摘要:
Apparatus for slicing tobacco bales for conditioning in which the bales are moved from a conveyor (2) onto an adjacent lift device (16) by a first pusher (6), and are then sliced by a slicing blade (20) which is moved horizontally into engagement with the top of the bale and slices the bale while the lift device is dropped slightly to assist in cleaving the bale. The lift is then actuated to raise the bale ready for the next slicing operation, after the previous slice has been ejected by a second pusher (22).
摘要:
A flow control system in a tobacco shredding machine or the like having a conveyor means for conveying raw material under compression up to a shredding port and a rotary drum cutter adapted to rotate in close proximity to the shredding port and shred the raw material forced out from the shredding port. A rotational torque of the rotary drum cutter is detected by a torque detecting means and the number of revolutions of the same cutter is detected by a number-of-revolutions detecting means, then on the basis of the detected rotational torque and number of revolutions the number of revolutions of the rotary drum cutter is controlled so as to give a target flow rate of raw material by a number-of-revolutions control means, and the conveyance speed of the conveyor means is controlled in synchronism with the rotary drum cutter by a speed control means. The flow rate of raw material can be maintained constant and the quality of shredded pieces is stable. There is no problem of the increase of cost nor is there an increase of the installation space.
摘要:
The process comprises the step of determining the coordinates of each wrapper to be cut out, allocating a cut-out tool to each wrapper, displacing each of the tools individually to bring them all into similar relative starting positions, and simultaneously displacing the tools along identical paths. Each tool is fixed to a lever pivotally mounted on a rotary shaft perpendicular to respective wrappers, a connecting rod being pivotally mounted on the shaft and the lever.
摘要:
A growing tobacco stream is formed at the underside of a foraminous belt conveyor and is transported past two trimming devices to be converted into a rod-like filler which is thereupon draped into cigarette paper and severed to yield discrete plain cigarettes which are united with filter plugs to form filter cigarettes of unit length or double unit length. The resistance of successive identical sections of the filler to axial and/or transverse flow of air therethrough is monitored, and the resulting signals are used to adjust the second trimming device when the monitored resistance deviates from a desired value. The envelopes of filter plugs on successive filter cigarettes are perforated by a laser which is adjustable by signals denoting deviations of the mass of tobacco per unit length of the filler from a preselected value, deviations of the resistance of filter plugs to axial flow of air therethrough from a preselected value and/or deviations of the permeability of cigarette paper from a preselected value. This insures that the column of gaseous fluid which enters the mouth of a smoker contains a mixture of tobacco smoke and of a predetermined quantity of cool atmospheric air.
摘要:
Webs which are to be converted into wrappers for filter rod sections, cigars, cigarillos or cigarettes, or the wrappers of such articles, are perforated by one or more laser beams in the machine wherein the articles are produced. The permeability of wrappers can be changed by increasing or reducing the number of holes and/or by increasing or reducing the size of holes in each wrapper. The permeability of the wrappers of finished articles is monitored and the intensity of laser beam or beams is automatically adjusted when the monitored permeability deviates from a desired value. The perforations are formed for the purpose of admitting cool atmospheric air which influences the quantity of nicotine and condensate in the column of smoke. The perforations are disposed close to or in the filter plugs of filter cigarettes, cigars or cigarillos, or close to one or both ends of each filter rod section or plain cigarette, depending on the length of such articles.
摘要:
Tobacco particles which escape from plain cigarettes and/or filter cigarettes in machines for the making of plain and filter cigarettes are partially separated from streams of suction air before such streams reach the main separator. This relieves the main separator so that the latter necessitates less frequent cleaning and/or replacement of filters. In a filter cigarette making machine with or without a main separator, one or more separators for reusable tobacco particles can be installed to collect reusable particles which escape at one, two or more stations where the escape of tobacco is likely and pronounced. Such separators employ suction fans, vessels below the respective units, and pipes which convey the contents of vessels to a tobacco removing device upstream of the fans.
摘要:
A cigarette machine hopper comprises a first spiked band having an operative run; means for feeding tobacco onto the operative run of the first band; a second spiked band having an operative run adjacent to and approximately parallel to the operative run of the first band and arranged to move at a speed different from that of the first band, the spikes of the two bands being arranged to intercalate and to tease the tobacco and/or stretch lumps in the tobacco as the tobacco is fed forwards between the bands.
摘要:
A machine processes tobacco, filter material or other constituent material of smokers' products, or the like, with a stream of such material moving along a predetermined path. An arrangement for detecting the mass of the material in the stream includes a first circuit operative for generating a first periodic signal having a first frequency, and a second circuit operative for generating a second periodic signal having a second frequency. At least one of the two circuits is comprised of a frequency-determining capacitor structure positioned in proximity to material moving along a predetermined portion of the stream travel path and so disposed as to have a capacitance value dependent upon the mass of material penetrated by electric field lines of the capacitor structure. A signal combining circuit combines the first and second periodic signals to form a resultant periodic signal exhibiting a beat. A measuring device provides an indication of the mass of material penetrated by electric field lines of the capacitor structure by detecting the frequency of the beat.
摘要:
Several parallel tobacco comminuting machines deliver tobacco shreds onto a conveyor system which transports a stream of such shreds into a drying apparatus. The last comminuting machine is adjustable by a control system connected with a weighing device which is located upstream or downstream of the last machine and causes the control system to regulate the output of the last machine in such a way that the combined output of the machines forms a constant stream of tobacco shreds. The weighing device weighs successive increments of the tobacco stream which includes the output of all machines, the output of all but the last machine, or successive increments of a stream which is being withdrawn from a magazine serving to receive the output of all machines.