Cigarette production and packaging unit and method and device for control thereof

US7684889B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Focke & Co. · DE

Inventors

• Heinz Focke · Verden, DE
• Kurt Meyer · Kirchlinteln, DE
• Thomas Tengen · Verden, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 5, 2003
• Grant date: Mar 23, 2010
• Expiry date: Jan 26, 2026

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B65C2009/0003
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A production and packaging installation with a control arrangement (33) and production units having respectively adjustable mechanisms, such as, a (cigarette-) production machine (maker 10), a packaging machine (packer 11), possibly a film-wrapping machine (12), possibly a multipacker (13) and possibly a carton packer (cartoner 14), for the production and ready-to-dispatch packaging of, in the first instance, products—cigarettes and cigarette packs—of a first type and, thereafter, products of a second type each comprising starting materials, such as paper blanks, film and the like, and also specifies the control arrangement itself and a method of controlling the line, it being the case that at least a first set of parameters (61) associated with products of the first type and a second set of parameters (62) associated with products of the second type are stored in a selectable manner in a memory of the control arrangement (33) and, upon selection of a set of parameters (61, 62), a manipulated variable for adjusting the or each adjustable mechanism can be transmitted to the or each production unit by the control arrangement (33), by way of the selected parameters.