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WO2006128551A1 - Application d'une substance aromatique liquide sur une bande de matiere de l'industrie du tabac - Google Patents

Application d'une substance aromatique liquide sur une bande de matiere de l'industrie du tabac Download PDF

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WO2006128551A1
WO2006128551A1 PCT/EP2006/004214 EP2006004214W WO2006128551A1 WO 2006128551 A1 WO2006128551 A1 WO 2006128551A1 EP 2006004214 W EP2006004214 W EP 2006004214W WO 2006128551 A1 WO2006128551 A1 WO 2006128551A1
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Manfred Dombek
Helmut Voss
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Koerber Technologies GmbH
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Hauni Maschinenbau GmbH
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A24—TOBACCO; CIGARS; CIGARETTES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES; SMOKERS' REQUISITES
    • A24C—MACHINES FOR MAKING CIGARS OR CIGARETTES
    • A24C5/00—Making cigarettes; Making tipping materials for, or attaching filters or mouthpieces to, cigars or cigarettes
    • A24C5/005—Treatment of cigarette paper
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A24—TOBACCO; CIGARS; CIGARETTES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES; SMOKERS' REQUISITES
    • A24C—MACHINES FOR MAKING CIGARS OR CIGARETTES
    • A24C5/00—Making cigarettes; Making tipping materials for, or attaching filters or mouthpieces to, cigars or cigarettes
    • A24C5/38—Machines combined with printing devices
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B41—PRINTING; LINING MACHINES; TYPEWRITERS; STAMPS
    • B41J—TYPEWRITERS; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS, i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS
    • B41J3/00—Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed
    • B41J3/407—Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed for marking on special material

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  • Prior art printing units for the application of print marks on a wrapping strip of the tobacco processing industry are known.
  • a print is applied to cigarette paper strips in a cigarette rod machine with a pressure roller.
  • rod-shaped articles such as cigarettes, cigarillos, cigars or filter rods or the like are produced in the strand process.
  • the wrapping strips used have print marks or printed images, which may be, for example, cigarette brands, manufacturers name or other indications.
  • US-B-6,173,551 and WO-A-99/51498 disclose ink jet encoders in packaging machines of the tobacco processing industry.
  • the inkjet coder used is a printhead from Videojet System International, Illinois, USA.
  • characters are printed on a strip of material from individual ink drops.
  • the marks will be during a Feed motion of the strip of material is sprayed without contact, wherein a piezoelectric Spritzd ⁇ senquartz is energized, which surrounds the spray nozzle ink chamber.
  • the vibrations of the jet quartz break up the jet stream into small drops of ink.
  • the individual ink droplets are deflected by means of a baffle plate. The degree of deflection depends on the amount of negative charge on the ink drops. Overall, this technology is very expensive.
  • the invention is based on the idea to use printheads of a printing unit, in particular an inkjet printing unit, to apply flavors to a strip of material.
  • the print heads are preferably designed or modified in such a way that viscous (flavoring) substances which have a different viscosity, for example, are used.
  • se of printer ink or the like may have or apply by means of at least one printhead on the strip of material.
  • aromatic substance comprises both odorous substances and flavorings which are filled as (viscous) liquid substances in a printer cartridge or in a reservoir for a print head.
  • the printhead composes the print image of individual elements, pixels, dots, drops, etc., similar to the known inkjet printing processes on the strip of material.
  • the printing units used or inkjet printing units having at least one print head in the context of the invention are printing units which have a container or a chamber for at least one flavoring substance, wherein the container may additionally have a print head depending on the application.
  • a stationary print head of the printing unit can be connected directly or via a line to the reservoir.
  • ink jet printers operate on two different physical principles.
  • the piezo technique uses electrical pulses that heat a thin-film resistor in the nozzle, forcing a drop of (ink) out of the nozzle.
  • the piezo technique which works with tiny crystals sitting in each nozzle, the corresponding crystal deforms by electrical voltage. Upon expansion of the crystal, the liquid is thrown onto the strip of material. If the crystal contracts, ink is sucked out of the reservoir.
  • piezo-based ink jet printing units allow for application of high viscosity fluids far above the viscosity of conventional paper ink.
  • the bubble jet technology works with heat in combination with gas.
  • a heating element heats the liquid or ink in the reservoir so much that a gas bubble (bubble) is formed, which presses the liquid out of a nozzle. After switching off the heating element creates a negative pressure, whereby a new amount of liquid is sucked from the reservoir.
  • a liquid flavoring agent is now applied to a conveyed material strip of the tobacco-processing industry in order to further process the material strip for the production of filter cigarettes. Due to the (liquid) flavorings printed on the material strip, at least one additional olfactory and / or gustatory effect is achieved when using cigarettes.
  • an aroma pattern is printed on the strip of material by means of a plurality of print heads, in particular inkjet print heads, it is likewise conceivable within the scope of the invention for the various print heads to be supplied with different flavors.
  • a targeted mixture of preferred flavorings can be put together and printed on the strip. Such mixtures can thus be provided simply and flexibly.
  • the subsidized material strip of the tobacco-processing industry is generally a subsidized article of the tobacco-processing industry, to which a flavoring substance is applied or quasi printed.
  • a metered application of the flavoring substance to the material strip takes place in order to apply a predetermined, defined application pattern in a predetermined intensity. This results in a desired specification and packaging of the material strip.
  • paper is used as the carrier material for the applied or printed "flavor image" or "flavor image”.
  • flavoring takes place on the guided past the printing unit or printhead strip of material contactless.
  • flavorings are used which comply exclusively with the legal requirements.
  • Increasing the print speed is achieved by applying at least one flavor via multiple print heads.
  • a plurality of inkjet printing units are used, so that at the same time a flavor image is applied to a strip of material.
  • a plurality of print heads are arranged in and / or transversely to the conveying direction of the conveyed material strip.
  • the working area for applying or printing an aroma-containing liquid is increased.
  • rapid adaptation of an application device to material strips of different widths to be processed is achieved. aims.
  • the at least one flavoring agent applied to the material strip is dried in a drying section, so that the drying process of the flavor image or aroma image on the material strip is accelerated.
  • the at least one print head is arranged stationary.
  • a plurality of print heads for applying at least one flavoring agent are provided.
  • a plurality of print heads are arranged in and / or transversely to the conveying direction of the material strip.
  • the print heads are arranged in a cascade.
  • the print heads are controllable by means of a control device, in particular computer unit, so that the ink jet print heads are freely programmable.
  • the object is achieved by a machine of the tobacco processing industry, in particular cigarette rod machine or filter attachment machine, which is provided with a device according to the invention described above.
  • the application device according to the invention is preferably used on a cigarette rod machine for applying a defined taste profile. image or aroma image used on a wrapping strip.
  • the object is achieved by a use of a printhead, in particular inkjet printhead, in a machine of the tobacco processing industry, wherein a liquid and / or viscous flavor is applied by means of the printhead, in particular inkjet printhead, on a strip of material of the tobacco processing industry.
  • Fig. 2 is a perspective view of another device according to the invention.
  • Fig. 3 is a schematic representation of a device according to the invention in a further embodiment.
  • FIG. 1 a shows a schematic view of a device 23 which is designed to apply a flavor to a paper strip 21 or cigarette paper strip conveyed from left to right.
  • a corresponding with Fig. 1 a top view is shown in Fig. 1 b.
  • the device 23 is for example part of a cigarette rod machine.
  • a cigarette tenstrangmaschine is schematically denoted by the reference FA.
  • the device 23 has at least one inkjet printer cartridge 55.1, which is filled with a flavoring substance 56 in the interior.
  • a storage space 58 of the inkjet printer cartridge 55.1 of the flavoring agent 56 is filled as a free liquid.
  • a print head 57 is arranged, by means of which the liquid flavoring agent 56 is printed on the paper strip 21 quasi.
  • the flavoring agent 56 is applied to the paper strip 21 by means of the inkjet printhead 57 or the corresponding inkjet printing technology employed.
  • the print head 57 is actuated in such a way that a predetermined image or pattern of an applied "flavor image” or "aroma image” is formed on the paper strip 21.
  • the device 23 may have further inkjet printer cartridges with corresponding print heads 57.
  • Another inkjet printer cartridge 55.2 is arranged in the conveying direction of the paper strip 21 behind the first inkjet printer cartridge 55.1.
  • a further flavoring agent can be applied to the paper strip 21.
  • the inkjet printer cartridges 55.1, 55.2 and the printheads 57 are arranged over the entire width of the paper strip 21, so that the entire width of the paper strip 21 with the flavoring agent 56 from the reservoir 58 can be printed.
  • FIG. 2 is a perspective view of a further device 23 according to the invention.
  • the device 23 has four holders 51.1 to 51.4, on each of which three inkjet printer cartridges 55.1 to 55.3 with corresponding print heads are arranged one behind the other.
  • each of the filled with a flavor inkjet printer cartridges 55.1 to 55.3 each contains a flavor in the reservoirs and each of the (not visible here) print heads (see Fig. 1 a, reference numeral 57) a flavoring on the Strips 21 imprinted.
  • each printer cartridge 55.1 to 55.3 is filled with the same flavor.
  • the device or the printing unit 23 it is possible by the device or the printing unit 23 to apply flavors or flavorings according to a predetermined pattern on the paper strip 21.
  • a computer-aided control of the individual printer cartridges 55.1 to 55.3 or the corresponding printheads is achieved that in a quick format change on a machine of the tobacco processing industry, the applied or applied flavor or aroma pattern on the paper strip 21 can be quickly adapted to the different formats ,
  • the number of printheads of the printing unit 23 or inkjet printheads used for applying a flavor or flavor pattern depends on the width of the paper strip 21 to be printed and on its conveying speed, whereby the resolution (print quality / dpi) is determined. With a print width larger than the printhead width of an inkjet printhead, another cascade set of inkjet printheads is used.
  • the device according to the invention By means of the device according to the invention, it is possible to flexibly and cleanly provide cigarette papers or other material strips of the tobacco-processing industry with various "taste images".
  • the field-proven technology in the field of ink-jet printers can be used in machines of the tobacco-processing industry to print flavorings.
  • the printheads are adapted for the application of viscous flavors or modified accordingly.

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Abstract

L'invention concerne un procédé et un dispositif (23) pour appliquer une substance liquide (56) sur une bande de matière (21) transportée, en particulier sur une bande d'emballage (21), de préférence sur une bande de papier à cigarettes (21) de l'industrie du tabac. Cette invention se rapporte également à l'utilisation d'une tête d'impression (57), en particulier d'une tête d'impression à jet d'encre (57), dans une machine de l'industrie du tabac (FA). Ledit procédé est caractérisé en que la substance liquide (56) est une substance aromatique (56) qui est appliquée sur la bande de matière (21) au moins à l'aide d'une tête d'impression (57), en particulier à l'aide d'une tête d'impression à jet d'encre (57).
PCT/EP2006/004214 2005-06-02 2006-05-05 Application d'une substance aromatique liquide sur une bande de matiere de l'industrie du tabac Ceased WO2006128551A1 (fr)

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