摘要:
Tobacco shreds are drawn from a magazine by a pneumatic conveyor pipe which delivers the shreds into the lower chamber of an air separator whose upper chamber is separated from the lower chamber by an air-permeable partition and is connected with the inlet of a suction generating device serving to draw an air stream through the pneumatic conveyor pipe. The velocity of the air stream in the pipe is maintained at a constant value by a flow restrictor which is installed in the inlet of the suction generating device and is adjustable by hand or by a servomotor receiving signals from a device which ascertains the velocity of air in the pipe by comparing the velocity of air in the second chamber with the velocity of air in the inlet of the suction generating device. The air separator has an outlet for periodical admission of batches of tobacco shreds from the first chamber into a duct which delivers the shreds into the distributor of a cigarette rod making machine.
摘要:
The pressure of compressed air in one or more nozzles which convert successive increments of a running tow of filamentary filter material into a rodlike filler in a filter rod making machine is regulated in response to variations in the speed of the filler. This ensures that the resistance which the filter rod sections offer the flow of tobacco smoke does not deviate from an optimum value when the speed of the filler is reduced below the nominal speed. The pressure of air which is admitted to the nozzle or nozzles is regulated by a variable-speed blower which compresses air preparatory to admission into the nozzle or nozzles, or by installing in the conduit or conduits for one or more nozzles a pressure regulating valve which is adjusted by a servomotor in response to signals denoting the speed of the filler.
摘要:
The duct which delivers tobacco shreds to the underside of the lower reach of an air-permeable belt conveyor contains a guide with a concave surface which tapers gradually toward the underside of the lower reach, as considered in the direction of advancement of the lower reach. A nozzle discharges a current of compressed air against the concave surface so that the current flows along the concave surface toward the underside of the lower reach in the aforementioned direction and entrains the particles which tend to impinge upon the concave surface so that the current and the particles therein form a fluidized bed which is delivered to the underside of and is attracted to the lower reach because the upper side of the lower reach is adjacent to a suction chamber. The particles which are entrained by the current deposit on the lower reach gently and do not clog the interstices of such lower reach so that the latter can attract additional tobacco particles, either from one or more additional fluidized beds or directly from the duct. This reduces the likelihood of comminution of tobacco particles on impact against the lower reach of the conveyor as well as excessive and premature clogging of the interstices of the lower reach with tobacco shreds. That portion of the current which advances beyond the downstream end of the concave surface flows at least substantially in parallelism with the direction of advancement of the lower reach.
摘要:
Apparatus for optically scanning a moving cigarette rod for the presence of defects in its external surface has two annularly arranged groups of diodes which emit green light in the wavelength range of between 0.49 and 0.58.mu. and direct such light from the opposite sides of a plane that is normal to the moving rod so that the incident light is reflected by successive annular portions of the external surface of the rod into the aforementioned plane. The reflected light is focused by systems of lenses upon discrete photosensitive transducers through discrete slit diaphragms on the transducers themselves or on a thin metallic ring which is adjustably mounted on the support for the diodes and the systems of lenses.
摘要:
Wrapping material which is supplied from a reel to the intermittently actuated withdrawing tongs of a cigarette packing machine is looped in a magazine adjacent to the tongs and is stabilized against fluttering and other stray movements by a pneumatic conveyor which attracts one leg of the loop and tensions it so that such leg of the loop remains in its prescribed path.
摘要:
A hydraulic brake having an electrohydraulic antiskid system with a high switching frequency which is speed-proportional. The switching frequency is determined from the number of cross holes in a gear and the gear speed. The cut-in time is electronically determined in a computer and control circuit by a speed comparison of all wheels, whereby the switching frequencies of the passing teeth of a transport gear to a sensor are used as control impulses. If the computer and control circuit determines a deviation, e.g., if a wheel is being braked too sharply and, therefore, runs slower than the other wheels, a camshaft is rotated only in a forward direction, thus activating an antiskid system. If the difference is zero, the camshaft falls back into its initial position, the antiskid system is cut-out and only the braking system of the piston is operating.
摘要:
An automatic apparatus which transports filter cigarettes from a tipping machine to a packing machine has a first transporting unit which directly couples the output of the tipping machine with the magazine of the packing machine, and a second transporting unit which receives the surplus of filter cigarettes from a diverting device of the first transporting unit when the output of the tipping machine exceeds the requirements of the packing machine and delivers the removed surplus back to the first transporting unit when the requirements of the packing machine exceed the output of the tipping machine. The second transporting unit employs a tray filler which receives cigarettes from the diverting device, a first conveying section which transports filled trays away from the tray filler, a tray evacuator which converts the contents of successive filled trays into a stream of cigarettes and turns the cigarettes through 180.degree. so that the orientation of cigarettes in the stream deviates from the orientation of cigarettes in the first transporting unit, and a second conveying section which delivers the stream to a junction of the first transporting unit. In order to restore the original orientation of diverted cigarettes, the first or second conveying section embodies a loop-shaped inverting device which changes the orientation of cigarettes in filled trays or the orientation of cigarettes in the stream by 180.degree. so that the orientation of cigarettes which reenter the first transporting unit is the same as that of non-diverted cigarettes.
摘要:
Apparatus for directly coupling a cigarette maker with a packing machine has a tray filling unit which stores empty trays at an upper level and filled trays at a lower level and receives cigarettes from the maker, a tray evacuating unit which stores empty trays at an upper level and filled trays at a lower level and evacuates the contents of filled trays by simultaneously changing the orientation of cigarettes by 180.degree., and a connecting system which delivers empty trays from the evacuating unit to the filling unit and delivers filled trays from the filling unit to the evacuating unit by simultaneously changing the orientation of the trays so as to compensate for changes in orientation during evacuation of cigarettes from the trays. The connecting system employs one or more upright rotary turrets with tray carriers at two levels and a motor which indexes the turret or turrets and the respective tray carriers through 90.degree. or 180.degree.. A magazine for temporary storage of empty trays at a higher level and for temporary storage of filled trays at a lower level is movable incrementally along the connecting system.
摘要:
Apparatus for building a continuous tobacco stream at one side of an air-permeable conveyor, the other side of which is adjacent to a suction chamber, has two sidewalls which define with the one side of the conveyor a tobacco channel receiving tobacco particles along the concave side of a third wall which can merge into one of the sidewalls and is provided with inclined passages for the flow of compressed air in directions having components in the direction of travel of the tobacco stream. This ensures that all or nearly all particles of tobacco are accelerated in the direction of travel of the stream even before they enter the channel on their way toward the one side of the air-permeable conveyor.
摘要:
Two cigarette making machines discharge discrete files of coaxial plain cigarettes which are moved axially in parallel guides, and successive foremost cigarettes in each guide are engaged and accelerated by a discrete rotating cam which propels the cigarettes into the oncoming axially parallel peripheral flutes of a rotating drum-shaped conveyor. Each flute receives a cigarette from each of the two guides and the distance between a pair of neighboring flutes on the conveyor exceeds the distance between the two files of cigarettes.