Smoking articles
AssigneeBritish-American Tobacco Company Limited
InventorJohn A. Luke
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Abstract
In the making of cigarette rod, which rod comprises an axial element of filler material and a wrapper surrounded by smoking material and an exterior wrapper, a web of the exterior wrapper material, a stream of the smoking material and a preformed rod, providing the axial element, are fed to the garniture of a cigarette rod making machine. The rod providing the axial element is made on a further rod making machine.
Claims10
A method of making composite smoking article rod, wherein there are fed simulataneously to the garniture of a rod making machine a web of first wrapper material, a stream of smoking material and a preformed rod comprising filler material wrapped in second wrapper material, whereby in said garniture said preformed rod is surrounded by said smoking material and said first wrapper material is wrapped about said smoking material.
Smoking article rod making apparatus comprising a first rod making machine, said first machine being operable to surround a preformed rod with smoking material and to enwrap said smoking material in first wrapper material to provide composite smoking article rod, a second rod making machine, said second machine being operable to enwrap filler material in second wrapper material to provide said preformed rod, and feed means permitting the feed of said preformed rod from said second machine to said first machine.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.