Smoking article assembly machine for assembling smoking articles having segmented filters
AssigneeTobacco Research and Development Institute (Proprietary) Limited
InventorsGerhard Le Roux, Arnold Leslie Herholdt
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Abstract
A smoking article assembly apparatus is disclosed. It comprises a first cutting station configured to cut a filter rod into filter segments, a tipping station configured to join the filter segments to tobacco rods so as to form a smoking article assembly, and a second cutting station configured to cut the smoking article assembly in the region of the filter segments so as to form two smoking articles.
Claims12
A smoking article assembly apparatus comprising a first cutting station configured to cut a filter rod into at least three filter segments, a tipping station configured to join the filter segments to tobacco rods so as to form a smoking article assembly, and a second cutting station configured to cut the smoking article assembly in a region of the filter segments so as to form two smoking articles, wherein the first cutting station is configured to receive two tobacco rods and a filter rod located between the two tobacco rods.
A method of making smoking articles comprising locating a filter rod between tobacco rods, cutting the filter rod into at least three filter segments, applying a tipping patch to join the filter segments to tobacco rods so as to form a smoking article assembly, and cutting the smoking article assembly in a region of the filter segments so as to form two smoking articles, each having two or more filter components.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.