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An apparatus including a user-operated and controlled apparatus for self-infliction of repetitive blows to the user's buttocks by a plurality of elongated arms bearing flexible extensions that rotate under the user's control.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7874295 | Shredded tobacco material feeder of a cigarette manufacturing apparatus A shredded tobacco material feeder of a cigarette manufacturing apparatus has a reservoir (2) of shredded tobacco material; a first separation chamber (20) and a second separation path (28) for dividing the shredded tobacco material into normal ... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7827994 | Method for producing a tobacco rod with a hollow passageway extending therethrough The present invention is directed at various apparatus and methods for forming a sealed hollow core tobacco rod. The methods of the invention at least comprise passing a trimmed tobacco column and paper under a tongue that widens and flattens the column and paper; f... | 11/09/2010 |
| 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 |
| 7380552 | Unit for forming a continuous mat of tobacco A unit for forming a continuous mat of tobacco with denser portions, wherein the mat of tobacco is formed on a suction conveyor belt looped about a return pulley and extending through two successive shredded tobacco feed stations; and wherein the return pulley, loca... | 06/03/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7326939 | Method and device for quality controlling packets A method and device for quality controlling packets of cigarettes, whereby, as a packet is fed, in use, through a quality control station, an optical detecting unit acquires data relative to given portions of the packet, which portions are coated with material optic... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7305994 | Device and a method for separating at least one continuous rod of forming material for tobacco products A continuous tobacco rod generated by a machine for making tobacco products is separated into reclaimable lengths by a device that comprises a pair of tension rollers designed to exert a pulling force on the rod, also a pair of brake rollers operating upstream of th... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7300394 | Method and device for producing a filter rod Method and device for producing a filter rod. The method includes melting at least one first type of filter material, pressing the at least one first type of filter material through at least one nozzle, depositing the at least one first type of filter material on a ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7286892 | Cutting device A cutting device having cutting means for cutting a cigarette rod transversely along a cutting plane; a carriage for accompanying the rod through the cutting plane; an operating unit for moving the carriage back and forth in a travelling direction crosswise to the c... | 10/23/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7275549 | Garniture web control 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 ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7266936 | Agricultural bagger with shielded hopper agitation and method An agricultural bagger apparatus and method for compacting feed into a horizontally deployed bag including a moving hopper wall and+ mechanism for moving the wall at an input end of hopper. The wall moving mechanism and the moving wall of the hopper sweeps the feed ... | 09/11/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7171283 | Web guiding system and method Systems and methods for guiding one or more web components in connection with a web converting manufacturing process such as that used for manufacturing disposable absorbent garments. Some of the disclosed embodiments include relating inspection data, such as produc... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7140164 | Method of and apparatus for applying adhesive to running webs of paper and the like A novel and improved method of applying adhesive to one side of a running web of wrapping material for a rod-like filler of filter material for tobacco smoke includes directing toward the one side of the web a stream of adhesive which issues from an open-and-shut or... | 11/28/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7115085 | Method and apparatus for incorporating objects into cigarette filters Cigarette filter rods having individual objects positioned at predetermined intervals therein are prepared by transferring the individual objects from a rotating horizontal pan to a rotating vertical wheel and then depositing the object into a web of filter tow. Eac... | 10/03/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7027148 | Method and apparatus for determining the triacetin content in filter plugs Apparatus and method for determining the triacetin content in cigarette filter plugs during the manufacture of the filter plugs from a filter tow. The apparatus including a filter tow storage container, a filter tow stretching device, a device for feeding triacetin,... | 04/11/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7007602 | Method and apparatus for controlling a cutting position of a web member and device therefor A method and apparatus for controlling the cutting position of a web member in a printing press by setting a reference tensile value, detecting the present tensile value of a web in a printing press during an actual printing operation, and controlling the starting a... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6964218 | Method of and apparatus for dividing a web of wrapping material A continuous web of cigarette paper or other wrapping material, particularly for smokers' products, is split by a pair of rotary knives into two strips which are fed to discrete strip processing units, such as wrapping units for rod-like tobacco fillers. If the widt... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6932752 | Multiple garniture belt drive system for filter rod machinery A machine for producing an endless filter rod comprises a multi-section garniture and a multiple garniture belt drive system that includes several garniture belts having linear aligned portions for delivering filter paper with filter components thereon through the s... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6918328 | Method of and apparatus for counteracting the lack of balance of parts in a cutoff for cigarettes and the like Lack of balance of a crank mechanism, which reciprocates a ledger having one or more guides for one or more cigarette rods or filter rods each issuing from a maker and being subdivided into a row of cigarettes or filter mouthpieces, is at least partially counteracte... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6908421 | Filter manufacturing machine A filter-manufacturing machine comprises spray nozzles located on both sides of a feeding path of sheet material made of filter fibers, respectively, and the spray nozzles each have a line of spray holes of a liquid binder with high viscosity and a plurality of air ... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6877515 | Method of making a tobacco rod Apparatus for making one or more rod-like fillers of shredded tobacco for use in the making of cigarettes or the like employs one or two pneumatic conveyors having endless foraminous belts trained over pulleys and including elongated stretches below communicating pa... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6814082 | Apparatus and method for generating information on the characteristics of a fiber rope The invention relates to a method and a device for providing information on the fiber structure, particularly for determining deviations from an average fiber structure, of a fiber rope in the tobacco-processing industry and especially a tobacco rope. A first measur... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6814080 | Apparatus for making a tobacco rod Apparatus for making one or more rod-like fillers of shredded tobacco for use in the making of cigarettes or the like employs one or two pneumatic conveyors having endless foraminous belts trained over pulleys and including elongated stretches below communicating pa... | 11/09/2004 |
| 6782889 | Apparatus for manipulating tows of filamentary material Apparatus for controlled removal of surplus material from one or more tows of tobacco particles, filter material for tobacco smoke or the like employs at least one belt conveyor for each stream. The outer side of such belt conveyor is provided with recesses which re... | 08/31/2004 |
| 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 |
| 6763838 | Device for detecting a filling density of filler forming a rod-shaped article A device for detecting a shredded tobacco filling density in a tobacco rod includes four light sources (18, 20, 22 and 24) arranged separately from one another at an angle of 45° around a tobacco rod (T) and causing infrared rays to enter the tobacco ... | 07/20/2004 |
| 6701933 | Apparatus for making a stream of tobacco shreds A device for creating a spread-out stream of tobacco fibers includes a concave-curved guide track along which the fiber stream of tobacco fibers are conveyed. The guide track has a generatrix based on a uniform generating curve. At least one air jet has a... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6701935 | Incorporation of smoke-modifying agents in smoking material rods A method of incorporating fibriform smoke-modifying material in smoking material rod, wherein fibriform smoke-modifying material is fed longitudinally thereof to a rod making machine (1). The longitudinal feed path in the machine is in a travel direction ... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6698434 | Method and unit for forming a tobacco bead A method and unit for forming a tobacco bead, whereby a forming conveyor conveying the tobacco bead cooperates with a pressing device for compacting portions of the tobacco bead equally spaced with a given spacing, and cooperates with a shaving device; an... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6578583 | Apparatus 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... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6539948 | Suction band for a cigarette making machine A suction band, for use in a cigarette making machine for conveying a cigarette filler stream, comprising a tape of heat-softenable plastics material wound so as to produce a multi-layer endless band and having perforations of which the edges of the adjac... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6508253 | Belt-type compression molding apparatus for a tobacco stream A belt-type compression molding apparatus for a tobacco stream includes a compression belt integral with a tobacco band for forming the tobacco stream, and the compression belt extends from the tobacco band toward a wrapping section of a cigarette manufac... | 01/21/2003 |
| 6443160 | Method and device for forming a cigarette rod containing an additive material The invention relates to a method for forming a cigarette rod containing an additive material in a cigarette making machine, in which a continuous tobacco rod is fed along a vacuum conveyor and particles of the additive material are fed to and incorporate... | 09/03/2002 |
