Apparatus for automatic compensation of wear upon orbiting knives in tobacco cutting machines or the like

US4364402A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Hauni-Werke Korber & Co. K.G. · DE

Inventors

• Werner Komossa · Bornsen, DE
• Uwe Elsner · Dassendorf, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 15, 1980
• Grant date: Dec 21, 1982
• Expiry date: May 15, 2000

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T83/9471
• WIPO field: Other consumer goods
• WIPO sector: Other fields

Abstract

Apparatus for moving the knives relative to their rotary holder in a tobacco cutting machine has a crankshaft which is rotatable and is rotated once during several successive revolutions of the holder. The crankshaft is the input element of a step-down transmission whose output element is a ring gear meshing with pinions for transmission of motion to discrete displacing units, one for each knife. The ring gear is rotated at intervals by a gear which is coaxial with a freewheel. The latter is rocked back and forth by a lever which is pivoted by the crank pin of the crankshaft by way of a rod-like connector. One end portion of the connector is coupled to the lever by an adjusting device which can change the extent of pivotal movement of the lever and hence the extent of rotation of the ring gear whenever the lever is pivoted in one of two directions.