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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7775217 | Methods and apparatus for manufacturing cigarettes Cigarettes are manufactured using modified automated cigarette making apparatus. Those cigarettes possess smokable rods having paper wrapping materials having additive materials applied thereto as patterns. The additive material can be applied as a coating formulati... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7364052 | Unit for feeding cigarettes to a packer machine A unit for feeding cigarettes to a packer machine is equipped with a hopper containing a mass of cigarettes and a device serving to compensate the depletion of the mass as groups of cigarettes are removed from the hopper and directed into a plurality of boxes carrie... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7314049 | Unit for transferring cigarette sticks from a cigarette maker to a filter tip attachment Cigarette sticks are transferred from a cigarette maker to a filter tip attachment by a unit that includes a conveying roller made to rotate in a first feed direction and furnished with channels aligned on a second direction transverse to the first direction. Each c... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7281621 | Apparatus for the transfer of rod-shaped articles A transfer apparatus is provided for the transfer of rod-shaped articles, in particular filter rods, from a conveying apparatus for transverse axial conveying of the articles to a conveying apparatus for longitudinal axial conveying of the articles or vice versa. Th... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7255219 | Multifunctional conveyor drum Conveyor drum for receiving axially aligned articles that are conveyed in a cross-axial direction toward the conveyor drum. Conveyor drum includes a separation device for changing a longitudinal axial spacing of the articles by a predetermined longitudinal axial sep... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7234585 | Perfected drum for filter-tipped cigarette manufacturing machines A drum for a filter-tipped cigarette manufacturing machine is fitted to and projects from a frame of the manufacturing machine, and has a drive shaft; an outer shell connected in angularly fixed and axially sliding manner to the drive shaft; and an axial guide membe... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7185658 | Apparatus for producing and/or packaging cigarettes During the production of cigarettes, but in particular in the region of a cigarette-packaging machine, a comparatively large amount of tobacco accumulates as waste. This is specifically removed by arranging suction-extraction elements and/or conveying-away elements ... | 03/06/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7165668 | Apparatus and method for the delivery of rod-shaped articles An apparatus for transferring rod-like articles from a longitudinal conveyor that longitudinal-axially conveys the articles onto a transverse conveyor that transverse-axially conveys the articles. Moreover, the apparatus includes a conveyor that receives the article... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7070039 | Apparatus and method for the transfer of rod-shaped articles An apparatus for the transfer of rod-shaped articles from a longitudinal conveyor that longitudinal axially conveys the articles onto a transverse conveyor that transverse axial conveys the articles transversely to their axes, a direction of transport of the longitu... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7059478 | Method and a device for the rejection of commodities A cigarette packer (1) incorporates a station at which cigarettes (2) are formed into groups (12) and from which the groups (12) are advanced by a first conveyor (13) along a first feed path (P) toward a wrapping station (16... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7021125 | Process and apparatus for checking rod-like articles, in particular cigarettes A process for checking rod-like articles, in particular cigarettes (12), and an apparatus which is suitable for carrying out the process, a moveable testing element (20), with mounted push rods (21) displaceable in the axial direction being move... | 04/04/2006 |
| 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, is supplied to a predetermined position. Predetermined portions of fi... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6857358 | Device and method for marking cigarette packets The invention relates to a device and a method for marking cigarette packets, comprising a transport device for conveying at least one cigarette packet to a marking station for marking cigarette packets, and the following features: the transport device grasps a batc... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6799577 | Automatic cigarette processing machine An automatic cigarette processing machine having a control unit and a number of successive work stations, each having a respective number of operating devices; for each work station, the control unit has at least one respective controller directly connected to the w... | 10/05/2004 |
| 6728594 | Central control system and method for fine tuning individual cigarette manufacturing control systems The present invention includes a central control system and method for fine tuning a cigarette manufacturing process. A measurement device captures measurements of particular cigarette properties. The measurement data is sent to and stored in a central database. Onc... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6701934 | Apparatus for making cigarettes with composite filters Double-filter cigarettes are produced by inserting different filter components between two rods of tobacco. This is attained by inserting filter components of different final lengths, obtained from separate supplies and processed along separate feed paths... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6634365 | Method of and apparatus for homogenizing streams of particulate fibrous material A shower of tobacco particles is fed into the upper end of a downwardly sloping and downwardly tapering funnel-shaped part of a conveyor wherein the particles gather into a flow of interlaced particles. Successive increments of the flow are acted upon by ... | 10/21/2003 |
| 6516810 | Pipe junction for pneumatic transfer of rod-shaped smokers' products Apparatus for pneumatically conveying filter rod sections from a sender to a remote cigarette filter tipping machine has a first switching device which receives filter rod sections from a single outlet of the sender, a second switching device which delive... | 02/11/2003 |
| 6484867 | Device for forming groups of cigarettes Cigarettes are formed into groups by a device comprising a hopper through which to direct a flow of cigarettes, a conveyor with pockets moving intermittently past a discharge outlet of the hopper, and a reciprocating pusher located on the side of the hopp... | 11/26/2002 |
| 6446632 | Process and apparatus for detecting and eliminating defective and/or incorrectly positioned cigarettes A process and an apparatus for detecting and eliminating, defective and/or incorrectly positioned, in particular transversely located, cigarettes in the cigarette magazine of a cigarette-production and/or a cigarette-packaging machine. Thus, the avoidance... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6435334 | Cigar feed unit A unit for feeding cigars from an input hopper to a pocket conveyor for feeding single cigars successively along a given path, wherein the cigars are fed along a downfeed channel, an outlet of which faces a rotary transfer member for feeding the cigars su... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6431812 | Apparatus for removing rod-shaped articles of the tobacco processing industry from receptacles A device used in the tobacco-processing industry for emptying a container filled with rod-shaped articles into a magazine, in which the container has an open upper narrow side and an open wide front side. The device includes a container holder that accomm... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6427699 | Method and apparatus for making cigarettes with composite filters Double-filter cigarettes are produced by inserting different filter components between two rods of tobacco. This is attained by inserting filter components of different final lengths, obtained from separate supplies and processed along separate feed paths... | 08/06/2002 |
| 6368041 | Drum elevator system A drum elevator and method of elevating cigarettes, the apparatus including a series of rotatable cigarette transferring drums including a first plurality of horizontally disposed drums at a first elevation and a second plurality of vertically disposed dr... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6263883 | Interchange apparatus for a pneumatic conveying system An interchange apparatus for a pneumatic conveying system including a plurality of branch tubes joined together at an acute angle in an interchange chamber to form a main tube and a flap positioned between at least two branch tubes of the plurality of bra... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6193051 | Handling installation, in particular for cigarettes A handling installation disclosed, in particular for cigarettes. Known installations for handling cigarettes have a reservoir for temporarily storing the cigarettes, a maker (10) for the cigarettes and a packer (11). The maker (10) is arranged upstream of... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6123201 | Drum elevator system A drum elevator and method of elevating cigarettes, the apparatus having a series of rotatable cigarette transferring drums including a first plurality of horizontally disposed drums at a first elevation and a second plurality of vertically disposed drums... | 09/26/2000 |
| 6092532 | Installation for manufacturing and packaging cigarettes An installation for manufacturing and packaging cigarettes consists of a production station (10) and a packaging station (11). The production station (10) consists of a plurality of, especially two, manufacturing machines (12, 13) positioned in a special ... | 07/25/2000 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 5836475 | Device for the orderly supply of elongated articles, in particular tobacco products A device for the orderly supply of cigarettes; the device presenting at least one channel defined by two lateral walls and for feeding a respective column of cigarettes at a given dropdown speed and in a given traveling direction to the bottom opening of ... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5823528 | Device for feeding blanks on a cigarette packing machine A device for feeding blanks on a cigarette packing machine, wherein a succession of blanks, arranged side by side and overlapping one another along a supporting strip wound into a reel, is fed along a supply path by unwinding the reel and feeding the supp... | 10/20/1998 |
| 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 |
| 5743067 | Device for loading storage containers for elongated articles A device for loading storage containers for elongated articles, particularly tobacco products, wherein a feedbox for the articles presents an output window facing a horizontal plate for supporting an orderly mass of articles; the output window is defined by th... | 04/28/1998 |
| 5736682 | Method of and apparatus for ascertaining the mass of rod-shaped articles of the tobacco processing industry The mass of rod-shaped articles of the tobacco processing industry is ascertained by advancing a multi-layer mass flow of plain or filter cigarettes or analogous rod-shaped articles of the tobacco processing industry over one or more stationary and/or mob... | 04/07/1998 |
| 5730277 | Apparatus for transferring rod-shaped articles of the tobacco processing industry from a stationary guide to a conveyor Successive block-shaped arrays of cigarettes are advanced by one or more pushers on an endless conveyor through an elongated channel, defined by a stationary guide, on their way into a receptacle of a wrapping unit for the arrays. The pusher or pushers ar... | 03/24/1998 |
| 5730159 | Unit for supplying layers of cigarettes A unit for supplying layers of cigarettes, wherein a supply outlet, presenting an open bottom end and a number of channels converging towards the bottom end, feeds a succession of layers of cigarettes along the channels to the bottom end; and an extractin... | 03/24/1998 |
| 5715838 | Cigarette manufacture A filter attachment machine for use with a twin-track cigarette making machine is arranged to receive, in alternate flutes of a fluted drum (10), the cigarette rods from the respective tracks of the cigarette making machine, and to convey the cigarette ro... | 02/10/1998 |
| 5695070 | Unit for sampling and quality controlling tobacco items, particularly cigarettes A unit for sampling and quality controlling tobacco items, in particular cigarettes, wherein a sample item, fed by a first conveyor along a first given path, is transferred automatically by a selectively operated spoon-shaped diverter along a second path ... | 12/09/1997 |
