Method and apparatus for forming a tobacco rod

There are a method and an apparatus for forming a fiber strand of the tobacco-processing industry, in particular a tobacco rod for cigarette manufacture, described, which contains particles of an additive. with a Strangherstelleinrichtung (4) is a basic rod (6) of fiber material (Cut tobacco) manufactured and promoted by a longitudinal axial drop zone (7). On Transfer means (34) a feeding and depositing device (8) takes the drop zone (7) from a metering device (33) taken from series (61) of particles (2) the additive to and places them on the basic rod (6), on which they with Suction is maintained. In a subsequent strand forming unit (9) the particles and the basic rod (6) to form a fiber strand to be processed further (11) covered with further fiber material. This procedure offers the advantage that in the fiber strand in a simple manner metered amount of an additive is introduced, which also prolonged Storage is non-volatile and in use of the products produced from the strand its full effect.