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Abstract

There is disclosed apparatus and method for making helical center-cored smokers' filters from pipe cleaners or the like in which a guide for winding the pipe cleaner includes a thin walled metal tube with an inside diameter slightly smaller than the pipe cleaner and a wire affixed to the outside of the tube in the shape of a helix. The pipe cleaner is put in the tube for a fraction of its length and is then wound along the guide around the tube and itself by the use of a transparent plastic hollow cylinder slipped over the tube and with a pipe cleaner engaging notch in one end. An opening in the cylinder allows a fully wound pipe cleaner to be held in place while the guide is rotated and disengaged from it after which the wound pipe cleaner filter is pushed out of the cylinder and removed.

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