Method and assembly for opening cigarette wrappers in a machine for recovering tobacco from defective and or substandard cigarettes

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PATENT NO 8651114
APP PUB NO 20110220129A1
SERIAL NO

12870396

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Method of opening a cigarette wrapper including cutting open a cigarette transported in a guiding groove of a feeder of a machine for recovering tobacco from defective and/or substandard cigarettes with at least one revolving disc knife located above the feeder, in which the at least one revolving disc knife is applied to the cigarette in such a way that the axis of rotation on which the said disc knife is perpendicularly mounted lies on a plane parallel to the plane over which the cigarette axis is translated, and the plane of the disc knife does not contain the cigarette axis and is parallel to the said cigarette axis, the possibility of rotation of the cigarette around its axis in the guiding groove is blocked, whereby tensile stress is applied in the cigarette wrapper facilitating its opening.

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INTERNATIONAL TOBACCO MACHINERY POLAND SP Z O OPOLAN LA DOM RADOM MASOVIAN

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Chojnacki, Wojciech Jerzy Radom, PL 6 9
Sieredziński, Marek Radom, PL 2 0

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