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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 03, 1989
Filed:
Jul. 17, 1987
Gerhard Hensgen, Hamburg, DE;
Wolfgang Steiniger, Bornsen, DE;
Werner Hinz, Lauenburg, DE;
Erwin Oesterling, Glinde, DE;
Siegfried Schlisio, Geesthacht, DE;
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., Winston-Salem, NC (US);
Abstract
An apparatus for making smoking articles is described. The preferred apparatus comprises structure to form a passage axially through a jacketed rod of tobacco, at one end of which there is a tubular sleeve of non-combustible material, and to insert an aerosol generating cartridge containing an aerosol forming substance, at one end of which there is a fuel element, into the passage so that the aerosol forming substance is within the passage in the rod of tobacco and the fuel element is within the sleeve of non-combustible material.