Japan Tobacco Inc.

Hiroyuki Nakashima

Shinzo Kida

Takafumi Izumiya

Yuzuru Sakuma

Yasumasa Tominaga

A manufacturing machine for manufacturing a wrapping paper web for cigarettes with a low ignition propensity has a coating device () at a coating position defined in a travel path () of web (W). The coating device () has a rotary screen () and a gravure roller () located on the opposite sides of the travel path () and functioning as back rollers for each other. The rotary screen () intermittently applies a liquid burning inhibitor onto one side of the web (W) to form a number of band layers (B) arranged at predetermined intervals in a travelling direction of the web (W), and the gravure roller () applies water onto the other side of the web (W) to form wet bands (A) arranged alternately with the band layers (B) in the traveling direction of the web (W).

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Higashihiroshima, Japan

Hiroyuki Nakashima