公开(公告)号：US07275549B2

公开(公告)日：2007-10-02

申请号：US10324836

申请日：2002-12-20

申请人： Lloyd Harmon Hancock ,  Ford Mitchell Shore ,  Russell Dean Barnes

发明人： Lloyd Harmon Hancock ,  Ford Mitchell Shore ,  Russell Dean Barnes

IPC分类号： A24C5/18

CPC分类号： A24C5/1807 ,  A24C5/00 ,  A24C5/20 ,  A24C5/3412

摘要： Cigarettes are manufactured using modified automated cigarette making apparatus. Those cigarettes possess smokable rods having paper wrapping materials having additive materials applied thereto as patterns. The additive materials, which can have the forms of liquid or paste formulations, are applied to a continuous paper web on the cigarette making apparatus. The formulation is applied to the paper web using application apparatus possessing rollers, and one of those rollers has a series of pockets in its roll face to receive additive formulation from a reservoir and to define the pattern of the formulation on the paper. A modified figure rail assembly and garniture entrance cone provide air flow toward the paper web being advanced through the garniture region of the cigarette making apparatus. Downwardly directed air exiting a plurality of air outlets in the finger rail create a zone of air turbulence the advancing paper web to maintains the paper web a distance away from the upper surface so that the additive material is retained on the paper web. Air exiting slots in the upper or top face of the garniture entrance cone also assist in maintaining the paper web away from the finger rail assembly. A radiant dryer is used to dry the additive material that has been applied to the paper web. The radiant dryer is located on one component of a two component assembly that is used to manufacture cigarettes. A first component of the two component assembly provides a source of paper web, applies additive material to that web in a pattern and dries the paper web; while a second component receives the paper web, supplies tobacco filler and manufactures a cigarette rod from the paper web and tobacco filler. Spectrometric techniques are used to ensure proper registration of the additive material on the cigarette rods so manufactured, and to ensure proper quality of those cigarettes.

摘要翻译： 香烟使用改良的自动卷烟装置制造。 这些香烟具有可抽吸的棒，其具有作为图案施加于其上的添加剂材料的纸包装材料。 可以具有液体或糊剂形式的添加剂材料施加到卷烟制造设备上的连续纸幅上。 使用具有辊的应用设备将该配方施加到纸幅上，并且其中一个辊在其辊面中具有一系列袋以从储存器接收添加剂配方并且在纸上限定配方的图案。 改进的图形导轨组件和附属入口锥体提供朝向通过卷烟制造设备的附属区域前进的纸幅的空气流。 从指轨中排出多个空气出口的向下的空气产生空气区域使前进的纸幅紊乱，以使纸幅保持距离上表面一定距离，使得添加剂材料保留在纸幅上。 离开附属入口锥体的上表面或上表面的狭槽的空气也有助于将纸幅保持远离指轨组件。 使用辐射干燥器来干燥已经施加到纸幅上的添加剂材料。 辐射干燥器位于用于制造香烟的双组分组件的一个部件上。 两部件组件的第一部件提供纸幅源，以一种图案向该卷材施加添加剂材料并干燥纸幅; 而第二部件接收纸幅，供应烟草填料并从纸幅和烟草填料制造香烟杆。 使用光谱技术来确保添加剂材料在如此制造的香烟棒上的正确配准，并确保这些香烟的质量适当。

公开(公告)号：US5908032A

公开(公告)日：1999-06-01

申请号：US694963

申请日：1996-08-09

申请人： Dale Bowman Poindexter ,  Russell Dean Barnes ,  Hoyt Sturdivant Beard ,  Keith Rowan Guy ,  Ricky Harris Laurence ,  Harold Eugene Richardson ,  Tony Dean Stewart ,  Douglas Edwin Wilhelm

发明人： Dale Bowman Poindexter ,  Russell Dean Barnes ,  Hoyt Sturdivant Beard ,  Keith Rowan Guy ,  Ricky Harris Laurence ,  Harold Eugene Richardson ,  Tony Dean Stewart ,  Douglas Edwin Wilhelm

IPC分类号： A24B3/18

CPC分类号： A24B3/182

摘要： A method of and an apparatus for expanding tobacco, particularly tobacco impregnated with solid carbon dioxide are disclosed. The apparatus comprises an arcuate, generally C-shaped duct for conveying the tobacco material in a hot gaseous medium to sublimate the solid carbon dioxide and expand the tobacco. The duct has a non-circular cross-section, preferably a rectangular cross-section, with a high width-to-depth ratio and an increasing depth from the inlet to an intermediate portion of the duct then a decreasing depth from the intermediate portion to the outlet of the duct. A winnower device infeeds the tobacco material into the duct adjacent the throat of a venturi section connected to the inlet of the conveying duct. A tangential separator with an adjustable baffle at the inlet thereof for controlling velocity in the separator is used to separate the expanded tobacco from the gaseous medium.

摘要翻译： 公开了用于扩大烟草，特别是用固体二氧化碳浸渍的烟草的方法和装置。 该装置包括用于在热气体介质中输送烟草材料以升华固体二氧化碳并使烟草膨胀的弓形的大体上为C形的管道。 管道具有非圆形横截面，优选为矩形横截面，其宽度与深度之比高，并且从入口到管道的中间部分的深度增加，然后是从中间部分到第 管道的出口。 一个绞车装置将烟草材料进入与连接到输送管道的入口的文氏管部分的喉部相邻的管道中。 在其入口处具有用于控制分离器中的速度的可调挡板的切向分离器用于将膨胀的烟草与气体介质分离。