Did You Know...
...that the Eveready Battery began as an invention called the "electric flowerpot," which was a tube with a battery and light bulb inside? The idea was to fasten this gizmo to the side of a flowerpot so it would illuminate the flowers from the bottom. The idea died on the vine and the businessman who licensed the flower pot, Conrad Huber, was left with a pile of useless tubes -- until he found a way to market them as batteries to light the world!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7299726 | Method and unit for transversely cutting cigarette portions or similar on a filter assembly machine A method and unit for transversely cutting cigarette portions or similar on a filter assembly machine, whereby a cigarette portion is fed transversely through a cutting station to intercept a rotary circular blade, which is maintained in a work position by an arm mo... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7287529 | Cigarette maker In a cigarette maker comprising a descent channel filled with shredded tobacco by a carding unit and with reclaimed tobacco by a conveyor, the shredded tobacco and the reclaimed tobacco are taken up and transferred by a toothed unit toward an ascent channel, from wh... | 10/30/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7185658 | Apparatus for producing and/or packaging cigarettes During the production of cigarettes, but in particular in the region of a cigarette-packaging machine, a comparatively large amount of tobacco accumulates as waste. This is specifically removed by arranging suction-extraction elements and/or conveying-away elements ... | 03/06/2007 |
| 6918863 | Method of and apparatus for replacing cutting implements in severing machines Apparatus for replacing spent and/or damaged knives with fresh knives in a machine wherein semifinished rod-shaped smokers' products are converted into cigarettes, filter mouthpieces or the like employs a knife holder, a locking device which can releasably clamp a k... | 07/19/2005 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 6708695 | Cigarette rod product with different densities An asymmetrical trimmer disk/paddle wheel apparatus for trimming tobacco from a stream or braid of cut tobacco in a cigarette maker comprises a pair of counter rotating disks with a plurality of pockets arranged to coact with one another to trim off excess tobacco a... | 03/23/2004 |
| 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 |
| 6478031 | Ledger for cigarette making machine cut-off This invention is concerned with improvements to a ledger for a rod-making machine of the type comprising a rod supporting part (14, 16) which is pivotally mounted on two linear motion devices (10; 12) each comprising a fixed gear (A), a first orbiting ge... | 11/12/2002 |
| 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 |
| 6360751 | Asymmetrical trimmer disk apparatus An asymmetrical trimmer disk/paddle wheel apparatus for trimming tobacco from a stream or braid of cut tobacco in a cigarette maker comprises a pair of counter rotating disks with a plurality of pockets arranged to coact with one another to trim off exces... | 03/26/2002 |
| 6354300 | Pusher/cutter drum arrangement for positioning and cutting rod-shaped objects A pusher/cutter drum arrangement for use in the tobacco-processing industry for longitudinal-axial positioning and cutting of rod-shaped objects includes a rotating trough drum containing receiving troughs for receiving, respectively, the rod-shaped objec... | 03/12/2002 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 6067992 | Cigarette manufacturing machine having a shaving device A cigarette manufacturing machine having a shaving device for shaving a bead of tobacco fed along a given path, wherein two tubular shaving bodies, arranged eccentrically one inside the other and having respective serrated annular end edges having a tange... | 05/30/2000 |
| 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 |
| 5816261 | Cigarette rod cutting A ledger device suitable for use in a cigarette making machine, for supporting one or more cigarette rods while being cut into predetermined lengths, comprises two similar ledger support members (10; 12) mounted respectively on two pairs of cranks (30,32;... | 10/06/1998 |
| 5813412 | Device for trimming shredded tobacco layer formed in cigarette manufacturing machine A device for trimming a shredded tobacco layer in a cigarette manufacturing machine is provided with a pair of trimming disks rotatably arranged, and a peeling disk rotatably arranged under the trimming disks. The peeling disk has a peeling blade formed a... | 09/29/1998 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 5769096 | Device for trimming shredded tobacco layer formed in cigarette manufacturing machine A device for trimming a shredded tobacco layer in a cigarette manufacturing machine comprises a pair of trimming disks rotatably arranged, a peeler wheel rotatably arranged under the trimming disks, the peeler wheel having a peeling blade formed at the pe... | 06/23/1998 |
| 5743275 | Cigarette making machine A cigarette making machine comprises a channel (104; 106/228; 230/319; 320) through which tobacco is showered onto the inside surface of a suction band (100; 102/232; 234/309; 310) passing around a number of pulleys having approximately vertical axes of r... | 04/28/1998 |
| 5738115 | Method of and apparatus for decontaminating the exposed surfaces of filter mouthpieces in smokers products Fragments of plastic fibers, such as cellulose acetate fibers, forming part of mouthpieces of filter cigarettes or like rod-shaped smokers' products tend to become separated from the respective filter mouthpieces at the end faces which develop in response... | 04/14/1998 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 5568818 | Method and device for determining the density of a stream of fibrous material on a cigarette manufacturing machine To determine the density of a stream of fibrous material on a cigarette manufacturing machine, two different measurements are performed, the first of which is capacitive and supplies a first signal as a function of the density of the dry component and of ... | 10/29/1996 |
| 5566686 | Method and device for determining the density of a stream of fibrous material on a cigarette manufacturing machine To determine the density of a stream of fibrous material on a cigarette manufacturing machine, two different measurements are performed, the first of which is capacitive and supplies a first signal as a function of the density of the dry component and of ... | 10/22/1996 |
| 5531234 | Apparatus for controlling the filling amount of shredded tobacco in cigarettes A control apparatus for a cigarette production machine according to the present invention comprises a density sensor for detecting the filling density of shredded tobacco in a continuously formed tobacco rod, an integrator for integrating the output of th... | 07/02/1996 |
| 5526826 | Apparatus for removing surplus from a tobacco stream Apparatus for removing surplus at one side of an unequalized tobacco stream includes a transporting unit with a pneumatic conveyor having an endless foraminous belt which overlies the stream and defines with two sidewalls a channel for advancement of the ... | 06/18/1996 |
| 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 |
| 5497790 | Cut tobacco layer trimming apparatus for a cigarette manufacturing machine A trimming apparatus for a cigarette manufacturing machine has a pair of trimming disks for trimming a cut tobacco layer formed on a tobacco band by rotating, each disk having a plurality of pockets on its peripheral edge, and a synchronizing device in a ... | 03/12/1996 |
| 5409020 | Method of controlling tobacco flow on cigarette manufacturing machines A method of controlling tobacco flow on cigarette manufacturing machines, whereby a first stream of shredded tobacco, containing tobacco in excess of the required amount, is fed on a conveyor along a path extending through a shaving station where the exce... | 04/25/1995 |
| 5325874 | Apparatus for removing surplus from a stream of fibrous material A tobacco stream which contains a surplus of tobacco particles is conveyed in a channel past a trimming device which serves to remove the surplus and has two disc-shaped tobacco engaging members extending through openings in the sidewalls of the channel a... | 07/05/1994 |
| 5178166 | Filter cigarette A filter cigarette comprising a tobacco rod and filter portion comprising a fluted tubular extrusion. The flutes are blocked intermediate the rod end and mouth end of the extrusion. The tobacco rod is circumferentially wrapped with a porous wrapper compri... | 01/12/1993 |
