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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 25, 2010
Yves Drezen, Nantes, FR;
Fabian Rieth, Hamburg, DE;
Yves Drezen, Nantes, FR;
Fabian Rieth, Hamburg, DE;
Imperial Tobacco Ltd., Bristol, GB;
Abstract
The disclosure relates to a method of wrapping smoking article rods with a wrapper. A bobbin comprising a wound web () and individual spaced wrappers () is provided. The wrappers () each have a longitudinal axis (L) and are arranged side by side on the web (). The bobbin is unwound, and an unwound section of the web () is guided across a support, preferably a support plate, wherein the wrappers () on that section of the web () are exposed. Individual smoking article rods (), which have their longitudinal axes (L) generally arranged in parallel, are fed towards the support under an oblique angle (α) between the longitudinal axes (L, L) of the smoking article rods () and of the wrappers (). Each smoking article rod () is rolled over one of the wrappers (), wherein that wrapper () is taken up by that smoking article rod () and helically wound about that smoking article rod ().