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Title:
APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR FORMING COMPOSITE WEB
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP3403939
Kind Code:
B2
Abstract:

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and apparatus for producing a fuel element for smoking articles at a rate comparable to that of producing e.g. conventional cigarettes.
SOLUTION: This method and apparatus comprise the following processes: a splicer 16 is used for combinedly conjugating webs unwound from two bobbins B1, B2 of an unwinder 14, a sensing and speed control are conducted so as to control web accumulation prior to web conjugation and its halt and sense the rate of web unwinding and the amount of webs left on the bobbins, a web is fed to a composite web formation device 20 on the upstream side of a conjugation device and cut off in half and separated vertically, a paper web is introduced in between the two half-webs and they are joined together, thus running to a three-layer composite web with the paper web sandwiched between the glass fiber half-webs.


Inventors:
Donald Ross Wilkinson
Jiyoung Larkin Nelson
Jeffrey Cane Rogers
Vernon Brent Burns
Barry Smith Huatugu
Application Number:
JP15639098A
Publication Date:
May 06, 2003
Filing Date:
June 04, 1998
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
Japan Tobacco Inc.
International Classes:
A24C5/14; A24D1/18; A24C5/20; A24D3/02; A24F47/00; B31F5/06; B32B37/16; B65H19/14; B65H19/18; B65H39/16; (IPC1-7): A24C5/14
Domestic Patent References:
JP50111297A
JP62154718A
JP6235841A
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Takehiko Suzue (5 outside)