Philip Morris Products S.a.

Alessandro Metrangolo

Pierre-Yves Gindrat

John Faulkner

Jean-Pierre Schaller

Jean-Claude Schneider

A rod is provided, formed from a first sheet including a tobacco material and a second sheet including a non-tobacco flavourant, the first and second sheets being gathered together and circumscribed by a wrapper. The rod may be used as a component part of an aerosol-generating article.

Flavoured rods for use in aerosol-generating articles

A rod is provided, formed from a first sheet including an aerosol-forming material and a second sheet including a thermally-conductive material, the first and second sheets being gathered together and circumscribed by a wrapper. The rod may be used as a component part of an aerosol-generating article.

Thermally conducting rods for use in aerosol-generating articles

The apparatus for combining tobacco sheets comprises a first shaft for carrying a first bobbin of tobacco sheet and a second shaft for carrying a second bobbin of tobacco sheet. The apparatus also comprises a splicing unit for combining an end portion of tobacco sheet from the first bobbin to a head portion of tobacco sheet from the second bobbin. The splicing unit comprises a cutting device for cutting the tobacco sheets such as to provide complementary cuts to the tobacco sheets from the first bobbin and from the second bobbin, a dispensing device for dispensing water to at least one of the tobacco sheets, and a combining device for applying force onto the tobacco sheets thereby producing a spliced tobacco sheet.

Apparatus and method for combining tobacco sheets

A rod is provided, formed from a first sheet including an aerosol-forming material and a second sheet including a non-tobacco material, the first and second sheets being gathered together and circumscribed by a wrapper. The rod may be used as a component part of an aerosol-generating article. The second sheet preferably includes a material configured to modify an aerosol evolved from the aerosol-forming material or to modify other properties of the rod.

Electrically operated aerosol generating system

The apparatus for combining tobacco sheets () comprises a first shaft for carrying a first bobbin () of tobacco sheet () and a second shaft for carrying a second bobbin () of tobacco sheet (). The apparatus also comprises a splicing unit () for combining an end portion of tobacco sheet from the first bobbin () to a head portion of tobacco sheet from the second bobbin. The splicing unit comprises a cutting device () for cutting the tobacco sheets such as to provide complementary cuts to the tobacco sheets () from the first bobbin and from the second bobbin (), a dispensing device () for dispensing water to at least one of the tobacco sheets (), and a combining device () for applying force onto the tobacco sheets thereby producing a spliced tobacco sheet.

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Neuchatel, Switzerland

Alessandro Metrangolo