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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8215316 | Smoking article and method A smoking article provides a purchased, as-built cigar that can be disassembled to form multiple cigars, enabling a consumer to make his or her own cigars using custom tobacco filler. The as-built cigar is capped as part of its construction, preferably at one end or... | 07/10/2012 |
| 7578297 | Machine for opening cigarette packs and inspecting cigarettes The present invention refers to a machine for opening cigarette packs and inspecting cigarettes (1), used to recover cigarettes contained in soft cup type packs (72), comprising: cigarette pack accumulator (2); transfer channel (3); first... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7509960 | Automatic machine for processing tobacco articles In an automatic machine for processing tobacco articles, and having a supporting frame having a vertical front wall, at which are located a number of operating devices located along a production line for processing a succession of articles, an inner first casing is ... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7434585 | 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 surface of the wrapping material of a formed cigarette, and most preferabl... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7393313 | High speed laser perforation of cigarette tipping paper A system and method for controlling a cigarette tipping paper perforation process includes supplying the paper in the form of a flexible web from a supply spindle that is mounted for powered angular rotation to a take-up spindle that receives a portion of the flexib... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7367931 | Laser cutoff stacker assembly The present invention contemplates a machine and method for performing the laser sealing and laser cutting of flexible material into segments, such as a polymeric web in which the segments will ultimately be individual bags. The machine includes a generally cylindri... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7279656 | 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 ... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7230696 | Calibration of instruments for measuring the permeability of a material A system that calibrates instruments for measuring the light or air permeability of a material, and includes a calibration target which can be used for calibration of either light-based or air-based instruments. The calibration target simulates the material whose pe... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7224447 | System and method for measuring the permeability of a material A system for measuring the permeability of a material includes a light source for illuminating the material, and a stray light sensor for detecting stray light traveling through the material from the light source and outputting a stray light signal indicative of the... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7214173 | Laser for forming bags from a web of material A fastener includes first and second tracks. The first track includes a first profile, and the second track includes a second profile for interlocking with the first profile. The fastener extends between opposing ends. The first and second profiles at each of the op... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7179502 | Wet roll having uniform composition distribution A method of making wet rolls includes providing a web of material, applying a wetting solution to the web to produce a wet web, and winding the wet web into a roll. The wetting solution may include an inorganic salt and at least one preservative. The wetting solutio... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7176696 | Method of detecting and eliminating foreign bodies in a flow of tobacco In a method of detecting and eliminating foreign bodies in tobacco, a flow of tobacco advances first through a preparation zone where it is gathered into a continuous ribbon of tobacco filler, then through a forming station at which the filler is used to fashion a c... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7168551 | Device linking a supply unit and a user unit for the manufacture of tobacco products A supply unit and a user unit employed in the manufacture of tobacco products, typically cigarettes and the like, are linked by a duct along which a mass of the cigarettes is advanced from the outfeed of the supply unit toward the infeed of the user unit. The advanc... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7157389 | Ion triggerable, cationic polymers, a method of making same and items using same The present invention is directed to ion triggerable, water-dispersible cationic polymers. The present invention is also directed to a method of making ion triggerable, water-dispersible cationic polymers and their applicability as binder compositions. The present i... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7094193 | High speed laser perforation of cigarette tipping paper A system and method for controlling a cigarette tipping paper perforation process includes supplying the paper in the form of a flexible web from a supply spindle that is mounted for powered angular rotation to a take-up spindle that receives a portion of the flexib... | 08/22/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7032445 | System and method for automatically measuring and tracking a feature of material used during a manufacturing process A feature of paper used in the production of a cigarette and the effect of the feature on the finished cigarette is automatically measured at specific locations along the paper, and data related to the measurement is stored in a database file. Indicia including the ... | 04/25/2006 |
| 6929838 | Sheet having indicia registered with lines of termination An apparatus and process for making sheets having indicia spaced in a machine direction. Between or among the indicia are perforations or chop-off cuts. The spacing, in the machine direction, between the indicia and perforations or chop-off cuts is maintained over l... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6880559 | Method of and apparatus for making perforations in the wrappers of rod-shaped products An method for increasing the permeability of tubular wrappers of a succession of cigarettes by at least one pulsed beam of coherent radiation issuing from a laser has a hollow drum-shaped conveyor cooperating with a rolling member to define an arcuate channel wherei... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6720525 | Device for perforating rod-shaped articles, particularly in the tobacco-processing industry A device and a method for producing zones of desired air permeability in the enveloping material of rod-shaped articles, particularly in the tobacco-processing industry. The device includes a beam-guiding device for focusing an energy-rich beam, generated by a radia... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6708694 | Method of and apparatus for making and processing rod-shaped articles Filter cigarettes of unit or multiple unit length are produced in a tipping machine wherein successive groups of coaxial plain cigarettes and filter rod sections are caused to roll within a channel bounded by surfaces at least one of which moves relative to the othe... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6675811 | Method of and apparatus for increasing the permeability of wrappers of rod-shaped articles Apparatus for increasing the permeabilities of central portions of tubular wrappers which form part of successive filter cigarettes of double unit length being turned out by a tipping machine. The central portions of the wrappers include adhesive-coated u... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6532966 | Apparatus for making perforations in the wrappers of rod-shaped products An apparatus for increasing the permeability of tubular wrappers of a succession of cigarettes by at least one pulsed beam of coherent radiation issuing from a laser has a hollow drum-shaped conveyor cooperating with a rolling member to define an arcuate ... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6526985 | Apparatus for perforating tubular wrappers of rod-shaped articles Successive cigarettes of a series of cigarettes, such as filter cigarettes, are transported sideways in the axially parallel peripheral flutes of a rotary drum-shaped conveyor to the inlet(s) of a straight or V-shaped rolling channel or of two successive ... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6394097 | Device and method for inspecting filter rod for cigarette A device for executing an inspection method of a filter rod for cigarettes includes an inspection drum (6), and the inspection drum (6) has plural pickup grooves (8) for receiving one filter rod (F) each in its outer periphery. The filter rod (F) in each ... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6363942 | Perforating apparatus The invention concerns a perforating apparatus for producing openings in a peripheral surface of a substantially elongate, cylindrical object, in particular a cigarette, comprising a light source for producing at least one high-energy light beam, by means... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6325068 | Method of and apparatus for treating webs of wrapping material An elongated strip of tipping paper is advanced in a tipping machine for the making of filter cigarettes. The strip advances past a perforating unit and thereupon past a cutting unit which subdivides the perforated strip into a series of uniting bands rea... | 12/04/2001 |
| 6147319 | Hole making device for web material A perforating device for web material comprises a plurality of laser heads for emitting pulse laser beams toward the web traveling at constant speed and a plurality of linear actuators for individually supporting the laser heads, moving the laser heads in... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6098533 | Conveyor for stabilizing packets of cigarettes coming off a packing machine A conveyor for stabilizing packets of cigarettes coming off a packing machine, whereby each packet is fed along a stabilizing path and through a marking station by a pair of opposite facing conveyor belts partly engaging respective opposite minor lateral ... | 08/08/2000 |
| 6070592 | Filter assembly machine for producing ventilated tobacco products A filter assembly machine for producing ventilated tobacco products; the machine having a conveying drum in turn having a number of peripheral seats for successively feeding the products along a given path extending about an axis of the drum; the products... | 06/06/2000 |
| 6064032 | Apparatus in a filter tipping machine for manipulating a web A running web of tipping paper (one side of which is coated with a film of adhesive) in a filter cigarette making machine is subdivided into discrete uniting bands and/or is perforated by resorting to a single source or to two discrete sources of coherent... | 05/16/2000 |
| 6025572 | Laser piercing apparatus for a web material A piercing apparatus includes a laser oscillation head for irradiating a pulsed laser beam onto a tip paper which travels at a prescribed speed along a traveling path to form minute holes at spacial intervals in the tip paper, a camera for picking up a pi... | 02/15/2000 |
| 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 release surface traveling continuously along a given first path;... | 01/19/1999 |
| 5836318 | Piercing device for cigars A cigar piercing device which includes an outer housing and a moveable top receiving and indexing station for positioning the tip of a cigar. The indexing station is adapted to automatically activate a rotating piercing tool in response to the downward mo... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5797406 | Cigarette manufacture A scanning device for a cigarette making machine comprises a low energy X-ray beam emitter (110) for passing an X-ray beam through the cigarette rod (116), and an X-ray detector (126;202) arranged to receive the beam after it has passed through the cigare... | 08/25/1998 |
| 5775054 | Unit for forming groups of cigarettes The unit for forming groups of cigarettes has at least one substantially U-shaped pocket designed to receive in succession at least two layers of cigarettes, in which the cigarettes are parallel with a longitudinal axis of the pocket, the two layers being... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5762075 | Method of and apparatus for ascertaining the density of a stream of fibrous material The density of a wrapped rod-like filler of tobacco or filter material for tobacco smoke is ascertained by causing successive increments of the filler to traverse beams of X-rays which, after having penetrated through small portions of the filler, impinge... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5746229 | Perforating unit for producing ventilated cigarettes A perforating unit for producing ventilated cigarettes, wherein a laser beam, emitted by a laser source along an axis, is reflected and focused by a movable reflecting and focusing assembly and a reflecting element, both rotating about the axis, to produc... | 05/05/1998 |
| 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, a density detector for continuously detecting a tobacco sh... | 05/05/1998 |
| 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 |
