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7578777 |
Equipment for manufacturing composite filters
Filter elements made up of least two axially aligned plugs are advanced in succession by a feed unit along a first path and in a first direction, with the plugs oriented along a second direction...
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7543590 |
Intermediate wrapper and method of making
A tobacco product is formed by perforated cigar or shell, the shell comprising a sheet of material with an intermediate sheet, the sheet comprising tobacco leaves and/or homogenized tobacco paper....
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7478638 |
Machine for manufacturing tobacco products
Tobacco products are manufactured by an automatic machine presenting a number of working parts, certain of which consisting in rollers rotatable about mutually parallel axes and carried by a...
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7434585 |
Equipment and methods for manufacturing cigarettes
An additive material is applied to a substrate, such as a paper web used as a wrapping material for cigarette manufacture. A predetermined pattern of additive material is applied to the outer...
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7409956 |
Methods for adapting an automated cigarette making apparatus
Cigarettes are manufactured using modified automated cigarette making apparatus. Those cigarettes possess smokable rods having paper wrapping materials having additive materials applied thereto as...
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7364052 |
Unit for feeding cigarettes to a packer machine
A unit for feeding cigarettes to a packer machine is equipped with a hopper containing a mass of cigarettes and a device serving to compensate the depletion of the mass as groups of cigarettes are...
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7322361 |
Method for supplying a flowable medium to the tobacco of a smoking product
The invention relates to a method for supplying a flowable medium to the tobacco rod of a smoking product, wherein the medium is introduced on a drum ( 1 ) of a cigarette machine, after the tobacco...
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7314049 |
Unit for transferring cigarette sticks from a cigarette maker to a filter tip attachment
Cigarette sticks are transferred from a cigarette maker to a filter tip attachment by a unit that includes a conveying roller made to rotate in a first feed direction and furnished with channels...
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7222626 |
Production and/or packaging installation, and method of operating the same
The invention specifies a production and/or packaging installation containing a performance-limiting means, and also specifies the method of operating the same, with the result that this...
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7168430 |
Lamp device on a production machine for the manufacture of products of the tobacco-processing industry as well as associated lamp
Machine for making tobacco-processing industry products includes a plurality of lamps arranged on components of the machine. Each lamp includes at least one visible light-emitting power...
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7159594 |
Method and device for adjusting the selecting out of winnowings
The invention relates to a method for adjusting the selecting out of winnowings in the manufacture of smokable products, in particular cigarettes, wherein the current size distribution of a stream...
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7117872 |
Method and a device for managing the supply of wrapping and/or additional and/or auxiliary materials in a system for the manufacture of tobacco products
The supply of consumables and other materials to production machines in a system for the manufacture of tobacco products is managed using a method whereby, once a nominal target number of products...
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7079912 |
System and method for high speed control and rejection
The present invention provides a system and method for high speed control and rejection of out-of-specification products, such as cigarettes, in a manufacturing process. Sensors are placed at...
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7047982 |
Method for registering pattern location on cigarette wrapping material
Cigarettes are manufactured using modified automated cigarette making apparatus. Those cigarettes possess smokable rods having paper wrapping materials having additive materials applied thereto as...
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7028694 |
Method for dispersing powder materials in a cigarette rod
A system and method is provided for dispersing fine catalyst powders having nanoscale or microscale particles throughout the tobacco rod portion of a cigarette. A source of vacuum is connected to...
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6968847 |
Method of and apparatus for measuring the diameters of rod-shaped articles
There is provided an apparatus which can be incorporated into machines or production lines for the making of rod-shaped articles, such as filter cigarettes. The apparatus ascertains at least the...
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6944511 |
Method of controlling an automatic machine
A method and unit for controlling an automatic machine having a number of operating devices located along a production line for producing a succession of articles; at least one operating device...
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6903555 |
Flavor monitoring system and method
A flavor monitoring system comprises a photo-ionization detector based sensor for measuring the amount of flavor in flavored cigarette filters The sensor has an intake port and an exit port open to...
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6892735 |
Liquid cooling system for production machines of the tobacco-processing industry
A liquid cooling arrangement is provided for machine components of production machines of the tobacco-processing industry. The arrangement includes a closed liquid cooling system having at least...
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6880559 |
Method of and apparatus for making perforations in the wrappers of rod-shaped products
An method for increasing the permeability of tubular wrappers of a succession of cigarettes by at least one pulsed beam of coherent radiation issuing from a laser has a hollow drum-shaped conveyor...
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6814082 |
Apparatus and method for generating information on the characteristics of a fiber rope
The invention relates to a method and a device for providing information on the fiber structure, particularly for determining deviations from an average fiber structure, of a fiber rope in the...
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6763838 |
Device for detecting a filling density of filler forming a rod-shaped article
A device for detecting a shredded tobacco filling density in a tobacco rod includes four light sources ( 18, 20, 22 and 24 ) arranged separately from one another at an angle of 45° around a...
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6745778 |
Device for supplying a flowable medium to the tobacco of a smoking product
The invention relates to a method for supplying a flowable medium to the tobacco of a smoking product ( 2 ), wherein the medium is introduced on a drum ( 1 ) of a cigarette machine, after the rod...
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6728594 |
Central control system and method for fine tuning individual cigarette manufacturing control systems
The present invention includes a central control system and method for fine tuning a cigarette manufacturing process. A measurement device captures measurements of particular cigarette properties....
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6718222 |
Automatic machine for processing cigarettes
An automatic machine for processing cigarettes, whereby a control device, which can be activated when the machine is stopped, activates at least one test operating member as of a rest condition and...
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6668837 |
Arrangement for reducing the noise level of tobacco-processing production machines
In an arrangement for reducing noise level in a tobacco-processing production machine having an operator region and reflection surfaces facing the operator region, sound-damping material is...
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6651673 |
Collecting receptacle for use in tobacco-processing machines
In an arrangement of a collecting receptacle integrated into a production machine in the tobacco-processing industry for collecting tobacco products sorted out from the production machine during a...
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6631301 |
Apparatus for producing products, and method of controlling such apparatus
The invention relates to an apparatus for producing products and a method of controlling such an apparatus, having a programmable logic controller—PLC—an axis control system, for controlling...
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6578583 |
Apparatus for making and inspecting multi-component wrapped article
In an apparatus for making and inspecting a multi-component cigarettes, each cigarette including two or more different components arranged relative to one another, the apparatus includes a device...
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6516083 |
Electro-optical unit for scanning the entire lateral surface of articles substantially cylindrical in shape
A continuous cigarette rod advancing along a set path is directed through an electro-optical scanning station where its entire cylindrical surface is inspected by a unit comprising an illumination...
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6446632 |
Process and apparatus for detecting and eliminating defective and/or incorrectly positioned cigarettes
A process and an apparatus for detecting and eliminating, defective and/or incorrectly positioned, in particular transversely located, cigarettes in the cigarette magazine of a cigarette-production...
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6443160 |
Method and device for forming a cigarette rod containing an additive material
The invention relates to a method for forming a cigarette rod containing an additive material in a cigarette making machine, in which a continuous tobacco rod is fed along a vacuum conveyor and...
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6431310 |
Method for reducing the noise level of tobacco-processing machines with sound-damping line segments
A method for reducing noise level in a tobacco-processing production machine that is acted upon by flowing process air includes supplying process air to the production machine predominantly...
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6425400 |
Device for displacing rod-shaped objects
A device for displacing rod-shaped objects used in the tobacco-processing industry in a direction of the longitudinal axes of the rod-shaped objects includes a revolving conveyor having receptacles...
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6394097 |
Device and method for inspecting filter rod for cigarette
A device for executing an inspection method of a filter rod for cigarettes includes an inspection drum ( 6 ), and the inspection drum ( 6 ) has plural pickup grooves ( 8 ) for receiving one filter...
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6325068 |
Method of and apparatus for treating webs of wrapping material
An elongated strip of tipping paper is advanced in a tipping machine for the making of filter cigarettes. The strip advances past a perforating unit and thereupon past a cutting unit which...
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6321755 |
Tobacco product and a method of making thereof
A tobacco product is formed by rolling moistened tobacco leaves about a cylindrical form casing and allowing the leaves to dry to form a shell. After the form casing is removed a consumer can fill...
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6305382 |
Reduced basis weight cigarette paper
The present invention is generally directed to low weight cigarette wrapping papers. In particular, the wrapping papers, although having a low basis weight, have an opacity of at least 70% and a...
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6276366 |
Rod-shaped test-piece testing apparatus
A cigarette testing apparatus includes a ventilation-characteristic measuring section having a ventilation vessel which is disposed horizontally so as to reduce the vertical dimension of the...
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6263881 |
Apparatus for applying a liquid medium to tobacco
The invention relates to an apparatus for applying a liquid medium, more particularly, a flavor or menthol, to tobacco in a cigarette maker equipped with a conduit for feeding the liquid medium,...
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6213128 |
Apparatus and method for making and inspecting multi-component wrapped article
In an apparatus for making and inspecting a multi-component cigarettes, each cigarette including two or more different components arranged relative to one another, the apparatus includes a device...
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6186315 |
Apparatus for transporting a stream of particulate material
The perforated bottom wall of a suction chamber in the tobacco stream gathering and transporting apparatus of a cigarette rod making machine is designed to guide and support a file of discrete...
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6181372 |
Method and a device for monitoring the external integrity of cigarettes
The external integrity of cigarettes is verified by a method that involves directing single cigarettes, carried on a conveyor, along a route of which one section affords a monitoring path equipped...
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6129087 |
Reduced ignition propensity smoking articles
A smoking article includes at least one strip of heat conducting material extending from one end of the tobacco rod of a smoking article to the opposite end of the tobacco rod. Preferably, the...
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6109272 |
Method for producing a tobacco flavor-tasting article
A tobacco flavor-tasting article is manufactured by preparing a heat-irreversibly coagulated glucan sheet containing a tobacco extract. The glucan sheet is prepared by preparing a sheet-like...
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6092532 |
Installation for manufacturing and packaging cigarettes
An installation for manufacturing and packaging cigarettes consists of a production station (10) and a packaging station (11). The production station (10) consists of a plurality of, especially...
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6075882 |
System and method for optically inspecting cigarettes by detecting the lengths of cigarette sections
An inspection station irradiates a moving cigarette with a one or more strobed arrays of infrared LEDs. The infrared radiation which passes through the cigarette is received by a video camera,...
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6070592 |
Filter assembly machine for producing ventilated tobacco products
A filter assembly machine for producing ventilated tobacco products; the machine having a conveying drum in turn having a number of peripheral seats for successively feeding the products along a...
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6062226 |
Cigarette manufacturing apparatus
When tobacco shreds continuously supplied while the supply amount thereof is controlled are wrapped continuously with an elongated cigarette paper to form a tobacco rod and the tobacco rod is cut...
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6024098 |
Method of detecting and rejecting poorly filled cigarettes
A method of detecting and rejecting poorly filled cigarettes, whereby cigarettes, arranged along a gravity channel forming part of an outlet of a feedbox, are fed successively past a detecting...
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