Philip Morris Products S.a.

Stefano Malossi

Alberto Monzoni

Antonella Giannini

Pietro Davide La Porta

Ivan Prestia

Stefano Zappoli

Fabio Cantieri

Genny Paladino

Cristian Castaldo

The method for shaping a continuous web material () into a rod comprises providing a continuous web material () having a glass transition temperature below 150 degree Celsius and gathering the continuous web material () from a flat shape into a rod-shape by means of a shaping device (). The method further comprises providing a cooling means () providing a temperature below four degree Celsius, cooling a material contact surface of the shaping device () to a surface temperature below four degree Celsius, and cooling the continuous gathered web material by the cooled material contact surface in contact with the continuous gathered web material. Also provided is an apparatus for shaping a continuous web material ().

Method and apparatus for shaping a continuous web material into a rod

A method of manufacturing a compressed rod of web material for the filter rod of an aerosol-generating article, comprising: supplying a feed of web material from a supply apparatus; drawing the web material through a filter rod manufacturing apparatus; introducing a curved ridge into the central portion of the width wise cross-section of the web material as it approaches contact with the interior of a folding funnel, by drawing the web material across a forming surface of a former that contacts a central portion of the web material, in which the forming surface deflects the central portion of the web material from a line extending between where the web material leaves the supply apparatus and the center of an outlet of the folding funnel; and folding the web material in the folding funnel to form a compressed rod of web material.

Method and apparatus for folding a web of material

The present invention relates to a machine for the production of a component for an aerosol generating article, the machine including: &#x2014;a buffer station, the buffer station including: # fixed sheet guides; # movable sheet guides which are movable in a reciprocating manner in a direction towards the fixed sheet guides and in a direction away from the sheet fixed guides; # an actuator for moving the movable sheet guides, wherein the fixed and movable sheet guides together define a zig-zag trajectory for the sheet having a variable length for varying the total length of the sheet of material in the buffer station; # supports for the sheet, the supports being arranged so that, when the movable sheet guides are moved towards the fixed sheet guides, at least one of the movable sheets guides is interposed between two different supports of the plurality; # an air system; # wherein the each of the supports defines an outer surface, at least one of the outer surfaces having a first portion in which a sucking action is exerted by the air system to attract the sheet towards the outer surface and a second portion in which a blowing action is exerted by the air system to push the sheet away from the outer surface.

Machine for the production of a component for an aerosol generating article

The present invention relates to an apparatus () for crimping a sheet of material (), the apparatus comprising: a first () and a second () facing crimping rollers defining a first () and a second () rotational axis, respectively, the first and second axis being parallel to each other, wherein at least one of the first and second crimping roller includes a plurality of corrugations; an angle changing device, the angle changing device being adapted to change a crimping angle () formed between a fixed reference plane () and a movable plane () containing the first and the second rotational axis.

Method and apparatus for manufacturing a crimped sheet of material

The present invention relates to a method to remove an adhesive label () from a bobbin (), the bobbin including an end portion () and an outer surface (), the method including: providing a bobbin of a coiled sheet closed by an adhesive label positioned on top of the end portion of the coiled sheet () to attach the same to the outer surface of the bobbin; locating the adhesive label; applying a sucking force to the location of the adhesive label so as to detach the adhesive label and the end portion of the coiled sheet from the bobbin; and cutting a part of the detached end portion including the adhesive label from the bobbin. The present invention also relates to an apparatus to detach an adhesive label from an end portion of a coiled sheet in a bobbin, the adhesive label being located between the end portion and an outer surface of the bobbin.

Method to remove an adhesive label from a bobbin and apparatus to detach an adhesive label from an end portion of a coiled sheet in a bobbin

The invention relates to a method for feeding and splicing sheets of material wound in bobbins (), the method including: providing a rotating wheel () having at least a first, a second, a third and a fourth bobbin holder () defining a first, a second, a third and a fourth station; unwinding a first sheet of material () wound in a first bobbin () provided in the first station; detecting the amount of first sheet of material remaining in the first bobbin () in the first station; depending on the amount of first sheet of material (), splicing the first sheet of material () unwound from the first bobbin with a second sheet of material () unwound from a second bobbin () present in the second station; preparing for splicing a third sheet of material in a third bobbin () present in the third station including: reading information about the third bobbin () contained in a sticker, label or tag; removing the sticker, label or tag from the third bobbin (); and rotating the wheel () so that the substantially empty first bobbin () is moved to the fourth station and the third bobbin is moved to the second station. Further, the invention relates to an apparatus for feeding and splicing materials wound in bobbins () for conducting the above method.

Method and apparatus for feeding and splicing sheet of material wound in a bobbin

The invention relates to an apparatus () and a method to fetch an end portion of a sheet () of material wound in a bobbin (), the apparatus including: a rotatable bobbin holder () adapted to be inserted in a bobbin; an articulated arm (); a suction device () having a contact surface () including a first portion () capable of exerting a first suction power and a second portion () capable of exerting a second suction power different from zero, wherein the first suction power is higher than the second suction power, the suction device being attached to the articulated arm; and a control unit (), adapted to command a movement of the articulated arm so that the first portion of the contact surface of the suction device contacts the bobbin. The invention also relates to a method to fetch an end portion of a sheet of material wound in a bobbin.

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Bologna, Italy

Stefano Malossi