| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 5429227 |
Chain conveyor |
July 4, 1995 |
| A chain conveyor for the transport of mass flows of cigarettes or other rod-shaped commodities has a series of identical links which are articulately connected to each other by alternating vertical and horizontal chain pins. The upper portions of the vertical pins carry platforms hav |
| 5413213 |
Apparatus for transporting mass flows of articles |
May 9, 1995 |
| An apparatus for transporting a mass flow of rod-shaped articles of the tobacco processing industry from a first station to a remote second station has two coaxial upright helical tracks one of which extends from the first station and the other of which extends from and is at least c |
| 5406376 |
Apparatus for testing end portions of rod-shaped articles of the tobacco processing industry |
April 11, 1995 |
| Apparatus for testing the end portions of cigarettes to detect end portions containing insufficient quantities of tobacco has a conveyor which transports the cigarettes sideways past at least two testing stations each of which accommodates a discrete capacitive and/or photoelectronic tes |
| 5385622 |
Web splicing method and apparatus |
January 31, 1995 |
| The leader of a fresh flexible web of paper or the like is spliced to the trailing end of an expiring web by a row of uniting bands having coats of adhesive at both sides. Successive uniting bands of the row are peeled off a flexible carrier strip while being attached to one side of the |
| 5369986 |
Sealing element for use in cigarette testing apparatus |
December 6, 1994 |
| A sealing element for the end portions of cigarettes or other rod-shaped articles of the tobacco processing industry has an elastic tubular body defining a longitudinally extending passage for the flow of air or another testing fluid from one end of an article being tested or in the oppo |
| 5369985 |
Sealing element for the ends of rod-shaped articles of the tobacco processing industry |
December 6, 1994 |
| A sealing element for use in the testing of cigarettes or other rod-shaped articles of the tobacco processing industry has an elastic tubular body with an end portion having an axially movable end wall and an annular lip extending beyond the external surface of the end wall. The latter h |
| 5361783 |
Apparatus for feeding webs of wrapping material |
November 8, 1994 |
| A cigarette maker or a filter rod making machine wherein a continuous rod-like filler is advanced by an endless foraminous belt conveyor toward a wrapping or draping unit and a web of wrapping material is advanced toward the unit to be draped around the filler. In order to ensure that |
| 5337762 |
Apparatus for storing and distributing comminuted tobacco |
August 16, 1994 |
| An apparatus for temporarily storing and distributing comminuted tobacco to a plurality of consuming machines (particularly for distributing cut tobacco to cigarette rod making machines) has a circular tray which receives batches of comminuted tobacco at regular or irregular intervals |
| 5325874 |
Apparatus for removing surplus from a stream of fibrous material |
July 5, 1994 |
| A tobacco stream which contains a surplus of tobacco particles is conveyed in a channel past a trimming device which serves to remove the surplus and has two disc-shaped tobacco engaging members extending through openings in the sidewalls of the channel and into the stream in such a way |
| 5302907 |
Method of and apparatus for ascertaining a characteristic value of a high-frequency oscillator |
April 12, 1994 |
| The resonance frequency and/or damping of a high-frequency oscillator which contains a variable impedance (such as a capacitor in a moisture detector for coffee or tobacco) is ascertained by generating first signals which denote the envelope curves of oscillations during intervals betwee |
| 5301011 |
Method of and apparatus for ascertaining the diameters of rod-shaped articles |
April 5, 1994 |
| The diameters of rod-shaped articles of the tobacco processing industry are ascertained while the articles are transported past a measuring station in the flutes of a drum-shaped conveyor moving along a range finder which measures the distance of each article of a series of articles from |
| 5299583 |
Method of and apparatus for separating fragments of tobacco ribs from shredded tobacco |
April 5, 1994 |
| A mixture of unsatisfactory fragments of tobacco ribs and shreds of tobacco leaf laminae and/or tobacco ribs which are bonded to each other and/or are clumped together and/or crimped is treated to loosen the coherent and/or clumped shreds and/or uncrimp individual shreds and to thereupon |
| 5279406 |
Apparatus for altering the spacing between pairs of coaxial rod-shaped articles of the tobacco p |
January 18, 1994 |
| Apparatus for increasing the distance between successive pairs of coaxial plain or filter cigarettes has a first rotary conveyor with axially parallel peripheral flutes which deliver pairs of cigarettes to a transfer station, a second rotary conveyor which receives one cigarette of each |
| 5267576 |
Method of and apparatus for separating foreign objects from moving tobacco particles in a rod ma |
December 7, 1993 |
| A cigarette rod making machine wherein the flow of loosely intermingled tobacco shreds, tobacco ribs and foreign objects (such as nuts, bolts, pieces of wire and/or particles of plastic material) is classified to segregate the ribs and foreign objects from the shreds. The ribs are th |
| 5259401 |
Method of and apparatus for perforating cigarette paper and the like |
November 9, 1993 |
| A running web or discrete tubular wrappers of rod-shaped articles of the tobacco processing industry are perforated with a variable-intensity high-energy pulsed laser beam which is controlled in such a way that the intensity of radiation and/or the length of pulses is altered in response |
| 5255777 |
Apparatus for transporting groups of rod-shaped articles of the tobacco processing industry |
October 26, 1993 |
| Apparatus for converting two parallel files of coaxial cigarettes into a single row of parallel pairs of coaxial cigarettes has a guide which delivers the two files of cigarettes from a twin cigarette maker and a first rotary conveyor with arms for pairs of flutes each of which removes |
| 5248375 |
Apparatus for applying adhesive to webs to wrapping material in tobacco processing machines |
September 28, 1993 |
| Two parallel webs of wrapping material are advanced toward the inlet of a wrapping mechanism in a twin cigarette rod making, filter rod making or like machine adjacent a paster with two wheel-shaped rotary applicators which apply strips of adhesive to selected marginal portions of the |
| 5234397 |
Method of and apparatus for making composite filter rod sections for use in filter tipping machi |
August 10, 1993 |
| A continuous tow of filamentary filter material is advanced past a rotary applicator which delivers metered but variable quantities of a second filter material (such as granulated or pulverulent charcoal) into successive increments of the tow. The tow and the delivered second filter |
| 5230353 |
Method of and apparatus for simultaneously producing two continuous tobacco streams |
July 27, 1993 |
| Two tobacco streams are made simultaneously by feeding a main flow of tobacco particles upwardly through a suction duct which terminates beneath two parallel foraminous belt conveyors. The sidewalls of the duct have alternating wedge-like ramps which divide the ascending main flow into |
| 5226432 |
Method of and apparatus for draping rod-like fillers into webs of wrapping material |
July 13, 1993 |
| A continuous rod-like filler of tobacco or filter material for tobacco smoke and a continuous web of cigarette paper or other wrapping material are advanced at a plurality of different speeds toward and into a wrapping mechanism wherein the web is draped around the filler to form therewi |
| 5217101 |
Apparatus for merging mass flows of rod-shaped articles of the tobacco processing industry |
June 8, 1993 |
| A first mass flow of rod-shaped articles of the tobacco processing industry is transported along a substantially horizontal path wherein the articles are moved sideways, and a second mass flow of articles is transported along a downwardly sloping path which makes with the horizontal path |
| 5209247 |
System for manufacturing and packaging cigarettes |
May 11, 1993 |
| In a system for manufacturing and packaging cigarettes each production unit comprising a cigarette making machine and packaging machines has associated therewith a supply station to which bobbins of raw materials are supplied, that is tipping paper, cigarette paper, carton wrapping p |
| 5193556 |
Method of and apparatus for breaking up bales of condensed tobacco |
March 16, 1993 |
| Bales of condensed relatively dry tobacco particles are broken up by subdividing each bale into slabs which are thereupon mechanically fragmentized, heated and moisturized with steam or steam and hot water, shredded while still heated, and thereupon subjected to one or more additiona |
| 5188128 |
Apparatus for classifying particles of tobacco and the like |
February 23, 1993 |
| Apparatus for separating longer tobacco particles from shorter tobacco particles has an elongated vibratory trough for the advancement of a stream containing a mixture of shorter and longer particles from a delivering conveyor to a collecting receptacle. The upper side of the bottom |
| 5188127 |
Apparatus for feeding tobacco to distributors of rod making machines |
February 23, 1993 |
| Apparatus for feeding batches or a continuous stream of tobacco particles into the magazine of the distributor in a cigarette or cigar rod making machine has a container which can receive a stream of gaseous carrier medium for tobacco particles from a shredding machine or from another |
| 5154278 |
Apparatus for transferring arrays of rod-shaped articles of the tobacco processing industry |
October 13, 1992 |
| Apparatus for transferring block-shaped arrays of plain or filter cigarettes in a packing machine has a rotary first conveyor which orbits a set of equidistant pockets for discrete arrays about a first vertical axis. The first conveyor is provided with drives which can pivot the pock |
| 5154190 |
Apparatus for building a tobacco stream |
October 13, 1992 |
| A cigarette rod making machine wherein the apparatus which supplies tobacco particles to the stream building zone at the underside of a belt conveyor is designed to prevent entry of fragments of tobacco ribs into the outer layer of the stream. This is achieved by directing fragments of t |
| 5148816 |
Method of and apparatus for making a tobacco stream with a core containing tobacco ribs |
September 22, 1992 |
| Smaller and larger fragments of tobacco ribs are sifted out of a mixture of tobacco ribs and tobacco shreds before the shreds are converted into a rod-like filler which is ready to be draped into a web of cigarette paper. The larger ribs are comminuted and are mixed with smaller ribs pri |
| 5147022 |
Apparatus for merging mass flows of rod-shaped articles of the tobacco processing industry |
September 15, 1992 |
| A first mass flow of rod-shaped articles of the tobacco processing industry is transported along a substantially horizontal path wherein the articles are moved sideways, and a second mass flow of articles is transported along an upwardly or downwardly sloping path which makes with the |
| 5143095 |
Method of cutting tobacco |
September 1, 1992 |
| A method of converting particles of tobacco leaves, particularly bales or portions of bales of compacted tobacco leaf laminae, into cut tobacco involves admitting portions of and/or entire bales into a tobacco cutter while the temperature of compacted particles matches or exceeds the roo |
| 5141002 |
Apparatus for feeding tobacco particles to one or more consuming machines |
August 25, 1992 |
| Apparatus for feeding tobacco particles to one or two cigarette rod making machines has a magazine with a duct having an open lower end above the upper reach of an endless belt conveyor. The conveyor can be driven to advance tobacco particles in the duct toward an outlet of the magazine |
| 5141001 |
Method of and apparatus for ascertaining the filling power of fibrous material in cigarettes and |
August 25, 1992 |
| The hardness of cigarettes which move in a direction at right angles to their axes is measured with one or more pivotable levers which rest on the moving cigarettes to elastically deform the adjacent portions of the cigarettes. The extent of elastic deformation is measured and the result |
| 5139035 |
Method of and apparatus for manipulating bales of condensed tobacco particles |
August 18, 1992 |
| Bales of compressed tobacco ribs and/or tobacco leaf laminae having a moisture content of 8-11 percent are advanced past a battery of microwave generators or through one or more electric high frequency fields to raise the temperature of particles in the bales to between 30.degree. and |
| 5135008 |
Method of and apparatus for making filter cigarettes |
August 4, 1992 |
| Filter cigarettes are mass-produced in a machine wherein parallel groups of coaxial plain cigarettes and filter plugs are moved at right angles to their axes through a first station wherein their components are connected to each other by uniting bands, thereupon through a second station |
| 5125419 |
Method of and apparatus for making plural tobacco streams |
June 30, 1992 |
| A single stream of comminuted tobacco leaves is divided into two discrete streams each of which contains a surplus of tobacco particles. The surpluses are removed by discrete trimming devices and the thus removed surpluses are conveyed into the distributor which forms the single stream |
| 5125418 |
Method of and apparatus for generating electric signals denoting the mass flow of fibrous materi |
June 30, 1992 |
| The combined mass flow of solid and liquid fractions of a fibrous material which is converted into a tobacco rod or filter rod in a rod making machine of the tobacco processing industry is ascertained by monitoring the liquid fraction in the distributor of the machine and by monitoring |
| 5123798 |
Apparatus for manipulating trays for cigarettes and the like |
June 23, 1992 |
| A unit which serves to fill trays with surplus cigarettes adjacent the path of movement of a mass flow of cigarettes from a maker to a processing machine is disposed at a level beneath a unit which empties the contents of filled trays into the mass flow when the requirements of the proce |
| 5115819 |
Method of homogenizing the constituents of a tobacco stream |
May 26, 1992 |
| An inhomogeneous stream of tobacco particles is homogenized by feeding the stream onto a vibrating support having openings through which the particles descend onto a conveyor serving to transport the thus homogenized stream in a direction counter to that of advancement of the inhomog |
| 5106254 |
Apparatus for filling and emptying trays for rod-shaped articles of the tobacco processing indus |
April 21, 1992 |
| Apparatus for removing filter cigarettes from a mass flow between one or more producing machines and one or more processing machines when the output of the producing machines exceeds the requirements of the processing machines, and for returning filter cigarettes into the mass flow w |
| 5103086 |
Method of and apparatus for ascertaining the density of a stream of fibrous material |
April 7, 1992 |
| The density of a trimmed stream of tobacco particles on a radiation-permeable conveyor is ascertained by directing a first beam of infrared light against the trimmed stream so that the light must pass through the stream and through the conveyor prior to reaching a detector which tran |
| 5094321 |
Shock absorber with variable damping characteristic |
March 10, 1992 |
| A shock absorber wherein the piston of the piston-piston rod assembly divides the internal space of the cylinder into first and second chambers. The piston has first and second passages for the flow of fluid between the chambers in response to shifting the assembly relative to the cylind |
| 5086279 |
Method of and apparatus for measuring the moisture content of fibrous materials |
February 4, 1992 |
| A hygroscopic commodity, such as a continuous stream of shredded tobacco, is transported past one or more sources of electrical energy and past one or more monitoring devices. One of the sources can expose the stream to the electric field of a capacitor in a high frequency oscillator cir |
| 5072742 |
Method of and apparatus for making a filler of smokable material |
December 17, 1991 |
| A cigarette rod making machine wherein the surplus of smokable material which is removed by the trimming device is returned into the magazine of the distributor next to the supply of fresh tobacco. Fresh tobacco is withdrawn from the supply in the form of a relatively wide first layer, |
| 5072741 |
Method of and apparatus for simultaneously making plural tobacco filler streams |
December 17, 1991 |
| A relatively wide first layer of tobacco particles is broken up into several narrower second and several narrower third layers. The second layers are converted into a first tobacco filler stream which is trimmed to form a rod-like filler ready to be draped into a web of cigarette pap |
| 5063943 |
Method of and apparatus for monitoring the quality of a tobacco stream |
November 12, 1991 |
| The ratio of different types of tobacco in a tobacco stream which is conveyed past a trimming device is monitored by monitoring the distance of the trimming plan from the conveyor for the stream while the mass flow of the stream is maintained at a constant value. Variations of the distan |
| 5060665 |
Wrapping mechanism for rod making machines of the tobacco processing industry |
October 29, 1991 |
| A cigarette rod making or filter rod making machine wherein the wrapping mechanism employs an endless garniture belt having an upper reach which advances first along an upwardly sloping and thereupon along a horizontal portion of an endless path. A web of wrapping material is delivered o |
| 5060664 |
Method of and apparatus for making streams containing fibrous materials of the tobacco processin |
October 29, 1991 |
| A stream of filter tow which has been sprayed with atomized plasticizer is advanced past two detectors each of which monitors the density of the stream in a different way and generates corresponding signals which are processed by an evaluating circuit to generate modified signals which a |
| 5054346 |
Apparatus for repeatedly severing running webs of tipping paper and the like |
October 8, 1991 |
| The running web of tipping paper in a filter tipping machine of the tobacco processing industry is repeatedly severed by successive knives on a rotary carrier while the leader of the web is attracted to the peripheral surface of a counterknife. The peripheral surface of the counterknife |
| 5050471 |
Apparatus for supporting and guiding cigarette rods and the like |
September 24, 1991 |
| A cigarette rod which is repeatedly severed by the orbiting knife of a cut-off is supported by a tubular guide which has a slot for the knife and is moved with the rod in the course of each severing operation to thereupon move back to a starting position. The guide is rigidly connected |
| 5031643 |
Pneumatic conveyor for rod-shaped articles of the tobacco processing industry and their componen |
July 16, 1991 |
| A rotary drum which serves to transport rod-shaped articles of the tobacco processing industry or sheet-like components of such articles has a peripheral surface which is formed with rows of axially parallel suction ports connectable to a suction generating device to attract the articles |
