Class 131/58 - Wrapping devices

Subclass of Class 131 - Tobacco
Definition: Devices including means for applying a wrapper to a cigarette
No. of patents: 40
Last issue date: 11/15/2011

Number	Title	Issue Date
8056566	Smoking article with removably secured additional wrapper and packaging for smoking article A smoking article includes a tobacco column, a binder surrounding the tobacco column, a first wrapper surrounding the binder, and at least one additional removable wrapper which surrounds the first wrapper and is removably secured to a wrapper beneath the additional...	11/15/2011
7258122	Rod-shaped article forming device A forming device applied to a cigarette manufacturing machine causes a garniture tape 10 to travel through a wrapping section 8, and meanwhile wraps a shredded tobacco layer T in wrapping paper P to form continuously a cigarette rod R. The tape 10	08/21/2007
7243656	Machine for manufacturing rod-like article A manufacturing machine for rod-shaped articles comprises a wrapping section (4) for forming a rod-shaped article by wrapping a filler material in a wrapper. The wrapping section has a forming bed (6) for guiding a garniture tape (10), which is ...	07/17/2007
7207158	Method and device for producing a tubular wrapping A folding method and device, whereby a tubular wrapping is formed about a product by inserting the product inside a U-shaped pocket together with a sheet of wrapping material, a first lateral portion of which is interposed between the product and a first lateral wal...	04/24/2007
7104265	Filter containing a metal phthalocyanine and a polycationic polymer A tobacco smoke filter comprising one or more than one metal phthalocyanine, such as a copper phthalocyanine or an iron phthalocyanine, and further comprising one or more than one polycationic polymer. ...	09/12/2006
7051739	Method for making a cigarette with burn rate modification A cigarette with burn rate modification is described. The cigarette has a partial double wrap design and incorporates an inner wrap material which extends partially around the interior portion of the outer wrapper of a cigarette. The inner wrap can be a single eleme...	05/30/2006
7040325	Method of and apparatus for convoluting bands around rod-shaped articles Adhesive-coated bands of paper, tipping paper or plastic foil are convoluted around discrete one-piece or composite rod-shaped articles, such as coaxial plain cigarettes and filter mouthpieces, during travel through a rolling zone bounded by a pair of surfaces at le...	05/09/2006
6848449	Low fire-spreading smoking article and method of manufacturing the same A smoking article is manufactured through supplying a tobacco filler material onto a tobacco wrapping paper sheet that is transferred, wrapping the tobacco filler material supplied onto the tobacco wrapping paper sheet with the tobacco wrapping paper sheet so as to ...	02/01/2005
6742525	Tobacco product A tobacco product is formed by rolling a sheet of material supplied by a roll or rolls (e.g. moistened tobacco leaves) and/or homogenized sheet tobacco about a slit mandrel to form a shaped tube. The shaped tube is then packaged for shipment to an end user or consum...	06/01/2004
6739343	Do-it-yourself cigarette maker and component assemblies The invention relates to a do-it-yourself cigarette maker and its component assemblies, such as, a conveying device for cigarettes or tubes fitted with a lifting device, a device for shaping a tobacco rod fitted with a plucking roller, a tobacco rod conveyor fitted ...	05/25/2004
6553999	Manufacture of cigarette assemblies having a pre-formed tubular band and a pre-formed tobacco rod Self-made cigarettes, i.e. tobacco products that are supplied in unsmokable condition in the form of a tobacco-bearing component (12) comprising a tobacco rod (14) attached to a porous filter (16) at least part of the surface of which is highly permeable,...	04/29/2003
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
6526986	Tobacco product A tobacco product is formed by rolling moistened tobacco leaves about a cylindrical form casing and allowing the leaves to dry to form a shell. After the form casing is removed a consumer can fill the shell with crushed tobacco leaves of a favorite blend,...	03/04/2003
6516811	Process for controlling a production and packaging system The invention proposes measures for controlling a production and packaging system for cigarettes such that a certain number of cigarettes (batch) of a certain brand or design are produced and the system is then switched off. This is based on a quantity wh...	02/11/2003
6439239	Method for forming a packet of cigarettes To pack a group of cigarettes in a rigid packet, a collar, a respective inner sheet of wrapping material and a respective group of cigarettes are fed successively into a same conveying seat in which the collar and the inner sheet are at least partly folde...	08/27/2002
6390099	Apparatus for convoluting strips around groups of coaxial rod-shaped articles An apparatus, such as a filter tipping machine, wherein groups of coaxial rod-shaped articles are connected to each other end-to-end by adhesive-coated uniting strips or bands, employs two endless conveyor belts having parallel stretches defining an elong...	05/21/2002
6357448	Tobacco product A tobacco product is formed by rolling moistened tobacco leaves about a cylindrical form casing and allowing the leaves to dry to form a shell. After the form casing is removed a consumer can fill the shell with crushed tobacco leaves of a favorite blend,...	03/19/2002
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 channels connect an inner bearing space of the contact wheel and...	11/27/2001
6152145	Process and apparatus for producing a (cigarette) rod For the continuous production of the cigarette rod (10), the strip-like outer wrapper (12) and a tobacco strand (11) are provided on a forming belt (15) and conveyed, with the latter, through a rod-forming unit (13). Located within the latter is a forming...	11/28/2000
5979458	Apparatus for transferring layers of rod-shaped articles of the tobacco processing industry Discrete cigarettes or layers of parallel cigarettes which are being propelled by a reciprocable pusher from the magazine into successive receptacles of an indexible conveyor in a cigarette packing machine are prevented from moving away from a stationary ...	11/09/1999
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 fed by a conveyor drum to a first and a second rolling wh...	03/30/1999
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 at a second speed equal to half the first speed; the devic...	11/26/1996
5529077	Cigar wrapping device A device for rolling wrappers onto cigar bodies, includes a lower roll unit (10) with a first pair of parallel rolls (14, 16) lying in a horizontal plane and rotatable in the same direction about their own axes for supporting contact with a lower half of ...	06/25/1996
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 rollers, each presenting a respective seat for a respective g...	02/21/1995
5209247	System for manufacturing and packaging cigarettes In a system for manufacturing and packaging cigarettes each production unit comprising a cigarette making machine and packaging machines has associated therewith a supply station to which bobbins of raw materials are supplied, that is tipping paper, cigar...	05/11/1993
5169481	Apparatus making thin laminate structures and forming the structures into lightweight, thin-walled tubes An apparatus for laminating at least two strips of strip material and forming the laminate into lightweight, thin-walled tubular members that may be used in the construction of non-combustion smoking articles....	12/08/1992
5156169	Apparatus for making cigarettes An apparatus for making smokable rods having smokable material contained in first and second wrapping materials, the first wrapping circumscribing the smokable material and the second wrapping material circumscribing and overwrapping the first wrapping ma...	10/20/1992
5058607	Use of reactive hot melt adhesive for manufacture of cigarette filters The plug wrap paper used to form cigarette filters is bonded using a specific class of low viscosity reactive urethane hot melt adhesive compositions which provide a fast setting, temperature resistant bond that is not attacked by aromatic oils solvents o...	10/22/1991
4913171	Cigarette and method of manufacture An improved cigarette and method of manufacture utilizes a specialized paper incorporating a narrow air tube portion along one of its longitudinal edges, and an elongated, generally rod-shaped rolling bar inserted into and through the air tube, used to ro...	04/03/1990
4832057	Manufacture of a smoking article An apparatus for making a smokeable cigarette from a preformed inherently unsmokeable rod of tobacco and a separate sheet of cigarette paper provided with a strip of contact adhesive comprises an open-ended smooth bore resilient tube provided with a longi...	05/23/1989
4832056	Apparatus for making cigarettes A hand operated device for applying cigarette paper to a preformed tobacco rod comprises a forming roller arranged to rotate the rod about its longitudinal axis, a mechanical applicator for applying a pregummed sheet of cigarette paper to the rod as the r...	05/23/1989
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 electric motor. The apron is located over a convex support...	10/06/1987
4368741	Device for rolling of cigarettes Device for rolling of cigarettes with a flat basic structure open on the top, in which there is disposed a belt moving around a cylinder, characterized in that the cylinder is rotatably arranged in a slidable member alongside an upper edge of the basic st...	01/18/1983
4324233	Feed arrangement for and method of continuously feeding cigars wrappers to cigar wrapping stations of cigar wrapping machines A respacer and/or reorienter feed arrangement is operative for continuously feeding cigar wrappers in proper spaced-apart relationship and/or orientation to a cigar wrapping station of a multi-station cigar wrapping machine which includes a cigar bunch su...	04/13/1982
4319588	Apparatus and method for cigarette rolling and holding A reusable device for rolling a cigarette from a generally rectangular cigarette paper and for holding the rolled cigarette during consumption thereof includes a rigid elongated member disposed along a longitudinal edge of the paper, and a crimping member...	03/16/1982
4303080	Method for producing filter cigarettes The invention concerns a method for producing a filter cigarette with a filter unit which is provided with a porous or perforated covering strip. A porous or perforated connecting strip joins the tobacco part to the filter unit. The adhesive for connectin...	12/01/1981
4236536	Method for wrapping cigars or like articles in an outer envelope of natural tobacco A method for wrapping cigars or like articles in an outer envelope, or wrapper, made of natural tobacco, which comprises the steps of: at least partially spreading out a non-stripped tobacco leaf, cutting out a first batch of wrappers from one of the half...	12/02/1980
4233994	Wrapping process for cigars with natural tobacco The object of the invention is a wrapping process for cigars with natural tobacco through stamping of a wrapping surface with a pre-manufactured tobacco core and total wrapping of said tobacco core by said surface, a process in which before the stamping o...	11/18/1980
4180082	Apparatus for manufacturing cigarettes or the like Disclosed is apparatus for manufacturing cigarettes, cigarillos, and the like. The apparatus comprises a housing, a tray for receiving and measuring a charge of a smokable substance, a cylindrical form for forming a cigarette or the like, and means for op...	12/25/1979
4010763	Adjustable apparatus for cutting wrappers for double cigar bunches of different sizes An adjustable apparatus can cut V-shaped segments of different dimensions from continuous sheets so that the V-shaped segments of different dimensions are suitable for application as wrappers to double cigar bunches of different dimensions. The apparatus ...	03/08/1977

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