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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 10, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 06, 2013
Philip Morris Products S.a., Neuchatel, CH;
Andrea Carraro, Ins, CH;
Alexis Louvet, Lausanne, CH;
Oleg Mironov, Neuchatel, CH;
Christopher John Grant, Neuchatel, CH;
Philip Morris Products S.A., Neuchatel, CH;
Abstract
A method and apparatus are provided for manufacturing multi-component segments for smoking articles, each having a removable wrap. The method includes feeding a stream of heat sources and aerosol-forming substrates along a moving delivery path; compacting into groups at least one heat source and an aerosol-forming substrate, each group corresponding to at least one multi-segment component, each multi-segment component having a first end adjacent the heat source and a second end adjacent the aerosol-forming substrate; wrapping the heat sources and aerosol-forming substrates in a web of material, said web having spaced apart lines of weakness; aligning each line of weakness proximate to a respective heat source; and cutting said web at a position proximate to the first end of the at least one multi-segment component, wherein at least a portion of said web forms a removable wrap being removable by breaking the wrapper at the respective line of weakness.