Embodiments disclosed herein relate to an apparatus (1) for use in the manufacture of tobacco industry products. The apparatus (1) comprises a rolling unit (9) comprising: •a rotatable drum (14) having a plurality of flutes (18) formed in a curved outer surface (17) of the drum (14) to receive axially-aligned components (5,6) of a tobacco industry product; •a roll hand (15) having a contact surface (34) facing and spaced from the outer surface (17) of the drum (14) to define a space, between the contact surface (34) and the outer surface (17), within which space components of a tobacco industry product are rollable upon rotation of the drum (14); and •a kicker bar (16) disposed adjacent to the roll hand (15) and having a contact edge (36) facing and spaced from the outer surface (17) of the drum (17). At least one of the roll hand contact surface (34), kicker bar contact edge (36) and drum outer surface (17) includes a groove (31, 32, 33) extending in a substantially circumferential direction of the drum (14) and configured to least partially receive one or more of the tobacco industry product components as the drum (14) rotates.

An apparatus for use in the manufacture of tobacco industry products. The apparatus including a rotatable drum having a plurality of flutes formed in a curved outer surface of the drum to receive axially-aligned components of a tobacco industry product, a roll hand having a contact surface facing and spaced from the outer surface of the drum to define a space, between the contact surface and the outer surface, within which space components of a tobacco industry product are rollable upon rotation of the drum, and a kicker bar disposed adjacent to the roll hand and having a contact edge facing and spaced from the outer surface of the drum, where at least one of the roll hand contact surface, kicker bar contact edge and drum outer surface includes a groove extending in a substantially circumferential direction of the drum and configured to least partially receive one or more of the tobacco industry product components as the drum rotates.

The invention relates to a Heat-Not-Burn smoking construction with at least one tobacco segment, at least one cooling tube and a filter comprising an upstream hollow filter segment and a downstream filled filter segment. The filter segments are wrapped with at least one first combining wrapper. The cooling tube and the filter are surrounded by a second combining wrapper or tipping paper extending partially on the tobacco segment to attach the filter and cooling tube to the tobacco segment. The cooling tube is formed between the filter and the tobacco segment by the first combining wrapper, which surrounds the filter and forms a cavity between the tobacco segment and the filter to provide a cavity that extends a length beyond the upstream hollow filter segment. The invention also relates to a method for manufacturing one or two heat-not-burn smoking constructions.

A method of manufacturing smoking articles in a smoking article manufacturing machine, including supplying the smoking article manufacturing machine with dual length filter rods, each dual length filter rod containing a capsule of a first type and a capsule of a second type, using the smoking article manufacturing machine to cut patches of tipping paper from a web of tipping paper, using the smoking article manufacturing machine to wrap one of said patches of tipping paper about each dual length filter rod to attach a rod of smokable material to opposite ends thereof, and using the smoking article manufacturing machine to cut each wrapped dual length filter rod to form a first and a second smoking article, the first smoking article having a first filter rod segment formed from the dual length filter rod and the second smoking article having a second filter rod segment formed from the dual length filter rod, and in which the first filter rod segment includes the first type of capsule and the second filter rod segment includes the second type of capsule, where the web of tipping paper includes a first lateral portion and a second lateral portion, the first lateral portion having different visual or tactile mark or indicia than the second lateral portion.

A web of tipping paper and a smoking article manufacturing machine that cuts the web of tipping paper into individual patches and wraps each patch about a respective dual length filter rod to attach a rod of smokable material to opposite ends of each dual length filter rod before the dual length filter rod is cut to form a first and second type of smoking article having first and second filter rod segments, respectively, and in which the first filter rod segment of the first type of smoking article differs from the second filter rod segment of the second type of smoking article, the web of tipping paper including a first lateral portion, and a second lateral portion that differs from the first lateral portion, where the smoking article manufacturing machine is configured to cut the tipping paper web so that each patch is partly formed from the first lateral portion, and partly formed from the second lateral portion, the machine also being configured to wrap the patch about the dual length filter rod such that the part of the patch formed from the first lateral portion is wrapped about a part of the dual length filter rod which, when cut, forms the first filter rod segment, and the part of the patch formed from the second lateral portion is wrapped about a part of the dual length filter rod which, when cut, forms the second filter rod segment.

Apparatus comprising a tipping paper suction drum (10) adapted to receive a web (13) of tipping paper which is cut on the tipping paper suction drum to form successive patches (8) of tipping paper for wrapping smoking articles. The tipping paper suction drum is adapted to rotate at a speed greater than the speed at which the web of tipping paper is fed onto the tipping paper suction drum such that spaces are formed between the cut patches of tipping paper. A peripheral surface (14) of the tipping paper suction drum has suction holes (16) arranged to pull the leading portion of the web of tipping paper towards the surface of the tipping paper suction drum in the time between successive cuts.

Embodiments disclosed herein relate to an apparatus (1) for use in the manufacture of tobacco industry products. The apparatus (1) comprises a rolling unit (9) comprising: a rotatable drum (14) having a plurality of flutes (18) formed in a curved outer surface (17) of the drum (14) to receive axially-aligned components (5,6) of a tobacco industry product; a roll hand (15) having a contact surface (34) facing and spaced from the outer surface (17) of the drum (14) to define a space, between the contact surface (34) and the outer surface (17), within which space components of a tobacco industry product are rollable upon rotation of the drum (14); and a kicker bar (16) disposed adjacent to the roll hand (15) and having a contact edge (36) facing and spaced from the outer surface (17) of the drum (17). At least one of the roll hand contact surface (34), kicker bar contact edge (36) and drum outer surface (17) includes a groove (31,32,33) extending in a substantially circumferential direction of the drum (14) and configured to least partially receive one or more of the tobacco industry product components as the drum (14) rotates.

A smoking article assembly apparatus is disclosed. It comprises a first cutting station configured to cut a filter rod into filter segments, a tipping station configured to join the filter segments to tobacco rods so as to form a smoking article assembly, and a second cutting station configured to cut the smoking article assembly in the region of the filter segments so as to form two smoking articles.

A rotary shear cutting apparatus to cut discrete non-rectangular portions from a web of smoking article sheet material, comprises a first rotary carrier provided with a first cutting edge and a second rotary carrier provided with a second cutting edge, wherein said first and second cutting edges are configured to cooperate during rotation of said first and second rotary carriers to cut a non-rectangular portion from the web.

A web of tipping paper (20) for supplying a smoking article manufacturing machine (17) which cuts the web into individual patches and wraps each patch about a respective dual length filter rod (1) to attach rods of smokable material (4) to the ends of each dual length filter rod is disclosed. A first lateral portion (25a) of the tipping paper web comprises a first longitudinal series of first indicators (26), and a second lateral portion (25b) of the tipping paper web comprises a second longitudinal series of indicators (27), the first and second indicators being different to each other so that a first indicator is indicative of a first type of smoking article and a second indicator is indicative of a second type of smoking article which is different to the first type of smoking article, wherein the tipping paper web is configured to be loaded onto a smoking article manufacturing machine so that the machine wraps a first part of a patch of tipping paper which is formed from the first lateral portion of the tipping paper web around a first portion of the dual length filter rod in the formation of a smoking article of the first type and so that a first indicator on the first part of the patch denotes that said first portion of the dual length filter rod is a part of a smoking article of the first type and, so that the machine wraps a second part of the patch which is formed from the second lateral portion of the tipping paper web around a second portion of the dual length filter rod in the formation of a smoking article of the second type and so that a second indicator on the second part of the patch denotes that said second portion of the dual length filter rod is a part of a smoking article of the second type, prior to cutting the dual length filter rod and the patch into a first filter rod segment that is wrapped in said first part of the patch and which forms, together with the rod of smokable material attached thereto, a smoking article of the first type, and into a second filter rod segment that is wrapped in said second part of the patch and which forms, together with the rod of smokable attached thereto, a smoking article of the second type.