In an apparatus for making and inspecting a multi-component cigarettes, each cigarette including two or more different components arranged relative to one another, the apparatus includes a device for advancing a web in a first direction. The aromatic compound can be, for example, benzene, toluene, xylene, ethylbenzene, cumene, etc. The apparatus further includes a bottom passage interconnecting bottom portions of the first and second compartments for fluid communication therebetween. An arithmetic circuit 106 generates a new value by adding a result of arithmetic operation of the arithmetic circuit 104 and the recalculated value obtained by the arithmetic circuit 105 to each other, and introduces this result into the R3 register 103 or another register. These check valves and the associated directional valves create the possibility of filling both the cylinder space 20 proper and the piston rod cavity 26, which enables the pressure adjustment process with hydraulic medium in a specific manner, or accordingly their discharge, with no risk of reciprocal influence, seizing, or other damage.