GB2022987A

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
Authority
GB
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

Current Assignee (The listed assignees may be inaccurate. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation or warranty as to the accuracy of the list.)

Philip Morris USA Inc

Original Assignee
Philip Morris USA Inc
Priority date (The priority date 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 date listed.)
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
Critical
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
Family Applications (1)

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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Link

AU
(1)

AU526552B2
(en)

CA
(1)

CA1119912A
(en)

CH
(1)

CH640114A5
(en)

DE
(1)

DE2920264C2
(en)

GB
(1)

GB2022987B
(en)

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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

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

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

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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Publication number
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

DE102013211424A1
(en)

*

2013-06-18
2014-12-18
Hauni Maschinenbau Ag

Machine of the tobacco processing industry, in particular filter attachment machine

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Publication number
Priority date
Publication date
Assignee
Title

US3524046A
(en)

*

1968-04-26
1970-08-11
Aluminum Co Of America
Apparatus and method for piercing holes in elastomeric articles

CH522464A
(en)

*

1969-04-01
1972-06-30
Omega Brandt & Freres Sa Louis

Laser machining device

US3943324A
(en)

*

1970-12-14
1976-03-09
Arthur D. Little, Inc.
Apparatus for forming refractory tubing

GB1549005A
(en)

*

1976-07-10
1979-08-01
Imp Group Ltd
Perforating device

US4090826A
(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

Cited By (17)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party

Publication number
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

Also Published As

Publication number
Publication date

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

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