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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 4580580 | Method of cutting out wrappers or binders in two steps from tobacco leaves, and an apparatus for carrying out the method In the production of wrappers or binders of different sizes from tobacco leaves, these leaves are at first divided into strip pieces that are transferred to a conveyor section and by means of a scanner are scanned to ascertain usable areas with preference... | 04/08/1986 |
| 4354511 | Device for spreading tobacco leaves In a device for spreading tobacco leaves which, subsequent to having been moistened, are smoothed by passage in their transverse direction between a base and a sweeping brush or an analogous smoothing tool, said tool may be "broken" from its normal or str... | 10/19/1982 |
| 4330002 | Method of producing cheroots and similar tobacco articles and an apparatus for carrying out this method In the production of cheroots and similar tobacco articles with a wrapper made from natural tobacco relieved of central rib portions but containing portions of side ribs, the said ribs are flattened solely in the end flap of the wrapper.... | 05/18/1982 |
| 4295479 | Method and device for manufacturing cigars A method and a device for the manufacture of cigars in which each bunch or filler is enveloped in a tobacco leaf portion, wherein the bunches or fillers are advanced one after the other along a given length, whilst a tobacco leaf portion is applied along ... | 10/20/1981 |
| 4246911 | Device for storing substantially similar tobacco leaf portions in a tape reel or bobbin A device for storing substantially similar tobacco leaf portions in a tape reel or bobbin comprising a cutting station for cutting substantially similar leaf portions from a whole or a half tobacco leaf, a reel for winding a tape, a table for guiding and ... | 01/27/1981 |
| 4240448 | Apparatus for increasing the permeability of wrapping material for rod-shaped smokers' products Webs which are to be converted into wrappers for filter rod sections, cigars, cigarillos or cigarettes, or the wrappers of such articles, are perforated by one or more laser beams in the machine wherein the articles are produced. The permeability of wrapp... | 12/23/1980 |
| 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 |
| 4121595 | Apparatus for increasing the permeability of wrapping material for rod-shaped smokers products Webs which are to be converted into wrappers for filter rod sections, cigars, cigarillos or cigarettes, or the wrappers of such articles, are perforated by one or more laser beams in the machine wherein the articles are produced. The permeability of wrapp... | 10/24/1978 |
| 4103692 | Cigar wrapping machine and method A machine and method for continuously applying wrappers to a stream of bound cigar bunches.... | 08/01/1978 |
| 3930508 | Wrapper absence detecting and control device for cigar machines A pneumatic-electric, or a pneumatic sensing and control system is used in a cigar making machine to prevent a wrapper or binder paster from operating and a formed tobacco member from being delivered to the roller nest when a tobacco strip is not transfer... | 01/06/1976 |
