US Patent Issued to Philip Morris Products on Sept. 30 for "Forming apparatus and method for forming a continuous tubular rod" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,700, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A. (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

"Forming apparatus and method for forming a continuous tubular rod" was invented by Massimiliano Bertoldo (Castel Maggiore, Italy), Fabio Cantieri (Bologna, Italy) and Ivan Prestia (Calderara di Reno, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The forming apparatus comprises a feed path for continuously feeding a continuous tow material along a transport direction, a forming device connected to a downstream end of the feed path and adapted to form the continuous tow material into a continuous tubular rod. The forming device comprises a tubular e...