EP0123150B1 - Gebrauchfertiges System und Verfahren zur Selbstverfertigung von Zigaretten durch den Verbraucher - Google Patents

Gebrauchfertiges System und Verfahren zur Selbstverfertigung von Zigaretten durch den Verbraucher Download PDF

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EP0123150B1
EP0123150B1 EP84103244A EP84103244A EP0123150B1 EP 0123150 B1 EP0123150 B1 EP 0123150B1 EP 84103244 A EP84103244 A EP 84103244A EP 84103244 A EP84103244 A EP 84103244A EP 0123150 B1 EP0123150 B1 EP 0123150B1
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A24—TOBACCO; CIGARS; CIGARETTES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES; SMOKERS' REQUISITES
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
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  • the invention relates generally to the self-manufacture of cigarettes by the consumer.
  • Austrian patent specification 146 213 shows a known type of tamping device with two folding wings connected by a sliding hinge; When opened, tobacco is inserted and distributed by the user, then the two wings are folded together about the hinge axis and one wing is locked in the closed position by axial longitudinal displacement relative to the other stationary wing; then the tobacco filling is transferred from the device closed in this way into a covered sleeve.
  • French patent 427 582 discloses a one-piece cigarette plug device in the form of a channel-shaped body made of a flexible, resilient material, the two legs of which are flanged at their ends to form locking eyes.
  • the tobacco is filled into and distributed in the channel in the unlocked open state, in which the two legs of the channel diverge due to the inherent elasticity of the material, then the channel is closed by compressing the two leg ends until their mutual locking and then the tobacco filling transferred with a conventional pusher into a cigarette tube placed at the end of the channel.
  • a stuffing device is known from US Pat. No. 638 904, in which a (one-piece, not hinged) stuffing sleeve is combined with an associated piston device to form a structural unit. The stuffing sleeve is open at one end and closed at the other end with an opening for the piston rod.
  • the stuffing box must be filled with tobacco from the open face of the stuffing box, which should obviously be difficult in practice, especially when using high quality, long-stranded tobacco.
  • the tobacco filling (introduced into the tube from the end face) is then transferred by sliding the piston from the other side into a cigarette tube pushed onto the open end of the stuffing box.
  • This prefabricated product in the form of the prefabricated wrapped tobacco rod (cigarette tobacco cartridge) is industrially inexpensive to manufacture and largely adapted to the highly developed cigarette manufacturing technology.
  • cigarette tobacco cartridges which are only subject to the lower tobacco tax, can usually be made available to the consumer at a lower price than industrial finished cigarettes.
  • the cigarette tobacco cartridge is first inserted into the sleeve section of a conventional filter cigarette tube (or possibly also into a filterless cigarette tube) in the axial direction; then it is provided in a complicated and complex operation to pull the strand casing of the tobacco cartridge between the outer cigarette paper sleeve and the inner tobacco filling in the axial direction, with axial blocking of the tobacco filling.
  • a relatively complex separate device which has a receiving station for the filter sleeve with a cigarette cartridge inserted into it in the form of a tunnel.
  • a guide for a longitudinally displaceable gripping arrangement is aligned, by means of which the strand casing of the cigarette tobacco cartridge is to be gripped at its end protruding from the filter paper sleeve while being clamped and by axial displacement of the gripping arrangement along the straight guide from its position between the filter casing and the inner tobacco filling.
  • the tobacco filling must be blocked by a stop on the end against entrainment when the casing is removed.
  • the known system is unsatisfactory because of the considerable expenditure on equipment and the difficulties to be expected in handling; at least it would require a high degree of care and skill in the user to manufacture the cigarette from the tobacco cartridge supplied as a preliminary product, which stands in the way of widespread use. Accordingly, the known system has not found its way into practice, despite the advantageous use of a cigarette tobacco cartridge as an industrial preliminary product for the self-manufacture of cigarettes by the consumer.
  • the invention relates - starting from US Pat. Nos. 3,822,710 and 3,927,681 - to a system for the self-manufacture of cigarettes by the consumer, using a non-smokable prefabricated product in the form of a prefabricated, wrapped or coated tobacco rod ("tobacco cartridge"). from a cigarette paper sleeve of the finished cigarette matched with its diameter with a cigarette-like tobacco filling corresponding to a respective cigarette portion.
  • the invention has for its object to provide such a system for self-manufacturing of cigarettes by the consumer using an industrial preliminary product in the form of a cigarette tobacco cartridge, in which on the one hand the basic advantage of such a system (advance of part of the total production of the cigarette to industrial production without stress of the consumer with the (relatively high) cigarette tax) is fully respected, and on the other hand is extremely easy to use and does not require any special skill or practice from the user, for which furthermore no independent complicated devices or devices are required, and at the high quality of the self-made cigarette with regard to uniformity of the amount of tobacco used, the degree of filling, despite the simple handling, which does not require any special dexterity or equipment and the packing density is ensured such that the cigarette thus obtained really offers the consumer an equivalent replacement for the industrially produced consumer cigarettes.
  • the outside diameter of the tobacco cartridge (1) is slightly smaller than the inside diameter of the cigarette paper sleeve (4) and the outside diameter of the piston rod (6) is slightly smaller than the inside diameter of the strand casing (2) of the tobacco cartridge (1).
  • the ready-to-use system according to the basic concept of the invention thus makes an independent device for the user-side completion of the cigarette unnecessary.
  • the system according to the invention only requires the simplest possible equipment in the form of a simple piston rod which is adapted to the inside diameter of the strand casing of the tobacco cartridge and with which the tobacco filling of the tobacco cartridge inserted into the cigarette paper sleeve is ejected by simple axial feed from the strand casing and transferred into the cigarette paper sleeve can.
  • the invention is based on the surprising finding that, without an external rigid guidance of the piston rod, with the only relatively low inherent stiffness of the strand casing of the tobacco cartridge, the ejection of the tobacco filling for its transfer into the cigarette paper sleeve can be successfully accomplished.
  • Such an associated piston rod obviously forms a minimal effort. It can be made available to the user as a reusable part, alternatively such a piston rod can optionally also be assigned to a respective pack of cigarette tobacco cartridges.
  • the tobacco cartridge which forms an essential part of the system according to the invention in the form of the coated tobacco rod which is open at the end is industrial in large-scale manufacturing scale similar to conventional cigarettes inexpensive to produce.
  • the production costs for the piston rod, which may be assigned to a larger number of tobacco cartridges, are minimal and are insignificant;
  • the manufacturing costs for the tobacco cartridges as such are also favorable due to the lower tax burden mentioned in relation to finished industrial cigarettes.
  • the nonsmokability of the cigarette tobacco cartridges required for this can be ensured in a known manner in that the strand casing consists of a material which is not suitable for smoking, for example of a thin plastic film material or of tinfoil or aluminum film, alternatively or additionally in Perforation of the strand casing can be provided in a manner known per se.
  • the strand casing could then possibly also consist of a highly perforated, poorly flammable paper.
  • the strand casing has at one end a section free of the tobacco filling, whereby an easy insertability of the piston and an initial piston guidance is achieved when the tobacco filling strand is pressed out of the strand casing; furthermore, it is preferably provided that the wrapped tobacco rod with the rod casing has a somewhat greater length than the filling length of the cigarette tube or as the length of the cigarette paper. This makes it possible to choose the tobacco filling in the prefabricated strand a little more loosely than the packing density in the finished cigarette later; This somewhat looser pack makes it easier to transfer the tobacco filling from the casing.
  • the tobacco filling transferred into the cigarette tube can be compacted in a simple manner by means of the piston during and at the end of the transfer process.
  • the invention creates a ready-to-use system for the in-house manufacture of cigarettes by the consumer, which technically and economically makes the advantages of the highly developed, largely automated industrial cigarette manufacturing technology available for the needs of the increasing number of self-rolling or self-tampering by providing one a suitable preliminary product is supplied by the consumer for the problem-free manufacture of the cigarette.
  • the ready-to-use system according to the invention enables the user to produce evenly filled cigarettes in a simple and completely problem-free manner, requiring no dexterity and no special apparatuses, with the further advantage that the tobacco is better freshened, the correct level of moisture and the aroma by the additional wrapping with the strand casings keeps.
  • the wrapped tobacco rod (“cigarette tobacco cartridge”) is provided at its one end with a stopper, the outer circumference of which is tightly sealed to the inside of the strand casing but is axially displaceable relative to the latter .
  • the stopper sliding in the strand casing can also serve as a piston head when the tobacco rod is transferred from the strand casing into the final cigarette paper sleeve, so that the associated sliding piston does not have to be so precisely matched in its diameter dimension to the inside diameter of the strand sleeve, as a result of which simplifies the insertion of the sliding piston; if necessary, a separate sliding piston can even be dispensed with and the transfer can be carried out with any sufficiently thin, elongated object, such as a pencil or the like, which is placed against the outer end face of the stopper.
  • the stopper according to the invention can be designed as a cylindrical solid body or as a pot-shaped or cup-shaped hollow body closed on its inner end face; it can be formed in one piece, optionally using a well slidable casing.
  • the stopper is arranged within one end section at one end of the strand casing which is open at the end with its outer circumference against its inner wall, or that the plug is subsequently aligned and coaxially aligned with the one open end of the strand casing is arranged.
  • the stopper is formed in two pieces with a stopper core and a sheathing surrounding it, the stopper core with its outer diameter being matched to the inside diameter of the adjacent open end of the strand casing and in the stopper sheathing is loosely seated and the casing of the plug is firmly connected to the adjacent area of the outer wall of the strand casing by an outer connecting part.
  • the wrapped tobacco rod (“cigarette tobacco cartridge”) is provided with a reinforcing ring at one end on the outside of the strand casing.
  • a reinforcing ring at one end on the outside of the strand casing.
  • the reinforcement ring can be provided on the outside with means that increase the grip, such as knobs, a roughening or bulging, or, if appropriate, can itself be designed as an annular bead on the outside of the strand casing.
  • the reinforcing ring protrudes beyond the front end of the strand casing onto the casing of the plug assembly and is fixed to the plug casing is connected in such a way that the reinforcing ring forms the outer connecting means for fastening the casing of the plug assembly to the end of the strand casing, the plug core which is loosely seated in the casing of the plug assembly being able to be inserted into the adjacent open front end of the strand casing upon axial displacement.
  • the reinforcement ring and stopper form a functional fusion.
  • the grip ring can be firmly connected both to the strand casing and also to the (one-part or multi-part, but firmly constructed) plug, a predetermined breaking point along a plane corresponding to the inner front end of the plug and perpendicular to the strand axis for example in the form of incisions, perforations or the like is provided, whereby the part containing the stopper for transferring the tobacco rod can be broken off.
  • the invention also relates to a method for manufacturing the tobacco product, which is optimally adapted to the existing technology of filter cigarette manufacture, according to the advantageous embodiment mentioned above with a two-part stopper assembly; then proceeded in such a way that between two axially aligned, frontally open, wrapped tobacco rods ("cigarette tobacco cartridge") a two-part plug assembly is inserted from a plug casing and a plug core loosely arranged in it, the plug unit being twice the axial length of a single stopper has that in the joint area of the strand structure thus obtained axially symmetrical with respect to the stopper assembly and over its front ends a piece overlapping on the outside of the adjacent strand sleeves an outer ring made of a suitable reinforcing material and with the outer circumference of the strand sleeves and the outside of the casing of the stopper assembly firmly connected, for example glued, and that the coherent strand thus formed is then separated along a central plane perpendicular to the strand axis.
  • Fig. 1 illustrates an exploded view of a system for self-manufacturing a cigarette according to a preferred embodiment of the invention, in the example shown in association with a cigarette tube 4 (with filter 5) of the conventional type used by self-tamper.
  • the essential element of the system according to the invention is the wrapped tobacco rod, which is denoted as a whole by 1 in FIG. 1. It consists of a strand casing 2 made of a thin, preferably transparent (transparent or translucent material), for example a thin plastic film material.
  • the rod casing 2 contains a rod-like tobacco filling 3 (introduced by the manufacturer).
  • the tobacco filling 3 in the rod casing 2 is expediently packed a little less densely than in a normal cigarette and as desired for the final self-made cigarette.
  • the strand casing 2 preferably has a somewhat longer length than a commercially available cigarette sleeve 4 (preferably with a filter 5), into which the tobacco filling 3 of the tobacco rod 1 is to be transferred in the embodiment of the invention shown in FIG. 1.
  • the tobacco filling 3 corresponds in quantity to the tight packing of the cigarette tube 4 desired for the finished cigarette, corresponding to a normal factory-made cigarette.
  • the strand casing 2 is designed with a somewhat smaller diameter than the commercially available cigarette tubes 4, such that the wrapped tobacco rod 1 comprising the strand casing 2 and the filling 3 can easily be inserted into a commercially available cigarette tube 4 (cf. also FIG. 2).
  • the system according to the invention comprises a piston 6, which is preferably designed as a simple round rod, for example made of wood or plastic, the outer diameter of which is slightly smaller than the inner diameter of the strand casing 2, so that the round rod piston 6 can be easily inserted into the strand casing 2.
  • a piston 6 which is preferably designed as a simple round rod, for example made of wood or plastic, the outer diameter of which is slightly smaller than the inner diameter of the strand casing 2, so that the round rod piston 6 can be easily inserted into the strand casing 2.
  • the tobacco rod filling 3 in the strand casing 2 does not reach all the way to the end of the strand casing at one end (on the right in the drawing), so that a tobacco-free section 7 remains at this end of the casing;
  • the round rod piston 6 can be easily inserted into this unfilled section 7, this free section serving as a guide for the further insertion of the piston when w. transfer of the tobacco filling 3 into the cigarette tube 4 described in detail.
  • the strand casing 2 consists of a thin film-like material, preferably a plastic film material, which can preferably be transparent in order to show the tobacco filling.
  • a plastic film material which can preferably be transparent in order to show the tobacco filling.
  • foil materials can also be used, such as, for example, stanol, aluminum foil or the like. It is essential that the casing material itself is not suitable for smoking, so that it is reliably excluded that the wrapped tobacco rod 1 could be smoked directly as a cigarette.
  • the strand casing could then also consist of a highly perforated, non-combustible or poorly combustible paper.
  • the extruded casing material should have sufficient surface smoothness on both sides to ensure good lubricity between the extruded casing 2 and the cigarette sleeve 4 on the outside and good lubricity between the extruded casing 2 and the tobacco rod filling 3 on the inner sleeve.
  • a further requirement is a certain sufficient inherent stiffness of the thin film material in order to ensure easy handling by the consumer in connection with the consistency of the strand-like tobacco filling 3.
  • the wrapped tobacco rod 1 containing the filling 3 is introduced into a conventional cigarette tube of the type of the tube 4 in FIG. 1 (preferably with a filter 5), namely with the end of the tobacco rod 1 in front, at which the tube 2 up to it the front end is filled such that, as can be seen in Fig. 2, the tobacco rod 1 at the other end of the cigarette tube 4 (in Fig. 2, right) with its free of tobacco filling in the fully inserted state End section 7 survives.
  • the tobacco rod 1 also projects with a small part 3a of the tobacco filling at the end of the enclosing cigarette tube 4 (corresponding to the looser filling of the tobacco rod 1 than the desired packing density of the finished cigarette).
  • the piston 6 supplied is then inserted into the protruding end 7 of the strand casing 2 which is free of the tobacco filling.
  • the piston 6 is simultaneously pushed into the strand cover 2 held in this way (in FIG. 2 in the direction to the left, in the direction of the arrow S).
  • the tobacco rod filling 3 is pushed out of the latter at the opposite end of the rod shell 2, while simultaneously filling the cigarette tube 4.
  • the tobacco rod 3 which is somewhat looser filling 3 of the rod shell 2, can be compressed by the piston 6 in such a way that a bulging Filling of the cigarette tube corresponds to a commercially available, factory-made cigarette, and the tobacco filling 3 just cuts off with the end of the cigarette tube 4 in the finished state.
  • FIG. 3 The system according to the invention has been described above with reference to FIGS. 1 and 2 in use with a commercially available cigarette tube, as is conventionally used by self-tampers for self-tamping cigarettes.
  • the system according to the invention is also suitable for use in connection with cigarette paper, as is used in a conventional manner by self-rolling users. This type of use is illustrated in Fig. 3. (The same or corresponding parts are denoted by the same reference numerals as in FIGS. 1 and 2).
  • a cigarette paper 14 of a conventional type is wrapped around the wrapped tobacco rod 1 according to the invention from a strand casing 2 with tobacco filling 3 and glued as usual. Then the tobacco rod filling 3 is pushed out with the round rod piston (not shown in FIG.
  • the wrapped tobacco rod 1 which forms the essential part of the system according to the invention, can be produced in a simple manner on a large industrial scale, similarly to cigarettes of the usual type.
  • the production costs for the wrapped tobacco rod including the costs of the rod casing, the tobacco filling, the filling process and the costs for the piston to be packed with a larger number of tobacco rods, are extremely low.
  • the tobacco strands 1 covered according to the invention can be packaged, for example, just like loose cigarette fine-cut tobacco in small packages or suitable containers; For example, about 50 wrapped tobacco strands 1 according to the invention can be produced with 50 g of cigarette tobacco.
  • One or several pistons 6 in the form of round rods made of wood or plastic can be enclosed with each such pack.
  • the system according to the invention has the further advantage that the tobacco retains its freshness, the correct moisture level and the aroma better due to the additional covering with the strand casings.
  • a reinforcing ring is provided at one end of the front tobacco rod on the outside of the rod cover, which facilitates the insertion of the sliding piston and the holding of the rod cover on the piston during the ejection process for transferring the rod of tobacco into the cigarette tube.
  • the wrapped tobacco rod designated as a whole by 1, consists in each case of the rod casing 2 containing the tobacco filling 3.
  • the rod casing 2 is on the outside at one end (in the longitudinal sectional view of FIG. 4a at the lower end) a reinforcing ring 9a.
  • a relatively small axial extension (length) relative to the total length of the sheath strand is sufficient for the reinforcement ring.
  • the reinforcement ring can be made be made of any material per se, which ensures the desired certain stiffening of the strand casing 2 at the end of the handle.
  • the reinforcement ring 9b is provided with knobs 15, 16 for increasing the grip.
  • the knobs can be arranged at several (in the exemplary embodiment shown: two) different heights distributed around the circumference of the enveloping strand.
  • the reinforcement ring 9c is provided with a roughening 17 on its outer surface, likewise to increase the grip.
  • the reinforcement ring 9d is provided with a circumferential bead 18, which in the exemplary embodiment shown is provided approximately at half the height (axial length) of the reinforcement ring 9d.
  • the grip ring 9e consists of a bead applied directly to the outside of the strand casing 2.
  • a stopper in order to (solely or possibly additionally) guarantee the non-smoking ability of the prefabricated, tobacco rod ("cigarette-tobacco cartridge") which is open on the face side ("cigarette tobacco cartridge”), a stopper can be inserted in a movable manner in its one end face.
  • the stopper which is preferably slidably inserted into the strand wrapper, can also act as a piston head when the tobacco rod is transferred from the strand casing to serve the final cigarette paper tube, so that the associated sliding piston does not need to be so precisely matched to the inside diameter of the strand envelope in its diameter dimensioning.
  • FIG. 5 shows the principle of this aspect of the invention in a (partially broken) longitudinal sectional illustration.
  • the wrapped tobacco rod (“cigarette tobacco cartridge”), again designated as a whole, consists, in the manner already described, of the (open-ended) strand casing 2 with the tobacco filling 3.
  • a plug 20 is inserted, namely loosely, ie without a fixed connection to the strand casing 2, i.e. in particular not glued to it.
  • the plug 20 is thus slidable in the strand casing 2.
  • the (movably detachable) stopper 20 reliably ensures the non-smokability of the wrapped tobacco rod industrially manufactured as a prefabricated product for the consumer ("cigarette tobacco cartridge"), optionally in addition to the above-mentioned relevant measures using a non-combustible material for the strand casing 2 and / or making perforations in the strand casing).
  • the stopper 20, which is movably inserted into the open end face of the strand casing 2 and can be easily slid inside the strand casing with its inside tightly can serve as a piston head for the sliding piston when the tobacco rod 3 is transferred into the cigarette paper tube of the self-made cigarette.
  • FIGS. 6 and 7 The use of a prefabricated product according to the invention improved in accordance with FIGS. 4 and 5 by attaching an outer grip ring and inserting an end stopper in the self-manufacture of the cigarette by the consumer is shown in FIGS. 6 and 7 in each case in a longitudinal sectional view.
  • Fig. 6 shows a schematic representation (walls of the individual parts in each case only illustrated by a dashed line) the state after the user has the wrapped tobacco rod 1 with its end 21 opposite the stopper 20 and reinforcing grip ring 9 in a cigarette paper tube 4 of a conventional type has pushed against the filter attachment 5 of the cigarette paper sleeve to the stop.
  • Fig. 6 on the right the associated slide piston 6 is shown, which serves to transfer the tobacco rod 3 into the cigarette paper tube 4 for the manufacture of the final cigarette.
  • the stopper 20 advantageously serves as a piston head for the sliding piston 6 during the transfer process, the dimensioning of which is therefore less critical with regard to the inner diameter of the strand casing.
  • the tobacco rod 3 is successively transferred into the cigarette paper tube 4.
  • the axial length of the strand casing 2 is dimensioned such that after the complete transfer of the tobacco rod 3 into the cigarette paper tube 4 (with corresponding compression of the tobacco rod in this) the stopper 20 is fully guided on the left end of the strand casing 2.
  • the stopper 20 can be made of paper, cardboard, organic materials, plastics, each with a well sliding outer surface or casing.
  • the plug examples of possible shapes of the plug are illustrated in FIGS. 8a to 8c (in each case in the axial longitudinal section and associated cross-sectional view).
  • 8a shows an embodiment of the plug as a simple cylinder body 20a, which can optionally (but not necessarily) be provided with a casing 22 (firmly connected to the plug core).
  • FIG. 8b shows an embodiment in which the plug 20b, which is also essentially cylindrical, is provided with a sealing lip 23 on its outer end face (with respect to the use in the strand casing), the sealing lip on the one hand, making it non-smoking and, on the other hand, the desired relatively tight seal is reliably guaranteed with the strand casing inside during the transfer process.
  • FIG. 8 illustrates an embodiment in which the stopper is designed as a pot-shaped or cup-shaped hollow body 20c, which is closed at one end. This embodiment is particularly suitable when the plug is made from a plastic material, the hollow body 20c being able to be produced using the drawing or injection molding process.
  • the sealing plug 20 each forms a one-piece structure; to the extent that the plug core is provided with its own casing 22, as indicated in FIG. 5a, this casing is firmly connected to the plug core, for example glued.
  • FIGS. 9 to 11 A modified embodiment, which is particularly advantageous in terms of production technology, is illustrated in FIGS. 9 to 11.
  • the plug 20d is formed in two parts with a core 24 and a casing 25, in which case the core and casing are not firmly connected to one another, that is to say in particular are not glued to one another, but rather the core is loose in the casing and therefore axially opposite it slidable.
  • FIG. 10 illustrates the attachment of the stopper 20d according to this embodiment according to FIG.
  • the plug 20d lies outside of the strand casing 2 against its open end at the front, in such a way that the casing 25 of the plug connects to the strand casing 2 on the end face.
  • the stopper 20d is held in its position in that the casing 25 of the stopper is firmly connected on its outside to the inside wall of the reinforcing ring 9, for example by gluing.
  • the reinforcement ring 9 is designed to protrude correspondingly in the axial direction over the front end of the strand casing 2 by the axial length of the plug 20d.
  • the grip ring 9 With its area 26 lying on the outer circumference of the strand casing 2, the grip ring 9 is fixedly connected, for example glued, to the outside of the strand casing 2, as in the embodiments according to FIG. 4.
  • the procedure generally described above with reference to FIGS. 6 and 7 is followed, in the present case only the plug core 24 (which is loosely seated in its casing 25) being displaced by the sliding piston 6.
  • FIG. 11 This production is illustrated in FIG. 11 in an axial longitudinal sectional view.
  • cigarette tobacco cartridges each consisting of strand wrapper 2, 2' and tobacco rod 3, 3 '
  • the stopper part 20d ' bears axially on the end face against the two cigarette tobacco cartridges 1, 1' and is designed with the same outer diameter as this, so that a coherent strand 1, 20d ', 1' is formed.
  • the core plug 24 'of the plug part 20d' sits loosely in the casing 25 ', as described with reference to FIGS. 9 and 10, for example metal foil casing, ie not glued to this. Then, in a manner known per se from the manufacture of filter cigarettes, an outer ring 9 'is applied in the joint area of the strand structure 1, 20', 1 'explained above, namely axially symmetrically with respect to the stopper part 20d' and a corresponding one over the front ends thereof Cross over piece on the outside of the adjacent strand sheaths 2, 2 '.
  • This outer ring 9 ' is firmly connected, for example glued, to the outer circumference of the strand casings 2, 2' and to the outside of the casing 25 'of the plug part 20d'.
  • the coherent strand thus formed is then cut by a corresponding cutting device in the cutting plane indicated at E and perpendicular to the strand axis. In this way, two cigarette tobacco cartridges 1, 1 'of the type shown in FIG.
  • cigarette tobacco cartridges according to the invention can be manufactured in the above-mentioned particularly advantageous embodiment (with non-smoking plug; grip ring) with extensive adaptation and adoption of the available production technology for filter cigarettes, the grip ring and stopper being integrated with one another.
  • the stopper can be formed on its inner end face facing the tobacco rod with a conical recess 27, as a result of which a concentrating, compacting effect is exerted on transferring the tobacco rod 3.
  • this conical recess 27 can also be provided in the other embodiments of the plugs 20a, 20b and 20c illustrated in FIG. 8.
  • the grip ring 29 can be firmly connected both to the strand casing 2 and also to the stopper 30 (one-part or multi-part, but designed to be firmly connected).
  • a predetermined breaking point 31 for example in the form of incisions, perforations or the like, is provided along a plane perpendicular to the strand axis corresponding to the inner end of the stopper 30, whereby the part containing the stopper 30 for transferring the tobacco rod can be broken off, the tobacco cartridge 1 , 2 with the remaining part of the ring 29 remains as a reinforcing grip ring, for use in the manner described for the embodiments according to FIGS. 1 to 4.

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