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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 1997
Filed:
Jul. 26, 1996
G.D Societa Per Azioni, Bologna, IT;
Abstract
A method and machine whereby at least two strips of paper, after being supplied with respective continuous layers of shredded tobacco, are fed along a forming beam by respective conveyor belts which are deformed transversely to gradually wind the respective strips about the respective layers and so form respective tubular wrappings, each presenting a respective longitudinal lateral appendix, an inner lateral portion of which is gummed by a respective gumming disk and then brought into contact with an outer surface of the respective tubular wrapping to form a respective continuous cigarette rod; the inner lateral portions being gummed at an intermediate point of the forming beam. The gumming apparatus is located to one side of the forming beam, thereby leaving the other side accessible.