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EP 0586919 A3 19940525 - METHOD OF PRODUCING AND PACKING FILTER-TIPPED CIGARETTES

Title (en)

METHOD OF PRODUCING AND PACKING FILTER-TIPPED CIGARETTES

Publication

EP 0586919 A3 19940525 (EN)

Application

EP 93112965 A 19930812

Priority

IT BO920311 A 19920903

Abstract (en)

[origin: EP0586919A2] On the filter assembly machine (2) of a cigarette manufacturing and packing system (1), tobacco items (20), each consisting of two cigarette portions (21, 22) joined by a double filter (23), are fed successively to a cutting station (24) to form two successions (25, 26) of side by side, oppositely-oriented single cigarettes (11a, 11b); the cigarettes (11a) in one succession (25) being turned around 180 DEG and outwards in relation to the cigarettes (11b) in the other succession (26) to form two successions (25, 26) of equioriented, transversely-spaced cigarettes (11), which are fed along respective paths (31, 32) to respective outputs (38) of the filter assembly machine (2), for supply to respective transversely-spaced inputs (6, 7) of a packing unit (3). <IMAGE>

IPC 1-7

A24C 5/47; A24C 5/33

IPC 8 full level

A24C 5/33 (2006.01); A24C 5/47 (2006.01)

CPC (source: EP)

A24C 5/336 (2013.01)

Citation (search report)

Designated contracting state (EPC)

DE FR GB IT

DOCDB simple family (publication)

EP 0586919 A2 19940316; EP 0586919 A3 19940525; BR 9303698 A 19940322; CN 1086107 A 19940504; IT 1258139 B 19960220; IT BO920311 A0 19920903; IT BO920311 A1 19940303; JP H06153894 A 19940603

DOCDB simple family (application)

EP 93112965 A 19930812; BR 9303698 A 19930903; CN 93117239 A 19930831; IT BO920311 A 19920903; JP 21958393 A 19930903