GB2022987A – Method and apparatus for perforating articles by laser
– Google Patents
GB2022987A – Method and apparatus for perforating articles by laser
– Google Patents
Method and apparatus for perforating articles by laser
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Publication number
GB2022987A
GB2022987A
GB7916620A
GB7916620A
GB2022987A
GB 2022987 A
GB2022987 A
GB 2022987A
GB 7916620 A
GB7916620 A
GB 7916620A
GB 7916620 A
GB7916620 A
GB 7916620A
GB 2022987 A
GB2022987 A
GB 2022987A
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United Kingdom
Prior art keywords
laser
perforating
articles
locations
spaced
Prior art date
1978-05-22
Legal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the status listed.)
Granted
Application number
GB7916620A
Other versions
GB2022987B
(en
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Philip Morris USA Inc
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Philip Morris USA Inc
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1978-05-22
Filing date
1979-05-14
Publication date
1979-12-28
1978-05-22
Priority claimed from US05/908,522
external-priority
patent/US4224498A/en
1978-05-22
Priority claimed from US05/908,520
external-priority
patent/US4224497A/en
1979-05-14
Application filed by Philip Morris USA Inc
filed
Critical
Philip Morris USA Inc
1979-12-28
Publication of GB2022987A
publication
Critical
patent/GB2022987A/en
1982-11-24
Application granted
granted
Critical
1982-11-24
Publication of GB2022987B
publication
Critical
patent/GB2022987B/en
Status
Expired
legal-status
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Current
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Classifications
B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
B23—MACHINE TOOLS; METAL-WORKING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
B23K—SOLDERING OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; CLADDING OR PLATING BY SOLDERING OR WELDING; CUTTING BY APPLYING HEAT LOCALLY, e.g. FLAME CUTTING; WORKING BY LASER BEAM
B23K26/00—Working by laser beam, e.g. welding, cutting or boring
B23K26/08—Devices involving relative movement between laser beam and workpiece
B23K26/0823—Devices involving rotation of the workpiece
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
A24C5/60—Final treatment of cigarettes, e.g. marking, printing, branding, decorating
A24C5/606—Perforating cigarettes
B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
B23—MACHINE TOOLS; METAL-WORKING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
B23K—SOLDERING OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; CLADDING OR PLATING BY SOLDERING OR WELDING; CUTTING BY APPLYING HEAT LOCALLY, e.g. FLAME CUTTING; WORKING BY LASER BEAM
B23K26/00—Working by laser beam, e.g. welding, cutting or boring
B23K26/02—Positioning or observing the workpiece, e.g. with respect to the point of impact; Aligning, aiming or focusing the laser beam
B23K26/06—Shaping the laser beam, e.g. by masks or multi-focusing
B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
B23—MACHINE TOOLS; METAL-WORKING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
B23K—SOLDERING OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; CLADDING OR PLATING BY SOLDERING OR WELDING; CUTTING BY APPLYING HEAT LOCALLY, e.g. FLAME CUTTING; WORKING BY LASER BEAM
B23K26/00—Working by laser beam, e.g. welding, cutting or boring
B23K26/02—Positioning or observing the workpiece, e.g. with respect to the point of impact; Aligning, aiming or focusing the laser beam
B23K26/06—Shaping the laser beam, e.g. by masks or multi-focusing
B23K26/064—Shaping the laser beam, e.g. by masks or multi-focusing by means of optical elements, e.g. lenses, mirrors or prisms
B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
B23—MACHINE TOOLS; METAL-WORKING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
B23K—SOLDERING OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; CLADDING OR PLATING BY SOLDERING OR WELDING; CUTTING BY APPLYING HEAT LOCALLY, e.g. FLAME CUTTING; WORKING BY LASER BEAM
B23K26/00—Working by laser beam, e.g. welding, cutting or boring
B23K26/02—Positioning or observing the workpiece, e.g. with respect to the point of impact; Aligning, aiming or focusing the laser beam
B23K26/06—Shaping the laser beam, e.g. by masks or multi-focusing
B23K26/064—Shaping the laser beam, e.g. by masks or multi-focusing by means of optical elements, e.g. lenses, mirrors or prisms
B23K26/0643—Shaping the laser beam, e.g. by masks or multi-focusing by means of optical elements, e.g. lenses, mirrors or prisms comprising mirrors
B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
B23—MACHINE TOOLS; METAL-WORKING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
B23K—SOLDERING OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; CLADDING OR PLATING BY SOLDERING OR WELDING; CUTTING BY APPLYING HEAT LOCALLY, e.g. FLAME CUTTING; WORKING BY LASER BEAM
B23K26/00—Working by laser beam, e.g. welding, cutting or boring
B23K26/02—Positioning or observing the workpiece, e.g. with respect to the point of impact; Aligning, aiming or focusing the laser beam
B23K26/06—Shaping the laser beam, e.g. by masks or multi-focusing
B23K26/0665—Shaping the laser beam, e.g. by masks or multi-focusing by beam condensation on the workpiece, e.g. for focusing
B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
B23—MACHINE TOOLS; METAL-WORKING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
B23K—SOLDERING OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; CLADDING OR PLATING BY SOLDERING OR WELDING; CUTTING BY APPLYING HEAT LOCALLY, e.g. FLAME CUTTING; WORKING BY LASER BEAM
B23K26/00—Working by laser beam, e.g. welding, cutting or boring
B23K26/02—Positioning or observing the workpiece, e.g. with respect to the point of impact; Aligning, aiming or focusing the laser beam
B23K26/06—Shaping the laser beam, e.g. by masks or multi-focusing
B23K26/067—Dividing the beam into multiple beams, e.g. multifocusing
B23K26/0676—Dividing the beam into multiple beams, e.g. multifocusing into dependently operating sub-beams, e.g. an array of spots with fixed spatial relationship or for performing simultaneously identical operations
B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
B23—MACHINE TOOLS; METAL-WORKING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
B23K—SOLDERING OR UNSOLDERING; WELDING; CLADDING OR PLATING BY SOLDERING OR WELDING; CUTTING BY APPLYING HEAT LOCALLY, e.g. FLAME CUTTING; WORKING BY LASER BEAM
B23K26/00—Working by laser beam, e.g. welding, cutting or boring
B23K26/08—Devices involving relative movement between laser beam and workpiece
Abstract
Perforations are made at locations spaced about the periphery of a cigarette (C) by conducting separate parts (56) of a laser beam (54) through respective separate light paths which intersect such spaced peripheral locations.
GB7916620A
1978-05-22
1979-05-14
Method and apparatus for perforating articles by laser
Expired
GB2022987B
(en)
Applications Claiming Priority (3)
Application Number
Priority Date
Filing Date
Title
US90852378A
1978-05-22
1978-05-22
US05/908,522
US4224498A
(en)
1978-05-22
1978-05-22
Apparatus for perforating articles by laser
US05/908,520
US4224497A
(en)
1978-05-22
1978-05-22
Method for making filter cigarettes using light energy to make perforations in the filter tipping wrap
Publications (2)
Publication Number
Publication Date
GB2022987A
true
GB2022987A
(en)
1979-12-28
GB2022987B
GB2022987B
(en)
1982-11-24
Family
ID=27420619
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Application Number
Title
Priority Date
Filing Date
GB7916620A
Expired
GB2022987B
(en)
1978-05-22
1979-05-14
Method and apparatus for perforating articles by laser
Country Status (5)
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AU
(1)
AU526552B2
(en)
CA
(1)
CA1119912A
(en)
CH
(1)
CH640114A5
(en)
DE
(1)
DE2920264C2
(en)
GB
(1)
GB2022987B
(en)
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Title
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(en)
*
1982-02-18
1983-08-31
Optik Innovation Ab Oiab
Apparatus for treatment of an exterior circumferential area of an article by means of a radiation energy beam
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(en)
*
1982-04-13
1983-11-16
Gd Spa
A method and apparatus for forming perforations in bar-shape articles
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(en)
*
1983-03-14
1984-09-19
Imperial Chemical Industries Plc
Energy beam focusing apparatus and method
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(en)
*
1983-09-12
1985-04-17
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(en)
*
1983-09-12
1985-04-17
Gd Spa
Piercing device for piercing ventilating holes in cigarettes or similar smoking commodities
GB2149644A
(en)
*
1983-11-11
1985-06-19
Molins Plc
Perforating cigarettes by laser
US4824691A
(en)
*
1986-03-27
1989-04-25
The Wiggins Teape Group Limited
Imaged microcapsule-coated paper
US4874919A
(en)
*
1987-01-14
1989-10-17
The Wiggins Teape Group Limited
Laser apparatus for repetitively marking a moving sheet
US4961080A
(en)
*
1988-02-16
1990-10-02
The Wiggins Teape Group Limited
Laser marker with mask scanning
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(en)
*
1989-04-27
1990-10-31
Molins Plc
Cigarette manufacture
GB2260254A
(en)
*
1989-04-27
1993-04-14
Molins Plc
Cigarette manufacture
GB2260255B
(en)
*
1989-04-27
1993-07-21
Molins Plc
Cigarette manufacture
GB2260256B
(en)
*
1989-04-27
1993-07-21
Molins Plc
Cigarette manufacture
US5352495A
(en)
*
1989-02-16
1994-10-04
The Wiggins Teape Group Limited
Treatment of a surface by laser energy
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Priority date
Publication date
Assignee
Title
AU532065B2
(en)
*
1979-06-08
1983-09-15
Philip Morris Products Inc.
Optical perforating apparatus
US4649943A
(en)
*
1985-02-11
1987-03-17
Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation
Cigarette filter and method of making the same
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(en)
*
2013-06-18
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Machine of the tobacco processing industry, in particular filter attachment machine
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1970-08-11
Aluminum Co Of America
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(en)
*
1969-04-01
1972-06-30
Omega Brandt & Freres Sa Louis
Laser machining device
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(en)
*
1970-12-14
1976-03-09
Arthur D. Little, Inc.
Apparatus for forming refractory tubing
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(en)
*
1976-07-10
1979-08-01
Imp Group Ltd
Perforating device
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(en)
*
1976-10-26
1978-05-23
Hauni-Werke Korber & Co. Kg
Method and apparatus for perforating the wrappers of rod-shaped smokers products
DE2754104A1
(en)
*
1977-12-05
1979-06-13
Hauni Werke Koerber & Co Kg
DEVICE FOR CREATING A ZONE OF DESIRED AIR PERMEABILITY IN A SHELLING MATERIAL STRIP FOR ROD-SHAPED ARTICLES OF THE TOBACCO-PROCESSING INDUSTRY
1979
1979-05-07
CA
CA000327074A
patent/CA1119912A/en
not_active
Expired
1979-05-14
GB
GB7916620A
patent/GB2022987B/en
not_active
Expired
1979-05-16
AU
AU47107/79A
patent/AU526552B2/en
not_active
Expired
1979-05-18
DE
DE2920264A
patent/DE2920264C2/en
not_active
Expired
1979-05-22
CH
CH479679A
patent/CH640114A5/en
not_active
IP Right Cessation
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Priority date
Publication date
Assignee
Title
EP0087403A1
(en)
*
1982-02-18
1983-08-31
Optik Innovation Ab Oiab
Apparatus for treatment of an exterior circumferential area of an article by means of a radiation energy beam
GB2119222A
(en)
*
1982-04-13
1983-11-16
Gd Spa
A method and apparatus for forming perforations in bar-shape articles
EP0119034A1
(en)
*
1983-03-14
1984-09-19
Imperial Chemical Industries Plc
Energy beam focusing apparatus and method
US4553017A
(en)
*
1983-03-14
1985-11-12
Imperial Chemical Industries Limited
Energy beam focusing apparatus and method
GB2146227A
(en)
*
1983-09-12
1985-04-17
Gd Spa
Piercing device for piercing ventilating holes in cigarettes or similar smoking commodities
GB2146228A
(en)
*
1983-09-12
1985-04-17
Gd Spa
Piercing device for piercing ventilating holes in cigarettes or similar smoking commodities
GB2149644A
(en)
*
1983-11-11
1985-06-19
Molins Plc
Perforating cigarettes by laser
US4824691A
(en)
*
1986-03-27
1989-04-25
The Wiggins Teape Group Limited
Imaged microcapsule-coated paper
US4874919A
(en)
*
1987-01-14
1989-10-17
The Wiggins Teape Group Limited
Laser apparatus for repetitively marking a moving sheet
US4961080A
(en)
*
1988-02-16
1990-10-02
The Wiggins Teape Group Limited
Laser marker with mask scanning
US5352495A
(en)
*
1989-02-16
1994-10-04
The Wiggins Teape Group Limited
Treatment of a surface by laser energy
GB2230688A
(en)
*
1989-04-27
1990-10-31
Molins Plc
Cigarette manufacture
GB2260254A
(en)
*
1989-04-27
1993-04-14
Molins Plc
Cigarette manufacture
GB2260255B
(en)
*
1989-04-27
1993-07-21
Molins Plc
Cigarette manufacture
GB2260254B
(en)
*
1989-04-27
1993-07-21
Molins Plc
Cigarette manufacture
GB2230688B
(en)
*
1989-04-27
1993-07-21
Molins Plc
Cigarette manufacture
GB2260256B
(en)
*
1989-04-27
1993-07-21
Molins Plc
Cigarette manufacture
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DE2920264A1
(en)
1979-11-29
CA1119912A
(en)
1982-03-16
DE2920264C2
(en)
1985-04-25
AU4710779A
(en)
1979-11-29
AU526552B2
(en)
1983-01-20
GB2022987B
(en)
1982-11-24
CH640114A5
(en)
1983-12-30
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Legal Events
Date
Code
Title
Description
1990-07-18
732
Registration of transactions, instruments or events in the register (sect. 32/1977)
1996-01-10
PCNP
Patent ceased through non-payment of renewal fee
Effective date:
19950514
