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EP0007836B1 - Vorrichtung zum Messen des Zuges von Rauchartikeln, wie Zigaretten, und Apparat zum kombinierten Messen mit so einer Vorrichtung - Google Patents

Vorrichtung zum Messen des Zuges von Rauchartikeln, wie Zigaretten, und Apparat zum kombinierten Messen mit so einer Vorrichtung Download PDF

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EP0007836B1
EP0007836B1 EP79400464A EP79400464A EP0007836B1 EP 0007836 B1 EP0007836 B1 EP 0007836B1 EP 79400464 A EP79400464 A EP 79400464A EP 79400464 A EP79400464 A EP 79400464A EP 0007836 B1 EP0007836 B1 EP 0007836B1
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Jacques Flesselles
Jean Buisson
Michel Morin
Jean-Pierre Boittin
Pierre Tripot
Claude Vallée
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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
    • A24C5/32—Separating, ordering, counting or examining cigarettes; Regulating the feeding of tobacco according to rod or cigarette condition
    • A24C5/34—Examining cigarettes or the rod, e.g. for regulating the feeding of tobacco; Removing defective cigarettes
    • 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
    • A24C5/32—Separating, ordering, counting or examining cigarettes; Regulating the feeding of tobacco according to rod or cigarette condition
    • A24C5/34—Examining cigarettes or the rod, e.g. for regulating the feeding of tobacco; Removing defective cigarettes
    • A24C5/3418—Examining cigarettes or the rod, e.g. for regulating the feeding of tobacco; Removing defective cigarettes by pneumatic means

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  • the present invention relates to a device for measuring the draft of smoking articles of cylindrical shape such as cigarettes, filters or cigarettes with filter.
  • the invention also relates to an apparatus for measuring different physical characteristics of said smoking articles including such a draft measurement device.
  • the draft of a cigarette, or similar article is the physical characteristic which measures the ability of the product to allow itself to be traversed by a current of air which circulates through it under given conditions.
  • German patent 1 025 173 discloses a draft measurement device comprising a body defining a bore for receiving a cigarette, the bottom of the bore forming a stop for the cigarette, at least one membrane fixed to the body so as to seal when a cigarette is inserted into the bore, and a source of depression.
  • the present invention relates to a device in which the movements and the measurement are automatic, and which can be combined advantageously with other measuring devices to form a measuring chain.
  • the guiding idea of the invention consists in giving the device the form of a vertical tube in which the articles circulate one by one by gravity and in providing means for stopping the article engaged in the tube and for then carrying out the measurement. of the draw.
  • the invention more specifically relates to a device for measuring the draft of smoking articles of cylindrical shape such as cigarettes, filters or cigarettes with filter, characterized in that it comprises a tubular body with an inner diameter greater than that of said articles, arranged vertically, means for bringing the articles one by one above the body and directing them along the axis of the body, means for closing the body to stop an article in a given position, means for maintaining the article in said position closing the body, actuated when the closure means is released, a body sealing means placed downstream of the closure means, and an orifice formed in the body between the closure means and the sealing means and connected to a source of air under vacuum.
  • the holding means and the sealing means are constituted by sphincters connected to a source of pressurized air and to a source of air under vacuum.
  • the means for feeding the articles comprises a transfer tube which can contain an article, rotatably mounted between a horizontal position, in which it can receive an article coming from a horizontal guide element, and a position vertical, in which it is aligned with the tubular body, and an arcuate arc arranged to prevent an article from falling from the transfer tube during the rotation thereof.
  • the invention also relates to a combined device for measuring the physical characteristics of smoking articles, characterized in that it comprises a device for measuring the draft as defined above and an upstream measuring device incorporating said element guide, in which the articles circulate along a horizontal path.
  • the combined measuring device may further comprise transfer means for collecting, one by one, the articles discharged by gravity from the drawing device and for delivering them in a horizontal position.
  • an upstream sphincter that is to say an annular elastic membrane
  • a source of aspirated air not shown.
  • a vacuum pump for example to a vacuum pump, as well as possibly to a source of pressurized air not shown.
  • Adjacent to this sphincter is disposed a second sphincter, or downstream sphincter 7, connected by a nozzle 8 to a source of pressurized air and to a source of aspirated air, not shown.
  • a cigarette C is introduced through the upstream opening 2 into the tube 1. It is centered by the guide 4.
  • the upstream sphincter 5 is sucked in and leaves the passage free.
  • the downstream sphincter 7 is under pressure and closes the section of the tube 1.
  • the cigarette C rests on the downstream sphincter.
  • the position of the diaphragm valve 9 is indifferent: it can be under pressure or aspirated.
  • the device is in the position shown in FIG. 2, the diaphragm valve 9 is pressurized (if it was not already there) and closes the section of the tube 1, ensuring the sealing of the downstream opening 3 thereof.
  • the upstream sphincter 5 is pressurized, sealing the upstream opening 2 of the tube 1 and keeping the cigarette C in position.
  • downstream sphincter 7 which was under pressure, is released or aspirated.
  • the cigarette C is no longer held by the upstream sphincter 5 and is evacuated by gravity to the downstream opening 3, the passage of which is free, the membrane valve 9 being released or sucked.
  • FIG. 3 shows a combined apparatus for measuring different physical characteristics of cigarettes or the like, which comprises several measuring stations including a draft measuring device as described above.
  • the apparatus comprises a vertical frame 101 on which the various measurement stations are arranged: weight measurement station 102, diameter measurement station 103, draft measurement station 104, compactness measurement station 105.
  • the station 102 is conventionally constituted by an electronic balance.
  • the station 103 consists of a diameter measurement ring of the conventional type.
  • the station 104 is constituted by the device described above with reference to FIGS. 1 and 2.
  • the station 105 can be a device of the usual type; preferably it will be a device similar to that which was the subject of French patent application No. 78 20 929.
  • All of the measurement information provided by the various stations is centralized and recorded on a usual type of information processing station.
  • the apparatus thus constituted is broken down into a first section in which the cigarettes carry out a horizontal course, and which comprises the weighing station 102 and the diameter measuring station 103, a second section in which the cigarettes carry out a vertical course, and which corresponds to the draft measurement station 104, and a third section in which the cigarettes are again in a horizontal position, and which corresponds to the compactness measurement station 105.
  • a hopper 106 which receives the cigarettes C which I want to control and which delivers them, one by one, to the weighing station 102 by means of a not shown cell drum .
  • the transfer device which makes it possible to pass from the vertical path to the horizontal path consists of a tube 111 of quadrangular section fixed on a disc 112 rotatably mounted around its axis 13 relative to the frame 101.
  • the tube 111 is composed of two parts, namely a fixed element and a movable element relative to the fixed element.
  • the fixed element 114 comprises the bottom and the rear lateral wall of the tube 111.
  • the movable element 115 consisting of the upper wall and the front wall of the tube 111.
  • a fluid barrier member In Figure 7, between the weighing station 102 and the diameter measuring station 103, there is shown schematically a fluid barrier member. It consists of a slide 120, V-shaped, the walls of which have a series of openings 121, connected to a source of pressurized air not shown. The openings 121 are arranged on a line inclined to the horizontal by about 60 °, so that the air leaving the openings 121 is directed towards the diameter measuring station 103.
  • the device operates as follows.
  • a cigarette C n extracted from the hopper 106, is placed on the support of the scale of the weighing station 102. Once the measurement of the weight has been carried out, the cigarette C n is moved by a pusher 122 to the station for measuring the diameter 103 and inserted into the measuring ring.
  • the measurement of the weight of the cigarette C n + 1 and the measurement of the diameter of the cigarette C n are carried out at the same time.
  • the diameter measurement being carried out with pressurized air, parasitic air can escape from the measuring ring of station 103 and disturb the balance of station 2.
  • the arrangement of the openings 121, placed on a line inclined about 60 ° on the horizontal and directed towards the station 103, causes the air to be directed towards the station 103 and thus forms a barrier to the air which could escape of the measuring ring.
  • the disc 108 performs a 90 ° rotation in the opposite direction and returns the tube 107 to its starting position. At the same time, the pusher 122 has also returned to its starting position and a new cigarette C n + 2 is brought to the weighing station.
  • the cigarette C n + 2 is moved to the station 103 from where it pushes the cigarette C n + 1 into the transfer tube 107.
  • the cigarette C n is released from the measuring station of the draft 104 from which it falls into the transfer tube 111 where it is retained by the closure wall 117.
  • the disc 112 then performs a rotation, in the direction of the arrow, of 90 ° around its axis 113. During this rotation, the tube 111 passes from the vertical position to the horizontal position and the cigarette C n which it contains, is also found in a horizontal position on the fixed element 114.
  • the finger 118 integral with the movable element 115, comes to press on the stop 119.
  • the movement has the effect of lifting the movable element 115 which is articulated on the fixed element 114. This thus causes the opening of the tube and the expulsion of the cigarette C n which is projected forward under the impulse given by the wall 116 which, integral with the movable element 115, has also pivoted upwards.
  • the cigarette C n is then brought into the compactness measuring station 105.
  • the cigarette C n + 1 transferred by the tube 107, arrived at the draft measurement station 104, and a new cigarette C n + 3 was brought to the weighing station 102.
  • Such an apparatus makes it possible to automatically control batches of cigarettes by asking only one person for driving and by performing, at a rapid rate, a certain number of measurements. It also makes it possible to record and centralize the result of each measurement obtained for each cigarette.

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1. Einrichtung zum Messen des Zuges von Rauchwaren zylindrischer Form, wie Zigaretten, Filter und Filterzigaretten, mit einem vertikal angeordneten Rohrkörper (1), dessen innerer Durchmesser größer ist als der Durchmesser der genannten Artikel, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß sie Einrichtungen zum einzelnen Zuführen der Artikel von oben her zum Körper und zum Führen der Artikel in Achsrichtung des Körpers aufweist, eine Verschließeinrichtung (7) für des Körper, um einen Artikel in einer bestimmten Stellung anzuhatten, eine Einrichtung (5) zum Festhalten des Artikels in der genannten beim Verschließen erreichten Stellung, die beim Lösen der Verschließeinrichtung betätigt wird, eine unterhalb der Verschließeinrichtung vorgesehene Abdichteinrichtung (9) für den Körper und eine im Körper zwischen der Verschließeinrichtung und der Abdichteinrichtung vorgesehene Öffnung (11), die mit einer Unterdruckluftquelle verbunden ist.
2. Einrichtung nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Festhalteeinrichtung (5) und die Verschließeinrichtung (7) aus mit einer Druckluftquelle und mit einer Unterdruckluftquelle verbundenen ringförmigen elastischen Membranen bestehen.
3. Einrichtung nach einem der Ansprüche 1 und 2, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Einrichtungen zum Zuführen der Artikel ein Zuführungsrohr (107) aufweisen, das einen Artikel aufnehmen kann, welches Rohr zwischen einer horizontalen Stellung, in der es einen aus einem horizontalen Führungselement zugeführten Artikel aufnehmen kann, und einer vertikalen Stellung, in der es mit dem Rohrkörper (1) fluchtet, drehbar ist, und eine kreisbogenförmige Rampe (110), um die Artikel daran zu hindern, während der Drehung des Zuführungsrohres aus diesem zu fallen.
4. Kombinierter Apparat zum Messen der physikalischen Charakteristika von Rauchwaren, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß er eine Einrichtung zum Messen des Zuges (104) nach Anspruch 3 enthält und eine darüber angeordnete MeBeinrichtung (103) mit dem genannten Führungselement, in der die Artikel in einer horizontalen Bahn zirkulieren.
. 5. Apparat nach Anspruch 5, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß er eine Überführeinrichtung enthält, um die durch ihre Schwere aus der Zugmeßeinrichtung freigegebenen Artikel nacheinander aufzunehmen und sie in eine horizontale Stellung überzuführen.
6. Apparat nach Anspruch 5, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Überführeinrichtung einen im Querschnitt rechteckigen, an seinem unteren Ende geschlossenen und zur Aufnahme eines Artikels geeigneten Teil'(111), welche zwischen einer vertikalen Position, in der er die von der ZugmeBeinrichtung freigegebenen Artikel aufnehmen kann, und einer horizontalen Position drehbar ist, und der aus zwei Elementen (114, 115) mit je zwei aufeinander senkrechten Wänden gebildet ist, wobei das eine Element mit dem anderen an einer Kante gelenkig verbunden ist, und einen festen Anschlag (119) aufweisen, damit das bewegliche Element in der horizontalen Stellung gedreht werden kann, welche Drehung die seitliche Freigabe des Artikels ermöglicht.
7. Apparat nach Anspruch 4, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die genannte obere Meßeinrichtung (103) ein mittels Druckluft arbeitender Ring zum Messen des Durchmessers ist und daß eine weitere Meßstelle (102) vor diesem Meßring vorgesehen ist, wobei die von dieser Meßstelle zum Meßring bewegten Artikel einer horizontalen Bahn folgen und eine Einrichtung vorgesehen ist, um einen Luftstrom zwischen diese Meßstelle und dem Meßring zu lenken.
8. Apparat nach Anspruch 7, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß der Luftstrom um 60° im Verhältnis zur Horizontalen geneigt ist.
EP79400464A 1978-07-13 1979-07-05 Vorrichtung zum Messen des Zuges von Rauchartikeln, wie Zigaretten, und Apparat zum kombinierten Messen mit so einer Vorrichtung Expired EP0007836B1 (de)

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FR7820931A FR2430732A1 (fr) 1978-07-13 1978-07-13 Dispositif pour mesurer le tirage d'objets cylindriques, tels que des cigarettes
FR7820930 1978-07-13
FR7820931 1978-07-13
FR7820930A FR2430731A1 (fr) 1978-07-13 1978-07-13 Dispositif pour mesurer des caracteristiques physiques d'objets cylindriques tels que des cigarettes

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