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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7690383 | Flavoring-material application device A cigarette making apparatus includes a cooling-water passage which allows a coolant to circulate along a flavoring-material supply path which connects an application nozzle for applying a flavoring material to a wrapping-paper web and a pump for supplying the flavo... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7325547 | Curling device A curling device for a filter tip attachment comprises at least one blade-like element offered to a continuous strip of paper material at a selected contact zone in such a way as to deform the material as it advances, so that single tipping papers separated from the... | 02/05/2008 |
| 6964230 | Method of and apparatus for applying, monitoring and correcting patterns of adhesive on running webs of paper and the like An improved method of and an improved apparatus for detecting and correcting unsatisfactory patterns of adhesive is applied to a running web of paper or the like in a tobacco processing machine by a cyclically operated paster. A linear scanning camera is employed to... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6705325 | Apparatus for making cigarette with burn rate modification A cigarette making machine for manufacturing of a cigarette with burn rate modification is described. The cigarette maker allows for mounting of a special bobbin of material which is different in size and width of a normal wrapper bobbin and feeds both the outer wra... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6543457 | Apparatus for applying adhesive to a running web of wrapping material for smokers products The application of adhesive to selected non-perforated sections of one side of a running web of tipping paper in a filter cigarette making machine is carried out in such a way that the adhesive is invariably applied only to the non-perforated sections whi... | 04/08/2003 |
| 5735292 | Method and device for the production of filter tip bands for ventilated cigarettes A method and device for the production of filter tip bands for ventilated cigarettes, according to which a continuous strip is advanced along a pre-set feed path, an adhesive substance is applied to the strip using a gumming device, defining on the strip ... | 04/07/1998 |
| 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 respective filter, in a direction crosswise to the longitudin... | 01/20/1998 |
| 5469869 | Web delivery apparatus for a cigarette manufacturing machine and a delivery method therefor An apparatus for carrying out a web delivery method is designed so that a web is delivered from a freely rotatable web roll to be supplied to a cigarette manufacturing machine as a pulling roller rotates. This apparatus has a powder brake for applying a b... | 11/28/1995 |
| 5200020 | Apparatus and method for laminating patches of a first web material onto a second web material Apparatus and a method for laminating patches to a base web accurately, and as efficiently as possible, are provided. Two webs are fed at speeds which are related as the ratio of the width of each patch to the separation distance between patches, the patc... | 04/06/1993 |
| 4336812 | Machine for simultaneously producing two continuous cigarette rods A machine for simultaneously producing two continuous cigarette rods, in which two different units cooperate with each other to form the above two cigarette rods, the first of said units forming two equal strips of paper starting from a single continuous ... | 06/29/1982 |
| 3978969 | Method and apparatus for the manufacture of filter-tipped cigarettes In order to feed a stream of filter rods forward at regularly spaced intervals a substantially continuous stream of rods is fed to a pair of opposed belts which grip the sides of the rods and accelerate them so as to space them apart. The spaced apart rod... | 09/07/1976 |
