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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:
Apr. 01, 1997
Filed:
Feb. 09, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Masayoshi Saitoh, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Japan Tobacco Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A24C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
131 841 ; 131 842 ; 131 843 ; 131 844 ;
Abstract
A cigarette rod manufacturing apparatus includes a shaping section for continuously forming a cigarette rod from a paper and cut tobacco, by using an endless fibrous garniture tape traveling in one direction. Two spray nozzles are located outside the shaping section which are used to spray a wetting liquid on the inner and outer surfaces of the garniture tape, individually.