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Patent No. 5307162

Cloaking System Using Optoelectronically Controlled Camouflage

A Cloaking System designed to operate in the visible light spectrum, utilizes optoelectronics and/or photonic components to conceal an object within it.

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Assignee: Liggett Group Inc.


Location: Montvale, NJ
No. of patents: 18

NumberTitleIssue Date
4434805Applicator for applying glue to a travelling stream of tipping paper
The applicator roll is provided with two recesses to apply uniform layers of glue to a travelling stream of tipping paper. In addition, the applicator roll has a series of spaced apart grooves in each recess so as to apply additional stripes of glue onto ...
03/06/1984
4425107Rotatable dispensing wheel
The charcoal wheel is provided with pnuematic means for forcing the pistons outwardly to dispense charcoal and a second pneumatic means for the retraction of the pistons. The pneumatic ejection of the pistons permits a high speed output, for example 6000 ...
01/10/1984
4411640Apparatus for the production of cigarette filter tips having multi-sectional construction
The apparatus is provided with a cutter having pairs or rotary knives for cutting a filter rod into plural filter plugs and a pin wheel for positively ejecting the filter plugs in spaced array onto a conveyor. The apparatus also has a rotary feed means fo...
10/25/1983
4385536Apparatus for forming an aeration groove in a filter
An apparatus for forming an aeration groove in a filter which is composed of a body of entrainment-type fiberous filter material and a layer of plug wrap paper circumferentially about the body. The apparatus is comprised of a rotatable filter drum for con...
05/31/1983
4371558Semi-moist dog food preparation
The process of preparing a semi-moist pet food product comprising the steps of: admixing and cooking ground meat or meat by-products with water, propylene glycol, phosphoric acid and one or more acids selected from the group consisting of fumaric acid and...
02/01/1983
4369796Method and apparatus for forming an air dilution filter
The air dilution filter of the cigarette is provided with an annular zone in the plug wrap paper which enables air to pass directly into the fibrous body of the filter material after passing through apertures in the tipping paper. The annular zone can be ...
01/25/1983
4361156Method and applicator for applying glue to a travelling stream of tipping paper
The applicator roll is provided with two recesses to apply uniform layers of glue to a travelling stream of tipping paper. In addition, the applicator roll has a series of spaced apart grooves in each recess so as to apply additional stripes of glue onto ...
11/30/1982
4332823Fabricated meat and meat by-products and process
A process for preparing fabricated meat and meat by-products comprising the steps of: emulsifying meat or meat by-products; admixing a salt with the emulsified material; admixing texturized soy with the emulsified meat and salt; forming the admixture into...
06/01/1982
4257430Tobacco composition including palladium
Improved palladium-containing smoking tobacco compositions wherein the palladium in a highly active form is obtained by depositing on the tobacco palladium which has been insolubilized by admixing in an aqueous medium a water-soluble palladium compound an...
03/24/1981
4252527Glue transfer apparatus for cigarette filters
A filter is formed by placing increments of glue in spaced apart relation on a moving stream of plug wrap paper and thereafter depositing alternating fibrous filter sections on the glue increments. Particulate material is then deposited between the fibrou...
02/24/1981
4248251Tobacco composition
The concentration of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in tobacco smoke is reduced by incorporating palladium, either in metallic form or as a salt, and an inorganic nitric oxide generating compound into tobacco....
02/03/1981
4235251Stability of tobacco casing systems containing palladium
The stability of palladium in tobacco casing systems is improved by the incorporation of a polysaccharide protective colloid....
11/25/1980
4232574Apparatus and method for providing a cigarette filter with an aeration groove
An apparatus and method is adapted to provide the filter of a cigarette with an annular perpheral groove to enable air to pass directly into the fibrous body of the filter material after passing through apertures in the tipping paper. Ordinary plug wrap p...
11/11/1980
4219030Aeration groove filter
The filter plug of the cigarette is provided with an annular peripheral groove to enable air to pass directly into the fibrous body of the filter material after passing through apertures in the tipping paper. Use is made of ordinary plug wrap paper instea...
08/26/1980
4208956Glue transfer apparatus for cigarette filters
A filter is formed by placing increments of glue in spaced apart relation on a moving stream of plug wrap paper and thereafter depositing alternating fibrous filter sections on the glue increments. Particulate material is then deposited between the fibrou...
06/24/1980
4184412Pocket-type charcoal filter and cigarette made therewith
The apparatus for making the filter forms a stream of tow into a U-shaped trough so that charges of charcoal can be injected into the trough by a charcoal wheel. The shape of the tow is ensured by feeding the tow into a funnel-shaped passageway from below...
01/22/1980
4183362Decreasing the burn rate of smoking tobaccos
The burn rate of tobacco is decreased without impairment of its quality of smoking by the application thereto of small amounts of certain salts, preferably hydrated magnesium chloride, which upon heating exhibit a plurality of endothermic reactions at suc...
01/15/1980
4179323Method for making a hollow filter rod
The apparatus is constructed to produce a hollow filter rod. The apparatus includes a mandrel through which a supplied length of tubing is passed, a nozzle surrounding the mandrel for shaping a stream of fibrous filter material about the mandrel and a for...
12/18/1979
 
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