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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 1976
Filed:
May. 15, 1975
John H Sexstone, Middletown, KY (US);
Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation, Louisville, KY (US);
Abstract
Method and apparatus for forming filter rods containing particulate material. The method is characterized by providing a filter rod of filtering material having a longitudinal axis and cutting that rod in the direction of the axis, exposing the interior of the rod, providing pockets at axially spaced intervals in the interior of the rod, depositing particulate material therein and closing and sealing the rod. The apparatus disclosed includes means for transporting a filter rod, a cutting wheel for severing the rod in the direction of its longitudinal axis, hot die means for impressing pockets within the interior of the split rod, means for depositing particulate material in the formed pockets and means for closing the rod about the particulate material and sealing the split rod.