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AssigneeHauni-Werke Korber & Co. KG
InventorsHerbert Berlin, Siegfried Abrahams, Peter Brand
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Tobacco particles which escape from plain cigarettes and/or filter cigarettes in machines for the making of plain and filter cigarettes are partially separated from streams of suction air before such streams reach the main separator. This relieves the main separator so that the latter necessitates less frequent cleaning and/or replacement of filters. In a filter cigarette making machine with or without a main separator, one or more separators for reusable tobacco particles can be installed to collect reusable particles which escape at one, two or more stations where the escape of tobacco is likely and pronounced. Such separators employ suction fans, vessels below the respective units, and pipes which convey the contents of vessels to a tobacco removing device upstream of the fans.
In an apparatus for the manufacture and processing of smokers' products wherein wrapped rod-like tobacco fillers are transported by conveyors along at least one predetermined path and/or otherwise manipulated at a plurality of stations, wherein the transport and manipulation of wrapped fillers is effected at least in part by at least one stream of air with attendant unpredictable entry of tobacco particles from the wrapped fillers into the stream, and wherein at least some particles of tobacco are removed from the air stream during passage of the stream through a first segregating means, the improvement which consists in the provision of additional segregating means including at least one separator having means for admitting the air stream ahead of said first segregating means, means for removing at least some tobacco particles from the thus admitted stream, and means for guiding the stream from said separator to said first segregating means.
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