Cutting Apparatus for Use in the Tobacco Industry
AssigneeBritish American Tobacco (Investments) Limited
InventorsFrank Beckmann, Winfried Böttcher, Andrew Bray, Gary Fallon
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Abstract
A rotary shear cutting apparatus to cut discrete non-rectangular portions from a web of smoking article sheet material, comprises a first rotary carrier provided with a first cutting edge and a second rotary carrier provided with a second cutting edge, wherein said first and second cutting edges are configured to cooperate during rotation of said first and second rotary carriers to cut a non-rectangular portion from the web.
Claims30
Rotary shear cutting apparatus to cut discrete non-rectangular portions from a web of smoking article sheet material, comprising:
- a first rotary carrier provided with a first cutting edge;
- a second rotary carrier provided with a second cutting edge, wherein said first and second cutting edges are configured to cooperate during rotation of said first and second rotary carriers to cut a non-rectangular portion from the web.
Apparatus for assembling smoking articles having one or more sheet material wrappers, comprising:
- a rotary shear cutting apparatus as claimed in any preceding claim;
- and a wrapping device configured to receive a non-rectangular portion of sheet material cut by said rotary shear cutting apparatus, wherein said wrapping device is configured to wrap said non-rectangular portion of sheet material to form a wrapped layer of said smoking article.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.