Apparatus for making perforations in articles of the tobacco processing industry

US4889140A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Korber AG · DE

Inventors

• Heinz-Christen Lorenzen · Bargteheide, DE
• Peter Pinck · Bargteheide, DE
• Norbert Lange · Glinde, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 1, 1983
• Grant date: Dec 26, 1989
• Expiry date: Jul 1, 2003

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B23K26/0846
• WIPO field: Machine tools
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Apparatus for making perforations in a running web of wrapping material for tobacco or filter rods or in the wrappers of discrete cigarettes has a carbon dioxide laser with two parallel resonators which are mechanically coupled to each other to define a U-shaped resonance chamber and the free ends of which carry partially transmitting mirrors for the passage of discrete active beams of coherent radiation. The two active beams are thereupon split into pairs of split beams and the split beams are focused upon the running web of wrapping material or upon the wrappers of successive rod-shaped articles to simultaneously form four rows of perforations.