| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| RE36154 |
Device for supplying webs of wrapping material to a cigarette making machine of the two rod type |
March 23, 1999 |
| A device for supplying webs of wrapping material to a cigarette making machine of the two rod type is constituted by a device for cutting a web of wrapping material into a first and a second web of identical width, and by deviation devices associated with each of the webs for the displac |
| 5105833 |
Device for perforating ventilation holes in cigarettes or similar |
April 21, 1992 |
| A perforating device for forming holes in cigarettes or similar items, whereby a laser beam, emitted by a laser source, is directed on to the cigarettes, engaged inside respective seats, by means of a mobile reflecting and focusing unit mounted for rotation about an axis, and a rotar |
| 5095920 |
Method of adjusting and controlling a device for cutting strip material in a machine for the man |
March 17, 1992 |
| In a method of adjusting and controlling a cutting device comprising two rollers counter-rotating about parallel axes and provided each with a set of blades where each blade of one roller combines with a blade of the other roller to create a scissor by which discrete pieces are cut from |
| 4945926 |
Device for feeding strip paper on a dual-rod cigarette manufacturing machine |
August 7, 1990 |
| On a dual-rod cigarette manufacturing machine, the two paper strips for wrapping the two rods are obtained by longitudinally dividing a main strip by means of a cutting device, the strips being fed to the wrapping section along the same route, along which there is provided, for each stri |
| 4943341 |
Device with contrarotating knives for severing filter cigarette uniting bands from webs in autom |
July 24, 1990 |
| A device with contratrotating knives for severing filter cigarette uniting bands from webs for filter cigarette assemblies in automatic filter tipping mahines, in which the knives are carried by drums in arrays with their cutting edges meeting with tangential contact at successive points |
| 4887408 |
Method of manufacturing packs of cigarettes with a hermetically sealed wrapper |
December 19, 1989 |
| Groups of cigarettes are inserted in succession into the peripheral pockets of an indexed wrapping wheel, each together with a relative sheet of heat-sealable wrapping material that incorporates a tear-open strip to facilitate the operation of breaking open the pack; the sheet is folded |
| 4883075 |
Dual-rod cigarette manufacturing machine |
November 28, 1989 |
| A dual-rod cigarette manufacturing machine wherein two streams of tobacco, retained by suction on parallel conveyor belts, are subjected to the action of respective tobacco shaving devices prior to being wrapped in strips of cigarette paper; each of the aforementioned shaving devices |
| 4883074 |
Strip guide device, particularly for a cigarette manufacturing machine |
November 28, 1989 |
| A cigarette manufacturing machine having a horizontal bed, at least one belt for forming a continuous cigarette rod, the belt having a portion extending above and along the bed between a first and second end thereof, being movable along the bed towards the second end, and being wound abo |
| 4875493 |
Device for feeding streams of tobacco on to a cigarette manufacturing machine |
October 24, 1989 |
| A device for feeding streams of tobacco on to a cigarette manufacturing machine, which device presents an up-flow input duct, two up-flow output channels connected to the top end of the input duct via a chamber, and a device for dividing the input tobacco stream flowing up duct into two |
| 4823536 |
Handling method and device |
April 25, 1989 |
| A method and device for handling items, whereby each item is transferred from a first wheel turning in one direction, on to a second wheel turning in the opposite direction, along circular trajectories about the axes of the aforementioned wheels; which transfer is made in a position wher |
| 4756315 |
Cigarette manufacturing machine with an auxiliary tobacco feed unit |
July 12, 1988 |
| A cigarette manufacturing machine having an auxiliary recycled tobacco feed unit communicating with a downflow duct for feeding tobacco to a continuous cigarette rod forming section; the aforementioned auxiliary unit comprising an input conveyor belt communicating with a vibratory tray |
| 4745932 |
Filter assembly machine |
May 24, 1988 |
| A filter assembly machine having an input roller with spaced peripheral seats for cigarette groups, each group being to coaxial cigarettes with a double filter therebetween; and a rolling unit for said groups; the rolling unit having first and second conveying apparatus for the groups, |
| 4738073 |
Device for forming and controlling the outer wrapping of packs in a cigarette packaging machine |
April 19, 1988 |
| The device comprises an indexed conveyor wheel having a cylindrical surface with pockets, and a pair of photocell type transducers, one preceding the other in the direction of rotation of wheel, the first located in alignment with a station at which each pocket pauses as the wheel is |
| 4736703 |
Device for applying adhesive material to sheets of wrapping material |
April 12, 1988 |
| A device for applying adhesive material to card blanks in a packeting machine, comprising a gumming roller and a pressing roller which are substantially mutually tangential and between which the blanks are led in succession to receive traces of adhesive material in predetermined zones. |
| 4733673 |
Method and device for feeding strip paper on a dual-rod cigarette manufacturing machine |
March 29, 1988 |
| Method and device for feeding strip paper on a dual-rod cigarette manufacturing machine, whereby two identical strips are first stabilized as to tension by respective adjustable brake means, and then fed by a common feed device onto respective conveyors extending along respective fix |
| 4729388 |
Cigarette manufacturing machine with a tobacco particle separator |
March 8, 1988 |
| A cigarette manufacturing machine having a shredded tobacco supply unit, a unit for wrapping the shredded tobacco, an air permeable conveyor belt extending from the supply unit and the wrapping unit for transferring a continuous layer of tobacco held by vacuum on the belt to the wrapping |
| 4720619 |
Device for piercing holes in rod-shaped items |
January 19, 1988 |
| A device for piercing holes in rod-shaped items particularly cigarettes, on which the items are housed inside respective recesses mounted so as to rotate around their own axes on a conveyor moving cross wise in relation to the recesses. A focusing lens is associated with each respective |
| 4711336 |
Apparatus for transporting substantially parallelepipedic packets |
December 8, 1987 |
| An apparatus for transporting substantially parallelepipedic packets (2) disposed between a machine (3) for supplying and a machine (4) for receiving these packets (2) comprising at least one horizontal conveyor (5, 6) connecting the machines (3, 4) and a cylindrical store (13) having |
| 4710257 |
Device for the application of an adhesive to one or more localized areas of a sheet of flexible |
December 1, 1987 |
| The device comprises a glue roller which picks up adhesive from a tray or tank, a scraper that wipes the glue roller, leaving the adhesive at prescribed points only, and a contact roller which takes sheets of wrapping material through an area where adhesive is applied to them. The co |
| 4700825 |
Method for forming incomplete groups of cigarettes in a cigarette packeting machine |
October 20, 1987 |
| In a cigarette packeting machine, the formation of groups of cigarettes to be packeted disposed in superposed layers of which at least one is incomplete in that it lacks at least one intermediate cigarette. The cigarettes of the incomplete layer being kept in position, inside a forma |
| 4693359 |
Device for transferring bar-shaped articles |
September 15, 1987 |
| A transfer device in which the bar-shaped articles, in particular cigarettes, are transferred transversely to their axis by three rollers, of which one is disposed in an intermediate position between the other two and is tangential thereto at two separate points defining between them a |
| 4693051 |
Machine for boxing items in groups |
September 15, 1987 |
| A machine for boxing items in groups, in particular sticks of sweets or similar, on which the sticks are fed in successive layers into a compartment for forming the aforementioned groups, which compartment is open vertically and designed to move, along a supporting surface, between a |
| 4676360 |
Method of spacing and turning over two coaxial cigarette lengths on filter assembling machine |
June 30, 1987 |
| Method of spacing and turning over two coaxial cigarette lengths on a filter assembling machine, the said method providing for stages consisting in feeding the said lengths crosswise in relation to their axes along a conveyor provided, for each length, with a recess mounted so as to turn |
| 4675069 |
Device for feeding and cutting strip labels |
June 23, 1987 |
| A device for feeding and cutting a strip of labels, on which strip the labels are joined integral with one another along lines at least a center portion of which consists of a slit. The labels are fed successively in two stages towards a cutting position; in the first of which stages, th |
| 4667831 |
Device for feeding cigarettes to the wrapping line of a packeting machine |
May 26, 1987 |
| A device for feeding cigarettes to the wrapping line of a packeting machine comprises a hopper for feeding cigarettes to the machine. The hopper is divided at its lower end into outlet channels having a width substantially equal to the diameter of a cigarette, and through which the cigar |
| 4660578 |
Piercing device for piercing ventilating holes in cigarettes or similar smoking commodities |
April 28, 1987 |
| A piercing device for piercing holes in cigarettes or similar smoking commodities, in which a laser beam emitted by a continuous laser source is directed, by a mobile reflecting and focusing unit, mounted in a rotary manner around an axis. A fixed reflecting member is arranged on the axi |
| 4655871 |
Device for feeding revenue stamps on a cigarette packing machine |
April 7, 1987 |
| A device for feeding revenue stamps on a cigarette packing machine, whereby each packet coming off a wrapping unit is fed along an unloading route extending through a fork grip; between two arms of which grip there is stretched a revenue stamp withdrawn by the grip from a respective pock |
| 4653516 |
Method for simultaneously producing two continuous streams of cigarettes |
March 31, 1987 |
| A method for producing two continuous streams of cigarettes in which a continuous paper web is cut longitudinally to form two strips which are fed through a tobacco loading device and along respective guides for forming respective continuous rods and then to a transverse cutting device |
| 4648409 |
Paper web feed device in a cigarette production machine |
March 10, 1987 |
| In a cigarette production machine, a device for feeding at least one paper web along one or other of two paths, the first of which extends through a station for loading a continuous stream of shredded tobacco onto said web, and the second of which is a discard path; that portion of the w |
| 4647752 |
Method for forming perforations in bar-shaped articles |
March 3, 1987 |
| A method by which bar-shaped articles, in particular cigarettes, are transferred transversely to their axis by three rollers, of which one is disposed in an intermediate position between the other two and is tangential to these latter at two separate points defining a perforation arc |
| 4640656 |
Device for supplying rod-shaped articles, for example cigarettes, to a processing machine |
February 3, 1987 |
| A device for supplying cigarettes (5) to a packaging machine is provided with a rotary head (3) for tipping containers (4) full of cigarettes (5) into a tank (6) whose base is formed by an upper branch (38) of a conveyor (7) for supplying a continuous flow of cigarettes (5) to the packag |
| 4633891 |
Piercing device for piercing ventilating holes in cigarettes or similar smoking commodities |
January 6, 1987 |
| A piercing device for piercing holes in cigarettes or similar smoking commodities, in which a laser beam emitted by a continuous laser source is directed, by a mobile reflecting and focusing unit, mounted in a rotary manner around an axis a fixed reflecting member is arranged on the axis |
| 4631900 |
Method for packing batches of products, packets or boxes in cartons divisible into several compl |
December 30, 1986 |
| Disclosed herein is a method for packing at least two independent batches of products, arranged identically one after the other, using two cuttings of wrapping material, namely one per batch, at least one of which provided with at least one external tag or flap that stays projecting with |
| 4627319 |
Device for supplying webs of wrapping material to a cigarette making machine of the two rod type |
December 9, 1986 |
| A device for supplying webs of wrapping material to a cigarette making machine of the two rod type is constituted by a device for cutting a web of wrapping material into a first and a second web of identical width, and by deviation devices associated with each of the webs for the displac |
| 4617943 |
Cigarette manufacturing machine |
October 21, 1986 |
| Cigarette manufacturing machine comprising a distributor on which a duct for conveying shredded tobacco presents an intermediate portion tapered towards the outlet on the duct itself, the intermediate portion being defined by walls at least one of which oscillates crosswise in relation t |
| 4617782 |
Method for wrapping batches of stacked products so as to form sealed packets |
October 21, 1986 |
| Disclosed herein is a method for wrapping batches of products, in particular candies, and for forming sealed packets, which envisages: a batch of products being supplied to a wrapping wheel; a sheet of heat-sealing material with two lateral downward turned borders being placed above |
| 4601297 |
Cigarette manufacturing machine with an auxiliary tobacco feed unit |
July 22, 1986 |
| Cigarette manufacturing machine with an auxiliary recirculated tobacco feed unit communicating with a downward duct supplying the machine itself. An input conveyor on the auxiliary unit communicates with a tray located between an output on the conveyor itself and the said downward duct, |
| 4600021 |
Method for separating tobacco particles on cigarette manufacturing machines |
July 15, 1986 |
| Method for separating tobacco particles on cigarette manufacturing machines, whereby particles of shredded, carded tobacco are fed, through a side inlet passage, into a chamber communicating at the top with an upward feed channel, at the bottom with a downward reject channel, on one side |
| 4600020 |
Dual-rod cigarette manufacturing machine |
July 15, 1986 |
| Dual-rod cigarette manufacturing machine on which two streams of tobacco, held by suction on to parallel conveyor belts, are subjected, prior to being wrapped in strip cigarette paper, to the action of respective shaving devices each consisting of two tangent counter-rotating discs with |
| 4598719 |
Cigarette manufacturing machine |
July 8, 1986 |
| Cigarette manufacturing machine on which a continuous strip of paper is fed, through a tobacco loading station and along a guide for forming a continuous rod, to a crosswise cutting device by a conveyor belt driven by a drive roller driven, together with the cutting device, by a motor vi |
| 4597246 |
Machine for wrapping and grouping products |
July 1, 1986 |
| A machine for wrapping and grouping products of parallelepedic and/or flat shapes is described, in which the individual products are wrapped by a first wheel and conveyed to a second wheel designed to form, in an alternate manner, two types of groups, in the first of which the products |
| 4595026 |
Cigarette manufacturing method and machine with short tobacco distribution control |
June 17, 1986 |
| Cigarette manufacturing method and machine with short tobacco distribution control, whereby the long and short tobacco in a mass of shredded tobacco is separated and fed along different routes to a belt supplying a continuous cigarette rod manufacturing unit; the short tobacco being fed |
| 4592470 |
Device for infeeding cigarettes to the wrapping line of a packer |
June 3, 1986 |
| Disclosed herein is a device for infeeding cigarettes to the wrapping line of a packer, provided with: a hopper, the lower part of which contains the cigarettes in the form of stacks that are movable in steps along corresponding channels outgoing from the hopper; a sensor for checking, i |
| 4589426 |
Continuous-rod cigarette manufacturing machine |
May 20, 1986 |
| Continuous-rod cigarette manufacturing machine on which provision is made for a first conveyor belt for forming and transferring a continuous stream of tobacco particles, and on which provision is made, along the said first belt, for a shaving device for reducing the stream into sections |
| 4585919 |
Piercing device for piercing ventilating holes in cigarettes or similar smoking commodities |
April 29, 1986 |
| Piercing device for piercing holes in cigarettes or similar smoking commodities, in which a laser beam emitted by a continuous laser source is "pulsated" by a mobile reflecting element, assembled in rotary manner round a fixed axis, and a fixed reflecting element optically connected to |
| 4584816 |
Machine for wrapping and grouping products |
April 29, 1986 |
| The machine for wrapping and grouping products of parallelepiped and/or flat shape is of the type in which the individual products are conveyed by a wrapping wheel and wrapped in accordance with the so-called "pointed end" wrapping manner.From said wheel the products pass to a conveying |
| 4583557 |
Method and machine for the simultaneous manufacture of two continuous streams of cigarettes |
April 22, 1986 |
| Method and machine for manufacturing two continuous streams of cigarettes. A continuous strip of paper is cut longitudinally into two strips which are fed through a tobacco loading station and along respective guides for forming respective continuous wrapped cigarette rods. The rods are |
| 4574646 |
Method for sampling cigarettes on a filter assembly machine |
March 11, 1986 |
| Method for sampling cigarettes on a filter assembly machine whereby a cigarette is picked out of a respective recess at a first point on a line feeding the cigarettes through the filter assembly machine and, after being fed to at least one checking station, is fed back on to the line at |
| 4565202 |
Method and apparatus for forming perforation in bar-shape articles |
January 21, 1986 |
| A method and apparatus for forming perforations in bar-shape articles, in which each said article is clamped, during its advancement in a direction transverse its own axis on a conveyor, by a respective actuator device and turned by this about its axis in such a way as to receive, along |
| 4555281 |
Method for automatically setting and joining reel-fed label strips or similar |
November 26, 1985 |
| Method for automatically setting and joining reel-fed label strips or similar, whereby a first moving strip is first accelerated in relation to the assimilation speed of a user machine and then stopped, by means of a signal supplied by control means in a position whereby its labels c |
