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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 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 |
| 6443160 | Method and device for forming a cigarette rod containing an additive material The invention relates to a method for forming a cigarette rod containing an additive material in a cigarette making machine, in which a continuous tobacco rod is fed along a vacuum conveyor and particles of the additive material are fed to and incorporate... | 09/03/2002 |
| 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 |
| 6131582 | Method of rolling cigarette portions A method of rolling cigarette portions, wherein a first succession of first pairs of cigarette portions and a second succession of second pairs of cigarette portions are advanced in a direction crosswise to the respective axes of the cigarette portions, e... | 10/17/2000 |
| 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 |
| 4305408 | Automatic cigar wrapping device A device for applying a chevron-shaped cigar wrapper blank onto a rotating double cigar body as the body is being rotated in a mechanically driven nest where certain driving rods of the nest are modified to provide clearance for a tuck lifter that initiat... | 12/15/1981 |
| 4103692 | Cigar wrapping machine and method A machine and method for continuously applying wrappers to a stream of bound cigar bunches.... | 08/01/1978 |
