Patent ID: 9681684
Date: 2017-06-20
CPC Classifications: A24D

Claim:
1. An apparatus for producing an endless filter rod of the tobacco processing industry comprising: a transport nozzle loadable with compressed air; a guide tube; an elongated rod, which is arranged in the guide tube, having a rod projection; an infeed roller, which is non-driven and freely rotatable, being positioned immediately at an end of the transport nozzle and at a distance to the rod, and includes a bearing surface; and a guide element positioned below the rod projection and between the infeed roller and the rod to reduce a cross-section of the filter material web between the rod and the guide element in a region of the rod projection, wherein at least a part of a conveying path of a filter material web extends, in order, through the transport nozzle, along the bearing surface of the infeed roller, and past the guide element to in between the rod and the guide tube.