Equipment for manufacturing cigarettes
US7195019B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Dec 20, 2002 |
| Grant date | Mar 27, 2007 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 20, 2022 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
- CPC primaryA24C5/20
- WIPO fieldOther consumer goods
- WIPO sectorOther fields
Abstract
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, are applied to a continuous paper web on the cigarette making apparatus. The formulation can be applied to the paper web using application apparatus possessing rollers, and one of those rollers has a series of pockets in its roll face to receive additive formulation from a reservoir and to define the pattern of the formulation on the paper. The automated cigarette making apparatus can comprise multiple components. A first component of the assembly provides a source of paper web, applies additive material to that web in a pattern and dries the paper web; while a second component receives the paper web, supplies tobacco filler and manufactures a cigarette rod from the paper web and tobacco filler.
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