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SECTION A — HUMAN NECESSITIES
  
FOODSTUFFS AND TOBACCO
 A24
TOBACCO; CIGARS; CIGARETTES; SMOKERS' REQUISITES
 A24C
MACHINES FOR MAKING CIGARS AND CIGARETTES
 A24C 1/00 - 
A24C 3/00
Making cigars
 A24C 1/00
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)
 A24C 1/02
·  Tobacco-feeding devices with or without means for dividing the tobacco into measured quantities
 A24C 1/04
·  Devices for cutting cigar binders or wrappers
 A24C 1/08
·  Making tobacco bunches
 A24C 1/10
·  ·  Bunch-making machines with aprons and tables for wrapping
 A24C 1/12
·  ·  Bunch-making machines with wrapping rollers
 A24C 1/14
·  ·  Bunch-making machines with grippers
 A24C 1/16
·  Treating bunches
 A24C 1/18
·  ·  Moulds or presses for cigar bunches
 A24C 1/20
·  ·  ·  Rotating moulds for cigar bunches
 A24C 1/22
·  ·  Rolling formed bunches
 A24C 1/24
·  ·  Cutting bunches to length
 A24C 1/26
·  Applying the wrapper
 A24C 1/28
·  ·  Wrapper transferring mechanisms
 A24C 1/30
·  ·  Devices for applying the wrapper to the bunch
 A24C 1/32
·  ·  Devices for forming the tips of cigars (filter tips, mouthpieces A24D 3/00)
 A24C 1/34
·  ·  Adhesive-applying means
 A24C 1/36
·  ·  Cutting wrapped bunches to length
 A24C 1/38
·  Final treatment of cigars, e.g. sorting (drying cigars A24B 9/00)
 A24C 1/40
·  ·  Delustering or powdering cigars
 A24C 1/42
·  ·  Marking, printing, or decorating cigars
 A24C 1/44
·  ·  Bundling and pressing devices for cigars
 A24C 3/00
Complete manufacture of cigars; Combinations of two or more elements of cigar manufacture
 A24C 5/00
Making cigarettes; Making tipping materials for, or attaching filters or mouthpieces to, cigars or cigarettes
 A24C 5/02
·  Cigarette-filling machines
 A24C 5/04
·  ·  with continuous rod (A24C 5/14 takes precedence)
 A24C 5/06
·  ·  with pressing-chamber
 A24C 5/08
·  Machines with aprons and tables for wrapping
 A24C 5/10
·  Machines with wrapping rollers
 A24C 5/12
·  Cutting the ends of filled and rolled cigarettes
 A24C 5/14
·  Machines of the continuous-rod type (tobacco feeding devices A24C 5/39)
 A24C 5/18
·  ·  Forming the rod
 A24C 5/20
·  ·  Reels; Supports for bobbins; Other accessories
 A24C 5/22
·  ·  Creasing the paper seam
 A24C 5/24
·  ·  Pasting the seam
 A24C 5/26
·  ·  Drying the seam
 A24C 5/28
·  ·  Cutting-off the tobacco rod
 A24C 5/30
·  ·  ·  Machines combined with devices for grinding the knives
 A24C 5/31
·  ·  with special arrangements coming into operation during starting, slowing-down, or breakdown of the machine, e.g. for diverting or breaking the continuous rod
 A24C 5/32
·  Separating, ordering, counting, or examining cigarettes (in relation to packaging B65B 19/00; counting per se G06M); Regulating the feeding of tobacco according to rod or cigarette condition (testing or determining chemical or physical properties G01N; controlling in general G05)
 A24C 5/33
·  ·  Catching or ordering devices
 A24C 5/34
·  ·  Examining cigarettes or the rod, e.g. for regulating the feeding of tobacco; Removing defective cigarettes
 A24C 5/343
·  ·  ·  by mechanical means, e.g. feelers
 A24C 5/345
·  ·  ·  Removing defective cigarettes (A24C 5/31 takes precedence)
 A24C 5/35
·  Adaptations of conveying apparatus for transporting cigarettes from making machine to packaging machine
 A24C 5/352
·  ·  Using containers, i.e. boats
 A24C 5/354
·  ·  ·  Filling the boats at the making machine
 A24C 5/356
·  ·  ·  Emptying the boats into the hopper of the packaging machine (hopper construction B65B 19/04)
 A24C 5/358
·  ·  ·  Boat constructions
 A24C 5/36
·  Removing papers or other parts from defective cigarettes
 A24C 5/38
·  Machines combined with printing devices
 A24C 5/39
·  Tobacco feeding devices (regulating feed according to rod or cigarette condition A24C 5/34)
 A24C 5/40
·  Hand-driven apparatus for making cigarettes
 A24C 5/42
·  ·  Pocket cigarette-fillers
 A24C 5/44
·  ·  Pocket cigarette-rollers
 A24C 5/46
·  Making paper tubes for cigarettes (making paper tubes in general B31C)
 A24C 5/47
·  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]
 A24C 5/48
( transferred to A24C 5/47, A24D 3/00 )
 A24C 5/50
( transferred to A24D 3/00 )
 A24C 5/52
·  Incorporating filters or mouthpieces into a cigarette rod or a tobacco rod (filters, their manufacture, mouthpieces A24D 3/00)
 A24C 5/54
·  Folding the ends of cigarette paper tubes after filling them with tobacco
 A24C 5/56
·  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 5/16)
 A24C 5/58
·  ·  Applying the tipping materials
 A24C 5/60
·  Final treatment of cigarettes, e.g. marking, printing, branding, decorating