Compound horizontal filter assembly machine and process

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 11559080
APP PUB NO 20190269171A1
SERIAL NO

16419381

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An apparatus and processes for producing compound cigarette filters by horizontally assembling multiple filter segments onto the horizontally oriented transverse flutes of a continuous belt. Spaced apart hoppers are serially arranged above the belt, and each hopper contains at least one of the multiple segments of the compound filter being assembled. A transfer structure between each hopper and the belt serially delivers the filter segments to the flutes on the belt, and after such assembly the various filter segments are removed as a group from each flute of the continuous belt. The filter segments are then combined as a group with wrapped tobacco rods to thereby produce filtered cigarettes.

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  • PHILIP MORRIS USA INC.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Braunshteyn, Michael S Richmond, US 9 1022
Olegario, Raquel M Richmond, US 11 583

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