Equipment and methods for manufacturing cigarettes
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Abstract
Cigarettes are manufactured using modified automated cigarette making apparatus. Those cigarettes possess smokable rods having paper wrapping materials having additive materials applied thereto as patterns. The additive materials, which can have the forms of liquid or paste formulations, can be applied to the paper web using application apparatus possessing rollers. One of those rollers can have a series of pockets in its roll face to receive additive formulation from a reservoir and to define the pattern of the formulation on the paper. A radiant dryer can be used to dry the additive material that has been applied to the paper web. The radiant dryer can be located on one component of a two component assembly that is used to manufacture cigarettes. Spectrometric techniques can be used to ensure proper registration of the additive material on the cigarette rods so manufactured, and to ensure proper quality of those cigarettes.
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33 Claims
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1-4. -4. (canceled)
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5. A method for adapting an automated cigarette making apparatus having a conveyor means for tobacco filler supply, a garniture means for advancing a continuous strip of paper web, and a cutting means for subdividing a continuous cigarette rod into predetermined lengths operated by a single power source of that apparatus, the method comprising:
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removing connection of each of the conveyor means, the garniture means and the cutting means to the single power source;
providing a second power source to provide power to the cutting means; and
providing a third power source to provide power to the garniture means and to the conveyor means. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23)
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24. An automated cigarette making apparatus, comprising:
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a conveyor means for a tobacco filler supply;
a garniture means for advancing a continuous strip of paper web;
an applicator means for applying an additive material to the paper web;
a cutting means for subdividing a continuous cigarette rod into predetermined lengths;
a first power source for powering the cutting means; and
a second power source for powering the garniture means and the conveyor means. - View Dependent Claims (25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33)
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