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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 28, 1986
Filed:
Dec. 27, 1984
The Japan Tobacco & Salt Public Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A tobacco filter tip attaching apparatus including a filter tip attaching portion for rolling and pasting a tip paper onto both one end portion of a cigarette and a filter tip disposed adjacent thereto, a filter tip feed portion disposed in the vicinity of the filter tip attaching portion for feeding filter tips to the filter tip attaching portion, a tip paper feed portion disposed in the vicinity of the filter tip attaching portion for feeding a tip paper from a tip paper roll to the filter tip attaching portion, a filter tip sensor for detecting that the feed of filter tip from the filter tip feed portion to the filter tip attaching portion is discontinued, a tip paper cutting sensor for detecting a cutting accident of the tip paper during feed from the tip paper feed portion to the filter tip attaching portion, and a roll diameter sensor for detecting that the diameter of the tip paper roll in the tip paper feed portion has become smaller than a predetermined value. The whole of the apparatus is covered. The cover is provided with openable doors in positions corresponding respectively to the filter tip feed portion, filter tip attaching portion and tip paper feed portion. Provided in corresponding relation to those doors are power sources, which are operated selectively in accordance with output signals provided from the above sensors to open one or more of the doors automatically.