Patent ID: 7275548

Claim:
An apparatus for making a cigarette smoking article, comprising: a cigarette maker having a garniture and a bobbin for paying out a strip of a paper wrapper to the garniture for wrapping about smokable material to form a cigarette rod; an adhesive applicator apparatus for applying bands of an adhesive to the paper wrapper, the adhesive applicator apparatus comprising a pair of counter-rotating rollers arranged between the bobbin and the garniture, one of the pair of rollers comprising a pattern roller, and the other of the pair of rollers comprising an application roller; and an adhesive feed shoe arranged to deposit the adhesive on the pattern roller immediately upstream of a nip between the rollers, wherein the pattern roller and the application roller each have a peripheral surface, wherein the rollers are adapted to contact the peripheral surfaces with one another for transferring the adhesive from the pattern roller to the application roller, and wherein the application roller and the paper wrapper are adapted to contact the peripheral surface of the application roller with the paper wrapper for applying the adhesive transferred from the pattern roller to the paper wrapper.