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8172739 |
Device for combining groups of filter segments for producing multi-segment filters of the tobacco industry, and trough drum
A device for combining groups of at least two different types of filter segments for producing multi-segment filters in the tobacco industry in a continuous process includes a plurality of...
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8083658 |
Tobacco smoke filter production
A method and apparatus for tobacco smoke filter production wherein a train of tobacco smoke filtering material, while being continuously advanced longitudinally, is gathered towards rod shape and...
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8047977 |
Filter, smoking articles containing the same, filter strands and methods and devices for producing filters and smoking articles of this type
The invention relates to a filter (10) for tobacco products with a first terminal filter element (12), a second terminal filter element (14), a middle filter element (16) which is located between...
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7811220 |
Device for processing filter tow material, and device for the production of filters
A device for processing filter tow material used for producing filters for rod-shaped smoking articles such as cigarettes. The device includes a filter tow supply to provide at least two filter tow...
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7793665 |
Filtered cigarette incorporating a breakable capsule
A filtered cigarette possesses at least one breakable capsule in its filter element. The filter element can possess a central cavity extending from the cigarette tobacco rod towards the middle of...
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7775956 |
Process and apparatus for processing filter tow strip
A processing unit for processing at least one filter tow strip to produce filters for rod-shaped smoking articles includes at least one tow guidance section along which the filter tow strip is...
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7625328 |
Method of production of a cigarette filter
A filter for a cigarette has an organic filtering portion defined by granules or fibres of active carbon and housed inside a cylindrical shell of plastic material; the shell is located between a...
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7588524 |
Fiber filter production
Method and device for producing filter rods of the tobacco-processing industry. The method includes combining and mixing fibers of finite length of two different fiber types, and separating the...
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7547271 |
Filter rod making machine
A filter rod making machine comprises a tow treatment section (10) for forming a filter web (WF) from fibrous tow (T), a scatter device (42) for scattering activated carbon grains (PC) evenly over...
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7520509 |
Card game
Disclosed is a card game wherein payouts are based on a maximum number of matching suits in a player's hand. Players have the option to choose the size of their hand at the outset of the game. In...
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7338421 |
Method and a device for making filters for tobacco products
Filters for tobacco products are manufactured by a device comprising a conveyor drum rotatable about a horizontal axis and furnished with peripheral grooves, each holding a leaf of paper material...
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7004896 |
Method and arrangement for producing compound filters
A method and arrangement are provided for producing compound filters for products in the tobacco-processing industry. A filter tube, having a filter element in a central region of the filter tube,...
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6918867 |
Production of filter elements not suitable for cutting
A method and apparatus for producing multi-segment filter elements in the tobacco-processing industry. The multi-segment filter elements each include a first filter segment and at least one second...
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6908421 |
Filter manufacturing machine
A filter-manufacturing machine comprises spray nozzles located on both sides of a feeding path of sheet material made of filter fibers, respectively, and the spray nozzles each have a line of spray...
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6783617 |
Method of densifying streams of filter material for tobacco smoke
A filter rod making machine wherein successive increments of a stream constituting a converted tow of filamentary filter material for tobacco smoke are contacted by a compressing tool which is...
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6723033 |
Method and apparatus for producing particle bearing filter rod
A method and apparatus for delivering predetermined amounts of particulate material and/or plasticizer to a location remote from the particulate material, and a cigarette filter and a cigarette...
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6656412 |
Compaction system for particles in particle filled cavities of an article
A method and apparatus for compacting particles or granules in discrete cavities spaced along an article or articles such as a cigarette filter rod moved underneath the compacting system. The...
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6537186 |
Process and apparatus for high-speed filling of composite cigarette filters
A process of manufacturing composite filter stock is provided that includes several steps. In a first step, a paper carrier strip feeds along a conveyor. Along one edge of the carrier strip, the...
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6336896 |
Automatic filter tip attaching machine
An automatic filter tip attaching machine includes a mechanical structure moved by a computer program to automatically attach three filter tip stages a, b, c to cigarettes, with a chemical powder...
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6062228 |
Biodegradable filter material and method for its manufacture
There is provided a biodegradable filter tow or filter material from renewable raw materials for the use as a tobacco smoke filter element of cigarettes, cigars or pipes as well as a method for...
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5911224 |
Biodegradable polyvinyl alcohol tobacco smoke filters, tobacco smoke products incorporating such filters, and methods and apparatus for making same
A porous element particularly for use as a tobacco smoke filter plug in association with a cigarette or the like wherein the matrix comprises a multiplicity of biodegradable polyvinyl alcohol...
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5725467 |
Method of and apparatus for making a tow of filter material for tobacco smoke
The treatment of a tow of filamentary filter material for tobacco smoke prior to draping of the resulting filler into a web of wrapping material is followed by advancement of the filler in a plane...
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5664586 |
Tobacco smoke filters and filter rods therefor
The invention provides a cigarette filter (1) the biodegradation of the material (3) which is assisted by the incorporation of swellable means in the filter so that upon exposure to moisture the...
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5497793 |
Cigarette and soluble cigarette filter therefor
A filter cigarette includes a tobacco smoke filter having a core of an expanded starch material which is biodegradable and readily soluble in water. The filter material is preferably formed of high...
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5163452 |
Rod making apparatus for use in the manufacture of smoking articles
Rods for use in the manufacture of smoking products are provided using a rod-making apparatus. The apparatus includes (a) an unwind unit for continuously supplying a material having a continuous...
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5104367 |
Pinned rollers and process for manufacturing fibrillated film
A roller for use in fibrillating oriented films of polyolefin materials having a plurality of pins projecting from the surface of the roller. The pins are distributed in a plurality of rows spaced...
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5063945 |
Tobacco filter stock
A tobacco filter stock capable of being molded into a filter only be entanglement of filaments with one another without any adhesion means, whereby the resulting filter has a suitable hardness and...
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5012829 |
Flavored cigarette filters, and methods and apparatus for making same
A cigarette filter has a substantially cylindrical inner member of filter material surrounded by an outer member of filter material and a plugwrap. The density of the inner and outer members are...
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4917660 |
Apparatus for producing cylindrical filters
Tows of fibers are wrapped around a mandrel or a central fiber core to form a cylindrical filter. At least one belt is located in position to make essentially linear contact with the cylindrical...
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4911684 |
Smoking article mouthpieces
A method of making a ventilated cigarette filter plug in which a bore is thermally formed, by a laser beam for example, in a rod comprising a duct extending coaxially of the rod and matrix material...
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4807809 |
Rod making apparatus for smoking article manufacture
Rods for use in the manufacture of smoking products are provided using a rod making apparatus equipped with a web preforming unit. A web of sheet-like material is passed through the web preforming...
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4798570 |
Process for preparing filter rods
An improved process for preparing fiber rods useful as cigarette filter tips comprises feeding a synthetic fiber tow through an air jet bulker directly into the garniture of a conventional...
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4791943 |
Cigarette filter unit and method for the production thereof
In order, when a cigarette is being smoked, to reduce, or even reverse, the tendency of the condensate-content to increase, a cigarette filter unit is proposed in which at least one partition...
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4784632 |
Tobacco smoke filter and method and apparatus for making same
A method and means for making an improved tobacco smoke filter is characterized by the production of longitudinally continuous grooves running from end-to-end in the peripheral surface of a...
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4752348 |
Localized liquid additive applicator system for continuous cylindrical product
A continuous rod of a product such as a cigarette filter material is coated with a treating liquid by being passed axially through a cylindrical applicator zone comprising a permeable cylindrical...
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4721119 |
Rod making machine with means for adjusting the position of wrapping material
A cigarette rod making machine wherein a garniture tape transports a web of cigarette paper and a stream of tobacco particles through a wrapping mechanism has a device which monitors the position...
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4699606 |
Apparatus for detecting and/or controlling tension of a moving web, for example, a filamentary tow utilized in the production of cigarette filters
Apparatus for detecting and/or controlling tension of a moving web, for example, a filamentary tow, in a preselected zone of a longitudinal path traversed by the moving web. A sensing roller is...
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4697602 |
Motor driven bulk material roll and wrapping machine
A machine for rolling bulk material, such as fiber filters and tobacco, and wrapping a sheet member around the bulk material has a flexible apron connected to a roller bar which is rotated with an...
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4676769 |
Method and apparatus for regulating the resistance of filter rod sections to the flow of gases therethrough
The pressure of compressed air in one or more nozzles which convert successive increments of a running tow of filamentary filter material into a rodlike filler in a filter rod making machine is...
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4661090 |
Filter rod manufacture
In the production of cigarette filter rod from filter tow the conveyance of tow into a tow shaping unit (12, 32, 56, 76) is aided by controlling tow tension so that excessive stretch (and hence...
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4655736 |
Method of manufacturing a tobacco smoke filter
A method of manufacturing tobacco smoke filter of filamentous material with at least one end thereof having a preselected fused area embedded in and over at least a portion of the cross-sectional...
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4648858 |
Apparatus for manufacturing a cigarette filter tow
An apparatus for manufacturing a filter rod having a hollow tube extending longitudinally through the filter rod. The apparatus includes a supply reel of hollow tubing, a supply of filter material...
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4636183 |
Apparatus for making grooves in cigarette filters
An apparatus for, in one advantageous embodiment, concurrently forming a plurality of generally longitudinally extending grooves in a filter rod, and in another advantageous embodiment, for making...
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4636182 |
Filter manufacturing method for the production of pre-filters to remove harmful substances in cigarette smoke by use of pine needles
A process of manufacturing a pre-filter for the filteration of harmful substances in cigarettes by using pine needles which have been steamed to eliminate the odor of the pine resin. The steamed...
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4631045 |
Apparatus for producing a rod-like smoking article with secondary air channels
A rod-like smoking article with a rod-like mouthpiece core at the mouth end of a tobacco rod, the entire periphery of said mouthpiece core being enveloped by an adhered wrapping paper which is...
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4620557 |
Cigarette having a mouthpiece and method of making same
A cigarette has a cylindrical impermeable mouthpiece located in coaxial abutment to one end of a tobacco column of the cigarette. The mouthpiece includes an annular groove in its peripheral surface...
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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...
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4583560 |
Tobacco smoke filter
A tobacco smoke filter includes a corrugated tape-like wrapping which, together with an outer perforated or otherwise air-permeable paper, defines a set of longitudinal grooves. Each of the grooves...
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4582507 |
Apparatus for manufacturing an expanded web of sheet material and a composite expanded web
An apparatus having rotary shearing and forming dies which expand a web of formable material by imparting to the web a surface configuration having rows of generally sinusoidal convolutions...
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4552158 |
Free air dilution smoke filter and method and apparatus for fabricating same
An improved tobacco smoke filter is characterized by grooves defined in its outer periphery and extending to the smoke discharging end of the filter. The grooves are totally exposed to ambient air...
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