Patent ID: 7325368

Claim:
A feeding apparatus for feeding an inner wrapper for wrapping a cigarette bundle, comprising: a web roll rotatably supported and wound with a web that is material for the inner wrapper, the web including metal foil, and a paper layer that is laminated on the metal foil and contains an aromatic substance; a feeding path for guiding the web delivered from said web roll to a feeding position; a cutting unit arranged in said feeding path, for cutting the web to form the inner wrapper; a cleaner arranged in said feeding path including said web roll, for cleaning a surface of the metal foil of the web; and a holder fastened to a distal end of the arm and having the scraper, wherein said cleaner includes an arm having a proximal end rotatably supported near said web roll, the arm being urged toward the outer circumferential surface of said web roll, wherein the holder is rotatable with respect to the arm and has a plurality of scrapers, and wherein the holder is a scraper roller including: a roller shaft supported by the arm, a sleeve rotatably supported by the roller shaft, a one-way clutch disposed between the sleeve and the roller shaft, for allowing the sleeve to only rotate in the same direction as a rotating direction of said web roll, and a roller shell detachably fixed onto the sleeve, and the scrapers is arranged in an outer circumferential surface of the roller shell at intervals in a circumferential direction of the roller shell.