Apparatus for making cigarettes

An apparatus for making smokable rods having smokable material contained in first and second wrapping materials, the second wrapping circumscribing the smokable material and the first wrapping material circumscribing and overwrapping the second wrapping material, the apparatus comprising:

• (a) garniture means including a movable belt which travels along a predetermined path;
• (b) first means for supplying from a first bobbin a first wrapping material onto the movable belt of the garniture means so as to travel along the path of the movable belt;
• (c) second means for supplying from a second bobbin a second wrapping material onto the first wrapping material on the movable belt;
• the second means for supplying including a turner assembly comprising
• (i) a movable base;
• (ii) a first bar for receiving the second wrapping material from the second bobbin and for changing the path of the second wrapping material along a path substantially perpendicular to the path of the movable belt;
• and
• (iii) a second bar for receiving the second wrapping material from the first bar and for changing the path of the second wrapping material to a direction substantially parallel to the first wrapping material so as to place the second wrapping material onto the first while on the movable belt, the first bar and second bar fixedly mounted in the movable base;
• and
• (d) means for providing smokable material onto the second wrapping material.