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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7182918 | Desulfurization process A hydrocarbon desulfurization system that circulates fluidizable solid particles through a fluidized bed reactor, a fluidized bed regenerator, and a fluidized bed reducer to thereby provide for substantially continuous desulfurization of a hydrocarbon-containing flu... | 02/27/2007 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 6634365 | Method of and apparatus for homogenizing streams of particulate fibrous material A shower of tobacco particles is fed into the upper end of a downwardly sloping and downwardly tapering funnel-shaped part of a conveyor wherein the particles gather into a flow of interlaced particles. Successive increments of the flow are acted upon by ... | 10/21/2003 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 6263881 | Apparatus for applying a liquid medium to tobacco The invention relates to an apparatus for applying a liquid medium, more particularly, a flavor or menthol, to tobacco in a cigarette maker equipped with a conduit for feeding the liquid medium, and provided at the end of the conduit with a nozzle orifice... | 07/24/2001 |
| 6263883 | Interchange apparatus for a pneumatic conveying system An interchange apparatus for a pneumatic conveying system including a plurality of branch tubes joined together at an acute angle in an interchange chamber to form a main tube and a flap positioned between at least two branch tubes of the plurality of bra... | 07/24/2001 |
| 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 |
| 6202648 | Method of and apparatus for making a cigarette rod with an insert A cigarette rod wherein a flexible tubular insert is surrounded by smokable material which, in turn, is surrounded by a wrapper of cigarette paper is formed by advancing the insert from a source at a variable speed toward one or more stations where the ru... | 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 |
| 5967146 | Shredded tobacco supplying apparatus for a cigarette manufacturing machine A shredded tobacco supplying apparatus for a cigarette manufacturing machine has a supply passage extending toward a conveyor belt, the supply passage is provided with a plurality of air blowing openings arranged at intervals in the direction perpendicula... | 10/19/1999 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 5645086 | Apparatus for evacuating surplus air for the distributor of a tobacco processing machine The distributor of a cigarette rod maker has a chamber bounded at least in part by a concave guide for a flow of fragments of smokable material in a stream of transporting fluid, such as air. The stream contains a surplus which is withdrawn from a central... | 07/08/1997 |
| 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 |
| 5494053 | Cigarette making machine A cigarette making machine includes a suction conveyor arranged to carry a tobacco filler stream which is substantially wider than its depth, a suction chamber situated downstream of the zone in which the filler stream is formed on the conveyor or receive... | 02/27/1996 |
| 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 |
| 5230353 | Method of and apparatus for simultaneously producing two continuous tobacco streams Two tobacco streams are made simultaneously by feeding a main flow of tobacco particles upwardly through a suction duct which terminates beneath two parallel foraminous belt conveyors. The sidewalls of the duct have alternating wedge-like ramps which divi... | 07/27/1993 |
| 5199446 | Cigarette making machine A cigarette making machine includes a shower channel (10; 46; 59; 75; 90; 102; 113; 121) through which tobacco is arranged to be showered towards two suction bands (11,12; 66,67; 76,77; 103,104; 114,115) arranged to move towards one another so as to form ... | 04/06/1993 |
| 5188127 | Apparatus for feeding tobacco to distributors of rod making machines Apparatus for feeding batches or a continuous stream of tobacco particles into the magazine of the distributor in a cigarette or cigar rod making machine has a container which can receive a stream of gaseous carrier medium for tobacco particles from a shr... | 02/23/1993 |
| 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 |
| 5154190 | Apparatus for building a tobacco stream A cigarette rod making machine wherein the apparatus which supplies tobacco particles to the stream building zone at the underside of a belt conveyor is designed to prevent entry of fragments of tobacco ribs into the outer layer of the stream. This is ach... | 10/13/1992 |
| 5141002 | Apparatus for feeding tobacco particles to one or more consuming machines Apparatus for feeding tobacco particles to one or two cigarette rod making machines has a magazine with a duct having an open lower end above the upper reach of an endless belt conveyor. The conveyor can be driven to advance tobacco particles in the duct ... | 08/25/1992 |
| 5141001 | Method of and apparatus for ascertaining the filling power of fibrous material in cigarettes and the like The hardness of cigarettes which move in a direction at right angles to their axes is measured with one or more pivotable levers which rest on the moving cigarettes to elastically deform the adjacent portions of the cigarettes. The extent of elastic defor... | 08/25/1992 |
