Japan Tobacco Inc.

Norikuni Miyaoka

Tomizou Nagata

Kouzou Sakakibara

Yoshiyuki Mutoh

Takao Murakami

Shinichi Hyodo

Susumu Sugawa

An apparatus for feeding an inner wrapper for an inner pack in a cigarette package has a rotatable web roll (R) formed by winding a web for the inner wrapper. The web has aluminum foil and a paper layer laminated onto the aluminum foil and containing menthol. The feeding apparatus further includes a scraper roller () for removing the menthol from the outer circumferential surface of the web roll (R), namely the surface of the aluminum foil. The scraper roller () has a plurality of scrapers () arranged in the outer circumferential surface thereof, the scrapers () being brought into contact with the outer circumferential surface of the web roll (R). The scrapers () are made of felt material.

Apparatus for feeding inner wrapper for wrapping cigarette bundles

An automatically guided vehicle includes a single-wheel unit including a first wheel, a paired-wheel unit including second and third wheels, a sensor for detecting a track, a control unit, etc. The first and second wheels are drive wheels that are rotated by motors, individually, while the third wheel is an idler wheel. The control unit executes an angle steering mode during a forward movement or the like and a speed difference steering mode during a sidewise or slantwise movement. In the angle steering mode, the steering angle of that wheel unit, out of the single- and paired-wheel units, which is situated on the rear side in the moving direction is fixed, and the steering angle of the wheel unit on the front side is controlled. In the speed difference steering mode, the guided vehicle is steered along the track by differentiating the respective rotational speeds of the first and second wheels with the respective steering angles of the individual wheels fixed. The control unit selects the speed difference steering mode when the steering angles are set at values such that the first and second wheels are situated on the opposite sides with respect to a line segment in the steering direction passing through the center of gravity of the guided vehicle.

Automatically guided vehicle

A device for preventing cart oscillation, wherein the rotation in a horizontal plane of the rear wheel side is controlled by an oscillation controlling member. The rotation in the horizontal place of the rear wheel side is also controlled by a detachable oscillation controlling member having a coupler section for permitting the cart to follow a predetermined course, when a train of a plurality of coupled carts is drawn. As shown in FIG. 5, a device for preventing oscillation for controlling the rotation in a horizontal plane of rear wheels of a cart is detachably fixed to a cart 2 having wheels connected to a wheel support which is rotative in a horizontal plane, in a way to fix the rear wheels by an engagement groove of a slant section 14.

Device for preventing cart oscillation

Packing paper receiving and folding method and apparatus are disclosed. The method has the steps of receiving and supporting a packing paper through an opening portion defined between suction arms of a suction ring; moving an arbor into the suction ring accompanying packing paper folded in a U-shape through the opening portion; effecting body folding of the packing paper using the arbor as a core member; and effecting flaps folding within the suction ring while properly maintaining the state of the body folding. The apparatus has a rotatable suction ring including a bracket, a pair of suction arms pivotable with respect to the bracket, the other ends of the suction arms defining an opening portion therebetween so that an arbor can enter therethrough, folding claws mounted on the insides of the suction arms and a bottom clamp positioned in the opening portion; a U-clamp provided within the suction ring for body folding; and a seaming clamp approaching to and departing from the arbor.

Packing paper receiving and folding method and apparatus

An arbor guiding apparatus is disclosed. It has a plurality of arbors arranged at least in two rows of arbors and in tandem on a rotary packing drum with respect to its axial direction. It also has a guiding device of the arbors in the radial direction. The guiding device includes supporting members axially supporting the arbors as well as connecting rods. One of the connecting rods include a threeway shaft at its one end, one way of the shaft being for engagement with a cam follower for guiding the arbor in the first arbor row while another way of the shaft being for engagement with a cam follower for guiding the arbor in the second arbor row. It further includes a device for effecting a relative movement of the arbors in the first and second arbor rows. The relative movement device essentially includes a pinion interposed therebetween.

Arbor guiding apparatus

An improved packing container forming apparatus is disclosed. In the arbor turret type packing container forming apparatus, the improvement comprising a plurality of arbors arranged in tandem on a rotary packing drum in the axial direction, an aluminum foil suction ring for forming an aluminum bag with its one end closed in combination with the corresponding arbor by winding a sheet of aluminum foil around the arbor in the first rotary row, a package paper suction ring for forming a package paper bag with its one end closed in combination with the corresponding arbor by winding a sheet of package paper around the arbor in the second rotary row, and a shifting mechanism including a pair of racks and a pinion for shifting the arbors in the first rotary row to the second rotary row in a consecutive manner.

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Tokyo, Japan

Norikuni Miyaoka