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US3306304A
US3306304A US119436A US11943661A US3306304A US 3306304 A US3306304 A US 3306304A US 119436 A US119436 A US 119436A US 11943661 A US11943661 A US 11943661A US 3306304 A US3306304 A US 3306304A
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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
    • A24C5/1871—Devices for regulating the tobacco quantity
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10S—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10S131/00—Tobacco
    • Y10S131/904—Pneumatic means for sensing condition or characteristic
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10S—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10S131/00—Tobacco
    • Y10S131/906—Sensing condition or characteristic of continuous tobacco rod

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  • This invention relates to continuous rod cigarettemaking machines. In such machines a continuous tobacco filler stream is formed and is conveyed through a rod-forming mechanism in which a continuous paper wrapper is wrapped around the stream to form a continuous cigarette rod.
  • the compression member may be the tongue or compression shoe of the machine.
  • FIGURE 1 shows diagrammatically, in front elevation, part of a continuous rod cigarette-making machine
  • FIGURE 2 shows, in section, an enlarged detail of a fragment of FIGURE 1,
  • FIGURE 3 shows partly in section an enlarged and more detailed View of another part of FIGURE 1, and includes a compression shoe and tongue,
  • FIGURE 4 is a view, partly in section, corresponding to part of FIGURE 3 and showing a modified air feed arrangement
  • FIGURE 5 is a view, partly in section, on the line 55 of FIGURE 3,
  • FIGURE 6 is a View, partly in section, on the line 66 of FIGURE 3,
  • FIGURE 7 is an electrical circuit diagram for the arrangement shown in FIGURE 1,
  • FIGURE 8 is a front elevation with parts removed and partly in section of a modification of the machine of FIGURE 1,
  • FIGURE 9 is a section on the line 9-9 of FIGURE 8 on a larger scale.
  • FIGURE 10 is a further electrical circuit diagram for the modification of FIGURE 8.
  • a continuous tobacco filler is formed and suctionally held on the underside of a perforated metal conveyor band.
  • a narrow passage 1 extends upwardly to a perforated endless conveyor band 8 which runs, in the direction shown by the arrow, across the upper part of the passage.
  • a suction chamber 3 extends above and along the lower run of the conveyor band 2, and air is drawn from the chamber 3 through a pipe 4 by a suitable fan, not shown.
  • the arrangement is such that a stream of air flows up through the passage 1 at high velocity and is drawn through the perforated conveyor band. Cut tobacco is fed into the passage so as to be impelled upwardly towards the conveyor, on which it builds up to form a filler and on which it is held by suction.
  • the arrangements for feeding the tobacco are as disclosed in Patent No. 3,030,965, granted April 24, 1962.
  • a trimming device comprising a pair of rotating discs 5 positioned beneath the conveyor band, which cooperate to trim excess tobacco from the filler.
  • a pair of rotating discs 5 positioned beneath the conveyor band, which cooperate to trim excess tobacco from the filler.
  • One only of the pair of discs is illustrated because the other disc of the pair is behind and in line with the one shown.
  • the same one of the pair of trimming discs 5 is also shown diagrammatically in full line at the lower left in FIGURE 1, but not in its correct position relative to the band 2, in order to illustrate the manner in which, in accordance with the invention, the discs are raised and lowered to vary the amount of tobacco trimmed from the filler.
  • the other disc of the pair is not shown because it is behind and in line with the illustrated one.
  • a small chamber 6 Within the suction chamber 3 and directly above and touching the band 2 at a position just to the right of the discs 5 as viewed in FIGURE 1, is a small chamber 6. This chamber 6 is open at its lowermost side so as to permit air to pass into it through the perforations in the conveyor band 2. A small pipe 7 communicating with the chamber 6 extends from the latter into the pipe 4.
  • a pipe 8 which extends-from the chamber to a stack of flexible air capsules making up a bellows 9 so that the pressure within the bellows corresponds to that in the chamber 6.
  • the bellows are so mounted and arranged that the lower face, and thus the rod 10, are caused to move up or down in response to changes in air pressure in the bellows.
  • the rod 10 is the input member of an hydraulic amplifier device indicated schematically at 11.
  • a crank 14 is rocked in response to movement of the rod 10, and a link 13 is correspondingly moved up or down.
  • the link 13 is pivotally connected to the right hand end of a lever 12.
  • the lever 12 has a central slot 15 which accommodates a pin 16 extending from a housing 17 which forms a mounting for the trimming discs 5.
  • a spring 27 urges the housing upwardly.
  • a block 18 At the end of the lever 12 remote from the link 13 is a block 18 provided with a threaded aperture through which extends a screw 19, which is arranged to be rotated by a reversible electric motor 20.
  • FIGURE 1 The apparatus as so far described and depicted only diagrammatically in FIGURE 1 is illustrated and described in more detail in FIGURES 1 to 10 of Patent No. 3,089,497, granted May 14, 1963, except as to the manner in which the electric motor 20 is controlled.
  • the perforated conveyor band 2 passes around a pulley at its left and right hand ends, the left-hand pulley being numered 30.
  • a garniture tape 31 is shown passing counterclockwise around a pulley 32 to enter the garniture trough, indicated generally at 33, and shown partly in longitudinal section in FIGURE 3.
  • a continuous paper wrapper 34 passes over two pulleys 35, 35 in counterclockwise direction to pass into the garniture trough 33 above the garniture tape 31.
  • the continuous paper wrapper 34 has its edges turned up by entry into the trough 33 to form a U-section, the nearer edge of the paper wrapper being indicated at 36 in FIG. 3.
  • FIGURE 3 Adjacent the bottom left-hand quadrant of the pulley 30 is a compression shoe 37.
  • FIGURE 3 also shows the trough 33 with part broken away in the region of the shoe 37.
  • the right-hand end of the shoe 37 acts to scrape tobacco off the band 2 on the pulley 30.
  • the crosssectional shape of the shoe 37 and the manner in which this shape changes along the length of the shoe can be seen from FIGURES 3 and 5.
  • the entry portion 370: of the shoe is rectangular and is followed by a curved portion 37b.
  • a tongue 38 Immediately following the compression shoe 37 (to the left in FIGURE 3) is a tongue 38, the shape of which can be seen from FIGURES 3 and 6.
  • These figures also show the trough 33 with part broken away in the region of tongue 38.
  • FIGURES and 6 also show the trough 33 to be in section a splayed U at this region, there being a clearance between each side of the shoe 37 and the tongue 38 and the walls of the trough 33, through which the edges of the tape 31 and the paper 34 pass.
  • the paper wrapper 34 downstream of pulley 30 and with the continuous tobacco filler on it, is drawn under the compression shoe 37 and the tongue 38 by means of the garniture tape 31.
  • the filler is compacted to at least half its final degree of compaction in the wrapped rod as it enters the shoe 37 and further laterally compacted while passing under the shoe 37, and is then further laterally compacted during passage under the tongue 38 to a degree slightly greater than required in the wrapped cigarette rod, the paper wrapper being then folded over the filler by the folders, part of which is shown at 39.
  • Air is drawn from atmosphere into a positive displacement pump 40 and passed under pressure through a pipe 41 into the tongue 38 a short distance from the right-hand end.
  • the end of the pipe 41 is chamfered where it enters the tongue so as not to present a sharp edge to the tobacco which might impede its flow.
  • the pressure in the pipe 41 is communicated to the interiors of two chambers 42 and 43 via a pipe 44, in which is interposed an integrating chamber 45, with a restricted entry 46.
  • the chamber 42 has as its right-hand wall a flexible diaphragm 47, and the chamber 43 has a similar diaphragm 48.
  • the diaphragm 47 has at its centre an electrical contact 49, and on opposite sides of this contact are further contacts 50 and 51. These latter contacts are spaced from the contact 49 so that when a certain change in pressure occurs in the pipe 41 the contact 49 will contact one or other of contacts 50 or 51, depending on whether the change in pressure is an increase or a decrease.
  • These contacts are connected in an electrical control circuit indicated schematically at 52, which is generally similar to the lower part of the circuit shown in FIGURE 11' of Patent No. 3,089,497.
  • the arrangement is such that the reversible motor 20 is energised to rotate in one direction if contact 50 touches contact 49, and in the other direction if contact 51 touches contact 49, and the motor continues to run until the pair of contacts part again.
  • the circuit indicated 52 is shown in detail in FIG- URE 7.
  • the diaphragm 48 carries a contact 53, and on each side of this contact are further contacts 54 and 55. These three contacts are also connected to the control circuit, and the completion of a circuit bycontact 53 touching either contact 54 or contact 55 is arranged to operate a relay to stop the motor 20 running.
  • the contacts 54 and 55 are spaced a greater distance from the contact 53 than the contacts 50 and 51 are spaced from the contact 49 so that a bigger pressure change in pipe 41 is necessary before the contact 53 touches either contact 54 or contact 55 than is the case with contact 49 with regard to contact 50 or contact 51.
  • DC. supply to the armature 249 of the motor 20 is provided by the rectifier 278, and the direction of the current is controlled by twomagnetically operated switches 292 and 293 supplied from rectifiers 298 and 299 respectively each having two control arms 294, 295 and 296, 297 respectively. Movements of the contact 49 to touch contact 50 or 51 will complete a circuit to one of the switches 292 and 293 and the respective relay contacts will feed current to the armature 249, field 250 and the motor will run one way or the other according to the circuit made and raise or lower the trimming device 5.
  • the motor 20 could be made to adjust a variable speed ratio device to alter the speed of the tobacco-feeding apparatus.
  • relay switch 300 it is arranged that the line to the contact 49 is broken if contact 53 touches either contact 54 or 55.
  • the pump 40 is shown in section in more detail in FIGURE 2. It is of the well-known sliding vane type, and consists of a chamber 56 with an inlet 57 and an outlet 58.
  • a rotor 59 is mounted oft centre of the chamber 56 and carries four vanes 68,. which are free to slide radially outwardly under the action of centrifugal force as the rotor 59 rotates, and are free to slide radially inwardly as they contact the upper part of the chamber 56.
  • vanes 68 which are free to slide radially outwardly under the action of centrifugal force as the rotor 59 rotates, and are free to slide radially inwardly as they contact the upper part of the chamber 56.
  • the air pressure at any instant in the chamber 6 thus depends on the quantity of tobacco in the length of filler beneath the chant ber 6, and thus the pressure in the chamber is a measure of the air permeability of this length of the filler, and thus of the quantity of tobacco in this length.
  • the varying pressure in the chamber 6 is thus a measure of the uniformity of the filler as it passes under the chamber 6.
  • the rate at which tobacco is fed to form the filler is chosen so that the filler contains an excess of tobacco at all points along its length, which excess is to be removed by the trimming device 5.
  • the hydraulic amplifier 11 acts 5 of the operation is as described in detail in Patent No. 3,089,497.
  • the position of the trimming discs 5 relative to the band 2 is additionally varied by the left hand end of the lever 12 being raised or lowered by rotation of the motor 20 in one direction or the other in dependence on the air pressure in the pipe 41.
  • This air pressure is the pressure drop across the tobacco in the tongue 38, since the garniture tape is in contact with the trough 33 and all the air is forced to flow through the tobacco and escapes to atmosphere from the tongue.
  • the tongue 38 and the adjacent part of the trough 33 constitute wall means which define a passage through which the unwrapped filler passes in the direction of its length, the wall means extending around almost the entire periphery of the filler.
  • the air forced into the tobacco in the tongue 38 escapes to atmosphere around the sides of the tongue and of the compression shoe 37, but the ease with which the air can escape depends on the quantity of tobacco which is blocking its escape path.
  • the motor 20 could additionally vary the speed of operation of the hopper (not shown) to vary the rate of feed of tobacco to form the filler, or the hopper could be so controlled instead of controlling the position of the trimming discs 5.
  • FIGURE 4 there is illustrated a modification in which the pipe 41 communicates with the compression shoe 37, instead of with the tongue 38.
  • a gap shown at 61 is provided between the shoe and the tongue for air to escape from the tobacco, otherwise the construction and operation is as previously described.
  • the mean value of the air pressure in pipe 41 is l6l7 inches of water.
  • FIGURES 8, 9 and 10 show a modified detecting apparatus 152 to replace the chambers 42 and 43. In this arrangement there is no apparatus performing a function equivalent to that of the chamber 43.
  • an electrical circuit additional to the circuit 52 is indicated schematically as 153, and the details of the circuit being shown in FIGURE 10.
  • the pipe 44 from the integrating chamber 45 supplies a-ir pressure to two pipes 154 and 155 which communicate the air pressure respectively to two resilient capsules 156 and 157 which are secured to the top plate 158 of the housing of the apparatus.
  • the lower faces of the capsules 156 and 157 carry respectively electrical contacts 159 and 160 which are associated respectively with stationary contacts 161 and 162 carried by a plate 163 which is adjustable in the vertical direction to vary the distance between the contacts on the capsules and the stationary contacts. To provide this vertical adjustment the following arrangement is adopted (see also FIGURE 9).
  • the ends of the plate 163 support two circular section pillars 164 and 165 which extend through the top plate 158 and have their upper ends connected by a bridge piece 166.
  • a threaded shaft 167 is mounted in the bridge piece for rotation relative thereto, but not for relative axial movement.
  • the shaft 167 carries a knurled knob 168 and a graduated scale 169. At is lower end the shaft 167 is screwed into a nut 170 secured into the top plate 158. Rotation of the knob 168 thus raises or lowers the bridge piece 166 and the pillars 164 and 165, and with them the plate 163 and the contacts 161 and 162.
  • the contacts 161 and 162 are in the form of cantilever spring bla-des which are mounted at one end in insulating blocks 171 and 172 respectively.
  • the spring contact blades 161 and 162 are arranged to be individually adjustable to vary the gap between each blade and the associated contact on a capsule.
  • two blocks 173 and 174 are mounted and carry respectively eccentrics 175 and 176.
  • the free end of contact blade 162 is held down under the eccentric 176, rotation of which varies the gap between this blade and the contact 160.
  • the contact 160 touches the blade 162 at a desired increase in air pressure in the capsules over the pressure at which contact 159 touches blade 161.
  • Rotation of knurled knob 168 sets the air pressure corresponding to tobacco mass per unit length within the correct range.
  • Electrical connections 177 and 178 lead respectively from contact blades 161 and 162 to the box circuit 153 and an electrical connection 179 (FIGURE 8) leads from the contacts 159 and 160 to the circuit in the box 153.
  • the apparatus 152 is adjusted so that when an air pressure is present in the capsules 156 and 157 indicating that too little tobacco is passing through the tongue 38 (or the shoe 37) all the contacts are open, when an air pressure indicating that the correct amount of tobacco is passing (say within 1% heavy and 1% light of the desired mean weight) contacts 159 and 161 are made, and that when too much tobacco is passing the contacts 160 and 162 additionally are made.
  • the following arrangement is adopted to maintain the plate 163 accurately in the horizontal position at all levels of adjustment.
  • the :plate 163 is rigidly mounted on the upper end of a rigid tube 179 which extends between three pairs of ball races 180 (only two pairs of which are shown). Each pair of bearings is carried in a mounting 181 secured to the sides of the apparatus 152.
  • the circuit shown in FIGURE 10 is a relay switch utilising two transistors, and is shown connected to the contacts 159 same level.
  • the circuit contains three contacts 149, 150 and 151 which are connected in the circuit 52 in a similar manner to the contacts 49, 50 and 51 of the previously described apparatus.
  • the power connections of the circuit 182 and 183 are connected to an alternating current supply of 300 volts and, by means of the rectifier 184 and filter network 185, a direct current supply of approximately 28 volts is produced.
  • Current is fed via the bases of the two transistors 186 and 187 through a network (symmetrical when contacts 1'61 and 159 are closed and contacts 169 and 162 are open) to balance the energising coils 188 and 189 of a high speed relay, indicated in dashed lines at 190, of the Carpenter type.
  • the contacts 149, 150 and 151 are part of the relay 190 and are open inthis balanced condition.
  • the modified apparatus operates as follows.
  • the eccentrics 175 and 176 are adjusted to give the appropriate air pressure difierential between the pressure which causes closing of the contacts 159, 161 and the pressure which causes closing of the contacts 160, 162 corresponding to the correct range of mass per unit length of the tobacco filler (say between plus and minus 1% of the desired mean weight).
  • the knurled knob 168 is then adjusted to set the air pressure intermediate that at which the. contacts 159, 161 and 160, 162 are made to correspond to the desired mean weight for the tobacco filler.
  • the motor 20 rotates to move the trimming device 5 to remove less tobacco from the filler.
  • the tobacco filler is in the correct Weight range
  • the capsule 156 moves contact 159 to touch contact 161 and the contacts 149, 150 and 151 are all open, and the motor 20 is stationary, and the trimming device 5 remains at the It the filler becomes more than 1% heavy the capsule 157 moves the contact 160 to touch contact 162, and the contact 149 touches contact 151, and the motor 20 rotates to move the trimming device to remove more tobacco from the filler.
  • a continuous rod cigarette-making machine having means to form an elongated continuous tobacco stream, a conveyor to convey the tobacco stream lengthwise, and side walls to form with the conveyor a trough having an open side; said machine comprising a stationary compression member in the open side of the trough to form therewith a confining passage of fixed configuration through which the conveyor conveys the tobacco stream, means to pass air at more than atmospheric pressure through the tobacco confined at any instant in the passage, means to detect variations in the effect on the air of variations in air permeability of the confined tobacco due to variations in the quantity of tobacco from place to place along the filler and adjustable means responsive to said detecting means for controlling the size of the section of the tobacco stream in dependence on said detected variations.
  • a continuous rod cigarette-making machine having means to form a continuous tobacco stream, a garniture tape to draw a continuous paper wrapper into the machine, means to fold the continuous paper wrapper around the continuous tobacco stream to form a continuous cigarette rod, a trough through which the garniture tape and the paper wrapper pass while the paper wrapper is conveying the continuous tobacco stream, and a stationary compression member cooperating with the trough to form a confining passage of fixed configuration through which the paper wrapper and tobacco stream are drawn before the wrapper is wrapped around the tobacco stream to form the continuous cigarette rod; said machine comprising means to pass air at more than atmospheric pressure through the compression member and the tobacco confined at any instant in the confiningpassage, means to detect variations in the effect on the air of variations in air permeability of the confined tobaccos due to variations in the quantity of tobacco from place to place along the tobacco stream and adjustable means responsive to said detecting means for controlling the size of the section of the tobacco stream in dependence on said detected variations.
  • a continuous rod cigarette-making machine as claimed in claim 2 comprising a trimming device to remove surplus tobacco from the tobacco stream upstream of the compression member, a reversible electric motor operable to cause relative movement between the trimming device and the conveyor towards and away from each other to vary the amount of tobacco removed from the tobacco stream, and wherein the means to detect variations in the effect on the air is a pressure-responsive device responsive to the pressure drop of the air in passing through the confined tobacco, and comprising an electrical power supply circuit for the motor containing switches selectively operable to cause the motor to rotate in either direction, and a first set of electrical contacts operable by the pressure-responsive device to operate the switches to cause the motor to rotate in the appropriate direction to cause said relative movement to adjust the amount of tobacco remaining'in the tobacco stream arriving at the confining passage in the sense to maintain the pressure drop across the stream within a predetermined range.
  • a continuous rod cigarette-making machine as claimed in claim 5 wherein the pressure-responsive means comprises first and second pressure-sensitive capsules, and comprising a second set of electrical contacts comprising first and second pairs of electrical contacts, one contact of each pair being carried by the first and second capsules respectively, insulating mounting means carrying the other contact of each pair, the gap between the first pair of contacts being such that the contacts are made at the lower end of the predetermined range, and the gap between the second pair of contacts being such that the contacts are made at the upper end of the predetermined range, and an additional electrical circuit operable when the first and second pairs of contacts are open to operate the first electrical circuit to cause the motor to rotate to increase the amount of tobacco left in the tobacco stream downstream of the trimming device, and operable when the first pair of contacts only is made to stop the motor, and operable when both the first and second'pairs of contacts are made to operate the first electrical circuit to cause the motor to rotate to decrease the amount of tobacco left in the tobacco stream downstream of the. trimming device.

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