Topack Verpackungstechnik Gmbh

Hauni Maschinenbau Ag

Kolbus Gmbh & Co. Kg

Mettler-Toledo Garvens Gmbh

Nikolaos Georgitsis

Jens Collin

Uwe Heitmann

Heinz-Christen Lorenzen

Wolfgang Steiniger

Stephan Wolff

Sönke Horn

Gerd Strohecker

Uwe Trox

Steffen Rocktäschel

Andreas Rinke

Hans-Herbert Schmidt

Gottfried Von Bismarck

Thorsten Scherbarth

Karsten Meinke

Kurt Begemann

Hermann Berger

Ralf Grassmel

Martin Hoy

Rüdiger Kliefoth

Nils Rose

Horst-Dieter Preuss

A device for combining groups of at least two different types of filter segments for producing multi-segment filters in the tobacco industry in a continuous process includes a plurality of independent functional units that are each designed as a module.

Device for combining groups of filter segments for producing multi-segment filters of the tobacco industry, and trough drum

Method to sort products whereby the products are transported along a path of conveyance in a conveying device, automatically checked during transport according to at least two predetermined sorting criteria, and when one of the criteria is met, automatically diverted by a diverting force out of the path of conveyance perpendicular to the direction of conveyance into a receiving area, whereby the diverting force proceeds from a common center independent of the fulfilled criterion on the basis of which the respective product is to be diverted, and a device suitable for implementing this method as well as a container for receiving the rejected products.

Sorting method and apparatus

A product with a transponder is conveyed along a measurement line of a weighing device and an actual weight value is determined. An exchange of data with the transponder and weighing system enable automatic adjustment of the weighing system for a specified product type and/or sorting of the product based on comparisons of the actual weight value with a target weight value.

Adjusting a scale and sorter for a particular product based on an identification signal from a transponder contained thereon

A frame for a monitoring scale includes a supporting part and two transverse parts by which the frame is supported on the floor. The frame includes a hollow body that may be filled with a ballast material, such as an antiseptic medium, to suppress longitudinal vibrations and to reduce hygienic effects of excess. In addition, a special design of longitudinal supports is provided.

Frame for a monitoring scale

A method and arrangement are provided for producing compound filters for products in the tobacco-processing industry. A filter tube, having a filter element in a central region of the filter tube, is supplied to a predetermined position. Predetermined portions of filtering material are then inserted into the filter tube from at least a first end of the filter tube so that filter segments form in at least a first part of the filter tube.

Method and arrangement for producing compound filters

An apparatus for confining commodities in containers each of which consists of several components. The commodities are advanced along an elongated path past a series of stations where the components of the containers are draped around successive commodities. At least some of the components are provided with characteristic indicia, and a control circuit processes the indicia into information which is encoded upon the finished containers. Such information is decoded, when necessary, to ascertain the genuineness or lack of genuineness of the commodities, for example, the identity of the maker and packer of cigarettes in cigarette packs.

Method of and apparatus for making composite containers with identifying indicia

A packing machine is assembled with one or more control cabinets into a compact aggregate wherein a wall of each control cabinet constitutes at least a portion of the rear wall of the frame of the packing machine. Each control cabinet is movable (such as reciprocable or pivotable) relative to the machine to and from a position in which a portion of or the entire rear side of the machine frame is exposed to afford access to the interior of the machine.

Packing machine assembly with integrated switch cabinet units

A turntable has an annulus of discrete pockets and is indexible about a vertical axis to position successive pockets at a first station at a level directly above a second station where an intermittently advanced web or strip of coherent blanks is acted upon by cooperating fixed and mobile knives to sever blanks which are thereupon transferred by a pneumatic conveyor along a straight path vertically upwardly into successive pockets of the turntable. The blanks are provided with flaps during transfer from the second station into the respective pockets by moving through a stationary mouthpiece, and the thus deformed blanks can be used as so-called shoulder pieces or understrips in hinged-lid packets for arrays of rod-shaped smokers' products.

Method of and apparatus for transferring cigarette packet blanks into the receptacles of a conveyor

A wheel-shaped conveyor with radially extending pockets for discrete packets of cigarettes is indexible about a horizontal axis between the neighboring surfaces of two upright walls forming part of a support for the conveyor and flanking a selected portion of an arcuate path for successive packets in the respective pockets of the conveyor. The upright walls have orifices which direct streamlets of compressed air against the adjacent sidewalls of the packets advancing along the selected portion of the path so that the streamlets of air can promote setting of the freshly applied adhesive between the panels of those sidewalls of the packets which advance along the respective upright walls of the support. The streamlets of air establish cushions of air between the moving sidewalls of the packets and the stationary walls of the support to thus reduce the likelihood of defacing and/or otherwise damaging the sidewalls.

Rotary conveyor with receptacles for packets of the tobacco processing industry

The pot of a paster, such as a paster which can apply a flowable adhesive to a series of coherent blanks or to successive discrete blanks in a cigarette packing machine, receives a suitable adhesive from the discharge end of a suction nozzle. The latter has an intake end which can be introduced into supplies of adhesive in successive vessels of a series of two or more vessels. The suction nozzle carries a container which is at least partially filled with adhesive while the intake end of the nozzle draws adhesive from a vessel, and the thus at least partially filled container supplies adhesive to the intake end of the nozzle during transfer of the nozzle from an emptied vessel into a filled vessel. This ensures that the nozzle can supply adhesive to the paster while its intake end dips into the supply of adhesive in a vessel as well as while the intake end is being advanced from an emptied vessel into an at least partially filled vessel.

Apparatus for supplying adhesive to a paster

Hinge joints are impressed in a book cover through the use of a heated tool, having the profile of the desired joint, and the joint is thereafter immediately stabilized. Joint stabilization is accomplished by rapid reduction of the temperature of the joint areas while maintaining the application of compressive force.

Book case joint forming method and apparatus

The set-up procedure for a bookbinding machine is accomplished through the use of a portable computer with an integral data transceiver. Adjustable machine element position information is entered into the portable computer and transmitted to the machine control via a wireless data link and an operator/machine interface. Actual machine element position is sensed and transmitted to the portable computer where it is displayed. Using the portable computer and data link, the operator may serially proceed from one functional machine station to the next to perform the set-up.

Format adjustment apparatus and method for bookbinding

Successive block-shaped arrays of cigarettes are advanced by one or more pushers on an endless conveyor through an elongated channel, defined by a stationary guide, on their way into a receptacle of a wrapping unit for the arrays. The pusher or pushers are decelerated during advancement through the discharge end of the channel, and the arrays are braked during such deceleration to maintain them in uninterrupted contact with the pusher or with the respective pushers until the arrays complete their movement into a predetermined portion of the receptacle. For example, the arrays can be braked by one or more mechanical devices and/or by one or more pneumatic devices.

Apparatus for transferring rod-shaped articles of the tobacco processing

An improved computer-automated control system for a book-binding machine which provides for emergency manual control of the binding machine in the event of failure of the computer-controlled portion of the control system. The improvement includes a manually operated control instrument and a plurality of switchable coupling components associated with the adjusting devices of a book-binding machine. Each of the switchable coupling components is electrically coupled to an associated adjusting device and the computer-automated portion of the control system and is capable of being electrically coupled to the control instrument. Upon coupling of the control instrument to the switchable coupling component, control of the associated adjusting device is switched from the computer-controlled portion of the control system to the control instrument.

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Hamburg, Germany

Nikolaos Georgitsis