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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2009
Filed:
Feb. 01, 2005
Salvatore Rizzoli, Bologna, IT;
Fiorenzo Draghetti, Medicina, IT;
Salvatore Rizzoli, Bologna, IT;
Fiorenzo Draghetti, Medicina, IT;
G.D. S.p.A., Bologna, IT;
Abstract
Filter cigarettes are turned out by a combination unit composed of a cigarette maker coinciding with a substantially horizontal first leg, also a filter tip attachment machine coinciding with a second leg, of which the downstream machine is equipped with an infeed roller turning on a horizontal axis lying transverse to the second leg. The first and second legs extend parallel one with another and are linked by a transfer unit rotatable about an essentially vertical center axis and incorporating a plurality of holders, each designed to take up two cigarette sticks from an outfeed end of the upstream machine and direct them through a semi-circular path to an infeed end of the downstream machine.