| 摘要 |
There is provided an apparatus and method for combining two or more different components (103, 203; 105, 205; 107a, 107b, 207) for the production of smoking articles. At least one of the components (103, 203) is non-cleanly-cuttable, that is, cannot be cleanly cut with conventional cutting means, for example because it is prone to splinter or fragment. The method comprises the steps of: feeding a stream of components along a moving delivery path (200); compacting the stream of components into groups of two or more different components, each group corresponding to a discrete smoking article, wherein the components within a group abut one another and wherein there is a predefined space between a leading group of components and a trailing group of components; wrapping the components in a web of material; and cutting the web of material in each space between groups of components. |
