Method of and apparatus for decontaminating the exposed surfaces of filter mouthpieces in smokers products

US5738115A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• HAUNI MASCHINENBAU GMBH · DE

Inventors

• Firdausia Chehab · Hamburg, DE
• Stefan Fietkau · Westerau, DE
• Peter-Franz Arnold · Hamburg, DE
• Thomas Juschus · Hamburg, DE
• Clemens Schmick · Geesthacht, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 3, 1996
• Grant date: Apr 14, 1998
• Expiry date: Oct 3, 2016

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A24D3/0262
• WIPO field: Other consumer goods
• WIPO sector: Other fields

Abstract

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 to the making of cuts across filter rod sections of double unit length between pairs of plain cigarettes to obtain filter cigarettes of unit length. The fragments of fibers which tend to become separated and to contaminate the area around the filter cigarette making machine are either bonded (e.g., by heat and/or by a solvent) to the respective mouthpieces, or are removed by suction and/or by resorting to electrostatic precipitation. It is also contemplated to cause smoke-permeable layers of filter material to overlie the end faces of the mouthpieces.