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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 30, 1999
Filed:
Mar. 23, 1998
Fiorenzo Draghetti, Medicina, IT;
Salvatore Rizzoli, Bologna, IT;
G.D Societa' Per Azioni, Bologna, IT;
Abstract
A filter assembly machine wherein a succession of tobacco articles, each defined by at least one cigarette portion aligned with a respective filter, and a succession of respective gummed strips are fed by a conveyor drum to a first and a second rolling wheel rotating about respective axes and having a number of peripheral axial cavities, each of which houses a respective roller defining, with the cavity, a rolling channel; the tobacco articles, once rolled to connect the cigarette portions and filters by means of respective strips, are transferred from the first and second rolling wheel to an output drum by means of conveyors having seats on the end of respective ribs engageable between pairs of adjacent rollers.