Tobacco – Tobacco users' appliance – Cigar tip perforators or slitters
Reexamination Certificate
2007-11-27
2007-11-27
Lopez, Carlos (Department: 1731)
Tobacco
Tobacco users' appliance
Cigar tip perforators or slitters
C131S254000, C131S255000
Reexamination Certificate
active
10626720
ABSTRACT:
Cigars are released from a feed station onto first and second conveyor belts and directed along a predetermined feed path, part of which coinciding with a wheel interposed between the two belts and equipped with a set of needles serving to pierce the cigars by engaging at least one respective end portion; the wheel is also equipped with a set of clamp elements, each able to restrain a single cigar and caused to revolve in stable alignment with a relative needle. The single needle is fashioned from a resistive metal and connected to an electrical power source in such a way that it can be heated by applying a current and inducing the Joule effect.
REFERENCES:
patent: 2277690 (1942-03-01), Clausen
patent: 2754830 (1956-07-01), Noecker et al.
patent: 2800133 (1957-07-01), Sundberg
Spatafora Mario
Tommasini Bruno
G.D. - S.p.A.
Klima Timothy J.
Lopez Carlos
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