Patent ID: 6067992
Filing Date: 2000-05-30
Classification: A24C,Y10S,Y10T

Abstract:
A cigarette manufacturing machine comprising supply means (4) for feeding a bead (2) of tobacco (3) along a given path (P); and a shaving device (1) located along said path (P) to shave said bead (2), and which in turn comprises two tubular shaving bodies (10, 12) arranged one inside the other with the respective axes (11, 13) substantially parallel to each other; said two tubular shaving bodies (10, 12) having respective serrated annular end edges (14, 15) having a mutually tangent portion (16) located along said path (P); and actuating means (17) being provided to impart to said two tubular shaving bodies (10, 12) a relative speed with respect to each other.