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US 6,067,992 AGranted
Cigarette manufacturing machine having a shaving device
AssigneeG.D Societa' Per Azioni
InventorMario Spatafora
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Abstract
A cigarette manufacturing machine having a shaving device for shaving a bead of tobacco fed along a given path, wherein two tubular shaving bodies, arranged eccentrically one inside the other and having respective serrated annular end edges having a tangent portion located along the path of the bead, are rotated at different angular speeds about axes substantially parallel to the path to shave the bead; the inner tubular shaving body communicating pneumatically with a suction device.
Claims10
A cigarette manufacturing machine comprising supply means (4) for feeding a bead (2) of tobacco (3) along a given path (P);
- and a shaving device (1) located along said path (P) to shave said bead (2), and which in turn comprises two tubular shaving bodies (10, 12) arranged one inside the other with the respective axes (11, 13) substantially parallel to each other;
- said two tubular shaving bodies (10, 12) having respective serrated annular end edges (14, 15) having a mutually tangent portion (16) located along said path (P);
- and actuating means (17) being provided to impart to said two tubular shaving bodies (10, 12) a relative speed with respect to each other.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.