| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 4502456 |
Apparatus for dressing grinding wheels |
March 5, 1985 |
| A grinding machine wherein the grinding wheel has a profile consisting of recurrent identical sections, as considered in the axial direction of the grinding wheel. The profile of the grinding wheel is treated by a dressing tool whose profile is that of a worm and is complementary to the |
| 4500770 |
Apparatus for making perforations in running webs of paper or the like |
February 19, 1985 |
| Apparatus for making perforations in continuous or interrupted webs of cigarette paper or the like has one or more perforating units serving to direct radiant or electrical energy against selected portions of the web to make holes therein. That portion of each perforating unit which |
| 4489737 |
Method and apparatus for reducing the moisture content of tobacco |
December 25, 1984 |
| Particles of tobacco which form a continuous stream are heated during transport through a rotary drum-shaped dryer. The inlet end of the dryer receives a continuous current of heated air whose temperature is constant, and the dryer is heated by internal coils for circulating steam whose |
| 4489534 |
Apparatus for filling trays with cigarettes or the like |
December 25, 1984 |
| Apparatus for filling trays with cigarettes has a magazine which contains a supply of parallel cigarettes and the lower end portion of which extends into the interior of an empty tray so that the lower end portions of several vertical ducts in the lower end portion of the magazine are |
| 4487001 |
Apparatus for filling chargers with cigarettes or the like |
December 11, 1984 |
| The lower end portion of a magazine for parallel cigarettes or like rod-shaped articles contains a horizontal grid of parallel rods which divide the outlet opening of the lower end portion into parallel passages wherein the cigarettes descend into an empty tray therebelow. When the t |
| 4486186 |
Method and machine for making filter rod sections for cigarettes or the like |
December 4, 1984 |
| The trailing end of a running tow of filamentary filter material in a filter rod making machine is spliced to the leader of a fresh tow, and the splice is held at a preselected location ahead of the first tow treating station in the machine. An optoelectric or pressure-responsive detecto |
| 4486098 |
Method and apparatus for testing the ends of cigarettes or the like |
December 4, 1984 |
| Filter cigarettes which are grouped in the form of one or more rows on their way to the draping station or stations of a packing machine are transported sideways past a testing station between two testing units each of which has a discrete detector for each row of cigarettes in a group. |
| 4485827 |
Apparatus for recovering tobacco from unsatisfactory cigarettes or the like |
December 4, 1984 |
| Apparatus for recovering tobacco particles from unsatisfactory filter cigarettes has a rotary centrifugal aligning device which converts randomly supplied unsatisfactory cigarettes into a single file and transports successive cigarettes of the file past the peripheral surfaces of two |
| 4485826 |
Apparatus for making fillers for rod-shaped smokers' products having dense ends |
December 4, 1984 |
| Apparatus is provided for removing the surplus of tobacco fibrous material from one side of a continuous stream. The apparatus comprises conveyer means for moving the stream lengthwise so that one side of the stream remains exposed. Compressing means are further provided for compacting |
| 4485710 |
Apparatus for severing running webs of tipping paper or the like |
December 4, 1984 |
| Apparatus for severing the running web of tipping paper in a filter tipping machine has a rotary anvil whose cylindrical peripheral surface is contacted by the running web, a rotary carrier which is adjacent to and defines with the anvil a nip for the running web, a knife which is movabl |
| 4484591 |
Method of testing and classifying cigarettes or the like |
November 27, 1984 |
| Plain or filter cigarettes are tested at a first station by two or more testing devices each of which monitors the cigarettes for the presence or absence of a particular defect. The testing devices generate defect signals which are delayed by shift registers so as to ensure that the |
| 4484589 |
Distributor for a rod making machine for the production of smokers' articles |
November 27, 1984 |
| The invention relates to a distributor in a rod making machine for the production of smokers' articles. It includes an accelerating drum adapted to propel tobacco into a rod conveyor in order to build the tobacco filler. Blown air is utilized to transport the tobacco, particularly to |
| 4478231 |
Apparatus for severing cigarette rods or the like |
October 23, 1984 |
| A cutoff for cigarette rods or the like has a rotary carrier for one or more reels of convoluted metallic band material constituting the knife or knives which sever the rod at regular intervals when the carrier rotates. The reels can be rotated in a direction to pay out the band material |
| 4474190 |
Method and apparatus for regulating the operation of machines for the production of cigarettes o |
October 2, 1984 |
| Pileups of tobacco particles at or between the inlet of the draping mechanism and the stream forming station in a cigarette maker are ascertained by a device which monitors the density of successive increments of the cigarette stream prior or subsequent to trimming or the extent of d |
| 4473130 |
Crash helmet with communication system |
September 25, 1984 |
| A crash helmet for use by motorcycle drivers or riders has a rigid shell; a first flexible acoustic tube a first section of which extends into and has a bell horn in the region of the mouth-protecting part of the shell, and a second section extending from the shell through the opening in |
| 4471866 |
Apparatus of assembling arrays of cigarettes in packing machines |
September 18, 1984 |
| The magazine for parallel cigarettes in a packing machine has several groups of ducts each of which serves to accumulate successive layers of cigarettes at different levels so that the layer which is formed in the first group is disposed at a level below the layer formed in the second |
| 4471650 |
Apparatus for testing cigarettes or the like |
September 18, 1984 |
| A cigarette testing apparatus wherein each end of the wrapper of a cigarette advancing with a rotary conveyor past a testing station receives a stream of gaseous testing fluid from a conduit which is connected with a source of testing fluid, and wherein a further conduit connects the |
| 4469111 |
Apparatus for perforating webs of wrapping material for tobacco or the like |
September 4, 1984 |
| Apparatus for making holes in a running web of tipping paper for filter cigarettes has a carrier for a battery of suitably distributed perforating units each of which has an optical system for focusing upon the running web a discrete beam of coherent radiation which is furnished by a las |
| 4465083 |
Transfer apparatus for cigarettes or the like |
August 14, 1984 |
| An apparatus for transfer of successive cigarettes which are delivered seriatim to a first station by moving them axially to a second station from which the cigarettes are removed by advancing them sideways has a planetary transmission with a rotary planet carrier for a set of equidi |
| 4463769 |
Method and apparatus for storing and transporting comminuted tobacco or the like |
August 7, 1984 |
| 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 interior is constant. The contents of |
| 4463768 |
Apparatus for forming a tobacco filler |
August 7, 1984 |
| Apparatus is provided for forming a tobacco filler, said apparatus being adapted to ensure gentle transport of a tobacco stream through an arcuate duct in the distributor of a cigarette rod making machine and into a tobacco channel which is located below a rod conveyor. The wall of the |
| 4461307 |
Apparatus for forming a tobacco stream in cigarette making machines or the like |
July 24, 1984 |
| An apparatus for forming a tobacco stream in cigarette making machines or the like to production of rod-shaped smokers' articles comprising a tobacco channel with an air-permeable channel bottom which extends substantially horizontally from a stream building section to a stream disch |
| 4453347 |
Apparatus for manipulating workpieces having plane parallel surfaces |
June 12, 1984 |
| Apparatus for supporting, locating and transferring plate-like or disc-shaped workpieces between several stations or between several machines where each of two plane parallel surfaces of each workpiece is subjected to one or more treatments has at least two partially overlapping plat |
| 4452256 |
Method and apparatus for conditioning tobacco |
June 5, 1984 |
| A continuous stream of moist tobacco particles is withdrawn from a magazine by a carded belt conveyor, and successive increments of the stream are weighed prior to transport past a measuring unit which ascertains the initial moisture content of successive increments of the stream. The |
| 4452255 |
Apparatus for transporting and classifying discrete articles of the tobacco processing industry |
June 5, 1984 |
| Apparatus for selectively transferring cigarettes, uniting bands or other discrete articles from a first onto a second conveyor has a first suction generating device which communicates with suction ports in the periphery of the cylindrical rotor of the first conveyor while such ports adv |
| 4449988 |
Machine tool feed screw drive |
May 22, 1984 |
| A surface grinding machine wherein a tool holder is mounted on an upright feed screw which is in mesh with a rotary spindle nut. The latter is held against axial movement in the column of the grinding machine and is normally driven by a torque transmitting unit having an endless toothed |
| 4449625 |
Apparatus for transporting trays for cigarettes or the like |
May 22, 1984 |
| Apparatus for transporting holders for filled cigarette trays from the lower level of a tray filling machine to the higher level of a removing station defines an elliptical path at the vertex of which filled trays are removed from the holders and at the lowermost point of which empty hol |
| 4445519 |
Method and apparatus for joining coaxial rod-shaped articles |
May 1, 1984 |
| Groups of coaxial filter rod sections and plain cigarettes are delivered onto the peripheral surface of a rotary drum in such orientation that each group extends in parallelism with the axis of the drum and overlies the adhesive coated outer side of a discrete uniting band which adheres |
| 4444210 |
Apparatus for reciprocating the rod guide in the cutoff of a cigarette rod making or like machin |
April 24, 1984 |
| Apparatus for reciprocating the tubular rod guide which supports the cigarette rod during severing by the orbiting knife of a cutoff has a pair of identical drives whose first driving units receive rotary motion from a common driver gear and transmit torque to eccentrically mounted secon |
| 4439951 |
Grinding machine |
April 3, 1984 |
| A double head grinding machine for the roots of turbine blades or similar complex workpieces with concave and/or convex surfaces has two parallel horizontal spindles the upper of which carries a single grinding wheel and the lower of which carries two coaxial grinding wheels. The base of |
| 4434563 |
Method and apparatus for drying tobacco |
March 6, 1984 |
| A continuous stream of tobacco particles is conveyed through a conditioning zone wherein the stream is agitated and is directly contacted by a current of hot air. The moisture content of the thus dried tobacco particles is measured downstream of the conditioning zone and the temperature |
| 4429567 |
Apparatus for testing cigarettes or the like |
February 7, 1984 |
| A cigarette testing apparatus wherein a rotary drum-shaped conveyor has axially parallel peripheral flutes for cigarettes and is flanked by two swash plates which rotate therewith and carry annuli of elastically deformable sealing elements for the respective ends of cigarettes on the |
| 4424443 |
Apparatus for measuring the density of cigarette rods or the like |
January 3, 1984 |
| Apparatus for measuring the density of a cigarette rod which is moved lengthwise has a source of penetrative radiation at one side and a single ionization chamber at the other side of the path of the rod. A reciprocable slide or diaphragm causes the radiation to alternately penetrate |
| 4423742 |
Method and apparatus for detecting soft sections of tobacco fillers |
January 3, 1984 |
| A cigarette rod making machine has a beta-ray detector which monitors the density of successive increments of the condensed filler in the continuously moving cigarette rod and changes the distance between the trimming device and the conveyor for the tobacco stream. The height of the |
| 4420073 |
Apparatus for transferring rod-shaped articles from a source of supply into the flutes of a conv |
December 13, 1983 |
| A magazine which contains a supply of parallel filter rod sections has an outlet which discharges a multi-layer stream of sections onto a receiving conveyor which delivers the sections into a gap between two parallel belt conveyors wherein the sections form a single layer and are positiv |
| 4417422 |
Grinding machine |
November 29, 1983 |
| A grinding machine with two parallel horizontal spindles which are movable radially of toward and away from each other and wherein each spindle carries a set of several coaxial grinding wheels having different outer diameters. The smaller wheels are nearer to and the larger wheels are mo |
| 4414253 |
Method for applying liquid plasticizer to filamentary filter material |
November 8, 1983 |
| A filter rod making machine wherein a rotary brush which is installed in a housing normally atomizes successive increments of a stream of liquid plasticizer which is supplied thereto by a varibale-delivery pump at a rate matching the speed of transport of a permeable tow of filamentary |
| 4413640 |
Apparatus for transporting rod-shaped articles of the tobacco processing industry |
November 8, 1983 |
| A junction zone between the first and second sections of a conveyor system for sidewise transport of cigarettes or analogous rod-shaped articles communicates with the first opening of a reservoir which normally constitutes a surge bin for temporary storage of those articles which are |
| 4412505 |
Apparatus for applying atomized liquid to a running layer of filamentary material or the like |
November 1, 1983 |
| A running tow of spread-out filamentary filter material in a filter rod making machine is sprayed with plasticizer by two ultrasonic atomizing devices which are disposed at the opposite sides of the path of the tow and each of which has a flexural resonator connected to one or more p |
| 4408621 |
Apparatus for transferring cigarettes or the like |
October 11, 1983 |
| Apparatus for transferring cigarettes from a first station where the cigarettes arrive by moving axially to a second station which the cigarettes leave by moving sideways has a rotary carrier for several hollow crank arms which are rotatably mounted in the carrier and whose free ends |
| 4406275 |
Apparatus for dressing and profiling grinding wheels |
September 27, 1983 |
| An arrangement for dressing, profiling or otherwise treating the peripheral surface of a grinding wheel or the like includes a dressing disk which is mounted on a support for rotation about a given axis and has a peripheral surface which contacts and treats the peripheral surface of the |
| 4406197 |
Method and apparatus for transporting rod-shaped articles |
September 27, 1983 |
| A filter rod making machine discharges several parallel filter rods which move lengthwise and are severed at regular intervals to yield files of axially aligned filter rod sections. Such sections are transported axially to a first transfer station where they enter discrete flutes in the |
| 4403620 |
Method and apparatus for monitoring the functioning of testing devices in machines for the produ |
September 13, 1983 |
| Filter cigarettes which are produced in a filter tipping machine are conveyed past several successive testing devices, each of which monitors different characteristics of the cigarettes, thereupon past a cigarette removing device, past a segregating device and on to a conveyor for tr |
| 4403619 |
Method and apparatus for influencing the permeability of wrappers of filter cigarettes or the li |
September 13, 1983 |
| Discrete uniting bands which are used in a filter tipping machine to connect filter plugs with plain cigarettes consist of foraminous material, and the permeability of such material is varied, when necessary, by changing the quantity of adhesive which is applied to the uniting bands |
| 4401205 |
Apparatus for supplying particles of tobacco to the comminuting station of a shredding machine |
August 30, 1983 |
| A tobacco shredding machine wherein an upright duct delivers particles of tobacco to the rear portion of a channel wherein the particles are converted into a continuous cake whose front end is severed by a set of orbiting knives. The lower rear portion of the duct contains a deflecting |
| 4390029 |
Apparatus for storing and transporting comminuted tobacco or the like |
June 28, 1983 |
| 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 interior is constant. The contents of |
| 4383435 |
Method and apparatus for monitoring the locations of perforations in webs of wrapping material f |
May 17, 1983 |
| Rows of perforations which are produced in a plant for the making of webs of tipping paper for use in filter tipping machines are monitored by pneumatic or photoelectronic devices to ascertain the distance between such rows and the nearest marginal portions of the web while the web is |
| 4377172 |
Apparatus for transporting filter rod sections or the like |
March 22, 1983 |
| Apparatus which transports filter rod sections from a maker to a processing machine has a pneumatic sender which admits a file of sections into the inlet of a pneumatic conveyor whose outlet delivers sections to a receiver wherein the file of sections is converted into a row which is adm |
| 4377098 |
Apparatus for simultaneous severing of plural moving parallel rods |
March 22, 1983 |
| Apparatus for simultaneously severing plural parallel filter rods which issue from an extruder and move axially at the same speed has a knife mounted on a holder which is rotatable about an axis extending in parallelism with the axes of the rods. The knife holder moves along a circul |
| 4373538 |
Method and apparatus for forming a stream from several types of tobacco |
February 15, 1983 |
| A tobacco stream which contains shreds and short tobacco is formed by moving an endless elevator conveyor with equidistant comb-like vanes first past a first magazine which contains short tobacco whereby the slender triangular prongs of the vanes remove and entrain batches of short tobac |
