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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:
Nov. 28, 1989
Filed:
Jul. 20, 1988
Applicant:
Inventors:
Riccardo Mattei, Bologna, IT;
Salvatore Rizzoli, Bologna, IT;
Assignee:
G. D. Societa' per Azioni, Bologna, IT;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A24C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
131 844 ; 131 841 ;
Abstract
A dual-rod cigarette manufacturing machine wherein two streams of tobacco, retained by suction on parallel conveyor belts, are subjected to the action of respective tobacco shaving devices prior to being wrapped in strips of cigarette paper; each of the aforementioned shaving devices comprising two tangent, coplanar, counter-rotating discs having respective cutting edges, and the respective shafts of which are parallel, inclined at a given angle from vertical, and the shafts lie in a plane substantially perpendicular to the two tobacco streams.