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7380552 |
Unit for forming a continuous mat of tobacco
A unit for forming a continuous mat of tobacco with denser portions, wherein the mat of tobacco is formed on a suction conveyor belt looped about a return pulley and extending through two...
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7305994 |
Device and a method for separating at least one continuous rod of forming material for tobacco products
A continuous tobacco rod generated by a machine for making tobacco products is separated into reclaimable lengths by a device that comprises a pair of tension rollers designed to exert a pulling...
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7275549 |
Garniture web control
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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7117871 |
Methods for manufacturing cigarettes
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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7115085 |
Method and apparatus for incorporating objects into cigarette filters
Cigarette filter rods having individual objects positioned at predetermined intervals therein are prepared by transferring the individual objects from a rotating horizontal pan to a rotating...
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7027148 |
Method and apparatus for determining the triacetin content in filter plugs
Apparatus and method for determining the triacetin content in cigarette filter plugs during the manufacture of the filter plugs from a filter tow. The apparatus including a filter tow storage...
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6877515 |
Method of making a tobacco rod
Apparatus for making one or more rod-like fillers of shredded tobacco for use in the making of cigarettes or the like employs one or two pneumatic conveyors having endless foraminous belts trained...
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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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6814080 |
Apparatus for making a tobacco rod
Apparatus for making one or more rod-like fillers of shredded tobacco for use in the making of cigarettes or the like employs one or two pneumatic conveyors having endless foraminous belts trained...
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6782889 |
Apparatus for manipulating tows of filamentary material
Apparatus for controlled removal of surplus material from one or more tows of tobacco particles, filter material for tobacco smoke or the like employs at least one belt conveyor for each stream....
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6769435 |
Cigarette maker outfeed unit
The outfeed unit of a cigarette maker establishes a feed path along which at least one cigarette rod is caused to advance in a predetermined direction from the outfeed end of a beam, on which 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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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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6698434 |
Method and unit for forming a tobacco bead
A method and unit for forming a tobacco bead, whereby a forming conveyor conveying the tobacco bead cooperates with a pressing device for compacting portions of the tobacco bead equally spaced with...
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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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6539948 |
Suction band for a cigarette making machine
A suction band, for use in a cigarette making machine for conveying a cigarette filler stream, comprising a tape of heat-softenable plastics material wound so as to produce a multi-layer endless...
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6508253 |
Belt-type compression molding apparatus for a tobacco stream
A belt-type compression molding apparatus for a tobacco stream includes a compression belt integral with a tobacco band for forming the tobacco stream, and the compression belt extends from the...
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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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6390100 |
Method of and apparatus for making cigarette rods with composite fillers
A continuous rod with a composite filler having a core constituting a small-diameter cigarette rod and a tube surrounding the core and being confined within a converted web of cigarette paper has...
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6354300 |
Pusher/cutter drum arrangement for positioning and cutting rod-shaped objects
A pusher/cutter drum arrangement for use in the tobacco-processing industry for longitudinal-axial positioning and cutting of rod-shaped objects includes a rotating trough drum containing receiving...
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6321756 |
Device for assembling a continuous strand of tobacco
The invention relates to a suction strand conveyor of a cigarette strand machine, which is guided around a contact wheel in an inlet area of a shaping arrangement. A plurality of suction air...
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6263882 |
Method of and apparatus for making filter mouthpieces for rod-shaped articles of the tobacco processing industry
A tow of filamentary filter material for tobacco smoke which is to be converted into a rod-like filler of a filter rod is conveyed along an elongated path first through a stretching or tensioning...
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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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6250310 |
Cigarette manufacturing machine
A cigarette manufacturing machine having a shaving device for shaving at least one bead of tobacco, wherein two superimposed, mutually contacting disks with respective serrated outer edges are...
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6247475 |
Device for compressing and molding a filler stream in a cigarette manufacturing machine
In a cigarette manufacturing machine, a device for compressing and molding a filler stream includes a tongue, which defines a part of a compression-molding passage. The filler stream passes the...
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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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6202651 |
Smoking articles
This invention provides a smoking article (1) having reduced sidestream smoke in the inter-puff period. A smoking article (1) according to the invention may comprise segments of a high level of...
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6202648 |
Method of and apparatus for making a cigarette rod with an insert
A cigarette rod wherein a flexible tubular insert is surrounded by smokable material which, in turn, is surrounded by a wrapper of cigarette paper is formed by advancing the insert from a source at...
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6173716 |
Method and apparatus for inspecting cigarette density
A density inspection apparatus and method. The apparatus is disposed downstream of a wrapping section of a cigarette manufacturing machine. In accordance with pulse output signals generated by a...
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6135119 |
Device for compressive molding stream of filler for tobacco rod
In a cigarette manufacturing machine, a device for compressive molding a stream of filler comprises a forming mold having a tongue and a shoe being integrally formed with each other, and a forming...
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6067992 |
Cigarette manufacturing machine having a shaving device
A cigarette manufacturing machine having a shaving device for shaving a bead of tobacco fed along a given path, wherein two tubular shaving bodies, arranged eccentrically one inside the other and...
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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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6009879 |
Tobacco trimming and pre-equalizing device
An apparatus for forming a tobacco rod for cigarette manufacture, fitted with a suction-type rod conveyor equipped with a revolving, continuous, porous belt, to which vacuum is applied from the top...
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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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5908030 |
Device for transferring cigarette portions from a dual-rod cigarette manufacturing machine to a filter assembly machine
A device for transferring cigarette portions from an output bed of a dual-rod manufacturing machine to an input roller of a filter assembly machine; the device having a transfer unit rotating about...
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5862807 |
Apparatus for heating the adhesive-containing seams of wrappers of rods of the tobacco processing industry
A sealer for the adhesive-containing seam of a tubular wrapper surrounding a running filler of tobacco or filter material for tobacco smoke has an at least partially ceramic heating device which...
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5823528 |
Device for feeding blanks on a cigarette packing machine
A device for feeding blanks on a cigarette packing machine, wherein a succession of blanks, arranged side by side and overlapping one another along a supporting strip wound into a reel, is fed...
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5810017 |
Supplying device for supplying shredded tobacco to rod forming section of cigarette manufacturing machine
A supplying device of shredded tobacco has a conveying unit arranged between a first tobacco band and a second tobacco band. The conveying unit has a reforming passage. When a first layer of the...
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5810016 |
Compression molding apparatus for a cut tobacco layer in a cigarette manufacturing machine
A compression molding apparatus for a cut tobacco layer in a cigarette manufacturing machine comprises a shoe for separating the cut tobacco layer from a suction belt and feeding the cut tobacco...
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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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5803091 |
Rolling method and a relative device for filter tipping machines
An assembly including two lengths of cigarette rod, a double length filter and a band of gummed paper is rolled up along a path describing a limited arc to produce a double length filter tipped...
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5797406 |
Cigarette manufacture
A scanning device for a cigarette making machine comprises a low energy X-ray beam emitter (110) for passing an X-ray beam through the cigarette rod (116), and an X-ray detector (126;202) arranged...
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5794630 |
Unit for simultaneously forming two layers of tobacco
A unit for forming two layers of tobacco, wherein a stream of shredded tobacco fed in a given direction is intercepted by two side by side dividing devices, each having a suction conveyor belt, one...
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5762075 |
Method of and apparatus for ascertaining the density of a stream of fibrous material
The density of a wrapped rod-like filler of tobacco or filter material for tobacco smoke is ascertained by causing successive increments of the filler to traverse beams of X-rays which, after...
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5746225 |
Method and apparatus for determining the tobacco shred filling quality of cigarette rods
An apparatus for determining a tobacco shred filling quality includes a rotational position detector for detecting the rotational position of a driving drum of a cigarette manufacturing apparatus,...
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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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5730277 |
Apparatus for transferring rod-shaped articles of the tobacco processing industry from a stationary guide to a conveyor
Successive block-shaped arrays of cigarettes are advanced by one or more pushers on an endless conveyor through an elongated channel, defined by a stationary guide, on their way into a receptacle...
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5718249 |
Shredded tobacco supplying apparatus for a cigarette manufacturing machine
A shredded tobacco supplying apparatus for a cigarette manufacturing machine has a running speed sensor for detecting the belt running speed of a belt conveyor for conveying shredded tobacco, a...
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5711318 |
Trimming control device for cigarette manufacturing machine
A trimming control device for a cigarette manufacturing machine is provided with a pair of rotatable trimming disks having pockets on their peripheral edges for trimming a shredded tobacco layer on...
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