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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5770012 | Process for treating paper machine stock containing bleached hardwood pulp with an enzyme mixture to reduce vessel element picking The process uses a mixture of cellulases and xylanases to chemically change the hardwood vessel elements, rendering them susceptible to breaking under normal mill refining, thus not requiring any additional refining equipment. The process involves treatin... | 06/23/1998 |
| 5725732 | Process for treating hardwood pulp with an enzyme mixture to reduce vessel element picking The process uses a mixture of cellulases and xylanases to chemically change the hardwood vessel elements, rendering them susceptible to breaking under normal mill refining, thus not requiring any additional refining equipment. The process involves treatin... | 03/10/1998 |
| 5364610 | Process for preparation of high opacity precipitated calcium carbonate by reacting sodium carbonate with calcium hydroxide In the process for making calcium carbonate by the double decomposition reaction of sodium carbonate and calcium hydroxide in aqueous reaction medium the improvement of producing calcium carbonate having a scalenohedral particle shape and a rosette aggreg... | 11/15/1994 |
| 5298335 | Method for making coated paper and a paper coating composition A coating for paper comprising water, pigments, binder and poly(ethylene oxide). The binder comprising about 1 to 30 percent by weight of the dry weight of the pigments and the poly(ethylene oxide) comprising about 0.001 to 10 percent by weight of the dry... | 03/29/1994 |
| 5253660 | Reduced sidestream smoke smoking article wrappers, methods of making such wrappers and smoking articles made from such wrappers A cigarette or cigar wrapper is disclosed wherein the paper filler consists of two homogeneously intermixed minerals, viz huntite and hydromagnesite, alone, or admixed with calcium carbonate or magnesium hydroxide or calcium carbonate and magnesium hydrox... | 10/19/1993 |
| 5247950 | Control of static burning rate by use of binary burnign chemical combinations Treating cigarette paper with (1) binary combinations of the sodium and potassium salts of a carboxylic acid or (2) binary combinations of an alkali metal chloride and an alkali metal carboxylate provides a means of controlling the static burning rate of ... | 09/28/1993 |
| 5243408 | Method and apparatus for detecting web discontinuities The detection of abrupt changes in opacity of a moving sheet resulting from, for example, an overlap type splice is provided. The web material is fed between two identical light emitter/detector pairs such that its opacity is measured. An abrupt change in... | 09/07/1993 |
| 5228464 | Wrapper for smoking article, smoking article, and method of making same, case VIII A wrapper for a smoking article which, when wrapped about a tobacco column, provides improved mainstream smoke taste and sidestream smoke odor subjectives. These objectives are attained by forming a cellulosic sheet containing a small amount, but less tha... | 07/20/1993 |
| 5229212 | Silicone release coated substrate A silicone release coating emulsion includes a reactive crosslinkable silicone, a catalyst and a high molecular weight, water soluble or water dispersible polymeric thickening agent such as polyethylene oxide. The polymeric thickening agent has a molecula... | 07/20/1993 |
| 5161550 | Wrappers for smoking articles, methods of making such wrappers and smoking articles made from such wrappers--case V Addition of strong, inorganic acids, such as phosphoric, sulfuric and hydrochloric, to regular, heavy-weight, and reduced sidestream smoke cigarette papers to give improved subjective taste properites, improved subjective sidestream aroma and reduced irri... | 11/10/1992 |
| 5154191 | Wrappers for smoking articles, methods of making such wrappers and smoking articles made from such wrappers - case I A wrapper for smoking articles comprises a cellulosic sheet with filler concentrations in said sheet in the range of 14 to 60 g/m2 and an acid coated on at least the inner surface of the sheet.... | 10/13/1992 |
| 5125421 | Calendered ultraporous cigarette plug wrap, method of producing same and cigarettes made from the wrap An improved tobacco filter or plug wrap is made by calendering ultraporous paper. The calendering process reduces surface irregularities, reduces the thickness of the paper, and reduces the porosity. In general, during the calendering step, the ultraporou... | 06/30/1992 |
| 5121759 | Wrapper for smoking article, smoking article, and method of making same A wrapper for a smoking article which, when wrapped about a tobacco column, provides improved sidestream smoke reduction, improved ash formation, and acceptable mainstream smoke taste and sidestream smoke odor subjectives. These objectives are attained by... | 06/16/1992 |
| 5108782 | Silicone release composition A silicone release coating emulsion includes a reactive crosslinkable silicone, a catalyst and a high molecular weight, water soluble or water dispersible polymeric thickening agent such as polyethylene oxide. The polymeric thickening agent has a molecula... | 04/28/1992 |
| 5107864 | Wrapper for smoking article, smoking article, and method of making same A wrapper for a smoking article which, when wrapped about a tobacco column, provides improved sidestream smoke reduction, improved ash formation, and improved mainstream smoke taste and sidestream smoke odor subjectives. These objectives are attained by f... | 04/28/1992 |
| 5065777 | Thermally stable ash conditioners for cigarette paper, methods of making such cigarette paper and smoking articles made from such wrappers--case III A cigarette paper is disclosed which, when fabricated into a cigarette with a suitable tobacco column, statically burns at an acceptable rate, produces a light-colored, well-formed ash which clings tightly without premature flaking, and delivers both main... | 11/19/1991 |
| 4915118 | Smoking article wrapper and method of making same A smoking article wrapper which when combined with a suitable tobacco column produces up to 75% less particulate sidestream smoke than do prior art cigarette paper wrappers and to methods of producing same. The paper conains freshly precipitated magnesium... | 04/10/1990 |
| 4897159 | Apparatus for pulp contaminant removal Apparatus and method for automatically detecting and removing contaminant particles from a moving pulp mat are provided, detection of the particles being accomplished using a light source for transmitting light to the pulp mat, a light detecting means for... | 01/30/1990 |
| 4881557 | Smoking article wrapper and method of making same A cigarette paper which when fabricated into a cigarette with a suitable tobacco column produces up to 80% less particulate sidestream smoke than do cigarettes fabricated with conventional cigarette paper wrappers. This reduction of sidestream smoke is ac... | 11/21/1989 |
| 4804002 | Tobacco product containing side stream smoke flavorant A tobacco product wrapper containing a glycoside comprising an acetyl of a carbohydrate and an aromatic agent or a derivative thereof. The glycoside flavors or masks the side stream smoke while substantially not altering the taste or flavor characteristic... | 02/14/1989 |
| 4028173 | Methods of making combined titanium dioxide and calcium carbonate and opaque paper containing the resulting combination Method of making TiO2 --CaCO3 combinations without involving a chemical reaction, said combinations, containing up to 50% CaCO3 in the combination, having the same scattering coefficient in paper as 100% TiO2 an... | 06/07/1977 |
| 4026762 | Use of ground limestone as a filler in paper Combinations of fine particle size precipitated CaCO3 and coarser natural ground limestones, up to about 35% ground limestone, have the same opacifying power in paper as does 100% precipitated CaCO3, provided the ground limestone has... | 05/31/1977 |
