Tobacco – Cigar or cigarette making – Tip or mouthpiece applying or forming
Patent
1995-03-23
1997-03-18
Bahr, Jennifer
Tobacco
Cigar or cigarette making
Tip or mouthpiece applying or forming
131 68, 131 94, A24C 526, A24C 547
Patent
active
056113595
ABSTRACT:
A predrying apparatus is incorporated in a filter attachment machine of a filter cigarette manufacturing system, and includes a speed sensor for detecting the traveling speed of tip paper, a movable heater movable toward and away from the tip paper for heating the same, an actuator for moving the movable heater, and a control unit for controlling the operation of the actuator in accordance with the speed sensor output. When it is judged based on the speed sensor output that the tip paper is stopped or traveling at low speed, the movable heater is moved away from the tip paper by the actuator, and when it is judged that the tip paper is traveling at high speed, the movable heater is moved toward the tip paper by the actuator.
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Hasegawa Tatsuya
Ogura Shinji
Bahr Jennifer
Japan Tobacco Inc.
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