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Apparatus for wrapping preformed rods of smoking material

  • US 4,777,967 A
  • Filed: 12/18/1986
  • Issued: 10/18/1988
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/19/1985
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. An apparatus for wrapping a succession of preformed rods of smoking material in successive sheets of cigarette paper so as to form a plurality of cigarettes, the apparatus comprising a rotatable fluted drum, means for feeding the rods each to a respective flute in the drum, means for presenting to the rod when in said flute and when said flute has reached a predetermined position of the rotation of the drum a precut sheet of cigarette paper of predefined size that is adapted to enwrap the rod and that is provided along an edge with a strip of adhesive, and means for rolling the rod in the flute so that the cigarette paper is thereby wrapped round the rod and adheres to itself by means of the adhesive to form a cigarette.

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