Filter-tipped cigarette with a removable cap, and relative manufacturing method and machine
AssigneeG.D Societa' Per Azioni
InventorsRoberto Polloni, Marco Ghini, Ivan Eusepi, Stefano Negrini
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Abstract
A filter-tipped cigarette having: a tobacco portion having an outer end and an inner end; a filter butt-connected to the inner end of the tobacco portion; a first sleeve wound about the tobacco portion and the filter to connect the filter permanently and non-detachably to the tobacco portion; a cap butt-connected to the outer end of the tobacco portion, at the opposite end from the filter, and removable to smoke the filter-tipped cigarette; and a second sleeve, which is wound about the cap and the tobacco portion, is integral with the cap, and is at least partly removable axially from the tobacco portion together with and to remove the cap.
Claims17
A filter-tipped cigarette (1) comprising:
- a tobacco portion (2) having an outer end (3) and an inner end (4);
- a filter (5) butt-connected to the inner end (4) of the tobacco portion (2);
- a first sleeve (6) wound about the tobacco portion (2) and the filter (5) to connect the filter (5) permanently and non-detachably to the tobacco portion (2);
- a first cap (7) butt-connected to the outer end (3) of the tobacco portion (2), at the opposite end from the filter (5), and removable to smoke the filter-tipped cigarette (1);
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- a second sleeve (8), which is wound about the first cap (7) and the tobacco portion (2), is integral with the first cap (7), and is at least partly removable axially from the tobacco portion (2) together with and to remove the first cap (7);
- wherein the second sleeve (8) is glued by a first glue (10) to the first cap (7).
A manufacturing method for producing a filter-tipped cigarette (1), the manufacturing method comprising the steps of:
- producing a tobacco portion (2) having an outer end (3) and an inner end (4);
- butt-connecting a filter (5) to the inner end (4) of the tobacco portion (2);
- winding a first sleeve (6) about the tobacco portion (2) and the filter (5) to connect the filter (5) permanently and non-detachably to the tobacco portion (2);
- butt-connecting a cap (7) to the outer end (3) of the tobacco portion (2), so the cap (7) is located at the opposite end from the filter (5) and is removable to smoke the filter-tipped cigarette (1);
- winding a second sleeve (8) about the cap (7) and the tobacco portion (2), so the second sleeve (8) is integral with the cap (7) and at least partly removable axially from the tobacco portion (2) together with and to remove the cap (7);
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- gluing the second sleeve (8) to the cap (7) using a permanent glue (10);
- wherein the first sleeve (6) is wound together and simultaneously with the second sleeve (8).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.