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Rod making apparatus for smoking article manufacture

  • US 4,807,809 A
  • Filed: 02/12/1988
  • Issued: 02/28/1989
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/12/1988
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An apparatus for manufacturing rods for use in the manufacture of smoking articles, the apparatus including:

  • (a) means for providing a web of sheet-like material;

    (b) means for pleating the web and providing a rod-like composite from the pleated web, such means including a frustoconical tube and a frustoconical member concentric to the tube and positioned with respect to the tube such that (i) an annular region is formed between the outer surface of the frustoconical member and the inner surface of the frustoconical tube, and (ii) the web is fed through the annular region; and

    (c) means for receiving the rod-like composite and circumscribing the rod-like composite with wrapping material thereby forming a rod.

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