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Apparatus for Simulating a High Five
A self-righting hand-arm configuration which is adapted to pivot when struck by a user, thereby simulating a "high five."
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4582071 | Tipping assembly for an elongate smoking article A cigarette is provided with a cylindrical ungrooved filter plug which is surrounded by a ventilated tipping wrapper spaced radially from the plug by a slotted sheet laminated to the inner surface of the tipping wrapper. The slots communicate with the ven... | 04/15/1986 |
| 4340072 | Smokeable device A smokeable device has an annular fuel rod in gaseous communication with a mouth-end chamber. The chamber contains a quantity of inhalent material which, when contacted by hot gases during smoking forms an aerosol for inhalation by the smoker.... | 07/20/1982 |
| 4337783 | Forming sheet from reconstituted tobacco A method of forming sheet from reconstituted tobacco involves the formation of a high solids content slurry of which the particle size is less than 60 B.S. mesh. The slurry is then extruded through a single pair of rollers onto a wire mesh conveyor, or on... | 07/06/1982 |
| 4286605 | Treating sheet material for making cigar wrappers A method of treating a web of smokable sheet material to simulate the markings of natural tobacco leaf before the web is cut to provide cigar wrapper blanks. The web is printed with a thickened ink which dries to form a ribbed pattern. Coloration of the i... | 09/01/1981 |
| 4199267 | Treatment of slurries and liquids Abrasive-containing tobacco slurry is homogenized by passing radially outwards between the facing surfaces of two closely adjacent coaxial rings of tungsten carbide to impinge violently against a tungsten carbide surface surrounding the rings. The occurre... | 04/22/1980 |
| 4148324 | Perforating device A cigar, cigarette or similar smoking product is perforated immediately prior to wrapping by a set of needles mounted in a block arranged to be moved onto the cigar or cigarette to be perforated. The needles are guided and protected by an apertured stripp... | 04/10/1979 |
| 4142535 | Smoking product A smoking product comprising tobacco including as a film-forming or binding agent a pectin having a degree of methylation between 30% and 75% and an inherent viscosity between 2 and 6.5 deciliters per gram.... | 03/06/1979 |
| 4096867 | Apparatus for pyrolyzing tobacco Apparatus for determining the total particulate matter in tobacco smoke comprises a reusable cartridge for holding a charge of tobacco, a pump for drawing air through the tobacco charge and through a filter, a heater to ignite the tobacco charge, and cont... | 06/27/1978 |
| 4061148 | Perforating apparatus for articles A cigar perforator comprises opposing sets of perforating needles which reciprocate at right angles to the cigar to perforate and withdraw from it. The cigar is held during perforation between apertured plates, each aperture having a stripper plate mounte... | 12/06/1977 |
| 3989309 | Apparatus for the distribution of loose fibrous material Loose fibrous material, e.g. cut tobacco, is distributed via a horizontal rotor drum in a housing; the drum having external rakes for picking up tobacco deposited on an ascending portion of the drum and presenting it to suction-operated, draw-off pipes in... | 11/02/1976 |
