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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:
Mar. 01, 1988
Filed:
Jan. 22, 1986
Applicant:
Inventor:
John A Luke, Eastleigh, GB;
Assignee:
British-American Tobacco Company Limited, London, GB;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A24C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
131 841 ; 131360 ; 131364 ;
Abstract
In the making of cigarette rod, which rod comprises an axial element of filler material and a wrapper surrounded by smoking material and an exterior wrapper, a web of the exterior wrapper material, a stream of the smoking material and a preformed rod, providing the axial element, are fed to the garniture of a cigarette rod making machine. The rod providing the axial element is made on a further rod making machine.