Device for combining groups of filter segments for producing multi-segment filters of the tobacco industry, and trough drum

US8172739B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• HAUNI MASCHINENBAU GMBH · DE

Inventors

• Sonke Horn · Geesthacht, DE
• Thorsten Scherbarth · Geesthacht, DE
• Stephan Wolff · Glinde, DE
• Gerd Strohecker · Geesthacht, DE
• Steffen Rocktaschel · Neubukow, DE
• Wolfgang Steiniger
• Heinz-Christen Lorenzen · Bargteheide, DE
• Uwe Heitmann · Hamburg, DE
• Nikolaos Georgitsis · Ostercappeln, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 31, 2002
• Grant date: May 8, 2012
• Expiry date: Aug 31, 2022

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A24C5/478
• WIPO field: Other consumer goods
• WIPO sector: Other fields

Abstract

A device for combining groups of at least two different types of filter segments for producing multi-segment filters in the tobacco industry in a continuous process includes a plurality of independent functional units that are each designed as a module.