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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 2005
Filed:
Mar. 07, 2003
Satoshi Kitao, Yokohama, JP;
Keigo Miura, Yokohama, JP;
Sadayoshi Matsuura, Tokyo, JP;
Fumio Sashide, Tokyo, JP;
Tsuyoshi Futamura, Tokyo, JP;
Satoshi Kitao, Yokohama, JP;
Keigo Miura, Yokohama, JP;
Sadayoshi Matsuura, Tokyo, JP;
Fumio Sashide, Tokyo, JP;
Tsuyoshi Futamura, Tokyo, JP;
Japan Tobacco, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An apparatus includes a unit which forms burn control agent coated regions on a web of a wrapping paper transferred by a wrapping paper transfer unit at a plurality of positions separated from each other in the longitudinal or in the width direction of the web, a unit which supplies chopped tobacco leaves to the wrapping paper after formation of the coated regions, a roll-up unit which rolls up the wrapping paper on which the chopped tobacco leaves are supplied, and a cigarette cutting unit which cuts the rolled-up wrapping paper together with the chopped tobacco leaves in a predetermined length of the cigarette in the longitudinal direction thereof.