System for manufacturing and packaging cigarettes

US5209247A · kind A · utility

Assignees

• B.A.T. Cigarettenfabriken GmbH · DE
• Korber AG · DE

Inventors

• Erhard Rittershaus · Hamburg, DE
• Werner Zapf · Bayreuth, DE
• Horst Base · Hamburg, DE
• Walter Kitzing · Pinneberg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 4, 1991
• Grant date: May 11, 1993
• Expiry date: Jun 4, 2011

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65H2801/54
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

In a system for manufacturing and packaging cigarettes each production unit comprising a cigarette making machine and packaging machines has associated therewith a supply station to which bobbins of raw materials are supplied, that is tipping paper, cigarette paper, carton wrapping paper, inner frame material, box blanks, pack blanks, metallized paper and cellophane or polypropylene, this being done on pallets allocated for each single article. The supply station is spanned by a portal. A portal robot movable longitudinally and transversely of the portal is provided for handling the bobbins of raw materials. Transport means are likewise provided for conveying the raw materials to the individual machines of the system and a bobbin changer is associated with each individual supply station for bobbins. The portal robot comprises an automatic tool changer. The portal, which can span both the supply stations and the bobbin changers, enables the portal robot to supply the bobbins directly to the bobbin changers and material waste to a waste station.