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8151802 |
Method for manufacturing pouches of cohesionless material
Pouches (2) of cohesionless material, typically a smokeless tobacco product, are manufactured by conveying portions of the tobacco initially on a dispensing disc (5a) with cavities (7) from a...
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8113214 |
Apparatus for conditioning of organic materials
Apparatus for conditioning of organic materials including an inlet gate, an outlet gate, a conditioning chamber having a set of nozzles for supplying thermodynamic medium, and an immobilizing...
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8079370 |
System for removal of impurities from shredded tobacco recovered from defective cigarettes
A system is used for removal of impurities from shredded tobacco recovered from defective cigarettes, especially activated carbon particles, as used in a machine for recovering tobacco and having...
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7954498 |
Device for the creating of a homogeneous cut tobacco flow
In order to treat cut tobacco so as to loosen and homogenize the same, a tobacco stream (12, 16) passes through a plurality of processing stations (18, 19, 20), in the region of which the tobacco...
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7952037 |
Method and apparatus for forming portions of fibrous material
A method and apparatus of forming portions of tobacco, and of removing the same by an conveyor having at least one path of holders for a respective portion, in which the holders are filled with...
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7882843 |
Smoking article component transfer device and method
Described herein is a method and apparatus for transferring rods, or tubes, comprising feeding a plurality of rods into a hopper, feeding the rods through a hopper using agitation and gravity to...
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7874295 |
Shredded tobacco material feeder of a cigarette manufacturing apparatus
A shredded tobacco material feeder of a cigarette manufacturing apparatus has a reservoir (2) of shredded tobacco material; a first separation chamber (20) and a second separation path (28) for...
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7832411 |
Cigarette manufacturing method
A cigarette manufacturing method and machine, whereby a shredded tobacco stream is fed along a channel extending through at least one carding unit and having at least one output portion closed by a...
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7793664 |
Apparatus and method for detection and segregation of faulty cigarettes
Apparatus and method for detection and segregation of faulty cigarettes in a production/packaging installation for cigarettes having an apparatus by means of which faulty cigarettes are segregated...
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7762265 |
Apparatus for controlling distribution of tobacco strip
An apparatus is configured to control the distribution of tobacco strip in a charger of a tobacco packing press. The apparatus includes a housing. A plurality of ducts extend from the housing to...
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7624738 |
Product change method for a cigarette manufacturing machine
A product change method for a cigarette manufacturing machine, wherein an input hopper receives a first type of shredded tobacco from a supply header, and feeds it to at least one channel for...
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7584758 |
Device for processing tobacco during the production of cigarettes
A distributor or hopper is part of a cigarette production machine and serves for dressing the tobacco in the provision of a continuous tobacco strand. An integral part of a distributor is a...
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7383840 |
Apparatus for scanning and sorting tobacco leaves
An apparatus for scanning and sorting tobacco leaves includes a conveyor to convey a flow of tobacco leaves. The flow of tobacco leaves includes acceptable and unacceptable leaves and undesirable...
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7287529 |
Cigarette maker
In a cigarette maker comprising a descent channel filled with shredded tobacco by a carding unit and with reclaimed tobacco by a conveyor, the shredded tobacco and the reclaimed tobacco are taken...
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6877516 |
Apparatus and method for processing winnowers at a cigarette maker
Size reduction equipment is added at the feed end of a cigarette maker to take separated winnowers and other overages from a tobacco feed to the maker, cut or shred the overages to appropriate size...
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6840248 |
Method of and apparatus for recovering and recycling tobacco dust
Tobacco dust which develops in a machine or production line for the making of smokers' products is put to use in that it is gathered and agglomerated into particles having or exceeding a required...
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6782890 |
Apparatus for building tobacco rods in cigarette making machines
The distributor of a cigarette rod making machine employs a zig-zag sifter which receives a mixture of tobacco ribs and shreds from a reservoir by way of a duct or an elevator conveyor. The shreds...
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6701935 |
Incorporation of smoke-modifying agents in smoking material rods
A method of incorporating fibriform smoke-modifying material in smoking material rod, wherein fibriform smoke-modifying material is fed longitudinally thereof to a rod making machine (1). The...
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6701933 |
Apparatus for making a stream of tobacco shreds
A device for creating a spread-out stream of tobacco fibers includes a concave-curved guide track along which the fiber stream of tobacco fibers are conveyed. The guide track has a generatrix based...
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6634365 |
Method of and apparatus for homogenizing streams of particulate fibrous material
A shower of tobacco particles is fed into the upper end of a downwardly sloping and downwardly tapering funnel-shaped part of a conveyor wherein the particles gather into a flow of interlaced...
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6516810 |
Pipe junction for pneumatic transfer of rod-shaped smokers' products
Apparatus for pneumatically conveying filter rod sections from a sender to a remote cigarette filter tipping machine has a first switching device which receives filter rod sections from a single...
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6435191 |
Tobacco separator
Apparatus for separating particles contained in threshed leaf tobacco includes a plurality of separating chambers, each including a separation chamber and having a fan system for establishing a...
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6273093 |
Incorporating smoke-modifying agents in smoking material rods
A method of, and apparatus for, incorporating particulate smoke-modifying agent in a smoking material rod, wherein said agent is introduced into a flow of filamentary smoking material to the...
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6170489 |
Tobacco distributor for cigarette rod making machine
The carding at the periphery of a driven wheel in the distributor of a cigarette rod making machine receives tobacco particles from the lower portion of a substantially upright duct the upper...
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6053174 |
Method and apparatus for the enhancement of tobacco
A tobacco enhancement apparatus and a method of enhancing tobacco using the apparatus comprising a tunnel (12) having a vibratory conveyor floor (18), and an inlet (14) for receiving unexpanded...
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5967146 |
Shredded tobacco supplying apparatus for a cigarette manufacturing machine
A shredded tobacco supplying apparatus for a cigarette manufacturing machine has a supply passage extending toward a conveyor belt, the supply passage is provided with a plurality of air blowing...
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5806531 |
Method and apparatus for automatic and continuous pneumatic feeding of tobacco
A continuous pneumatic tobacco conveyance system is described which automatically controls the rate at which tobacco is fed into the conveyance system and automatically controls the velocity of the...
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5743275 |
Cigarette making machine
A cigarette making machine comprises a channel (104; 106/228; 230/319; 320) through which tobacco is showered onto the inside surface of a suction band (100; 102/232; 234/309; 310) passing around a...
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5687747 |
Method of and apparatus for assembling accumulations of particulate materials
Particles of comminuted smokable material are loosened in a downwardly converging compartment defined by a funnel-shaped array of intermittently driven endless flexible belts. The outlet at the...
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5666975 |
Method of fabricating cigarettes in a dispensing-type machine operated by a user person
A method of fabricating cigarettes through a dispensing-type machine and from a predetermined quantity of tobacco leaves selected by a user person. The method comprises storing predetermined...
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5645086 |
Apparatus for evacuating surplus air for the distributor of a tobacco processing machine
The distributor of a cigarette rod maker has a chamber bounded at least in part by a concave guide for a flow of fragments of smokable material in a stream of transporting fluid, such as air. The...
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5582191 |
Method and machine for simultaneously producing two continuous cigarette rods
A method and machine whereby a stream of shredded tobacco is fed through a dividing device for dividing the stream into two substreams and feeding the two separate substreams to a forming device...
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5582192 |
Method and apparatus for diagnosing mechanical problems, particularly in cigarette makers
In a machine having rotating components, in which a substance is processed in continuous form, a sensor generates signals representative of the instantaneous supply rate of the substance at one or...
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5533528 |
Method and apparatus for elevating tobacco temperature
Cigarettes are formed from tobacco filler which is at a temperature in excess of approximately 35° Celsius and having an elevated moisture content. For example, particles of tobacco filler having ...
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5531234 |
Apparatus for controlling the filling amount of shredded tobacco in cigarettes
A control apparatus for a cigarette production machine according to the present invention comprises a density sensor for detecting the filling density of shredded tobacco in a continuously formed...
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5511566 |
Distributor for particles of tobacco and the like
A tobacco distributor wherein a flow of tobacco particles is delivered to a rotary carded drum by a duct which is at least substantially horizontal so that the overall height of the distributor can...
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5505213 |
Load control doffer
A tobacco threshing apparatus, and related method, including a plurality of tobacco threshers, each thresher including a housing having an inlet and an outlet, a rotor adapted to be rotated at a...
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5477869 |
Tobacco delivery system
An exhaust fan draws air and entrained tobacco through delivery pipes from a tobacco feeder to the respective dischargers of a group of cigarette making machines, where the tobacco is screened out...
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5476108 |
Method and apparatus for detecting foreign matter within a layer of tabacco
The invention is directed to a method and apparatus for detecting foreign matter including small particles of organic materials such as plastics within a layer of tobacco. The tobacco is irradiated...
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5337762 |
Apparatus for storing and distributing comminuted tobacco
An apparatus for temporarily storing and distributing comminuted tobacco to a plurality of consuming machines (particularly for distributing cut tobacco to cigarette rod making machines) has a...
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5331977 |
Distributor for cigarette manufacturing machine
A cigarette manufacturing machine having a distributor including a duct, along which shredded tobacco is fed, and a withdrawal roller for withdrawing tobacco from the duct. The duct has a plurality...
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5273057 |
Cigarette manufacturing machine
A cigarette manufacturing machine wherein a shredded tobacco distributor presents a drop-down duct for the tobacco, and a pair of rollers rotating about respective axes, for withdrawing the tobacco...
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5267578 |
Controlled opening of fibrous materials
Fibrous materials are opened from a metered flow thereof using an opening roller and are subjected to a controlled and adjustable further opening operation to input desirable properties to the...
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5211187 |
String doffer mechanism
A mechanism for removal of contaminants from a stream of material having a plurality of rotatable cylindrical doffer elements each having flights supplied with cleaning means thereon mounted...
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5188127 |
Apparatus for feeding tobacco to distributors of rod making machines
Apparatus for feeding batches or a continuous stream of tobacco particles into the magazine of the distributor in a cigarette or cigar rod making machine has a container which can receive a stream...
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5141002 |
Apparatus for feeding tobacco particles to one or more consuming machines
Apparatus for feeding tobacco particles to one or two cigarette rod making machines has a magazine with a duct having an open lower end above the upper reach of an endless belt conveyor. The...
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5141005 |
Tobacco sample transfer apparatus and method
A method of and an apparatus for automatically taking a cored sample of tobacco from a bale of tobacco and pneumatically transferring the sample to a remotely located receiving station, such as a...
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5115819 |
Method of homogenizing the constituents of a tobacco stream
An inhomogeneous stream of tobacco particles is homogenized by feeding the stream onto a vibrating support having openings through which the particles descend onto a conveyor serving to transport...
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5083577 |
Apparatus for metering tobacco
An apparatus for metering a measured amount of tobacco to, for example, a cigarette making machine to provide a uniform feed of tobacco to the cigarette making machine thereby reducing variations...
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5022415 |
Machine for simultaneously manufacturing two continuous cigarette rods
A machine for simultaneously manufacturing two continuous cigarette rods, whereby a continuous stream of shredded tobacco particles is fed to the bottom end of conveying means by which it is fed on...
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