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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 22, 2023
Filed:
Nov. 02, 2015
Philip Morris Products S.a., Neuchatel, CH;
Stefano Zappoli, Bologna, IT;
Philip Morris Products S.A., Neuchatel, CH;
Abstract
An apparatus for and a method of manufacturing a crimped web for an aerosol-generating article is provided, including feeding a substantially continuous web to a set of crimping rollers including a first roller and a second roller, each of which is corrugated across at least a portion of a width thereof; and crimping the web by feeding the web between the rollers in a longitudinal direction of the web such that corrugations of the rollers apply a plurality of longitudinally extending and substantially parallel crimp corrugations to the web, wherein pitch values of the corrugations of one or both of the rollers vary across the width thereof such that pitch values of the crimp corrugations vary across a width of the crimped web.