EP3944774B1 - Unité d'alimentation pour distribuer des billes et appareil de fabrication de tiges - Google Patents

Unité d'alimentation pour distribuer des billes et appareil de fabrication de tiges Download PDF

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EP3944774B1
EP3944774B1 EP20188288.3A EP20188288A EP3944774B1 EP 3944774 B1 EP3944774 B1 EP 3944774B1 EP 20188288 A EP20188288 A EP 20188288A EP 3944774 B1 EP3944774 B1 EP 3944774B1
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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
    • A24C5/18—Forming the rod
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A24—TOBACCO; CIGARS; CIGARETTES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES; SMOKERS' REQUISITES
    • A24D—CIGARS; CIGARETTES; TOBACCO SMOKE FILTERS; MOUTHPIECES OF CIGARS OR CIGARETTES; MANUFACTURE OF TOBACCO SMOKE FILTERS OR MOUTHPIECES
    • A24D3/00—Tobacco smoke filters, e.g. filter tips or filtering inserts; Filters specially adapted for simulated smoking devices; Mouthpieces of cigars or cigarettes
    • A24D3/02—Manufacture of tobacco smoke filters
    • A24D3/0204—Preliminary operations before the filter rod forming process, e.g. crimping, blooming
    • A24D3/0212—Applying additives to filter materials
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A24—TOBACCO; CIGARS; CIGARETTES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES; SMOKERS' REQUISITES
    • A24D—CIGARS; CIGARETTES; TOBACCO SMOKE FILTERS; MOUTHPIECES OF CIGARS OR CIGARETTES; MANUFACTURE OF TOBACCO SMOKE FILTERS OR MOUTHPIECES
    • A24D3/00—Tobacco smoke filters, e.g. filter tips or filtering inserts; Filters specially adapted for simulated smoking devices; Mouthpieces of cigars or cigarettes
    • A24D3/02—Manufacture of tobacco smoke filters
    • A24D3/0204—Preliminary operations before the filter rod forming process, e.g. crimping, blooming
    • A24D3/0212—Applying additives to filter materials
    • A24D3/0216—Applying additives to filter materials the additive being in the form of capsules, beads or the like
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A24—TOBACCO; CIGARS; CIGARETTES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES; SMOKERS' REQUISITES
    • A24D—CIGARS; CIGARETTES; TOBACCO SMOKE FILTERS; MOUTHPIECES OF CIGARS OR CIGARETTES; MANUFACTURE OF TOBACCO SMOKE FILTERS OR MOUTHPIECES
    • A24D3/00—Tobacco smoke filters, e.g. filter tips or filtering inserts; Filters specially adapted for simulated smoking devices; Mouthpieces of cigars or cigarettes
    • A24D3/02—Manufacture of tobacco smoke filters
    • A24D3/0229—Filter rod forming processes
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A24—TOBACCO; CIGARS; CIGARETTES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES; SMOKERS' REQUISITES
    • A24D—CIGARS; CIGARETTES; TOBACCO SMOKE FILTERS; MOUTHPIECES OF CIGARS OR CIGARETTES; MANUFACTURE OF TOBACCO SMOKE FILTERS OR MOUTHPIECES
    • A24D3/00—Tobacco smoke filters, e.g. filter tips or filtering inserts; Filters specially adapted for simulated smoking devices; Mouthpieces of cigars or cigarettes
    • A24D3/02—Manufacture of tobacco smoke filters
    • A24D3/025—Final operations, i.e. after the filter rod forming process
    • A24D3/0254—Cutting means
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A24—TOBACCO; CIGARS; CIGARETTES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES; SMOKERS' REQUISITES
    • A24D—CIGARS; CIGARETTES; TOBACCO SMOKE FILTERS; MOUTHPIECES OF CIGARS OR CIGARETTES; MANUFACTURE OF TOBACCO SMOKE FILTERS OR MOUTHPIECES
    • A24D3/00—Tobacco smoke filters, e.g. filter tips or filtering inserts; Filters specially adapted for simulated smoking devices; Mouthpieces of cigars or cigarettes
    • A24D3/04—Tobacco smoke filters characterised by their shape or structure
    • A24D3/048—Tobacco smoke filters characterised by their shape or structure containing additives
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A24—TOBACCO; CIGARS; CIGARETTES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES; SMOKERS' REQUISITES
    • A24D—CIGARS; CIGARETTES; TOBACCO SMOKE FILTERS; MOUTHPIECES OF CIGARS OR CIGARETTES; MANUFACTURE OF TOBACCO SMOKE FILTERS OR MOUTHPIECES
    • A24D3/00—Tobacco smoke filters, e.g. filter tips or filtering inserts; Filters specially adapted for simulated smoking devices; Mouthpieces of cigars or cigarettes
    • A24D3/06—Use of materials for tobacco smoke filters
    • A24D3/061—Use of materials for tobacco smoke filters containing additives entrapped within capsules, sponge-like material or the like, for further release upon smoking

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  • An object of the application is a feeding unit for feeding beads and an apparatus for manufacturing rods of tobacco industry.
  • This invention relates to a feeding of spherical or oval objects which are placed into rods being tobacco industry products or semi-finished products.
  • such objects will be hereinafter referred to as beads.
  • a known product in the market are cigarettes whose filters are provided with beads comprising aromatic or odorous substances. The substances comprised in the beads are released during smoking or yet before lighting up a cigarette by squeezing the filter resulting in crushing a bead.
  • the beads are placed in continuous rods which are cut into rods, and the rods are cut into segments which are connected with other semi-finished products.
  • Patent US 7,975,877B2 discloses a bead feeder, wherein the bead feeding unit is provided with a plurality of tubes which are radially connected with a cylindrical bowl, whereas the tubes rotate together with the bowl, and the beads are picked up by means of vacuum by a bead transfer wheel from pockets situated at the outlets of the tubes, and then transferred to a bead delivery wheel.
  • WO 2009/071271 discloses a bead feeder in which the bead feeding unit is provided with passageways rotating with the bowl, where the beads are fed to a bead delivery wheel after separating the lowermost bead from those situated above it using a stationary arched wedge-ended element.
  • WO 2009/071272 discloses a similar bead feeder, where the beads are fed to a bead delivery wheel using two plates having a plurality of openings and rotating relative to each other, and a bead is fed after aligning respective openings directly on top of each other.
  • Patent EP2617302B1 discloses a solution, in which the beads are fed through supply channels to holding pockets from which they are further transferred to a feeding wheel after pushing them out of the pockets by means of a cam.
  • the object of this invention is to develop an improved feeding unit for the feeding of beads in a rod manufacturing apparatus to be applied in different configurations of the apparatus.
  • the object of the invention is a feeding unit for bead feeding comprising a supply channel to feed a stream of beads, a transferring wheel provided with at least one transferring pocket, a pushing mechanism comprising a holding pocket to receive the beads from the supply channel and a pushing element to transfer the beads individually from the holding pocket to the transferring wheel.
  • the unit according to the invention is characterised in that the pushing element having a pushing edge is a rotational element with a horizontal rotational axis, with the pushing edge being adapted to pass during the rotation through the holding pocket and the transferring channel in order to push the bead out of the holding pocket through the transferring channel to the transferring pocket.
  • the unit according to the invention is characterised in that the pushing element is a plate with a cylindrical surface.
  • the unit according to the invention is characterised in that the transferring channel leads tangentially to the transferring wheel.
  • the unit according to the invention is characterised in that the guide on a side of supply channel has the form of two concentric circular surfaces.
  • the unit according to the invention is characterised in that the rotational axis of the pushing element overlaps a rotational axis of the transferring wheel.
  • the object of the invention is also an apparatus for manufacturing rods of a continuous rod provided with a filling material feeding unit, a feeding unit for bead feeding, a forming unit for continuous rod forming, a cutting head for continuous rod cutting into individual rods, with the feeding unit for bead feeding being provided with a feeding wheel having a plurality of transporting pockets to transfer the beads, and at least one feeding unit according to the invention.
  • the feeding unit according to the invention guarantees that each position of the bead after leaving the supply channel on the path to the continuous rod being formed is fully controlled. Furthermore, it is possible to use the feeding unit in different configurations of the rod manufacturing apparatus. Among others, it is possible to use the feeding unit to manufacture the rods of a continuous rod in which the beads are unevenly spaced.
  • An example filter rod R shown in a cross-section in Fig. 1 comprises four objects in the form of beads C situated among the fibres F of the filter material.
  • the beads C are placed along the axis k of the filter rod R and centrally relative to the axis k.
  • Fig. 2 shows a filter rod R' comprising the segments S1, S2 and the beads C placed in the spaces between the segments.
  • a rod R" shown in Fig. 3 comprises the segments S1, S2 and two kinds of beads C1 and C2 situated alternately in successive spaces between the segments.
  • Fig. 5 shows an apparatus 1 for manufacturing the rods R of a continuous material strip 2 in the first embodiment.
  • the material strip 2 comprises acetate fibres supplied from a material bale 3, alternatively the material strip may be made of a different filling material in the form of tobacco, cellulose foil, paper or fibres having filtering properties, both smooth and corrugated.
  • the apparatus 1 for manufacturing the rods R is provided with feeding unit 4 for feeding a material 2 (generally filling material) wherein the material strip 2 is subjected to processing.
  • the apparatus 1 comprises a feeding unit 5 arranged to feed the beads C, a forming unit 6 and a cutting head 7.
  • the apparatus 1 comprises a guiding unit 8 for material strip guiding and preliminary material compression, a compressing unit 9 for strip compression and continuous rod CR forming. Whilst forming the continuous rod CR is wrapped with a band of a wrapping material P fed by a wrapping material feeding unit 10.
  • the apparatus 1 is provided with a forming unit 12 for final forming and lengthwise gluing of the continuous rod CR.
  • the guiding unit 8, the compressing unit 9 and the forming unit 12 constitute together a forming apparatus for forming the continuous rod CR.
  • the pushing element 31 moves with a speed v1.
  • the pushing element 31 rotates so that the pushing edge 32 passes through the holding pocket 29 and the transferring channel 30 as shown in Fig. 7 .
  • the bead C fed from the supply channel 24 falls into the holding pocket 29.
  • the movement of the pushing element 31 causes that the pushing edge 32 pushes the bead C out of the holding pocket 29 through the transferring channel 30 towards the transferring wheel 26 to the transferring pocket 34.
  • the pushing element 31 makes a rotation as a result of which the bead C is transferred from the holding pocket 29 through the transferring channel 30 to the transferring pocket 34.
  • the transferring wheel 26 may be provided with two transferring pockets 34, and the pushing mechanism 25 may be provided with two pushing elements 31.
  • a greater number of transferring pockets 34 and pushing elements 31 is also possible.
  • the transferring pocket 34 moves with a speed v2, whereas the speed v2 may be equal to the speed v1.
  • the speed v1 may be momentarily greater than the speed v2, as a result of which the time of transfer of the bead C to the transferring pocket 34 is shortened.
  • a plough 39 in the form of a flat element inserted into the groove 38, the function of the plough 39 being to push the bead C out of the transferring pocket 34 to the transporting pocket 22 on the feeding wheel 20.

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  1. Unité d'alimentation (21) pour distribuer des billes (C) comprenant un canal de fourniture (24) pour distribuer un flux de billes (C),
    une roue de transfert (26) pourvue d'au moins une poche de transfert (34),
    un mécanisme de poussée (25) comprenant une poche de retenue (29) pour recevoir les billes (C) à partir du canal de fourniture (24), un canal de transfert (30) et un élément de poussée (31) pour transférer les billes (C) individuellement à partir de la poche de retenue (29) par l'intermédiaire du canal de transfert (30) vers la roue de transfert (26), caractérisée en ce que
    l'élément de poussée (31) présentant un bord de poussée (32) est un élément rotatif avec un axe de rotation (n) horizontal,
    le bord de poussée (32) étant agencé pour passer, pendant la rotation, à travers la poche de retenue (29) et le canal de transfert (30) afin de pousser la bille (C) hors de la poche de retenue (29) à travers le canal de transfert (30) vers la poche de transfert (34).
  2. Unité selon la revendication 1, caractérisée en ce que l'élément de poussée (31) est une plaque présentant une surface cylindrique.
  3. Unité selon la revendication 1 ou 2, caractérisée en ce que le canal de transfert (30) se trouve adjacent de manière tangente à la roue de transfert (26).
  4. Unité selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 3, caractérisée en ce qu'elle est pourvue d'au moins un guide agencé à proximité d'un trajet de mouvement de la poche de transfert (34).
  5. Unité selon la revendication 4, caractérisée en ce que le guide d'un côté du canal de fourniture (24) présente la forme de deux surfaces (35, 36) circulaires concentriques.
  6. Unité selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 5, caractérisée en ce que l'axe de rotation (n) de l'élément de poussée (31) chevauche un axe de rotation (m) de la roue de transfert (26).
  7. Appareil pour fabriquer des tiges d'une tige continue (CR) pourvu d'une unité d'alimentation de matériau de remplissage (4, 4'), d'une unité d'alimentation (5, 5') pour distribuer des billes (C), d'une unité de formation pour former une tige continue (CR), d'une tête de coupe (7) pour couper la tige continue (CR) en tiges (R, R', R") individuelles,
    caractérisé en ce que
    l'unité d'alimentation (5, 5') pour distribuer des billes (C) est pourvue d'une roue d'alimentation (20) présentant une pluralité de poches de transport (22) pour transférer les billes (C), et d'au moins une unité d'alimentation (21) selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 6.
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EP20188288.3A EP3944774B1 (fr) 2020-07-29 2020-07-29 Unité d'alimentation pour distribuer des billes et appareil de fabrication de tiges
JP2021115027A JP2022027518A (ja) 2020-07-29 2021-07-12 ビーズを給送するための給送ユニットおよびロッドを製造するための装置
KR1020210094316A KR20220014822A (ko) 2020-07-29 2021-07-19 비드들을 공급하기 위한 공급 유닛 및 로드들을 제조하기 위한 장치
CN202110850271.6A CN114052286B (zh) 2020-07-29 2021-07-27 用于进给珠状物的进给单元以及用于制造杆的设备
US17/443,803 US20220061379A1 (en) 2020-07-29 2021-07-27 Feeding unit for feeding beads and apparatus for manufacturing rods
BR102021014896-9A BR102021014896A2 (pt) 2020-07-29 2021-07-28 Unidade de alimentação para fornecer glóbulos e aparelho para fabricar hastes de uma haste contínua

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