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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7338421 | Method and a device for making filters for tobacco products Filters for tobacco products are manufactured by a device comprising a conveyor drum rotatable about a horizontal axis and furnished with peripheral grooves, each holding a leaf of paper material preassembled with a first filter element. The single groove is flanked... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7285170 | Adhesive application mechanism for a printer An adhesive application mechanism for a printer is provided. The adhesive application mechanism comprises first and second adhesive applicators, the adhesive applicators being mutually opposed and configured to apply adhesive simultaneously onto opposite faces of sh... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7060212 | Roof tiles, roof tile layout, and method of manufacture Complementary roof tiles for a staggered roof tile layout are provided by: (i) extruding and conveying a composite ribbon; (ii) demarcating the composite ribbon into an alternating succession of a first roof tile type and a second roof tile type by engaging the comp... | 06/13/2006 |
| 5542901 | Vacuum arrangement on combiner This invention relates to a method for delivering free-flowing material into discrete receiving spaces separating filter plugs in partially constructed cigarette filter assemblies. The method includes rapidly feeding a free-flowing material such as charco... | 08/06/1996 |
| 4729386 | Apparatus for making cigarettes with dense ends A cigarette rod making machine wherein a shower of tobacco particles is attracted to the underside of the straight horizontal lower reach of an endless air-permeable conveyor which advances the fully grown stream through a surplus removing station before ... | 03/08/1988 |
| 4667687 | Uniting rod-like articles, particularly for filter cigarette manufacture Filter cigarettes are produced by uniting tobacco sections (12, 122) and filter portions (21, 120) with a wrapper (28, 124) which carries a relatively thick circumferential bead (126) of adhesive or other filler material to provide an effective seal aroun... | 05/26/1987 |
| 4548216 | Cigarette manufacture This invention is concerned with the manufacture of double cigarette units each consisting of a double-length tobacco rod having filters secured to its opposite ends. Cutting in half of such double cigarette units to form separate filter cigarettes may be... | 10/22/1985 |
| 4543967 | Cigarette manufacture A machine for making oval cigarettes has a channel, through which tobacco is showered towards a suction conveyor, formed by walls which diverge in cross-section along at least part of the tobacco-receiving section of the conveyor so as to form a filler st... | 10/01/1985 |
| 4256124 | Method and apparatus for manufacturing filter cigar Method and apparatus are provided for manufacturing a filtered large cigar which includes the steps of simultaneously introducing onto the rolling table of a cigar rolling machine preformed cigar filters and a charge of tobacco filler material for spiral ... | 03/17/1981 |
| 4237908 | Method for manufacturing filter-tipped cigarettes A method for manufacturing filter-tipped cigarettes, in which a band is wound on the end of the cylinder of tobacco and on the filter tip so as to encircle them and connect them together, wherein, on the path followed by the paper serving to constitute th... | 12/09/1980 |
| 4093496 | Apparatus for assembling rod-like articles Composite filter rods, from which composite filters for attachment to cigarette lengths are obtained, are produced by joining component filter portions with uniting bands which overlap the end portions only of adjacent filter portions. The uniting bands a... | 06/06/1978 |
| 4073300 | Method of making Russian cigarettes Russian cigarettes are produced by an in-line system whereby tobacco sections are inserted between spaced tube portions. The tube portions may be fed as preformed tubes or as blanks in the form of flat strips or reverse folded strips for forming into tube... | 02/14/1978 |
| 3999559 | Manufacture of filter-tipped cigarettes Filter tipped cigarettes are produced by dividing a continuous tobacco stream into alternate sections having respective lengths corresponding to a double cigarette filler and a double filter portion. The double filter portion sections are removed from the... | 12/28/1976 |
| 3955584 | Tobacco reclaiming apparatus in cigarette making In continuous rod cigarette making machinery waste tobacco is collected from various sources (in particular from a stripping device for rejected cigarettes) and is fed to a separation box where non-tobacco waste is removed. The waste tobacco is then conve... | 05/11/1976 |
