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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6193085 | Dispensing rack A dispensing rack comprises a back panel joined to a pair of side panels by a pair of corner brackets, and a variety of shelf configurations, each of which enables products to be supported in a different orientation. Each corner bracket is formed with a c... | 02/27/2001 |
| 5979461 | Smoking article wrapper having filler of hydromagnesite/magnesium hydroxide and smoking article made with said wrapper Hydromagnesite-magnesium hydroxide compositions which, when used as fillers in smoking article wrappers, significantly reduce the amount of sidestream smoke produced by the burning smoking article while providing the smoking article with good subjective c... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5261533 | Tax-stampable half-carton A cigarette carton comprising two half-carton sections, each containing five cigarette packs, which may be sold as one standard ten-pack cigarette carton or may be separated and sold as individual half-cartons. The dual half-carton configuration permits t... | 11/16/1993 |
| 5250134 | System and method for forming an overwrap web provided with inserts Paper stock is unwound, printed, folded, laminated and cut to form inserts. The laminated inserts are applied to an overwrap at an appropriately spaced interval. The resultant overwrap can then be wrapped around cigarette packs to provide each pack with a... | 10/05/1993 |
| 5234732 | Tamper-indicating wrappers Tamper-indicating, laminated wrappers wherein a visible change between layers of the wrapper indicate that the wrapper has been punctured or that there has been tampering with the wrapper or its contents. The wrapper may be composed of two or more plies o... | 08/10/1993 |
| 5228463 | Magnesite/magnesium hydroxide fillers for smoking article wrappers The invention relates to the use of co-crystalline magnesite/magnesium hydroxide compositions as fillers for smoking article wrappers. Smoking articles made with wrappers containing these compositions exhibit significantly reduced sidestream smoke and doe... | 07/20/1993 |
| 5189708 | Methods and apparatus for optically determining the acceptability of products The appearance of a product is determined to be acceptable or unacceptable by computing a discriminant function or image from a plurality of two-dimensional images of products of the kind to be inspected. A two-dimensional image of the product is then for... | 02/23/1993 |
| 5178269 | Tax-stampable half-carton A cigarette carton comprising two half-cartons, each containing five cigarette packs, which may be sold as one standard 10-pack cigarette carton or may be separated and sold as individual half-cartons. The dual half-carton configuration permits the use of... | 01/12/1993 |
| 5151648 | Scintillation tube dynamic calibration monitor and feedback regulator A scintillation tube dynamic calibration monitor that regulates the high voltage power supply to a detector. In a preferred embodiment, a voltage boost current source provides an input voltage for a power out voltage regulator and for a +14.75 volt board ... | 09/29/1992 |
| 5141106 | Two separate cartons combined as a single unit by adhesive/carrier means A dual cigarette carton is formed from two identical single cartons. The two cartons are connected together with adhesive bearing carrier means such that the two cartons remain securely connected when in the dual configuration and can hence be processed f... | 08/25/1992 |
| 5137148 | Cigarette pack with partly removable innerframe A box-like cigarette pack includes an innerframe with a front wall having an initially lower portion which is folded up so that it projects into the cutout conventionally provided in the upper portion of the innerframe front wall. All or part of the folde... | 08/11/1992 |
| 5114493 | Smoking compositions containing a hexahydrobenzofuranone flavorant This invention provides smoking compositions which contains a 6-substituted hexahydrobenzofuranone flavorant additive. Under cigarette smoking conditions the flavorant additive enhances the aroma and flavor of the cigarette smoke.... | 05/19/1992 |
| 5066270 | Apparatus for forming innerframe for cigarette pack with rounded corners Apparatus is shown for preforming a rounded-corner C-shaped innerframe for use in a rounded corner cigarette pack. Contoured rollers are used to preform the rounded corners in the innerframe.... | 11/19/1991 |
| 5036204 | Continuous concentration monitoring by circular dichroism Circularly polarized monochromatic electromagnetic radiation of a wavelength correlating the maximum absorbance of a sample compound is directed through a flowing solution containing the sample compound, which exhibits circular dichroism activity, and a p... | 07/30/1991 |
| 4934624 | A robotic hand A robotic hand has two sections disposed 90 degrees apart. One section has a bobbin core-engaging device for the purpose of lifting and handling the bobbin. This section also has a bobbin transfer means for removing the bobbin from the bobbin core engagin... | 06/19/1990 |
| 4593705 | Slitter knife advance unit and method of use A method and apparatus are disclosed for severing or otherwise cutting cigarette filters, tobacco rods and the like. According to the invention, a slitter knife is maintained in whetting engagement with a whetting mechanism, so that the slitter knife neve... | 06/10/1986 |
| 4592373 | Smoking compositions This invention provides tobacco and non-tobacco smoking compositions which contain a heterocyclic-hydroxy-substituted carboxylate compound as a flavorant additive. In one of its embodiments, this invention provides tobacco compositions which contain a het... | 06/03/1986 |
| 4592698 | Process for removing covering material from tobacco bales The present invention is a process for removing covering material from a bale of, for example, Oriental tabacco leaves at production line speeds which causes only minimal damage to the underlying bale and only minimal contamination of the underlying bale ... | 06/03/1986 |
| 4535789 | Tobacco rod firmness sensor A tobacco rod firmness sensor arrangement wherein the tongue of a continuous rod type cigarette making machine is divided into an upstream portion and a downstream portion. The upstream portion is independently mounted from the downstream portion and is a... | 08/20/1985 |
| 4532944 | Smoking compositions containing a dicarbonate ester flavorant-release additive This invention provides smoking compositions which contain a dicarbonate ester compound as a flavorant additive. In one of its embodiments, this invention provides tobacco compositions which contain a dicarbonate ester flavorant additive such as 2,5-bis(2... | 08/06/1985 |
| 4452984 | Optically active nicotine analogs and process for their preparation This invention provides a process for the preparation of cotinine and nicotine analogs containing substituents on pyrrolidinone/pyrrolidine ring at the 3' position of cotinine and at the 4' and 5' position of nicotine. The process proceeds via a first step pre... | 06/05/1984 |
| 4420635 | Ammonium carbamate production This invention provides a dispensing assembly which is adapted to deliver two separate instantaneously coreactive liquid streams into an external contacting zone. The two reactants do not make contact within the body of the dispensing assembly, which prev... | 12/13/1983 |
| 4413637 | Dynamic circumference gage A dynamic circumference gage (70) has a spring which maintains contact with moving cigarette rod (74). Strain gages mounted on opposite faces of the spring indicate changes in the circumference of moving cigarette rod (74). Changes in cigarette rod (74) c... | 11/08/1983 |
| 4409995 | Method for applying particulate matter to tobacco A method and apparatus for applying particulate matter to tobacco during the cigarette making process is disclosed. The amount of particulate matter that is lost during the cigarette making process is minimized by applying the particulate matter to the to... | 10/18/1983 |
| 4388933 | Tobacco stem treatment and expanded tobacco product An improved process for expanding tobacco is disclosed wherein tobacco components such as stems, midribs and veins are contacted with an alkaline-hydrogen peroxide solution and thereafter dried and roasted to produce an expanded tobacco material highly su... | 06/21/1983 |
| 4312369 | Screen holding apparatus in a liquid cryogen pressure vessel In a pressure vessel of the type used for processing a product with a liquid cryogen such as the impregnation of tobacco with liquid carbon dioxide for expansion thereof, a withdrawal door, pivotally hinged to open to permit gravitational discharge of the... | 01/26/1982 |
| 4312698 | Fibrous rod forming device A ridge remover for smoothing and shaping rod surfaces where jointure marks occur in fibrous rod manufacture when made using a porous belt garniture device.... | 01/26/1982 |
| 4307733 | Process for the treatment of tobacco materials This invention relates to a process for the treatment of tobacco materials. More particularly, the invention relates to a process that comprises contacting tobacco with an aqueous enzyme solution exhibiting cellulase activity, incubating the tobacco-enzym... | 12/29/1981 |
| 4302308 | Method for electrolytic denitration of tobacco An improved process for denitrating tobacco with minimal losses of desirable tobacco solubles employing electrodialysis is disclosed. The process comprises subjecting an aqueous tobacco extract to membrane electrodialysis such that nitrate salts are extra... | 11/24/1981 |
| 4298013 | Method for recycling cellulosic waster materials from tobacco product manufacture A method for utilizing waste cellulosic material by conversion to sugars suitable for use in tobacco manufacturing is disclosed. The method comprises comminuting waste cellulose products, which are generated during tobacco product manufacturing, deesterif... | 11/03/1981 |
| 4220781 | Process for preparing 2-alkyl nicotinoids The invention relates to 2-alkyl nicotinoids and improved methods for producing them.... | 09/02/1980 |
| 4184495 | Process for incorporating flavorant into cellulosic substrates and products produced thereby Stable cellulosic products containing releasable flavorant are described. These products are produced by impregnating a dry cellulosic substrate with an essentially anhydrous ammonia solution of a volatile flavorant and then subjecting the impregnated sub... | 01/22/1980 |
| 4178458 | Smoking composition A smoking composition is provided which comprises a smoking material and, as a source of flavor or aroma for the smoke thereof, certain aromatic beta-hydroxy compounds. Compounds which may be employed as a source of flavor or aroma include beta-hydroxy es... | 12/11/1979 |
