British merchant Peter Durand invented the tin can in 1810.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7905235 | Cigarette rolling machine The present invention generally relates to a compact electrical cigarette rolling machine. The machine is particularly suitable for easily and quickly rolling tobacco into a cigarette. The tobacco is placed into a holding reservoir having tapered walls which help gu... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7305994 | Device and a method for separating at least one continuous rod of forming material for tobacco products A continuous tobacco rod generated by a machine for making tobacco products is separated into reclaimable lengths by a device that comprises a pair of tension rollers designed to exert a pulling force on the rod, also a pair of brake rollers operating upstream of th... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7287529 | Cigarette maker In a cigarette maker comprising a descent channel filled with shredded tobacco by a carding unit and with reclaimed tobacco by a conveyor, the shredded tobacco and the reclaimed tobacco are taken up and transferred by a toothed unit toward an ascent channel, from wh... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7226404 | Cigarette filter assembly machine A cigarette filter assembly machine wherein a rolling unit is defined by a rolling drum and a guide drum coaxial with each other and connected to each other in angularly-fixed, axially-sliding manner; and wherein the rolling drum has a number of suction rollers (... | 06/05/2007 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |