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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110180083 | Cigarette Filter Cutting Element A cutting element (1) rotatably mountable in a cigarette manufacturing machine, or filter combining machine for cutting filter rods is disclosed. The cutting element comprises a circular blade (2) having apertures (4) therein configured so as to red... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110114104 | APPARATUS FOR FILLING CIGARETTE TUBES WITH TOBACCO An apparatus (1) for filling cigarette tubes with tobacco comprises a base (10), a magazine chamber (2) adapted to receive a supply of tobacco (T), a lid (20) adapted to close a top of the magazine chamber (2), a filling chamber (4<... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20100059075 | Ventilated smoking material perforation apparatus and method An apparatus to make ventilated cigars is disclosed. The apparatus includes a perforating means along a first wrapper paper section and arranged before the first wrapper paper section and the second wrapper paper section are joined together. A roller member rotates the ... | 03/11/2010 |
| 20100059072 | VENTILATED SMOKING MATERIAL PERFORATION APPARATUS, METHOD AND PRODUCT An apparatus to make ventilated cigars is disclosed. The apparatus includes a perforating means along a first wrapper paper section and arranged before the first wrapper paper section and the second wrapper paper section are joined together. A roller member rotates the ... | 03/11/2010 |
| 20100012136 | SYSTEM FOR SELF-ASSEMBLY OF CIGARETTES A system for self-assembly of cigarettes includes a stuffing device (50) and a tobacco package (1). The tobacco package (1) has a first end side (2) and a second end side (3), and comprises on both end sides (2, 3) a cover that ... | 01/21/2010 |
| 20090308406 | 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. The cigar or shell is packaged for shipment to an end user or consumer. T... | 12/17/2009 |
| 20090178688 | ASSEMBLY FOR PERFORATING ROD-SHAPED ELEMENTS, PARTICULARLY CIGARETTES Assembly for perforating rod-shaped elements, particularly cigarettes, which comprises a driving shaft along which a number of rotary perforating cutters are arranged and the cutters are separated by distance rings, wherein each rotary cutter is positioned between two p... | 07/16/2009 |
| 20080216852 | Banded cigarette paper with reduced ignition propensity A cigarette made from cigarette paper comprising a base web and at least one banded region comprising iron oxide nanoparticles. The at least one banded region has a porosity less than a porosity of the base web such that the at least one banded region exhibits a slower ... | 09/11/2008 |
| 20080202537 | Machine for manufacturing and/or packing tobacco products An automatic cigarette maker and/or packer incorporates a welding or sealing head with an electrically conductive heating foil mounted to an electrically insulating backing element; the foil is retained on the backing element by an overlay of ceramic material, which is ... | 08/28/2008 |
| 20080142027 | Defibration Of Tobacco Material The invention relates to a method of producing cut tobacco material, whereby a tobacco initial material is heated and placed under pressure and once heated and placed under pressure, the material is fed through a shearing gap and expanded and defibrated. It further rela... | 06/19/2008 |
| 20070039628 | Cigarette making apparatus A cigarette making apparatus comprises a filter-plug attachment mechanism arranged to butt a filter plug coaxially against a cigarette and then wrap tip paper around the cigarette and filter plug to cover a joint where the cigarette and the filter plug meet, a laser hol... | 02/22/2007 |
| 20060157073 | Device for producing filter cigarettes During the production of filter cigarettes (10), these are subjected to testing with the aid of test air. For this purpose, air is introduced into the filter cigarette (10) at one end. The air emerging at the opposite end is measured. The filter cigarette ... | 07/20/2006 |
| 20060130858 | Module for a machine and method for perforating rod-shaped articles of the tobacco industry A module for a machine used in the tobacco processing industry for processing, assembling, and/or inspecting rod-shaped articles. The machine module includes a vertical conveyor. ... | 06/22/2006 |
| 20050127046 | Method of and apparatus for changing the permeability of tubular envelopes of rod-shaped articles of the tobacco processing industry The invention relates to a method of and to an apparatus for perforating the tubular wrappers of plain or filter cigarettes and other rod-shaped articles of the tobacco processing industry. The articles are advanced sideways at the periphery of a rotary drum-shaped carr... | 06/16/2005 |
