Manufacture of mouthpiece cigarettes

Claim 1

APPARATUS FOR MAKING MOUTHPIECE CIGARETTES, COMPRISING MEANS TO FORM A CONTINUOUS, LENGTHWISE MOVING ROD OF MOUTHPIECE MATERIAL, CUTTING MEANS TO SEVER THE ROD INTO INDIVIDUAL MOUTHPIECE LENGTHS, A ROTATING DRUM HAVING PERIPHERAL FLUTES WITH OPEN ENDS, MEANS TO CAUSE TWO SUCCESSIVE LENGTHS OF A PAIR OF MOUTHPIECE LENGTHS TO MOVE LENGTHWISE INTO TWO SUCCESSIVE FLUTES OF THE DRUM, SAID TWO FLUTES HAVING STOP MEANS TO LIMIT THE ENDWISE MOVEMENT OF THE SAID TWO LENGTHS THERETHROUGH, THE STOP MEANS BEING LOCATED AT DIFFERENT POSITIONS ALONG THE LENGTHS OF THE SAID TWO FLUTES SUCH THAT THE SAID TWO LENGTHS ARE SPACED FROM EACH OTHER ENDWISE IN THEIR FLUTES BY A PREDETERMINED DISTANCE, MEANS TO FEED A CIGARETTE, WHOSE LENGTH IS NO GREATER THAN THE SAID DISTANCE, INTO ONE OF SAID TWO FLUTES IN END TO END RELATIONSHIP WITH THE MOUTHPIECE LENGTH CONTAINED IN SAID FLUTE, MEANS TO BRING THE SAID TWO MOUTHPIECE LENGTHS AND THE SAID CIGARETTE INTO AXIAL ALIGNMENT, MEANS TO UNITE THE ALIGNED MOUTHPIECE LENGTHS AND CIGARETTE, AND MEANS TO SEVER THE SAID CIGARETTE TO PRODUCE TWO MOUTHPIECE CIGARETTES.