Patent ID: 7047982

Claim:
A method for registering pattern location on a wrapping material of a cigarette during cigarette manufacture, comprising: providing an automated cigarette making apparatus having a source of a continuous strip of a paper web and a means for applying an additive material to the paper web; providing a continuous cigarette rod by wrapping tobacco filler in the paper web; controlling a speed of formation of the continuous cigarette rod; controlling an application of the additive material to the paper web relative to the speed of formation of the continuous cigarette rod; cutting the continuous cigarette rod into a plurality of cigarette rods of predetermined lengths; controlling a location of the additive material application on the paper web relative to a location at which one of the plurality of the continuous cigarette rods provided from the paper web is cut; and controlling the location of the additive material application relative to a length of travel of the paper web after the additive material is applied and prior to cutting the continuous cigarette rod.