| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 4825994 |
Apparatus for transporting and removing samples from a stream of cigarettes or the like |
May 2, 1989 |
| Apparatus for removing samples from a single-layer stream of cigarettes which move sideways in the peripheral flutes of hollow rotary first and second drum-shaped conveyors has two valving elements which are disposed in the interior of the respective conveyors and establish or terminate |
| 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 |
| 4585386 |
Apparatus for transporting and changing the orientation of cigarettes or the like |
April 29, 1986 |
| 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 |
| 4538629 |
Method and apparatus for the production and manipulation of plain cigarettes and the like |
September 3, 1985 |
| The cigarette rod which is produced in a cigarette maker is subdivided into a file of plain cigarettes of unit length or double unit length. If the file contains cigarettes of unit length, successive pairs of cigarettes are deflected sideways to form two rows of coaxial cigarettes before |
| 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 |
| 4317425 |
Apparatus for applying plasticizer to fibrous filter material in filter rod making machines |
March 2, 1982 |
| A filter rod making machine wherein a continuous tow of fibrous filter material is flattened to form a foraminous layer prior to advancement through an impregnating station where a rotating brush sprays particles of atomized plasticizer against the underside of the layer. The brush is |
| 4132189 |
Apparatus for applying plasticizer to fibrous filter material in filter rod making machines |
January 2, 1979 |
| A filter rod making machine wherein a continuous tow of fibrous filter material is flattened to form a foraminous layer prior to passage through an impregnating station where an atomizing nozzle or a revolving brush sprays particles of atomized plasticizer against one side of the layer. |
