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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6913022 | Device for filling a cigarette tube with a metered amount of tobacco Devices for filling a cigarette tube with tobacco are disclosed. In one aspect, the devices contain separate metering, compression, and injection mechanisms, which may be manual, partially automatic, or fully automatic. The metering mechanisms move a proper amount o... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6206006 | Manual packing device for cigarette tubes, in particular cigarette filter tubes with a variable-length tobacco packing chamber hand filling device for cigarette tubes, particularly filter cigarette tubes, with a tobacco press chamber variable in length Hand filling device for cigarette tubes, particularly for filter cigarette tubes, with a tobacco press chamber extending in the longitudinal direction thereof, which is formed by a casing (12) located in the base portion (14), a press head (16) provided o... | 03/27/2001 |
| 5769095 | Method of and apparatus for filling tubular wrappers with smokable material Successive tubular wrappers of cigarette paper, which are conveyed sideways in the peripheral flutes of ail indelible rotary conveyor, receive elongated batches of smokable material during intervals of dwell at a filling station. The batches are introduce... | 06/23/1998 |
| 5749378 | Tobacco product for the self-preparation of a cigarette, especially of filter-tipped cigarette and method of forming the cigarette A tobacco product for self-preparing a cigarette, especially a filter-tipped cigarette, includes a tobacco portion (14) matched with the tobacco filling of a finished cigarette and having an air-permeable outer surface so that it cannot be smoked per se. ... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5687747 | Method of and apparatus for assembling accumulations of particulate materials Particles of comminuted smokable material are loosened in a downwardly converging compartment defined by a funnel-shaped array of intermittently driven endless flexible belts. The outlet at the lower end of the compartment delivers flows of loosened mater... | 11/18/1997 |
| 5657768 | Cigarette tube filling device The cigarette tube filling device (100) comprises a housing bottom part (1), consisting of a base part (2) and of a cover part (3), as well as a housing top part (6). There is formed a press chamber (8), the lower half of which is formed by a tongue (12) ... | 08/19/1997 |
| 5450861 | Manual filling device for cigarette tubes, particularly for cigarette filter tubes A manual filling device for cigarette tubes, comprising a tobacco compression chamber extending in longitudinal direction of said device and being defined by a housing (12) disposed in a bottom part (14). A pressing bar (16) is provided on a lid (18) whic... | 09/19/1995 |
| 5398701 | Device for filling cigarette tubes A device for filling prefabricated cigarette tubes, having a housing (1), a tobacco chamber (17), a trough-shaped tobacco holder (7), a compression bar (23), a stop (31) for one end of the plug of tobacco, a finger or bushing (14) on which one end of a ci... | 03/21/1995 |
| 5105830 | Device and method for assembly of cigarettes Individual assembly of cigarettes from cut tobacco and preformed cigarette paper tubes is facilitated by providing charges of cut tobacco in cartridges. An extension in the form of a hollow tube is provided at one end of the cartridge to enable the sheath... | 04/21/1992 |
| 5088507 | Apparatus for assembling components of a smoking article Apparatus is described for inserting a component comprising an elongate cartridge containing an aerosol forming material, at one end of which there is a fuel element, within a jacket component comprising a rod, a sleeve of insulating material, or a combin... | 02/18/1992 |
| 5088506 | Portable manually operable cigarette making machine This invention relates to portable manually operable cigarette making machines, one problem is the number of moving parts any reduction of these parts reduces the cost of the machine and the wearing of these parts. These machines have two basic functions ... | 02/18/1992 |
| 3933159 | Manufacture of mouthpiece cigarettes Using a hot melt adhesive on the strip of material uniting a mouthpiece to a cigarette, and hardening the adhesive while the strip is rolled around the assemblage by heat lost to a surface along which the assemblage is rolled. The rolling takes place betw... | 01/20/1976 |
