WO2009047627A1 - A machine for manufacturing pouches containing a tobacco mixture - Google Patents

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WO2009047627A1
WO2009047627A1 PCT/IB2008/002768 IB2008002768W WO2009047627A1 WO 2009047627 A1 WO2009047627 A1 WO 2009047627A1 IB 2008002768 W IB2008002768 W IB 2008002768W WO 2009047627 A1 WO2009047627 A1 WO 2009047627A1
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tobacco mixture
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Fulvio Boldrini
Roberto Ghiotti
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Azionaria Costruzioni Macchine Automatiche A.C.M.A. S.P.A.
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Priority to AT08838543T priority Critical patent/ATE498551T1/en
Priority to CN200880111292.9A priority patent/CN101821166B/en
Priority to DE602008005046T priority patent/DE602008005046D1/en
Priority to EP08838543A priority patent/EP2203351B1/en
Priority to US12/679,598 priority patent/US8402720B2/en
Priority to DK08838543.0T priority patent/DK2203351T3/en
Publication of WO2009047627A1 publication Critical patent/WO2009047627A1/en

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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B39/00—Nozzles, funnels or guides for introducing articles or materials into containers or wrappers
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B29/00—Packaging of materials presenting special problems
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B37/00—Supplying or feeding fluent-solid, plastic, or liquid material, or loose masses of small articles, to be packaged
    • B65B37/08—Supplying or feeding fluent-solid, plastic, or liquid material, or loose masses of small articles, to be packaged by rotary feeders
    • B65B37/12—Supplying or feeding fluent-solid, plastic, or liquid material, or loose masses of small articles, to be packaged by rotary feeders of centrifugal type
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B37/00—Supplying or feeding fluent-solid, plastic, or liquid material, or loose masses of small articles, to be packaged
    • B65B37/14—Supplying or feeding fluent-solid, plastic, or liquid material, or loose masses of small articles, to be packaged by pneumatic feeders
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B63/00—Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on articles or materials to be packaged
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
    • B65B9/00—Enclosing successive articles, or quantities of material, e.g. liquids or semiliquids, in flat, folded, or tubular webs of flexible sheet material; Subdividing filled flexible tubes to form packages
    • B65B9/10—Enclosing successive articles, or quantities of material, in preformed tubular webs, or in webs formed into tubes around filling nozzles, e.g. extruded tubular webs
    • B65B9/20—Enclosing successive articles, or quantities of material, in preformed tubular webs, or in webs formed into tubes around filling nozzles, e.g. extruded tubular webs the webs being formed into tubes in situ around the filling nozzles
    • B65B9/213—Enclosing successive articles, or quantities of material, in preformed tubular webs, or in webs formed into tubes around filling nozzles, e.g. extruded tubular webs the webs being formed into tubes in situ around the filling nozzles the web having intermittent motion

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  • the present invention relates to a machine for manufacturing pouches containing a tobacco mixture, in particular for oral use (a product also known by the name of snus).
  • Such mixtures typically contain oily substances serving as moisturizers (honey or molasses), and essences of flowers or fruit as aromatic agents.
  • the prior art embraces a machine comprising a hopper filled with the tobacco mixture, and rotary conveyor means to which the mixture is released from an outlet of the hopper.
  • Rotary conveyor means consist in a disc centred on a vertical axis and furnished with peripheral cavities, each containing a portion of tobacco mixture corresponding to the contents of a single pouch.
  • the single portions are carried by the disc toward an exit or transfer station where they are ejected and thereupon directed along a rectilinear feed duct to a wrapping station; here, the portions of tobacco mixture are packaged in respective pouches.
  • the conveyor means can take the form of a drum rotatable intermittently about a horizontal axis, on which a continuous stream of tobacco mixture is formed and transported to an exit or transfer station where segments of the stream, corresponding to single portions, are directed into and along the aforementioned rectilinear feed duct to the wrapping station where they are packaged in respective pouches.
  • the outer surface of the rotating drum presents an annular groove, connected to suction means and accommodating the continuous stream, which is released at the aforementioned transfer station segment by successive segment, each corresponding to a single portion.
  • the transfer of the mixture at the relative station is brought about by pneumatic ejection means, which operate by producing a jet of air such as will distance the portions singly and in succession and feed them along the rectilinear duct.
  • the duct comprises a funnelform mouth and a rectilinear cylindrical portion.
  • the wrapping station comprises a tubular mandrel, placed at the outlet end of the rectilinear cylindrical portion, over which a continuous web of wrapping material is formed into a tubular envelope such as can be sealed longitudinally and transversely and then cut, all by conventional methods, so as to obtain a continuous succession of pouches containing the aforementioned portions of tobacco mixture.
  • the likelihood of clogging in the duct is increased by the action of the aforementioned pneumatic ejection means, which has the effect of reducing the moisture content of the mixture and causing deposits of the material to dry and harden, so that cleaning operations are made more difficult.
  • -figure 1 illustrates a machine according to the present invention for manufacturing pouches of tobacco mixture, viewed schematically in a front elevation;
  • figure 4 and figure 5 show the detail of figure 2 in a second, a third and a fourth embodiment, respectively;
  • numeral 1 denotes a machine used in the manufacture of pouches 2 containing a tobacco mixture for oral use.
  • the machine 1 comprises a hopper 3 serving as means of storing and feeding the tobacco mixture, connected by way of conveyor means 4 on which to form a continuous stream 5 of the mixture, and by a rectilinear duct 6, to a wrapping station 7 where the pouches 2 are fashioned.
  • Such conveyor means 4 comprise a drum 8 rotatable about a horizontal axis 9, presenting a cylindrical wall 10 and enclosed by two mutually opposed side walls 11 (one only of which is visible in figure 1).
  • the drum 8 rotates intermittently about the axis 9 in an anticlockwise direction, as viewed in the drawings, through steps of predetermined angular distance, and is interposed between a bottom outlet end 12 of the hopper 3 and a portioning or transfer station 13 positioned substantially at 270° from an infeed station coinciding with the hopper outlet.
  • the cylindrical wall 10 of the drum 8 presents an annular groove 14 of predetermined width, pierced along its entire circumferential length by through holes 15 communicating with an internal annular chamber divided into a first sector 16 and a second sector 17.
  • the second sector 17, which extends through an arc of predetermined width, is sandwiched between the two ends of the first sector 16 and positioned to coincide with the transfer station 13.
  • the first sector 16 is connected by way of a duct 18 to a source of negative pressure indicated schematically as a block, denoted 19.
  • the second sector 17 in turn is connected via a further duct 20 to pneumatic ejection and feed means 21, by which segments of the stream 5 are separated from the drum, and to dispensing means denoted 22 in their entirety, from which moisturizing substances are delivered.
  • the rectilinear feed duct 6 comprises an inlet portion or mouth 23 of funnelform appearance, facing the sector of the drum coinciding with the transfer station 13, and a tubular body 24.
  • Numeral 25 denotes a tubular mandrel, connected to and aligned coaxially with the outlet of the tubular body 24, around which a tubular envelope 26 of paper wrapping material 27 (decoiling from a roll, not illustrated) is fashioned through the agency of conventional folding means (not illustrated).
  • the tubular envelope 26 is sealed longitudinally by first sealing means 28 operating in close proximity to the tubular mandrel 25.
  • the envelope 26 is also sealed transversely by second sealing means 29 operating downstream of the tubular mandrel 25.
  • the pneumatic ejection and feed means 21 are composed of a pump 30, generating an intermittent flow of air delivered by the aforementioned means 22 from which moisturizing substances are dispensed; such means 22 comprise a mixing chamber 31 provided with an air inlet 32, and a further inlet connected to the outlet duct 33 of a reservoir 34 containing vaporized water or other moisturizing substances. Also forming part of the dispensing means 22 is a control unit 35, connected to the mixing chamber 31, which serves to regulate the level of moisture in the flow generated by the pump 30 according to the type of material making up the tobacco mixture and/or the operating speed of the machine 1. In operation, with the drum 8 rotating intermittently, tobacco mixture is collected and formed gradually into a continuous stream 5 within the aspirating annular groove 14.
  • the continuous stream 5 advances into the transfer station 13 where, with each step indexed by the drum 8, a jet of compressed air moisturized with the substances delivered by the dispensing means 22 is expelled from the second sector 17 through the relative holes 15, causing a segment of the stream 5 to be ejected from the groove and directed through the funnelform mouth 23 into the tubular body 24 of the rectilinear feed duct 6.
  • the ejected segment is of predetermined length corresponding to a single wrappable portion 36.
  • the portion 36 of tobacco mixture passes along the tubular mandrel 25, around which the aforementioned tubular envelope 26 of wrapping material is fashioned progressively by a conventional forming method.
  • the tubular envelope 26 is closed up longitudinally by the first sealing means 28.
  • the tubular envelope 26 containing the successive portions 36 of tobacco mixture is engaged transversely by the second sealing means 29, operating intermittently and timed to match the frequency with which the portions 36 are ejected, in such a way that each portion will be enclosed between two successive transverse seals.
  • a moisturizing substance eases the passage of the portions 36 of tobacco mixture along the rectilinear duct 6, preventing the formation of deposits and the risk of clogging, especially at the restriction presented by the funnelform mouth 23.
  • the moisturizing substance can be also be added directly to the tobacco mixture inside the funnelform mouth of the rectilinear duct 6, either as well as or instead of being entrained in the air jet as described above.
  • the funnelform mouth denoted 23', is fashioned from a porous material and housed within an annular chamber 38 connected by way of a duct 39 to the pump 30, or to other means 22' of dispensing the moisturizing substance.
  • the machine is equipped with a vibrator device 40 connected to the funnelform mouth 23 of the feed duct.
  • the action of this device, combined with that of the moisturizing substance, is particularly effective in ensuring that deposits of the tobacco mixture do not form at the entry point of the rectilinear feed duct 6.
  • the funnelform mouth 23 is covered both internally and externally by a tubular element or sheath 41 of elastic material, secured by a first end to an external face presented by the inlet end of the tubular body 24, looped over the inlet rim of the mouth 23, and secured by the second end to an internal face presented by the inlet end of the tubular body 24.
  • the space delimited between the sheath 41 and the flared surfaces of the mouth 23 is connected to a source of pulsed compressed air, denoted 42, of which the action produces a vibratory effect on the mouth 23 of the rectilinear feed duct 6 similar to that of the device described previously.

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Abstract

In a machine (1) for manufacturing pouches (2) filled with portions (36) of a tobacco mixture, comprising a rotating drum (8) on which a continuous stream (5) of the mixture is formed and conveyed to a station (13) where the portions (36) are divided from the stream, and where the portions (36) are transferred by a pneumatic ejection and feed system (21) to a wrapping station (7), moisturizing substances are added to the mixture by a dispensing system (22) associated with the ejection and feed system (21).

Description

Description
A machine for manufacturing pouches containing a tobacco mixture
Technical Field
The present invention relates to a machine for manufacturing pouches containing a tobacco mixture, in particular for oral use (a product also known by the name of snus).
Besides tobacco, such mixtures typically contain oily substances serving as moisturizers (honey or molasses), and essences of flowers or fruit as aromatic agents.
Background Art
As regards the production of snus pouches, the prior art embraces a machine comprising a hopper filled with the tobacco mixture, and rotary conveyor means to which the mixture is released from an outlet of the hopper. Rotary conveyor means consist in a disc centred on a vertical axis and furnished with peripheral cavities, each containing a portion of tobacco mixture corresponding to the contents of a single pouch.
The single portions are carried by the disc toward an exit or transfer station where they are ejected and thereupon directed along a rectilinear feed duct to a wrapping station; here, the portions of tobacco mixture are packaged in respective pouches.
Alternatively, the conveyor means can take the form of a drum rotatable intermittently about a horizontal axis, on which a continuous stream of tobacco mixture is formed and transported to an exit or transfer station where segments of the stream, corresponding to single portions, are directed into and along the aforementioned rectilinear feed duct to the wrapping station where they are packaged in respective pouches. The outer surface of the rotating drum presents an annular groove, connected to suction means and accommodating the continuous stream, which is released at the aforementioned transfer station segment by successive segment, each corresponding to a single portion. In both of the cases described, the transfer of the mixture at the relative station is brought about by pneumatic ejection means, which operate by producing a jet of air such as will distance the portions singly and in succession and feed them along the rectilinear duct.
The duct comprises a funnelform mouth and a rectilinear cylindrical portion. The wrapping station comprises a tubular mandrel, placed at the outlet end of the rectilinear cylindrical portion, over which a continuous web of wrapping material is formed into a tubular envelope such as can be sealed longitudinally and transversely and then cut, all by conventional methods, so as to obtain a continuous succession of pouches containing the aforementioned portions of tobacco mixture.
It has been found that mixtures adopted for tobacco products of the type in question, by reason of their particular composition, tend to stick and solidify on the various processing and conveying elements of the machine, with the result that frequent servicing is required. This is a drawback that can bring the machine ultimately to a standstill, and occurs in particular at the restriction presented by the funnelform mouth of the feed duct.
The likelihood of clogging in the duct is increased by the action of the aforementioned pneumatic ejection means, which has the effect of reducing the moisture content of the mixture and causing deposits of the material to dry and harden, so that cleaning operations are made more difficult.
Disclosure of the Invention
The object of the present invention, accordingly, is to overcome the drawbacks described above. Brief Description of the Drawings
The invention will now be described in detail, by way of example, with the aid of the accompanying drawings, in which:
-figure 1 illustrates a machine according to the present invention for manufacturing pouches of tobacco mixture, viewed schematically in a front elevation;
-figure 2 shows an enlarged detail of figure 1;
-figure 3, figure 4 and figure 5 show the detail of figure 2 in a second, a third and a fourth embodiment, respectively;
-figure 6 shows an enlarged detail of figure 5.
Detailed description of the preferred embodiments of the invention With reference to figures 1 and 2, numeral 1 denotes a machine used in the manufacture of pouches 2 containing a tobacco mixture for oral use.
The machine 1 comprises a hopper 3 serving as means of storing and feeding the tobacco mixture, connected by way of conveyor means 4 on which to form a continuous stream 5 of the mixture, and by a rectilinear duct 6, to a wrapping station 7 where the pouches 2 are fashioned.
More exactly, such conveyor means 4 comprise a drum 8 rotatable about a horizontal axis 9, presenting a cylindrical wall 10 and enclosed by two mutually opposed side walls 11 (one only of which is visible in figure 1).
The drum 8 rotates intermittently about the axis 9 in an anticlockwise direction, as viewed in the drawings, through steps of predetermined angular distance, and is interposed between a bottom outlet end 12 of the hopper 3 and a portioning or transfer station 13 positioned substantially at 270° from an infeed station coinciding with the hopper outlet.
The cylindrical wall 10 of the drum 8 presents an annular groove 14 of predetermined width, pierced along its entire circumferential length by through holes 15 communicating with an internal annular chamber divided into a first sector 16 and a second sector 17. The second sector 17, which extends through an arc of predetermined width, is sandwiched between the two ends of the first sector 16 and positioned to coincide with the transfer station 13.
The first sector 16 is connected by way of a duct 18 to a source of negative pressure indicated schematically as a block, denoted 19.
The second sector 17 in turn is connected via a further duct 20 to pneumatic ejection and feed means 21, by which segments of the stream 5 are separated from the drum, and to dispensing means denoted 22 in their entirety, from which moisturizing substances are delivered. The rectilinear feed duct 6 comprises an inlet portion or mouth 23 of funnelform appearance, facing the sector of the drum coinciding with the transfer station 13, and a tubular body 24.
Numeral 25 denotes a tubular mandrel, connected to and aligned coaxially with the outlet of the tubular body 24, around which a tubular envelope 26 of paper wrapping material 27 (decoiling from a roll, not illustrated) is fashioned through the agency of conventional folding means (not illustrated).
The tubular envelope 26 is sealed longitudinally by first sealing means 28 operating in close proximity to the tubular mandrel 25.
The envelope 26 is also sealed transversely by second sealing means 29 operating downstream of the tubular mandrel 25.
As illustrated in figure 2, the pneumatic ejection and feed means 21 are composed of a pump 30, generating an intermittent flow of air delivered by the aforementioned means 22 from which moisturizing substances are dispensed; such means 22 comprise a mixing chamber 31 provided with an air inlet 32, and a further inlet connected to the outlet duct 33 of a reservoir 34 containing vaporized water or other moisturizing substances. Also forming part of the dispensing means 22 is a control unit 35, connected to the mixing chamber 31, which serves to regulate the level of moisture in the flow generated by the pump 30 according to the type of material making up the tobacco mixture and/or the operating speed of the machine 1. In operation, with the drum 8 rotating intermittently, tobacco mixture is collected and formed gradually into a continuous stream 5 within the aspirating annular groove 14.
The continuous stream 5 advances into the transfer station 13 where, with each step indexed by the drum 8, a jet of compressed air moisturized with the substances delivered by the dispensing means 22 is expelled from the second sector 17 through the relative holes 15, causing a segment of the stream 5 to be ejected from the groove and directed through the funnelform mouth 23 into the tubular body 24 of the rectilinear feed duct 6. The ejected segment is of predetermined length corresponding to a single wrappable portion 36.
Emerging from the rectilinear duct 6, the portion 36 of tobacco mixture passes along the tubular mandrel 25, around which the aforementioned tubular envelope 26 of wrapping material is fashioned progressively by a conventional forming method. The tubular envelope 26 is closed up longitudinally by the first sealing means 28.
On leaving the tubular mandrel 25, the tubular envelope 26 containing the successive portions 36 of tobacco mixture is engaged transversely by the second sealing means 29, operating intermittently and timed to match the frequency with which the portions 36 are ejected, in such a way that each portion will be enclosed between two successive transverse seals.
As a result of these operations, a continuous succession of tobacco-filled pouches 2 will emerge, connected one to the next by way of the transverse seals. Downstream of the transverse sealing means 29, the single pouches 2 are separated one from the next by cutting means 37.
The addition of a moisturizing substance eases the passage of the portions 36 of tobacco mixture along the rectilinear duct 6, preventing the formation of deposits and the risk of clogging, especially at the restriction presented by the funnelform mouth 23. As illustrated in the example of figure 3, the moisturizing substance can be also be added directly to the tobacco mixture inside the funnelform mouth of the rectilinear duct 6, either as well as or instead of being entrained in the air jet as described above.
In this instance the funnelform mouth, denoted 23', is fashioned from a porous material and housed within an annular chamber 38 connected by way of a duct 39 to the pump 30, or to other means 22' of dispensing the moisturizing substance.
In the example of figure 4, the machine is equipped with a vibrator device 40 connected to the funnelform mouth 23 of the feed duct. The action of this device, combined with that of the moisturizing substance, is particularly effective in ensuring that deposits of the tobacco mixture do not form at the entry point of the rectilinear feed duct 6.
With reference to the embodiment illustrated in figures 5 and 6, the funnelform mouth 23 is covered both internally and externally by a tubular element or sheath 41 of elastic material, secured by a first end to an external face presented by the inlet end of the tubular body 24, looped over the inlet rim of the mouth 23, and secured by the second end to an internal face presented by the inlet end of the tubular body 24.
The space delimited between the sheath 41 and the flared surfaces of the mouth 23 is connected to a source of pulsed compressed air, denoted 42, of which the action produces a vibratory effect on the mouth 23 of the rectilinear feed duct 6 similar to that of the device described previously.

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Claims
1) A machine for manufacturing pouches containing a tobacco mixture, comprising conveyor means (4) by which the mixture is carried to a transfer station (13), also ejection and feed means (21) operating at the transfer station (13), by which portions (36) of the mixture are directed from the conveyor means (4) through a duct (6) toward a wrapping station (7) at which the portions (36) are sealed in pouches (2), characterized in that it comprises dispensing means (22, 22') delivering substances by which the tobacco mixture is moisturized.
2) A machine as in claim 1, wherein the conveyor means (4) carrying the tobacco mixture consist in a rotating drum (8) on which a continuous stream (5) of the mixture is formed and directed toward the transfer station (13), the ejection and feed means (21) being of pneumatic type and designed to separate the stream (5) from the drum (8) by segments, each corresponding in quantity to a single wrappable portion (36), and the means (22) dispensing the moisturizing substances are associated with the ejection and feed means (21).
3) A machine as in claim 2, wherein ejection and feed means (21) comprise a pump (30) supplying an intermittent flow of air to the transfer station (13), and dispensing means (22) comprise a reservoir (34) containing a supply of moisturizing substances, connected to the pump (30) by way of a mixing chamber (31).
4) A machine as in claim 3, wherein the dispensing means (22) delivering the moisturizing substances comprise a control unit (35) serving to regulate the level of moisture in the air flow supplied by the pump (30) according to the type of material making up the tobacco mixture and/or to the operating speed of the machine (1).
5) A machine as in claim 2 or 3, wherein the duct (6) is rectilinear and comprises a funnelform mouth (23') fashioned from a porous material, housed internally of a chamber (38) connected to the dispensing means (22, 22') by which the moisturizing substances are delivered.
6) A machine as in claims 1 to 4, comprising a vibrator device (40) associated with the inlet portion or mouth (23) of the rectilinear feed duct (6).
7) A machine as in claims 1 to 5, wherein the inlet portion (23) of the rectilinear duct (6) is of funnelform embodiment and covered by a sheath (41) in which vibratory motion is induced through the agency of means (42) generating compressed air.
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AT08838543T ATE498551T1 (en) 2007-10-12 2008-10-09 MACHINE FOR PRODUCING BAGS WITH A TOBACCO MIXTURE
CN200880111292.9A CN101821166B (en) 2007-10-12 2008-10-09 Machine for manufacturing pouches containing tobacco mixture
DE602008005046T DE602008005046D1 (en) 2007-10-12 2008-10-09 MACHINE FOR THE PRODUCTION OF BAGS WITH A TOBACCO MIXTURE
EP08838543A EP2203351B1 (en) 2007-10-12 2008-10-09 A machine for manufacturing pouches containing a tobacco mixture
US12/679,598 US8402720B2 (en) 2007-10-12 2008-10-09 Machine for manufacturing pouches containing a tobacco mixture
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