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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 19, 1977
Filed:
Apr. 28, 1976
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Molins Limited, London, EN;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A24B / ; A24B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
1311 / ; 131110 ;
Abstract
A cigarette machine hopper comprises a first spiked band having an operative run; means for feeding tobacco onto the operative run of the first band; a second spiked band having an operative run adjacent to and approximately parallel to the operative run of the first band and arranged to move at a speed different from that of the first band, the spikes of the two bands being arranged to intercalate and to tease the tobacco and/or stretch lumps in the tobacco as the tobacco is fed forwards between the bands.