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Japan Tobacco Inc.

Masanori Koborinai

Paul Richard Clarke

John Charlton

Hiroyuki Torai

Ichiro Atobe

A filter-manufacturing machine comprises spray nozzles located on both sides of a feeding path of sheet material made of filter fibers, respectively, and the spray nozzles each have a line of spray holes of a liquid binder with high viscosity and a plurality of air jetting openings for jetting compressed air. The liquid binder sprayed from the lines of the spray holes is subdivided into particles by the compressed air, thereby spraying the particles of the liquid binder evenly on both surfaces of the sheet material.

Filter manufacturing machine

A filter for a cigarette and a filter cigarette which make a smoking feeling much milder without the original cigarette taste and aroma being spoiled are provided. The cigarette filter has a filter rod having an air permeable peripheral surface, and to axial passages in the rod . These passages are distributed on a ring having a diameter of 50 to 70% of that of the rod and have a diameter of 0.1 to 0.7 mm. The wall of the axial passages have air permeability. In smoking, ventilation air introduced into the passages dilutes the smoke stream from the cigarette.

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Tokyo, Japan

Masanori Koborinai