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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...
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...
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...
6019105 Tobacco processing method and apparatus  
Before being processed in a pneumatic separator or classifier (13), a stream of cut tobacco, travelling to the separator on a conveyor (12), is passed through an opener (11) to open up tangled...
5813413 Method and plant for treating tobacco leaves for the production of cut tobacco  
The invention relates to a method and a plant for the treatment of tobacco leaves for the production of cut tobacco for smokable articles, in which stems and the lamina material of the tobacco...
5626152 Cigarette making machine  
A cigarette making machine comprises means for showering tobacco onto two suction bands 610,612 to form tobacco sub-streams of similar width on the respective bands which are then merged to form a...
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...
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...
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...
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...
5199446 Cigarette making machine  
A cigarette making machine includes a shower channel (10; 46; 59; 75; 90; 102; 113; 121) through which tobacco is arranged to be showered towards two suction bands (11,12; 66,67; 76,77; 103,104;...
5159939 Method of and apparatus for delivering tobacco to a cigarette maker  
An apparatus and method of delivering smokable material to a cigarette maker with reduced degradation of the smokable material. A vertical reservoir tube is provided directly overhead of a...
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...
5117844 Apparatus for treating tobacco  
An apparatus for conditioning tobacco which includes a cylinder conditioner mounted for rotation about a generally horizontal axis, and an opening unit mounted at the inlet end of the cylinder for...
5049007 Horizontal belt conveyor airlock  
An airlock for the batch or continuous feeding of a material while obstructing the free flow of a gas. The airlock comprises a continuous belt having a substantially horizontal upper surface and a...
5018538 Cigarette making machine  
Apparatus for feeding tobacco in or to a cigarette making machine comprises a number of carded rollers (10, 11, 12, 18) which transfer a metered stream of tobacco from one to the other while...
5000197 Automatic control for feeding tobacco to a machine  
A pressure sensor (P) and a time-measurement component actuate a gate (15) for clearing out a duct (7) as a function of a predetermined program. When the gate is open, the feed of the machine is...
4971077 On-line tobacco evaluation system and method  
The present invention comprises a product moving apparatus for moving a tobacco product, a vertical feeder tube for metering the tobacco product onto the product moving apparatus at a predetermined...
4967769 Combined feeder/conditioner  
An apparatus for feeding and conditioning tobacco which includes a housing into which steam is supplied to treat tobacco being uniformly conveyed therethrough and wherein the inlet and outlet to...
4953570 Cigarette making machine hopper  
Degradation of tobacco brought about by refuser and recycle procedure in conventional cigarette-making machine operations is eliminated by feeding, metering and opening tobacco from a reservoir...
4932423 Tobacco feeding apparatus  
In apparatus for feeding tobacco to cigarette-making machines, the tobacco (9) is conveyed by suction from a feed receptacle (1). One end (14) of a duct (3) facing the receptacle above the level...
4911182 Expansion of tobacco  
Extraction means capable of providing a constant feed rate to the inlet of a tobacco expansion pneumatic transport system is provided at the outlet of a tobacco reservoir zone. The extraction means...
4883077 Apparatus for transporting and treating particles of tobacco and the like  
A stream of air is circulated by a blower along an endless path a portion of which is defined by an upright duct having an air inlet at its lower end, an air outlet at its upper end, and an inlet...
4875493 Device for feeding streams of tobacco on to a cigarette manufacturing machine  
A device for feeding streams of tobacco on to a cigarette manufacturing machine, which device presents an up-flow input duct, two up-flow output channels connected to the top end of the input duct...
4869273 Method and apparatus for building a continuous stream of tobacco or the like  
A cigarette rod making machine wherein the distributor forms a continuous stream of tobacco particles including freshly admitted tobacco particles and surplus which is removed from the stream by a...
4850749 Airlock having flaps in continuous feed of material carried by a gas stream while obstructing free flow of gas  
An airlock for the continuously feeding through of a material while obstructing the free flow of a gas is provided. The airlock comprises a first continuous belt having a plurality of nonporous...
4802497 Tobacco feed system for cigarette making machine  
A system for feeding tobacco pneumatically and continuously to a cigarette making machine includes a fan (34,116; 148) which draws air through the machine via a suction band (48) and via one or...
4756315 Cigarette manufacturing machine with an auxiliary tobacco feed unit  
A cigarette manufacturing machine having an auxiliary recycled tobacco feed unit communicating with a downflow duct for feeding tobacco to a continuous cigarette rod forming section; the...
4754765 Hopperless cigarette making machines  
The quality of a tobacco filler rod as formed in cigarette-making machines is improved. The improvement is achieved by by-passing all the metering and refusing mechanisms of a conventional...
4700719 Control of cigarette rod formation  
Tobacco trimmed from a filler rod is recycled and used in the control of the rod-forming operation. A reservoir vessel is divided into physically-separate chambers, a narrow one of which receives...
4696312 Method and apparatus for producing cigarette filler  
A method and apparatus for producing tobacco filler by cutting whole tobacco leaves, including stems, is provided. The leaves, with stems in, are cut to produce strands of lamina and strands of...
4696311 Forming a rod of smokable material  
In a machine for making cigarette rods containing two types of tobacco there is provided a dual hopper (1200) for containing the two types of tobacco separately and a conveyor (1206) to transport...
4681124 Apparatus for manipulating particles of tobacco or filter material  
The distributor of a cigarette maker has an upright duct with an inlet at the top and an outlet at the bottom. The inlet receives particles of tobacco from a magazine and the accumulated particles...
4657031 Cut tobacco distributing device for cigarette making machines  
The invention has for its object a cut-tobacco distributing device for cigarette making machines.The distributing device includes a rotating drum (2) provided with points (3) which takes or...
4635648 Shredded tobacco feeding apparatus for cigarette making machine  
A shredded tobacco feeding apparatus for a cigarette making machine is disclosed. It includes a storage reservoir for temporarily storing shredded tobacco, a device for feeding a constant quantity...
4627447 Tobacco winnowing method and apparatus  
Winnowing of shredded tobacco stem material, or other particulate tobacco material, is effected by metering the shredded stem material from a reservoir and then picking the metered flow to open and...
4617943 Cigarette manufacturing machine  
Cigarette manufacturing machine comprising a distributor on which a duct for conveying shredded tobacco presents an intermediate portion tapered towards the outlet on the duct itself, the...
4616663 Method and apparatus for forming a homogeneous mass of comminuted smokable material  
A stream of agglomerated short, medium long and long tobacco shreds as well as clumps or lumps of shreds and elongated fragments of tobacco ribs is fed onto a vibrating sieve which permits the...
4607645 Shredded tobacco supplying device for cigarette making machine  
A shredded tobacco supplying device for a cigarette making machine is disclosed, including a tank to receive shredded tobacco, a conveyor for unloading the shredded tobacco out of the tank, a high...
4595026 Cigarette manufacturing method and machine with short tobacco distribution control  
Cigarette manufacturing method and machine with short tobacco distribution control, whereby the long and short tobacco in a mass of shredded tobacco is separated and fed along different routes to a...
4593706 Producing filler material, particularly for cigarette filters  
Filler material, particularly for cigarette filters, is produced by feeding a stream of substantially continuous fibres of filter material onto a pin roller having a surface carrying sharp...
4570644 Cigarette making machine hopper  
This application describes various possible modifications in the cigarette machine hopper described in G.B. specification No. 2,045,595. In particular, as shown in FIG. 2, a concave member 126...
4557278 Tobacco lamina and stem processing  
Shredded tobacco lamina material and shredded stem material are mixed for use in cigarette making. A coarse intermixture of the materials first is formed and the mixture is metered and opened to...
4526182 Cigarette making machines  
A cigarette making machine includes a chimney (12, 14) and means (10) for projecting tobacco in a direction transverse to the chimney, from which direction lighter particles of tobacco tend to be...
4524781 Cigarette-making machine with an auxiliary tobacco supply unit  
A cigarette-making machine having a main tobacco supply unit; a descending chimney for shredded tobacco, said descending chimney extending downwards from the main tobacco supply unit; an...
4510949 Feeding particulate material, especially tobacco  
A cigarette making machine or feed apparatus for fibrous material other than tobacco includes a pinned conveyor (20) arranged to feed material from a supply and past refusing means (22) whereby the...
4499909 Cigarette manufacturing machine  
A cigarette manufacturing machine having at least one manufacturing unit in which shredded tobacco is fed into a chamber laterally bounded by a carding unit and provided with a base wall defined by...
4484589 Distributor for a rod making machine for the production of smokers' articles  
The invention relates to a distributor in a rod making machine for the production of smokers' articles. It includes an accelerating drum adapted to propel tobacco into a rod conveyor in order to...
4463767 Continuous twin rod cigarette-making machine  
A continuous twin rod cigarette making machine operable to permit the simultaneous formation of two continuous rods of cigarette starting from two layers of tobacco supported by suction beneath...
4459999 Cigarette maker feeder  
A novel tobacco feed device (10) and method of use thereof for the direct feed of tobacco to rod formation in a cigarette making machine are described. The device (10) includes a reservoir tube...
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