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8113211 Multi component cigarette filter assembly  
A cigarette filter assembly comprises a hollow paper tube with a spaced apart solid fiber plugs inside the tube together with granular filter material in the spaces between the plugs. Energy...
8079369 Method of forming a cigarette filter rod member  
An apparatus and associated method for forming a filter rod member of a smoking article, such as a cigarette, is provided. The apparatus comprises a rod-forming unit configured to form a continuous...
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...
7837025 Centring drum for filter assembly machines  
A centring drum for filter assembly machines, the centring drum having external axial seats movable with the centring drum about a longitudinal axis of rotation, and for receiving respective double...
7296578 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...
7296579 Method and device for producing filter cigarettes  
In the production of filter-tipped cigarettes (25), an apparatus (filter attachment machine) is used, which consists of a main cylinder (10) and a plurality of assigned further cylinders. The...
7255219 Multifunctional conveyor drum  
Conveyor drum for receiving axially aligned articles that are conveyed in a cross-axial direction toward the conveyor drum. Conveyor drum includes a separation device for changing a longitudinal...
7089944 Process and device for connecting smoking articles  
Process and apparatus for connecting smoking article components. Process includes feeding connecting sheets on a suction roller with a defined spacing, feeding the smoking article components on a...
6913023 Filter attaching apparatus  
A filter attaching apparatus comprises a drum 20 for conveying an intermediate product of a filter cigarette and a receiving drum 36 for feeding a tip paper piece, and winds the tip paper piece...
6840247 Filter-attachment machine and method of operating a filter-attachment machine  
A filter-attachment machine in the tobacco-processing industry is provided. The machine has a plurality of conveying devices for products in the tobacco-processing industry, and at least one main...
6708695 Cigarette rod product with different densities  
An asymmetrical trimmer disk/paddle wheel apparatus for trimming tobacco from a stream or braid of cut tobacco in a cigarette maker comprises a pair of counter rotating disks with a plurality of...
6701934 Apparatus for making cigarettes with composite filters  
Double-filter cigarettes are produced by inserting different filter components between two rods of tobacco. This is attained by inserting filter components of different final lengths, obtained from...
6568399 Low application temperature hot melt adhesive for cigarette preparation  
A cigarette filter, process to manufacture, wherein a low application temperature ethylene copolymer based hot melt adhesive is applied to porous and/or nonporous plugwrap paper. As used herein,...
6427699 Method and apparatus for making cigarettes with composite filters  
Double-filter cigarettes are produced by inserting different filter components between two rods of tobacco. This is attained by inserting filter components of different final lengths, obtained from...
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...
6302113 Apparatus for making filter cigarettes  
Groups of coaxial plain cigarettes and filter mouthpieces, particularly cigarettes and mouthpieces having elliptical cross-sectional outlines, carry adhesive-coated uniting bands at the time of...
6131583 Method of conveying bar-shaped articles  
A method of conveying bar-shaped articles on a filter-assembly machine, wherein first articles arranged in an orderly single succession are advanced crosswise with respect to a given traveling...
6131582 Method of rolling cigarette portions  
A method of rolling cigarette portions, wherein a first succession of first pairs of cigarette portions and a second succession of second pairs of cigarette portions are advanced in a direction...
6119698 Filter mounting apparatus  
A filter attaching device comprises a receiving drum for forming a tip-paper piece, and a rolling plate which cooperates with the peripheral surface of the receiving drum to define a rolling...
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...
5887595 Filter assembly machine  
A filter assembly machine wherein a succession of tobacco articles, each defined by at least one cigarette portion aligned with a respective filter, and a succession of respective gummed strips are...
5860427 Unit for forming group of cigarettes  
A unit for forming groups of cigarettes, wherein a transfer device transfers the cigarettes from a fixed withdrawal station, defined by an open bottom end of a hopper for cigarettes, on to a...
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...
5819751 Cigarette and method of making same  
Cigarettes and methods of making them, in which an insulated fuel element is combined with a substrate assembly comprising a substrate within a tube, combining a roll of tobacco with a plug of...
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...
5765675 Method and device for tip-up conveying packets of cigarettes  
A method and device for tip-up conveying packets of cigarettes, whereby packets of cigarettes, fed successively to an input of a guide, are transferred to an output of the guide by a screw...
5765677 Product conveying wheel  
A wheel for conveying products, in particular packets of cigarettes, is mounted for rotation about an axis, and presents at least one manipulating unit, the outer casing of which is fitted with a...
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,...
5738115 Method of and apparatus for decontaminating the exposed surfaces of filter mouthpieces in smokers products  
Fragments of plastic fibers, such as cellulose acetate fibers, forming part of mouthpieces of filter cigarettes or like rod-shaped smokers' products tend to become separated from the respective...
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...
5715838 Cigarette manufacture  
A filter attachment machine for use with a twin-track cigarette making machine is arranged to receive, in alternate flutes of a fluted drum (10), the cigarette rods from the respective tracks of...
5709226 Rolling unit for producing filter-tipped cigarettes  
A unit for rolling tobacco items, wherein a conveyor device presents a number of peripheral suction seats, each for receiving and feeding an item, formed of at least one cigarette portion and a...
5690125 Apparatus for imparting combined sidewise and rotary movements to receptacles for rod-shaped smokers' products  
Apparatus for imparting rotary and sidewise movements to receptacles for cigarettes has a rotary conveyor carrying pairs of levers pivotable about discrete axes which are parallel to and surround...
5666976 Cigarette and method of manufacturing cigarette for electrical smoking system  
A method of manufacturing cigarettes including the steps of establishing a succession of 2-up hollow plugs in alternating relation to 2-up tobacco plugs and wrapping same in a tobacco web and...
5664584 Device for laterally transferring an orderly succession of smoking items  
A device for laterally and axially transferring an orderly succession of smoking items, whereby each item is picked up at a first position by a gripping head on a carousel conveyor, and is fed by...
5632285 Apparatus for making filter tipped smokers' products having a non-circular cross-sectional outline  
Adherent uniting bands are wound around adjacent end portions of successive groups of plain cigarettes and filter mouthpieces having elliptical cross-sectional outlines while the groups are...
5613504 Flavor generating article and method for making same  
A smoking article is provided in which a replaceable tobacco flavor unit containing tobacco flavor material is electrically heated by a set of permanent reusable heaters to evolve flavors or other...
5611359 Predrying apparatus for a filter cigarette manufacturing system  
A predrying apparatus is incorporated in a filter attachment machine of a filter cigarette manufacturing system, and includes a speed sensor for detecting the traveling speed of tip paper, a...
5577518 Device for rolling elongated elements, particularly for producing tobacco items  
A rolling device wherein elongated elements, in particular tobacco items, are fed in an orderly succession to the inlet of a rolling channel at a first speed, and are fed along the rolling channel...
5558103 Alignment of filter and cigarette components  
A filter tipped cigarette making machine and method in which spaced apart generally cylindrical components are supplied to flutes in processing drums. Gaps between the components are partially...
5536118 Apparatus for transferring rod-shaped articles from a supply into a pneumatic conveyor  
Apparatus for transferring rod-shaped articles from the outlet of a magazine for parallel articles into the inlet of a pneumatic conveyor wherein the articles are moved in the direction of their...
5520195 Method of producing filter-tipped cigarettes  
On a filter assembly machine, a succession of groups, each including two cigarette portions, a double filter between the two cigarette portions, and a gummed strip connected integral with and...
5474091 Method of producing filter-tipped cigarettes  
An orderly succession of first tobacco items, each including a double cigarette portion, is fed along a path along which the first items are cut into two cigarette portions which are separated by...
5462070 Method and apparatus for making a filter cigar product  
A method and apparatus are described for forming a cigar type product having a filter disposed therein. The filter is positioned inwardly of the ends of the cigar such that the smoke may pass...
5402802 Power transmission device and a cigarette moving device for a filter cigarette manufacturing system  
A device is applied to a filter cigarette manufacturing system which includes grooved drums for transporting cigarettes. The device has a rotor located beside the grooved drum so as to be inclined...
5390684 Rolling device for filter assembly machines  
On a filter assembly machine, a rolling device provides for joining, by means of a succession of strips, a number of elongated elements in a corresponding succession of groups using a number of...
5365949 Method of detecting deviation in position and misshape of transported objects  
This invention relates to a method of detecting deviation in position and misshape of transported objects which have a predetermined shape and are successively transported at predetermined...
5335766 Device for feeding filters to a filter assembly machine  
A device for feeding filter portions to a filter assembly machine, wherein an input feedbox, defined by two facing lateral walls arranged parallel and separated by a distance at least equal to the...
5329945 Apparatus for discharging defective filter cigarettes during the manufacture of filter cigarettes  
A discharge apparatus of the present invention includes a discharge drum replacing one transportation drum in a drum train of a filter attachment, transportation grooves on a drum shell of the...
5267577 Device for transferring cigarette portions from a dual-rod production machine to a filter assembly machine  
A device for transferring cigarette portions from a dual-rod production machine to a filter assembly machine, wherein a rotary transfer unit presents a number of heads, each having two seats for...
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