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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7992574 | Method and apparatus for cutting a continuously guided rod into rod-shaped articles of variable length The invention concerns an apparatus for cutting at least one continuously conveyed rod into rod-shaped articles of variable length, in particular cigarettes, filters or the like, including a cutting device, a counter-support and displacing devices for the cutting de... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7677251 | Apparatus and methods for manufacturing cigarettes An apparatus and method for manufacturing small quantities of cigarettes provides for such manufacture in a substantially simultaneous fashion while maintaining consistent quality between the cigarettes. The apparatus and method provide for delivering at least one c... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7665468 | Cigarette making machine and method A cigarette making machine includes a web roll (8) from which a web W having bands previously formed is drawn, and a suction brake (14) arranged between the web roll (8) and a garniture tape (2) of a wrapping section (6). When a ba... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7409956 | Methods for adapting an automated cigarette making apparatus 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 materials, which can have the forms of liquid ... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7117871 | Methods 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 materials, which can have the forms of liquid ... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7047982 | Method for registering pattern location on cigarette wrapping material 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... | 05/23/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6904917 | Method of manufacturing cigarette suppressing spread of burn and apparatus for manufacturing cigarette suppressing spread of burn An apparatus includes a unit which forms burn control agent coated regions on a web of a wrapping paper transferred by a wrapping paper transfer unit at a plurality of positions separated from each other in the longitudinal or in the width direction of the web, a un... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6848449 | Low fire-spreading smoking article and method of manufacturing the same A smoking article is manufactured through supplying a tobacco filler material onto a tobacco wrapping paper sheet that is transferred, wrapping the tobacco filler material supplied onto the tobacco wrapping paper sheet with the tobacco wrapping paper sheet so as to ... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6769435 | Cigarette maker outfeed unit The outfeed unit of a cigarette maker establishes a feed path along which at least one cigarette rod is caused to advance in a predetermined direction from the outfeed end of a beam, on which the rod is formed, toward a cutter device by which the rod is divided into... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6708695 | Cigarette rod product with different densities An asymmetrical trimmer disk/paddle wheel apparatus for trimming tobacco from a stream or braid of cut tobacco in a cigarette maker comprises a pair of counter rotating disks with a plurality of pockets arranged to coact with one another to trim off excess tobacco a... | 03/23/2004 |
| 6478031 | Ledger for cigarette making machine cut-off This invention is concerned with improvements to a ledger for a rod-making machine of the type comprising a rod supporting part (14, 16) which is pivotally mounted on two linear motion devices (10; 12) each comprising a fixed gear (A), a first orbiting ge... | 11/12/2002 |
| 6213128 | Apparatus and method for making and inspecting multi-component wrapped article In an apparatus for making and inspecting a multi-component cigarettes, each cigarette including two or more different components arranged relative to one another, the apparatus includes a device for advancing a web in a first direction. The apparatus fur... | 04/10/2001 |
| 5439009 | Device for guiding the travel of tobacco rod in a cigarette manufacturing apparatus The device according to the present invention has a delivery axis of tobacco rod which extends from a wrapping section to an inspecting section in a cigarette manufacturing apparatus, a rod guide which can move between the forward position on the delivery... | 08/08/1995 |
| 5247948 | Filter assembly machine A filter assembly machine wherein one laser source emits a beam through a dividing device which divides the beam into two secondary beams directed respectively towards a cutting head for cutting a continuous strip into bands connecting double filters to c... | 09/28/1993 |
| 5050471 | Apparatus for supporting and guiding cigarette rods and the like A cigarette rod which is repeatedly severed by the orbiting knife of a cut-off is supported by a tubular guide which has a slot for the knife and is moved with the rod in the course of each severing operation to thereupon move back to a starting position.... | 09/24/1991 |
| 4997415 | Continuous rod-making machine A ledger assembly for a continuous rod cut-off includes a rigid beam (12) carrying ledger tubes (10) and pivotally supported by fibreglass springs (16,22). Vertical springs (22) resist the cutting force of the cut-off knife (30) and allow reciprocal movem... | 03/05/1991 |
| 4693260 | Continuous cigarette rod cutting apparatus for a cigarette making machine Cutting edges, for cutting a continuous cigarette rod at right angles to the longitudinal direction thereof, protrude from a rotating head which is tilted with respect to the travelling direction of the continuous cigarette rod. A fixed guide member, is p... | 09/15/1987 |
| 4693261 | Continuous cigarette rod cutting apparatus for a cigarette making machine Cutting edges, for cutting a continuous cigarette rod at right angles to the longitudinal direction thereof, protrude from a rotating head which is tilted with respect to the travelling direction of the continuous cigarette rod. A pair of fixed guide memb... | 09/15/1987 |
| 4653516 | Method for simultaneously producing two continuous streams of cigarettes A method for producing two continuous streams of cigarettes in which a continuous paper web is cut longitudinally to form two strips which are fed through a tobacco loading device and along respective guides for forming respective continuous rods and then... | 03/31/1987 |
| 4598719 | Cigarette manufacturing machine Cigarette manufacturing machine on which a continuous strip of paper is fed, through a tobacco loading station and along a guide for forming a continuous rod, to a crosswise cutting device by a conveyor belt driven by a drive roller driven, together with ... | 07/08/1986 |
| 4444210 | Apparatus for reciprocating the rod guide in the cutoff of a cigarette rod making or like machine Apparatus for reciprocating the tubular rod guide which supports the cigarette rod during severing by the orbiting knife of a cutoff has a pair of identical drives whose first driving units receive rotary motion from a common driver gear and transmit torq... | 04/24/1984 |
| 4406293 | Rod-breaking device The rod-breaking device comprises a deflecting guide movable alternately across the normal straight path of a cigarette rod issuing from a rod-forming mechanism and entering the inlet of a rod-processing unit. The movement of the deflecting guide into act... | 09/27/1983 |
| 4398438 | Device for simultaneously cutting two continuous rods of cigarette A device for simultaneously cutting two continuous rods of cigarette produced by a cigarette-making machine and disposed alongside one another on the same horizontal plane, the device being provided with a cantilever mounted cutting head facing the rods a... | 08/16/1983 |
| 4336812 | Machine for simultaneously producing two continuous cigarette rods A machine for simultaneously producing two continuous cigarette rods, in which two different units cooperate with each other to form the above two cigarette rods, the first of said units forming two equal strips of paper starting from a single continuous ... | 06/29/1982 |
| 4164229 | Portable cigarette making machine A portable cigarette making machine which has a horizontal conveyor belt adapted to support a continuous strip of cigarette paper, paper forming means which engage the conveyor belt and cause it to fold the cigarette paper into a concave trough, a conveyo... | 08/14/1979 |
| 4004593 | Method and apparatus for classifying cigarettes or the like Plain cigarettes which are produced in a multi-speed cigarette rod machine are transported toward a filter cigarette machine. Some or all of the cigarettes which are produced while the cigarette rod machine operates at less than normal speed are ejected b... | 01/25/1977 |
| 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 |
| 3943944 | Apparatus for making and separating wrapped cigar bunches Apparatus for wrapping cigar bunches has a first conveyor consisting of two endless belts having filler-engaging stretches which cross each other in space and move a single file of bunches lengthwise while simultaneously rotating the bunches about their a... | 03/16/1976 |
