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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7677252 | Cigarette manufacturing apparatus with an in-line flavoring device A cigarette manufacturing apparatus has an applicator that is interposed in a wrapping paper supply path for continuously supplying wrapping paper to a hoist and applies an aroma chemical to the wrapping paper, a high-frequency dielectric heating device that is inst... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7363929 | Materials, equipment and methods for manufacturing cigarettes Cigarettes can be manufactured using modified automated cigarette making apparatus. Those cigarettes can possess smokable rods having paper wrapping materials having additive materials applied thereto as patterns. The additive materials can have the forms of liquid ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7281540 | Equipment and methods for manufacturing cigarettes Cigarettes are manufactured having smokable rods with paper wrapping materials having additive materials applied thereto as patterns. The additive materials can be applied to a continuous, moving paper web on a cigarette making apparatus using application apparatus ... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7275548 | Equipment for manufacturing cigarettes Cigarettes manufactured using modified automated cigarette making apparatus can possess smokable rods having additive materials applied to paper wrapping materials as patterns. The additive materials can be applied to a continuous paper web using rollers.) One of th... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7195019 | Equipment 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, are applied to a continuous paper w... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7077145 | Equipment and methods for manufacturing cigarettes Cigarettes manufactured using modified automated cigarette making apparatus can possess smokable rods having paper wrapping materials having additive materials applied as patterns. The additive materials, which can have the forms of liquid or paste formulations, are... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7073514 | Equipment and 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 ... | 07/11/2006 |
| 6944511 | Method of controlling an automatic machine A method and unit for controlling an automatic machine having a number of operating devices located along a production line for producing a succession of articles; at least one operating device having an adjustable work member, which operates in a repetitive work cy... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6854469 | Method for producing a reduced ignition propensity smoking article The present invention provides a smoking article having a reduced ignition propensity by reason of one or more cross-directional bands of an adhesive applied to the paper wrapper of the smoking article. The adhesive may be one of a cigarette seam adhesive, a filter ... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6805133 | Apparatus for stabilizing air permeability characteristic of filter cigarettes An apparatus for stabilizing air permeability characteristic of filter cigarettes has a drying unit (20) for preliminarily drying a tip-paper web (W) in the process of supplying the web (W) to a rolling section of a filter attachment machine. The drying unit ... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6619292 | Tip paper predrying apparatus A tip paper predrying apparatus attached to a filter attachment includes an infrared lamp unit (16) located in the middle of a transfer path for a tip paper (P). After paste is applied to one surface of the tip paper in a paste applicator section (2), the... | 09/16/2003 |
| 5862807 | Apparatus for heating the adhesive-containing seams of wrappers of rods of the tobacco processing industry A sealer for the adhesive-containing seam of a tubular wrapper surrounding a running filler of tobacco or filter material for tobacco smoke has an at least partially ceramic heating device which contacts the moving seam and contains an electric conductor ... | 01/26/1999 |
| 5735293 | Apparatus for heating adhesive-containing seams of tubular wrappers for materials of the tobacco processing industry An apparatus for heating the seam consisting of an adhesive layer between the longitudinally extending overlapping marginal portions of a running tubular wrapper for tobacco or tobacco filter material has an adjustable elongated infrared heater disposed a... | 04/07/1998 |
| 5611359 | Predrying apparatus for a filter cigarette manufacturing system A predrying apparatus is incorporated in a filter attachment machine of a filter cigarette manufacturing system, and includes a speed sensor for detecting the traveling speed of tip paper, a movable heater movable toward and away from the tip paper for he... | 03/18/1997 |
| 5169481 | Apparatus making thin laminate structures and forming the structures into lightweight, thin-walled tubes An apparatus for laminating at least two strips of strip material and forming the laminate into lightweight, thin-walled tubular members that may be used in the construction of non-combustion smoking articles.... | 12/08/1992 |
| 5131413 | Safety and protective device for association with a unit by which at least one continuous cigarette rod is dried and sealed in cigarette manufacturing machines In a device ensuring safety and protection around the unit by which a cigarette rod is dried and sealed in cigarette manufacturing machinery, a hinged guard is positioned alongside the area of the machine where the heat plate of the drying and sealing uni... | 07/21/1992 |
| 5058607 | Use of reactive hot melt adhesive for manufacture of cigarette filters The plug wrap paper used to form cigarette filters is bonded using a specific class of low viscosity reactive urethane hot melt adhesive compositions which provide a fast setting, temperature resistant bond that is not attacked by aromatic oils solvents o... | 10/22/1991 |
| 4480644 | Manufacture of cigarettes For manufacturing rod for cigarette use, rod filler and paper wrapper web are fed continuously to a rod-forming machine in which wrapper web is wrapped about said filler to provide rod and the wrapper is longitudinally lap seamed by bringing heated sealin... | 11/06/1984 |
| 4368743 | Method and machine for treating uniting bands in filter tipping machines or the like One side of the web which is subdivided into uniting bands in a filter tipping machine is coated with a water-containing adhesive. A certain percentage of water is expelled from the adhesive prior to application of uniting bands to groups of coaxial plain... | 01/18/1983 |
| 4361156 | Method and applicator for applying glue to a travelling stream of tipping paper The applicator roll is provided with two recesses to apply uniform layers of glue to a travelling stream of tipping paper. In addition, the applicator roll has a series of spaced apart grooves in each recess so as to apply additional stripes of glue onto ... | 11/30/1982 |
| 4291713 | Device for heating the seams of wrappers for rod-like fillers in cigarette making machines or the like The seam of the tubular wrapper for the rod-like filler of tobacco or filter material in a cigarette or filter rod making machine is heated by a first heating element during acceleration of the machine from zero speed to normal operating speed. When the m... | 09/29/1981 |
| 4180082 | Apparatus for manufacturing cigarettes or the like Disclosed is apparatus for manufacturing cigarettes, cigarillos, and the like. The apparatus comprises a housing, a tray for receiving and measuring a charge of a smokable substance, a cylindrical form for forming a cigarette or the like, and means for op... | 12/25/1979 |