Device for separating tobacco and transport air and arrangement and method for forming at least two tobacco rods in an endless rod maker
AssigneeHauni Maschinenbau AG
InventorReinhard Stuber
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Abstract
Device and method for separating tobacco and transport air. The device includes an inlet structured to receive tobacco carried by transport air flow, and a discharge side coupled to at least two sites to discharge the received tobacco separated from the transport air flow. A tobacco guide wall is provided that is movable so that the discharge side consecutively communicates with the at least two sites. The instant abstract is neither intended to define the invention disclosed in this specification nor intended to limit the scope of the invention in any way.
Claims20
A device for separating tobacco and transport air, comprising:
- an inlet structured to receive tobacco carried by transport air flow;
- a discharge side coupled to at least two sites to discharge the received tobacco separated from the transport air flow;
- a tobacco guide wall;
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- said tobacco guide wall being movable so that said discharge side consecutively communicates with the at least two sites.
An arrangement for assembling at least two tobacco rods in an endless rod maker, comprising:
- at least one suction rod conveyor;
- feed devices for conveying at least one of dosed and sifted tobacco to at least two flow surfaces leading to said at least one suction rod conveyor;
- said feed devices comprising at least two ducts;
- gates for at least one of portioning tobacco and separating transport air from tobacco positioned upstream from respective ducts;
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- a single tobacco/air separation device being structured and arranged to supply the gates with tobacco.
A method for assembling at least two tobacco rods from a single tobacco supply, comprising:
- conveying tobacco in a flow of transport air;
- separating the tobacco from the transport air;
- alternatingly feeding the tobacco to at least two ducts to alternatingly charge the at least two ducts with tobacco;
- conveying the tobacco from the at least two ducts onto at least one flow surface;
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- feeding the tobacco to at least two suction rod conveyors.
An apparatus comprising:
- a first flow channel;
- a second flow channel;
- a first discharge coupled to said first flow channel;
- a second discharge coupled to said second flow channel;
- an inlet channel coupled to said first and second flow channels;
- a separator element structured and arranged to separate transport air from tobacco in a flow of the transport air;
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- said first and second flow channels comprising a movable common wall structured and arranged to control flow of tobacco to one of the first and second flow channel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.