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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:
Jul. 05, 2005
Filed:
Dec. 05, 2003
Hiroshi Okamoto, Tokyo, JP;
Takayuki Irikura, Kohriyama, JP;
Hiroshi Sakuma, Kohriyama, JP;
Japan Tobacco Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A filter attaching apparatus comprises a drumfor conveying an intermediate product of a filter cigarette and a receiving drumfor feeding a tip paper piece, and winds the tip paper piece around the intermediate product while rotating these drums with the tip paper piece adhered to the intermediate product. Suction chambersandare disposed in the vicinity of the drumthat conveys the intermediate product, and suction openings of the suction chambers extend in a conveying direction of the intermediate product along an outer periphery of the drum. Fine particles of shredded tobacco and the like that are scattered by rotation of the drumare sucked through the suction openings into the suction chambersandand the like, so that the intermediate product is completely isolated from an atmosphere of the fine particles of the shredded tobacco and the like.
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