Rothmans of Pall Mall Canada Limited

Molins Plc

Carling O'keefe Limited

Karel Hrboticky

Warren A Brackmann

Daniel DiIanni

Arthur K Bunnell

A system for feeding tobacco pneumatically and continuously to a cigarette making machine includes a fan (34,116; 148) which draws air through the machine via a suction band (48) and via one or more screens (96,98) and also serves to draw air through a duct by which tobacco is conveyed to the hopper (10) of the cigarette making machine from a tobacco sending device (12). The interior of the hopper is at subatmospheric pressure. This system avoids the need for an air lock in the hopper.

Tobacco feed system for cigarette making machine

A novel tobacco feed device (10) and method of use thereof for the direct feed of tobacco to rod formation in a cigarette making machine are described. The device (10) includes a reservoir tube (42) containing a reservoir of opened cut tobacco, metering rolls (54) to meter required amounts of cut tobacco from the reservoir tube (42) to discharge metered tobacco to the cigarette maker. Internal hoppers, carding drums and picker wheels are avoided by the structure of the invention giving rise to greatly enhanced tobacco filling power.

Cigarette maker feeder

A tobacco feeding system for feeding tobacco from a source thereof to a plurality of individual cigarette-making machines includes a tobacco distribution system for the distribution of source tobacco sequentially to a plurality of tobacco reservoirs and a tobacco metering system associated with each reservoir for feed of tobacco to the machine feeds. The system avoids the necessity to recycle tobacco to the source and hence minimizes tobacco degradation.

Tobacco feeding system

Method and apparatus are provided to package beer bottles in a reusable tray with a sleeve to be used just once. A blank for the sleeve is wrapped around the tray to grip the side and end walls of the tray and close the open top and cooperating parts of the blank are glued together to provide the finished structure.

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