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US 12,569,005 B2Granted
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AssigneeNicoventures Trading Limited
InventorsAndrew Bray, John Richardson, Richard Hepworth
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AssigneeNicoventures Trading Limited
InventorsAndrew Bray, John Richardson, Richard Hepworth
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The present invention relates to an article (10). The article comprises an aerosol-generating substrate (12) and a region (14) positioned longitudinally relative to the aerosol generating substrate. The region comprises a rod segment (16) formed from a plurality of elongate strips (17) of sheet material (18) extending longitudinally through said rod segment. The present invention also relates to a segment of sheet material for a rod segment. The segment of sheet material comprises a segment of a web (44) of sheet material (18) of discrete length comprising a plurality of elongate strips (17) and a band (22) of sheet material extending transversely to the plurality of elongate strips. The plurality of elongate strips extend from the band of sheet material. The present invention also relates to an apparatus (40) for manufacturing rod segments and a method of forming a rod segment.
An article comprising an aerosol generating substrate, and a region positioned longitudinally relative to the aerosol generating substrate, wherein the region comprises a rod segment formed from a plurality of elongate strips of sheet material extending longitudinally through said rod segment, wherein the rod segment further comprises a band of sheet material from which the plurality of elongate strips extend, and wherein the band of sheet material extends transversely to the plurality of elongate strips of sheet material.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.