| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 4167995 |
Apparatus for changing the distance between rows of cigarettes or the like |
September 18, 1979 |
| Apparatus for changing the spacing between two neighboring rows of parallel cigarettes which are transported sideways has a first fluted drum which delivers the two rows of cigarettes to a first transfer station where the cigarettes enter radially extending flutes in the upper end faces |
| 4161094 |
Apparatus for processing biscuits or the like |
July 17, 1979 |
| Apparatus for treating biscuits which are discharged from an oven in the form of several rows has a discrete conveyor system for each row of biscuits. The biscuits of each row are converted into blocks each consisting of several arrayed biscuits, and such blocks are confined in wrapp |
| 4155367 |
Apparatus for producing a continuous tobacco stream |
May 22, 1979 |
| A distributor for use in cigarette makers wherein an upright duct receives loose tobacco shreds and discharges the thus formed tobacco column into a compacting device therebelow. The compacting device has two endless belts whose inner reaches are located opposite each other and engage an |
| 4154090 |
Process and apparatus for multiple testing of wrappers of cigarettes or the like |
May 15, 1979 |
| The wrappers of filter cigarettes wherein wrapper portions surrounding the filter mouthpieces have holes for admission of atmospheric air into the column of tobacco smoke are tested during sidewise movement at the periphery of a rotary drum. A first testing device establishes a first |
| 4149681 |
Apparatus for releasably supporting bobbins of web material |
April 17, 1979 |
| Apparatus for releasably supporting the core of a bobbin of cigarette paper web has a rotary holder which carries a spindle and has a flange extending beyond the spindle to locate one axial end of the core on the spindle. The spindle has apertures for the fingers of a first locating devi |
| 4149547 |
Mechanism for orienting tobacco in tobacco cutting machines |
April 17, 1979 |
| A tobacco cutting machine wherein two endless chain conveyors define a horizontal channel of diminishing height for conversion of tobacco into a cake whose leader advances into the range of and is shredded by orbiting knives. The lower chain conveyor extends rearwardly beyond the upper c |
| 4143471 |
Method and apparatus for conditioning tobacco |
March 13, 1979 |
| The moisture content of tobacco, particularly greenleaf tobacco, is reduced to an accurately determined value by conveying a continuous tobacco stream through three successive sections of a transporting system wherein the tobacco is contacted by air currents. In accordance with a first |
| 4100845 |
Method and machine for producing filter elements for tobacco smoke |
July 18, 1978 |
| A filter element for use as a mouthpiece for filter cigarettes, cigarillos or cigars has an inner tubular wall with lugs which are bent inwardly from the material of the inner wall, and an outer tubular wall which seals the outer ends of openings which develop as a result of formation an |
| 4094325 |
Method and apparatus for making wrappers for cigar bunches |
June 13, 1978 |
| Tobacco leaves are converted into wrappers for cigar bunches by removing the midribs from successive leaves, monitoring each of the thus obtained left-hand and right-hand leaf halves by a pair of photoelectric cells to determine whether the halves can yield one or more wrappers, and |
| 4090826 |
Method and apparatus for perforating the wrappers of rod-shaped smokers products |
May 23, 1978 |
| Apparatus for perforating the wrappers of filter plugs of filter cigarettes has a drum-shaped conveyor which transports filter cigarettes sideways past a stationary housing having a counter-surface defining with the periphery of the conveyor a gap of a width less than the diameter of a |
| 4090602 |
Tip turning apparatus for cigarettes or the like |
May 23, 1978 |
| Successive filter cigarettes of two rows of parallel cigarettes are admitted into pairs of parallel aligned flutes on a rotating drum. The first flute of each pair is rotated through 180.degree. and is moved radially outwardly about an axis which is normal to and crosses in space wit |
| 4090521 |
Method and apparatus for comminuting tobacco or the like |
May 23, 1978 |
| The chains which condense and advance a continuous cake of compacted tobacco into the range of orbiting knives in a tobacco shredding machine are driven by a reversible prime mover independently of the motor which drives the knives. When the movement of the prime mover in a direction to |
| 4078647 |
Apparatus for transporting cigarettes or the like |
March 14, 1978 |
| Blocks or streams consisting of one or more layers of cigarettes can be transported by one or more endless conveyors wherein an endless band-like or rim-like carrier is surrounded by a pile of elastically deformable bristles which engage and entrain the adjacent layer or layers of ci |
| 4077289 |
Apparatus for converting a ribbon of labels into discrete labels |
March 7, 1978 |
| A ribbon consisting of a series of interconnected labels is transported, first continuously and thereupon intermittently, along an elongated path toward a severing station where a movable knife separates successive foremost labels and the separated labels are engaged by pivotable suction |
| 4069830 |
Apparatus for conditioning tobacco |
January 24, 1978 |
| A stream of moist tobacco is fed into one end of a rotating drum which is heated by steam circulating coils and wherein a current of heated air flows counter to the direction of tobacco travel. A portion of moisture-laden air issuing at the one end of the drum is evacuated into the a |
| 4063563 |
Method and apparatus for building a tobacco filler |
December 20, 1977 |
| A continuous tobacco filler is formed by feeding tobacco shreds at a variable rate into a first portion of an elongated path wherein the shreds are transported by a conveyor to form a growing stream which is fully grown as soon as its particles leave the first portion of the path. The |
| 4063480 |
Apparatus for severing rod-shaped smokers' products |
December 20, 1977 |
| Filter rod portions in the flutes of a rotating drum are severed by a rotary disk-shaped knife to yield shorter sections which are used for the making of filter cigarettes. During severing, the filter rod portions are flexed by stationary components to produce tensional stresses in those |
| 4061234 |
Apparatus for assembling multi-layer groups of cigarettes or the like |
December 6, 1977 |
| Apparatus for assembling blocks of parallel cigarettes in formations ready for packing has a magazine for a supply of parallel cigarettes and three groups of downwardly extending ducts whose upper ends communicate with the magazine to admit parallel cigarettes and whose lower end portion |
| 4059940 |
Apparatus for filling containers with cigarettes or the like |
November 29, 1977 |
| A tray filling apparatus wherein a suction head accumulates rows of cigarettes and a pusher transfers the rows into a tray which is supported by an endless chain conveyor. The suction head and the pusher receive motion from a drive which includes a variable-speed DC-motor, a step-down |
| 4055192 |
Recovery of reusable tobacco particles in machines for the production of plain and filter tipped |
October 25, 1977 |
| Tobacco particles which escape from plain cigarettes and/or filter cigarettes in machines for the making of plain and filter cigarettes are partially separated from streams of suction air before such streams reach the main separator. This relieves the main separator so that the latter |
| 4054145 |
Method and apparatus for conditioning tobacco |
October 18, 1977 |
| Particles of a continuous tobacco stream are intimately contacted with and thus conditioned by finely distributed solid or fluid additives in a rotary drum into which the additives are supplied by one or more spray nozzles. Tobacco particles are propelled into the drum by a rotary wi |
| 4051947 |
Transfer apparatus for cigarettes or the like |
October 4, 1977 |
| Apparatus for converting a file of coaxial cigarettes into one or more rows of parallel cigarettes has a fixed sun gear which is coaxial with a driven rotary planet carrier for several equidistant groups of coaxial first and second pinions. The sun gear meshes with a first intermediate g |
| 4046064 |
Filter rod making machine |
September 6, 1977 |
| A filter rod making machine wherein the two is withdrawn from a bale by a first pair of driven rolls which form part of a tow stretching device. The rolls are preceded by a braking device having a fixed plate-like guide at one side of the path for the tow and an elastic spring-biased ton |
| 4046027 |
Apparatus for transmitting motion to tools in cigarette packing machines or the like |
September 6, 1977 |
| A cigarette packing machine wherein one or more indexible turrets for portions of or entire cigarette packs and the tools which treat the portions of or entire packs receive motion from a transmission having an input element which is a main drive shaft, several additional driving com |
| 4044659 |
Apparatus for making composite filter plugs |
August 30, 1977 |
| Apparatus for producing composite filter plugs for cigarettes or other smokers' products has two sets of conveyors which feed filter rod sections of different types to the flutes of a rotary assembly conveyor. The latter assembles the sections into groups each having a section of first a |
| 4043454 |
Method and apparatus for producing and controlling the production of composite filter plugs |
August 23, 1977 |
| The operation of apparatus for the production of composite filter plugs is controlled by a circuit which employs one or more capacitive detectors mounted adjacent to the path of filter rod sections and transmitting signals which are indicative of the passage of filter rod sections of |
| 4041958 |
Apparatus for producing a continuous tobacco stream |
August 16, 1977 |
| Apparatus for producing a narrow tobacco stream ready for trimming or immediate wrapping into a web of cigarette paper has a distributor from which a wide first belt or a plate transports a thin carpet of tobacco particles to a first transfer station where the carpet is transferred by |
| 4037712 |
Method and apparatus for supplying tobacco to tobacco cutting machines |
July 26, 1977 |
| The moving parts of a tobacco cutting machine and the conveyor or conveyors which transfer tobacco to the cutting machine are driven by a variable speed motor whose speed is regulated in dependency on the volume of tobacco in a duct from which the conveyor or conveyors draw or receive |
| 4037608 |
Method and apparatus for producing cigarettes with dense ends |
July 26, 1977 |
| Cigarettes with dense ends are produced by converting a continuous tobacco stream into a rod-like filler wherein spaced-apart portions contain more tobacco than the parts therebetween. The conversion involves removal of surplus tobacco from the stream in two stages during the first of wh |
| 4036119 |
Method and machine for the production of composite filter mouthpieces |
July 19, 1977 |
| Filter mouthpieces with one or more thin filter disks consisting of a first filter material and one or more filter plugs consisting of a second filter material are produced by inserting filter disks between spaced-apart filter plugs which form a single file and travel with a web of wrapp |
| 4030511 |
Control system for cigarette producing and processing machines or the like |
June 21, 1977 |
| A production line consisting of a cigarette making machine, a filter cigarette making machine and a packing machine or of a filter rod making machine and several filter cigarette making machines is controlled by a circuit which regulates the speed of the prime mover for the cigarette |
| 4025770 |
Apparatus for monitoring rod-shaped commodities in cigarette making machines or the like |
May 24, 1977 |
| A cigarette making machine wherein discrete cigarettes travelling from the cutoff to a transfer conveyor slide along the upper side of a light transmitting guide. A photoelectric detector is mounted below and is shielded by the guide from tobacco dust which is swept away by successive |
| 4024394 |
Method and apparatus for measuring and regulating the density of rod-like fillers consisting of |
May 17, 1977 |
| The density of a rod-like tobacco filler in a cigarette making machine is measured and regulated by placing a source of beta radiation adjacent to one side of the moving filler and a transducer at the other side of the filler opposite the source whereby the transducer furnishes a continu |
| 4020973 |
Apparatus for removing rod-shaped articles from a magazine |
May 3, 1977 |
| Apparatus for removing filter rod sections from a magazine in a filter cigarette making machine. The magazine has an outlet which receives a portion of a fluted drum so that, when the drum rotates, its flutes remove filter rod sections from the magazine. A yieldably mounted refuser rolle |
| 4020851 |
Apparatus for monitoring the operation of cigarette making machines or the like |
May 3, 1977 |
| The absence of continuity of a single file of rod-shaped articles which are formed by the cutoff of a cigarette or filter rod making machine is monitored by an apparatus having two spaced-apart air discharging nozzles one of which is located upstream and the other of which is located |
| 4020751 |
Apparatus for making composite filter plugs |
May 3, 1977 |
| Apparatus for making composite filter plugs for cigarettes or the like has a garniture which transports a web of cigarette paper or the like past a transfer conveyor which deposits on the web groups of aligned filter rod sections of two or more different types so that the sections are di |
| 4016971 |
Conveyor for use in tobacco shredding apparatus |
April 12, 1977 |
| A link chain which transports and compacts tobacco leaves in a tobacco shredding apparatus has a succession of neighboring metallic links each of which has a trailing end provided with a cylindrical male coupling portion extending into and turnable in a complementary socket at the leadin |
| 4011966 |
Distributor for cigarette rod making machines or the like |
March 15, 1977 |
| The distributor of a cigarette rod making machine has an upright duct the upper end of which receives particles of tobacco from a magazine and the lower end of which has an outlet of variable cross-sectional area. The outlet is adjacent to the carding of a drum which withdraws from the d |
| 4011876 |
Device for withdrawing tobacco from the magazine of a tobacco distributor |
March 15, 1977 |
| A tobacco distributor wherein a toothed drum withdraws a continuous layer of tobacco shreds from a magazine. The teeth impart to the periphery of the drum a saw-tooth profile and their trailing flanks have outwardly and forwardly extending pins. The pins withdraw relatively long shreds a |
| 4010911 |
Splicing apparatus for webs of metallic foil or the like |
March 8, 1977 |
| Apparatus for splicing a running web to the leader of a fresh web by means of a uniting band both sides of which are coated with adhesive has a holding device which is placed between the running web and the leader of the fresh web while such leader adheres to suction ports of one of two |
| 4010678 |
Method and apparatus for making composite filter plugs |
March 8, 1977 |
| Composite filter plugs or mouthpieces for use in filter cigarette making machines are manufactured by moving rod-like filter components or elements of two or more types sideways or partly sideways and shuffling the filter elements to form a series of groups of assorted coaxial filter ele |
| 4009722 |
Method and machine for making cigarettes with composite fillers |
March 1, 1977 |
| Cigarettes with composite fillers wherein the mouthpiece consists of first tobacco shreds having a low nicotine content and the major portion of the filler consists of second shreds having a higher nicotine content are manufactured by showering second shreds onto a narrow band conveyor t |
| 4004594 |
Method and apparatus for conditioning tobacco |
January 25, 1977 |
| Tobacco particles, particularly Burley tobacco, which form a continuous stream are conditioned during transport by a series of vibratory conveyors. The foremost conveyor receives tobacco particles from a unit which contacts the particles with an atomized liquid, especially casing, an |
| 4004593 |
Method and apparatus for classifying cigarettes or the like |
January 25, 1977 |
| Plain cigarettes which are produced in a multi-speed cigarette rod machine are transported toward a filter cigarette machine. Some or all of the cigarettes which are produced while the cigarette rod machine operates at less than normal speed are ejected before they reach the filter cigar |
| 4004395 |
Method and machine for the production of hinged-lid packs for groups of cigarettes or the like |
January 25, 1977 |
| Blanks for the making of inner envelopes of hinged-lid cigarette packs are obtained by withdrawing from a bobbin a web of metallic foil or thin paper which is coated with metallic foil, severing the web lengthwise to form two strips of unequal width, severing the strips crosswise to form |
| 4003385 |
Method and machine for making cigarettes or the like |
January 18, 1977 |
| Relatively small tobacco particles (including short tobacco and larger particles of tobacco dust) are extracted by suction from the tobacco filler stream in a cigarette making machine and are separated from the suction air stream or streams for immediate introduction into the magazine |
| 4003277 |
Apparatus for manipulating filter rod sections or the like |
January 18, 1977 |
| Apparatus for manipulating filter rod sections in a filter cigarette making machine has a magazine for filter rod sections of six times unit length and a drum-shaped first conveyor which is formed with axially parallel flutes receiving filter rod sections from the magazine and serving to |
| 3999134 |
Method and apparatus for measuring the density of filling material in rod-shaped smokers' produc |
December 21, 1976 |
| For each rod-shaped article or group of articles there is generated a respective first signal dependent upon both the density and the moisture of the filling material. There is also generated a second signal dependent upon the moisture of the filling material. The first and second signal |
| 3996944 |
Distributor for cigarette rod making machines or the like |
December 14, 1976 |
| A distributor for use in cigarette rod making machines has a magazine for a supply of shredded tobacco, a carded drum which draws from the magazine a continuous layer of tobacco shreds, and a device which homogenizes the layer of the drum adjacent to the magazine and comprises a strip-sh |
| 3996943 |
Distributor for cigarette rod making machines or the like |
December 14, 1976 |
| A distributor for use in a cigarette rod making machine has a magazine for shredded tobacco, a carded drum which rotates about a horizontal axis and draws from the magazine a continuous layer of tobacco shreds toward its apex, a homogenizing device which equalizes the layer between the r |
