APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PERFORATING ARTICLES BY LASER

• Main Authors: DULEY, WALTER, CLAFLIN, WARREN E, STULTZ, EDWARD B, MARTIN, PETER, GROLLIMUND, EVERETT C, CASHWELL, ERNEST, LILLY, A. CLIFTON, JR
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French
• Published: 16.03.1982
• Edition: 3
• Subjects: BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS; CIGARETTES; CIGARS; CLADDING OR PLATING BY SOLDERING OR WELDING; CUTTING BY APPLYING HEAT LOCALLY, e.g. FLAME CUTTING; DEVICES USING STIMULATED EMISSION; ELECTRICITY; HUMAN NECESSITIES; MACHINE TOOLS; MACHINES FOR MAKING CIGARS OR CIGARETTES; METAL-WORKING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS, OR APPARATUS; OPTICS; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICS; SMOKERS' REQUISITES; SOLDERING OR UNSOLDERING; TOBACCO; TRANSPORTING; WELDING; WORKING BY LASER BEAM

582-894A/B/C METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORATING ARTICLES BY LASER Perforations are made at locations spaced about the periphery of a cigarette by conducting separate parts of a laser beam through respective separate light paths which intersect such spaced peripheral locations.