MUMBAI, India, June 13 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517044545 A) filed by International Tobacco Machinery Poland Sp. Z O. O., Radom, Poland, on May 8, for 'apparatus for manufacturing multi segment articles.'

Inventor(s) include Lisowski Andrzej; Cieslakowski Przemyslaw; Cieslikowski Bartosz; Deka Michal; Slowik Jacek; and Mamerski Marcin.

The application for the patent was published on June 13, under issue no. 24/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "An assembling apparatus (1) provided with a number of feeding modules (20 70) adapted to feed at least one of a number of segments (A B C D E) for manufacture of multi segment articles containing the segments (A B C D E) and corresponding assembling drums (31 31 31 31 31) and conveying drums (32 32 32 32 32) a number of wrapping modules (40 80) and at least one cutting unit (50) characterised in that the modules (20 40 70 80) of the apparatus (1) are adapted to be arranged in any order in groups of modules while maintaining the order within the group: the feeding module (20) the wrapping module (40) looking in the direction (T) of the flow of the assembled segments whereas the feeding modules (20 20 20 20) can furthermore be grouped together in any order to form an assembling apparatus (10) performing the functions of a multiple feeding module the assembling drums (31 31 31 31) being adapted to assemble the segments (A B C D E) with gaps (H)."

The patent application was internationally filed on Nov. 22, 2023, under International application No.PCT/IB2023/061782.

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