International Tobacco Machinery Poland Sp. Z O.o.

Wojciech Janczyk

Marek Edward Sieredzinski

Wojciech Jerzy Chojnacki

A method for opening cigarettes constituting cigarette waste in a device comprising a rotational drum () the inner wall of which is provided with at least one scraping away element (&#x2033;) extending generally along the drum, and at least one rotational beater (&#x2033;) located inside the drum () striking against the cigarettes, wherein the cigarettes fed into the rotating drum () and being lifted by means of at the least one scraping away element (&#x2033;) and falling by gravity, are struck against by means of the at least one rotational beater (&#x2033;) in a direction substantially perpendicular to the axes of the cigarettes with a force enabling their opening. A device for realization of the method of the invention.

Method and device for opening cigarettes constituting cigarette waste

A method of destructive opening cigarette packs in which the packs are successively mechanically deformed by deflection of at least one wall of each pack toward the outside of the pack, then the deflected wall of the pack is incised from the outside and a pack opening element is slid between the deflected wall of the pack and the cigarettes contained therein, and the pack is opened from the inside by means of the pack opening element. An apparatus for destructive opening cigarette packs using the method according to the invention.

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Kowala, Poland

Wojciech Janczyk