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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7258122 | Rod-shaped article forming device A forming device applied to a cigarette manufacturing machine causes a garniture tape 10 to travel through a wrapping section 8, and meanwhile wraps a shredded tobacco layer T in wrapping paper P to form continuously a cigarette rod R. The tape 10 | 08/21/2007 |
| 6739343 | Do-it-yourself cigarette maker and component assemblies The invention relates to a do-it-yourself cigarette maker and its component assemblies, such as, a conveying device for cigarettes or tubes fitted with a lifting device, a device for shaping a tobacco rod fitted with a plucking roller, a tobacco rod conveyor fitted ... | 05/25/2004 |
| 4732165 | Wrapping mechanism for cigarette rod making and like machines The sizing part of the wrapping mechanism in a cigarette rod making machine has a channel-shaped member with a guide surface extending between a straight edge and a U-shaped edge and composed of an infinite number of straight lines each of which connects ... | 03/22/1988 |
| 4413637 | Dynamic circumference gage A dynamic circumference gage (70) has a spring which maintains contact with moving cigarette rod (74). Strain gages mounted on opposite faces of the spring indicate changes in the circumference of moving cigarette rod (74). Changes in cigarette rod (74) c... | 11/08/1983 |
| 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 |
| 4256125 | Cigarette making machine A cigarette making machine comprises an air previous band, a channel through which tobacco is showered towards the band with the aid of an air stream to form a cigarette filler stream on the band, the air stream being induced at least partly by suction ac... | 03/17/1981 |
