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OwnerBarry Smith Fagg, Mickey Lee Smith +2inventors
InventorsBarry Smith Fagg, Mickey Lee Smith, John Larkin Nelson, Travis Eugene Howard
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An asymmetrical trimmer disk/paddle wheel apparatus for trimming tobacco from a stream or braid of cut tobacco in a cigarette maker comprises a pair of counter rotating disks with a plurality of pockets arranged to coact with one another to trim off excess tobacco and create densified regions at the filter and lit ends of a cigarette rod product made in the maker. The pockets are constructed with different widths and depths to provide densified regions of different densities and lengths at the filter and lit ends of the cigarette rod product. The cigarette rod product formed by the asymmetrical trimmer disk/paddle wheel apparatus has an improved density profile that minimizes rejects at maker speeds up to about 8000 rods/minute.
A cigarette rod product with a lit end and a filter end comprising a rod of tobacco wrapped in cigarette paper, the tobacco rod having regions of different rod density including a first end having a densified region of a first density and a first longitudinal length, a second end having a densified region of a second density and a second longitudinal length and an intermediate portion between the first and second ends having a third substantially non-varying density, the first end being the lit end and the second end being the filter end,
A cigarette rod product with a lit end and a filter end comprising a rod of tobacco wrapped in cigarette paper, the lit end having a densified region of a first longitudinal length, the filter end having a densified region of a second longitudinal length, the first longitudinal length being greater than the second longitudinal length, wherein the densified region of the lit end is of greater density than that of the filter end and the densities of the densified regions of both the lit and filter ends are greater than a substantially non-varying density of an intermediate portion of the tobacco rod between the densified regions of the lit end and the filter end, and
A cigarette rod product comprising a rod of tobacco wrapped in cigarette paper and having first and second ends, the first end having a densified region of a first longitudinal length, the second end having a densified region of a second longitudinal length, the first longitudinal length being greater than the second longitudinal length, wherein the densified region of the first end is of greater density than that of the second end and the densities of the densified regions of both the first and second ends are greater than a substantially non-varying density of an intermediate segment of the tobacco rod between the densified regions of the first and second ends, and
A cigarette rod product comprising a rod of tobacco wrapped in a cigarette paper, the rod of tobacco having two ends and consisting essentially of a first segment, a second segment, and a third segment each having a substantially non-varying density:
A cigarette rod product having a lit end and a filter end comprising a rod of tobacco consisting essentially of three contiguous segments of different densities:
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