摘要:
An exhaust fan draws air and entrained tobacco through delivery pipes from a tobacco feeder to the respective dischargers of a group of cigarette making machines, where the tobacco is screened out and the air passes on through exhaust pipes. When a discharger is to release tobacco to its making machine the feeder stops delivery of tobacco to that discharger and, after a delay to clear the delivery pipe, a valve bypasses the air around the discharger so that a constant air flow is maintained. The feeder supplies tobacco in a separate and independently controlled stream to each discharger, and has oscillating vanes to separate and keep the tobacco moving.
摘要:
This disclosure is directed to a device for charging cigarette machines with tobacco and includes a collection area of a generally trough-like configuration including a bottom defined by an endless conveyor entrained about rollers, and a plurality of suction tubes having terminal end portions thereof disposed within the collection area and adjacent the upper flight of the conveyor whereby tobacco upon the upper conveyor flight can be withdrawn therefrom by the suction tubes for feeding or charging associated cigarette machines.
摘要:
Shredded tobacco is supplied from a storage reservoir to one or more cigarette making machines by way of discrete pneumatic conveying pipes. The reservoir receives fresh tobacco at regular or irregular intervals so that the quantity of tobacco in its interior is constant. The contents of the reservoir are maintained in suspension so that at least the major part of the supply of tobacco shreds forms a fluidized bed which is located directly below the intakes of the conveying pipes. When a machine requires a batch of tobacco shreds, the respective pipe is connected to a suction generating device so that it draws air from the region between the underside of the fluidized bed and the upper side of the bottom wall of the reservoir whereby the ascending current of air entrains tobacco particles directly from the fluidized bed. The supply of tobacco in the reservoir can be converted into a fluidized bed by mechanically agitating the reservoir so that the shreds move up and down and/or by causing a plurality of streamlets of compressed air to rise through perforations in the bottom wall of the reservoir. The latter may have a circular, semicircular or polygonal cross-sectional outline.
摘要:
A pneumatic tobacco feed system to cigarette making machines operates on a call-dump-fill and thereafter hold cycle. The system includes a discharger over each hopper of a making machine. The discharger is designed to contain a charge of tobacco while awaiting a low tobacco level call signal from the associated maker to dump this tobacco into the hopper. A pneumatically actuated air cylinder assembly operates to maintain the discharger door in a closed position until this signal is received. The cylinder rod is not permanently attached to the discharger door thereby eliminating any requirement of critical adjustment of the cylinder assembly mounting position. The extension of the rod during the door closing is at reduced speed to minimize the possibility of damage to the discharger door.
摘要:
A tobacco feeder is coupled to two multiple cigarette maker systems through two tubes, one for each system. The feeder is driven by a two-speed motor. When only one system requires tobacco, the feeder is driven at low speed, whereas it will be switched to the higher speed when both systems require tobacco simultaneously.