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AssigneeBritish American Tobacco Mexico, S.A. De C.V.
InventorLucio ARREDONDO
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A method for concurrently manufacturing two different types of smoking articles using a smoking article manufacturing machine. The machine comprises a filter rod feeder, a rod attachment unit for attaching rods of smokable material to each longitudinal end of a dual length filter rod received from the filter rod feeder, and a cutter to cut the dual length filter rod into two filter rod segments so that each segment, together with the rod of smokable material attached to each segment, forms a smoking article. The method supplies the filter rod feeder with filter rods comprising filter tow. The filter rods being configured so that the two filter rod segments cut from a dual length filter rod by the cutter will each have different characteristics. A pack of smoking article industry products, and an intermediate product made during the concurrent manufacture of two different types of smoking articles, are disclosed.
The method for concurrently manufacturing two different types of smoking articles using a smoking article manufacturing machine, the machine comprises a filter rod feeder, a rod attachment unit for attaching rods of smokable material to each longitudinal end of a dual length filter rod received from the filter rod feeder, and a cutter to cut the dual length filter rod into two filter rod segments so that each segment, together with the rod of smokable material attached to each segment, forms a smoking article, the method comprising supplying the filter rod feeder with filter rods that comprise filter tow and which are configured so that the two filter rod segments cut from a dual length filter rod by the cutter will each have a different characteristic.
A pack of smoking article industry products, each smoking article industry product comprising a filter rod formed from filter tow that contains a capsule, the capsule contained in the tow of a filter rod of at least one of the smoking article industry products in the pack being of a different type to the type of capsule contained in the tow of a filter rod of at least one other smoking article industry product in the pack, wherein the tow of filter rods containing capsules of one type has a different characteristic to the tow of filter rods containing capsules of another type.
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