IPC 7 English version A24C-A24C 5/60

IPC ⁷ English version

A24C-A24C00560

SECTION A – HUMAN NECESSITIES

A 24

TOBACCO; CIGARS; CIGARETTES; SMOKERS' REQUISITES

A 24 C

MACHINES FOR MAKING CIGARS OR CIGARETTES

Making cigars

Elements of cigar manufacture (combinations of two or more elements of cigar manufacture A24C 3/00; attaching or incorporating filters or mouthpieces A24C 5/47, A24C 5/52; cutting machines in general B26D)

Tobacco-feeding devices with or without means for dividing the tobacco into measured quantities

Devices for cutting cigar binders or wrappers

Making tobacco bunches

Bunch-making machines with aprons and tables for wrapping

Bunch-making machines with wrapping rollers

Bunch-making machines with grippers

Treating bunches

Moulds or presses for cigar bunches

Rotating moulds for cigar bunches

Rolling formed bunches

Cutting bunches to length

Applying the wrapper

Wrapper transferring mechanisms

Devices for applying the wrapper to the bunch

Devices for forming the tips of cigars (filter tips, mouthpieces A24D 3/00)

Adhesive-applying means

Cutting wrapped bunches to length

Final treatment of cigars, e.g. sorting (drying cigars A24B 9/00)

Delustering or powdering cigars

Marking, printing, or decorating cigars

Bundling and pressing devices for cigars

Complete manufacture of cigars; Combinations of two or more elements of cigar manufacture

Making cigarettes; Making tipping materials for, or attaching filters or mouthpieces to, cigars or cigarettes [3]

Cigarette-filling machines

with continuous rod (A24C 5/14 takes precedence)

with pressing-chamber

Machines with aprons and tables for wrapping

Machines with wrapping rollers

Cutting the ends of filled and rolled cigarettes

Machines of the continuous-rod type (tobacco feeding devices A24C 5/39)

Forming the rod

Reels; Supports for bobbins; Other accessories

Creasing the paper seam

Pasting the seam

Drying the seam

Cutting-off the tobacco rod

Machines combined with devices for grinding the knives

with special arrangements coming into operation during starting, slowing-down, or breakdown of the machine, e.g. for diverting or breaking the continuous rod

Separating, ordering, counting, or examining cigarettes (in relation to packaging B65B 19/00); Regulating the feeding of tobacco according to rod or cigarette condition (investigating or analysing materials by determining their chemical or physical properties G01N; controlling in general G05)

Catching or ordering devices

Examining cigarettes or the rod, e.g. for regulating the feeding of tobacco; Removing defective cigarettes

343

by mechanical means, e.g. feelers

345

Removing defective cigarettes (A24C 5/31 takes precedence)

Adaptations of conveying apparatus for transporting cigarettes from making machine to packaging machine

352

using containers, i.e. boats

354

Filling the boats at the making machine

356

Emptying the boats into the hopper of the packaging machine (hopper construction B65B 19/04)

358

Boat constructions

Removing papers or other parts from defective cigarettes

Machines combined with printing devices

Tobacco feeding devices (regulating feed according to rod or cigarette condition A24C 5/34)

Hand-driven apparatus for making cigarettes

Pocket cigarette-fillers

Pocket cigarette-rollers

Making paper tubes for cigarettes (making paper tubes in general B31C)

Attaching filters or mouthpieces to cigars or cigarettes, e.g. inserting filters into cigarettes or their mouthpieces (A24C 5/52 takes precedence; filters, their manufacture, mouthpieces A24D 3/00) [3]

Incorporating filters or mouthpieces into a cigarette rod or a tobacco rod (filters, their manufacture, mouthpieces A24D 3/00)

Folding the ends of cigarette paper tubes after filling them with tobacco

Making tipping materials, e.g. sheet cork for mouthpieces of cigars or cigarettes, by mechanical means (chemical part of making tipping material C08; wrapping papers for cigarettes D21H)

Applying the tipping materials

Final treatment of cigarettes, e.g. marking, printing, branding, decorating