Molins Plc

Paul Davis

Thomas William Bailey

David Robert Seaward

Derek H Dyett

John Dawson

James R Stembridge

Norman L Sharp

A method of manufacturing an infusion packagecomprising a porous-walled containerfor an infusible substance and a support for the container by means of which the container can be mounted on a rim of a drinking vessel. The method comprises (i) making cuts in at least one web of a semi-rigid material in a direction transverse to the web length to define a plurality of support memberseach cut defining a first endof one support member and a second endof an adjacent support member such that the first end includes a projectionand the second end includes a recessthe cutting of which recess produces the projection; (ii) bringing two such support members into opposed relationship with the first end of one of the support members disposed opposite the second end of the other of the support members; (iii) positioning an end region of the container between the opposed support members; and (iv) securing that end region to the support members.

Infusion packages and corresponding manufacturing methods

Infusion package

A cigarette making machine comprises means for showering tobacco onto two suction bands 610,612 to form tobacco sub-streams of similar width on the respective bands which are then merged to form a cigarette filler stream, and includes rod-forming means for enclosing the cigarette filler stream in a continuous wrapper to form a continuous cigarette rod, and means for forming or feeding onto at least one of the sub-streams, or between the sub-streams as or just before they merge, a layer 628 of core-forming material which is narrower than each of the sub-streams and is centrally located in relation thereto, whereby the core-forming material is surrounded by tobacco in the finished cigarette rod. This invention also encompasses the feeding of additional dense-ending quantities of tobacco instead of a core-forming layer.

Cigarette making machine

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Conventry, United Kingdom

Paul Davis