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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7231038 | Eyeglasses with wireless communication features A microphone, transmitter, speaker, receiver, and power source, all mounted to an eyeglasses frame, for sending and receiving signals wirelessly to and from a remote cell phone or other electronic device. The microphone and the transmitter can be mounted to extensio... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7154695 | System and method for controlling the speed of a tape drive A control system and method for operating a system comprising a host computer, a buffer, a tape drive and a tape is provided. The method includes writing data to the tape while the tape is traveling at a first speed; stopping the tape; determining an optimum second ... | 12/26/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6782890 | Apparatus for building tobacco rods in cigarette making machines The distributor of a cigarette rod making machine employs a zig-zag sifter which receives a mixture of tobacco ribs and shreds from a reservoir by way of a duct or an elevator conveyor. The shreds leave the uppermost stage of the sifter and are conveyed, by a Coanda... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6732740 | Method of making a tobacco rod with embedded additive The filler of a cigarette rod has a tubular portion made of shredded tobacco and surrounding at least one row of spherical inserts made of aromatic material or aerosol. The tubular portion is made by feeding tobacco shreds against the underside of the horizontal low... | 05/11/2004 |
| 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 |
| 6516809 | Method of and apparatus for making a tobacco rod with embedded additive The filler of a cigarette rod has a tubular portion made of shredded tobacco and surrounding at least one row of spherical inserts made of aromatic material or aerosol. The tubular portion is made by feeding tobacco shreds against the underside of the hor... | 02/11/2003 |
| 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 |
| 6390100 | Method of and apparatus for making cigarette rods with composite fillers A continuous rod with a composite filler having a core constituting a small-diameter cigarette rod and a tube surrounding the core and being confined within a converted web of cigarette paper has axially spaced-apart densified sections in the core as well... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6321756 | Device for assembling a continuous strand of tobacco The invention relates to a suction strand conveyor of a cigarette strand machine, which is guided around a contact wheel in an inlet area of a shaping arrangement. A plurality of suction air channels connect an inner bearing space of the contact wheel and... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6250310 | Cigarette manufacturing machine A cigarette manufacturing machine having a shaving device for shaving at least one bead of tobacco, wherein two superimposed, mutually contacting disks with respective serrated outer edges are rotated about a common axis at different peripheral speeds to ... | 06/26/2001 |
| 6247475 | Device for compressing and molding a filler stream in a cigarette manufacturing machine In a cigarette manufacturing machine, a device for compressing and molding a filler stream includes a tongue, which defines a part of a compression-molding passage. The filler stream passes the compression-molding passage. The device further includes an u... | 06/19/2001 |
| 6202651 | Smoking articles This invention provides a smoking article (1) having reduced sidestream smoke in the inter-puff period. A smoking article (1) according to the invention may comprise segments of a high level of tobacco-containing material (5) interconnected by segments of... | 03/20/2001 |
| 6135119 | Device for compressive molding stream of filler for tobacco rod In a cigarette manufacturing machine, a device for compressive molding a stream of filler comprises a forming mold having a tongue and a shoe being integrally formed with each other, and a forming surface formed at a lower surface of the tongue, and a com... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6009879 | Tobacco trimming and pre-equalizing device An apparatus for forming a tobacco rod for cigarette manufacture, fitted with a suction-type rod conveyor equipped with a revolving, continuous, porous belt, to which vacuum is applied from the top and on whose underside tobacco shreds are conveyed along ... | 01/04/2000 |
| 5810016 | Compression molding apparatus for a cut tobacco layer in a cigarette manufacturing machine A compression molding apparatus for a cut tobacco layer in a cigarette manufacturing machine comprises a shoe for separating the cut tobacco layer from a suction belt and feeding the cut tobacco layer onto paper and a tongue coupled integrally to the shoe... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5810017 | Supplying device for supplying shredded tobacco to rod forming section of cigarette manufacturing machine A supplying device of shredded tobacco has a conveying unit arranged between a first tobacco band and a second tobacco band. The conveying unit has a reforming passage. When a first layer of the shredded tobacco is supplied from the first tobacco band int... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5797406 | Cigarette manufacture A scanning device for a cigarette making machine comprises a low energy X-ray beam emitter (110) for passing an X-ray beam through the cigarette rod (116), and an X-ray detector (126;202) arranged to receive the beam after it has passed through the cigare... | 08/25/1998 |
| 5794630 | Unit for simultaneously forming two layers of tobacco A unit for forming two layers of tobacco, wherein a stream of shredded tobacco fed in a given direction is intercepted by two side by side dividing devices, each having a suction conveyor belt, one branch of which travels crosswise to a respective portion... | 08/18/1998 |
| 5762075 | Method of and apparatus for ascertaining the density of a stream of fibrous material The density of a wrapped rod-like filler of tobacco or filter material for tobacco smoke is ascertained by causing successive increments of the filler to traverse beams of X-rays which, after having penetrated through small portions of the filler, impinge... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5746225 | Method and apparatus for determining the tobacco shred filling quality of cigarette rods An apparatus for determining a tobacco shred filling quality includes a rotational position detector for detecting the rotational position of a driving drum of a cigarette manufacturing apparatus, a density detector for continuously detecting a tobacco sh... | 05/05/1998 |
| 5718249 | Shredded tobacco supplying apparatus for a cigarette manufacturing machine A shredded tobacco supplying apparatus for a cigarette manufacturing machine has a running speed sensor for detecting the belt running speed of a belt conveyor for conveying shredded tobacco, a blow fan for producing an air flow in a shredded tobacco supp... | 02/17/1998 |
| 5711318 | Trimming control device for cigarette manufacturing machine A trimming control device for a cigarette manufacturing machine is provided with a pair of rotatable trimming disks having pockets on their peripheral edges for trimming a shredded tobacco layer on a tobacco band, a detecting device for detecting a fillin... | 01/27/1998 |
| 5626152 | Cigarette making machine A cigarette making machine comprises means for showering tobacco onto two suction bands 610,612 to form tobacco sub-streams of similar width on the respective bands which are then merged to form a cigarette filler stream, and includes rod-forming means fo... | 05/06/1997 |
| 5622189 | Cigarette making machine A twin track cigarette making machine comprises two substantially horizontal shower channels through which tobacco is arranged to be showered onto two suction bands moving in converging directions in a substantially horizontal plane and presenting substan... | 04/22/1997 |
| 5615693 | Cigarette rod manufacturing apparatus A cigarette rod manufacturing apparatus includes a shaping section for continuously forming a cigarette rod from a paper and cut tobacco, by using an endless fibrous garniture tape traveling in one direction. Two spray nozzles are located outside the shap... | 04/01/1997 |
| 5586565 | Method for varying tobacco rod density and tobacco rods with varying density produced thereby A cam is provided having one or more end blades, each having a respective support surface to compress a corresponding end region of a tobacco rod, and one or more interposed blades, each having a respective support surface to comprise a corresponding inte... | 12/24/1996 |
| 5501233 | Apparatus for varying tobacco rod density A cam is provided having one or more end blades, each having a respective support surface to compress a corresponding end region of a tobacco rod, and one or more interposed blades, each having a respective support surface to comprise a corresponding inte... | 03/26/1996 |
| 5413121 | Cigarette making machine In a cigarette making machine, tobacco is arranged to be showered towards two suction bands to form tobacco sub-streams on the respective bands which are then merged to form a single cigarette filler stream which (possibly after trimming) is enclosed in a... | 05/09/1995 |
| 5370137 | Apparatus for controlling the diameter of cigarettes to be manufactured by means of a cigarette production machine A control apparatus according to the present invention comprises a hinge for rockably supporting a second upper mold, which is utilized for the final formation of a tobacco rod, right over a lower mold of a cigarette production machine, an adjusting devic... | 12/06/1994 |
| 5360021 | Cigarette manufacturing machine of the double tobacco rod type In a cigarette manufacturing machine of the double rod type, two fillets of tobacco carried by two first conveyor belts are deposited onto two second conveyor belts, positioned beneath the first and carrying two respective strips of paper. Permeable to ai... | 11/01/1994 |
| 5339836 | Cigarette-making machine with transfer device A strip of paper (42) in which the rod of tobacco (31) is to be wrapped runs parallel for a certain distance to a porous band (21) carrying the rod. By applying a certain degree of compression to the rod before it enters a guide groove disposed under a gu... | 08/23/1994 |
| 5337761 | System and a method for manufacturing cigarettes A cigarette. manufacturing machine has a first tobacco band for forming a cut tobacco layer by attracting cut tobacco, a folding stack for folding the cut tobacco layer from the first tobacco band into layer portions and piling the layer portions on one a... | 08/16/1994 |
| 5168882 | Device for checking a stream of tobacco before trimming The device is made up of a cylindrical rotary disk (32), part of the cylindrical outside surface (32b) of which intercepts a surplus portion of the stream of tobacco and separates it from the main stream. The surplus portion is eliminated and recycled wit... | 12/08/1992 |
| 5163452 | Rod making apparatus for use in the manufacture of smoking articles Rods for use in the manufacture of smoking products are provided using a rod-making apparatus. The apparatus includes (a) an unwind unit for continuously supplying a material having a continuous integrity; (b) a rod-forming unit for forming a rod-like com... | 11/17/1992 |
| 5159939 | Method of and apparatus for delivering tobacco to a cigarette maker An apparatus and method of delivering smokable material to a cigarette maker with reduced degradation of the smokable material. A vertical reservoir tube is provided directly overhead of a plurality of rotatable and longitudinally vibratable rollers havin... | 11/03/1992 |
| 5024241 | Method and apparatus for manufacturing a rod of tobacco or the like enclosed by a paper strip, and cigarette manufactured by said method A method and apparatus for manufacturing a rod of tobacco or the like enclosed by a paper strip is described, wherein a paper strip is supported and transported by a garniture tape and tobacco is deposited on the paper strip. The tobacco is compressed int... | 06/18/1991 |
| 5003996 | Apparatus for trimming and compression of tobacco Combined in a very compact unit (1) are means for trimming and for compressing tobacco during the cycle of formation of a cigarette rod. Dense-end disks (3, 4) are made up of beveled circular cutters in contact (at 21) at their peripheries. The trimmed to... | 04/02/1991 |
| 4979521 | Process for manufacturing cigarette rods Cigarette rods are manufactured at high rates of speed using a cigarette making machine having a tongue which is equipped such that water is continuously fed therethrough in order to exit the surface of the tongue which contacts a tobacco filler stream pa... | 12/25/1990 |
| 4917118 | Method of making cigarettes by simultaneously forming two side-by-side arranged rods, and cigarette-making machine for carrying out the said method The object of the invention is a method and a cigarette-making machine for simultaneously making two side-by-side arranged cigarette rods. According to the invention, in order to avoid, or at least reduce the inconveniences arising from the different dyna... | 04/17/1990 |
