Abrégé

A cigarette filter insertion apparatus and method are provided for automated cigarette production. The apparatus comprises at least one filter delivery tube, a filter positioner with a passage terminating at a stop face, and a detainer yoke movable between obstructing and permitting filter movement. The detainer yoke includes a gate and a compliant detainer, such as a spring-biased pogo pin, to frictionally engage filters and prevent multiple filters from advancing. An actuator, such as a solenoid, controls the detainer yoke, and an air assist port delivers a puff of air to advance a single filter. Photodetectors may monitor filter position and synchronize filter release and air assist. The passage may include slots to vent excess air and minimize filter disturbance. The apparatus deposits filters into a trough formed in a belt for subsequent encapsulation. The method includes conveying, detaining, actuating, air-assisted advancement, and controlled release of cigarette filters.

Classes IPC  ?

• A24C 5/10 - Machines à rouleaux d'enveloppement
• A24C 5/12 - Coupe des bouts de cigarettes remplies et roulées
• A24C 5/46 - Fabrication des tubes de papier à cigarettes
• G01G 13/00 - Appareils de pesée avec remplissage ou vidange automatiques pour peser des quantités données d'un produit
• G01G 13/22 - Moyens pour vidanger automatiquement des récipients de pesée, l'opération étant commandée par le mécanisme de pesée par basculement ou rotation du récipient
• G01G 13/28 - Aménagements apportés à un mécanisme de pesée pour commander le remplissage ou la vidange automatique comportant la variation d'une variable électrique qui est utilisée pour commander le remplissage ou la vidange du récipient

Abrégé

A cigarette rolling machine includes paper pick and place subassembly wherein bulk paper strip is provided by a roll resting upon spool hooks. The frame plates are held spaced apart by a plurality of struts. A paper drive motor drives a roller which may preferably be made of polyurethane or another material that paper may adhere to effectively. A fluid reservoir contains adhesive fluid which is delivered into a wick held in a wick retainer A pick arm mounted on vertical displacement struts raises and lowers a hollow pick manifold connected to a vacuum line so that it may pick up a cigarette paper and retain it on its underside surface for placement onto a section cigarette forming belt. A transfer pad swings from a pair of swing arms which each have a stud slidable within a serpentine groove of a guide plate affixed to the pick manifold.

Classes IPC  ?

• A24C 5/10 - Machines à rouleaux d'enveloppement
• A24C 5/12 - Coupe des bouts de cigarettes remplies et roulées
• A24C 5/46 - Fabrication des tubes de papier à cigarettes
• G01G 13/00 - Appareils de pesée avec remplissage ou vidange automatiques pour peser des quantités données d'un produit
• G01G 13/22 - Moyens pour vidanger automatiquement des récipients de pesée, l'opération étant commandée par le mécanisme de pesée par basculement ou rotation du récipient
• G01G 13/28 - Aménagements apportés à un mécanisme de pesée pour commander le remplissage ou la vidange automatique comportant la variation d'une variable électrique qui est utilisée pour commander le remplissage ou la vidange du récipient

Produits et services

Advertising, marketing, and promotion services in the field of cannabis products and pre-rolled cannabis cigarettes; Evaluation of the knowledge, skills, and abilities of rolling cigarettes of others to determine competency of pre-rolling cannabis cigarettes for quality control purposes; Providing educational consumer information in the field of cannabis

Produits et services

Providing online non-downloadable images, photographs, and texts featuring stories in the field of cannabis, cannabis products, pre-rolled cigarettes, and cannabis and cigarette rolling apparatus via a website for entertainment and educational purposes; Providing entertainment information and information about education via a website; Providing entertainment information about cannabis, cannabis products, pre-rolled cigarettes, and cannabis and cigarette rolling apparatus online via a website; Providing a website featuring entertainment information about cannabis, cannabis products, pre-rolled cigarettes, and cannabis and cigarette rolling apparatus, and cannabis rolling machines; Providing online publications in the nature of blogs featuring text, pictures, graphics, photographs, non-downloadable videos, and non-downloadable audio in the field of cannabis, cannabis products, pre-rolled cigarettes, and cannabis and cigarette rolling apparatus; Online journals, namely, blogs featuring cannabis, cannabis products, pre-rolled cigarettes, and cannabis and cigarette rolling apparatus online via a website

Abrégé

A material handling machine dispenses uniformly metered charges of smoking material from a bulk supply, by means of a metered material feeder that has a first hopper with an opening disposed over a first horizontal chute. The first chute is mounted on slanted springs and has a dispensing end above a second chute also mounted upon slanted springs. The second chute discharges onto a tippable weighing tray above a set of nested hoppers in which one is fixed and the other is vertically movable. A weight sensor may be attached to the tippable tray or the fixed hopper, or both. The move-able hopper may comprise a forming belt indenter to form a trough in a cigarette rolling apparatus. The first hopper may include an agitator that has at least one vertical rod for stirring the bulk material. The dispensing end of the first chute may also include a rotating rake.

Classes IPC  ?

• A24C 5/10 - Machines à rouleaux d'enveloppement
• A24C 5/12 - Coupe des bouts de cigarettes remplies et roulées
• A24C 5/46 - Fabrication des tubes de papier à cigarettes
• G01G 13/00 - Appareils de pesée avec remplissage ou vidange automatiques pour peser des quantités données d'un produit
• G01G 13/22 - Moyens pour vidanger automatiquement des récipients de pesée, l'opération étant commandée par le mécanisme de pesée par basculement ou rotation du récipient
• G01G 13/28 - Aménagements apportés à un mécanisme de pesée pour commander le remplissage ou la vidange automatique comportant la variation d'une variable électrique qui est utilisée pour commander le remplissage ou la vidange du récipient

Abrégé

A cigarette rolling machine deposits uniformly metered charges of smoking material into a trough formed in a belt as dispensed from a bulk supply. A length of smoking paper sufficient for the combined length of two cigarettes is deposited nearby on the belt on a movable platen. As the platen moves, the belt glides over a fixed arbor and at least one other movable arbor, and the belt forms into a bight, rolling the material into a cylindrical volume. Filters are delivered and abutted to the ends of the volume and the smoking paper is entrained into the bight to encircle the smoking material and filters. A pre-moistened adhesive along a leading edge of the paper adheres to its trailing edge as a circular ouroboros and forming a tube. The twinned pair of cigarettes is then drawn across a cutting plane knife and parted into two individual cigarettes.

Classes IPC  ?

• A24C 5/10 - Machines à rouleaux d'enveloppement
• A24C 5/12 - Coupe des bouts de cigarettes remplies et roulées
• A24C 5/46 - Fabrication des tubes de papier à cigarettes