Did You Know...
...that the inventor of the electric motor was a blacksmith named Thomas Davenport? Described as "a brilliantly unsuccessful inventor", Davenport invented the first rotary electric motor. In 1836 he headed out -- on foot -- from his Vermont home to file a patent application at the Patent Office in Washington, D.C. By the time he got there, he had squandered away his money and couldn't afford the $30 filing fee so he turned around and went home. When he later mailed in his application with money he'd raised, the Patent office was destroyed in a fire. He did finally get credit for his invention on Feb. 5, 1837.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8136533 | Reconstituted tobacco sheet and smoking article therefrom A smoking article having one or more reconstituted tobacco split inner wrap strips is described. One or more split inner wrap strips extend coaxially along the tobacco column between the inner surface of an outer wrap of cigarette paper and the tobacco column. The t... | 03/20/2012 |
| D654807 | Spray dispensing container | 02/28/2012 |
| 8118161 | Pressurized cigarette packages and methods A cigarette or other tobacco product package may be constructed with a sealed outer overwrap. The overwrap may be multi-layered and configured to contain an internal pressure higher than an ambient external air pressure. The multilayer overwrap may be assembled to a... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8079371 | Tobacco containing smoking article A smoking article may include a cigarette incorporated within an electrically powered aerosol generating device that acts as a holder for that cigarette. The smoking article possesses at least one form of tobacco. The smoking article also possesses a mouth-end piece... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8079369 | Method of forming a cigarette filter rod member An apparatus and associated method for forming a filter rod member of a smoking article, such as a cigarette, is provided. The apparatus comprises a rod-forming unit configured to form a continuous supply of a filter material into a continuous cylindrical rod member... | 12/20/2011 |
| D650700 | Spray dispensing container | 12/20/2011 |
| D650697 | Spray dispensing container | 12/20/2011 |
| D649284 | Container with bottom compartment | 11/22/2011 |
| 8046978 | Equipment and method for packaging multiple packets of cigarettes A machine for sleeving one or more packages of smoking articles is provided. The machine can provide a blank from a roll of continuous material and fold the blank around packages. The machine includes a sleeve folding station that can orient the blank to be folded a... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8033425 | Dispensing container A container adapted for dispensing a product is provided, the container including a storage compartment configured to store a plurality of units of a product to be dispensed; a dispensing chamber for receiving at least one unit of the product, the dispensing chamber... | 10/11/2011 |
| 7985818 | Method to selectively remove safrole from nutmeg oil Methods for removing safrole from a sample, molecular imprinted copolymers that bind safrole, and methods of making the same are provided. ... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7972254 | Apparatus for inserting objects into a filter component of a smoking article, and associated method An apparatus for manufacturing a rod member for a cigarette filter element, is provided. Each rod member defines a longitudinal axis and includes a generally longitudinally-extending filter material and a plurality of objects disposed therein along the longitudinal ... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7967018 | Methods for sculpting cigarettes, and associated apparatuses A cigarette-making method is provided, comprising forming an elongate tobacco rod having a non-circular cross-sectional shape and opposed ends, by circumscribing a tobacco charge with a wrapping material. A filter element is formed having opposed ends and a non-circ... | 06/28/2011 |
| D639163 | Tray assembly for a dispensing container | 06/07/2011 |
| D639162 | Tray assembly for a dispensing container | 06/07/2011 |
| 7946450 | Dispensing container A container for dispensing a product is provided, the container including an outer casing body having a cavity; a dispensing tray adapted for sliding movement within the cavity of the outer casing body between a closed and locked position and a dispensing position, ... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7946293 | Cigarette lighter and method A lighter for a smoking article is provided, which includes a body having a distal body portion and a proximal body portion; an ignition element disposed in the distal portion; a smoking article engagement structure disposed in the proximal body portion; a part of t... | 05/24/2011 |
| D638297 | Tray assembly for a dispensing container | 05/24/2011 |
| D635851 | Blank for a cigarette package | 04/12/2011 |
| D635850 | Blank for a cigarette package | 04/12/2011 |
| 7866122 | Equipment for manufacturing cigarette packages Systems and methods are provided for making a hard pack cigarette package composed of a transparent material that includes an inner frame that is also composed of a transparent material. The package is assembled using a hot-melt adhesive material to bind the package... | 01/11/2011 |
| D630525 | Combined container with removable top seal | 01/11/2011 |
| 7861728 | Smokeless tobacco composition having an outer and inner pouch A smokeless tobacco product includes a powdered or granular smokeless tobacco formulation that is contained within a moisture-permeable packet or pouch. The smokeless tobacco formulation may include finely ground particles of tobacco in powder-like form and other in... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7836897 | Cigarette having configured lighting end The lighting end or tip of the smoking article is configured in such a manner that the entire front or upstream face thereof does not lie in a plane that is generally perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the smoking article. For example, at least a portion of t... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7833146 | Method and apparatus for incorporating objects into cigarette filters Cigarette filter rods having individual objects positioned at predetermined intervals therein are prepared by transferring the individual objects from a rotating horizontal pan to a rotating vertical wheel and then depositing the object into a web of filter tow. Eac... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7793665 | Filtered cigarette incorporating a breakable capsule A filtered cigarette possesses at least one breakable capsule in its filter element. The filter element can possess a central cavity extending from the cigarette tobacco rod towards the middle of the filter element. The central cavity may be defined by an inner filt... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7762046 | Method for manufacturing cigarette packages Systems and methods are provided for making a hard pack cigarette package composed of a transparent material that includes an inner frame that is also composed of a transparent material. The package is assembled using a hot-melt adhesive material to bind the package... | 07/27/2010 |
| D617043 | Container with bottom compartment | 06/01/2010 |
| 7677256 | Wrapping materials for smoking articles Smokable rods of cigarettes are manufactured using wrapping materials that incorporate at least one fibrous material (e.g., flax fibers, hardwood pulp fibers and/or softwood pulp fibers) at least one filler material (e.g., calcium carbonate in particulate form). The... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7677251 | Apparatus and methods for manufacturing cigarettes An apparatus and method for manufacturing small quantities of cigarettes provides for such manufacture in a substantially simultaneous fashion while maintaining consistent quality between the cigarettes. The apparatus and method provide for delivering at least one c... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7669604 | Filtered cigarette incorporating an adsorbent material A filter element incorporating an adsorbent material is provided. The filter element may comprise a first section of filter material and a second section of filter material spaced apart to form a compartment therebetween. The compartment may be filled with one or mo... | 03/02/2010 |
| D610303 | Cigarette package | 02/16/2010 |
| D609855 | Container with bottom compartment | 02/09/2010 |
| 7654945 | Method and apparatus for incorporating objects into cigarette filters Cigarette filter rods having individual objects positioned at predetermined intervals therein are prepared by transferring the individual objects from a rotating horizontal pan to a rotating vertical wheel and then depositing the object into a web of filter tow. Eac... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7647932 | Smoking article A smoking article, such as a cigarette, includes a lighting end and a mouth end. The lighting end is a longitudinally extending segment comprising smokable material that is intended to be lit and burned, and the resulting smoke generated by the burning of that smoka... | 01/19/2010 |
| D608048 | Cigarette package | 01/12/2010 |
| D601748 | Cigarette package | 10/06/2009 |
| 7565818 | Apparatus and methods for manufacturing cigarettes An apparatus and method for manufacturing small quantities of cigarettes in a substantially simultaneous fashion while maintaining consistent quality between the cigarettes. The invention provides an apparatus and method for simultaneously inserting charges of tobac... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7556047 | Method of expanding tobacco using steam A method of expanding tobacco involves introducing a steam flow and a tobacco material into a duct having an inlet and an outlet and defining an arcuate flow path. The tobacco is entrained in the steam flow and conveyed along the arcuate flow path and toward the out... | 07/07/2009 |
| D595453 | Cigarette package | 06/30/2009 |
