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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6986632 | Method and unit for feeding elongated elements A method of feeding cigars to a hopper of a wrapping machine, wherein the cigars are housed in bulk and in orderly manner inside containers; each container has a top opening by which to receive and unload the cigars in the aforementioned orderly manner; a full conta... | 01/17/2006 |
| 6860697 | Container unloading apparatus A tray unloader for rod-like articles of the tobacco industry includes a horizontally-movable, slidable carriage supporting an independently-driven tray inverting carrier arranged to pick up an upright full tray from a receiving position and invert it during movemen... | 03/01/2005 |
| 5318049 | Method of and apparatus for drying a tobacco sample and determining the moisture content thereof A method of and an appratus for automatically determining the moisture content of a tobacco sample and for then automatically determining the stem content of the tobacco sample are disclosed. The apparatus utilizes a dryer, such as a rotary drum dryer wit... | 06/07/1994 |
| 5000197 | Automatic control for feeding tobacco to a machine A pressure sensor (P) and a time-measurement component actuate a gate (15) for clearing out a duct (7) as a function of a predetermined program. When the gate is open, the feed of the machine is interrrupted. When the gate is closed, suction air carries a... | 03/19/1991 |
| 4998540 | Method of and apparatus for eliminating irregularities from a stream of fibrous material A tobacco stream which is built at the underside of the lower reach of an endless foraminous belt conveyor is monitored by a detector which generates a signal in response to detection of excessive accumulations of tobacco in the stream. Such signals are u... | 03/12/1991 |
| 4971077 | On-line tobacco evaluation system and method The present invention comprises a product moving apparatus for moving a tobacco product, a vertical feeder tube for metering the tobacco product onto the product moving apparatus at a predetermined rate, a system for maintaining a predetermined height of ... | 11/20/1990 |
| 4813527 | Conveyor system for rod-like articles A variable capacity reservoir (88) for rod-like articles in stack formation comprises a variable length elevator (26) having an upper outlet (66) which rises and falls with the level of articles in the reservoir. The elevator (26) includes an endless band... | 03/21/1989 |
| 4700719 | Control of cigarette rod formation Tobacco trimmed from a filler rod is recycled and used in the control of the rod-forming operation. A reservoir vessel is divided into physically-separate chambers, a narrow one of which receives the recycled trimmed tobacco and a wider one of which recei... | 10/20/1987 |
| 4696311 | Forming a rod of smokable material In a machine for making cigarette rods containing two types of tobacco there is provided a dual hopper (1200) for containing the two types of tobacco separately and a conveyor (1206) to transport the tobaccos side by side to a chute (1203) and then to a c... | 09/29/1987 |
| 4685476 | Apparatus for supplying particles of tobacco to processing machines Tobacco shreds are drawn from a magazine by a pneumatic conveyor pipe which delivers the shreds into the lower chamber of an air separator whose upper chamber is separated from the lower chamber by an air-permeable partition and is connected with the inle... | 08/11/1987 |
| 4651758 | Apparatus for detecting foreign objects in the distributor of a cigarette maker The distributor of a cigarette maker has an upwardly travelling conveyor which transports particles of tobacco past a rotating paddle wheel serving to remove the surplus of particles and to return the removed surplus into the magazine of the distributor. ... | 03/24/1987 |
| 4601297 | Cigarette manufacturing machine with an auxiliary tobacco feed unit Cigarette manufacturing machine with an auxiliary recirculated tobacco feed unit communicating with a downward duct supplying the machine itself. An input conveyor on the auxiliary unit communicates with a tray located between an output on the conveyor it... | 07/22/1986 |
| 4587979 | Apparatus for supplying particulate material to tobacco processing machines and the like A pneumatic conveyor draws particles of tobacco from a vibrating trough by causing an air stream to flow from its intake end, which is adjacent to the trough, to its intake end which is connected to a suction generating device. A cyclone separator is inst... | 05/13/1986 |
| 4570644 | Cigarette making machine hopper This application describes various possible modifications in the cigarette machine hopper described in G.B. specification No. 2,045,595. In particular, as shown in FIG. 2, a concave member 126 around a carded roller 23 from which tobacco is removed by a p... | 02/18/1986 |
| 4562917 | Fixed quantity feed apparatus for bean sprouts A fixed quantity feed apparatus which includes a feeding device for shaping various kinds of articles such as bean sprouts, various cut vegetables, spaghetti and noodles, into the form of belt and conveying them, a weighing device for detecting that the a... | 01/07/1986 |
| 4513755 | Control device for regulating the feeding of cut tobacco to a cigarette making machine This invention relates to an automatic control device adapted to regulate, without interruptions, cigarette-making process and in a substantially continuous way, the cut tobacco being re-circulated back to the distributor, as trimmed excess tobacco (S) fr... | 04/30/1985 |
| 4491138 | Cigarette manufacture An apparatus for pneumatically feeding tobacco to a number of cigarette making machines having a plurality of conveyors. The conveyors feed tobacco onto a circular feed table where the tobacco is distributed to each of the cigarette machines. The table is... | 01/01/1985 |
| 4390029 | Apparatus for storing and transporting comminuted tobacco or the like Shredded tobacco is supplied from a storage reservoir to one or more cigarette making machines by way of discrete pneumatic conveying pipes. The reservoir receives fresh tobacco at regular or irregular intervals so that the quantity of tobacco in its inte... | 06/28/1983 |
| 4368742 | Apparatus for replenishing the supplies of filter rod sections in the magazines of filter tipping machines The magazine of each of an entire battery of filter tipping machines receives filter rod sections by way of two discrete pneumatic conveyors whose inlets receive filter rod sections from discrete sources by way of pneumatic propelling units and whose outl... | 01/18/1983 |
| 4330001 | Cigarette making machine hopper A hopper for a cigarette making machine includes an elevator, conveying means for conveying a carpet of tobacco towards the elevator, whereby the elevator carries upwards a stream of tobacco from the carpet, and a photoelectric or other position-sensing d... | 05/18/1982 |
| 4220164 | Tobacco distributor for cigarette rod making machines or the like An upright duct in the distributor of a cigarette rod making machine receives identical quantities per weight of tobacco particles per unit of time. The volume of the column of tobacco particles in the duct is monitored by two photoelectric cells which tr... | 09/02/1980 |
| 4214595 | Cigarette making machines In the hopper of a cigarette making machine the tobacco slides down a ramp into a narrow downwardly extending channel situated at a position spaced from the area in the hopper which initially receives the tobacco. The tobacco is fed upwardly from that are... | 07/29/1980 |
| 4172515 | Method and apparatus for supplying tobacco to tobacco cutting machines The moving parts of a tobacco cutting machine and the conveyor or conveyors which transfer tobacco to the cutting machine are driven by a variable speed motor whose speed is regulated in dependency on the volume of tobacco in a duct from which the conveyo... | 10/30/1979 |
| 4155367 | Apparatus for producing a continuous tobacco stream A distributor for use in cigarette makers wherein an upright duct receives loose tobacco shreds and discharges the thus formed tobacco column into a compacting device therebelow. The compacting device has two endless belts whose inner reaches are located ... | 05/22/1979 |
| 4111212 | Dosing and weighing of cut tobacco A method and apparatus for dosing and weighing "shag" tobacco comprising the steps of dosing an approximate quantity of tangled long fibre tobacco, which is less than the required quantity, and subsequently dosing disentangled long fibres to make up the a... | 09/05/1978 |
| 4095604 | Cigarette-making machines A hopper for a cigarette making machine comprises means for delivering tobacco continuously into a space defined partly by a spiked drum arranged to carry tobacco continuously from the space and towards a picker roller which removes the tobacco from the s... | 06/20/1978 |
| 4084685 | Method and apparatus for manipulating rod-like articles A method and apparatus for handling and transporting rod-like articles between production machines, for example articles such as cigarette filters between filter rod makers and cigarette filter tippers. Rods transported end to end along a longitudinal str... | 04/18/1978 |
| 3996943 | Distributor for cigarette rod making machines or the like A distributor for use in a cigarette rod making machine has a magazine for shredded tobacco, a carded drum which rotates about a horizontal axis and draws from the magazine a continuous layer of tobacco shreds toward its apex, a homogenizing device which ... | 12/14/1976 |
| 3986517 | Method and apparatus for mixing streams of separately treated tobacco Tobacco shreds which are conveyed from a source in the form of a continuous stream are mixed with expanded tobacco ribs in such a way that the ratio of dry weights of successive unit lengths of the two streams which reach a mixing station remains constant... | 10/19/1976 |
