting means for individual adjustment of the new length is continuously and / or discontinuously adjustable.
  • the desired new length can be specified.
  • cigarettes have a substantially similar relative fuming rate relative to the effective length of the cigarette. Since cigarettes are often smoked during work breaks, the duration of smoking can be determined over the length of the cigarette and matched to the desired or available work break time. This is done by specifying the distance between the cutting means and the counter element. The setting is done in a case continuously, so that the length can be set basically arbitrary. In other cases, it may be desirable to change the length only gradually and thus discontinuously.
  • stepwise lengths may be predetermined, which correspond, for example, with minutes or other predeterminable times of the intended duration of smoking.
  • a continuous and discontinuous adjustability can be combined, for example, can be adjusted continuously in one length range and discontinuous in another.
  • a locking means for detecting the distance between the counter-element and the cutting means is provided.
  • a desired new length on the adjustment of the distance between the counter element and the cutting means is initially adjustable and then determined.
  • a preferred length can be set and reused several times.
  • the counter element and the cutting means for adjusting the desired new length are arranged against each other displaceable.
  • a slidable arrangement can be provided by the cutting means or the counter-element are attached to a rail or the like, wherein the rail extends in the longitudinal direction between the counter-element and the cutting means.
  • the cutting means or the counter element can in this case be arranged displaceably on this rail and, if necessary, be determined by a locking element in a desired position.
  • a tobacco rod for making a cigarette can be cut with the inventive cigarette cutter.
  • a tobacco rod which is surrounded with a porous material, cut to the desired length of the cigarette tube and then inserted into the respective sleeve.
  • the tobacco rod can be cut to a length with high accuracy.
  • a tobacco rod may be cut to a length of one millimeter or even less. The user can use his cigarette cutter thus adjust to the length of the cigarette tube, which he uses regularly and thus prepare, for example, previously a variety of tobacco strands for a variety of Tabakhtechniksen.
  • the desired new length is set in the range of 1 mm to 90 mm or adjustable in this range.
  • a smallest length of 1 mm is provided in particular for unfiltered cigarettes or for cutting tobacco strands for cigarette tubes, namely, if not the actually desired length, but a fixed length in the remaining piece to be cut off.
  • An adjustable total cigarette length of 90mm is a length that is generally not believed to be too long since it is only about 5mm larger than a conventional cigarette length.
  • the cutting means preferably comprises a slidable and / or pivotable blade for cutting off the cigarette by a sliding and / or pivoting movement of the blade. Accordingly, the cigarette or the tobacco rod is inserted into the cigarette cutter for cutting and the cutting takes place by means of a movement of the blade transverse to the longitudinal axis of the cigarette. Such movement can be easily performed by a slide mechanism or a swing mechanism. As a result, the blade is movable and can still be kept in the relevant sectional plane. A combined pivoting and sliding movement can be used in a somewhat more complicated configuration.
  • the cigarette cutter has a guide element for guiding and / or holding the cigarette during cutting.
  • the cigarette can thus be inserted into the cigarette cutter and applied to the counter element.
  • the guide element By the guide element, it can be held, whereby a clean cut is guaranteed.
  • a one-handed operation is favored by the cigarette is inserted with the first hand and also with the first hand then the cutting takes place while the guide member holds the cigarette.
  • the guide element can also be the cigarette when inserting into the cigarette cutter to lead. This can be achieved in an advantageous manner in that the guide element is designed as an opening, in particular as a bore for insertion of the cigarette to be cut off. To cut the cigarette needs only to be pushed into the hole until it rests against the counter element. The cut off length is determined by this and the cigarette can be cut to the desired new length.
  • the cigarette cutter is characterized in that the cutting means and / or the blade is releasably secured for replacement.
  • the cutting means is to be moved every time a cigarette is cut off and is therefore subject to increased wear compared to other parts of the cigarette cutter. It is thus generally to be expected in the cutting element with a previous wear than other elements of the cigarette cutter. The provision of interchangeability for the cutting means is thus justified. For a clean cut, the sharpest possible blade is required. The sharpest possible blade can be achieved by regular replacement. One possibility is to swap a cutting means together with a blade.
  • a preferred embodiment provides a blade having two arranged in a plane and touching at an acute angle cutting, so that the blade has a wedge shape in a plan view.
  • the blade corresponds to a flat arrowhead with two cutting edges that converge in a point.
  • For cutting such a blade is moved with the tip first on the cigarette.
  • the tip first touches the outer surface of the cigarette and thereby triggers the cutting process through the sharp tip.
  • the procedure may be as follows. First, the desired new length is set at the cigarette cutter. This is done for example by adjusting and fixing the counter element with a corresponding distance from the cutting means. Next, the cigarette is preferably inserted by a guide means in the cigarette cutter, in particular inserted until it abuts against the counter element. The cigarette then remains in this axial position. Finally, the cutting off of the cigarette and the shortened cigarette can be removed.
  • the cigarette cutter 2 according to FIG. 1 has a main body 4. On the main body 4, a counter-element 6 by means of a locking screw 8 is slidably mounted on a rail 10. After loosening the locking screw 8, the counter element 6 can be moved together with the locking screw 8 in the rail.
  • the possible area which is available for displacement essentially extends from a first end 12 of the rail 10 to a second end 14 of the rail 10. The first end 12 is arranged on the outside of the main body 4 and the second end 14 is turned to the base body 4.
  • a cigarette 16 is inserted.
  • the cigarette 16 extends through the base body 4 and lies with its filter 18 against a stop surface 20 of the counter element 6.
  • the cigarette 16 With its front end 22, on which the cigarette 16 is intended to be lit for smoking, the cigarette 16 extends through a cutting means 24, the cigarette 16 being held in the base body 4.
  • the axial position of the cigarette 16 is defined by the abutment surface 20 of the counter element 6.
  • the cutting means 24 has two guide grooves 26, of which Figure 1 shows only one.
  • the cutting means 24 additionally lies flat on one side of the main body 4, and is thus guided together with a guide pin 28.
  • the guide pin 28 is anchored in the base body 4 and engages in the guide grooves 26 in order to guide them through here.
  • the cutting means 24 can thus perform a sliding movement transversely to the longitudinal axis of the cigarette 16 in order to be able to cut off the cigarette 16 in this case.
  • an oblong opening 30 is arranged in the cutting means 24.
  • a blade 32 is fixed for cutting, which can be seen through the elongated opening 30.
  • the blade 31 has two cutting edges 34 which meet at an acute angle and thereby form a blade tip 36.
  • the cutting means 24 is displaced transversely to the longitudinal axis of the cigarette 16.
  • the blade 32 which is part of the cutting means 24, is moved in such a movement. From the position shown, the cutting means 24 then moves with its blade 32 toward the cigarette 16 for cutting off.
  • the cigarette 16 is held in a bore 38 in the base body 4. In the described movement, the blade tip 36 first reaches the cigarette 16 and pierces a hole in its shell and continues to penetrate further into the cigarette as it continues to move with the blades 34, including the blade tip 36, to eventually cut it off.

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Citations (6)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US846650A (en) * 1906-12-19 1907-03-12 James E Ellis Cigar-cutter.
US1459077A (en) * 1921-02-25 1923-06-19 Harold J Winans Cigarette-salvage case
US2740410A (en) * 1953-09-03 1956-04-03 Charles T Harris Combined ash tray and cigarette cutter
US4160318A (en) * 1978-02-09 1979-07-10 Morel Richard E Apparatus for severing predetermined lengths from cigarettes or cigars
FR2684523A1 (fr) * 1991-12-10 1993-06-11 Alix Michel Briquet - etui - coupe - cigarettes.
DE9404524U1 (de) * 1994-03-17 1994-08-11 Rogge, Peter, 60431 Frankfurt Zigarettenschneider

Patent Citations (6)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US846650A (en) * 1906-12-19 1907-03-12 James E Ellis Cigar-cutter.
US1459077A (en) * 1921-02-25 1923-06-19 Harold J Winans Cigarette-salvage case
US2740410A (en) * 1953-09-03 1956-04-03 Charles T Harris Combined ash tray and cigarette cutter
US4160318A (en) * 1978-02-09 1979-07-10 Morel Richard E Apparatus for severing predetermined lengths from cigarettes or cigars
FR2684523A1 (fr) * 1991-12-10 1993-06-11 Alix Michel Briquet - etui - coupe - cigarettes.
DE9404524U1 (de) * 1994-03-17 1994-08-11 Rogge, Peter, 60431 Frankfurt Zigarettenschneider

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