Continuous rod machine arrangement for producing nonwoven filters
AssigneeHauni Maschinenbau AG
InventorsAlexander Buhl, Jann DeBoer, Sönke Horn, Irene Maurer, Thorsten Scherbarth, Stephan Wolff, Peter-Franz Arnold
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Abstract
The invention relates to a method for producing a nonwoven fiber composite for the manufacture of filters in the tobacco industry, wherein the method feeds separated fiber materials to a fluidized bed and the separated filter material inside the fluidized bed are transported to a rod-forming device, essentially by a transport air flow flowing in the direction of the rod-forming device and the filter material is compiled on the rod-forming device prior to forming the compacted fiber filter elements.
Claims13
An arrangement of a continuous rod machine for use in the tobacco industry, comprising:
- at least one filter-material feeding device comprising a metering element for dispensing metered amounts of separated filter material;
- a continuous-rod forming device having a conveying direction along which a continuous filter rod is formed;
- a fluidized bed for transporting the filter material from the filter material feeding device to the continuous rod-forming device;
- a suction belt conveyor for compiling the filter material received from the fluidized bed, said suction belt conveyor moving in the conveying direction of the continuous rod device;
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- a format belt on which compiled filter material is deposited as a compacted fiber rod, the format belt being arranged behind the suction belt conveying in the conveying direction of the continuous rod device where the continuous rod-forming device forms a continuous fiber filter rod from the compacted fiber rod.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.