Japan Tobacco Inc.

Shigenobu Kushihashi

Shigemitsu Inomata

Syozo Horikawa

Masayoshi Saitoh

Takashi Sato

Hiroshi Okamoto

Hiroshi Sakamoto

Susumu Shimizu

Koichi Akagi

Hisao Suzuki

Fumio Kubo

Tetsuo Ueno

Susumu Shimada

Shozo Horikawa

Hidenori Muramoto

Junichi Nagai

Makoto Kakiuchi

Junji Ueno

Toru Kano

A cigarette bundle feeder has a discharge duct which forms a lower part of a hopper and delivers filter cigarettes towards a bottom plate located under the hopper to produce a cigarette bundle, the discharge duct having a plurality of discharge passages arranged adjacent to each other in a width direction of the hopper to make the filter cigarettes flow downwards separately, the discharge passages opening in one direction; a front plate disposed at one side of and adjacent to the discharge duct, and extending in the width direction to cover the discharged passages of the discharge duct; and a plurality of suction holes formed in the front plate and having open ends that open towards the discharge duct, for sucking, through the open ends, tobacco shreds that spill from the cigarette ends of the filter cigarettes and drop into a gap between the front plate and the discharge duct.

Cigarette bundle feeder

A manufacturing machine for rod-shaped articles comprises a wrapping section () for forming a rod-shaped article by wrapping a filler material in a wrapper. The wrapping section has a forming bed () for guiding a garniture tape (), which is used to form the rod-shaped article, in travel. The manufacturing machine further comprises a cooling system for cooling the forming bed (). The cooling system is provided with cooling passages () formed in portionsA toD of the forming bed () and a circuit for supplying a coolant to the cooling passages.

Machine for manufacturing rod-like article

A fluid application device stores seam paste in a reservoir tankand feeds the seam paste to a pressure tankthrough a feed pumpInside of the pressure tankis maintained under a given air pressure by a pneumatic unitand the seam paste is supplied from the pressure tankto an application nozzlethrough a supply pipeA level sensordetects fluid level of stored seam paste in the pressure tankand a detection signal is input to a controllerThe controllercontrols operation of the feed pumpbased on the detection signal that is transmitted from the level sensorand also controls a supply amount of the seam paste to the pressure tankto maintain the fluid level in the pressure tankat a fixed level.

Fluid application device

A double-faced splicing tape of the present invention splices a first web used for forming a tobacco rod and a second web in a stand-by state to and has a plurality of perforations extending in a longitudinal direction of the webs. Furthermore, the present invention provides a feeding device for making the double-faced splicing tape hang toward a feeding position located in between a main delivery path of the first web and a sub-delivery path of the second web.

Splicing tape for splicing webs used as wrapping material for rod-like article together and feeding device of the same

An apparatus for sticking a double-sided adhesive tape in a predetermined position on a web, including an adhesive tape roll holding mechanism for tape roll, an adhesive tape delivery mechanism for delivering an adhesive tape laminate from the tape roll, and a pressing member for pressing the adhesive tape laminate against the web. The delivered adhesive tape laminate is held under pressure between the pressing member and the web, whereupon each of tape pieces on a seal of the laminate is stuck on the web.

Adhesive tape dispensing apparatus

A trimming control device for a cigarette manufacturing machine is provided with a pair of rotatable trimming disks having pockets on their peripheral edges for trimming a shredded tobacco layer on a tobacco band, a detecting device for detecting a filling density of the shredded tobacco in a tobacco rod, and a control board to which output from the detecting device is supplied. The control board makes a filling density distribution in the cigarette rod by sampling the output of the detecting device, extracts a peak zone including a peak from the filling density distribution, and determines a target cutting position of a tobacco rod at the central position of the peak zone.

Trimming control device for cigarette manufacturing machine

A paper web reservoir apparatus comprises a reservoir box, which has an inlet port through which a paper web paid out from a paper web supply section is introduced into the reservoir box, an outlet port through which the paper web delivered to a cigarette rod forming machine, and a number of vent holes bored through the wall of the reservoir box.

Paper web reservoir apparatus

The device according to the present invention has a delivery axis of tobacco rod which extends from a wrapping section to an inspecting section in a cigarette manufacturing apparatus, a rod guide which can move between the forward position on the delivery axis and the backward position away from the delivery axis, the rod guide directing and leading the tobacco rod sent out from the wrapping section to the inspecting section, and a rod deflector which is located above the rod guide and which can rotate from an up position that is higher than the delivery axis to a down position where the delivery axis is shut off, the rod deflector cutting the tobacco rod and also deflecting the delivery direction of the tobacco rod on the wrapping section side to lead it into a dust box when the rod deflector rotates from the up position to the down position.

Device for guiding the travel of tobacco rod in a cigarette

A control apparatus according to the present invention comprises a hinge for rockably supporting a second upper mold, which is utilized for the final formation of a tobacco rod, right over a lower mold of a cigarette production machine, an adjusting device for adjusting the diameter of the tobacco rod by rocking the second upper mold, a pulse motor for use as a drive source for the adjusting device, a pair of sensors for measuring diametrical widths of the formed tobacco rod with respect to two directions perpendicular to each other, a central processing unit for controlling the drive of the pulse motor in accordance with output signals from the sensors so that the diameter of the tobacco rod to be formed are within an allowable range, by means of a drive controller for the pulse motor.

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Tokyo, Japan

Shigenobu Kushihashi