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EP3033952B1 - Tube double couche de l'industrie de traitement du tabac et dispositif et procede de fabrication d'un tel tube - Google Patents

Tube double couche de l'industrie de traitement du tabac et dispositif et procede de fabrication d'un tel tube Download PDF

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EP3033952B1
EP3033952B1 EP15197437.5A EP15197437A EP3033952B1 EP 3033952 B1 EP3033952 B1 EP 3033952B1 EP 15197437 A EP15197437 A EP 15197437A EP 3033952 B1 EP3033952 B1 EP 3033952B1
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Roman Piechaczek
Gerd Krappitz
Malte Burmeister
Michael Kolecki
Moritz Werner
Andreas Tönsmann
Andreas Braun
Hauke Thomsen
Nicolas Fricke
Gerd Strohecker
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A24—TOBACCO; CIGARS; CIGARETTES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES; SMOKERS' REQUISITES
    • A24C—MACHINES FOR MAKING CIGARS OR CIGARETTES
    • A24C5/00—Making cigarettes; Making tipping materials for, or attaching filters or mouthpieces to, cigars or cigarettes
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A24—TOBACCO; CIGARS; CIGARETTES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES; SMOKERS' REQUISITES
    • A24D—CIGARS; CIGARETTES; TOBACCO SMOKE FILTERS; MOUTHPIECES FOR CIGARS OR CIGARETTES; MANUFACTURE OF TOBACCO SMOKE FILTERS OR MOUTHPIECES
    • A24D3/00—Tobacco smoke filters, e.g. filter-tips, filtering inserts; Filters specially adapted for simulated smoking devices; Mouthpieces for cigars or cigarettes
    • A24D3/02—Manufacture of tobacco smoke filters
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A24—TOBACCO; CIGARS; CIGARETTES; SIMULATED SMOKING DEVICES; SMOKERS' REQUISITES
    • A24D—CIGARS; CIGARETTES; TOBACCO SMOKE FILTERS; MOUTHPIECES FOR CIGARS OR CIGARETTES; MANUFACTURE OF TOBACCO SMOKE FILTERS OR MOUTHPIECES
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    • A24D3/04—Tobacco smoke filters characterised by their shape or structure

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  • the invention relates to a double-layered tube for the tobacco processing industry, a device for producing double-layered tubes for the tobacco processing industry and a method for producing double-layered tubes for the tobacco processing industry.
  • tubes such as cardboard tubes or paper tubes, are used to provide special filters, such as a recess filter or a hollow filter.
  • filters such as a recess filter or a hollow filter.
  • tubes also serve as a component of a diffuser, which ensures that smoke containing nicotine is evened out.
  • a corresponding tube should have a certain stability, which is why it is known to produce multi-walled paper tubes.
  • a method and a machine for producing a multi-walled paper tube for smoking article mouthpiece tubes are known, in which a continuous paper strip, the width of which corresponds to at least twice the circumference of the tube to be produced, is continuously pulled off a roll, the strip being provided with a fold line in the longitudinal direction by weakening, by which the strip is divided into two strip sections, the two strip sections being folded together along the fold line, the folded strip being formed into a double-walled tube.
  • the ends of the paper strip are connected by overlapping or underlapping the paper strip with the folded and bent edge.
  • GB 453 172 A discloses an apparatus and a method for producing paper tubes.
  • GB 2 171 168 A also discloses an apparatus and a method for producing pipes.
  • US 4,666,550 A discloses an apparatus for laminating a strip of foil to a strip of cigarette wrapping paper.
  • a double-layered tube of Tobacco processing industry made from a first and a second material strip section, the first material strip section having a first width and the second material strip section having a second width, the first and the second material strip sections being wound around one another in such a way that the first material strip section is circular or oval in cross-section and the edges defining the first width are abutting, the second material strip section is circular or oval in cross-section and the edges defining the second width are abutting, the second material strip section being arranged outside around the first material strip section, an adhesive being provided as full-surface or almost full-surface gluing between the first and the second material strip sections.
  • the edges of the first and second material strip sections which are arranged abuttingly, have a very precisely defined roundness at these transition points, which significantly improves the quality of the double-layered tube produced compared to the state of the art.
  • the adhesive can be, for example, polyvinyl acetate (PVA or PVAC). This is a thermoplastic. Other adhesives or glues can also be used.
  • PVA polyvinyl acetate
  • PVAC polyvinyl acetate
  • Other adhesives or glues can also be used.
  • an adhesive is provided substantially completely or entirely between the first and the second material strip section.
  • the adhesive preferably has a constant thickness over the circumference of the double-layered tube.
  • An almost full-surface gluing is understood to mean a gluing in which the surface of a material strip section is glued to at least 80%, preferably at least 90%, particularly preferably at least 95% over the entire surface.
  • an almost full-surface gluing is understood to mean a gluing in which full-surface gluing is provided where material strip sections overlap, and no gluing is provided where there is no overlap of the material strip sections.
  • the double-layered tube has an inner diameter of 3 mm to 8 mm.
  • abutting edges of the respective material strip section means that these edges abut one another or are a small distance apart.
  • adhesive is provided between at least two edges, in particular the end faces of the edges.
  • adhesive can be provided to fill a gap between the edges.
  • any gap between the edges is therefore preferably also filled with adhesive.
  • the thickness of the filling is such that the adhesive is preferably flush with the surface of the material strip section.
  • the first width of the material strip sections is smaller than the second width. This measure makes it possible to provide a double-layered tube which, particularly in the outer layer, has a small gap or no gap between the edges or the abutting edges.
  • the first and/or the second material strip section made of paper or cardboard.
  • a particularly stable double-layered tube for the tobacco processing industry can be achieved if the abutting edges of the first and second material strip sections are preferably not radially aligned or are not radially aligned with one another.
  • the abutting edges of the first and second material strip sections are offset from one another in the circumferential direction.
  • the abutting edges or the corresponding gaps between the abutting edges are then at a radial angular distance from one another.
  • the radial angular distance is between 10° and 80°, in particular between 10° and 45°.
  • the thickness of the first material strip section corresponds to the thickness of the second material strip section.
  • the quality of the tube produced is particularly high.
  • the adhesive used can be made to set faster, so that the production speed can be increased.
  • the material strip feed device can be feed rollers over which a material strip of a corresponding width can be fed. Usually such a material strip is pulled by a material strip reel and fed into the appropriate device is promoted.
  • the cutting device which is arranged in the conveying direction of the material strip, is preferably a longitudinal cutter which cuts the material strip in the longitudinal axial direction.
  • the gluing device connected to the cutting device essentially glues the entire surface of at least one of the two material strips, i.e. the first and/or the second material strip, whereby an area can also be glued at this point that can serve as a seam, i.e. where an end section of the second material strip is pressed onto the first material strip in a later formatting device to close a seam.
  • this area can also be glued accordingly or provided with adhesive in a subsequent step.
  • the gluing device is followed in the conveying direction by a merging device which, within the scope of the invention, preferably comprises a paper layer adjustment device or paper layer setting device by means of which the lateral position, i.e. a relative position of the first and second material strips to one another, namely transversely to the conveying direction, can be adjusted in order to provide only a partial overlap of the first and second material strips, so that, viewed from the width of these material strips, a part protrudes to the left and a part to the right.
  • a merging device which, within the scope of the invention, preferably comprises a paper layer adjustment device or paper layer setting device by means of which the lateral position, i.e. a relative position of the first and second material strips to one another, namely transversely to the conveying direction, can be adjusted in order to provide only a partial overlap of the first and second material strips, so that, viewed from the width of these material strips, a part protrudes to the left and a part to the right.
  • the device for producing double-layered tubes in the tobacco processing industry first produces a tubular strand from at least two layers of a strip of material. This tubular strand can then be cut to length , for example by means of a conventional knife device. It can also be provided that the tubular strand produced is initially fed to another machine, for example a filter rod machine or a tobacco rod machine, in order to introduce a filter material and/or a tobacco material around the tubular strand and/or into the tubular strand. At the end, a wrapping material strip can then be wound around the strand thus formed in order to then finally cut the corresponding rods with the double-layered tubes contained therein to length.
  • another machine for example a filter rod machine or a tobacco rod machine
  • a separating device which spatially separates the first material strip or the second material strip from the other material strip in the conveying direction after the cutting device. This enables very precise positioning and joining of the first and second material strips, so that the relative lateral position to one another can be precisely adjusted. In this case, it is also possible to apply glue cleanly to just one material strip.
  • first and second material strips are rotated by 180° relative to one another after cutting, so that a first surface present before cutting, which is cut into two first surfaces with the same orientation, is joined together in such a way that the first surfaces of the first and second material strips are arranged relative to one another.
  • a first heating device is provided between the joining device and the formatting device.
  • the adhesive can be pre-cured by means of the first heating device so that the first and second strips of material are held together and are still deformable, preferably in such a way that the shape essentially holds itself after bending.
  • the gluing device provides for a full-surface or almost full-surface gluing of the first and/or the second material strip.
  • a seam gluing device is provided between the merging device and the formatting device, in particular between the first heating device and the formatting device.
  • the seam gluing device is used when the previous gluing device does not provide for full-surface gluing. This refers to gluing that was not carried out in the transverse axial direction and thus a glue or adhesive is only applied by means of the seam gluing device, which serves to close the seam. Transverse to the longitudinal axis, complete gluing should preferably be carried out by the gluing device and also the seam gluing device.
  • the formatting device preferably comprises a second heating device.
  • the second heating device can be arranged, for example, in the upper format of the formatting device and is particularly preferably used for completely setting the adhesive.
  • An alternative variant can also be provided, for example the device according to the invention of a conventional strand machine and to use a seam plate that is usually used as an additional heating device in the conventional rod machine.
  • a corresponding tubular rod and thus corresponding double-layer tubes in the tobacco processing industry can then be produced at a significantly higher speed. For example, this can be done at twice the speed.
  • a cutting device is provided downstream of the formatting device in order to cut tubes from the tubular strand.
  • a machine of the tobacco processing industry is provided with a device according to the invention, wherein a rod machine is connected downstream of the device according to the invention.
  • the gluing is done over the entire surface or almost over the entire surface.
  • An interruption in the gluing on the surface can occur, for example, where there is a seam of the other wrapping material strip.
  • an interruption in the glue can occur where there is a gap in the adjacent wrapping material strip or the adjacent first or second material strip, namely between the edges or abutting edges of the respective material strip.
  • gluing can also be provided at this point, so that gluing actually occurs over the entire surface.
  • staggered joining means gluing the strips offset from one another in the width of the strips.
  • the first material strip is narrower than the second material strip, wherein the second material strip is or is arranged outside the first material strip.
  • the joined material strips are heated before forming. This causes the adhesive between the material strips to harden.
  • the adhesive preferably does not harden completely in this process step so that it remains flexible to enable forming, for example into a tubular strand.
  • the joined material strips are heated during and/or after forming. This then causes the adhesive to harden completely.
  • seam gluing is provided during the gluing step, or seam gluing is provided after joining.
  • different glues can be used to provide gluing that is tailored to requirements.
  • multi-layered, especially double-layered tubes are made from material strip sections, which are preferably made of cardboard or paper, in which there are no overlapping seams.
  • material strip sections which are preferably made of cardboard or paper, in which there are no overlapping seams.
  • the double-layered tube is made from a paper strip that is preferably approximately twice as wide as the circumference. of the tube, whereby the paper strip is cut lengthwise into two strips of slightly different widths, whereby the two paper strips produced are then guided on separate paths and preferably the wider and later outer strip is provided with a line of glue, whereby the two paper strips are then placed on top of each other and preferably pre-dried.
  • a line of seam glue is then preferably applied to the double-layered paper and the paper strips placed on top of each other are fed to the format of a formatting device in order to form a tubular strand from this and to close the seam.
  • the device according to the invention is part of a modular insertion device which can be arranged, for example, preferably between a rod machine in the tobacco processing industry and a filter tow preparation machine.
  • tubular strand is made from double-layered material strips
  • a suitably prepared filter tow is conveyed through a corresponding insertion device and above the formatting device and introduced into an inlet area of the strand machine.
  • the tubular strand is also introduced into the inlet area so that the filter tow can be introduced around or into the tubular strand, for example, in order to be able to produce filter rods.
  • the stranding machine serves to produce a manufactured tubular strand of double-layered material strips according to the invention more quickly by using a heating device of the stranding machine in addition to the at least one heating device of the device according to the invention. to allow the adhesive used to harden further. This allows the machine to be operated at up to twice the conveyor speed. This doubles the production rate of the tubes cut to length in the strand machine from the tubular strand.
  • a two-strand filter tow preparation device could also be used to produce a coaxial filter from the double-layer tube or the double-layer tubular strand.
  • One filter tow strand is then arranged around the double-layer tubular strand and the other filter tow strand is inserted into the tubular strand.
  • a coaxial filter can be produced in double-layer tubes.
  • an anchor seam in the form of an adhesive is applied to the tubular strand produced from double-layer material strips so that the filter tow also holds on to the tubular strand.
  • the first filter material and the second filter material can be different from one another.
  • a double-layered tube which is described above as being in accordance with the invention or preferred, is used as the mouth-side end piece or as the middle piece between two filter segments of a filter of a filter cigarette or a filter of a rod-shaped article of the tobacco processing industry.
  • a rod-shaped article of the tobacco processing industry is understood to mean in particular a cigarette or filter cigarette, but also a cigarillo, a cigar or an e-cigarette.
  • Embodiments may fulfill individual features or a combination of several features.
  • Fig. 1 shows in a schematic sectional view transverse to the longitudinal axis of two material strips 11 and 12 the state of the first material strip 11 and the second material strip 12 after they have been joined together.
  • the first material strip 11 has an adhesive 17, for example a glue, on its upper side.
  • the second material strip 12 is placed on the adhesive 17.
  • the first material strip 11 has edges 13 and 14 on the left and right and the second material strip 12 has edges 15 and 16 on the left and right.
  • a seam gluing 18 has been applied to the first material strip 11, which serves to provide a bond to the part of the second material strip 12 that protrudes to the right over the first material strip 11.
  • the gluing 17 can be carried out at the same time as the gluing 18 or, as already stated above, afterwards, namely before the tube or tubular strand is formed, in a formatting device.
  • this configuration After passing through the formatting device, this configuration produces a double-layered tubular strand or, after cutting this strand to length, a double-layered tube, which has a cross-section of Fig. 2 is shown schematically.
  • the first material strip section 11 is located in the interior, with the edges 13 and 14 being arranged abutting or with a small distance from each other.
  • This joint area 21 is not radially aligned with the joint area 20 of the second wrapping material strip 12.
  • the edges 15 and 16 are also in contact there or are provided with a small distance from each other.
  • the gaps between the joint areas 20 and 21 can also be provided with an adhesive. In the case of the Fig. 2 However, no adhesive is provided. In contrast to the prior art, a better roundness is achieved, since an overlap of the edge 16, for example with the second wrapping material strip 12 is not intended, but rather an alignment or an essentially circular outer contour.
  • the thicknesses of the first material strip section 11 and the second material strip section 12 can be different or essentially the same. In the case of different thicknesses, it is preferred if the outer material strip section, namely material strip section 12, is thinner than the first material strip section 11.
  • Fig. 3 shows schematically a device according to the invention for producing double-layer tubes 10 for the tobacco processing industry. In this embodiment, several variants of the device according to the invention are shown simultaneously.
  • a correspondingly wide base material strip 24 is pulled off from a reel (not shown) in the conveying direction 34 and guided over rollers 41.
  • a cutting device 23 is connected to a material strip feed device 22. In the cutting device 23, the base material strip 24 is cut lengthwise. The cutting device 23 is a lengthwise cutter.
  • the cut material strips in the form of a first material strip 25 and a second material strip 26 are conveyed in parallel via a further deflection roller 41 in order to then be separated from one another by means of a cross conveyor 32 in the form of a deflection roller.
  • the second material strip 26 is essentially completely glued after a further deflection by means of a gluing device 27, namely at least over the entire length.
  • This gluing device 27 can, for example, omit the area of a seam, but this does not necessarily have to be the case.
  • the first material strip 25 is conveyed separately from the second material strip 26 and is offset in the transverse direction to the conveying direction by means of the offset device 29, so that in the pair of pull rollers 28, by means of which the first material strip 25 is joined to the second material strip 26, the material strips 25 and 26 are offset one on top of the other.
  • the material strips are arranged at this point, for example, as in Fig. 1 shown schematically.
  • a heating device 35 is then provided, by means of which the applied glue or the applied adhesive 17 is pre-cured.
  • the superimposed material strips 25 and 26 are fed to a formatting device 30. If the seam gluing has not yet taken place, this takes place by means of the seam gluing device 36, which is arranged between the heating device 35 and the formatting device 30.
  • the inlet finger 44 presses the material strips downwards onto the formatting belt 43, which is guided endlessly through the formatting device 30 via corresponding deflection rollers 41.
  • the material strips are formed into a round or oval shape in a known manner.
  • the upper format is designed as a heated upper format 37 in order to to further cure the glue or adhesive 17.
  • double-layered tubes of the desired length can be cut from the strand 31 thus formed by means of the cutting device 38.
  • tubular strand 31 is introduced into a stranding machine 40.
  • a filter tow 46 may be made from a filter tow preparation device which is Fig. 3 is not shown, but in Fig. 3 to the right of the device shown, above the format 30 over the device according to the invention and fed by a pair of pull rollers 42 in the conveying direction 47 of the strand machine 40.
  • the filter tow 46 can then be arranged, for example, around the tubular strand 31.
  • an adhesive for example PVA
  • PVA polyvinyl acrylate copolymer
  • a wrapping material strip can be wound around the strand from an inner tubular strand and a The filter tow lying around the outside is wound in a formatting device and a corresponding filter is produced.
  • a suitable filter is available in Fig. 4 for example, shown schematically.
  • the filter is provided here with the reference number 50.
  • the tube 10 is located inside, a filter tow 48 is located outside and a wrapping material 49 is arranged around it.
  • the gluing device 27 and the seam gluing device 36 can be designed as flat nozzles or spin spray nozzles. In this case, adhesive or glue is preferably applied over a large area.
  • the heating device 35 can be provided optionally. This essentially serves for pre-curing or pre-hardening the adhesive.
  • appropriate sensors can be provided that detect the position of the edges of the material strips.
  • Appropriate control mechanisms can then be provided to regulate the position of the material strips relative to one another.
  • the material strip can be pre-bent immediately before the format device or immediately before the longitudinal cutter.
  • the double-layer tube can have an inner diameter of, for example, 3 mm to 8 mm.
  • the process speed of the method can be at least 250 m/min. A Process speed of 350 m/min or higher.

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  1. Tube à double couche (10) de l'industrie de transformation du tabac, fabriqué à partir d'une première et d'une deuxième portion (11, 12) de bande de matériau, la première portion (11) de bande de matériau présentant une première largeur et la deuxième portion (12) de bande de matériau présentant une deuxième largeur, la première et la deuxième portions (11, 12) de bande de matériau sont enroulées l'une autour de l'autre de telle sorte que la première portion (11) de bande de matériau est de forme circulaire ou ovale en section transversale et les bords (13, 14) définissant la première largeur sont placés bout à bout, la deuxième portion (12) de bande de matériau est de forme circulaire ou ovale en section transversale et les bords (15, 16) définissant la deuxième largeur sont placés bout à bout, la deuxième portion (12) de bande de matériau étant disposée à l'extérieur autour de la première portion (11) de bande de matériau, un adhésif (17, 18) étant prévu entre la première et la deuxième portions (11, 12) de bande de matériau sous forme d'encollage sur toute la surface ou est prévu sous forme d'un encollage presque complet, l'encollage sur presque toute la surface est un encollage dans lequel la surface de la première ou de la deuxième portion de bande de matériau est encollée sur au moins 80 % de toute la surface, les bords bout à bout (13 - 16) de la première et de la deuxième portions (11, 12) de bande de matériau étant décalés l'un par rapport à l'autre dans la direction circonférentielle, les bords bout à bout étant situés à une distance angulaire radiale comprise entre 10° et 80° l'un par rapport à l'autre, le tube à double couche présentant un diamètre intérieur de 3 mm à 8 mm.
  2. Tube (10) selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que la première largeur est inférieure à la deuxième largeur, la première et/ou la deuxième portions (11, 12) de bande de matériau étant notamment en papier.
  3. Tube (10) selon la revendication 1 ou la revendication 2, caractérisé en ce que de l'adhésif (17, 18) est prévu entre au moins deux bords (13 - 16), en particulier entre les faces d'extrémité desdits bords.
  4. Tube (10) selon l'une des revendications 1 à 3, caractérisé en ce que l'épaisseur de la première portion (11) de bande de matériau correspond à l'épaisseur de la deuxième portion (12) de bande de matériau, l'épaisseur de la deuxième portion (12) de bande de matériau étant notamment inférieure à l'épaisseur de la première portion (11) de bande de matériau.
  5. Dispositif pour la fabrication de tubes à double couche (10) de l'industrie de transformation du tabac, comprenant
    - un dispositif (22) d'alimentation en bande de matériau,
    - un dispositif de coupe (23) pour couper une bande de matériau (24) de base dans le sens de l'axe longitudinal en une première bande de matériau (25) d'une première largeur et une deuxième bande de matériau (26) d'une deuxième largeur,
    - un dispositif d'encollage (27) au moyen duquel la première et/ou la deuxième bande de matériau (25, 26) est apte à être encollée, le dispositif d'encollage (27) prévoyant un encollage sur toute la surface ou sur presque toute la surface de la première et/ou de la deuxième bandes de matériau, l'encollage sur presque toute la surface étant un encollage dans lequel la surface de la première bande de matériau ou de la deuxième bande de matériau est encollée sur au moins 80% d'elle-même,
    - un dispositif de réunion (28, 29) au moyen duquel la première et la deuxième bandes de matériau (25, 26) sont réunies pour être collées l'une à l'autre de telle sorte que la première et la deuxième bandes de matériau (25, 26) se superposent de manière décalée,
    - un dispositif de mise en forme, dans lequel un boudin tubulaire (31) est fabriqué à partir des première et deuxième bandes de matériau (25, 26) réunies, la première portion (11) de bande de matériau étant mise en forme selon une forme circulaire ou ovale en section transversale et les bords (13, 14) définissant la première largeur étant placés bout à bout, la deuxième portion (12) de bande de matériau étant mise en forme selon une forme circulaire ou ovale en section transversale et les bords (15, 16) définissant la deuxième largeur étant placées bout à bout, et
    - un dispositif (38) de coupe à longueur pour couper des petits tubes à double couche dans le boudin tubulaire (31).
  6. Dispositif selon la revendication 5, caractérisé en ce qu'il est prévu un dispositif de séparation (32) qui sépare spatialement la première bande de matériau (25) ou la deuxième bande de matériau (26) de l'autre bande de matériau respective (25, 26) dans la direction de transport (34) en aval du dispositif de coupe (23), un premier dispositif de chauffage (35) étant notamment prévu entre le dispositif de réunion (28, 29) et le dispositif (30) de mise en forme.
  7. Dispositif selon la revendication 5 ou la revendication 6, caractérisé en ce qu'un dispositif (36) d'encollage de jonctions est prévu entre le dispositif de réunion (28, 29) et le dispositif de mise en forme (30), notamment entre le premier dispositif de chauffage (35) et le dispositif de mise en forme (30), le dispositif de mise en forme (30) comprenant notamment un deuxième dispositif de chauffage (37).
  8. Machine de l'industrie de transformation du tabac, caractérisée en ce qu'il est prévu un dispositif selon l'une des revendications 5 à 7, en aval duquel est montée une machine à boudin (40).
  9. Procédé de fabrication de tubes à double couche (10) de l'industrie de transformation du tabac, comprenant les étapes de procédé suivantes :
    - transport d'une bande de matériau (24) de base dans la direction axiale de transport (34),
    - découpe longitudinale de la bande de matériau (24) de base en une première bande de matériau (25) d'une première largeur et une deuxième bande de matériau (26) d'une deuxième largeur,
    - encollage d'au moins la première ou la deuxième bandes de matériau (25, 26), l'encollage s'effectuant sur toute la surface ou sur presque toute la surface, l'encollage sur presque toute la surface étant un encollage dans lequel la surface de la première ou de la deuxième bandes de matériau est encollée sur au moins 80% d'elle-même,
    - réunion de la première et de la deuxième bande de matériau (25, 26) avec décalage, de sorte que la première et la deuxième bandes de matériau (25, 26) soient collées l'une à l'autre,
    - formation des bandes de matériau (25, 26) collées l'une à l'autre en un boudin tubulaire (31), la première portion (11) de bande de matériau étant mise en forme selon une forme circulaire ou ovale en section transversale et les bords (13, 14) définissant la première largeur étant placés bout à bout, la deuxième portion (12) de bande de matériau étant mise en forme selon une forme circulaire ou ovale en section transversale et les bords (15, 16) définissant la deuxième largeur étant placés bout à bout, et
    - tronçonnage du boudin (31) en tubes à double couche (10).
  10. Procédé selon la revendication 9, caractérisé en ce que la première bande de matériau (25) est plus étroite que la deuxième bande de matériau (26) et en ce que la deuxième bande de matériau (26) est disposée ou apte à être disposée extérieurement autour de la première bande de matériau (25).
  11. Procédé selon la revendication 9 ou la revendication 10, caractérisé en ce que, avant la mise en forme, les bandes de matériau (25, 26) réunies sont chauffées.
  12. Procédé selon l'une des revendications 9 à 11, caractérisé en ce que les bandes de matériau (25, 26) réunies sont chauffées pendant et/ou après la mise en forme.
  13. Procédé selon l'une des revendications 9 à 12, caractérisé en ce qu'un encollage de jonction est prévu lors de l'étape d'encollage, ou en ce qu'un encollage de jonction est prévu après l'assemblage.
  14. Utilisation d'un tube à double couche (10) selon l'une des revendications 1 à 4 comme embout buccal ou comme pièce centrale entre deux segments de filtre d'un filtre de cigarette à filtre ou d'un filtre d'article en forme de tige de l'industrie de transformation du tabac.
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