| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| RE32001 |
Method and apparatus for feeding cigarettes or analogous articles to packing machines or the lik |
October 8, 1985 |
| Trays containing stacks of cigarettes are moved to an evacuating station above a vertically movable platform which descends as soon as the movable bottom of a filled tray is moved to its open position. The platform then lowers a stack of cigarettes from the interior of a filled tray onto |
| RE31816 |
Method of increasing the specific volume of tobacco ribs |
January 29, 1985 |
| Tobacco ribs which are separated from laminae are contacted by steam at a temperature of approximately 150 degrees whereby the steam condenses on the surfaces of ribs and the thus released heat promotes the penetration of condensate into as well as gradual evaporation of initial moisture |
| RE29042 |
Apparatus for building a tobacco stream |
November 23, 1976 |
| A distributor for comminuted tobacco wherein a first conveyor, such as a carded drum, an endless apron or a pneumatic conveyor, supplies tobacco at a variable rate into the path of orbital movement of bristles on a rapidly rotating accelerating device. The bristles propel the particles o |
| RE28931 |
Method and apparatus for separating selected cigarettes or analogous rod-shaped articles from a |
August 17, 1976 |
| Cigarettes or like rod-shaped articles are conveyed sideways in equidistant flutes of a rotary drum at a speed of at least one thousand articles per minute and along an ejecting station having a width which substantially exceeds and can be a multiple of the distance between a pair of |
| D266113 |
Safe |
September 7, 1982 |
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| D265014 |
Safe deposit box |
June 15, 1982 |
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| D265013 |
Safe |
June 15, 1982 |
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| D265012 |
Safe with deposit box |
June 15, 1982 |
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| 4736754 |
Method and apparatus for making rod-shaped smokers' products with soft cores |
April 12, 1988 |
| A rod-like filler for the making of a cigarette rod is obtained by showering particles of tobacco onto a foraminous belt conveyor which is located in front of a suction chamber and is flanked by two additional foraminous belt conveyors or by two stationary sidewalls so that the parti |
| 4718198 |
Apparatus for grinding cutting edges of knives in tobacco cutting machines |
January 12, 1988 |
| The straight of undulate cutting edges of elongated knives on the rotary knife holder in a tobacco shredding machine are ground by a driven grinding wheel, whose axis makes a small acute angle with the axis of the holder, while the grinding wheel is rocked back and forth about an axis |
| 4703764 |
Method and apparatus for making rod-like fillers from several types of fibrous material |
November 3, 1987 |
| A cigarette maker wherein batches consisting of a first type of tobacco particles are deposited at intervals at one side of a suction belt conveyor and the gaps between successive batches are filled with tobacco particles of a second type to form a composite stream which is thereupon |
| 4703704 |
Apparatus for transporting seeds to locales of germination |
November 3, 1987 |
| Apparatus for introducing discrete seeds or clusters of two or more seeds into each of an array of seed carrying devices at a seed inserting station has a rotary drum-shaped conveyor whose shell has rows of axially parallel suction ports. Such rows form several groups each containing por |
| 4697603 |
Apparatus for building a stream of fibrous material |
October 6, 1987 |
| The distributor of a cigarette rod making machine delivers particles of tobacco into a stream building zone wherein the particles are accumulated into a continuous stream. The surplus of tobacco is removed by an adjustable trimming device and the removed surplus is transported back to |
| 4693263 |
Method and apparatus for making a composite stream from fibrous material of the tobacco processi |
September 15, 1987 |
| A composite tobacco stream which contains different types of tobacco is formed by converting fibrous material of a first type into a first succession of discrete batches and by converting fibrous material of a second type into a second succession of discrete batches. The two types of |
| 4693262 |
Apparatus for forming batches of tobacco and the like |
September 15, 1987 |
| Apparatus for forming a composite filler which is to be draped into a web of cigarette paper has a rotary wheel-shaped conveyor with a series of pockets which are provided in its peripheral surface and are connected to a suction generating device which draws into the pockets shreds of to |
| 4685476 |
Apparatus for supplying particles of tobacco to processing machines |
August 11, 1987 |
| 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 inlet of a suction generating device |
| 4681124 |
Apparatus for manipulating particles of tobacco or filter material |
July 21, 1987 |
| The distributor of a cigarette maker has an upright duct with an inlet at the top and an outlet at the bottom. The inlet receives particles of tobacco from a magazine and the accumulated particles descend in the duct to be removed at the outlet by the carding of a rotary drum-shaped |
| 4676769 |
Method and apparatus for regulating the resistance of filter rod sections to the flow of gases t |
June 30, 1987 |
| The pressure of compressed air in one or more nozzles which convert successive increments of a running tow of filamentary filter material into a rodlike filler in a filter rod making machine is regulated in response to variations in the speed of the filler. This ensures that the resistan |
| 4670964 |
Grinding machine with magazine for spare grinding wheels |
June 9, 1987 |
| A grinding machine wherein the spindle which supports a grinding wheel during removal of material from a workpiece and/or any one of several carriers for spare or substitute grinding wheels are movable relative to each other to positions in which a grinding wheel can be transferred from |
| 4668152 |
Apparatus for transporting and changing the orientation of cigarettes or the like |
May 26, 1987 |
| An automatic apparatus which transports filter cigarettes from a tipping machine to a packing machine has a first transporting unit which directly couples the output of the tipping machine with the magazine of the packing machine, and a second transporting unit which receives the surplus |
| 4662214 |
Method and apparatus for testing rod-shaped articles of the tobacco processing industry |
May 5, 1987 |
| The wrappers of filter cigarettes are tested during transport in the peripheral flutes of a drum-shaped conveyor through a testing station where at least one end of the wrapper receives air at a previously stabilized pressure. The stabilized pressure is monitored by an electropneumat |
| 4659414 |
Apparatus for manipulating uniting bands in machines of the tobacco processing industry |
April 21, 1987 |
| Webs of cigarette paper, filter wrapping paper or metallic or plastic foil in cigarette rod making, filter rod making or cigarette packing machines are spliced to each other by uniting bands which are removed from a strip-shaped flexible carrier and delivered to the splicing station by a |
| 4653248 |
Apparatus for making cartons of cigarette packs and the like |
March 31, 1987 |
| Apparatus for making cartons with arrays of cigarette packs therein has a conveyor which transports the arrays to a transfer station and a feeding unit which delivers successive blanks to the transfer station so that a freshly delivered blank is adjacent to one side of the foremost array |
| 4651758 |
Apparatus for detecting foreign objects in the distributor of a cigarette maker |
March 24, 1987 |
| 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. The paddle wheel is connected wit |
| 4651755 |
Apparatus for trimming a stream of smokable material |
March 24, 1987 |
| A tobacco trimming apparatus has a conveyor which transports a stream of tobacco shreds in such a way that the surplus extends downwardly beyond the undersides of two flat disc-shaped members whose marginal portions pinch the moving stream in the region between the main portion and the |
| 4651754 |
Apparatus for building a stream from particles of smokable material |
March 24, 1987 |
| The duct which delivers tobacco shreds to the underside of the lower reach of an air-permeable belt conveyor contains a guide with a concave surface which tapers gradually toward the underside of the lower reach, as considered in the direction of advancement of the lower reach. A nozzle |
| 4648412 |
Apparatus for perforating wrapping material for rod-shaped articles of the tobacco processing in |
March 10, 1987 |
| Apparatus for perforating the wrappers of filter cigarettes or a continuous web of wrapping material for filter cigarettes has a continuous-wave laser and one or more rotary disc-shaped shutters extending across the path of propagation of the laser beam toward the wrappers or web of wrap |
| 4646986 |
Apparatus for locating, engaging and transporting the leader of convoluted cigarette paper or th |
March 3, 1987 |
| Apparatus for removing and advancing the leader of a cigarette paper web which forms a roll and whose leader adheres to the adjacent convolution has tongs one jaw of which is formed with a scraping edge movable against the periphery of the roll while the roll is rotated in a direction to |
| 4645921 |
Apparatus for testing rod-shaped products of the tobacco processing industry |
February 24, 1987 |
| Apparatus for optically scanning a moving cigarette rod for the presence of defects in its external surface has two annularly arranged groups of diodes which emit green light in the wavelength range of between 0.49 and 0.58.mu. and direct such light from the opposite sides of a plane tha |
| 4644176 |
Method and apparatus for scanning the exterior of rod-shaped articles of the tobacco processing |
February 17, 1987 |
| The exterior of successive filter cigarettes, filter rod sections or other rod-shaped articles of the tobacco processing industry is monitored for the presence of various defects including absence or improper orientation of filter mouthpieces, improperly applied or outwardly projecting u |
| 4643027 |
Apparatus for testing cigarette packs and the like |
February 17, 1987 |
| Apparatus for testing cigarette packs for the presence or absence of several defects including the configuration of the packs, the orientation of their constituents and the quality of bonds between overlapping constituents has an intermittently driven turret with an annulus of recept |
| 4641771 |
Method and apparatus for supplying wrapping material to cigarette packing and like machines |
February 10, 1987 |
| Wrapping material which is supplied from a reel to the intermittently actuated withdrawing tongs of a cigarette packing machine is looped in a magazine adjacent to the tongs and is stabilized against fluttering and other stray movements by a pneumatic conveyor which attracts one leg of |
| 4640059 |
Apparatus for grinding the knives in tobacco cutting machines |
February 3, 1987 |
| A tobacco shredding machine wherein the cutting edges of orbiting shredding knives are sharpened by the undulate annular surface of a grinding wheel which is reciprocated forwardly and backwards in parallelism with the axis of the holder for the knives and is retracted from the circular |
| 4639592 |
Cigarette testing apparatus |
January 27, 1987 |
| A cigarette testing apparatus wherein a single layer of cigarettes is transported sideways in the flutes of two conveyors one of which exposes a first half of the wrapper of each cigarette thereon from the one to the other end of the cigarette and the other of which exposes the remaining |
| 4633923 |
Apparatus for filling ink cartridges |
January 6, 1987 |
| Apparatus for filling ink cartridges which are used in printer units of cigarette making machines has a frame which can removably support an empty cartridge in register with a stationary housing having a reciprocable plunger with axial and radial bores for evacuation of ink from a chambe |
| 4632130 |
Method and apparatus for making a rod-like filler of smokable material |
December 30, 1986 |
| A tobacco filler is formed in a machine which turns out two trough-shaped tobacco streams whose concave sides face each other. The two streams are thereupon caused to merge and to form a single stream whose central portion is less dense than the outer layer. The single stream is then |
| 4630466 |
Apparatus for testing rod-shaped articles of the tobacco processing industry |
December 23, 1986 |
| A cigarette testing apparatus wherein the cigarettes are transported in axially parallel peripheral flutes of a testing drum toward, past and beyond a testing station. A wobble plate is adjacent to one end of and rotates with the drum and supports a set of sleeve-like elastic sealing |
| 4626044 |
Hydraulic brake for vehicles |
December 2, 1986 |
| A hydraulic brake having an electrohydraulic antiskid system with a high switching frequency which is speed-proportional. The switching frequency is determined from the number of cross holes in a gear and the gear speed. The cut-in time is electronically determined in a computer and cont |
| 4624081 |
Turn-around mechanism for workpieces in grinding machines |
November 25, 1986 |
| A grinding machine for workpieces having pairs of surfaces which are disposed opposite each other and each of which must be treated by the grinding wheel has one or two inverting heads each of which can removably receive one end portion of a workpiece so that the two surfaces of the |
| 4620552 |
Method and apparatus for making and manipulating streams of fibrous material |
November 4, 1986 |
| A tobacco stream which is formed at the upper side of one elongated reach of a foraminous endless belt conveyor opposite a suction chamber is inverted upside down by a twisted intermediate portion of the elongated reach so that it adheres to the underside of such reach by suction before |
| 4619078 |
Grinding machine with protective hood for the grinding wheel |
October 28, 1986 |
| A surface grinding machine wherein the grinding wheel is partially surrounded by a hood which can be turned about the axis of the grinding wheel in dependency on the shape and level of that part of a workpiece which is then treated by the grinding wheel. The hood carries coolant disc |
| 4618293 |
Method and apparatus for pneumatically transporting rod-shaped articles of the tobacco processin |
October 21, 1986 |
| The pneumatic conveyor pipe which connects an article discharging station with an article receiving station in a production line for rod-shaped smokers' products passes through the sealed housing of an article influencing unit which contains friction wheels driven at a peripheral spe |
| 4616663 |
Method and apparatus for forming a homogeneous mass of comminuted smokable material |
October 14, 1986 |
| A stream of agglomerated short, medium long and long tobacco shreds as well as clumps or lumps of shreds and elongated fragments of tobacco ribs is fed onto a vibrating sieve which permits the short and medium long shreds to descend onto a first vibrating conveyor and causes the long shr |
| 4616662 |
Method and apparatus for producing a rod-shaped filler from several types of smokable material |
October 14, 1986 |
| A continuous rod-like filler is formed in a cigarette rod making machine on an endless foraminous belt conveyor by depositing a row of spaced-apart batches consisting of a first type of tobacco at one side of the conveyor, holding the batches by suction, and showering tobacco particles o |
| 4616139 |
Apparatus for optical scanning of the exterior of a moving cigarette rod or the like |
October 7, 1986 |
| A portion of the path for a moving cigarette or filter rod in a cigarette rod making or filter rod making machine is surrounded by a ring-shaped carrier for a polygonal light-transmitting rod guide and a set of radiation conducting units, one behind each facet of the guide. Each unit |
| 4615343 |
Device for compressing tobacco in tobacco comminuting machines |
October 7, 1986 |
| Each tobacco compacting chain of a tobacco shredding machine has several rows of block-shaped synthetic plastic links which are articulately connected to each other by transversely extending metallic pins receiving motion directly from the teeth of several coaxial sprocket wheels. The |
| 4610260 |
Apparatus for forming a tobacco stream |
September 9, 1986 |
| The distributor of a cigarette rod making machine has an air-permeable tobacco transporting conveyor adjacent to a channel which is bounded by two spaced apart sidewalls and receives a mixture of tobacco particles and compressed air. The quantity of air entering the channel exceeds the |
| 4607607 |
Apparatus for dressing grinding wheels |
August 26, 1986 |
| A grinding machine wherein a column supports a vertically movable holder for the spindle of a grinding wheel and the dressing apparatus is mounted on the holder. The dressing apparatus has a carriage disposed at a level above the grinding wheel and movable up and down radially of the gri |
| 4607460 |
Grinding machine with a reciprocable column for work supporting devices |
August 26, 1986 |
| A numerically controlled profile grinding machine has a bed for a first carriage which supports an upright column and is reciprocable along a first horizontal path. The column supports a second carriage which is reciprocable thereon along a vertical second path and supports a turntable |
| 4605015 |
Method of tip turning filter cigarettes or the like |
August 12, 1986 |
| Filter cigarettes which are produced in a filter tipping machine are transported by a severing conveyor in the form of two rows wherein the filters of cigarettes in one row are adjacent to the filters of cigarettes in the other row. The cigarettes of the one row are thereupon inverted |
